Bitcoin Discussion Thread Part 2

Yea, I know, but I'm a folder, not a miner lol, just bored in Iraq and trying to pass the time, so I'm tossing my laptop into the fray, or trying at least, it's been on "connecting" for a while now...

I wouldn't build a farm when I get home, but maybe a 5830 or two, and then dual 6970's, maybe tri, in my gamer rig, just enough to play around with. Folding is still my main focus and where my farm goes (especially since my dual hex OC'd SR2 monster would be worth jack shit in bitcoin)
 
Kettchxxii said:
I finally installed my two 6990s which I found after much heartache and hassle, and It looks like its a no go in my case... If you guys are looking for some mining hardware (5830,5870,6990)I started a FS thread...

sad day :(
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Sorry to see you go. Thanks for posting here and giving the miners a heads up.

Personally I'm not looking to add any more mining power unless I get it at a steal, GL with the sale tho.
 
I'm in for one if the CC takes through paypal, read your PM, pay in like 12 hours

in other news, this thing has been "Connecting" for a long ass time. Can anyone monitor the bandwidth and data that goes when you first start a fresh client up, then the data passed during mining? Not sure if I'll be able to do it on desert net lol. Hate this country some times lol
 
Vaulter98c said:
I'm in for one if the CC takes through paypal, read your PM, pay in like 12 hours

in other news, this thing has been "Connecting" for a long ass time. Can anyone monitor the bandwidth and data that goes when you first start a fresh client up, then the data passed during mining? Not sure if I'll be able to do it on desert net lol. Hate this country some times lol
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What pool are you connecting to? Do you have an account there?
 
Vaulter98c said:
I'm in for one if the CC takes through paypal, read your PM, pay in like 12 hours

in other news, this thing has been "Connecting" for a long ass time. Can anyone monitor the bandwidth and data that goes when you first start a fresh client up, then the data passed during mining? Not sure if I'll be able to do it on desert net lol. Hate this country some times lol
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Do you know of a utility that allows you to do that? Ill be happy to when i get home but other than having a dedicated router box i don't know an easy way to check that.
 
Yea, Slush's, user name and pass are the ones in the device list right? Followed a guide I found, seemed simple enough

Been tracking my speeds through resource monitor, looking like a solid 2KB/s up with a good 23KB/s down, stayed this way for like half an hour already. Believe it or not this is fast for us over here. Ping shows about 1000ms

OK, this has got to stop, I'm hitting the sack now, it's already nearly 0100 hours here, got PT in a few hours. I guess I'll set it up tomorrow to run during the day in my CHU, hopefully over the course of 8 hours I can get something done

Now if I get that 5830 I just need to find someone to mine it for me for 6 weeks till R&R lol....
 
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Just curious, but Vaulter, what are you going to use to mine on your laptop? CPU or do you have an ATI video card? Feel free to mess around with it just for boredom's sake, I'm under 0.5 BTC/day on two dedicated 5830s running 24/7. So I wouldn't expect to net anything on a laptop that runs 8 hrs/day at most. Not saying you can't, just don't want you to get your hopes up.

EDIT: Maybe "Little Chomper" and if that's the case, it won't really net you any BTC. Again, do it if you're bored, but not financially.
 
Hav'nt updated my sig here, but I'm running a crazy OC on a gt555m (144 shaders @ 1550) and a sandy bridge quad at 3Ghz stock, should be able to net almost 50 M/h things, just wanna see if I can rack up 1 Coin in a month's time. If I time my days right I may be able to keep uptime above 20 hours per day

Just doing it cuz I'm bored, and so I get the swing of things when I get home and setup a few cards (but the difficulty will be crazy high by then I bet, o well)
 
Not that high 'cause it seems the network has hit a computational wall. The next projected difficulty increase is going to be very minor relative to previous ones (~2.5% compared to 45% in the past). We would need to see some pretty massive hashing power coming online in less than the 9 days we have left to go for the next difficulty change to go back to those crazy difficulty increases. So far there's no indication that is happening.
What does this mean? It means the longevity of current mining hardware just got a shot in the arm or at least won't depreciate as fast as it has in the recent past.
 
ok, well it seems its not a network thing, my CPU just picked it up in like 20 seconds... getting 15 M/h thingys without turbo, not bad, should be able to get laptop total over 50 now atleast
 
Yeah, network traffic for this is very minor. The only hurdle is the initial download of the block chain by the bitcoin client.
 
ROFL useless spammers are coming here now. No one click that link, it contains a referral code that gives him money for every transaction you make if you sign up there to trade. Making you a serf.

Nice ninja edit too. Too bad that code is going to be disabled soon. Tradehill bans codes reported for being spammed around forums. Guess what I'm doing right now?
 
and so theyve found [H] lol. OK, so I started a new Phoenix GPU client, and I've been trying some additional flags to raise the Mhash but I'm not having any luck. Any advice? the ones from the hardware compare list don't seem to be working for me, and there's cards on there outpacing me that I should be smoking!

