Do you guys think I should sell some of the BTC at this point or hope the exchange rate will go up?
Maybe sell the BTC when/if Max calls in the pledges. Yeah, I think that's most appropriate because that way I can give everyone their bitcoin back in case it doesn't happen. |
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CBS news station KOLD in Tucson Arizona is currently showing a video commercial for an upcoming TV story about Bitcoin that will air at their 10:00 news which starts about 20 minutes from now (10:00 PM Arizona time, 0500 UTC). The video commercial is now visible on their website, as well as a prominent advertising blurb on the station's home page. http://www.kold.comIt appears there is a link on the home page that allows live watching of the newscast. So it aired? Anyone have a link/recording? |
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Looks like it is back up again.
yes, thanks nefario!!! |
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I updated OP. We cracked the 40%, yay!
Do you guys think I should sell some of the BTC at this point or hope the exchange rate will go up?
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I am using bitcoinnotify, which monitors the blockchain and sends POST notifications to my server. I received an email about 15 minutes ago from them that they are shutting down their service. I guess they have been having some server trouble. This is the email I received: Any payment service requires a very careful maintenance and we were doing so responsibly over the recent months.
The service has never suffered any hack or a major technical problem, earning the trust of hundreds of users.
However, we can no longer invest resources necessary to ensure perfectly safe and robust payment processing. And we are not the ones to keep a half-ass service online.
We are sorry for a short notice, this was an urgent decision.
They gave no timeframe for when they would case operation, so I sent an email to their CEO. He said that they can not guarantee any specific time period, and to work on the basis that they are shutting down immediately. I am going to have to run a bitcoin daemon on the server now instead. Can I use the bitcoin API to monitor the blockchain in general with a php cron or would I have to accept payments directly to that client? Need to do some documentation digging. Since I am doing this, I might as well transition to a randomly generated address based approach for payments. I will probably have to suspend payments for the time being until this is sorted out. Luckily, anyone who has already payed for bandwidth should not be affected. This explains my payment troubles, of course. I can envision several options to monitor the blockchain/network for transactions. - I haven't looked at it, but libbitcoin by genjix of Bitcoin Consultancy sounds cool (a reimplementation of bitcoin functionality as a well-written and -structured library).
- Another option might be to poll blockexplorer.com/q/getreceivedbyaddress/<address>, which will of course only work for transactions that are in blocks, so we'd have to wait for a block (very bad in my mind).
- Normal bitcoind can be polled via rpc call "getreceivedbyaddress", of course, but unfortunately, that only works for addresses that are in the local wallet, which you might not want (attackable).
- There are also several python implementations of (parts of) bitcoin, like bitcoin-alt (https://github.com/phantomcircuit/bitcoin-alt)
- I myself use bitcoin-abe, which reflects the blockchain into a sql database. That also doesn't work for 0 confirmation payments, of course.
- ...
So basically, if we want to detect 0 confirmation payments and have the private keys off-server, we'd have to either go with one of the alternative bitcoin implementations or use some service (maybe bit-pay.com?) Just my 0.02 BTC, I'm not an expert. |
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Awesome! Lew Rockwell. Like him. "we need monetary decentralization"... hehe |
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Hi molecular. I have a payment notification received in the database to that address for 0.1545 btc. Is this your payment Everything seems to be fine with the payment system. I'm not quite sure what happened. Perhaps your connection dropped out temporarily? I will refund the bitcoin if you PM me with your payment address.
