So, I asked a question a few pages back about this not working at work, and nobody was able to say what was happening. From what I think I've figured out, it doesn't work from my work's network because Coin Hive is blocked on that network. So "mining bitcoin" seems to be a bit misleading. I mean, since the results of your mining are being displayed only in the BTC value mined, I can see a technicality for saying that you're mining BTC, but from my limited understanding of what's going on, I think that the miner is mining Monero using Coin Hive and that value is automatically being converted to BTC and applied to your account.

It seems like the earnings per hash have gone way down from when I was first trying to figure this out. I missed out on the easy earnings because I was trying to figure out what was going on with this site and what it actually was doing I was earning at a rate that I would have expected to see from GH/s in mining Bitcoin - I wish they had just said on the beta test page that was only available to limited users, "This is an embedded Coin Hive miner. Your browser will mine Monero that is credited to your account as BTC because FreeBitco.in is a BTC only site." I would have been all over that!

The last I knew, traffic type wasn't being blocked, only DNS and specific websites were, along with certain mining software being added to the antivirus, but nothing that would actually block the activity. But I know they've gotten better since then, so who knows! 

I didn't see anything specific in the page source about how the mining is actually happening, but I'm horrible at looking at page sources. I suppose if their system is sophisticated enough it could be stripping out the program that the site is bringing with it to mine? I don't know how the mining is implemented in the website to know how that happens, but now that I stop to think about it's probably a JavaScript based mining, but again I don't know and I'm horrible looking at sources. I'm just curious so that I can figure out a way to get it working at work I had hoped that since it was in a browser instead of a program on my computer that can be scanned for would make it work, but it looks like that might not be the case here.

I was wondering if anybody has been able to figure out what site the mining is connecting to? I get 0 hashes when I'm connected to my work network, but 5-15 hash/s when I'm connected to any other network. I'm assuming that my work is filtering the pool that it's trying to connect to, but I'm not able to find the pool the freebitco.in mining is attempting to connect to.

EDIT: lol, I haven't posted in these forums in two and a half years and those referral codes in my signature still work! I guess it shows that this faucet has been one of the few stable things in Bitcoin. 

How much would you need to decrease the payout to make ends meet?

Consider my irritation expressed. FYI, the popunders have frequently had scripting that pops up dialog boxes when I try to close them.

I just won 10k satoshi!  And the captcha is very adamant about it.
Ticket ID: 3EJGZY-ETBZZV

Just for an FYI for whomever is watching this thread, I received 3 payouts to this investment's address from the same address that has been paying the other dividends.

I've noticed last week that they haven't paid any frozen funds back in the last few months. I have not received a reply from them about this, although their customer support does take a long time.

Anybody else have any communication with Vircurex about this?

Using a password manager like Lastpass or something similar makes it easy to securely retrieve your passwords no matter where you are. And it can be made even more secure with one-time passwords you can use when you don't trust the computer you're at. Just some advice if you haven't been told about password manager services.

I'm looking to get a copy of http://www.literatureandlatte.com/index.php. Will pay 10% over price.

Please PM if interested.

You've been great throughout the entire thing, the problems with...I don't even remember the securities platform's name now! Thank you very much.

Looking to buy a prepaid VISA card with $300 USD on it so I can do some online shopping. I don't need a physical card, just numbers so I can use it online. Prefer to use escrow. PM if interested, and thank you.

Update (and closure) of this project:

Asked for refund of the KnC Miner, paid out to all people involved in the project. There was some share trading between members during the project, hence the reason TheJuice and Markyboy did not receive equal amounts. the.joey.o did not receive a USD payout, electing to keep the USD. Payouts to TheJuice and markyboy were given to their addresses listed in this thread.

Relevant Transaction IDs:
https://blockchain.info/tx/710d4776b8cb886713f89808c1ec9f8be00c1a05998ed9c8a149bff2b1ebfa09
https://blockchain.info/tx/710d4776b8cb886713f89808c1ec9f8be00c1a05998ed9c8a149bff2b1ebfa09
https://blockchain.info/tx/fefef4289224d97e1b99a32c2737983805d40c94eb984ae7ffbc967388b610f0

This post is done for the ability to reference in the future. the.joey.o, TheJuice, and Markyboy were great to work with, despite problems we had during the process. I would definitely do business with them again.

For my future reference when I look back at this thread thinking "boy a group buy would be a fun thing to do", and to anybody else reading, it's a lot more work than you think it will be. Especially if you're running into the issue of verifying your identity to convert fiat into BTC.

It appears that your document has reached the bandwidth limit. Is there an alternative access location?

You realize that if people do as you request in your last sentence and stop mining, transactions will stop and you won't be able to send your Bitcoins anywhere? The elegance of the solution to convincing people to process transactions is to reward them for doing so by mining. Satoshi created the incentive to produce the required behavior correctly; not enough people would have done the computational work necessary to really secure the blockchain without it. The fact that we now need ASICs to efficiently go through the mining process means that it is difficult and expensive for any one person/organization to do a 51% attack on the network.

I wanted to invest but couldn't find the details in your post so I sent the coins to a random address. Now I don't know where my money is. Could you confirm the transaction and give me the details that I should have looked for in the first place but was too blinded by the ROI that was only slightly negative to actually seek?

I will bid 6 shares for .9 each.

Don't let that stop you!

When attempting to use a recovery key, the balloon that pops up on "New Password" pops up to the left off of the screen. If I drag my screen so it is windowed over two monitors, then the fields stay in the center and I can read the balloon.

Bitcoin was worth something back when others would only pay $.40/BTC. Bitcoin will be useful as an agreed upon value of currency regardless of the exchange rate to other currencies. Bitcoin wasn't created as something to be pegged to the dollar, but as a separate currency all together. Even if you can't change it into USD, it will still have value and will always be useful.