But hey, in the end of the day I guess I'm just glad I got it running, yay me lol

card is staying pretty cool to at 1500mhz now, 54* without the laptop cooler. Kinda makes me wanna whore out some other people's laptops here lol
 
Does anyone know if Tradehill processes transactions quicker than mtgox? I put in a withdrawal to dwolla this morning for mtgox and it still hasn't shown up in my dwolla acct. Not that I need the money today or anything, I am still leery when it comes to some of these sites. Thanks.
 
It was pretty quick for me. I think I got the Tradehill to Dwolla transaction within a few hours.

I've only done one so far through Tradehill, but it seemed fine.
 
I haven't tried since mtgox went live again but before the hack it only took about an hour to transfer from my mtgox to dwolla.
 
Vaulter98c said:
and so theyve found [H] lol. OK, so I started a new Phoenix GPU client, and I've been trying some additional flags to raise the Mhash but I'm not having any luck. Any advice? the ones from the hardware compare list don't seem to be working for me, and there's cards on there outpacing me that I should be smoking!

But hey, in the end of the day I guess I'm just glad I got it running, yay me lol

card is staying pretty cool to at 1500mhz now, 54* without the laptop cooler. Kinda makes me wanna whore out some other people's laptops here lol
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Can you specify what hardware?
 
GT555 (144 shaders now at 1600/800c/900m)
only getting like 25 m/hash, should be more like 40 right?
got these from the forums in a phoenix / Nvidia thread, boosted me 4 m/hash
-k poclbm VECTORS
 
Vaulter98c said:
GT555 (144 shaders now at 1600/800c/900m)
only getting like 25 m/hash, should be more like 40 right?
got these from the forums in a phoenix / Nvidia thread, boosted me 4 m/hash
-k poclbm VECTORS
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To be honest I've no idea how to tweak Nvidia mining. I do know they have a CUDA specific one though.
 
wouldnt happen to know any for a sandy bridge would ya lol. OOO I gotta go to bed, PT soon!! shit!! this stuff is fun tho, addicting like folding
 
Oh snap, another kernel hack that boosts performance: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23309.0 by goxed at bitcoin forums

Same procedure as the previous hack.
Open kernel.cl with a text editor and find the line: u W0, W1, W2, W3, W4, W5, W6, W7, W8, W9, W10, W11, W12, W13, W14, W15; and replace it with __local u W0, W1, W2, W3, W4, W5, W6, W7, W8, W9, W10, W11, W12, W13, W14, W15;

Stop and restart your miner after the change is done. This works on poclbm, if you are using the vanilla miner the file to edit is BitcoinMiner.cl

Went from the previous:

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Enjoy!
 
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Sigh, people are selling bitcoins on ebay now. The sad thing is they are going for a pretty penny too.
 
Yeah it is pretty addicting. I just got my new 6950 that bitcoin has mostly paid for up and running. It was a nightmare cramming that thing in a Lian Li v351. I had to remove my optical to get the pcie power connectors plugged in. Plus I have maybe 1/4" between the end of the card and the fan grill. I'm starting to hate this case more and more.
 
traderj said:
Sigh, people are selling bitcoins on ebay now. The sad thing is they are going for a pretty penny too.
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Ebay has and will be taking them down. They took down every single listing from people that accepted bitcoins as payment as well. Bitcoins will make their profit whoring, fee extorting, cash cow, paypal obsolete when it gains wider adoption. They will do everything they can to thwart that.

With sites like http://spendbitcoins.com/ gaining acceptance things are going to be pretty interesting looking forward.
 
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Lorien said:
Oh snap, another kernel hack that boosts performance: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23309.0 by goxed at bitcoin forums

Same procedure as the previous hack.
Open kernel.cl with a text editor and find the line: u W0, W1, W2, W3, W4, W5, W6, W7, W8, W9, W10, W11, W12, W13, W14, W15; and replace it with __local u W0, W1, W2, W3, W4, W5, W6, W7, W8, W9, W10, W11, W12, W13, W14, W15;

Stop and restart your miner after the change is done. If you don't use the poclbm or phatk kernels you can also edit the vanilla miner file BitcoinMiner.cl

Went from the previous:

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to
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Enjoy!
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Thanks, that gave me a lil boost in mhash/s :) :)
 
I don't see why they would put up a stink if people used paypal. To be honest I'm calculating what these people sold the coins for on ebay and even after fees from ebay and paypal they are making ~18 a coin.

I'm half considering trying with a few coins. Spendbitcoin is great don't get me wrong, but when you want money to pay bills and the sorts an amazon/newegg card just isn't going to cut it. Yes I can trade them on mtgox but the market is fluctuating like crazy right now and you still have to deal with their fees too.
 
