pretty darn poor. 6 or so for the two gpu, and about 2.5 on cpu. pushing the CPU harder can yield more from that but at the expense of GPU output.

Hiya -

I'm a developer and a crazy person, so I ended up here. I think it's only natural, really.

I am probably going to work on the trading and automation side of Bitcoin and other emerging currencies. I'd love to have been here a few months earlier when mining was easier to profit from. That stuff is fun and  I would have enjoyed building some crazy ass rigs with a purpose.

I can and will give advice freely about a multitude of topics relating to technology, where I have some measure of authority. Economics too, where I have only the authority in my imagination, will, also be freely given, beware!  I'm pretty keen on doing *something* businessy with bitcoin. If you're looking for a development partner for your stupid idea, let me know. You'll have to sell me though.

Ukpyr

It is kinda  a visual joke for myself, but I keep my mining computer in the newegg box it came in (it has no case) with 2 large 120mm fans providing overall airflow. Seems to keep it a bit quieter than the aluminium case I was going to plop it in.

Please note this is a fire hazard technically. Do not store you computer in a cardboard box on top of used/filled oil drums. Thank you.

Also remeber that you have cooling costs involved. Winter is coming in my part of the world, but if you live elsewhere, keeping your expensive hardware cool is pretty key to extract long term profits. Cards get to hot, and you have a lot of wasted money sitting under your desk.

I see that as the reason. They got in early/early enough on something that they have a vested interest in hyping. Also, this is a passionate early adopter market, don't expect a lot of rational behaviour :  )

You'll see the same things at small cap trading forums. Everyone likes to root for their underdog. If I had  a massive wallet of BTC, I'd be pretty well occupied taking down critism as well, as that reduces the long term value of my Btc.

Here, as in all places, it's best to ignore the trolls and carry ever on with reasoned exchanges.

Hiya,
Firstly, thanks to all that have come before me, I've learned a lot on this forum!

Initially I was interested in the mining aspect of BTC, I think many people are from a "oh look at the massive power of my GPU!" point of view. As that's not seeming to be a viable entry point into the market right now I'm looking more at the trading.

Has anyone started work on a ruby or php project to automate trades and mining depending on the market? For example, I'd like to set my meager miner to go into a solid coin pool if the expected returns based on difficulty make it more attractive for a day.

So what to do with all these various bits of bit currency? MtGox has a decent api for doing trading, one could do something similar for the automation of moving in and out of the various currencies.

Sadly, I'm not interested in python as ruby and php already pay my bills. Learning a fifth language isn't on my todo list. So wondering if there is anything like this in the open source community I could contribute to.

Thanks!
ukpyr

meh, this is a very very young market. Don't expect stability. The more churn the better, for stability in the long run.

As a software developer focusing on web stuff, more and more of my peers are using Apple products to do their work. The more familiar the developer pool is with the MB, the more malware/trojans/viruses will come out specifically for that. Even if marketshare remains fixed. iOS development has really increased this in particular.

Assuming you're safe because of one fact, is a bad security practice. No one is 100% safe in computing, just like in life. It's all about risk REDUCTION.

Hiya,
It took some doing, so I thought I'd share my results.

Problem - I have a macbook pro sitting idle most of the day, I want to use it's two nvidia gpu and cpu to do some mining

Solution -
I got GUI miner working from git sources
I had to install pyopencl (worked fine)
I had to install wx from .dmg (worked fine)
GUI miner doesn't come with cpu miner for OSX - so I tried the excellent cgminer, but was having compile issues, so i switched to Phoneix

THe trick to getting phoneix to work is upgrading your twisted (a python event engine) via easy_install
you have to specify architecture like this
sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" easy_install --upgrade twisted

it tries to compile PPC, which few people install anymore and thus fails

(edit)
Finally, you have to launch guiminer.py using python in 32 bit mode
so in terminal, the invocation will look like: export VERSIONER_PYTHON_PREFER_32_BIT=yes; python guiminer.py

Happying mining!
Ukpyr