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1381  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Retroshare bitcoin forum - key swap and discussion on: September 29, 2012, 04:35:37 AM
One important thing I think this needs is a context or grouping system so you can group "friends" into separate groups who cannot see whether you have any "friends" outside the group they are in; or even with access controls so you can allow certain groups to see into certain other groups.

As it was last time I ran it, you were able to see who I had as connections, which prevented various other potential connections from being willing to connect to me until such time as we could set up some kind of cutout machine in-between us to insulate them from being seen by you...

They would like, for example, to be able to post to the forum without you being able to recognise "aha, I happen to know that that guy knows markm, is connected directly to him in fact, so I'll add that fact to my report to Big Brother..."

Of course instead of them not connecting to me maybe I ought not be connecting to you. But then there goes the network...

-MarkM-


You can go into darknet mode and sign the keys of the people you trust.  Maybe your idea would work better on Freenet with Sone.  Let me know if you want to try it.
1382  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: remo on: September 29, 2012, 02:35:55 AM
As the default thread name and OP have been deleted I've started a new thread that's easier to find for key-swapping -  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113835.0
1383  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: New Bitcoin Forum within Retroshare - key swap and discussion on: September 29, 2012, 02:33:33 AM
Check this thread for keys (don't forget they need to add yours as well as you adding there's) -

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=67364.0

my key

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1384  Bitcoin / Project Development / Retroshare bitcoin forum - key swap and discussion on: September 29, 2012, 02:31:45 AM
New Retroshare bitcoin forum

RetroShare: secure communications with friends

RetroShare is a Open Source cross-platform, private and secure decentralised communication platform.
It lets you to securely chat and share files with your friends and family, using a web-of-trust to authenticate peers and OpenSSL to encrypt all communication.
RetroShare provides filesharing, chat, messages, forums and channels

Features

Serverless, encrypted Chat & Filetransfer
Multiple simultaneous downloads / uploads
Search Friends
Messages
Forums
UPnP / NAT-PMP port forwarding support
GnuPG Authentication
OpenSSL Encryption
Plugins support
Graphical User Interface written with Qt4 toolkit
System tray integration

What is RetroShare?

RetroShare is the next generation sharing network, which provides:

Reliable Identification and Authentication of your friends.
Plus an Introduction Scheme which connects you to the friends of your friends, and facilitates network growth.
Encrypted Communication, ensuring all shared information is known only to you and your peers.
A Communication Platform which can potentially support services such as Secure Email, File Sharing, Streaming, Video or Voice over IP, Photos, Wall and Messaging
A Decentralised Social Sharing Network designed **For the People** with no dependancies on any corporate system or central servers.

Why use RetroShare:

You want to chat and share files securely with your friends
Only your friends will be able to see and download files that you share.
RetroShare is serverless, which means - unlike other messengers, you don't* need to register, complete annoying registration forms and receive tons of ads. Sending a key to your friend by e-mail is enough to set up your own IM network. This also means no IM spam, because people you didn't invite absolutely cannot connect.
You can also use your favorite nick name either: no need to use cryptic names like "john.smith148@something.com" just because someone (whom you don't even know) snapped your favorite nick before you.
RetroShare is encrypted, meaning high privacy: nobody, including your
ISP, can see what files you're sharing.
You need secure instant messaging and files exchange for a small workgroup.
You need to chat securely and exchange files with other colleagues at work, but do not trust your data to a public chat network like Live or Google Chat ? Don't want a hassle of installing and maintaining your own chat server either ? Use RetroShare instead:
RetroShare is serverless , which means that no server, ever, gets to see your data. Any IM server, no matter how secure, poses a risk of data leak because of hacker's attack. Retroshare completely eliminates this security risk associated with the IM server, without any added costs.
RetroShare encrypts all connections, which means every bit of data is encrypted end-to-end. Unlike other products using self-made weak encryption, RetroShare uses a special version of industry standard Openssl library, trusted by banks and other organizations.
Absolutely no vendor lock-in: you own your RetroShare network. There is no 3rd party vendor whom you have to pay, or who may go out of business and force you to migrate to another product.
1385  Economy / Securities / Re: RSM - 160(GH/s)/2600shares 61.5(MH/s)[0.30BTC]share 1(GH/s) for 4.875BTC - ASIC on: September 28, 2012, 10:47:00 PM
matthewh3, I can sense your passion for RSM through our exchange of PM. But you should do things step by step, and don't change too much with your plan. I think the 200 shares maybe OK, but please don't issue more shares after this. It seems that the BFL is to delay, and the ASIC production is very competitive.

