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Bitcoin Discussion Thread Part 2

What is the address that was there? We can check in block explorer where they went/are. It is odd though that there was an address already filled out because when you create an account at slush's the payout address is always blank.
 
I just broke even on my investments. Gonna accumulate bitcoins and see how much I profit off this.
 
Parja said:
Picked up a 5870 in the FST forum for $210. :D
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Score!

nxcess said:
I just broke even on my investments. Gonna accumulate bitcoins and see how much I profit off this.
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Nicely done. Dare I ask how much were those investments? I played it safe and kept all of my profits instead of expanding and I've been rethinking that decision.
 
nxcess said:
I just broke even on my investments. Gonna accumulate bitcoins and see how much I profit off this.
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If I could stop cashing in my BTC to buy more parts I would eventually break even.. But now its about 50/50 + a bunch of new parts.. About 250$ left to pay off.
 
I've got a plan for slow expansion, hopefully funded primarily by BTC rather than investing additional cash. I've got less than $300 skin in the game plus power use so far.
 
I heard GPU mining was going by the wayside and profitable mining going forward will be done on ASICs.

Of course, nobody can tell me who is developing said ASIC hardware or where it might be marketed so maybe it is just fud.
 
Yeah, that myth has been going on for a while. I've been following ASIC mining developments since I got into bitcoins hardcore. It is prohibitively expensive and there have already been some pretty blatant scams about it as well. You can read the whole thread here, but this is a summary of it: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=29696.0

Some said this site was legit but i never bought it: http://asicminer.net/
They showed some shitty blurred out photo of their supposed prototype board here:
proto-asicboard.jpg

The reason they gave for blurring it was because someone might be able to copy their design from just looking at it :rolleyes:

Then someone owned them and showed that the picture was of a part from a Chinese tablet knockoff:
zynue.jpg


After being thoroughly owned they lowered their asking price to get in on the chance to buy the finished product from 15BTC to 5BTC, then they claimed that some investors bought them out and closed shop:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/iynpe/asicminernet_calls_it_quits_wont_sell_product_for/

All the while the idiots who donated to the project thinking they might get something lost all they gave them.

Here's their bullshit announcement about closing down:
We're currently about to close the sale of a whole first batch of devices to a private investor. We will be required not to duplicate the device for at least 3 years. Sorry guys. We will eventually refund all the people who sent the 5 btc within 48 hours.
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Then they turned around and started selling to any sap that would listen to them:
Hello,

Thanks for taking the time to write us an email.
We will have a couple devices left to sell.

Entry level device with 2 boards price breakdown :

Controller device $150.00
ASIC board $250.00 x 2
Shipment $50.00
Total $700

Full device with 10 boards price breakdown :

Controller device $150.00
ASIC board $250.00 x 10
Shipment $50.00
Total $2700

The case will be similar in size to a mid-tower standard PC and you will
be able to purchase 8 additional boards if you decide to go for the entry
level machine now, sorry to inform you that, in that case, there will be
one more charge of $50.00 for shipping.

In case you decide to go ahead please provide details of your order, your
full name, address and valid phone number along with the 5 btc transfer to
1FyZ3qU54jxU5tF2KHxHmnyjkAsdWuiyFr
We will let you know when the production have actually started both via
email and our blog.

Best Regards
Asicminer team
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No one that gave those 5BTC has received a refund.
 
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I was originally mining on www.bitcoinpool.com before they were DDOS'd to hell and lost over half their users.

I had several payments made to a bitcoin address that I can nolonger access (the wallet.dat was on a laptop that had a failed harddrive).

I never recieved those payments. Are they lost to the ether forever? Is there any chance to recover them? Unless someone claims a payment, is the sender still in possession of them or is it gone in nothingness if they were paid to a wallet nobody can access?

I have made attempts to reach the admins there but they haven't been responsive.
 
Spare-Flair said:
I was originally mining on www.bitcoinpool.com before they were DDOS'd to hell and lost over half their users.

I had several payments made to a bitcoin address that I can nolonger access (the wallet.dat was on a laptop that had a failed harddrive).

I never recieved those payments. Are they lost to the ether forever? Is there any chance to recover them? Unless someone claims a payment, is the sender still in possession of them or is it gone in nothingness if they were paid to a wallet nobody can access?

I have made attempts to reach the admins there but they haven't been responsive.
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Unless you can recover a copy of that wallet.dat, you're boned.
 
Parja said:
Unless you can recover a copy of that wallet.dat, you're boned.
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that is my understanding...as if you dropped a sack of gold down a well

@Lorien...too funny, thanks for the history lesson
 
You can recover the wallet.dat file, let me dig up a couple of links from people who have developed tools for a case such as yours. In the meantime do not attempt to turn on that drive anymore.

Edit: Ok, here we go. Depending on how comfortable you are with linux and/or python here are a couple of guides to recovering lost or corrupted wallet.dat files. All you really need is the private keys, from those you can rebuild the wallet by running the bitcoin client with the -rescan flag. [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=25091.0 and http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11331.0

Hope either of them helps
 
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I just started yesterday and I have a GUIMiner question:

I currently have it running on my HD6950 with CPU affinity to core #5 (pegged at 100% due to the bug everyone knows about).

I created a new tab as a Ufasoft CPU miner with a separate username/password, dialed it down to 2 threads with Extra flags "-t 2" and core affinity to #3, and #4.

Here is where I am confused - If I run the CPU miner it drops my hashing rate from the GPU miner by the same amount that the CPU miner is producing. The 2 thread CPU miner produces ~100Mhash/s and the GPU miner drops the same amount so that the total hash rate stays the same... What is going on here? Some of the guides say CPU mining is pointless but it doesn't seem like the potential ~200Mhash/s from 4 free CPU cores (+1 for GPU, +1 for OS) would be pointless if it actually worked.
 
