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Not as big as wordpress, but stackoverflow accepting bitcoin would be very cool.
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Yup. It's actually a good thing that the price didn't double after the reward halving, it shows that the price is no longer based on mining profits!
It actually did, it was just priced in since 5 months ago. If the reward were to halve tomorrow without anyone knowing, then price will nearly double tomorrow. |
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scrypt sounds like a great encryption algorithm, even 5 letter passwords take so long to crack. Why isn't this in wide spread use for password encryption?
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Found a scrypt implementation for Python written in C, so it should be pretty fast. 100 attempts in 52 sec on my Mac. Still, that will take 44 days if I had 52 CPUs to run on. Giving that I still have to implement all the rest of the BIP key decryption in Python (I planned to steal most of it from Armory), I doubt that I will be first to collect the price (and I don't have 52 CPUs to spare). So I pass. But it was fun to looking into this.  Yeah that's still pretty slow, though once casascius reveals more information, your script may be the fastest. |
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Is there no way to avoid paying a fee now with the my wallet interface?
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hmm, where do I go to write the loops? This is my first application of programming outside school.
There's no point in writing the loop in C#, as someone already pointed out, using C#, it would take 36 years to crack. You have to rewrite the entire decryption algorithm, in another language, that has a fast scrypt implementation. But if you want to try, the loop should be written in btnPrivWIFToHex_Click method, which is in Form1.cs |
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I don't think this test can provide any useful information, once your paper bitcoin become wide spread, someone will develop a more efficient cracker. Though right now, it is pretty difficult to crack this 5 letter password because of slow scrypt performance in c#.
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Remember connection via satellite  But. isn't that even easier to blackout than any other route??? We don't put sats up the, the Governors do, and we couldn't keep 'em there cos we aren't military. I think he's talking about the case for example if Iran's government black out the Internet for the people of Iran, then satellite would definitely be an option. Iranian government can't take down other country's satellites. Satellite companies can provide people in Iran satellite internet (though I guess you have to smuggle equipment into Iran first). |
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The Internet was invented precisely because it can not be blacked out. Though if you are talking about blacking out access to the Internet, then I guess that's a possibility. In that case, electronic bitcoin transaction will be impossible, though physical bitcoins can still be used as cash.
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The halving has been priced in since about 5 months ago. It's only normal that the price does not swing wildly due to halving.
The wordpress news did lift the price up over 10%.
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The key would to get eBay sellers to start accepting Bitcoins.
Good luck with that. Back when eBay first got off the ground, you could take checks or money orders for payment. Now, their terms of service forbid it...this has apparently been the case for over four years now. They'll only allow PayPal (or some other services whose terms are similar to PayPal's) or credit cards with your own merchant account. As the article notes, eBay makes no vig on cash-equivalent/check/money-order payments, and they wouldn't on Bitcoin payments either. Yep, sellers are not allowed to accept alternative payments, or risk having your eBay account banned. I'm not even sure how this is legal, this screams monopoly (using a monopoly in one industry to gain market share in another industry). I'm not sure why eBay haven't been successfully sued regarding this practice. |
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eBay could sell PayPal at a lost like they did with Skype when they sold it Gavin's cousin, Marc Andreessen, for $2M USD.
I can't even begin to understand how eBay fucked up Skype integration so badly. eBay and Skype would work so perfectly together, I mean it has always been a dream for me, both as an ebay buyer and seller, to have an IM tool that is integrated into the eBay system. I mean imagine how cool would it be, to see a seller is online on skype, right from the eBay's item page. Then with one click, I could be chatting with the seller about the item. The whole thing was an incomprehensible level of FAIL. |
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Paypal is ebay's main growth engine now, there's no way they are giving that up.
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This is a great idea, but I think it'll be difficult to get valve on board, because valve is very strict about region locking, one of the method they use is blocking credit cards that are not from the region, using bitcoin would not be good for them.
I think the company you should try to convince is Riot, maker of the game "league of legends". There is no true in game currency for this game, they simply sell skins/champions/runepages for real money. This game is extremely popular, with 50M+ global players. They are very open to different payment methods, as shown by their payment page with tons of options. I think they would be very open to accepting bitcoin. Bitcoin would be a great way for Riot to expand their game to international markets that are traditionally difficult to accept payment from.
Also, there are many browser games that would benefit from bitcoin, for example travian or tribalwars.net. Their accepted payment methods are enormous, I think over 10 different options. One of them could be bitcoin.
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So, despite diff and despite reward halving....
Im still somehow profitable @ normal pps rates.....
I was totally surprised by this, be it, its not by much. But, WOW!
I mine w/ just GPU's
if you have cheap/free electricity, that's not a surprise. |
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If you don't have cheap or free electricity, you might as well stop mining now, you can't compete with those people with cheap/free electricity.
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You got your refund within a day, what is fishy here? I wish I could get email responses from most company that fast.
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The user from slush pool who found the block is: luckyshare luckybear.
according to slush he's pretty new on the pool and is mining with average gpu.
congrats, luckybear.
lol, he is actually called laughingbear How the fuck did you people screw up his name from LaughingBear to LuckyShare. |
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13.56 transaction fee, why so high?
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