ASIC production is very fast, faster than FPGA. the producer can provide as many as the market want and as fast as everyone can image after the taping out proved to be successful.

I'm afraid that there is a possibility that the BFL cannot deliver the rigs timely enough, the whole investment into the BFL rigs will turns out a failure. But we of course have to buy the BFL's product, as they are still one of the most promising ASIC provider. FPGA is very different. A FPGA mining rig producers cannot meet the demand as fast as they want, so the difficulty rise not so much.

I feel that there will be a very sharp fall in the price for the ASIC mining rigs and sharp rise in the difficulty. Until the price of ASIC reaches the range of  10%-5% of the price they are selling now, the mining investors are not safe.  If you look at what ngzhang offer, you can feel the trend.

I invest in the BFL focused company to speculate that BFL is the first one who delivers the ASIC and delivers it in a step-by-step way. I estimate that BFL has more than 600T rigs to deliver, it's about 20x higher than the total mining power we have now.

It is very similar to a gamble. don't all-in. I don't like the idea to throw every penny we have on the BFL rigs. And those orders which are not on the top of the waiting list is worthless and damaging the shareholders' value. We may be able to buy a 90% cheaper ASIC in a very short time period after the first ASIC mining chips taped-out. The first to get the BFL rigs win because the difficulty is low, the second one loses because he pay as much as first one pays for the mining rigs and the difficulty has already sky-rocketed, and the third one will be able to have a stable ROI as the competition between the ASIC producer has made the selling price low enough and difficulty+mining rig price getting into a new equilibrium.

Also HorseRider another reason I'm happy with new share issues (as long as they make us a profit) is that it's the only way I get paid by 5% of the shares of all the new shares issues.  I've only been paid 80 shares to run RSM so far but am due to receive 28 more once we meet 2600 shares sold from the last issue of 550 shares (as I only get paid my 5% of shares from the new issues after the new issue has sold).  I initially got paid 50 shares from the first 1000 created (5%) but then we hit problems and RSM had to issue shares to survive it seemed so I didn't see it fit to be paid my 5% of share issues until things looked brighter.  Although you must say being paid 107(that's including the future 28) shares out of 2800 (or 3.8%) and 5% of all new shares issued that I'm probably the lowest paid CEO on RSM by percentage of stock.  I do actually own 371 shares in RSM at present but I bought 291 of them out of my own pocket off the market.
1386  Local / 한국어 (Korean) / Re: www.bitcoins.co.kr on: September 28, 2012, 07:16:12 PM
Thanks for the links I just told my Korean friend who doesn't speak much English.
1387  Economy / Securities / Re: RSM - 160(GH/s)/2600shares 61.5(MH/s)[0.30BTC]share 1(GH/s) for 4.875BTC - ASIC on: September 28, 2012, 06:40:56 PM
Hello matthewh3,

How many MH/s are currently operating?

