A Florida man bought a Tesla Model S from a Lamborghini dealership in Newport Beach, Calif., this week.It was the first time the dealer had accepted Bitcoin, it said."That's right, an electronic currency was used to purchase a fully electric vehicle," the dealer's blog stated.The buyer, who wishes to remain anonymous, bought the top-of-the-line Tesla (TSLA) for $103,000, which was equivalent to 91.4 Bitcoins on Tuesday, the day of the sale, said Cedric Davy, marketing director at the dealership.The sale came about after the man contacted the dealership on Monday asking if he could use Bitcoin to pay for the Tesla, explaining that he had been turned down by other sellers, Davy said."We had heard about it before, but we weren't extremely familiar, so we basically did our homework and looked for ways for us to convert it into dollars," he said.After checking into any legal issues and other research, the dealership worked with Bitcoin payment processor BitPay to handle the transaction.Timing was on the buyer's side.

The digital currency, known for its wide price swings, dropped sharply in value on Friday, just days after the purchase.But the dealer didn't need to worry about the risks associated with the volatile currency.BitPay locked in Tuesday's Bitcoin price for both the buyer and the dealership, Davy said.litecoin history data"We're not in the business of speculating so at the end of the day we want to sell the car as priced," he said.bitcoin black swanAfter news broke of the sale, the dealer fielded about 10 phone calls from more car shoppers interested in purchasing a car using the digital currency, Davy said.bitcoin mining abuse"All these people have Bitcoins," he said.how to use bitcoin-qt client

"I think some people are trying to spend it."Most Teslas are sold online directly to customers by the company.Even in Tesla-owned and -run stores, the transaction is conducted online.Tesla has been fighting in several states in order to sell its cars directly to consumers from coast to coast.ethereum ingIn fact, Tesla head Elon Musk came to fame (and riches) as a co-founder of PayPal, a leading digital payment service.how to mine litecoin 2014Tesla declined to comment on whether or not the company plans to accept Bitcoin as payment anytime soon.bitcoin reach 10000Sign In Register Categories Recent Discussions Activity Unanswered Best Of... Categories All Categories Mining Pool Discussion General Project Discussion (non-technical) Education Protocol and Client discussion web3-js Whisper Swarm 2 RLP IoT & Hardware Smart Contracts and Dapps Serpent Solidity Projects Reference clients code and builds Eth & AlethZero- Cpp Implementation Geth - Go Implementation Mist Node.js Implementation Python Implementation Mix Other Implementations Meetups Other Events Jobs & Skills Press and Articles Audio/Video Ether Sale Other Languages Chinese German Italian French 2 Hebrew 6 Japanese Portugese Romanian Russian Spanish Turkish Watercooler Mining with Tesla K80 for ether Suhas_Hegde 4 March 2016 in Mining 0 Comments Opro 24 March 2016 ) k80 ?bitcoin is crashing

Okaay...Any motherboard(with 2pci-e 1for k80 and another for you'r principal gpu)/gpu/etc.. if u will use only this gpu, maybe a good psu for that monster.If u try to mine please write here the power in mh.I'm so courios )(i'm not native english) 0 davethetrousers 46 March 2016 Definitely check out the CUDA miner by @Genoil.ethereum forecast 2017The default OpenCL miner will give you relatively small hashrates.If I remember correctly, though, the CUDA miner only fully supported Compute 4.0+, and the Kepler Tesla cards are 3.x.But I'm not sure about that, as I'm not following that fork really.0 Suhas_Hegde 4 March 2016 @davethetrousers I've Checked it out and always wondered how Kepler gives lesser performance than the Maxwells even though some of these have insane configs.I haven't really found anyone using this so no more threads to search.It says though only CUDA 3.7 compatibility.

Thanks for the quick reply though I'll do some more research.@Opro Hey thanks, I'll surely test it out soon , once i get the hardware setup and tell you about the hashrates, I was thinking maybe 1500W just in case for the Tesla ?0 Genoil 769 March 2016 @davethetrousers the CUDA kernel works fine from compute 3.5 onwards.GK210 (K80 GPU) is Compute 3.7I've always been curious about the performance of my kernel on K80.I had singed up with NVidia a while ago for a test drive, but when they called me and I explained it was for a mining kernel, I never heard back from them .The cool thing about Compute 3.7 is that you have double the register size, so in case of ethminer, you can achieve 88% or 100% occupancy depending on any register limitation you might set.I don't know if that will double the hashrate per GPU (K80 has two GK210) compared to GK110 or perhaps not have any effect at all because the memory is stalling business as usual.So yes, download my CUDA miner, give it a spin and tell me if you get 36 or a whopping 72MH/s from it.

I seriously doubt the latter, but who knows.Then when you're done and the thing is really yours because you friend carelessly "left behind" his $2500 top-notch compute beast that is more commonly found in datacenters and research institutes, please sell it to somebody who will use it for some serious double precision work.Because that's what it is made for, not simple repetitive int math.From the earnings, assemble yourself a nice 6xGTX970 rig that will easily sell in a few months and make way more profit the K80 will likely give you.--edit-- @Suhas_Hegde sorry missed your reply there.I just realized the binaries I'm linking to do not have compute 3.7 support baked in because I figured either nobody with a K80 would bother using it for eth mining, or they would know how to compile themselves.I think you owe it to your friend to learn how to compile for the K80 1 Suhas_Hegde 4 March 2016 @Genoil I'm quickly trying to set it up , been eating at me for a while too.

I'll share the results as soon I can set it up, I'm still a bit sketchy with the hardware configs , been getting a friend to help me set it up.Did you mean the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 970 4GB Graphics Card ?What hash rate might each one give me?The problem is All electronic goods are almost double the price in India.Still have a little doubt over whether AMD cards hash faster or Nvidia maxwell compute ones.I've been using your CUDA miner since forever , mining with my old nvidia cards, works wonders.Thanks for replying so quickly, would love to get it set up soon.0 davethetrousers 46 March 2016 Try searching around the premises of the forgotten GPU, maybe there's a medium to be found with a custom SDK on it.0 Jukebox 455 March 2016 Mining copper with golden hammer.0 Suhas_Hegde 4 March 2016 @Genoil Yep just thought I'd give the mining a try, It's just lying here waiting to be used .I'll read up about how to compile the binaries , though I'm not too sure how far I'd get.

Any help would be appreciated !@davethetrousers Yeah I sure hope so :P@Jukebox Haha 0 Genoil 769 March 2016 0 Sioux 5 March 2016 0 adaseb 1,043 March 2016 0 bluebox 181 April 2016 @Suhas_Hegde Whoa there buddy, be careful — all the K80's I know of are passively cooled (no on-board fans).They're designed to be used in data center rack servers that force large air through them on a continuous basis.How your friend "just left this [$5000] K80 behind" is another story I'd like to hear...We have four K40's in our data center, each pair housed in Dell R730's.Each card requires a full 240W per, and believe me, when they're cranking Desmond FEP jobs they use all of it.A K80 pushes 300W...My guess is the SP performance hashing ether might not be as spectacular as you think — probably in the 50MH range, based on the K80 being about 2x the SP GFlop rating of a GTX970.As @Genoil said, these things are double-precision monsters for high-end compute; they're not cheap gamer cards on steroids.I did take one of our very old compute 2.0 M2090's and popped in in a workstation/server box running Windows; Genoil's (opencl) miner hits 10MH... not bad for a 6 year old card without benefit of cuda.