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So the website will track any paper/object that has an unique number printed/wrote on it.
It must be on a domain that isn't com/org/biz/us/...
People will "spam" on everthing they want. If they'll use bill than it isn't your ( site owner ) business.
QR codes only are a bad idea. They aren't easy to write by hand and they can only be used by nerds.
Aren't easy to write by hand? Lol thats an understatement. |
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Total $900 if in US dollars  I'm assuming that is 900 for just the cards. What about the mobo that supports 6 cards and RAM and such? |
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You guys should try BAMT. It is actively developed (LinuxCoin has been abandoned for a while now) and makes for a really simple set-and-forget miner. It has far better management utilities, too.
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I would pay good coin for some smoked cheddar cheese from Cheddar. That was some good cheese.
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I like the idea of a small sticker with a QR Code. Stickers aren't expensive to produce and ship, plus the notes stay clean.
In my opinion this should be crowd-funded, i.e. each person puts a few bitcents on a few bills and hands them out to strangers. The idea is not to get rich, but to metaphorically use fiat money to spread the word about a new kind of money. With crowd-funding there is no need for complicated means of verification via IP/email/whatever, it's first come first served.
I like this approach too, but I'd add a site address in addition to QR code. The larger majority of population don't have QR scanning phones. I think this method could work, although the rate of spreading the message would be much slower I'd think than the more interactive game. I bet those with QR scanning phones are more likely to have interest in Bitcoin |
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most of those pages are for donations, which do nothing towards building an economy for bitcoin. the only thing you can actually buy is baklava. i think thats even better than alpaca socks  i dont really see a critical mass there. So, what you're saying is that New Hampshire is secretly going to change its motto to New Hampshire: The Donate Your Bitcoins to Me State? This just in:
Every single organization in the world now accepts Bitcoin donations, well over 100 million of them.
No effect?
But yeah, early to call it 'critical'.
what i wanted to say comes down to this: you can live off donations but you can live off donating. even if every single organization accepting donations accepts them in bitcoin, even in bitcoin only, bitcoin is still not a viable currency. people only spend a little amount of their total money on donations and they have no incentive to convert any more money to bitcoin then they intend to donate. but if a wide variety of attractive products can be bought in bitcoin there is no upper limit to the amount of bitcoins you can hold with the intention of spending them. the shops are the chicken in the chicken/egg problem. so in my opinion the easiest way to reach critical mass is to get a limited number of online shops with a very big potential customer base - i.e. selling stuff thats is usually sold online and shipping it to almost anywhere cheap - to accept bitcoin. for example computer hardware and electronics, games/movies/music, porn/downloads/gambling. as soon as you can create the feeling that you can hold bitcoins because you will spend them eventually its downhill from there. donations, local restaurants etc. are imho mostly good for the marketing effect. even if new hampshire completely switched to bitcoin for everything but internet shops it wouldnt change a thing for the rest of the world. its very good advertisement and the price for a bitcoin would probably skyrocket but thats it. doesnt do a thing for a merchant in california who has no bitcoin customer base and nothing for the customers there either. that being said good advertisement of course can be a game change by itself. Anyone actually using bitcoin as a currency anywhere in the world should strengthen the economy shouldn't it? Say we donate to the FSP. The people in New Hampshire who got the donated coins are going to be using them as an actual currency. They will hopefully spend them on way more things than the average bitcoiner (who I'm pretty sure just speculates) does. Demand is demand, no matter where in the world it is. Getting coins to people who have demand makes the economy stronger and so I'd say that donations actually can be beneficial to the economy. |
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For serial, isn't that also a star topology? If it can easily be daisy-chained, then yeah that could work. No it is a bus, daisy chaining isn't a problem it is routinely done in embedded system and industrial boards. The advantage of plane boring serial is that most computers already have a serial port and even machines like Pi and embedded micro controllers have UART which is serial you can use any connector you like (standardized or customized). Serial literally can be this simple: Plug one end of cable into host (Pi/ AMR board, low power PC, embedded system, etc). Plug other end into first FPGA. Take second cable connect first FPGA to second ... take 255th cable and connect 254th FPGA to 255th. Power up and run "cgminer" (once it supports serial devices). No fees, open spec, very simple protocol, and can use lots of different physical layers including cheap & robust RJ-45 terminated cat5. For the rare system which doesn't have a serial port (most MB do even if they leave it off the back panel) a single $10 USB to serial adapter could connect hundred FPGA to a host. OK great, sounds like a good interface even though it is older than dinosaurs, now all we need is a standard protocol that can be used for sending and receiving work units (and their results), firmware updates, and so forth. Imagine this: If it were adopted by hardware makers, you could be able to buy a ztex one day, an x6500 tomorrow, and be able to add a Rig Box next month when your paycheck comes in. Plug them all into the same bus, run one instance of cgminer, and as if by magic the devices get programmed with the latest firmware and start hashing away. What should it be called? The Unicorn protocol? Standards are great to dream about, but getting all the devs to do work together is going to be hard |
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I'd probably even say that just having an administrative "backdoor" into their system that they put in place means you should not trust them.
QFT It isn't possible to design large automated systems with no kind of management built in. It just can't be done. Certainly it would be possible for Amazon or any other provider to do something similar - shut down the VPS, modify /etc/shadow, and boot up again having given themselves access. The question is whether they can keep it secure. Good passwords, token based authentication, minimal number of users with access, fine-grained permissions properly applied, etc. Not to mention blatantly obvious things like only allowing access from certain IP addresses. Not doing so is inviting disaster, as per Linode. It is possible to keep your wallet outside of those large automated systems though. I don't put my wallet on a system that anyone but me has a access to. Problem solved. |
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I'd probably even say that just having an administrative "backdoor" into their system that they put in place means you should not trust them.
QFT |
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Any reason you haven't dropped your memory clock?
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Dammit i really need access to those develop threads Hop on IRC. freenode #bamt |
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Rig Box either way im gt spend 30k
Invest 30k into some companies on GLBSE and then once the rig box is closer, you can sell some shares and buy one. This way you can help out the economy while you wait. |
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I buy lindens in game in Second Life and then trade on virwox.
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thanks for the help. just wondering why in guiminer i was getting 830mh/s but in cgminer i only get 750mh/s
Are you sure you didn't update the AMD SDK? This seems to be a pretty common thing for people to do. The upgrade doesn't take effect until you reboot. |
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proper way would be retest everything after you announce a patched version.
w/o release note what you fixed and changed there is no other option than to repeat all use cases
(some of the bugs would be reposts).
please mark the update on the front page somewhere, please. preferably as 2.01 version or something like that
It's usually a good idea to test everything even if you are sure it works. You never know when you inadvertently break something by fixing something else. Since this site is going to be (hopefully) handling large amounts of money, you really should write some sort of actual testing suite rather than relying on the community. Doing both would be best. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unit_testing_frameworks#JavaScript |
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Im also wondering that something must be wrong with this pool, surely statisticly variance cant be this bad over such an extensive period.
Sure its hashrate dropped from ~900GH avg to ~300GH avg since dropping from surplus to -1000coins most of the time but still this variance isnt even seen solomining like I am doing with part of my farm o_0
don't forget this pool was in a big positive buffer for a long time.... Yeah... back when it had an operator... |
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With todays fiat system private banks can create money. This is not possible with bitcoin.
Really? I'd love to see them try that. [/quote] You've heard of the Federal Reserve haven't you? |
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