Bloomberg terminals have been the cornerstone of all financial data throughout the world, and Wall Street cannot run without these terminals. Now, Bitcoin has arrived on these Bloomberg terminals (for employees only at this stage). Is this the beginning of mainstream adoption of Bitcoin, starting from the financial institutions/Wall Street? Link: http://btcgeek.com/bitcoin-ticker-arrives-on-bloomberg/ |
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I don't think this is the right time for these banks to gamble on Bitcoin. It isn't as if they add a lot of value to the currency. Even though Bitcoin is a billion dollar market now, I think it still needs the love and nurturing of the enthusiasts rather than pure greed to make money off of this new shiny thing. It needs more adoption into mainstream finance. I doubt banks trading this would provide that adoption. May be a couple of years down the line it might be good for the currency to have some mainstream banks and trading. I could be wrong though.
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What is it that you are doing for the site by solving capcha that they would want to reward the visitor? Would there be any malware risks from visiting those sites?
I think they use captcha to propagate spam over the internet, making our lives more miserable, one spam at a time. |
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I am unable to access peerbet for the last few days. Just get a Malware alert and page not found. Is that just me?
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I have some bitcoins and now I want to change them into cash or money in my bank account. I located in US and I don't mind if it takes 2 or 3 weeks. I want to know in which way you don't have to pay ridiculously high fees.
I tried to use MtGox to transfer money to BOA, but both ends charge very high fees:
On MtGox side, since I have a US bank, I have to do 'international transfer', which I heard charges ~$40?
On BOA side, every international transfer charges $16 dollars.
So any suggestions on minimizing the fee, both on the ex-change side and the bank side? Thanks!
Or is there any smarter way such that you don't have to pay any fee? Again I don't care if it takes a long time.
Coinbase is pretty decent for US bank transfers. Otherwise, just check out localbitcoins and make an in-person transfer. |
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We need more circulation, not just people hoarding it. That's the only way for mainstream acceptance. Too many people are looking to get rich off of owning Bitcoin when its value increases but its value will not increase if most of it is hoarded. Winklewii, are you listening?
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Handling of decimal fractions for coins is error prone. I often have to count more than twice the number of zeroes after the dot.
The proposal here is to eliminate the fractional zeros and simply put their count before a symbol.
The result is very concise and improve readability.
Examples:
0.012 becomes 1|12
0.0012 becomes 2|12
0.00012 becomes 3|12
...
0.00000012 becomes 6|12
At a glance, 0.00000124 looks similar to 0.0000124
BUT
5|124 is clearly different than 4|124
The symbol pronunciation is simply "zero(s)".
Example:
7|8 is pronounced "7 zeros 8" and represent the value 0.00000008
(If the character '|' is not available, then I suggest to use instead a lower case 'z')
I like the idea, although just using m and u for milli and micro isn't too bad either. |
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How deep could this thread go before someone points out that there's no use for the coin?
That's not true! Litecoin, and other scrypt coins are absolutely useless. Primecoin finds prime numbers, which can be useful for science. It also verifies blocks faster than SHA. Even though I agree with you in spirit, I highly doubt this coin is going to prove useful to science. It isn't even finding the largest prime numbers, FYI. It's finding prime numbers. Period. It can be used in several places, but hardly for the advancement of science. |
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PREMINED: 30000 coins.
if(nHeight == 2)
{
nSubsidy = 30000 * COIN;
return nSubsidy + nFees;
}
for a coin that gives 1 coin/block, this makes the coin a garbage...
Agree, it is a garbage, this premine is equivalent to 3 mil premine for a 100 coin/block coin, that's huge. Dev may give out 1% as bonus.... Heavily premined, I'll pass. Hope cryptsy will ban this kind of coins. +1 +1 +1 Annoying premined copycat scamcoins. +1 |
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I am curious why the payout is significantly lower in BTC than in USD.
1 point = $0.005. At an exchange rate of 1BTC=100USD, that comes to 50uBTC. You're paying only 30uBTC. That's quite a discount to the actual worth of what you calculate to be the worth of 1 point in USD. Is there a reason for this?
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Username: ruletheworld
Thanks!
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Just goes to show you how stupid people are here, look at all that shit..... dont you people have anything better to do.....
I agree. People here are pretty stupid to create polls such as this and then there are the stupider people who comment saying how stupid this is. Oh wait ... You don't think maybe the stupid part is there are over 80 alt-coins currency in circulation? Why is having 80 alt-coins "stupid"? May be some of them are stupid ideas (hint: they are) but the idea of having more alt-coins isn't stupid. If an idea is stupid, it should die a natural death. The only way to go forward is to experiment with different things. You'll always have innovations as in the case of LTC, PPC, NMC and more recently Primecoin. Who knows which one will end up with the best features? May be none, or may be we need ideas from them all, but when there's innovation taking place, there's got to be more losers than winners. No, having so many alt-coins isn't necessarily stupid (although, again, yes, there are stupid alt-coins all over the place) |
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Doubt it. There were several such showdowns in the past that didn't really affect the BTC price significantly.
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Just goes to show you how stupid people are here, look at all that shit..... dont you people have anything better to do.....
I agree. People here are pretty stupid to create polls such as this and then there are the stupider people who comment saying how stupid this is. Oh wait ... |
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I'm looking for an anonymous method available in Canada for both buying and selling bitcoins. Anyone?
You can walk into any major Canadian bank such as TD Canada Trust and make a cash deposit into a bitcoin sellers account with Bitcoin-Brokers. No ID, No need to even use your real name if you are buying the BTC. Here is a 6700 view thread discussing the service: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=237164.0That's definitely a good service to use as a buyer, although as a seller you don't have the anonymity. |
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Just sent 5 BTC to sell. Time zone differences are always a pain. Hopefully you can find a buyer soon.
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Just created an account and contacted support to sell some BTC. Will update with my experience.
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There's something weird going on.
Yesterday, between 22:25 and 00:03 zero users registered.
Today, between 15:43 and 17:17 the same thing happened.
This is the first time there isn't a single new account for over an hour, there's usually between 3 and 9 new users every hour.
Is anyone having problems creating accounts?
I am. No email sent to my email (gmail) so I couldn't register. Using the same username as my forum username. Can you please check? Contacted support as well. Edit: Just got the email - was really late. Probably that's the reason? |
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