[How to] fund your cruncher's utility bill OR how to make money using bitcoin

[Otis11]

There's a new exchange open now, it seems to be run by (or at least endorsed by) a respected member of the bitcoin community. It's got a lot of payout methods available, hopefully short-circuiting the hassles involved with Mt. Gox.

https://www.tradehill.com/User/Register

They've got a referral program. We can pass referrals along to each other to help our little WCG community here. My referral code is TH-R1494. Mods please delete if a referral isn't kosher. It seems that if we all use the last guy's referral code when signing up, we can save the guy above us on his commission. Just copy the code from the guy above, unless you all want to use mine for posting!

I just signed up and threw a coin at it, we'll see how it all works out, it's got to be at least as good as Mt. Gox.

Done. My referal code is: TH-R1516

Let us know how it works. I'd try it out but I just transfered mine to Mt Gox.

[shoota]

Mine is TH-R1518.

[don_xvi]

Working on getting a sub-forum dedicated to Bitcoin. This way we'll be able to chitchat about Bitcoin without flooding the WCG forum.

I'd also say chances are BTC is a good thing for WCG. For example it'll have me crunching away on the CPUs used to host my BTC farm

Is there a ton of excitement in the other DC subforums here?
With the obvious exception of the Folding/GPUGrid forums...

[pirogue]

I've been peeking in on this thread for a while now and also checking the exchange rate.

I'm beginning to wonder if bitcoin is Dutch for tulip.
http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_17/b3678084.htm

[shoota]

I've been peeking in on this thread for a while now and also checking the exchange rate.

I'm beginning to wonder if bitcoin is Dutch for tulip.
http://www.investopedia.com/features...s/crashes2.asp

Wow that site was insta-malware pop-up/fake scanner! Thanks

[don_xvi]

This https://www.tradehill.com/User/Register looks GREAT so far! If it transfers my cash...
It just came on live today, so I didn't link it to my bank account, but they can transfer funds directly into your bank for free in the typical 1-3 days. You can also send your money to PayPal but you pay the PayPal fees. I sent money to my Amazon Payments account, no fee, claimed response time of less than 24 hours.
And I got a rate that compared favorably with the next time I checked Mt. Gox.

[don_xvi]

This https://www.tradehill.com/User/Register looks GREAT so far! If it transfers my cash...
It just came on live today, so I didn't link it to my bank account, but they can transfer funds directly into your bank for free in the typical 1-3 days. You can also send your money to PayPal but you pay the PayPal fees. I sent money to my Amazon Payments account, no fee, claimed response time of less than 24 hours.
And I got a rate that compared favorably with the next time I checked Mt. Gox.

[CedricFP]

At this juncture, building a mining rig will take a very long time to break even. You're better buying bitcoins.

[shoota]

so the past couple days i had to turn off Boinc until I got my psu situation figured out, and turning on boinc cuts my mhash/sec from 260 to 80.. what's up with that?

[don_xvi]

Tradehill.com is working GREAT so far! Quick to accept my coin I transferred in, good exchange rate, and the transfer into my Amazon Payments account (with no fee) has been "Initiated". Amazon tells me

Bank Account transactions usually take about 5-7 business days. This duration is dependent on your financial institution. Your transaction status will be shown as "Pending" until the transaction completes in 5-7 business days.

Everyone ditch Mt. Gox and the secondary processor you have to use and switch over here!
https://www.tradehill.com/User/Register
Since I proposed to always use the referral code of the guy above, Shoota's is TH-R1518. But if the thread gets confused and you want to thank me , mine is TH-R1494. But someone needs to give him his so our system of providing for the XS WCG family keeps working!

[don_xvi]

Tradehill.com is working GREAT so far! Quick to accept my coin I transferred in, good exchange rate, and the transfer into my Amazon Payments account (with no fee) has been "Initiated". Amazon tells me

Bank Account transactions usually take about 5-7 business days. This duration is dependent on your financial institution. Your transaction status will be shown as "Pending" until the transaction completes in 5-7 business days.

Everyone ditch Mt. Gox and the secondary processor you have to use and switch over here!
https://www.tradehill.com/User/Register
Since I proposed to always use the referral code of the guy above, Shoota's is TH-R1518. But if the thread gets confused and you want to thank me , mine is TH-R1494. But someone needs to give him his so our system of providing for the XS WCG family keeps working!

If you want to watch an hour long show about bitcoin and Tradehill, here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sEXmVsiVqM

[[XC] Oj101]

Mine is TH-R1887

[jcool]

so the past couple days i had to turn off Boinc until I got my psu situation figured out, and turning on boinc cuts my mhash/sec from 260 to 80.. what's up with that?

