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![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) me!
Paradise Lost!
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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phht, apparently the director of a huge bank in Yemen passed away without leaving a will and apparently I'm the most eligible relative to receive his inheritance worth millions.
The funds are intestate with some government department and some lawyers so all they needed was a few thousand US dollars to process the paperwork - was way worth it for the millions I'll get.
Any day now ...
Thinking this weekend I'll trash this cobbled up windows machine and order a proper Mac Pro.
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What does "Mining Bitcoins" mean? I'm too old for this kind of sh*t. 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Dang! It would have been the perfect opportunity to tell him to get himself a helmet with a lamp and a pick and have him digging a little!
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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I thought mining was a fat guy sitting in a loader complaining about a 23 year old avaricious kid that keeps on owning him, that or a hairy dutchman with a perfect command of swear words.
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Thanks! I still don't understand most of it. Which means: Stay away!
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It's like mining for nose gold, but more prone to cave-ins.
from google search: Quote: Bitcoin mining is the process by which transactions are verified and added to the public ledger, known as the block chain, and also the means through which new bitcoin are released. ... The mining process involves compiling recent transactions into blocks and trying to solve a computationally difficult puzzle.
To be honest, this definition needs further mining to get at its meaning.  
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It's very easy: They want to do a lot of transactions and need a lot of computer power to get all this processed. If you dedicate a computer to do some processing for them, you are awarded bitcoins for the work you did for them.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Are you then given the title "miner"?
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I'm with you, if it ain't green and it ain't in my hand then I don't want to know about it.
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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My version of it?
It's the act of wasting power on computations that are for the most part completely useless, and in the unlikely event you do get a bitcoin out of it, you still won't be able to trade it in for anything of tangible value, no matter what its current monetary value is reported to be.
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Clear as mud! Thanks, I'm staying far, far away. 
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You and me both. I still don't feel like I've missed out on anything.
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Quote: I still don't feel like I've missed out on anything.
I suspect you missed out on a dandy (where did that come from? ) opportunity to lose some money!
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I'm...not quite sure where this is coming from. You've been registered here for a week, this is apparently your first message, and seems totally out of place in this old thread.
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"I'm neither for nor against, on the contrary." John Middle
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My go to tool is "copy con"
User: Technical term used by developers. See Idiot.
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My thoughts? As every day at this time: Mickeysoft sucks, but I'm going to get myself some lunch before I clean this mess up.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Sounds like feet are mythical (7)
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