What version of python should I be using? jonny@netbook:~/traidor$ python traidor.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "traidor.py", line 21, in <module>
from wxgui import *
File "/home/jonny/traidor/wxgui.py", line 4, in <module>
import wx
ImportError: No module named wx
jonny@netbook:~/traidor$ python
python python2.6 python3.2 python3.2mu
jonny@netbook:~/traidor$ python --version
Python 2.6.7 The problem is you're missing wx tooklit, which I don't actually use currently anyways, so I commented out the import. Do a "git pull" and try again. Python 2.6.7 should work, 3.2 also, probably. I have 2.6.6 |
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Hmmm. Salted seeds, yummy!
Joke aside: this is awesome, Jan! Hadn't heard of the deterministic wallet idea up until now. It makes huge sense and seems secure to me.
It was clear something like this had to be done. Congrats and a donation for actually doing it!
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Import status: now at block 62,000 (after 1.5 days). Note that I have a pretty slow machine that only uses 30W :-), not exactly made for db loads.
But still, that's too long. Block 62,000 is only about 5% of the way through, since the blocks are bigger now. I've committed rewrites of two queries that MySQL did not fully optimize. My (very informal) testing suggests a speedup of 10x. Let me know if it helps. yesss! at least 10 times! Thanks so much, now it seems feasable to get the data in  You're awesome. I'll answer your questions from earlier post as soon as my mysql-workbench (which I updated and currently crashed consistently on startup) is back to operational state. |
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Thanks for the report. I'm considering a totally new initial import design with table indexes replaced by Python variables.
Import status: now at block 62,000 (after 1.5 days). Note that I have a pretty slow machine that only uses 30W :-), not exactly made for db loads. While waiting for the import, I reverse-engineered the schema using mysql-workbench.  Maybe this helps some people. I can also provide .pdf or .mwb files if someone wants them. It seems some relations are "missing" (like txout, pubkey,...?). I didn't want to put them in the diagram, because I wanted it to exactly reflect the db schema. |
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Just remembered my pledge today. Sorry for the delay, Molecular. Bitcents sent.
Cool! It's really nice to see people standing up to their pledges Thanks! |
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I saved some with mtgox and mybitcoin and my own client. First mtgox got lost (couldn't remember my balance), then mybitcoin had this problem. Terrible!
What do you mean by "mtgox got lost"? Noone lost any money with mtgox afaik. Please explain. |
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Can someone send me some testnetcoins to my address in my sig?
I know there's a faucet for that but I would need about 10 of them
Thanks
The address in your sig is this: 19QkqAza7BHFTuoz9N8UQkryP4E9jHo4N3. That's no testnet address. Testnet addresses start with n or m. What's up with that? |
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crosspost from notable press thread: Is that correct thread here? And my question: Does the company producing these cool modular ATMs offer a carrot dispenser module? You resurrected this thread because you are hungry?  yeshshshsh! |
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Is there anyone try solo mining?
In theory, may be 100 days or more to find a new block!
Is there anyone ever have a more good time?
There's 2 problems with solo-mining that stopped me from doing it once the difficulty got too high: - Too much luck involved (or bad luck for that matter)
- Having an average time to find a block that is greater than the difficulty window will increase the average difficulty you're mining at if difficulty rises (which it usually does)
It's just too much of a gamble for me. |
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What's the most convincing information you have that doesn't sound as though it's just been pulled out of your ass? It's the world's first digital cash, which allows people to send million of dollars worth of bitcoin to the other side of the planet instantaneously without having to open a bank account. This creates huge opportunities that will lead to greater adoption of it. Hehe, you can even send bitcoin to non-earthly destinations, like Nirvana, if you like. |
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The big question I have is how do you convince the users to adopt BTC? Offering a 5% discount (most likely the high end, of the discount range) will only be attractive to a certain group of people considering the additional hassle involved, compared with swiping a credit card.
