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Could be some good money to be made in the next couple days...if you've got cash available at TradeHill, of course.

Grr, got a bunch of bitcoins, but no cash in the system right now. By the time I'd get money in, things will probably have stabilized.
 
so how do you buy at Mt Gox? Do you have to use Dwolla first or can you go right to Mt Gox? I'm confused on the whole process. And the site is down so I can't check the FAQ.
 
Reasonable with the fan at 50%, temps are 65 on the Diamond and 60 on the Sapphire. 60% They start to get annoying and by 75% they are obnoxious.
 
Hm, something to think about. Newegg just got them instock but I refreshed, added to cart and gone!
 
My email address was still leaked. That's enough to turn me off for life no matter how it was done. This is a trading house dealing with real money. Security should be almost impossible to bypass, however it was done.

If Citibank and Bank of America can be hacked (and those are just the two I remember as having major problems in the past few months), not to mention ALL those other nonfinancial companies (Sony obviously being foremost in though, but it isn't like they are alone) can you really expect a site maintained by a small team (heck, maybe one guy) to be more bulletproof than those huge multinationals?
 
If Citibank and Bank of America can be hacked (and those are just the two I remember as having major problems in the past few months), not to mention ALL those other nonfinancial companies (Sony obviously being foremost in though, but it isn't like they are alone) can you really expect a site maintained by a small team (heck, maybe one guy) to be more bulletproof than those huge multinationals?

I dont trust bank of america, nor do I trust sony. Thankfully, I dont have a PSN account. Bank of America bought out my mortgage from another bank, I intend to be rid of them within 6 months. As far as gox, if they were going to take on real financial transactions, they should have been more secure. Period.
 
Unconfirmed reports are circulating that Tradehill has also been compromised. Probably a good idea to change your password just in case it's true.
 
I feel ya, I didn't even check deepbit/bitmarket like crazy today either...

Maybe in a few days it'll be back :(
 
Man Namecoins took a hit, everyone is bailing. Going to buy some at .02x and wait for them to go back up to .063.
 
I think they'll recover. I think now is actually a perfect time to put that thing to use. If I could buy right now I would.

I'll most likely end up selling/Trading it. Honestly I lost the "magic" before the whole mtgox thing even happened.
 
Man Namecoins took a hit, everyone is bailing. Going to buy some at .02x and wait for them to go back up to .063.

Yeah, there was just too much mining when it was at 4x the price of bitcoins, that's why difficulty went up so high so fast, but it's flooded right now... (read into that what you will... ;) )
 
can anybody help?
right now i have
a 6950 1gb
5850
5830 in my x58 mobo
the 5830 and 5850 are doing 300 and 250 or so respectively but the 6950 is doing under 200
anything I should be aware of?
thanks!
 
can anybody help?
right now i have
a 6950 1gb
5850
5830 in my x58 mobo
the 5830 and 5850 are doing 300 and 250 or so respectively but the 6950 is doing under 200
anything I should be aware of?
thanks!

cheek power tune and try ocing it but all you cards seam to be putign out low mhs
 
can anybody help?
right now i have
a 6950 1gb
5850
5830 in my x58 mobo
the 5830 and 5850 are doing 300 and 250 or so respectively but the 6950 is doing under 200
anything I should be aware of?
thanks!

that 5850 should be doing more than the 5830, mine does 366MH/s with no voltage increases, also that 6950 should be doing more, my 6850 does 220MH/s...
 
can anybody help?
right now i have
a 6950 1gb
5850
5830 in my x58 mobo
the 5830 and 5850 are doing 300 and 250 or so respectively but the 6950 is doing under 200
anything I should be aware of?
thanks!

These in the same machine? I remember reading awhile ago that people didn't have great luck mixing 5xxx/6xxx on the same box.

My 5830s does about 260-270Mhash/sec each. No overclocking I think. My 6870s are doing about 290Mhash/sec each. Minor linux overclocking on those. Your 6950 should be easily out-topping my 6870s. Do you have power issues? How about heat? What are temps like. The card may be dropping speed down for overly high temperatures.
 
My stock reference 6950 2gb did 340mhash. Unlocked shaders, core 950/mem 500 does 385mhash and stock voltages.

Both of my 5830s do 290mhash at core 1000/mem 344 and stock voltages.
 
i meant my 5850 does around 300, 5830 does 240 and my 6950 does weak lol
ohh really?
i guess its good i bought 2 more 6950s lol
 
Those of you lamenting the namecoin increase in difficulty, some good news for a change. ICANN just voted to relax the rules of TLD registration and you'll soon be able to have dot anything as a valid domain. What does this mean? It means those .bit addresses you've been mining for will be accessible and very valuable due to their decentralized nature.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/06/20/domain.names/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7
 
I'm not really seeing any doom & gloom over at btcguild, if anything the hash rate went up 100GH/sec today.
 
Those of you lamenting the namecoin increase in difficulty, some good news for a change. ICANN just voted to relax the rules of TLD registration and you'll soon be able to have dot anything as a valid domain. What does this mean? It means those .bit addresses you've been mining for will be accessible and very valuable due to their decentralized nature.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/06/20/domain.names/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7
so right now i have some namecoins, should i grab domains?
how does one do that?
 
