If ever single feature of the i7 were used, every FPU, every ALU, etc are all used in their most efficient way possible for the i7, then the only way you could beat it with a "mining ASIC" would be to just make more i7's. You could make one twice as powerful, but it'd require twice the silicon, twice the cost, twice the power, etc.

General use CPU's are so easy to beat for stuff like bitcoin, because the algorithm isn't optimized at the hardware level for those general CPU chips. If it is, then you can't really do much better.

Such an algorithm would be spectacularly hard to write, but I don't see why the possibility should be discredited.

I apologize if you're not a native english speaker and the technical aspects are hard to understand.

Strongly disagree. It is, at least in principle, possible to make an algorithm that an intel core i7 is the ideal chip for (that is, an intel core i7 IS the asic for this algorithm). You'd have to write the algorithm specifically for that task, but it is possible.

Unsure how I feel about the technology here, but I'd be interested in premining... erm I mean testing it.

Well technically the poll is useless, because everyone should just say greater than or equal to 0.0001 which is inclusive of all the higher prices. Should be greater than or equal to, but less than the next unselected price

Up for auction is 0.01 abstractCoins: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=218816.new#new

These won't last long and I have 1% of the entire supply! It was a 100% premine and I got some!

Starting price is 0.001LTC. I will stop the auction when I'm pleased.

This is a really cool demonstration of just how physically worthless a cryptocoin is. Can I have some?

So bitcoin is like this, except there's no server or owner to shut down 

Been discussed and proposed at great length not long ago.

someone should actually release LSD coin and make the official measurement in the client be in mg, so the forum would be covered with "[WTB] 100mg LSD". Just for the lulz.

I'll try it

Do these tournaments ever happen? It appears most get just enough registrations, then nobody shows up and the tournament never starts. Haven't seen one actually run in days.

When people post that x coin = scam, I always wonder how they could possibly not have noticed that EVERY scam coin is a scam  . The only one that's not is litecoin, and even that could be argued is.

cryptsy is a disaster for altcoins, there's little hope with cryptsy in existence in my opinion.

... and the server crashes

How long do tournaments take? I'll only have about half an hour after it starts

I must be blind or something, but I can only join the game if I know what time zone it's in...

You need money in your account even though registration is free

Still haven't figured out, what is the time zone of the site?

It very frequently goes down, I think it's actively being worked on. It's been up less than 50% of the time I've checked over the last ~4 hours

Realized I put way more coins in than I need for the stakes people are playing at. I tried to withdraw some, but the withdraw address box doesn't exist! What's up with this?

http://web.mit.edu/ctyler/www/PokerCoins.JPG