Hi Ian we have paid for three BFL-SC-Single-40(GH/s)ASIC's totalling 120GH/s and have money towards our fourth.  We have so far sold 2344 shares so that's 51.194539249(MH/s)per share.  Although we are planning on selling a total of 2600 shares and having four BFL-SC-Single's so that will be 160(GH/s) over 2600 shares which is 61.538461538(MH/s)per share.  Once we are operating we will be saving 50% of profits to purchase more ASIC's and eventually (to be decided by motion when the time comes) buying shares in GLBSE investment funds and other mining stocks with a strong organic growth plan.
1388  Economy / Securities / Re: RSM - 160(GH/s)/2600shares 61.5(MH/s)[0.30BTC]share 1(GH/s) for 4.875BTC - ASIC on: September 27, 2012, 04:14:46 PM
matthewh3, can you stop for while issuing new shares?  


Why not you run a company with a more common method. issuing a bunch of shares, make profit, then another bunch of shares. why are you keep issuing new shares while no dividend is been paid?

Have you ever show any evidence that you have use the money to pay the orders? Trust you? some mining operations starts at the same time as you started, and they have paid dividends for tens of times and make their investors a lot of profit on both dividend and capital gain.

Please stop for a while. Do you have any ideas how cheap is the margin cost of ASIC mining rigs for the ASIC designing and production companies? I tell you the truth, it's about only 3%-5% of the market price now. As the competition has already showed tense, it is very possible that the ASIC mining rigs will drop sharply, and the difficult will rise pretty fast. Don't issue so much money at this stage. it's like an all-in.

stop for a while issuing the new shares before you have paid any serious dividends to the share holders and give us pictures and evidence that you're running a real mining business!



The money has been spent on BFL-SC-Singles.  The rest is in BTC and cash.  If you want I could maybe get Inaba to confirm our purchases as he works for BFL.  We are only a very small company and have not issued many shares.  A total of 2800 shares but 200 are currently in reserve off market.  All the unsold shares receive no dividends and don't affect motions.  Most company's have greatly issued a lot more shares then us from the very start.  When and if the time comes I think a share issue could increase profits I will put it to a motion to respect your views HorseRider.

Also the plus side of hosting with Inaba is if we want to forward the boards on to me eventually then maybe we can get around paying 20% import VAT.

edit:  Also all shares issued are to just buy more ASIC's and increase our (MH/s)per share rate and therefore profits as well as dividends.
1389  Economy / Securities / Re: RSM - 160(GH/s)/2600shares 61.5(MH/s)[0.30BTC]share 1(GH/s) for 4.875BTC - ASIC on: September 26, 2012, 10:31:06 AM
Paid for our third BFL-SC-Single today.  This has took us to 120(GH/s) over 2344 shares or 51.194539249(MH/s)per share.  This has left us with about ~BTC26.87, £180 in cash and 228 shares at BTC0.30 (BTC68.40) to pay for BFL-SC-Single #4.  Which will take us to 160(GH/s) over 2600 shares or 61.538461538(MH/s) per share.

RSM has 200 shares in reserve and if we were to issue 200 new shares at BTC0.30 then we could purchase BFL-SC-Single #5.  Taking us to 200(GH/s) over 3000 shares or 66.666666667(MH/s) per share.  This would bring about an 8.3% gain in profits and dividends.  So we would have to sell about 600 new shares to get to that level.  Although they are currently 250 shares on sale below our BTC0.30 offer  So maybe leave the new 200 share issue on the back burner for now.

We will paying Inaba $20 for each BFL-SC-Single pro-rata.  So the dividend can only be paid from after the first month of mining we have paid Inaba which is on the 1st of each month.  We could split that dividend up to pay four equal payments over the next month.  Or just pay it all out in full and continue with monthly dividends on the 1st of each month after paying Inaba.  If we did split the dividend up into four weekly payments to be paid a month in arrears then some weeks there would be no dividend due to some months being longer than four weeks.  So it's probably best to pay it out in full every month on the 1st.  Does anyone disagree?

Also during the first payment month a 100% dividend will be paid after Inaba's cost.  The 50% due from saving towards growth wont take place during the first Inaba payment month.  As on delivery of each board during the first payment month due to Inaba of that board will be paid out 100% from that board in full after Inaba's fee.     

