Why do you need a new coin for this?

From my point of view this could simply be a bitcoin wallet feature. Whenever you make a transaction, you would also make the 2% transaction to the institution's address (btw 2% is huge, this value will never entice people).

You can solve institution list management by having approved institutions send a colored coin "aidcoin" to a specific bitcoin address that the wallet would probe from time to time.

You need only to implement your own bitcoin wallet with these features and have people adopt it.

eu concordo com o psy, acho que a assinatura com o CC é o melhor formato para distribuir a moeda. Mesmo que hoje não seja assim, acredito que daqui a pouco tempo esses aparelhos de assinatura estejam disponíveis em vários pontos para outros fins (supermercados, juntas de freguesia, posto médico, etc), apenas não estão ainda porque não há a necessidade dos outros serviços.
para além disso quem quiser entrar no projecto pode começar por minar algum e eventualmente dar claim das suas moedas pré-minadas.

There are two very different problems here.
Mtgox had a bug in their wallet that made them lose some funds due to transaction malleability. This is their fault, they should have fixed it when they were warned years ago, but they didnt. If people panicked because of their announcement it is because those people didn't trust mtgox in the first place. No panic was to be had with the statement they produced.

On a second note, by bringing to light the problem of transaction malleability, someone started to DDoS the bitcoin network. This put malleability on the top priority list for bitcoin, if it wasn't there as gregory maxwell says in his interview.

So i feel that mtgox is at fault for not updating their software when suggested, but it turns out for the better that this DDoS happened because of their flaw now, rather than later. Both mtgox and the btc foundation should have been more careful with their statements, instead of pushing blame to eachother.

Nope. It's a bug on Mtgox's wallet software, that should be synchronized with the development updates of the bitcoin protocol.

I entered the pre order game and i'm not sure it was worth it... i got back 1/3 of the investment and the recent ups in diff are saddening. i don't i'll roi on anything at this point... oh well, lesson learned.

the whole episode (and series) was actually really cool.

The owner of an online drug marketplace that operated on bitcoins was being transferred by HS on a flight to europe. they called it all different names, except for bitcoin.
The show has actually surprised me with a ton of episodes regarding present matters, including PRISM, NSA surveillance, and now silk road. very well done

I envision p2pool being hierarchical for it to succeed: sharechain > sub-pools > nodes > miners
randomly connecting to nodes/sub-pools solves the high variance problem of bitcoin. Miners are no longer incentivized to join a pool/node with the most hashrate, since they should be automatically balanced.
However, doing so raises the trust issue that TierNolan described and to which he proposes an incremental trust level solution.
I believe this is the way to go for p2pool to go mainstream. People just access the network, start mining, no cares given unless they want to.

why do supernodes have to be hidden for what i said to work? they can be public, just let p2pool handle the connection.
Obviously an hacked up miner could connect to a node of his choice, but what incentive would he have to do so in a balanced network?

is this still active?

Is #5 just the creation of one sub-pool? the description of the idea is very shallow...

IMHO p2pool should behave like gnutella (or any other decent DHT with supernodes), where each user says if he can be a supernode. If he can, he becomes a sub-pool of p2pool. He has no control over who joins him.
When a regular miner connects to p2pool, p2pool chooses a sub-pool to connect to, balancing the miners. With enough sub-pools, no/very small double spend probability.

This would also solve the ease of use problem discussed in the reddit thread http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1usb72/p2pool_i_really_tried_but_its_not_working_for_me/

Maybe this has democratization implications? We want democracy, not anarchy though.
I'm sure this has been proposed ages ago since it is so simple, but another push won't hurt. I'd donate decently for it.

as contas não se fazem assim. como um colega disse num post anterior, deves perguntar-te quantas moedas poderias comprar com o mesmo dinheiro na altura em que encomendaste a máquina. com a valorização normal do bitcoin estaria neste momento com algum lucro. como eu disse, no meu caso é à volta de 30 moedas.
Embora 10 moedas ao preço actual já paguem a máquina, é um raciocínio falacioso.


espero que sim. comprei à knc com ajuda de um parceiro. entrar numa máquina destas sozinho é complicado

comprei uma jupiter v2 660gh/s. preciso de minar mais de 30 moedas para ela render (foi encomendada em outubro quando o preço da btc já andava nos 200$). ao ritmo a que está, mais um mês e está lá. vamos a ver...

Figured things out with soniq. the invitation e-mail went to the spam folder and i couldn't find the spreadsheet with the dividends info. All was ok.

i have not received dividends from the 4d3ea5ba035605af59e2c2c57089a5f0b1f674e58306345b34d515d8b24ff247 payment (or any for the last 3 weeks). I have also not received the PM with the invitation to the private members area. Tried to skype soniq yesterday but no response yet.

if that is the case, it does not make sense to have the import options accepting json files... if so, the process you describe seems very lazily programmed.

So i dumped my bitcoin-qt wallet into a json file with pywallet and selected it on multibit to import private keys.
However, multibit says the file has 0 keys and if i click Import, it does nothing.
Another thing it says is it might need a restart from the genesis block. Does the restart blockchain option from first transaction date to that? Shouldn't there be an option to reset the blockchain from the genesis block?

cheers

same hope i get it till friday.
they suggest a 1200W 80 gold+ UPS. now that's gonna be some power...

any ETA on the november batch?

WTB shares of miners #1 to #3. PM offers

I vote for having our own pool too.
Until then, why not try a pool with a good hashrate but less fees? High fees are intentional to drive people away from those pools and decentralize mining.

are you sure about that dave?
If that is true and there is some underperformance in eligius, then sure, BTCGuild.

However, why not consider other pools?
slush's pool is very stable and has a much lower fee.
pool.itzod.ru is a pool with specs very similar to eligius, but much smaller. Although if there aren't any performance issues i don't see why not move there.
Maybe others? Maybe try several until you find one with the most stable income?