Out of Pod Experience

Xenuria, I expected more from you, it is common knowledge that GPUs make bit coins faster than CPUs, It is also widely known that AMD GPUs mine faster than Nvidia ones.

And it does cost people money, running a bit coin mining op generate a larger power bill then a computer idling, on the order of 100 to 200W more on the average machine. (those with beastly rigs that draw 1k + watts i am not counting you)

Third, can you please stop this narcissistic posting, your a fun troll to have around the forums but asking people to make you money is not cool.

My first thought was also power. I can imagine a slider where what I make vs what it costs may end in a net gain, loss, or nearly breaking even but I can't begin to estimate where I'd end up. I think it's reasonable to assume that figuring it out and setting it up is not worth the potential for earning.

Pass.

No GPU's are better for floating point calcs..... Thats the the whole point of a GPU. Though I'm under the impression bit coining is no longer so "hot" as it were.

So if you really wanna crank em out you should get 4 x times ati cards and cross fire em.

And really the best way to make money in college == come up with an idea get your chums to help then bring it to full development...and if you're **** hot you drop out like gates and the rest and make billions. I know one guy that on x-mas break coded some software for a hospital and made 10k to pay for the next semester. (Too be fair the guy is a genius, and majoring in Aero space engineering.)

If you're out of idea's or not a genius able to code entire software in 4 weeks by yourself... I dunno get a real job?

Xenuria, you have fallen so low you now resort to something like this? I prefer the old xenuria with random threads and random requests and non sequential asynchronous statements, but asking for money under the pretense of a social experiment is kinda meh.

Do a safe exit and pretend you were hacked and start over.

Wheres the cheese? i was promised cheese?

From Xenuria's girl kissing thread:



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We expect more from you than this, also ponies

About tree fiddy

Interesting reads Akita, but we're leaving out the practicality of setting it up. You would have to already have a PC you're not using. Since the profit comes at a trickle it would take a long time to justify buying a card just for this, much less buying a PC.

How is data transmitted? At what point would you bottleneck at your connection? If I had a spare PC with decent GPU and I actually wanted to set this up, would it make my DSL connection lag on another game?

For a standalone client, the only massive data transfer would happen when setting it first up, as the encryption is based on all the previously encoded packets.
Afterwards, the data transfer is negligible, almost certainly lower than station-spinning in Jita.
Think "couple of MB per DAY".
You just listen to the network telling you whether the current "less-than-10-ish-minute-average-for-one-machine-to-stumble-upon-solution-by-accident" package has found a solution yet or not, then download the small package when it does show up, the client authenticates its veridicity to several peers, then grabs the next 10-minutes tiny problem and goes to guess on its own.
You don't need to have a PC you're not using, the one you play EVE from is just fine, let it work when you're not playing, pause it when you need the GPU for something. And since you play EVE on it, a halfway decent GPU is kind of a given inside.

The largest small real problem is actually turning bitcoins into cash or cash into bitcoins.
Sure, you can use an exchange house or whatnot, but it's a hassle IMO.
Personally, as far as I'm concerned, I'd like to keep the use of Bitcoins completely separate from the use of government-backed cash. Then again, I'm not using BTCs much, and never cross-transacted with cash, so the hassle of exchange might be slightly less of a hassle for other people.




http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#tgSza1gSMAzm1g10za2gSMAzm2g30zv
There you go.
Supply and demand are a b*tch, eh ?
The fast rise that started in May last year was due to the fact a lot of USA news outlets spread the story, so DEMAND for bitcoins spiked, while fresh supply is by design nearly constant, so only old BTC owners would have been able to provide enough volume for later adopters, and many early adopters never bothered to turn them into cash.

P.S. An example of a "how to" page for one of the bitcoin mining pools.
http://www.bitcoinpool.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=129
** EDIT: forum "protection" breaks the link, use : http://tinyurl.com/3gtnks7 instead
This particular one claims no fees. I never used it, I just googled it a few moments ago, so can not endorse it in good faith.
Chances are extremely high it's perfectly legit, but you never know for sure.

P.P.S. For EVE players, one of the more interesting site to visit would be this :
http://bitcoincodes.com/index.php?unit=store -> Current 60-day ETC price = 5.58 BTC
(a bit "expensive" if you go by current BTC-to-cash prices, but, eh).
Yes, that is right, you can pay your EVE sub (or make ISK) perfectly legitimately by letting your computer work in its non-used-by-you time.