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

[p2501]

Humm... I've got my 3x 6990 miner working, but now I can't talk to my gf anymore. The living room is flooded with heat and noise... hottest core runs at about 102°C. Judging from folding on nv hardware it'll be okay for some time.

With increasing difficulties... is it better to join a big pool? BTCmine is 'only' at about 556GHash..

[slaveondope]

My main rig is WCed as well. But I left my 5870 at the University and put two 5830 WITHOUT disassembling the loop. 5870's waterblock just hangs there. When cards and new PSU will pay off I will get another 5870 with MCW60/80.

Also, I'm heaving problems setting BTCguild account. It seems I cannot add any workers. Should they appear on some kind of list?
It seems that deepbit charges a lot

Humm... I've got my 3x 6990 miner working, but now I can't talk to my gf anymore. The living room is flooded with heat and noise... hottest core runs at about 102°C. Judging from folding on nv hardware it'll be okay for some time.

With increasing difficulties... is it better to join a big pool? BTCmine is 'only' at about 556GHash..

They all will pay out the same over time. Been at BTCMine going on a week and Im happy. Only 3 hours down time once in the middle of the night due to DDos but that was across many pools. Deepbit is having chronic issue's on my side, Guild is still ramping up, Slush my ping or something causes higher stales and they are attacked as much as Deepbit. Plus the pool luck is up at BTCMine atm.

[INFRNL]

How to you transfer minining pools? do you have to cash out of current pool first? Also how do you get bitcoin manager to see your coins. I finally have a couple from btcguild that I seen on their site, but I never see any change on bitcoin
I take it that coins have to be seen on bitcoing, then trnsfer to tradehill, then....?

[don_xvi]

How to you transfer minining pools? do you have to cash out of current pool first? Also how do you get bitcoin manager to see your coins. I finally have a couple from btcguild that I seen on their site, but I never see any change on bitcoin
I take it that coins have to be seen on bitcoing, then trnsfer to tradehill, then....?

To transfer to another pool, sign up at the new pool & create a worker then, (assuming you're using GUIMiner) create a new OpenCL miner with the info for the new pool, and just shut down the old miner and start the new one. You'll have an extra tab and the summary will let you click to choose which to run. Don't forget to save the new setup. You can leave the coins on the old pool if you might come back or cash out.
You need to go to your "My Account" on BTCGuild and use the PAY ME NOW button to get your coins into your wallet. It should show up right away as "0/Unconfirmed" then it'll get confirmed over a couple of hours. Then you can transfer it to an exchange and sell it for cash, or keep it in your grubby little hands!

[INFRNL]

To transfer to another pool, sign up at the new pool & create a worker then, (assuming you're using GUIMiner) create a new OpenCL miner with the info for the new pool, and just shut down the old miner and start the new one. You'll have an extra tab and the summary will let you click to choose which to run. Don't forget to save the new setup. You can leave the coins on the old pool if you might come back or cash out.
You need to go to your "My Account" on BTCGuild and use the PAY ME NOW button to get your coins into your wallet. It should show up right away as "0/Unconfirmed" then it'll get confirmed over a couple of hours. Then you can transfer it to an exchange and sell it for cash, or keep it in your grubby little hands!

Thanks Don; I appreciate the help

[[XC] gomeler]

Anyone know what caused the total BTC Network throughput to crash from 12TH/s to 8TH/s? Curious if this also is responsible for the price crash that is currently occurring?

[artemm]

Anyone know what caused the total BTC Network throughput to crash from 12TH/s to 8TH/s? Curious if this also is responsible for the price crash that is currently occurring?

Wouldn't it be the opposite?

Price crash (less demand) => more miners shutting down rigs
network crash (less supply) => price increase

[[XC] gomeler]

Wouldn't it be the opposite?

Price crash (less demand) => more miners shutting down rigs
network crash (less supply) => price increase

Not if there was some widespread change like say a government investigation in BTC. That's what I'm curious. I do know there is a wallet stealing virus floating about. Curious if something else like that also caused a bunch of miners to shut down.

[c22]

Price is going down and people are shuting down the business. Well I know a guy who are going to sell his miners with 20 xfx 5870, because "he wants to sell it, before everyone will want to sell cards". People are scared already - mostly those who JUST bought their hardware and want to take their money back - at least for the hardware.

