I've topped the service up with more coins, however the downtime today was due to the server bitcoind instance shutting down for some bizarre reason. I'll try and monitor the problem, as it seems to be recurring every couple of hours, but as I've mentioned I'm away on holiday at the moment!
I've learned the hard way: no major releases before going on holiday! :-) Other than that: this is awesome, I wanted to do this in germany, but got turned down by the outrages fees the phone companies charge  . Best of luck implementing this internationally! I'm looking forward to pointing my new potential bitcoiners to your service. |
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It is secure, the problem is mistyping your receiving bitcoin address... and also customers might be able to dispute charges to the wireless carrier. (same as paypal chargeback i think)
Mistyping is not a problem, you enter your address on the web-page, not in the sms. You then get a code (8 digits), which you SMS to them. Awesome! This is finally an easy way for almost anybody to get hold of some coins, albeit at quite some cost, but that's acceptable. |
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 If lending fiat dollars with interest is causing the world economic collapse, will lending bitcoins at interest cause an internet collapse? If we lend bitcoins with interest, what happens when there are not enough bitcoins to pay off all the interest on the borrowed bitcoins? And another question for the cosmos... If I earn 100 bitcoins and I have gains of 75 bitcoins in a given year, and I choose not to cash them in because the price might go up, will I be able to pay the IRS in bitcoins, or do I tell them I didn't pay my taxes because I was waiting for bitcoins to gain in value first? I have come to a very important conclusion regarding bitcoins and humanity. Bitcoins and alcohol do not mix well. At least you can't lose your bitcoin wallet at the bar. hehe Happy Saturday Night folks!  I believe once the coin limit is hit, lending bitcoin is ALWAYS with interest since 100 btc would be worth more when returned 12 months down the road. So there's no need to charge extra interest on it hence your hypothetical insufficient bitcoins won't exist. Why would I take the risk of lending them out if I receive the "interest" even if I keep them in my cozy wallet? I'd want "additional interest" as an incentive to give credit to someone. |
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Liebe Bitcoin-Community!
Ich erinnere nochmal an meine Sticker-Aktion.
Jo, ich hatte ja welche gekauft, die sticker sind cool |
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einmal eine hausdurchsuchung, beschnahme des pc, dumm gucken, weil die festplatte verschüsselt ist, dealer kauft sich einen neuen pc. ja, da hat die polizei ihm dann aber kräftig was nachgewiesen....
Du denkst eine verschlüsselte Festplatte schütz ihn? Null komma Null ! Haben die nach kurzer Zeit offen. Wo hast du denn den Quatsch her? Aus computer-bild? |
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I'm not sure it's easy enough to get from there. Maybe ask around on irc channel #bitcoin. Surely, a lot of people have compiled this data or can easily do so (e.g. sipa). The data is also available in every bitcoin client, btw. There's a patch that allows to read that through the rpc interface: https://forum.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=724.0. If you're still stuck, I might be able to help. Unofrtunately I'm on vacation currently... |
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Although I thank you for your efforts, I am not a geek so I do not know how to extract the numbers from your graphical things.
I need smth like an excel/tabular data.
Just a hint: the underlying "hard data" to calculate "total network computation speed" are the timestamps of the blocks. Maybe you should try to get a list of all blocks with timestamps and then go from there. |
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Hallo tiCet,
Hab gestern mit meinem Anwalt telefoniert, der hat der BaFin eine Mail geschrieben.
Die haben geantwortet, dass sie sich auch seit kurzem mit Bitcoin befassen. Es sei kein E-Geld, allerdings unterteilen sie das Gewerbe mit Bitcoin soweit ich das verstanden habe in 2 Punkte. Primär das Zahlen und Verkaufen mit Bitcoin (denke darunter fallen Shops) und Sekundär der Handel mit Bitcoin selbst (Taschbörsen etc). Letzteres soll unter die Genehmigungspflicht der BaFin und unter das Kreditaufsichtsgesetz fallen (glaube das war es:P )
Genaueres wird die BaFin in naher Zukunft veröffentlichten. Mein Anwalt gibt mir dann bescheid.
Gruß, Nic
Das ist ja hochinteressant! Bitte halte uns (am besten per neuem thread) auf dem laufenden. |
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So I had to run some errands today, when I saw a person at a bench outside the mall toss a fast food bag out of a car at a trash can. Nothing out of the normal. But then a woman with a Macys bag walks over, and picks up the bag. Now Im thinking "Good on you lady for tossing that into the......bag in your other hand." The whole thing she never lost track of looking right in front of her. She never turned back, just kept walking to the edge of the mall and made a turn.
