LB rocks again!

Well, for one it would be reassuring to have some redirect in the meantime. Just a 404 is not really good business practice.

It takes 55s to fire up a server on DigitalOcean (love them) and you pay per hour, not per 2 years as with the dinosaurs in the business.

Am I the only one who's getting nervous about the long down time?

Say "bit coin" one more time!
It's bitcoin!

.... sorry I seam to be slow but where exactly is the problem? So the organisation that registered the other organisation already accepts bitcoin? How doss this go against any of our rules?

A special case of off chain transactions are transaction channels.  These are free of third party risk and can be extended to multi server hops like email with virtually no third party risk.

generally are off chain transactions necessary to allow 7billion people to participate. 7billion people can't do more than one on chain transaction per 5 years if we keep the block size at 1mb/10min. If you want 5 * 360 * 10 transactions per 5 years you better fin another solution than to increase the block size x18000.

funny how nobody bothered to set you right.
if btc or usd goes to zero aka dies of any not splitsecond event the other would go to infinety expressed in the former. While going to infinity it would eventually pass the billion without much drama. Who wants a billion worthless dollars?

anyway, billion was never mentioned there apparently.

Thanks and thanks theymos for the pm. Guess it would just be helpful to mark banned people as banned so people interacting with her, know not to expect an answer.

I see this forum as the personal toy project of theymos and he should only follow his own rules which he should be able to change at any time. No problem with that (given private information is not abused). For this forum to stay my forum of choice I would just hope it to be transparent an pleasant as possible for all, and if one user costs the moderators an accumulated 2h per day, measures to reduce this to zero for some time might be good for the forum to be a nicer place. If that user was right, he should find like-minded people on reddit or his own phpbb.

Pardon, what is going on? Who is threatened by whom and who got banned for what? If banning happens all too silently here, I want no part in this forum but I assume there is lengthy discussions somewhere. If MPOE-PR and others were silently banned I will switch over to twitter 100% and make sure as many as possible do the same. For now I have to assume the mods did the right thing but I want to read it up to judge for myself.

Also MPOE-PR not stating anything about a ban is not what I would call transparent, if he/she actually was banned.

Or in 10 years: 2024-05-11 Forbes - Living On Dollars for one week

You picked one labor intensive project there and if code tends to rot, data rots 100 times faster and your project is 90% data. That's a bit sad if you plan to retire on it but I'm sure you got the attention you deserve and there are tons of open doors for you now that were not there before. So please don't whine about a lack of donations. Your earnings might not immediately compensate your investment of time and money and maybe not even your running costs but that doesn't mean it wasn't a huge success. In my books you have the best such site by now and there is no lack of trying from other parties.

Edit: adding you to my sig now …

So basically you are saying that an announcement of an announcement is not news?
And now you say it is "good news"?

Ah, I'm also so sick about announcements of announcements and would love to filter them out somehow but I understand companies do it for their extra buzz.

quoting myself for I still don't get this.

Bitcoin uses the hash of a public key as addresses.

I agree you should rephrase your question.

Maybe this answers your doubt: Public keys are what you send something to, so you can't deviate too far from it without breaking the "sending to" part of a public-private-key architecture.
As the recipient of the transaction only has to proof ownership of the private key to a public key provably related to an address the moment he wants to use his address, it is not actually necessary to have the public key as the address itself but it necessarily has to be related "beyond any doubt". Different public keys map to the same address but they can not be generated efficiently without alien technology or millions of years of computation.

also merging doesn't help.

I came to the conclusion that the "we as a community should support blabla" should stay but the "wallet xy should change to blabla" should go to the respective wallet's thread, including the bitcoin-core wallet's blabla.

All over the forum trolls ask to change the one or the other wallet/website to another default denomination in polls and lengthy posts. I'm so sick of that and it takes up a considerable amount of trafic on "Bitcoin Discussion", especially when looking at it over the years.

I am a developer who installs programs almost daily. Damn dangerous. I advise you to not install anything that was created after 2008. Do I follow this advice? No. How could I?

Please be paranoid but not in the sense of not clicking links here on the forum, spreading fud about good work others did here but by separating your wallet from all this scary stuff that might compromise your private keys. A website is mildly dangerous, sure, but 95% of the users here do click on them anyway as is the case with the malware spreading listen to bitcoin site.

Edit: I'm not vouching for OP's website and yes, I would trust it more if it was a github/bitbucket site where I see if it was changed after gaining popularity. Still I visited it and it contains the whitepaper as advertised along with a bunch of Javascript that I assume is not malicious. The donation button links to coinbase and the coinbase calls the recipient "Treasurer". If it was clear that this is the donation link of http://nakamotoinstitute.org I would see some extra vetting in this but as is, coinbase doesn't add to credibility.

ctm means ConcheTuMadre which means "your mother's pussy" here in Chile and seeing the profanities by OP my guess would be the pool is a Spanish pool.
I live in Chile for 2 years now and only last week realized what this ctm means many chileans use to express excitement.

Feature request: explain on the site what the columns are. Some tooltip or something.

I can sort by "Mined / Volume"? Will it sort by mined? Or by Volume? Would it sort by the mined units or mined percentage or all-time/24h/30d-volume?
How does "Pos" come to its value?
What would it sort by when I sort by those 4 charts? Closing value? Opening minus closing value? Average?

I can answer many of these questions myself and you find it most likely evident how all these things are meant but I'm sure many people take longer than their patience span to figure these out.

I love WTF?-buttons

Uff. Too long, didn't read beyond 20%.

Yeah, Mike Hearn is one of the more ambivalent players here. I love most of what he does and usually defend him but what I'm most concerned about is that on the one hand he promoted micro payment channels (transaction channels) and now whines about zero conf payments not being safe. Damn, get transaction channels out and we win soooo much more than we could ever win by messing with the protocol as suggested here. Damn.