[danielkza]

Just got the time to set up a miner to make use of spare time on my humble GTX 460, and I'm having a very weird problem: most GPU miners cause my driver to crash after they're closed, and when the driver restarts, it is forever stuck at 2D clocks until I reboot. poclbm (OpenCL) and rpcminer (both CUDA and OpenCL) reliably trigger the crash every single time: pressing the close button = blank screen, 'driver has reset' message, and a one way passage to 2D-clocks-land (or a hard crash).

phoenix does not cause this, but it is also a good 15MHashes/s slower. "A driver problem" I thought. Tried the last 4 NVIDIA drivers I had laying around (260.99, 266.58, 270.51, and the latest 275.33), each after a pass of Driver Sweeper, and nothing changes. "Maybe the factory OC of 800MHz is the problem: maybe it was never actually stable."; not really, reference GTX 460 clocks still crash. And my daily OC of 840/1680/2000 is 3h Furmark stable and has never crashed any games.

My setup:

2500K @ 4.6GHz (tested to be stable, but reverting to stock didn't change anything)
Win7 x64 SP1 Professional
Palit GTX 460 Sonic Platinum (factory OC'ed to 800/1600/2000, but reverting to 675/1350/1800 didn't help)

poclbm-mod 04.20.2011rev3
rpcminer-cuda / rpcminer-opencl 20110227
phoenix 1.5.0

Any help would be appreciated.

[Sparky]

Price is going down and people are shuting down the business. Well I know a guy who are going to sell his miners with 20 xfx 5870, because "he wants to sell it, before everyone will want to sell cards". People are scared already - mostly those who JUST bought their hardware and want to take their money back - at least for the hardware.

Well I'd be glad to take a 5870 off someone's hands at discount

[slaveondope]

Anyone know what caused the total BTC Network throughput to crash from 12TH/s to 8TH/s? Curious if this also is responsible for the price crash that is currently occurring?

It's a glitch that happens every time the difficulty changes.

[OldChap]

Wow that's weird....

Here's some info I found on it, or at least how to possibly correct it (but at a risk of losing data)
http://www.howtohaven.com/system/cha...ignature.shtml

Couldn't be doing that.... I moved it again to another rig and all showed up just fine.

On the original rig I followed a hunch and found that this drive will no longer run in ahci mode. I guess I must try checking the MB too this weekend. Thanks for the link though it did help.

Edit: Yay! I just noticed that smilies are working....Yes, I know, old and slow

[BeepBeep2]

Hey guys, -
Wanted to let you know that Linux miners do not need a monitor connected to every GPU...in fact you dont need to hotplug either.

[[XC] gomeler]

Hey guys, -
Wanted to let you know that Linux miners do not need a monitor connected to every GPU...in fact you dont need to hotplug either.

Yup. Found that out the hard way after purchasing a bunch of resistors for dummy plugs.

Also, Linux is free

[[XC] gomeler]

It's a glitch that happens every time the difficulty changes.

Good to know someone tragic hadn't happened.

[KaptainBlaZzed]

Hey guys, -
Wanted to let you know that Linux miners do not need a monitor connected to every GPU...in fact you dont need to hotplug either.

Found this on another forum, I have not tried it yet.
The registry change should allow you to run a GPU in windows without a monitor or dummy plug.

Go to registry and disable Ulps:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Cl ass\{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}]

and change "EnableUlps" to 0 under the 0000 and 0001 or 0003 keys.

[KaptainBlaZzed]

Anybody trying to run a headless miner on windows should look into TightVNC.

It allows you to remote into your machine, but your machine thinks you are at the keyboard and activates the GFX cards.

I was having problems using remote desktop while i was away on business, but TightVNC solved the problem.
If you log-in with remote desktop windows does not activate the GFX cards.

[don_xvi]

Can we get a sticky on this?
I've been posting links to it on the bitcoin.org forum. Good work!

[WhiteFireDragon]

hey guys, i'm gonna finally sign up for a tradehill account to cash in some of my BTC. who's referral code should i use when making an account?

[INFRNL]

I donot recall who posted last; I will be signing up soon as well so I can cash in a few coins. I would like to hold out to at least $20/coin; will see

[Reflex1]

Mt Gox is also up and trading again. Not sure if they are to be trusted anymore, but since tradehill is only for people living in the US im happy Mt Gox is back

[WhiteFireDragon]

I donot recall who posted last; I will be signing up soon as well so I can cash in a few coins. I would like to hold out to at least $20/coin; will see

how about i register with the referral code of the last person that posted it in this thread, and you can register using my code

EDIT: i went back a couple pages and i think [XC] gomeler was the last one, so i registered under his referral code. here is my code just registered: TH-R111869

[ggdh]

Guys, what are your thoughts about future of bitcoin? Any wild guess how the price will change in a next few weeks?

[p2501]

Dunno what will happen the next few weeks but the slight downwards pricing trend for sure made some people flee from mining:



Good thing about this is that rise in difficulty won't be as steep as it's been.