Guys,

it appears that 5xxx and 6xxx series do not work with the miner, please do not waste your time trying it. I am looking into the problem, hopefully it can be solved, but no promises yet.

That would be spectacular!

Quote from: jae208 on January 01, 2014, 07:20:51 am

so I have an amd 6850 and it says that no suitable devices were found
I have 8 GB of RAM

The 6850 has only 1GB GDDR5 graphic card memory which is not enough. I have the same problem with my old 7750

ooohhhh ok haha thanks

I think innovation happens when ideas have 'sex' and sometimes people who have great ideas that can be applied somewhere out of their domain of expertise aren't applied because they don't have the technical know-how. Guides are simply meant for simplification purposes. People don't just see cryptocurrencies as 'coins' or just plain money that can be sent from point A to point B.

I personally see a similarity between cryptocurrencies and biological organisms. Each node is the equivalent to a cell in a multi-cellular organism. Each individual cell has a job to do that when combined with millions or trillions of other cells ensure the continuity of the organism. Each node in a cryptocurrency network ensures the continuity of the cryptocurrency. Do you sort of see?
Bytemaster sees cryptocurrency as a Distributed Autonomous Corporation.

I think that looking at cryptocurrency in a different way adds to innovation. Remember Bitcoin is revolutionary but it is NOT the best we can do.
Perhaps the blockchain can be used for more than just financial instruments such as DACS...

Who knows maybe we can use blockchain technology to create next generation virtual reality environments? Think of something like Second Life, only that instead of having CENTRALIZED servers creating and maintaining the virtual environment we create a DECENTRALIZED game where we have millions of nodes donating computing power.

Of course the nodes that voluntarily maintain the virtual environment would receive something in return for the computing power. They will have powerful incentives to do so.

The Bitcoin network in aggregate already surpasses the combined computing power of the Top 500 supercomputers in the world. Imagine that we could harness that much computing power to create a virtual gaming environment like Second Life. 0_0

Think of the possibilities...


Now... How do we start? LET'S DO THIS! 

I run a cluster of around 3500 top notch servers from multiple providers and have around 100,000 usd worth credits ready to mine - I quit mining a while back to reduce the intensity on the system - would someone here be gracious enough to give me some pts? I could REALLY use some extra christmas money

How do you have so much servers? Bots?
Hey umm if you want let me mine in your place.

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Hello Everyone,
Welcome to my guide for cloud mining on Windows Server using Windows Azure Free trial. I hope you enjoy. Mining with Windows Azure while paying is not profitable but if you have $200 free, my experience was I made ~$50-60 from the trial in ~1 week. Also, the best part is once you spend the trial money they ask you to upgrade, they don't require you to do anything.

So anyway, go there and sign up for a $200 free trial. With this trial it lasts a month and you have a limit of 20 cores. I personally recommend maxing out all 20 cores so you can get the PTS as fast as possible - especially with how fast difficulty has been going up.

Then once you have it sign up for a Windows 2008 8 core server. You will then get a login link to download. Download it and login in to your virtual server. Once there on the bottom left windows task bar you will see server manager. Go there find internet explorer, and turn security off. Then open up internet explorer (make sure its full screen like a desktop and then hit your start button and it'll be there - you may want to make a desktop shortcut for future use).

Go to ypool.net and if you already have an account sign up or make one. Then follow there how to instructions guide. They'll take it from here - installing the miner on the server is like installing the miner on your normal computer (that's why I recommended Windows 2008 Server as your OS versus Linux I just find it so much easier even though Linux is supposed to be like 5% faster for mining).

Once you have the miner on your desktop or wherever create a shortcut leading to the miner + the necessary code afterwards. You can put this shortcut on your desktop and just double click to start mining.

Then you can close your remote connection (note this does not stop you from mining) and then continue mining. I recommend making 2x 8 core instances and 1x 4 core instance. You can mine until you use up your free trial, collect your ~$50 and then just stop. No further charges for you!


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Do you think you can provide screenshots or a youtube video to make this idiot proof?

is 20 collisions per minute pretty good speed? How many collisions per minute would be needed to
mine one Protoshare per day?

I volenteer to be an Alpha tester

I have come up with a new approach using proof-of-stake that could make mining as we know it irrelevant.   

Please read this thread: http://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=1138.0

I just came across this thread today and let me tell you that I believe that there are a large number of us that have invested in the long term potential of crypto equities. That being said, I think that you should go ahead with introducing a 6 month vesting period.

Those of us like myself that see the true potential of crypto equities will do just about anything to get our hands on more Protoshares, Bitshares etc. I am willing to mine for 6 months without any instant gratification. You should move forward with a 6 month vesting period for Bitshares. I think that will be most fair to those of us that actually FUND the progression of this technology. A person that is in it for the long term will obtain Angelshares or donate Protoshares for the continued development and implementation of something like Kehotee ID.

By the way if we obtain Protoshares after the release of Bitshares are we still able to get Bitshares just by getting more Protoshares?