Post #1...

CPU usage is through the roof and/or BOINC is slowing down GUI miner
Your poclbm.exe tasks are using up an entire CPU thread per card? This is a bug that happens mainly on Windows 7 x64 with multiple GPUs. Single GPU miners do not have this problem. 32Bit Windows didn't help for me - WinXP might work. Running Linux definitely helps.
However, there is at least a partial work around: If you lock the affinity of each poclbm.exe instance to the same CPU core (and not all cores), all running miners will share that one CPU thread/core and not use up more than 1 in total. It's not ideal but better than losing 2, 3, 4 etc threads.
If WCG is slowing down the GUIminer, either increase the priority of the running poclbm.exe threads or leave 1 CPU thread/core free via BOINC settings.

[[XC] Oj101]

That's not entirely correct. I have one card but I normally see about 15% usage coming from poclbm.exe on my hexacore system.

[shoota]

Yeah I only have one GPU too so I didn't think that was my problem. I'll try leaving one thread free in boinc settings

[OldChap]

I freed up one thread for this but maybe if we can do something with running it below normal with Boinc at idle that might be better.

Now that things are running I can take a look at affinity some

[ggdh]

Just to be sure: when I want to run guiminer on a second rig i simply have to put my email and password there and hit start? Do I have to configure something on my deepbit account?

[Tom128]

I still have withdraws from Mt.Gox dating back to Sunday which have not showed up in my Dwolla account. I don't know if they are just that backed up or what, but I am going to try and switch over to TradeHill and give that a try.

Seems like the rate I am getting 1 coin is way slower since yesterday, did the difficulty jump that much? Luckily my 5830's arrive today!

[pirogue]

Wow that site was insta-malware pop-up/fake scanner! Thanks

If it does, I apologize. I'm running Ad Block Plus on firefox and didn't notice anything. I just tried it in IE with no blocking software and it didn't pop up anything.

Please delete the quote or at least the link.

I changed the link to another site: http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_17/b3678084.htm

[zalbard]

Tradehill.com is working GREAT so far! Quick to accept my coin I transferred in, good exchange rate, and the transfer into my Amazon Payments account (with no fee) has been "Initiated".

Everyone ditch Mt. Gox and the secondary processor you have to use and switch over here!

Tradehill looks like a nice site, thanks for bringing it up.
We'll see how it fares, so far so good.

Mine is TH-R1887

Used yours, my referral is TH-R11084.

[don_xvi]

I still have withdraws from Mt.Gox dating back to Sunday which have not showed up in my Dwolla account. I don't know if they are just that backed up or what, but I am going to try and switch over to TradeHill and give that a try.

Seems like the rate I am getting 1 coin is way slower since yesterday, did the difficulty jump that much? Luckily my 5830's arrive today!

Yes, they've made a brief posting on rededit saying they're completely overloaded with the manual work involved in processing the transactions. They're saying they haven't run off with our money, at least. Everyone is complaining and based on the 11xxx referral number, it sounds like TradeHill is growing quickly! I'm a fan.
As for getting coins slower, I thought the difficulty went up earlier in the week, but I'm certainly noticing it as well. It's forecast to jump a TON in less than a week, I think I read that it's limited to a 400% increase in difficulty per jump. With all the new power coming online, it'll keep getting a lot harder.

[jcool]

That's not entirely correct. I have one card but I normally see about 15% usage coming from poclbm.exe on my hexacore system.

Yeah I only have one GPU too so I didn't think that was my problem. I'll try leaving one thread free in boinc settings

That's kinda weird then... I am running 3 rigs with 1 GPU each, none of which shows ANY CPU load for gui miner. Only my multi GPU setups are eating 1 thread per card if I don't set core affinity manually.
All Win7 x64, latest 11.5 Cat (although one of them runs the 2.1 SDK)

[KaptainBlaZzed]

Have any of you esteemed members of our tight community here actually gotten your money from Mt. Gox into Dwolla and into your bank?
I've read that it can take days for money to get from Mt. Gox to Dwolla, but don't like how it feels waiting on faith based on posts from all manner of people I have no connection to (i.e. at bitcoin.org).

i have received funds into my bank account that came from MtGox > Dwolla > Bank Account.

it will work, but it takes time.

[haxxie]

Use the "-f value" flag for getting the display to lag less, -f 60 is a pretty good value that keeps my PC atleast on a normal response time.

[Tom128]

I used your referral Otis, simply because your TF2 avatar wins

TH-R1637 is mine, lets see if this works!