"I am a caring, compassionate, and empathetic person, who cares about the betterment of society".

Moonshadow was interested in balisongs here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=122136.0  Never got back to me after I PM'd pictures of my knife for sale though.

If you are selling something, how much is a Bitcoin worth to you?

One could use such a motto, but for day-to-day transactions, the valuation in Bitcoin that most sellers use is the current or recent average price on exchanges, just because of how fungible they are (your Bitcoin payment can be turned into dollars or yen within an hour on an exchange). Most people know how much a comic book is worth in government currency (price printed on item, eBay auctions, value guide, predictable inflation), and will immediately look up today's Bitcoin price on an exchange to see if you are offering an item at a fair or comparable value.

As a seller, you should think more about how much you would buy Bitcoins for yourself. If you have all you need right now, but would buy more Bitcoin if the price drops to $10, then that's how much a Bitcoin is worth to you (realistically exchange value since you can just sell them). However, buyers of merchandise also might not be willing to part with their own Bitcoins for less than $15 each, so they would look for something that seems worth around $15 for their Bitcoin. The price you would pay for Bitcoins isn't likely to change much based on daily fluctuations on somebody else's exchange, so pricing your item at a set Bitcoin price is better than an auto-calculated BTC->Dollar price like bit-pay or other payment processors offer. You will also be stabilizing the currency if 1 BTC will always get you one logo design, one month of VPS, or one sock.

Online Bitcoin gambling is probably a success in part because there is no mental gymnastics involved in thinking about value, you bet Bitcoins and might win Bitcoins.

This is purely the fault of Bitcoin - it is too good. If you receive a payment with Bitcoin, you can be 100% sure that the money is yours and it can't be disputed or taken back out of your account. The words "legitimately paying" in the subject is ironic, since credit cards, ACH checking transfer and money transfers, Chase Quickpay, PayPal, Dwolla, and just about anything you can think of for sending old-fashioned money can be reversed - it is less trustworthy than the Bitcoins you are trying to buy.

The environment that exchanges have to operate under makes "knowing your buyer" extremely important. An online merchant or exchange doesn't need to know who you are to receive your Bitcoins, but when you are receiving untrustable government money payments, you want to do everything you can to ensure the buyer is who they say they are (think stolen credit cards, hacked online bank accounts). One also must comply with anti-money-laundering laws.

This does transfer responsibility from "the customer is always right (and you have to kiss their ass because they can threaten and extort or simply take back your payment plus $25 in dispute fees half a year later without notice)" to "the merchant is always right", meaning that when you purchase something with Bitcoin, your coins are gone for good and you must trust the merchant, through reputation only, to uphold their end of the bargain. For merchants, however, it is a dream, because you don't have to deal with scam artists and irrational people that quickly dispute charges without seeking a solution first.

In-person cash transactions are the best for purchasing Bitcoin, one person can walk away with paper money, another can walk away with Bitcoins. Finding someone local who will do this, especially for large purchases, can be harder, but if you find someone, it can save the headaches and delays of online exchanges. Convert some savings into Bitcoin in advance, and they will be there whenever you want to send money to anyone in the world in minutes.

If you have used Bitcoin in any capacity besides just receiving coins to one address, you likely have balances in several actual addresses/(privkeys). Bitcoin has an address pool of at least 100 more addresses you can't see. When you send a payment to someone, if you are not completely and exactly spending a sum of individual amounts sent to you, Bitcoin will send the remaining balance of unspent input coins back to you to one of these reserve addresses. Even after you have received change into a reserve address, the address is not shown to you in Bitcoin to avoid confusing people. Therefore, you must export all wallet addresses, not just one, unless you have the ability to determine the real balance on all 101+ addresses first.

I have a 60GB SSD with Windows, Bitcoin, lots of programs, and 10GB free. You have something else hogging space on your C: drive, like windows system recovery (10%), hibernate file (size of your RAM), page file, recycle bin, service pack backup, etc. Clean up your toys.