Were nearly in October now tho I think BFL have said end of October to the beginning of November to start shipping.  Our first order was made almost two weeks after BFL started pre-orders.  So not long now.
1390  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Financial Choice - Looking for opinions. on: September 24, 2012, 08:12:15 PM
Yeah that link is about fixed rate bonds.  RSM for example is not a bond but a stock.  You buy a share ownership of the company, all assets and profits.  RSM is currently offering 1(GH/s) for BTC4.875 and will be saving 50% of profits to purchase more ASIC's.  So that the (MH/s) per share rate grows faster than the long term growth in network difficulty.

I understand that. I really mean that was terrible general advice. If you gave a specific stock, then we could talk, but "look on GLBSE for mining stocks" is more likely to lead him wrong than get him to a good ROI.

I'm not sure if I like RSM. They are issuing $2k in share dilution to buy a $1300 ASIC, and then they have the reinvestment clause. It is one of the better offerings out there, but I'm still not convinced. And you still have 3rd party risk.

Were offering 61.5(MH/s) per share or 1(GH/s) for BTC4.875 that's one of the best offers by any mining company.  We have paid for 2 SC-Singles and are about to pay for our third and we have funds towards our fourth.  So that'll be 160(GH/s) over 2600 shares.  We could go to 200(GH/s) over 3000 shares then we'd be offering 66.67(MH/s) per share or 1(GH/s) for BTC4.50.
1391  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Financial Choice - Looking for opinions. on: September 24, 2012, 07:28:59 PM
You could look at bitcoin mining stocks and bonds on the GLBSE instead of mining yourself.  Also you could just buy bitcoin with the rest and store it in a offline/brain wallet.

This is terrible advice. Most of the mining stocks are very badly priced from an ROI perspective, and carry a thick layer of third party risk. Read and understand this thread before thinking about doing this.

Yeah that link is about fixed rate bonds.  RSM for example is not a bond but a stock.  You buy a share ownership of the company, all assets and profits.  RSM is currently offering 1(GH/s) for BTC4.875 and will be saving 50% of profits to purchase more ASIC's.  So that the (MH/s) per share rate grows faster than the long term growth in network difficulty.
1392  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Financial Choice - Looking for opinions. on: September 24, 2012, 04:21:37 PM
Long story short, Im inheriting $5000, with this I am looking to turn a profit, should I invest it in bitcoin miners, or should I invest it in GICs and government bonds, or perhaps play with it in the stock market? Note: I am getting a bit ballsier with money, knowing how worthless it actually is.

Also, Im 24 years old, and I have to start thinking about my financial security for my future.

You could look at bitcoin mining stocks and bonds on the GLBSE instead of mining yourself.  Also you could just buy bitcoin with the rest and store it in a offline/brain wallet.
1393  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Could bitcoin be made more anonymous? on: September 24, 2012, 04:15:01 PM
Also you can run it through Tor (now there is even Tor service support). It would be cool if the protocol were eventually obfuscated in a way similar to the recent research makes Tor look like Skype video calls. Given that the blockchain is public the best would be to use a mixing service (I think there is research into better types of mixing services but I'm not too familiar with them), or something like OpenTransactions which would allow for an anonymous digital cash "on top of" Bitcoin.

Yes but while using Tor you still have to use an exit node and they can all be monitored.  Maybe if they put the entire blockchain within the I2P network it could make blockchain transactions even more anonymous then using a public IP address or a Tor exit node IP address.
1394  Economy / Securities / Re: RSM - 120(GH/s)/2600shares 61.5(MH/s)[0.30BTC]share 1(GH/s) for 4.875BTC - ASIC on: September 23, 2012, 09:47:19 PM
While if no one complains I'll go about ordering our third BFL-SC-Single tomorrow to be delivered to Inaba.  Along with sending our other two pre-orders to Inaba.

