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Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

ElectricMucus posted:

Everbody capable of using the google appstore can and should have his own alt-coin.

this is the future bitcoin jesus wants for his people

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theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

also how the gently caress can litecoin difficulty be so high if electricity costs two orders of magnitude more than returns?

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

theflyingexecutive posted:

also how the gently caress can litecoin difficulty be so high if electricity costs two orders of magnitude more than returns?

mine at a loss now, then in 5 years when the world economy has collapsed and even the most obscure altcoins are worth a million dollars each you'll be rich

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

Sweevo posted:

mine at a loss now, then in 5 years when the world economy has collapsed and even the most obscure altcoins are worth a million dollars each you'll be rich

you mean when im riding around on a horse slicing trezors off peoples necks and then their necks too?

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

theflyingexecutive posted:

also how the gently caress can litecoin difficulty be so high if electricity costs two orders of magnitude more than returns?

litecoin was up to $18.90 each a year ago

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

stealing bandwidth from the free city of cleveland to get some confirmations on my machete purchases

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

Nintendo Kid posted:

litecoin was up to $18.90 each a year ago

yes but difficulty adjusts, what, weekly?

text editor
Jan 8, 2007

ElectricMucus posted:

There should be a cloud service where you enter a name, generate a logo register a domain and send emails to exchanges containing pre-mined coins for a fast pump.
Everbody capable of using the google appstore can and should have his own alt-coin.

http://coincreator.net/







Pretty sure there was an all-in-one cryptocurrency ponzi site creator at one point too

ElectricMucus
Feb 9, 2013

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

there's a website that does this already

Clearly not enough of them, I'll bet there is no site yet that makes a personal altcoin for you even if you don't want it to.

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

text editor posted:

http://coincreator.net/







Pretty sure there was an all-in-one cryptocurrency ponzi site creator at one point too

I'm the pre mine premium

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


theflyingexecutive posted:

also how the gently caress can litecoin difficulty be so high if electricity costs two orders of magnitude more than returns?

Litecoin asics have taken over the show. The current best out there is 30mh/s, 920 watts. That's $1.46/day, $3.3/day in electricity for a total loss profit of $1.46 a day!

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.

theflyingexecutive posted:

also how the gently caress can litecoin difficulty be so high if electricity costs two orders of magnitude more than returns?
asic vs cpu mining, probably

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

Powershift posted:

Litecoin asics have taken over the show. The current best out there is 30mh/s, 920 watts. That's $1.46/day, $3.3/day in electricity for a total loss profit of $1.46 a day!

when did that happen? i thought the whole thing behind litecoin was that you couldn't mine it with gpu or asic

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

theflyingexecutive posted:

when did that happen? i thought the whole thing behind litecoin was that you couldn't mine it with gpu or asic
yeah same

text editor
Jan 8, 2007

theflyingexecutive posted:

when did that happen? i thought the whole thing behind litecoin was that you couldn't mine it with gpu or asic

couldn't mine it with the same ASIC. they just had to make an asic for scrypt instead of bitcoins sha256

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

theflyingexecutive posted:

when did that happen? i thought the whole thing behind litecoin was that you couldn't mine it with gpu or asic

when ram got cheaper to integrate with an asic

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

Spinyahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Doctor Rope

bucketmouse posted:

click the link again :laugh:

archive.org got a mirror

https://web.archive.org/web/2015030...atest-utorrent/

Tetramin
Apr 1, 2006

I'ma buck you up.

OSI bean dip posted:

does bittorrent inc even make money?

also this is not the first time that people's pcs have been farmed out for a cryptocurrency. didn't some game updater do this too?

yeah ESEA, they basically replaced Cal back in the day for running competitive leagues for CS, but the main reason they are so successful is their anti cheat client, which is a p much just a big ol rootkit. so they went ahead and yeah, leveraged their massive volunteer botnet to get some btc.

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
obviously rational actors will realize that it's now cheaper to buy their Linux ISOs than to run the utorrent client

Tipps
Apr 18, 2006


party in the front

business in the back
utorrent is just being robin hood, taking money from the rich fatcats and giving it to the poor charities in need.

If anything, you should be thanking them for installing cpu-burning, electric-bill growing malware on your computer without your consent. It's for the good of society.

Fuzzy Mammal
Aug 15, 2001

Lipstick Apathy
what is a non poo poo windows torrent program to use anyway? they're all bloated to high heaven

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

Fuzzy Mammal posted:

what is a non poo poo windows torrent program to use anyway? they're all bloated to high heaven

utorrent 3.3.2 with updates and whatever disabled if you need to do torrents over like 500 gb, utorrent 2.x if you don't

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

Spinyahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Doctor Rope

Fuzzy Mammal posted:

what is a non poo poo windows torrent program to use anyway? they're all bloated to high heaven

qbittorrent is currently suiting my needs.

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

Spinyahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Doctor Rope
are the clients really that bloated by 2015 standards?

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

ANAmal.net posted:

i just pay for my video and audio media instead of illegally downloading it from butt torrent, try that

try killing yourself

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

indigi posted:

try killing yourself

this is a pro tip for everyone btw

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe
utorrent 3.3.2's exe is still almost small enough to fit on a 3.5 inch floppy, and will fit on one if u just zip it

it's also only using like 39 mb of ram while seeding a buncha torrents 4 me.

creatine
Jan 27, 2012




utorrent mines bitcoins with your computer now apparently

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

Spinyahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Doctor Rope

Nintendo Kid posted:

utorrent 3.3.2's exe is still almost small enough to fit on a 3.5 inch floppy, and will fit on one if u just zip it

it's also only using like 39 mb of ram while seeding a buncha torrents 4 me.

i haven't had a floppy drive for over 15 years, op.

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

Pumpy Dumper posted:

utorrent mines bitcoins with your computer now apparently

REALLY TELL ME MORE!!!::eyepop::eyepop

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

Wheany posted:

i haven't had a floppy drive for over 15 years, op.

yeah im just saying, its small as heck

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

Nintendo Kid posted:

torrents over like 500 gb

jesus

Greyhawk
May 30, 2001


Wheany posted:

are the clients really that bloated by 2015 standards?

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

Nintendo Kid posted:

yeah im just saying, its small as heck

:flaccid:

creatine
Jan 27, 2012




Boxturret posted:

REALLY TELL ME MORE!!!::eyepop::eyepop

i skipped like 200 posts and only saw fishmech reccing utorrent

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe




:getin:

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008


i can only download horse porn in huge batches

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

Spinyahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Doctor Rope

i meant more in the "uses a significant amount of memory/processor power" sense

having stupid bullshit banners and crapware is kind of a separate thing

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

OSI bean dip posted:

also this is not the first time that people's pcs have been farmed out for a cryptocurrency. didn't some game updater do this too?

there's malware in the wild that will try to run bitcoin miners on anything that's connected to the web with a linux kernal

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Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

Please leave the room if you think this might offend you.
Grimey Drawer
lol i just checked and i'm still on utorrent 1.6.5

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