Lorien said:
You can recover the wallet.dat file, let me dig up a couple of links from people who have developed tools for a case such as yours. In the meantime do not attempt to turn on that drive anymore.

Edit: Ok, here we go. Depending on how comfortable you are with linux and/or python here are a couple of guides to recovering lost or corrupted wallet.dat files. All you really need is the private keys, from those you can rebuild the wallet by running the bitcoin client with the -rescan flag. [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=25091.0 and http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11331.0

Hope either of them helps
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Thanks Lorien, I will take a look at those. At most I am out 3 bitcoins only from the buggered address so it's not that big a deal because I stopped using bitcoinpool quickly because of issues like that and the fact that they kept going down on a very regular basis.

I am now on BTCGuild where they allow you to change your address and all your coins are stored there until you request a payout (which can be a different address each time) so it is much safer for me. Also they are doing about 2400 GH/s versus ~150 GH/s for Bitcoinpool.

The pool luck was up quite a lot yesterday with some short rounds. I was making 3 Bitcoins a day, now down to 2.5.
 
jojo69 said:
or the watts

I fold on the CPU
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Can you fold with the CPU while mining? The part I am concerned with is that mining causes the CPU to be constantly spun up in a wait state and it appears to be near 100% usage. I'm not sure if that is actually 100% used cycles or just in a ready state so it leaves room for folding.

Despite all the distributed computing for greed that is Bitcoin, I would still like to contribute something to society with all the extra computers such as folding.
 
Spare-Flair said:
Can you fold with the CPU while mining? The part I am concerned with is that mining causes the CPU to be constantly spun up in a wait state and it appears to be near 100% usage. I'm not sure if that is actually 100% used cycles or just in a ready state so it leaves room for folding.

Despite all the distributed computing for greed that is Bitcoin, I would still like to contribute something to society with all the extra computers such as folding.
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Yes, you can, however your -bigadv bonus will be lower because the miners take a core out of the game.

For best results do not use the new v7 client as you will not be awarded -bigadv wu with smp set to 7 cores under v7.

edit/ how do you get those little hammer and sickels in your sig???
 
jojo69 said:
Yes, you can, however your -bigadv bonus will be lower because the miners take a core out of the game.

For best results do not use the new v7 client as you will not be awarded -bigadv wu with smp set to 7 cores under v7.

edit/ how do you get those little hammer and sickels in your sig???
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Thanks. Unicode contains a lot of interesting pictures and icons most people don't realize are there.

http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelMap.html#download

BabelMap600B.jpg
 
I fold on my AMD Hex core using -smp 5, then set my core affinity in guiminer to core 5. I'm not using bigadv on this machine so it hurts but not as much.
 
They aren't astronomical but if you keep an eye out you can definitely find better on the bitcoin forums / ebay every now and then. Just a few post back some one bought a 5870 for 210 from the [H] forum that hasnt been running under 100% load overclocked to 400mhash for months.

I'm not in a hurry to add cards. Again prices are too high for me. If you don't want to deal hunt then the prices aren't terrible.

If I thought his prices were out of this world i wouldn't have posted the link here for others :)
 
I'm going to have to deduce IMO the 5830 seems to be the best bang for the buck. I'm pushing 315 Mhash/s and I spent $115 to pick it up off a member here. I have heard the 5850 can push near 400 and you can find it for about $150.
 
Ya if you can pick them up around 110 the 5830s are great deals. I just bought another off ebay :)
 
Kardonxt said:
Ya if you can pick them up around 110 the 5830s are great deals. I just bought another off ebay :)
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my last two 5830s cost 90 each for local , was even offered 5870s for 200 each but i dont want to go any further than where i am till i get some money back from all this expense. my electric bill came in its 3 times higher than what i been paying for 15 yrs. mining isnt cheap either by hardware or electric


Jen
 
Have about 30 BTC in the wallet right now, sell at 13.5 or wait? Is anyone else holding out until the prices go up?
 
it's been between 13 and 15 for almost a month now, I'd say we won't see any major shake ups in the near future unless a severe outside influence again (hacker,big government, or media), which is actually a good thing.

btw, not bad at $600 in coins
 
Jen said:
my last two 5830s cost 90 each for local , was even offered 5870s for 200 each but i dont want to go any further than where i am till i get some money back from all this expense. my electric bill came in its 3 times higher than what i been paying for 15 yrs. mining isnt cheap either by hardware or electric


Jen
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I hear ya. I just got my electric bill the other day. $468 lol
 
Anyone got trouble connecting to simplecoin.us?I tried to cash out but it kept loading and did nothing.
 
Silent Knight said:
Anyone got trouble connecting to simplecoin.us?I tried to cash out but it kept loading and did nothing.
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I just cashed out now to make sure. Should be working, just make sure your btc address is set before trying to cashout (not set & payout in 1 step)
 
tsd said:
I just cashed out now to make sure. Should be working, just make sure your btc address is set before trying to cashout (not set & payout in 1 step)
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Yup, cashed out just a little bit ago myself and didn't have any problems either.
 
I re-posted a guide to unlock any non-reference HD6950 from someone at the bitcoin forums here:
How to: Non-Reference HD6950 1GB/2GB BIOS flash shader unlock mod

The only variable is the luck of having a card with a chip that will unlock the extra shaders, none of that "AMD is laser cutting the chips" mumbo-jumbo. That's just something sheeple on forums repeat to sound like they know what they're talking about.
 
My rig has experienced some hard lock recently,on a previously stable setting,even after i lowered the core clock.Can this be the result of Catalyst 11.6b?
 
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