getting into bitcoining?

Oh, the 60GH single is blowin' on my feet

the $45 a day is also pretty neat

posting on the forum makes me feel very 1337

I never heard that tulips gave away free heat
 
So, the easiest way to get money into a bank is coinbase.com right? Seems like with most other exchanges you are stuck with jumping through weird as payment methods or huge fee's.
 
xIronCrossx said:
So, the easiest way to get money into a bank is coinbase.com right? Seems like with most other exchanges you are stuck with jumping through weird as payment methods or huge fee's.
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That's what I've used so far...only caveat is you're stuck at their "sell" price which is anywhere from $20-$150 less than a "Gox" price depending on the day. Right now Gox is at $1150 and Coinbase is at $1050.
 
kirbyrj said:
That's what I've used so far...only caveat is you're stuck at their "sell" price which is anywhere from $20-$150 less than a "Gox" price depending on the day.
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which is not really an issue, if you use BTC-E because coinbase is anywhere from 20-100$ more for btc than at BTC-E which means you actually make more off your ltc than what you sell it for.
 
Wildace said:
which is not really an issue, if you use BTC-E because coinbase is anywhere from 20-100$ more for btc than at BTC-E which means you actually make more off your ltc than what you sell it for.
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BTC-e's biggest problem is that it is almost impossible to get USD in and out of there. I didn't really care for the percentage just to withdraw coins either, especially after they're already making money on each transaction.
 
I just find it annoying why they make it so difficult to get money out of any of them. I guess having to comply with regulations in the US is too difficult for them.
 
So I have been curios about this for some while now and seen the intro of ASICs... I am guessing I can grab a few of these, plug em in, and get started, of course with the right application ect..
 
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BroHamBone said:
So I have been curios about this for some while now and seen the intro of ASICs... I am guessing I can grab a few of these, plug em in, and get started, of course with the right application ect..
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umm.. yea.. those aren't going to pay for themselves anytime soon. They are more a novelty item than anything else.
 
BroHamBone said:
So I have been curios about this for some while now and seen the intro of ASICs... I am guessing I can grab a few of these, plug em in, and get started, of course with the right application ect..
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The link didn't work for me, but I wouldn't get them from Amazon...you can get them for ~$12 each on eBay. They make about .25 a day each right now. So it's going to take you about 6-8 weeks to break even depending on rising difficulty and fluctuating BTC price.
 
kirbyrj said:
The link didn't work for me, but I wouldn't get them from Amazon...you can get them for ~$12 each on eBay. They make about .25 a day each right now. So it's going to take you about 6-8 weeks to break even depending on rising difficulty and fluctuating BTC price.
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Fixed. Gotcha though.

So pretty much gpu rig or the pricier asics would be e way to go?
 
USMCGrunt said:
How's the 290s doing with hashing? I haven't seen any numbers for them yet.
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Believe it or not, the 290 will break 900khs @ 1100/1500 @ 300w according to people i've been talking to.

It's actually got a 3:1 khs/watt ratio.

Yes it's louder than a liberal at a pro-life rally, but the only better hash:watt is the 7850, but noone wants a 350khs card right now.
 
atp1916 said:
Believe it or not, the 290 will break 900khs @ 1100/1500 @ 300w according to people i've been talking to.

It's actually got a 3:1 khs/watt ratio.

Yes it's louder than a liberal at a pro-life rally, but the only better hash:watt is the 7850, but noone wants a 350khs card right now.
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Actually, most 290x will do worse as you overclock. I upped my hashrate by underclocking my cards a bit to 960mhz. A few people on OCN have done the same. At 960/1250 I'm sitting at 900 khs.
 
BababooeyHTJ said:
Actually, most 290x will do worse as you overclock. I upped my hashrate by underclocking my cards a bit to 960mhz. A few people on OCN have done the same. At 960/1250 I'm sitting at 900 khs.
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It's all about the clock:ram ratio, not just specific clocks.
 
BababooeyHTJ said:
Any specific examples? I haven't seen anyone else claim that.
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I've never seen anyone NOT claim that for scrypt mining. The issue is that every card is different and needs to be tweaked for the system settings and individual card. I took one card with certain known settings and moved it to a different system and all it did was error out. I had to retweak it again.
 
kirbyrj said:
I've never seen anyone NOT claim that for scrypt mining. The issue is that every card is different and needs to be tweaked for the system settings and individual card. I took one card with certain known settings and moved it to a different system and all it did was error out. I had to retweak it again.
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Again, any specific sources for r9 290/290x? I've not seen a single comment like that in the ocn thread. I haven't noticed it in practice either.

Settings in cgminer yes but a ratio between core and memory clocks? I haven't seen that one.
 
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BababooeyHTJ said:
Again, any specific sources for r9 290/290x? I've not seen a single comment like that in the ocn thread. I haven't noticed it in practice either.

Settings in cgminer yes but a ratio between core and memory clocks? I haven't seen that one.
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he is absolutely correct. just changing the speed a little bit - even downward - on core or mem can make a drastic difference in hash rate. IT takes quite a bit of experimenting to fid the perfect sweet spot. IT will be slightly different on individual cards.
 
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+1 on having the right ratio.

Tweaking each card can be a pain in the ass, there is no solid setting that one can tell you to get the best hash rate.

I've had systems where +/- 1Mhz of memory or core makes all the difference between an extra 100 or 200khash, Don't know how to explain it, but you just have to experiment.

my 290's 100% stock setting are getting 800khash each - difficulty 18. When I try to push for 20 it won't launch thread concurrency settings I have to play with... so many damn variables and combinations.
 
Can't seem to get my new rig working.. I am running a 5830 in one slot and a 7870 in the other slot. The 5830 is the primary card and si mining as expected. The 7870 is showing up but I keep seeing this error:
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I can't figure this out. This is the .BAT file I am using...

Code: 
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
C:\cgminer\cgminer.exe --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://coinotron.com:3334 -u elitemafia.mafia -p password -I 19 --device 0 --gpu-engine 1050 --gpu-memclock 1200 -g 2 --gpu-fan 100 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 15360

and the bat for the 5830 is like this:

Code: 
C:\cgminer\cgminer.exe --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://world.wemineltc.com:3335 -u dyingdreams.5830 -p 1 -I 18 --device 1 --shaders 1120 --thread-concurrency 5600 --gpu-engine 925 --gpu-memclock 1000 -g 1


Any ideas? Note that I am hosting hte 5830 for a buddy and that's why the pools are different..

This is a fresh install of win7 64 bit. I have installed the AMD catalyst 13.11 beta v8 drivers, amd APP-SDK 2.9 and cgminer 3.7.2 - nothing else.

Could this be related to only installed 2 gigs of ram>??
 
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