Thanks for the info ThomasV.  Please keep us updated.  There's a shirt they have that I would REALLY like to get for my fiancé but I had my doubts that they were even in business any longer based on my earlier experience. 

I just took them off the wiki.

I tried ordering a shirt from them a week ago.  Chose BTC as my payment method during checkout.  Was then informed that they would send me an email with instructions on what address to pay to.  Immediately got an "order confirmation" email that was basically a receipt that said nothing about BTC, much less an address to send payment to.   Several minutes later got a "coupon" email to share with friends, but still no mention of BTC.  Two days later, I replied to the "confirmation" email that went to a gmail address asking about payment.  Never got a reply.  On Thursday (4 days after ordering), I forwarded my reply to the customer support email address they have listed on their site.  Still haven't received a reply to that email either.

Am I correct in assuming that, when using the `-a` flag to specify a payout address, that the provided address need not be provided by the instance of bitcoind that p2pool is connected to? (i.e. it can be from another wallet on a completely different computer?)

Is there a convenient way to ensure this happens unattended?

I'm not currently on p2pool.  I currently have my (linux) mining rig configured to run a script on boot that automatically gets cgminer going pointed at the right pools.  So, if the power goes out while I'm away, and then comes back on, everything (in theory), just fires right back up again.

So, if I were to switch to p2pool, I'd need some way of automatically launching bitcoind (I guess), monitoring it to see when it's caught up, and then launching the p2pool client.

Or, better yet, to make things easier on everyone, it would be nice if the p2pool client managed that itself so that one could launch it right away and it would monitor bitcoind and not start actually mining until the time was right.  But, not knowing what goes on between bitciond and p2pool, I admit that that might not be technically feasible.

I first heard about Bitcoin on NPR's Planet Money Podcast last year some time.  They did a follow up more recently that inspired me to check into it closer.

I'm primarily attracted to the open-source power-to-the-people aspect of Bitcoin.  I prefer a society where the individual people (flesh and blood kind of people, not Citizens United, Inc kind of "people") are in charge and the institutions serve the people, not the other way around. Putting the people in charge can be very messy and unpredictable at times, but I'm convinced that, in the long run, it's better for everyone (even the institutions).

Receiving Address: 1Bj5iStoUREEDESnuxgjZmQtTbitwWtk9g

Which would be more beneficial to you?  Us ordering copies directly from you to have them mailed to us, or us going to B&N and buying a copy off the rack?  I would assume the later, as it would help prove to your distributors that they're worth the rack space, but I frequently assume wrong.

Aha!  Yup, clicked a few more times and finally got the feedback I was expecting. 


That strikes me as very generous on his part, considering he's doing it manually for now.

I also just clicked the "request payout" and then "Ok" in the popup, and then nothing changed.  I understand the payouts are currently being processed manually, but there's no feedback on the stats screen to confirm that the "request" was actually "sent", so I have no idea if it worked or not.

I'm not clear on how to run multiple miners.  When I run more than one instance of phoenix pointed at the provided address, my hash rate drops.  Currently trying to run three, soon to be four.

Edit:  Actually, it appears that I got the expected hash rate after starting my first instance.  But then when I restarted all three instances, the hash rate had dropped.  Going back to just the one instance results in the same lowered hash rate (about half of expected), so it's possible that the correlation with the extra instances was just a coincidence.  When I point my instances back at arsbitcoin pool, the hash rate returns to the expected rate.

Disregard. I was making a stupid.

I concur.

Now that it's been a couple months, I'm curious how happy the OP was with his experiment in using multiple extenders to give his GPUs more breathing room.  Did it work well, or did you need to rethink the problem?  Thanks.

Can't remember, but a recent couple episodes of Planet Money remided me to check it out more seriously.

Hello.  I am me.  That is all.

I'm trying to setup a dedicated mining rig with 3 GPU's but even when I use only one GPU, the CPU jumps up to nearly 100%.  Here are the relevant specs...

Motherboard: MSI 890FXA-GD70
CPU: Sempron 145
Memory: 2GB

OS: Ubuntu 11.10
Driver: 11.12 x86_64
SDK: v2.6

According to what I've read elsewhere in these forums and on the web, both this particular CPU and motherboard are commonly used for multi-GPU mining.  Also, from what I've read, there was a bug with the ATI drivers recently that would peg the CPU, but the newer versions were supposed to have this bug fixed, and I've got the latest available (or so I think).

Does anybody have any idea why my CPU would be getting worked so hard?

Thanks!