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hiodie said:
Is there a way to calculate the expected payout for a hashing rate? At least for the current difficulty and assuming you are in a large enough pool (BTC Guild). I have one 5830 that has been going for 2 days and another that I added over a day ago and am currently sitting on ~0.9 BTC (confirmed & unconfirmed). Does that seem right? Total rate should be around 550MH/s for 24 hr and another 270MH/s for 24 hr.
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Someone linked this earlier in the thread, I had it bookmarked.
http://www.tvori.info/bitcoin/charts/

According to that, for the current difficulty level (ON AVERAGE) 100MH/s = 0.17728007 BTC/day
 
Edit: Screw it, I'm just lazy lol.

P.S: I was thinking what would happen if Google decided one day to put a browser based cpu miner in their doodle on the main page, tuned to run at very low priority and preregistered to a wallet of their own. People have already spent the bandwidth downloading it and cpu cycles for stuff like the Pac-Man game they had in there not long ago.
 
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hiodie said:
Is there a way to calculate the expected payout for a hashing rate? At least for the current difficulty and assuming you are in a large enough pool (BTC Guild). I have one 5830 that has been going for 2 days and another that I added over a day ago and am currently sitting on ~0.9 BTC (confirmed & unconfirmed). Does that seem right? Total rate should be around 550MH/s for 24 hr and another 270MH/s for 24 hr.
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http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator.php
 
Lorien said:
Edit: Screw it, I'm just lazy lol.

P.S: I was thinking what would happen if Google decided one day to put a browser based cpu miner in their doodle on the main page, tuned to run at very low priority and preregistered to a wallet of their own. People have already spent the bandwidth downloading it and cpu cycles for stuff like the Pac-Man game they had in there not long ago.
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this page has a browser app, but payout is going to be very slim...
http://www.bitcoinplus.com/generate
 
Shit, they hit the motherload with the invention of bitcoin.
Nvidia must be feeling some pain.
 
Lorien said:
No, hoarding Namecoins is the completely wrong thing to do, the current ratio of NMC to BTC has not and will not remain static (Edit: IIRC last night 1NMC=0.015BTC, and now it is 1NMC=0.013) . People do your research, the info is out there:
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the difficulty of namecoins will increase until it eventually reaches a parity with bitcoins. The value also will increase along those lines since they become more difficult to mine. Obviously bitcoin difficulty/payouts will be changing in the future but not as much as namecoins. Anyway the result can be seen today, with the difficulty going from 4 to 16 the value has jumped from 50 to 1 to 30 to 1. I suspect one day they will be at 1 to 1 ratio.
 
wol-va-rine said:
I already mentioned that I was surprised no conspiracy theories have been brought to light yet, like maybe Satoshi was secretly paid by ATI to create bitcoins, etc...
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You do realize that Satoshi most likely does not exist and is rather an identity created by the founders/devs of the bitcoin protocol.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto
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If you guys want to keep up on Namecoin news as well as get info about connecting to one of the new 0% fee pools join the channel #namecoin on irc.freenode.net.
 
Can anyone tell me if I am doing this right? Have Bitcoin up and running. Signed up on BTC Guild. GUIMiner is running at 360 Mhash/s. Is there any way for me to tell my progress? Also, with a 6950, are there any "extra flags" I should use?
 
I would be interested in joining an [H] pool if you start one. If you need hosting or anything for it let me know.
 
SilverSliver said:
Can anyone tell me if I am doing this right? Have Bitcoin up and running. Signed up on BTC Guild. GUIMiner is running at 360 Mhash/s. Is there any way for me to tell my progress? Also, with a 6950, are there any "extra flags" I should use?
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I've been running my 6970 at around 370Mhash/s without tweaking but I see a lot of people using -v -w 128 in the extra flags. If you log on BTC Guild and look at your account you should see some progress of some sort. If not did you create a worker? I also turn on console and summary in the view to see what all is going on from the client.
 
coran007 said:
I've been running my 6970 at around 370Mhash/s without tweaking but I see a lot of people using -v -w 128 in the extra flags. If you log on BTC Guild and look at your account you should see some progress of some sort. If not did you create a worker? I also turn on console and summary in the view to see what all is going on from the client.
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I created a worker and logged into it via GUIMiner. It keeps telling me problem communicating with bitcoin RPC a lot, and it goes idle quite a bit too.
 
