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We hit 200 signups! Just need 20 more users with 200+ reputation.
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The Stack Exchange is quite an interesting idea. However I can now offer an alternative. https://bitcoin.org.uk is offering bitcoin merchants, pool, software developers to set up their own support forums (even with subforums) with full moderatorial privileges. The software is fairly fully featured already. At the moment 3 merchants already have established a 'shop' there, myself, MMC pool and flexicoin. I don't think your offering and the Bitcoin Stack Exchange fulfill quite the same purpose. That said, I think what you're doing is a good idea, and I've added it to the list of forums on the bitcoin.it wiki. |
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I'm not sure that BEX can see your post from behind all the stacks of Ixcoins Bitcoins USD.
FTFY |
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Proofreading is quite labour-intensive so if you wanted a fully OCR'd book in a text format while I could offer that it'd probably take considerably more time.
Ah, gotcha. Well, I guess I haven't really had trouble finding novels to read on my kindle. I'll keep this in mind next time there's something that I want a PDF of but can't find. |
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Sure, about the same as they have been. Do you have some reason to believe that they'll go up?
Hey Chris, the Ixcoin exchange is blocked for me at work. What's the current exchange rate right now? I can't see it. Last night I remember it was .0008. Can you tell us what it is now? Thanks! It was around 0.0015 leading up to the difficulty increase. It's hovering around 0.0021 right now. Not exactly impressive, considering that the difficulty quadrupled. The price range has mostly stayed around 0.001 to 0.002 since the exchange started. If the hashrate hasn't dropped since I last checked, there'll be another 4x difficulty increase in about a day and a half. |
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I don't quite understand what you're saying here.
And you never will  Perhaps you could clarify? |
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However, if nothing else, there is significant additional risk with ixcoins. I feel perfectly safe leaving assets in BTC overnight or when I go away. If I had a heap of IXC, I wouldn't take my eyes off them for an hour, lest they be worthless when I return.
And this is why pretty much no one will bother to accept them. Even ignoring the need to download new clients and re-tool exchanges and shopping-cart interfaces, why would you want to accept a currency that's even more volatile than BTC? If someone offers to pay you in IXC, you may as well just tell them to exchange it for BTC and send that to you. |
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Again, fundamentals. What niche does Ixcoin fill? What can you do with it that you can't already do with Bitcoin? Why should merchants bother to accept it instead of (or in addition to) Bitcoin?
In other words, why would this ever take off?
The niche is profit! I meant besides the niche of "taking money from suckers". I like how we all pretend that forks have to have some extra purpose or other functionality aside from just using different math and Namecoin is always everyone's favorite example. Sure, it serves a meaningful purpose and that's awesome, I'm happy it's there and agree with its purpose, but really look at the trade volume on Bitparking's NMC exchange and look at how many registrations ACTUALLY happen on the namecoin network in a day and tell me it's not just another den of speculation...
NMC speculators are banking on the Namecoin system actually being used for its intended purpose someday, and thus increasing in value. Maybe it'll happen, maybe it won't. IXC speculators are hoping for what exactly? What's going to drive an increase in IXC price, other than more speculators? one word, greed. not necessarily in a negative sense. fear and greed are two common human emotion when money is involved.
With all the talks about inflation/deflation on this forum, ixcoin still uses similar first-inflate-then-deflate algorithm, this in itself says something.
Uh, okay... what does it say, exactly? |
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How do you come by the conclusion that the excitement has died  you guys realize that this thing has really only been announced in mass yesterday right ?? And you also realize that the difficulty at the moment of writing this is 1024 right How in the world do you figure that it is over I know internet time makes everything accelerated but come on .... the thing is running for (1 day) and you decide it is at the end of its life cycle I must be crazy but no matter how bad of an idea this is I can almost certainly say it is not the end of ixcoin. On the contrary the beginning, as more ppl hear about it even the skeptical will dabble a little in it. and that dabbling hasn't happened yet. And Some will buy it on speculation saying hey what the heck, i'll buy a few btc's worth incase this really takes off. And I would not advise them against it. No one knows where this can go. Look at namecoin, it's still hanging around. And in the inception of bitcoin i'm sure there were alot of trolls like i see commenting here saying it would die but it hasnt died. Long story short even if Ixcoin is going to fail, imho its not at that stage yet... Thats just my 2 ixcoins.. Again, fundamentals. What niche does Ixcoin fill? What can you do with it that you can't already do with Bitcoin? Why should merchants bother to accept it instead of (or in addition to) Bitcoin? In other words, why would this ever take off? |
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Something tells me that 150 to 200 GH/s at difficulty 4096 is not going to be party over.
Mining for it will no longer be any more profitable than BTC mining. And you can see the exchange rates for the next 5 hours in the future? Please if you can then share the info! Sure, about the same as they have been. Do you have some reason to believe that they'll go up? |
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Something tells me that 150 to 200 GH/s at difficulty 4096 is not going to be party over.
Mining for it will no longer be any more profitable than BTC mining. |
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Party's over in 2 and a half hours. |
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But without traders like him, who will pay you to mine ixcoins?
You are =). All your base are belong to us. Yeah, I'm sure I'll give in and start buying IXC any day now. ಠ_ಠ |
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If you don't know how to day trade then don't do it at all. End of story.
But without traders like him, who will pay you to mine ixcoins? |
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Definitely feeling down today. Bought them last night then went to sleep. Checked the price and they had crashed. The annoying thing is at one point last night I was a couple of BTC ahead. I should have quit after I noticed the website was a copy of the the bitcoin website. I am hoping to pay down my debts so I can finally start saving to move out of home and I have lost about 55 BTC on this IXcrap.
Sorry to hear that. To anyone else who's thinking they're going to strike it rich with Ixcoin, I urge you to take a step back and look at the fundamentals of it. What niche does Ixcoin fill? What can you do with it that you can't already do with Bitcoin? Why should merchants bother to accept it instead of (or in addition to) Bitcoin? |
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This sounds really cool. What's the biggest book you'd be able to handle? How good is the OCR? Would you be able to produce text-format ebooks (epub, mobi, etc)?
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1) Start new blockchain, announce on forum
2) Get haters to bump your threads
3) Profit
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You should focus efforts on creating an official set of forums now, a stack exchange site seems so silly in comparison to that necessity.
I should? Why? I don't see the need for a single "Official Bitcoin Forum". If you do, then maybe you should be working on that. That Stack Exchange site is going to overpopulate with projects pleasing only other developers and programmers without that large forum of the general public to get a overall grasp of what is going on with Bitcoin.
As much as they are allowed other questions, I think you all know that is not what the site goes for.
I don't quite understand what you're saying here. |
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I was reading through the example questions and I didn't anything like:
"I am using X GPUs with miner Y and I get error Z. What's wrong?"
This kind of question is very frequent. I wonder if they are on-topic or not...
I would consider that on-topic, and assume others would as well. It's a straightforward technical question. But really on relevant thing is that everyday we don't have a useful edited attractive Q&A site, is another day I'm frustrated. Can we set a time limit on this experiment at which point we move to one of the open source clones?
I understand your frustration, but we're pretty path-dependent at this point. The value of giving up on Stack Exchange diminishes the closer we get to the site launching. What kind of time limit would you set? I estimated a while back that we'd reach the required numbers around the end of August, and that still seems accurate. Promotion seems to have a big effect on the number of people we get. Since the post on /r/Bitcoin yesterday, we've gotten 6 more high-rep users. That was the second time a Bitcoin Stack Exchange post had been made there. Do you have any ideas for other places to promote it? |
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