Nope, that's not it, amount doesn't match. Here's the transaction I initiated: {
"account" : "",
"address" : "13s85qvuAX14Z9ME6mMFF37QVNLr3FXA2f",
"category" : "send",
"amount" : -0.01420000,
"fee" : -0.00050000,
"confirmations" : 10,
"txid" : "f419e80bc7dcc85e023f6bd3487d3367b981f9c95cf448bd7651a43a148bd039",
"time" : 1320964109
}
The page is still open, here's a screenshot  Are you storing the torrent urls? Dont want to paste the complete link here, but it ends in "1bb4dc5545311d123e84e5800924831/download.torrent". The md5 of the torrent file is d403a0fb6289969a8ee51dfe9a29258f Maybe this helps to locate stuff? |
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I'm currently experiencing a problem with a payment not getting accepted. It's to address 13s85qvuAX14Z9ME6mMFF37QVNLr3FXA2f, txid: f419e80bc7dcc85e023f6bd3487d3367b981f9c95cf448bd7651a43a148bd039. The payment popup is still open and the swirly thingy swirls. tx now has 2 confirmations Noteworthy fact: the block the tx finally got in (block 152758, block date: 2011-11-10 22:58:57) took about 30 minutes to be found after I broadcast the tx (2011-11-10 22:28:29). That block was found 42 minutes after the previous one, so I picked a really bad time for a transaction  Now, the fact that the tx wasn't seen directly probably means that the bitcointorrentz bitcoind didn't see the broadcast, right? So it waits for the first block it appears in? Maybe you have some bitcoind troubles (I myself had some yesterday and the glbse bitcoind also crashed a while ago, for example) |
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I wonder what it would take to get Nefario to return to reading this forum? It seems much more active than any of the other forums I have visited.
Also: most of the people that got on my nerves seem to have left . I seldomly see "this post is ignored" any more |
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How does it help him make money, is the question
Dwolla is more of a transaction mediator than a bank. There you have it: offer fast transactions (green addresses and stuff) and wallet service? |
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From Vladimir's forum Posted 06 November 2011 - 05:14 AM
I'm flying back to Ireland later today so I'll be in communication limbo with everything regarding GLBSE for a couple of days. I'll only be in Ireland for about a week until I move to Manchester, which will become my new base of operations.
Nefario. This means he will notice the problem somewhere between now and Nov 14th or so. Hmm.... |
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The web client is still down for me
+1, still down |
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Just moved €100 towards intersango.
Maybe I should've looked at the orderbook first. There's really not many sellers.
Bitcoins can be sold there for a really good price (compared to mtgox) currently.
Buying Bitcoins on the other hand...
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some news: obviously websocket was replaced with socket.io <shockdiode> websocket is officially deprecated now? <MagicalTux> shockdiode: yep, replaced by socket.io server <MagicalTux> which is more stable <MagicalTux> but not using the same protocol <MagicalTux> client libs are however in most languages, however <shockdiode> when will that be up? <MagicalTux> [18:23:22] <shockdiode> when will that be up? <- IT IS <molecular> MagicalTux, any doc/wiki/??? on socket.io server? <MagicalTux> molecular: http://socket.io got a lot of doc <MagicalTux> it's basically the same websocket data, passed through socket.io <molecular> MagicalTux, thanks. so you merely switched the transport layer? everything else like before...? <MagicalTux> molecular: yep, switched transport layer, which will allow us to make it work in any browser EDIT: I might add I have hope it will also work through transparent proxies that have probs with websocket, will check it out soon with my python client |
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down ?
yeah, probably bitcoind borked, nefario away  <boonies4u> i'm having problems connecting
<brendio> yep. me too. looks like bicoind is down again
<boonies4u> great :/
<brendio> CHM, can you restart it? nefario posted recently that he'll be out of action while travelling
<boonies4u> i already sent him a pm over IRC
<boonies4u> no response
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You may have noticed that glbse.com has troubles. Stuff doesn't load. <boonies4u> hello
<boonies4u> i'm having problems connecting
<brendio> yep. me too. looks like bicoind is down again
<boonies4u> great :/
<brendio> CHM, can you restart it? nefario posted recently that he'll be out of action while travelling
<boonies4u> i already sent him a pm over IRC
<boonies4u> no response
So it's probably nothing serious. I just hope nefario gets around to restarting bitcoind quickly. |
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this might be the tech ArtFortz used early 2011, he talked about "metal ASICs" at one point, if I remember correctly.
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maybe the world's first public FPGA mining cluster system? or maybe the largest now?
6X Icarus mining borad (12X SX6SLX150) @ 360M/board. 2.16GH/s -peak/total.
power consuming: 115W (MAX) on the wall.
epic! how much did you pay? |
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Ticket prices are reduced to 75€ as we have a major sponsor paying us some money  Looking forward to seeing you in Prague. Nice! This might change my status from "wont come" to "will come" |
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