I always know when something is not right with situations and I think I saw one today. Considring that 90% of the people around here work for Nortrop, Raytheon, JPL. USAF, I am really starting to wounder if I should say something. and to who. and why?
delivery of some drugs seems most likely |
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To cheat you, when he generates a block, he doesn't broadcast it. Instead, he runs down to your store...
I think the real danger is that a large mining operator would create a side business selling space in their blocks for these types of intentional double-spends. When they generate a block they could send a text message to a bunch of people saying "try to spend NOW". I wonder if there's some way to discourage that kind of anti-social behavior; could the network detect that was being done and "shun" that miner's blocks? Well, it's detectable, no? The ripped-off merchants will complain and we will likely find out (at least if the operation is continued), which pool is the bad guy. (I'm assuming it will be a pool operator doing this side-business). People would leave the pool and therefore harm it, likely more substantially than can be made up through the side business. Therfore pool ops are unlikely to pull this off. In case of a large solo-miner it's not so simple, because identifying the block source would be a lot harder, especially if he takes precautions (no?) and also because he doesn't suffer any harm from "people leaving the pool". In this case the only option might be to "shun" this miners blocks. Not so easy. The blocks might be detected by using a rogue customer using the "service" and looking for the specific transaction. Unfortunately, it would be easy to identify the rogue customer, because we'd need a way to broadcast this information and the bad guy could listen to that as well and simply block our rogue customer, right? Also there might be possibilities to abuse the system to harm competing miners. While I can't think of a straightforward way to protect against this kind of anti-social behaviour, I also think this kind of behaviour is currenlty very unlikely to occur. This might change in the future, though. |
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im sorry mr molecule and mr imperial but i got excited :p
wont happen again
I hope you don't mean the "getting excited" part Otherwise, I'd have to feel really bad for myself. |
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Lol what an ass He didn't had to do shit for it. Just to put things into perspective: A lot of people profit from something more than they "should" (in the mind of some). A good example: early bitcoin miners. Do you think they are all asses? |
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I was wrong.
Thanks for admitting. And to your defense: I didn't know reddit would disallow selling subreddit control. This is not some a priori fact, is it? Domains can be sold... I'm not questioning reddit's choice, just pointing out it might not be as clear to everyone as it apparently is to some. |
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Is Bitcoin just another libertyreserve/e-gold/c-gold distributed competitor worth of couple hundreds of million u.s. dollars or is it really a new world-class currency that is going to change the world as we know today ?
If one compares the features, it's clear that Bitcoin is quite a different animal from libertyreserve/.... Yet this doesn't determine wether or not it will change the world as we know it. This is the million dollar question and if anyone knwo the answer is yes they would not spend any BTCs of course  . The answer is yes, unless noone spends BTC, then it's no I'm sure a lot of people are holding on to large parts of their BTC. I am doing this myself... the possible gain in case of success is just too high |
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there is a reason most ati cards automatically clock down when reaching 90C i guess
untrue. the default fan-controller on my 5970 even controls the fan so the gpu temp is 92°C. Pretty hardcore, aye? |
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Yay for challenge!
that would be cool if they start accepting bitcoins
should we create a topic for every site we would like to see accepting bitcoins? That would be a lot of threads. I know I should not yell so loudly, because I made a redundant post today myself , but maybe suggestions on who we could try to convince to use bitcoin could go in this or a similar thread: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=4667 |
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remotely relevant and quite funny: http://xkcd.com/865/If address collisions where likely, you could bruteforce keys to bitcoins. 2^160: too big a search space. ou can start vanitygen on a search, though and it will find the key to any address, just takes some time: #> vanitygen 1DNMiQRXNM4DhXZGF6vqnCTS14u6twahnR
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I just pushed a new version to github that contains a 'removeprivkey' that requires the *private* key to be removed to be passed.
It is untested for now, so use at your own risk. It should remove the key and irrelevant transactions from the wallet, the address from the address book, and from the key pool. It will not be removed from accounts (yet).
awesome! I was going to test, but I'm having trouble compiling: util.cpp: In function ‘std::string FormatFullVersion()’:
util.cpp:903: error: invalid conversion from ‘const wxChar*’ to ‘char’
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good question - i would like to know this also
so if you lose your wallet file the bitcoins are lost forever in the system?
yes. why is this hard to believe? If there was a way to re-acquire the bitcoins, your bitcoins wouldn't be safe in the first place. |
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Another idea I had was to expect the dumped private key passed in with removeprivkey, as proof that the user really has it and didn't mix up addresses etc.
now that is an awesome idea! |
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