This is indeed the big question. So far, I have convinced four vendors to start accepting bitcoin. They are each offering discounts in the amounts of 10%, 15%, 50% and 50%. (The stores that are offering the 50% discounts are doing that by pegging 1 BTC to $20.) Unfortunately, almost no one has used bitcoin despite these incredible discounts they're offering. The barrier to entry on the consumer side is still too high. I'm working with two other vendors to begin accepting bitcoin soon too. One will likely be offering a 20% discount but they aren't willing to proceed until they can point their customers to an easy way to get started (such as an online wallet or bank that lets you easily fund your account). it awesome, and also the bitcoin ATM (links to videos here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1958.msg452908;topicseen#msg452908) |
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crosspost from notable press thread: Is that correct thread here? And my question: Does the company producing these cool modular ATMs offer a carrot dispenser module? |
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First of all, John, thanks a lot for Abe, it's awesome as far as I can tell. I'm currenlty importing blocks into a mysql db (at block 16000 after about 1.5 hours), it'll takes ages (as in: days), but that's ok for me. One problem I found was with the datadir table: """CREATE TABLE datadir (
dirname VARCHAR(500) PRIMARY KEY,
blkfile_number NUMERIC(4),
blkfile_offset NUMERIC(20),
chain_id NUMERIC(10) NULL
)""",
MySql didn't like the VARCHAR(500) primary key. Says it's too long, something about 768 (?) bytes. Reducing it to 128 helped. Maybe you should consider using an INT PK here and an index on dirname if you need it? Something within me tells me that having a VARCHAR as Primary Key is somehow bad. Can't substantiate that, but in my own projects, I always use an INT as primary key (I always name it "id", too, but that's another matter). You wouldn't want a VARCHAR(500) as foreign key, would you? That's just wastefull. This is, of course, just a suggestion and I know Abe is currenlty not optimized at all and a change like this will probably be a bitch to upgrade. Other than that, keep going! I sent my small donation  |
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hey newbies! No projection, but nice graphs are also here: http://bitcoin.sipa.begribble bot on irc projects: <molecular> ;;bc,diff
<gribble> 1888786.7053531
Another projection (which I assume to be the most accurate) can be found here: http://dot-bit.org/tools/nextDifficulty.phpI myself project: For all practical purposes, the next difficulty will be the same as the current one. |
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Thanks a lot to the OP for stating all these horrible facts. This is really good ammunition.
While bitcoin might solve all these problems, we still are in danger of letting the pendulum swing the other way. Customers deserve protection from fraudulent merchants (or non-merchants in some cases). In the end, the customer will decide which payment method to use and having to trust the merchant or do checking on him beforehand, then having to hope for delivery is quite a drawback.
How will we protect the customer from being ripped off my merchants?
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Well it finally went through....we really need faster ways to get cash into exchanges. This is brutal.
Wouldn't it be great if there was a way to send money from one place to another without ridiculous fees and without having to wait several days? Har har. Sometimes I dream I win a 200 million dollar powerball draw but then I wake up and taste bitter reality. Seriously, bitcoin isn't even close to becoming mainstream, if ever...And stuff like taking 4 days minimum to get cash in the system isn't helping. Well, some of the problems we're solving are biting us in the ass currently. It's called a transition and takes time. |
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If google takes over bitcoin, it may deviate from the original purpose of bitcoin, no government supervision is the key point.
What do you mean by "take over bitcoin"? Have >50% of hashing power? I doubt they would want to do that, because that could kill bitcoin. They could just use bitcoin as any other currency in google checkout, for paying ads or whatever, though. That wouldn't mean a centralization of bitcoin. |
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Really? 1/3 gone? And I have less than 10 btc? sigh ... i'm not getting rich with this thing, am i?  Are you sure? Keep in mind there's only 0.003 BTC for every person in the world. |
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Hoarding them will NOT make the price rise.
I think you misunderstood Raeldi. He didn't mean to say: "People hoard bitcoin in order for the price to rise", but "People hoard bitcoin because they think/hope the price will rise (for other reasons than their hoarding)". I can affirm, though, that "not hoarding, but selling bitcoin for USD will make the price drop", which is not quite the reverse, because there's also other forms of spending, which you were wishing for later in your post. Loop closed. |
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I am a newbie so I am posting here - please be forgiving if this is the wrong category - I am still getting familiar with this site.
The other day I was talking to my friend who is working for Google, mentioning bitcoin. To my surprise he was already somewhat familiar with it and told me that they are considering to add bitcoin as an option for Google Wallet and Google Checkout. I tried to get more info but my friend takes his NDA pretty serious and was reluctant to share any details. To me it seems that this will be huge and a real game changer. In fact, it will probably boost bitcoin popularity overnight. Does anyone else know more about it and is willing to share the details?
Maybe you're not a newbie, but just made this fresh account to seed some positive rumor to increase bitcoin price? EDIT: after reading previous-sibling post, I'm not sure anymore what to think. |
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