I'm not really seeing any doom & gloom over at btcguild, if anything the hash rate went up 100GH/sec today.

Of course there isn't. The criticism and doom/gloom is coming from outsiders and armchair economists that assume mtgox and the current speculative state of the currency is all there is to the bitcoin project.

so right now i have some namecoins, should i grab domains?
how does one do that?

http://dot-bit.org/HowToRegisterAndConfigureBitDomains
 
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Those of you lamenting the namecoin increase in difficulty, some good news for a change. ICANN just voted to relax the rules of TLD registration and you'll soon be able to have dot anything as a valid domain. What does this mean? It means those .bit addresses you've been mining for will be accessible and very valuable due to their decentralized nature.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/06/20/domain.names/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7

If ICANN decided to allow .bit domains, the namecoin system is certainly not going to be the one they use. It will be handled like .com and .net and all the others.

If the namecoin system actually took off before that time, and millions of people were using it, the most that would happen is that the .bit owners would be allowed to keep their domain names when the switchover to the new system happened. On the other hand, at this point all namecoins would become worthless.

Namecoins are destined to be worthless, because if they fail, they fail, and if they succeed, the system is taken over by ICANN and they become worthless.
 
I wouldn't mess with the voltage, from my experience most cards that can overclock well will do it on stock volts...

go into MSIafterburner.cfg and change these two lines to look exactly like this, then you will be able to OC/UC...

[ATIADLHAL]
UnofficialOverclockingEULA = I confirm that I am aware of unofficial overclocking limitations and fully understand that MSI will not provide me any support on it
UnofficialOverclockingMode = 1

then to underclock the mem slide the mem all the way to the left (as low as it will go), apply, then close afterburner, open afterburner again and you will be able to underclock even more if needed...

*sometimes when you reopen afterburner the mem will say 1000 (or whatever the stock value is), don't be fooled, if you move it even just a little the lower mem clocks will start showing...

This is not working for me.
 
If ICANN decided to allow .bit domains, the namecoin system is certainly not going to be the one they use. It will be handled like .com and .net and all the others.

If the namecoin system actually took off before that time, and millions of people were using it, the most that would happen is that the .bit owners would be allowed to keep their domain names when the switchover to the new system happened. On the other hand, at this point all namecoins would become worthless.

Namecoins are destined to be worthless, because if they fail, they fail, and if they succeed, the system is taken over by ICANN and they become worthless.

You assume that ICANN will be in the picture at all.

From a post on BTC Forums:
If Namecoin reaches critical mass, most people will stick with the system that came first and simply ignore ICANN's conflicting .bit or .web assignments.

Remember, ICANN can't force anybody to use their root nameserves. Even for a non-geek user all it takes to circumvent ICANN is a browser plugin, and I assume that this type of plugin would be turned on by default on a Firefox download, if Namecoin were ever to become mainstream.
 
You assume that ICANN will be in the picture at all.

From a post on BTC Forums:
If Namecoin reaches critical mass, most people will stick with the system that came first and simply ignore ICANN's conflicting .bit or .web assignments.

Remember, ICANN can't force anybody to use their root nameserves. Even for a non-geek user all it takes to circumvent ICANN is a browser plugin, and I assume that this type of plugin would be turned on by default on a Firefox download, if Namecoin were ever to become mainstream.

I'd see it being implemented in Chrome first if anywhere :)
 
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to underclock the mem...? did you OC in CCC...? I would just set CCC to default and then use MSIafterburner...

Overdrive is not enabled in the Vision Center(new CCC) but MSI Afterburner never goes below 625 for mem. And when I close it and reopen it sets right back to the default 1250.
 
Overdrive is not enabled in the Vision Center(new CCC) but MSI Afterburner never goes below 625 for mem. And when I close it and reopen it sets right back to the default 1250.

weird, did you make the changes to the MSIafterburner.cfg file...?

I have used this on 4 cards (2 were in crossfire) without fail...
 
Some info for you all:

The guy bought the 250,000 bitcoins for $.01 each has posted on a thread on the bitcoin forums, claiming he is not involved with the hacker and just put in a huge buy order when he saw all the sales going through. http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20207.0

The guy who runs Mtgox created another thread on the bitcoin forums saying that he basically doesn't believe the first guy and thinks he is the hacker. http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20250.0
 
Some info for you all:

The guy bought the 250,000 bitcoins for $.01 each has posted on a thread on the bitcoin forums, claiming he is not involved with the hacker and just put in a huge buy order when he saw all the sales going through. http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20207.0

The guy who runs Mtgox created another thread on the bitcoin forums saying that he basically doesn't believe the first guy and thinks he is the hacker. http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20250.0

lol bit drama

I had literally just sold some coins on mt gox and the shit went down the next day

I don't give a flying fuck about this entire mess.. yea I'm steamed my shit was leaked but what the fuck ever

get this shit sorted out and let me have access to my monies
 
weird, did you make the changes to the MSIafterburner.cfg file...?

I have used this on 4 cards (2 were in crossfire) without fail...

Yeah I got nothing. This card blows.I even uninstalled and reinstalled everything.
 
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