"Folding" for profit, not fun - Bitcoin

[Domestic_Ginger]

Not sure tbh; they're beyond me but works in GUIminer.

I'll try and get some stats on total shares/hour for single and dual.

[Sputnik]

I'm confused by all this. I thought initially that they were paying you to do folding and then I read it is all just some pointless calculations to obtain a bitcoin 'token' which may be worth something.

It all sounds a bit like those people who made money in Second life.

But, having said that. I'm all up for a bit of speculation and risking a bit if it has a chance of making some money.

I just keeping thinking that you don't get anything for free and somewhere, Someone has to be gaining from this.

[ehhhhhhh]

...then I read it is all just some pointless calculations ...

read a bit more on this as these are far from "pointless calculations" ;-)

[kevpuk]

My hashrate seems pretty stable circa. 300 with my 5850 @ 800Mhz core.....my latest masterplan is to try and figure out how to leverage the Z68 chipset to use the IGP for gfx, and keep the 5850 purely for mining - this, I am thinking, will remove all the 'laggy desktop' symptoms ??

[ehhhhhhh]

My last transaction to send BTC to britcoin seems slower than usual. I have 33 confirmations already but it doesnt show on my account.

I've sent a letter to the support but the link to the support ticket doesnt work.

Did anyone else experience something similar?

[rox0r]

Yup, I sent a transaction of BTC to Britcoin at 9am and is still 'verifying'.

[Domestic_Ginger]

Same, I had 6 confirmaitons this morning before closing bitcoin at 8am. I sent it last nigt but could not connect at about 10; their node seemed to be down.

[kevpuk]

What's the story with 'backing up' what you have 'mined' ? I am starting to accrue now, and - as with most electronic pfaff - am thinking about what happens if an EMP hits tomorrow ?!

[MadduckUK]

Britcoin has been back for a bit now btw peeps, price is creeping up too, matching mtgox's day... which is nice.

So sorry about this. I had to leave 2 of our developers in charge of the site because these few days I'm in London speaking to the banks.

Everything should be fixed now.

Sorry everybody this one is my fault, I moved the server over to suExec and suPHP. I thought everything was working, but apparently not, ... then i added csrf protection and things got interesting.

Everything is functioning correctly now.

Phantom you nub!

What's the story with 'backing up' what you have 'mined' ? I am starting to accrue now, and - as with most electronic pfaff - am thinking about what happens if an EMP hits tomorrow ?!

make a copy of (this is WHS/XP, little different on 7 but you will find it im sure) C:\Documents and Settings\(your login)\Application Data\Bitcoin\wallet.dat its hidden so turn see hidden files on and whatnot.

and thats it, stick that on a usb stick every few days and your fine... well apart from the EMP.. better use CD-R's then

[shakerist]

Anyone used https://bitmarket.eu/market ? They do paypal transfers as well

[MadduckUK]

funnily enough i signed up to them today, what with britcion being down for most of it. Gave my ebay acc as a reference. probably wont use them as im not keen on people (me included if i ever see reason to buy bitcoins in the future) having to do the transfers themselves - britcoins system seems a billion times easier.

[shakerist]

if i want to transfer my bitcoins from deepbit do i deposit it to the account it gives in the deposit section, if so how does the guy know its my coins is the account unique to me?

[directhex]

if i want to transfer my bitcoins from deepbit do i deposit it to the account it gives in the deposit section, if so how does the guy know its my coins is the account unique to me?

A bitcoin address is unique to a wallet.dat file on someone's computer. That file may contain the keys for more than one address. Therefore the address you specify is indeed unique to your computer. If someone else had your wallet.dat. they could spend your money

[Rave]

I've stopped mining with my 4850 as the difficulty seems to have shot up, and .2 BTC a day now seems a shaky return on energy invested. So now I'm sat on my 3.7 bitcoins wondering when to cash them in....

[shakerist]

I've stopped mining with my 4850 as the difficulty seems to have shot up, and .2 BTC a day now seems a shaky return on energy invested. So now I'm sat on my 3.7 bitcoins wondering when to cash them in....

you maybe earning fewer bitcoins but the price of bitcoins will increase because of the higher difficulty, I think

[kevpuk]

Yoiks ! The difficulty has gone up......looks like 0.4 BTC/day is my realistic target....