Lorien said:
Oh snap, another kernel hack that boosts performance: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23309.0 by goxed at bitcoin forums

Same procedure as the previous hack.
Open kernel.cl with a text editor and find the line: u W0, W1, W2, W3, W4, W5, W6, W7, W8, W9, W10, W11, W12, W13, W14, W15; and replace it with __local u W0, W1, W2, W3, W4, W5, W6, W7, W8, W9, W10, W11, W12, W13, W14, W15;

Stop and restart your miner after the change is done. If you don't use the poclbm or phatk kernels you can also edit the vanilla miner file BitcoinMiner.cl

Went from the previous:

Enjoy!
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It's only for the poclbm kernel. I don't see anyway to edit it with the phatk.
 
I kinda laughed a bit when I saw what they are going for on ebay, but then I saw the 6990 prices. 2 were at $960 with lots of time left. I should have bought one to resell when they were in stock.
 
traderj said:
I don't see why they would put up a stink if people used paypal. To be honest I'm calculating what these people sold the coins for on ebay and even after fees from ebay and paypal they are making ~18 a coin.

I'm half considering trying with a few coins. Spendbitcoin is great don't get me wrong, but when you want money to pay bills and the sorts an amazon/newegg card just isn't going to cut it. Yes I can trade them on mtgox but the market is fluctuating like crazy right now and you still have to deal with their fees too.
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Isn't it due to ebay requiring something tangible to exchange hands, ie nothing digital? I agree thou that it's kind of stupid.

Someone in that thread said that phatk is in poclbm!?

EDIT: Okay, so I had BTCGuild pay out the bitcoins I've gained so far as I wanted to test out how the recieving works and all that.. but it looks like the bitcoin client just cuts off the bitcoin amount after the second decimal... I thought one of the aspects of Bitcoin was its ability to be calculated up to the 8th decimal. It just kind of sucks that I've "lost" that little bit of bitcoins.. i think :/
 
wolfofone said:
Isn't it due to ebay requiring something tangible to exchange hands, ie nothing digital? I agree thou that it's kind of stupid.
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I don't think that's the case. I just sold 3x Dirt3 steam codes on there yesterday. There are plenty of them still going too. As for bitcoins being sold, I'm looking at completed auctions and there are 10 pages worth with about 75% being sold and the other part was just not priced right or was ended by the seller (most likely to sell outside ebay :p)

BTW. btcguild does that, nothing to worry about, it's still in your btcguild account.
 
traderj said:
I don't think that's the case. I just sold 3x Dirt3 steam codes on there yesterday. There are plenty of them still going too. As for bitcoins being sold, I'm looking at completed auctions and there are 10 pages worth with about 75% being sold and the other part was just not priced right or was ended by the seller (most likely to sell outside ebay :p)

BTW. btcguild does that, nothing to worry about, it's still in your btcguild account.
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Ah, I have no idea then, I was just guessing about the ebay thing. After all the horror stories I've decided to just stay away from that place haha. The [H] guys are much better to deal with when I want to buy or get rid of some tech :)

Hmm, okay that's good then :) Thanks
 
wolfofone said:
Isn't it due to ebay requiring something tangible to exchange hands, ie nothing digital? I agree thou that it's kind of stupid.

Someone in that thread said that phatk is in poclbm!?

EDIT: Okay, so I had BTCGuild pay out the bitcoins I've gained so far as I wanted to test out how the recieving works and all that.. but it looks like the bitcoin client just cuts off the bitcoin amount after the second decimal... I thought one of the aspects of Bitcoin was its ability to be calculated up to the 8th decimal. It just kind of sucks that I've "lost" that little bit of bitcoins.. i think :/
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Incorrect. BTCGuild doesn't currently pay past 2 decimal places.
 
It doesn't get lost though, the remainder gets rolled onto the next payout.
 
traderj said that they are still technically in the account, and they just pay out to 2 decimal places (I can't be sure as unconfirmed rewards now being confirmed have skewed the number still in my account and I dont remember what it was at the time of the pay out :p). I'll test again after I've built up some more bitcoins..

Also if you have a spare google account I found this on one of the forums.. freebitcoins.appspot.com/getsome anyone used that?

EDIT: fixed typo

EDIT2: Also, the wallet does show transactions smaller than 2 decimals, I just got a smaller (4 decimal) transaction and it's showing as such so i was wrong about that but right about BTCguild only doing 2 (though I didin't know it at the time til you guys told me why :) ) So disregard that part of my previous post :)
 
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AbsintheGuy said:
Unless you quit using that pool I guess. Still, probably wouldnt be worth a whole lot.
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heh yeah I started testing on Deepbit before I moved to BTC Guild after a few recommendations.. so I have about .04 (iirc) something b/c it's lower than the min amount :p So I'll have to go back at some point and mine just enough to get my coins hehe
 
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