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I've been thinking about getting a Butterfly Labs Jalapeno. I'm still not sure if I should.

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Stavros wrote:I've been thinking about getting a Butterfly Labs Jalapeno. I'm still not sure if I should.
same here, I will wait until mab gives us a review though....if it works well and we both get miners too it might be worth thinking about an own mining pool... :-k
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Be aware though, the difficulty just went up a lot.
I noticed it today on my miner that it was getting BTC awfully slow, and then I checked:

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http://bitcoindifficulty.com/
Last diff was 189M
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ouch...but well, it was expected to happen when the miners hit the mass market.. :?
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