No, the guy who bought the pizza was the chump, still.
Any arguments against buying the pizza in BTC apply equally well to buying the pizza in USD instead of buying more bitcoins. The guy had to eat something. |
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Yea yes yes. That was exactly the point I made with the bold and red in the OP. We also need a business lead for bitcoin. That is the issue here. The technical programmers should not be the ones getting grilled on TV. we need a more proactive business message for bitcoins. It needs to be a consistent and well rehearsed message. we need numbers.
Your OP should do more to emphasize this. Maybe phrase it as something like "the next step for promoting Bitcoin" instead of "Bitcoin is dead if we don't do this". As it stands, you've drawn the rabid defenders out of the woodwork, who've derailed the topic. May want to just kill this thread and post another. |
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I haven't reached my target level of savings yet, so I'm reluctant to spend money in general. Once I get there, I'll be more inclined to spend both BTC and USD.
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You can just make an account on the wiki and add it yourself.
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Also, I'm really glad they're finally discussing something other than objectivism. So god damn boring.
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Someone should ask if they'll accept BTC for account registration.  |
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From the list of unconfirmed transactions, it looks like the high-priority transactions all pay a fee of 0.01 BTC. There might still be a decent number of miners/pools out there using older software that has 0.01 as the minimum transaction fee, and lumps anything lower in with the free transactions.
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I have around 2 to 3 years of professional programming experience. I work mainly with Python and PHP, though I've used many different languages. My rate for contract work is $30 per hour if paid in BTC, or $40 per hour if paid in USD, and I offer new clients 50% off on the first 10 hours of work that I do for them. My resume is available here. You can see some of my work on my GitHub account. References available on request. |
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hey guys, how can I calculate how many shares I will generate o we a time frame?
Put your hash rate and a difficulty of "1" into a mining calculator, such as: http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator.phpKeep in mind that some pools are now using higher-difficulty shares to lighten the load on their servers. also, how can I find btcguild's PPS rate? I would like to see how much I earn per month at x hash rate when using pps at btcguild
As far as I know, btcguild doesn't do pay-per-share, they only do proportional. |
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Is it normal for a transaction to take more than an hour to confirm? This is the second time I'm sending bitcoins and both take a long time to confirm.
The first transaction took about 30 minutes and my latest transaction to GLBSE hasn't been confirmed and it's been almost an hour.
Do you mean an hour to get the first confirmation, or an hour to get 6 confirmations and show as "confirmed" in your client? The first confirmation typically takes around 10 minutes, but exchanges and such won't update your balance until they have 6 (or more?) confirmations, hence why it takes an hour. |
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What is to stop anyone in the world from creating alternatives to Bitcoin? Clearly, it doesn't require asset-backing. So why is it special?
In order to bootstrap initial value, a Bitcoin alternative would have to attract investment from speculators who expect it to increase in value, and then attract usage as a medium of trade in order to meet the investors' expectations. It's clear why one would want to invest in the first cryptocurrency (Bitcoin). It's the first "thing" that can be sent through the internet, but not freely duplicated, without having some form of central control. It's not clear why one would want to invest in the second one, without some distinguishing feature (a la Namecoin). Who would bother to switch? The alternative would be less secure in terms of hashing power, fewer people would have faith in its value, fewer merchants would have their systems set up to accept it, etc. |
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I think the rpcallowip is the problem i had to set this to "*" to get it to work with my local machines.
You should avoid doing this if you can. Setting rpcallowip to * allows connections from anywhere, which means that someone who gets access to your password can empty your wallet. You can have multiple rpcallowip entries, so ideally you should have one for each specific IP address that you want to allow connections from. |
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Wow, I can't believe complex memory operations never hit the RAM. Though, complexity is relative compared to graphics stuff. It's probably the equivilant memory usage to calculating where one pixel of one shadow in a game should go.
You know, as a programmer, now I'm curious about the specifics. Is it like if the volume of memory transfers is crazy low cuz of it being 1 single calculation at time that the speed of like 100 bytes for each calculation is barely affected by speed?
Apparently the data being operated on is small enough to fit entirely within the GPU's registers. |
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let me make a guess:
you forgot to put
server=1
in your bitcoin.conf?
bitcoind and namecoind listen for RPC commands even without the server flag. That's all they do, so it doesn't make sense to disable server functionality on them. you are connecting from another machine, so you also need to set:
rpcallowip and rpcconnect
rpcallowip is probably what needs to be set here. rpcconnect is for using the client as a front-end to a remote bitcoind or namecoind. I have a windows computer running namecoind with the required configurations I'm trying to connect to it from my linuxcoin rigs with phoenix and am having trouble. I think it has something to do with the URL any suggestions? This is what i'm trying python phoenix.py -u http://rpcuser:rpcpass@ipaddress:port -k phatk DEVICE=0 etc etc Post your bitcoin.conf and any arguments that you're passing to namecoind when you start it. |
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Trying to place Cypherpunkers next to the merchant community jgarizik wants to cater to is a bad idea.
Though, it would be nice to have one coherent community, but that doesn't seem to be possible.
It would work if all the cypherpunks had enough tact not to discuss "bringing the revolution" around the merchants. Unfortunately, many of them don't. A combined community could be done correctly, but would require proper moderation and a "no politics" policy. The cypherpunks have to understand that they're welcome to discuss the technology, ways to enhance privacy, etc, but political discussion belongs elsewhere. That's not going to happen with our existing forum denizens, staff, and software. |
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