Paypal is considering accepting Bitcoins to fund your account
 

David Marcus, president of EBay Inc.'s PayPal:

And I think here, for us at Paypal, it's just a question of whether Bitcoin will make its way to PayPal's funding instrument or not, and we're kind of thinking about it right now.

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/paypa...jHAJGNB6w.html

That's funny considering 1-2 years ago they used to freeze and suspend your account if they suspected you of buying/selling bitcoin with your paypal account. Enter Dwolla which probably only had a successful launch because of bitcoin.

I just made even more money now that the latest Bitcoin price hit above $160.

The haters here are missing out on easy money and having fun supporting the bitcoin movement.

double post...

I finally got my Avalon ASIC, but it's cranking out less than 3 per day .. not what I was expecting at around 91 Gh/s. Any knowledge on how to crank this up, Franck?

95598900 khash/s last update only = < 3 bitcoins? Help!

Nah, i know nothing about mining. Sorry.
Fucking nice you got one though. How long did you have to wait.
Still 3 coins a day is nice man. Would make me really happy.

Since rev 1, I've been promised one. This is a rev 3 box. I have a Butterfly on order, but I don't expect they'll ever ship anyone of value .. once they release, the opportunity cost will be 100x what I paid.

At 3 coins/day, it'll take over 20 days to pay back the price of this ASIC. Ridiculous. When I ordered it, the pitch was 20 coins/day .. which justified sending them coins on spec. I paid $20 for the coins at the time, but still .. it's the principle.

Hey man i gotta run out for the day but i will hit you up tonight later tonight to see if i can help you. If you ever wanna sell it let me know i will drive down there with cash in hand :)

Are you mining in a pool or solo? Does your hashrate actually show 91000Mhash/s ? According to calculations you should be doing 5BTC/24hours at current difficulty. The calculations have always been near accurate for me. If you're mining in a pool maybe there is a shitload of stales or connectivity issues with the pool.

Also if you're mining in a small unlucky pool you would get a considerably less payout as they are crap at finding blocks.

I wouldn't be opposed to a partnership agreement if you can up the production.


I am getting a lot of connectivity errors and junks/stales, which seems to be a function of the server I am connected to. I am in a pool, currently doing 20% of the work for 12% (functional work) of the pay. I switched it to an EU server and the errors stopped. I'm going to have to run it for a bit and see how it plays. If things don't improve, I'll switch pools/servers.

Ok that's cool i can work with that i will hit you up later tonight when i get home.:thumbsup

Connectivity and stales will definitely drop your earnings considerably. When the pool I was mining with was having connectivity issues I was getting ~50% less payouts. I've found it's usually best to pick a large pool but not the largest. Something that does like 30-40% of the total hashrate. But you should see improvements if you got the errors to stop.

Definitely can't mine where the GPU mining was running. Totally different game now.

Paypal is a nightmare. The worst experience I have ever had with an online payment system. Their employees are acting like clueless retards. Not sure if they are Filipinos, but I believe they do not read the fucking emails and just copy + past their replies until you get angry , then they finally call in someone intelligent from their team to resolve your issue.

They keep blocking my account for bullshit reasons and do not fucking understand that I can't do any verification when I am blocked.

Not to mention their crazy fees for EU countries ..receive $600 and pay around $30 in fees.

I'm not a huge fan of them either... I once ordered a dedicated server from a company which ripped me off. When I opened a case with PayPal they simply said that that company has had many similar complaints and there was nothing they could do about a refund for services not rendered. They would add my complaint to the list and closed the case. I had to go through my bank to do a chargeback which paypal usually bans you for.

You can't judge your future earnings from whatever the difficulty is today. When I get my BFL 60 ghs in June or July or August or September I'll probably be making a half a Bitcoin a day. Consider youself lucky. :p

I agree. But that they are even considering adding Bitcoin is huge. I think todays price rise is because of this.

hey man, i can help you mine with that rig with the right flag to get the max out of it. hit me up on skype (boydy369) or irc

i take it you have got the necessary drivers @ https://github.com/BitSyncom

I'm getting the correct throughput now -- it was the server I was using. :thumbsup

Awesome, you using btcguild or another?

I went to btcg for the ASIC, yeah. Was slushing previously with GPUs.

ahh, hey join the gfy team on btcguild? go into settings and select "Team GFY" from the list. it doesnt share your hashpower it will just show each other what we are mining at.