Ekeforte

Esperanto for sudden yet strong.

Fideco

The quality of trust.

Fortikema

Having a propensity for being a robust/sturdy person or thing.

Not json but json-rpc as recommended by json-rpc themselves.
http://json-rpc.org/wiki/python-json-rpc

How about something also showing how many donations that person has made? Would encourage/pressure people into tipping others too

Yeah well I haven't been too happy at the response. I was told: "let us know what needs to be done to make a client wrapper possible. everything should be possible through the RPC".

- Need initialisation flag. Submit patch. Patch ignored. Workaround hack (that doesn't even work for all cases) proposed instead.
- Not able to import bitcoin RPC values into Python. Propose I write my own JSON RPC lib because Python's implementation is wrong.
- Propose consistent naming scheme for JSON-RPC Api. WONTFIX. Better to leave the inconsistent usage of getblaa or doaction because it's not a problem now.

I mean wtf. Come on.

Does DBUS work on Windows or Mac?

It's the default used in all Linux desktops. It's a mature, battle-hardened protocol.

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus

So what's your proposal? I'm willing to get behind this. Show us the code.

That's code to parse JSONs. There's a Python library to work with JSON-RPC. There's also a PHP library to do JSON-RPC. Both use floats.

Solution A: everybody that wishes to interface with Bitcoin in Python/PHP must write their own (potentially buggy) RPC http code because the default libs for those languages uses floats.
Solution B: a small change is made to Bitcoin.

B is a much better solution

Yep, just noticed that.

But then the Python JSON-RPC library does not and I couldn't find one for the PHP RPC library either.


BTW, in that wiki page why did you use those lambdas instead of simply using decimal.Decimal? Multiplying by e8 will cause everything like version numbers or difficulty to be multiplied.

Python uses floats for it's JSON library. Herein lies the problems.

$ python
>>> import json
>>> json.dumps(10.001)
'10.000999999999999'
>>> json.loads('{"blaa": 0.333331}')
{u'blaa': 0.33333099999999999}
>>> type(json.loads('{"blaa": 0.333331}')['blaa'])
<type 'float'>

This is unacceptable.

This would solve a bunch of problems.

Why not just return the int64 and let the client cast it to a float & divide 10^8 for display?

Currently since the JSON RPC returns floats, any library you use will return the values as floats, not strings. So to get the int64 value you need to multiply the float by 10^8 and cast to an int for internal usage.

Also by returning the value as int64, it will be enforcing good practice on clients instead of them unwittingly using floats.

I know a few details of this move and am not allowed to share them publicly.

However rest assured that it's nothing to do with Baron and mtgox is being moved to a more reliable host (guy actually runs an ISP) who will be doing everything with the proper paperwork i.e making mtgox legit.

yes! great work

woah, so Jed is of the eDonkey fame? motherfucking hero. I remember that software being the centre piece of my life as a kid.

ptmhd:
- speedy delivery
- everything as advertised
- up to date with all info
- included extras (webcam, pcmcia network card, english coins!)
A++

thanks

Say I wanted to make a website selling newspapers in a country where it's illegal to buy them. What technologies could I use?

Freenet only serves static pages AFAIK, so not sure if that would be appropriate since it only hands out content but doesn't provide a way for users to interact with the site (discreetly or publicly).

Would a tor service fit the job here? What other tools exist?

The aim is to provide some level of protection for buyers of newspapers on the site (enough to make the government go after easier fish) and make it difficult to attack the site owner.

he exploited security problems in the mtgox site and deserves his entire funds to be taken.

If you want it then make it

i recommend you PM ptm
http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3817.0

He sold me an IBM Thinkpad T41, 1.5 GHz Pentium M, 1.5 GB RAM, 80 GB HDD
for 150 BTC

I still owe 50 to him

I know he has some PowerPC iBooks left. Pics: http://uselessguy.com/ibook/

Get on it then

There's no administrators.

Bitcoins uses a cryptographic address. You can see the flow of money around the network. That's not stopping somebody using a mixing service to obfuscate the origins of their money, so no.

None. You store then on your computer. You can use a service like mybitcoin to store them for you.

Nothing. You lost your identity and the criminal has access to all your emails, passwords, bitcoins, .etc Maybe you can buy insurance to protect yourself. I don't want such a service since I can protect myself more adequately than any bank and am willing to take on the risk for when I do.

Nothing.

Nothing.