I am just logging back in after many years away. Great to see this outcome <3

Neurotrader
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CoinHoarder - congratulations on pulling through all of this with flying colours.

To all those who have received payments from CoinHoarder, may I humbly suggest that you consider leaving positive trust feedback. He didn't have to make all of the 0.4BTC payments, nor did he have to pay an extra 1BTC to the winner. I would say that this constitutes trustworthy behaviour.

Smoothie, Blazr, ibminer, DiamondCardz and Vod - are the actions above the actions of a member of the community that you would still consider to be untrustworthy?

Surely you cannot still think that CH is / might be a scammer? If indeed you don't consider him a scammer, can I politely ask that you consider removing the negative feedback you have left him?

I want to point out that ever since this whole contest hit a road block I have personally been 100% confident that CH was completely trustworthy, and I even offered to lend him 1 BTC interest free (see page 7 of this thread), which he thanked me for but never took me up on.

I have never met CH in real life, but based on my past experience dealing with him, in my eyes this is certainly not a guy who deserves:
"Trust: -29: -5 / +3    Warning: Trade with extreme caution! "

Isn't it "--enable-avalon" rather than "-enable-avalon" (i.e. two hyphens at the start rather than one?)

scotjam

Or sell the broken one to someone who already has one and a canbus; selling mining hardware is often much more profitable than running it

scotjam

I'm guessing the algorithm used is very important to inform that decision, and IIRC they're hosting an AES-style competition to select it

Just a quick note to confirm mine has been received - looks beautiful - thanks steelboy! Leaving you a positive trust rating now.

scotjam

XCP aka "Counterparty" has already done a bitcoin-burn-based launch. Worked pretty well actually. The difference is that the burn period was finite (rather than ongoing, which your suggestion sounds like it would be).

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=395761.0

It has a tonne of other interesting features as well, such as a distributed exchange and a bitcoin-based transport layer - worth checking out! I myself burned some bitcoin for it during the burn period...

scotjam

Great - thanks mate

Any update here steelboy?

Thanks

scotjam

You say they ruin everything; I say that in this case they stabilise prices by satisfying demand for new coins. In this context (decent dedicated hashrates) I'm not sure multipool miners aren't a good thing; in other contexts - e.g. smaller coins with delicate pool ecosystems - I'm pretty sure they're not though.

Price stability is really important to build people's faith in cryptocurrency longer-term.

scotjam

Hi,

I've managed to get cgminer and several different cards (including this one) working on Windows, however I am now trying to get a HD 7850 working on Debian 7.3 64 bit (desktop, not headless server).

I have installed debian, and tried to install the latest drivers from AMD's website (amd-catalyst-13.12-linux-x86.x86_64.run), and got the following error:
"Your graphics adapter is not supported by this driver. Installation will not proceed"

So I took a step back and have been trying to follow the steps from this guide:
https://litecoin.info/Debian_Linux_cryptocoin_mining_rig_setup_guide

QUOTE [edited]
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
    For each line that starts with deb, add the following to the end: contrib non-free
sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install bzip2 fglrx-driver libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libudev-dev ntp screen unzip xdm xorg
sudo apt-get purge libfglrx
sudo apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree
sudo apt-get clean

wget --referer=http://www2.ati.com http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-driver-installer-12-8-x86.x86_64.zip
unzip amd-driver-installer-12-8-x86.x86_64.zip && sh amd-driver-installer-8.982-x86.x86_64.run --force
    When the installer starts, just press Enter on any screens until the driver finishes installing.
    Initial graphics card setup (also do this after adding or removing cards):
sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf && aticonfig --adapter=all --initial
ENDQUOTE

so all of those steps go fine (including installation of the 12-8 version of the amd drivers), except the last command, where it complains that /etc/X11/xorg.conf doesn't exist. I deleted that part and re-ran just sudo aticonfig --adapter=all --initial, and got the error:
"aticonfig: No supported adapters detected"

sudo lspci yields:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 01)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)

To my untrained eye, it looks like the amd adapter isn't showing up in the list of connected hardware, so I rebooted and tried lspci again - same issue.

I tried the whole proccedure again, with a different HD 7850 (same make - MSI - and model, but different card) in a different computer, also running net-install of debian wheezy 7.3 64bit and ran into exactly the same set of issues (latest driver doesn't recognise the card and won't install; previous driver installs but card doesn't show up in lspci - or cgminer - afterwards).

I'm not sure what else to look for - I've searched around and can't seem to find any reports that the HD 7850 won't work with the latest drivers, nor reports of others having issues with the HD 7850 not showing up after successful installation of the 12-8 amd drivers.

Suggestions appreciated!

scotjam

This is a bizarre attitude. By burning BTC, any investor in XCP is effectively making BTC scarce, and therefore is potentially making all other BTC worth a little bit more. If you don't believe XCP is worth anything, think of investing in it as a voluntary "tax" / "donation" to help out *all* other BTC investors, not a destruction of real value.

scotjam

This is exactly what self-moderated threads were intended for I think

The ignore button helps as well, but they have strength in numbers

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Thanks!

Paid - transID in PM

Cheers

scotjam

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Thanks!

Cheers mate - appreciate the update (and sorry to chase)

scotjam

Hi steelboy,

Sorry to chase, but we're now almost a week after the revised 24th deadline - has this order been placed?

Cheers

scotjam

Yup - I'm in (and I'm in the UK)

scotjam