Bitcoin _ Online Currency of some sort?

[SeventhSandwich]

also the instructions focus around editing a .conf file in Application support (Maccigarette version of program files), yet it doesn't exist and I can't think of a way to create it in textedit.

forget my life :c why can't I be cool like you guys and mine bitcoins :c

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[SeventhSandwich]

update: found a new shiny guide and I registered for a pool but this is my error on diablo now:

ERROR: Can't connect to Bitcoin: Bitcoin returned unparsable JSON

google reveals nothing to help.

fml.

Edit: Just read that the error is typical when the servers are undergoing maintenance, so I guess I'll try in the morning. though it was processing hashes even though it wasn't connecting to the pool, so I guess that means it was working. It didn't go higher then 71º so I guess I'm happy about that.
scratch all of that.

login info was case sensitive, it's working now.

Also, anyone know the maximum temperature my gpu diode should be reporting that is safe to maintain without causing damage?

[Otis Da HousKat]

I don't know, what GPU do you have? In general it's good to not go above 85°C or so.

Also, this isn't really much of a money making scheme unless you have a lot of upfront hardware already. My setup is four video cards that cost over $1000 together and I make 3 or so coins a day. Over a week's time it paid off the cost of the video cards though.

[SeventhSandwich]

I don't know, what GPU do you have? In general it's good to not go above 85°C or so.

Also, this isn't really much of a money making scheme unless you have a lot of upfront hardware already. My setup is four video cards that cost over $1000 together and I make 3 or so coins a day. Over a week's time it paid off the cost of the video cards though.

ATI HD radeon 4670.

Pumping out around 26Mhashes/s. But I was running some other stuff, and the wiki says 36Mhashes/s, so I'm going to say 36.

[SeventhSandwich]

Hey Otis, because you're a bit-ionaire, are you willing to donate a few bit coins to me to start of my career c:

[Otis Da HousKat]

No.

[SeventhSandwich]

No.

greedy bastard :c

[SeventhSandwich]

No.

on an unrelated note: where can I check my progress on mining? My pool website just shows 0 in all score. maybe it updates every hour or so?

[SeventhSandwich]

Also, my heatsinks CANNOT handle this type of stress and my gpu diode was reporting temperatures of 75º which is unhealthy for my GPU.

So if I just stop mining and let the forgeter cool off, can I pick up where I left off? iMacs suck ass at mining.

I let it keep working, and it got an invalid block, so I'm assuming this means it's overheating and I should stop before I destroy my GPU.

Anyway I can lower it's stress (Maybe to 70% or 80% of my GPU's cycles?)

[Bisjac]

what do you do with the coins?

[SeventhSandwich]

what do you do with the coins?

a lot of people buy drugs with them.

[Otis Da HousKat]

what do you do with the coins?

Exchange them for "real" money or buy stuff with them directly. The only reason bitcoins are worth anything now is because online drug trading groups (and other illegal activity organizations) like the Silk Road have adopted them as the bitcoin purchasing system does not keep a transaction record.

The currency is completely generated by the distributed peer to peer mining procedure which works a lot like Folding at Home if you know about that. Your group is sent a large block of information that is fed into your GPU and processed. The data sets are small which is why the GPU is used as they are designed to handle excessive amounts of simple parallel processing.

[Bisjac]

there isnt even a login account? how do you acquire anything?

[SeventhSandwich]

Exchange them for "real" money or buy stuff with them directly. The only reason bitcoins are worth anything now is because online drug trading groups (and other illegal activity organizations) like the Silk Road have adopted them as the bitcoin purchasing system does not keep a transaction record.

Otis, teach me how to bitcoin mine without frying my gpu :c

[Bisjac]

.ink file? how do you even open the miners?