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One of the files seem to have non latin (roman) charcters in its filename. Can you try renaming it, using only the roman script characters (a-z, A-Z)?

When you read about bitcoins, you'll stumble over the possibility to "mine" them. This consists in participation in the bitcoin exchanges by helping with the calculations.

As a low level technology enthusiast, I couldn't resist to give it a trial. Here my experience and view:

• CPU based bitcoin mining isn't efficient, even using a rather highend multicore processor. The power bill will be much higher than the value of the bitcoins earned (besides the environmental side effects). I've just tested the calculation rate and dropped immediately.

• GPU (Graphic Cards used as Processor Unit) based mining seems to be able to reach break even, if you run it while running the computer anyway. However, earnings will be very slow, unless you got one or multiple top notch graphic cards. As an example; with my lowend Radeon HD5450 graphics card (thermal design power 20 W), I've mined in 3 days 0.003 bitcoins (3 mBTC), worth right now a little less than 0.5 USD. With a Radeon HD 7970 about 40 times that result can be expected, without being much more efficient. Nevertheless you might want to give it a trail, if you got a highend graphics card anyway.

Then there is bitcoin mining using specific hardware made ONLY for bitcoin mining. Something I haven't tried out, as it requires an important upfront investment:

• FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) seems to be the current way of bitcoin mining. However their obsolescence is announced with the arrival of ASIC based bitcoin miners. It doesn't make sense to invest into this now, it is too late.

• ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) based mining is announced as the ultimate (hardware) evolution in bitcoin mining. I didn't find any consumer priced solutions shipping right now, though.

Read more for example there > https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining, there about hardware > https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_Hardware_Comparison

Finally, solo mining is something like a big lottery with a very low chance to be the lucky winner, means you might mine for years without any reward. Therefore it is recommendable to join a mining pool (or create your own pool, if you got knowledge, money and time) where the efforts of thousands of miners are joint and the rewards are dropping in more steadily and are redistributed following different schemes. That is where my 3 mBTC are accounted at the moment.

Read more there >  https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Pooled_mining and > https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Comparison_of_mining_pools

I guess deeper discussions about bitcoin mining belong into the "Technology Stuff" section of our forum

Only peers which got all files of a torrent's file list can de counted as seeder. If these are multiple file torrents and you chose not to download all files, you'll appear still as leecher, though you seed what you've downloaded.

Uploaded data will be counted as such by the tracker of course.

However such torrent still counts to the limit of at the same time downloading torrents and won't count for seed bonus points.

This is inherent to the bit torrent protocol and all trackers I know work like that. it isn't GayTorrent.ru specific.

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This is something to be added to the FAQ

A good reputation currently does not give you any other advantage than the honour to have it and show it.

Also as far as I understood, there is no bad reputation, it can be only more or less good or not existing.
See it as a small plus of recognition for members with positive contributions to the Forum.

Note the Forum reputation has nothing to do with the torrents, up- and download or share ratio.

@cannonmc:

… No bad reputation? Hmm.

How about hovering over my 1 red block. I'm 'looked down upon'. Others, even with 'green' reputations '..have no influence' or 'barely matter'. Pretty nasty comments, especially as there appears no way of knowing who disagreed or even agreed with the posts. ...

First please see what I wrote

Also as far as I understood, …

Second, I've never seen a negative reputation (below zero), except during the introduction phase, which had been corrected by the Administrators.

@cannonmc:

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It may have nothing to do with torrents but if that can be the 'reputation' for people who make a net contribution to torrents or always thank seeders or try to participate in forums, it doesn't encourage people (or at least me) to add to this site.

So the vast majority of people who never post in a forum can never have a 'reputation', good or bad.

That is limited due to the Forum and the main site being separated on our system. Comments to the torrents are on the main site, not in the Forum. There are many ways contributors to torrents are rewarded, for example the Seed Bonus Point gifts or higher number of allowed torrents downloading.

@cannonmc:

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"...positive contributions to the Forum."
No, people with whom moderators don't disagree would appear to be nearer the mark.
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Not really, because the agreement / disagreement is limited in frequency (I think to remember once a day) and in addition can't be given in a row to the same member. Further any member can use the blue hearts not only Staff and the Staff is largely outnumbered by the other users. You can as well disagree with the Staff.

Try it, you can disagree with any Staff member and thus reduce our reputation.

Reputation depends as well from the number of topics started and the number of replies, so forum "spamming" adds to reputation. Since the Staff is very active in the Forum, we got a quite high reputation through that.

@cannonmc:

"…there isn't really anywhere that explains what they are."

No, but enough people (experienced?) know how to use them so I am "looked down on".

What's two red blocks? "Dog turd on my shoe"?

Perhaps enough people don't like the hate which aspirates through the way you put your words. Nobody is asking you to agree with the Staff or other members, critical augmented posts are worth positive blue hearting, too (at least IMHO)

and really I don't know what happens with two red block and if they are even possibly existing