I have a plan.
1. Everyone registers on Wikipedia.
2. Checks the article.
3. If it's incorrect - corrects it.
4. Repeat in a couple of days.
I bet those suckers will give up 1st.
You're new to this Wikipedia thing right? |
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From memory, early 2011. The earliest mention of bitcoin in my gmail account is late May 2011. If memory serves, it was in my peripheral vision from hackernews posts. I vaguely recall the BTC1=US$1 parity celebration being mentioned in headlines. That may have even been what finally caught my interest. Of course, I regret not paying attention sooner - at the time I recall seeing the word and it meaning nothing to me, and moving on to the next most interesting post.  I was mining with my meagre setup in the low single digits, but it was closer to US$10 (the first time, on the way up) before I managed to buy any on gox (June 2011 I think). |
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new buyer here - where does the dividend report come from and what day of the week normally?
EDIT - and I take it the dividend gets paid to your BTC TC wallet, and the shares stay 'hosted' as it were on the trading site..?
Dividends are paid by ASICMINER on Wednesday evenings (China time I believe). PTs normally send it within a day or two. The dividend is sent to your wallet on the exchange the PT is listed on. I know on btc-tc I get an email for dividend payments, and burnside puts the dividend amounts on the PT's info page. |
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With a reference to back it up too! Legend!
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Not to mention Avalon batch 2 and 3. And Avalon chip sales.
And surely BFL will start to deliver in quantity within the next 2-3 months... After all, they've already "shipped".
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Dividends received as expected. Many thanks.
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Am home, dinner on stove, kids doing homework.
And payment sent:
8cfd32030ca6e62ac2003782059998e7bd1259c93e99e71373b8116fb07fd0bf
PM sent with payment address.
I presume my transfer has been sent to friedcat? |
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Can I buy less than 1 share? I have less than 1.2 BTC right now.
You can on the new PT/100's. Thick as thieves runs one and fukurunap(?) runs the other. No, I don't. TAT runs both (on BTCT and Bitfunder) and there's a third pending on BTCT from Rodyland. I just had the initial idea, but have no interest in operating a PT  .b I'm still trying to get mine off the ground. In the meantime, you have TAT's offering on btct and bitfunder. |
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Am home, dinner on stove, kids doing homework.
And payment sent:
8cfd32030ca6e62ac2003782059998e7bd1259c93e99e71373b8116fb07fd0bf
PM sent with payment address.
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I know this may hold little weight but I have already bought some from INAU and he has had a few successful trades - I am unsure of the point of an Escrow other than slowing things down a lot in this instance.
The use of John as escrow is to avoid double handling of the shares. I am on my way to work now so if it's not sorted by the time I get home tonight I'll send payment and transfer details to inau then. |
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I'm waiting to hear from John regarding an escrow deal. Hopefully I'll hear from him soon. Like in the next 24 hours. I will tee up Burnside as a backup in case John is unavailable or uninterested or just plain gone missing.
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Also, if there is someone who you know deposits regularly into his cold paper wallet and you really want to see the private key without him knowing, there's better attack vector than that. You quickly take a picture of his wallet when you first have a chance (to have the public address). Then you go back home and print a copy using your website. On the outside, everything looks like the original with the same public key. On the inside, there is some random string instead of the private key. You fold the wallet and use the original stickers purchased from https://bitcoinpaperwallet.com/. Now the wallet looks exactly like the original. You go back and switch wallets (or you do everything in one go with some portable printer). You open the original wallets without any tricks. Now you can sit and enjoy balance increasing over time. He won't know the wallet is stolen until he opens it. And when he opens it, it's probably because he wants to withdraw. So as a bonus, you are secured in case that the owner would like to withdraw money. When he opens the wallet two years later he won't have access to the private key. You won't get that if you only read the private key and leave the original wallet. So: reading private key and leaving it back in place isn't good. You never know when the owner is going to withdraw. You should either steal the whole wallet and withdraw or switch the wallet with a forged one. Both of these attacks are not only easier but more effective than trying to read the wallet and leave it intact. That is ingenious - very clever attack vector! The only way to mitigate it somewhat, I suppose, is to handwrite something on the wallet. That way, unless they go to the extraordinary length of getting a really good handwriting forger, you will recognise someone else's handwriting. Handwriting the deposit information on the back would lead to early detection. I am wondering if a two factor wallet would be a better option for the paranoid and/or large amounts. |
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use an escrow service to avoid scammers.
what's escrow? Escrow meaning you find a very trusted member to be the mediator between you and the person you want to exchange. You send BTC to escrow, other person sends LTC to escrow, escrow sends you LTC and him BTC. The person might charge a fee. It's not necessary for the escrow provider to touch both sides of the trade if delivery of one or the other side of the trade can be established beyond doubt. So for example: Buyer sends payment to escrow Escrow tells seller payment is received Seller sends LTC to buyer Buyer tells escrow that goods are received Escrow releases funds to seller Given that the block chain can track all steps here, the chances of someone scamming and convincing the escrow to release funds to the wrong party are small to nonexistent. |
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The good shareholders of LTC-GLOBAL have done their duty and picked holes in my offering, and as it is my commitment to provide what the market wants, I am fixing those deficiencies.
The ASICMINER shares held by the passthrough, backing the shares on issue, will be held in escrow. I am currently searching for a trusted escrow provider willing to perform such a duty.
Thanks.
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