Bitcoin Mining

[Shuvo]

:/ Hit an outlier. My pool has been struggling for 2 days now @ 300+ gigahashes/s to solve a block. All for a measly 0.06 btc -_-

[Chrian]

whats silk road ?

[DAKPluto]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sil...marketplace%29

[Vandole]

if you're smart you'll never go there unless you want to be black bagged by the fbi

[Darus Grey]

if you're smart you'll never go there unless you want to be black bagged by the fbi

If you're smart they're not gonna know who to black bag.

[Vandole]

If you're smart they're not gonna know who to black bag.

http://modernvespa.com/pix/uploads/g...roxies_118.jpg

[Shuvo]

Hah we went right from a 40hour solved block outlier to an 8minute outlier :D Still not enough to balance it out.. but whatever.

You can't even access silk road without TOR so theirs no way to keep track of transactions. Only way to catch people is to do lots of legitimate sales to get your reputation up then start a sting operation on buyers. But I doubt they'd even be interested in buyers anyway, unless individuals buy massive quantities.

Sellers will be impossible to trace unless they do something really stupid like having a return address on the mail etc.

[Dmitry]

Do you guys think running miners is worth the wear on the video cards? I'm using the GUIminer and it jacks both my video cards up to 99% and 95% usage, and they sit at around 80 degrees and are right next to each other in the case. Since I've been mining, I've been getting some graphical glitches on my screens. I'll see if it shows up in a screen capture next time.

[hey]

Do you guys think running miners is worth the wear on the video cards?

Yes.

[Reality]

860 Mhash/sec @ Slush's Pool (2x Radeon HD5870's @ 900), flags on each card: -k phatk VECTORS FASTLOOP=false AGGRESSION=7 BFI_INT WORKSIZE=128

[Dmitry]

I got an error with the -k flag. I us -v -w128 and -f50 and get 180 or so

[Reality]

I got an error with the -k flag. I us -v -w128 and -f50 and get 180 or so

youre most likely not using a phoenix miner, which i use and its considered by most to be more efficient and afaik ...lets you use a few more flag options (-k lets you specify kernel)

[hey]

which i use and its considered by most to be more efficient and afaik

Unless i'm doing something wrong, i'm getting 220 mhashes with my 5770 @1015/300 mhz using phoenix miner, vs 230 mhash with m0mchil's miner.

Flags were -v -w256 -f10 for m0mchil's miner, and vectors bfi_int fastloop=false agression=12 for phoenix.

It's close, but at least for a 5770, it's not better.

[Reality]

thats a normal range for a 5770, 5830's get about 260-270 mhash/s and they've got more shaders (1120 vs 800) and a higher default clock

you can compare setups to others with similar hardware here. Compare flagswith the other 5770 cards

[vagus]

Silk Road has closed. First bitcoin ATM opens today. Curious how many of you that posted in this thread 2 years ago, has your views and wallet changed? Lol.

[Tymon]

Sad thing here is if I had taken my own advice and invested a lot in this back when I posted on the first page I would probably be a millionaire right now...

[Scizor]

I'm kicking myself for not buying back in 2010

[Jefe]

I remember reading this back in the days when I used to work for a computer lab (200+ pcs); and I remember thinking about it but never tried it >< I wonder if the tc got a nice chunk of money.

[Sho]

I'm kicking myself for not buying back in 2010

^

[vagus]

BG, we need to stick together and get rich!