Also if we issue 200 new shares at BTC0.30 each then we can order a fifth ASIC at current exchange rates.  Including the 200 shares RSM holds off market.  This would take us too 200(GH/s) over 3000 shares or 66.67(MH/s) per share.  Which should mean an increase in profits and therefore weekly dividends too of 8.4%.

Shares distributed - ~2344, current wallet - ~BTC137.40320313, hardware assets - $2723, VAT cash £180.
1395  Economy / Lending / Re: 3btc loan for blogging on: September 23, 2012, 08:11:40 PM
When will you pay the loan back and how will you pay the loan back.
1396  Economy / Securities / Re: RSM - 120(GH/s)/2600shares 46(MH/s)[0.30BTC] a share 1(GH/s) for 6.50BTC - ASIC on: September 22, 2012, 06:44:44 PM
I set the date in the motion about Inaba wrong to end the 21st of Oct and not September  Undecided  but everyone agree with sending the boards to Inaba OK so I can order our next ASIC.  If not I'll run another motion if there is a lot of concern but I don't think there was.  This means we should operate at >61.538461538(MH/s)per share but we'll be paying Inaba $20 a month per board.
1397  Economy / Long-term offers / Re: Starfish BCB - Loans and Deposits on: September 21, 2012, 11:02:30 PM
1)  The cries of "I'm going to leave my coins with you as long as possible to help you out" is just insane.  None of you will ever read this post later after many months have passed and you have long forgotten about this loss.  

2)  A "Bank Run" is very different than a Ponzi coming to close.  Joel Katz likely can explain it if he hasn't already.  

3)  not much in the way of a Starfish statement recently.  This should scare you if you still have coins tied up in this scam.

1)  It's money I invested as a high risk gamble due to bitcoins nature and can afford to loose it.

2)  I very doubt Patrick was running a Ponzi and just trusted Pirate to much like many established members of this forum

3)  "Nada nada chatting s@#t" *Got lucky on the Pirate collapse and thinks he's a hero  Roll Eyes

Edit:  Like special skills to free bitcoin from scams yeah right.  One lucky hand with the Pirate collapse and he thinks has the nut's on the bitcoin economy. 
1398  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: GLBSE - request for next features on: September 20, 2012, 07:32:38 PM
How about being able to open a demo account to have a play around before using real coin??
1399  Economy / Securities / Re: RSM - 120(GH/s)/2600shares 46(MH/s)[0.30BTC] a share 1(GH/s) for 6.50BTC - ASIC on: September 19, 2012, 05:32:17 AM
stay away from DMC, i would say

Well, why don't you then?

Also, Matthew, how far are you down the wait list for BFL?

We ordered our first at the beginning of July.
1400  Economy / Securities / Re: RSM - 120(GH/s)/2600shares 46(MH/s)[0.30BTC] a share 1(GH/s) for 6.50BTC - ASIC on: September 18, 2012, 02:42:08 PM

Quite awesome. But some of the securities are good, some are bad choice. Buy a bunch of them is a bad choice. Matthew3 I think you should buy their assets separately with careful choice.
Agree with this. some really bad some ok. if the price was right for the ok assets then that would be good for RSM. Is it possible to run a motion for each asset. that way each voter could do due diligence and we have thorough clear out of wheat from chaff.

you should also consider: if DMC is liquidated those shares will likely be sold into market and could be bought up below market average anyway. this has probably not yet been factored in to the current value of these assets. these could be bought by RSM or people who hold RSM and are interested in these assets too. also if this happens those investors of DMC would be looking for other assets to put their money into while mathewh3 has done a great job of promoting RSM as a safe place to invest, meaning new investors of RSM possibly buying the remaining shares needed for asic#4.

Yeah all options are open and we'd only do it if we could work out a way for RSM to profit.  Meanwhile I'm being goaded by the old CEO of DMC on IRC on how I'm a scammer and I should stick to just scamming RSM shareholders  Roll Eyes
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