Any bitcoiners here?

[Tetragrammatron]

Anyone into bitcoins here?

[DigitalOSH]

I have an account and the software. Haven't invested yet, which I had, will soon

[Tetragrammatron]

Might want to wait. If the story about the stolen bitcoins is true, I'm assuming the thief will be trying to dump them over the next while. Good luck!

[drostar]

Wow, I'm behind on my tech news. I didn't hear about the stolen bitcoins (until now). I figured something like that would eventually happen, but a half million USD, that's crazy. I did intend to buy some a while back but I couldn't find an easy way to get them.

[Tetragrammatron]

The price is dropping quite rapidly, might be a good time to get in on it soon.

[DigitalOSH]

Yeah, I'm gonna buy soon. Lets talk about it tonight

[Tetragrammatron]

Got setup using my GPU. Way easier than in the old days, took like 5 minutes to get going.


Cracking along at 260 MHash/s right now.

[DigitalOSH]

damn, what kind of GPU are you running? I'm running a single Radeon 5770 and getting about 130 MHash/sec showing in Phoenix, but my bitcoin pool account shows that I'm doing closer to 190 MHash/sec. I'm also gonna make a purchase today, it's trading at about $14/btc

[Tetragrammatron]

5870 I think? The catalyst control center only told me it was a 5800 series card. I should google how to get the exact model number, or I could just check newegg....

The bitpool isn't updating my stats, but that may be because my efficiency was low? I started off using CPU for like 5 minutes then went to GPU. I've heard they'll ban you for that?

[DigitalOSH]

Ooh, 5870 is a great card for bitcoining. which bitpool are you using? Slush's pool? Bitcoinpool.com? They don't care if you use CPU as long as your efficiency stays high (which it wont). 5 minutes of CPU won't kill your eff though.