BTC Guild as well as a lot of the pools are having problems today so if it keeps having communication issues that's why.
 
wol-va-rine said:
I already mentioned that I was surprised no conspiracy theories have been brought to light yet, like maybe Satoshi was secretly paid by ATI to create bitcoins, etc...
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I think it's just the fact that ATI's architecture uses a higher number of (less powerful?) shaders than comparable Nvidia cards. ATI stomps Nvidia on distributed.net's RC5 cracking as well. My HD5870 does about 6x what my GTX285 did, and over twice what an overclocked GTX480 does.

I mentioned it in some F@H threads, but I'd really like to see how ATI vs. Nvidia would pan out on a "fair fight" with an OpenCL-based F@H client.


Also, my HD5870 seems to have died today. It works for hours in 2D, but crashes the PC within seconds of starting Bitcoin or a 3D game. At least I've got a tracking number for the HD5830 and a lifetime warranty on the HD5870...
 
ATI has rotate, and nv does not (needs 2 shifts and addition).
 
Lorien said:
You do realize that Satoshi most likely does not exist and is rather an identity created by the founders/devs of the bitcoin protocol.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto
Satoshi Nakamoto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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lol, that would just feed the conspiracy theory if it ever came about, maybe ATI created the Satoshi persona and are now reaping the benefits of a craze that is geared towards their products...?

that would be an "interesting" rumor to float around...lol
 
InvisiBill said:
I think it's just the fact that ATI's architecture uses a higher number of (less powerful?) shaders than comparable Nvidia cards. ATI stomps Nvidia on distributed.net's RC5 cracking as well. My HD5870 does about 6x what my GTX285 did, and over twice what an overclocked GTX480 does.

I mentioned it in some F@H threads, but I'd really like to see how ATI vs. Nvidia would pan out on a "fair fight" with an OpenCL-based F@H client.


Also, my HD5870 seems to have died today. It works for hours in 2D, but crashes the PC within seconds of starting Bitcoin or a 3D game. At least I've got a tracking number for the HD5830 and a lifetime warranty on the HD5870...
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is this the first documented casualty of the bitcoin wars...? the first of may I'd guess...

:p
 
got my 6950 with unlocked shaders at 900 core running bitcoin for about 18 hrs a day at 85C hopefully it doesn't die.
 
can't believe I missed out on the 5830s
I setup a notification alert last week but they didn't email me :(
 
*UPDATE*

www.bitegg.net has paid off! I now have my Gift Card ready to go!

Granted it did take over 48hrs but sunday was one of the 24hrs. Not sure if that made a difference or not...
 
Omegas said:
*UPDATE*

www.bitegg.net has paid off! I now have my Gift Card ready to go!

Granted it did take over 48hrs but sunday was one of the 24hrs. Not sure if that made a difference or not...
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Yup, the guy is legit. He trades at #bitcoin-otc on freenode.
 
EnderW said:
is 85 C high?
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It was geek humor, I got a 6970 today and turned the fan right up to test, and to say that thing is LOUD is an understatement!

As for is it safe, I'm not sure. I tried to find some thermal specs earlier but didn't find any (GPU's have always run hotter than CPU's). Mine touches 80c @940mhz (modified 'quieter' fan profile) and I'm not worried about it.

Mines stock fan, it may be modified down the line.
 
i guess for the sake of saving decibels I have to put up with heat.

anyone know of some low profile 80mm pwm fans I can jerry-rig to the cooler to improve the cooling?
 
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