If in the future you wish to specify that Bitcoin store its data in a different location, you can use the option:
C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\bitcoin-qt -datadir=E:\bitdata

Put that into a text file and rename it to "startbitcoin.cmd" and then you can run it. You will need to manage your wallet.dat file before you do this, such as copying your existing wallet.dat into E:\bitdata before running Bitcoin, otherwise Bitcoin will create another empty wallet.dat there.

Any withdraw will likely have no correlation with the original deposit coins except if you are transferring the same amount the similar amounts may be connected. The green address is just one that is known to be from Mtgox, so if you trust them not to attempt a double-spend, you can trust a payment from that address without waiting for confirmations.

Pronounced BEE-TTO-KOI-N, this is the Japanese Katakana alphabet for phonetically writing foreign words, not quite as interesting as Chinese where you can choose characters of different root meanings that together sound like Bitcoin.

Most non-roman language writers still tend to write Bitcoin in English (random example: https://btcchina.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=152), but less so in Arabic due to right-to-left writing making inserting English words awkward (http://www.ed3s.com/%D8%A8%D8%AA%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86-bitcoin/)

1. Powerball tickets are $2,

2. Winning value of jackpot: "$327 million cash value". 1/100 = $3.27 million,

3. Taxes, legalities of splitting prize with out-of-state winners through lottery commission, etc not thought out here,

= good luck getting your three million bucks from OP...

I guarantee you that the power company does a much more efficient job of converting fuel into electricity than your car does. Even a little emergency generator will do better than a car. Power doesn't come for free, and about 85 percent of a vehicle's fuel energy potential is lost from inefficiencies.

In addition, be aware that very high voltage (100+V) transients can occur in car electrical systems from motors turning on and off and such, and if you hook devices up to a car's 12V electrical system that aren't designed for the kind of voltage spikes they will see, expect the magic smoke to come out.

http://www.advantech.com.tw/eservice-applied-computing/newsletters/white%20paper/Power_Challenges_Faced_by_Vehicle_Applications.pdf

So if the "why?" is because you think your car makes free electricity, myth: busted. If the "why?" is because you have no home where you can plug in your miner, you should be rethinking your situation. Otherwise this is as practical as a car-based ice skating rink.

I don't know from the original post if the four-year-old one was the "Kingwin", or if that is what was ordered, what "exploded" (or even what the actual question is), but from the later post of the amperage on a label, an average Kingwin is probably something like this one:

http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=155

Note this anomaly they noted:

As promised, the above table shows the 12V rail distribution. What it doesn't show you is that several 12V rails were bridged by solder. 12V1 and 12V2 were combined to one big rail, as were 12V4 and 12V5. Yes, the PCI-E connectors get one big 70A monster rail, almost the whole 12V capacity of the unit.

It looks like that reviewed unit is plain designed stupid. In addition, it shows lots of voltage ripple at high loads, meaning that capacitors are operating near the max of their specs. Throw in cheap Chinese leaky capacitors and that's probably why the original xploded, capacitor plague failure, especially if it ran for a considerable time before dying.

A list of KingWin reviews:
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviewdb/PSUs/Kingwin/

Note that they use names like "Lazer", which would be a cool name in 1983.

Static bag = conductive. Not a good idea.

I just looked up a Deskstar datasheet, and it specifies 5C to 60C operating, -40 to 70C non-operating. WD Caviar is 0-60C operating. Looks like it would be best to not freeze your hard drive.

It sounds like if the fans stop working, that would actually be what you want to keep the system warm...

Here's the same bug, older than dirt: http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=96927.0

It looks like the problem might be this in the LogInOut.php module, where it potentially alters the password before hashing it:

  $sha_passwd = sha1(strtolower($user_settings['member_name']) . un_htmlspecialchars($_POST['passwrd']));

but then in other places are inconsistent, like Profile.php, in resetting password function we see it's missing the "un_htmlspecialchars" when hashing:

  if (!$good_password && $user_info['passwd'] != sha1(strtolower($cur_profile['member_name']) . $_POST['oldpasswrd']))
      $post_errors[] = 'bad_password';
   

What does that blue function do?:

Syntax
void un_htmlspecialchars (string $text)


Parameter $text

Expected type: String
Description: string to be have htmlspecialchars removed.

Notes

    removes the base entities (<, ", etc.) from text.
    should be used instead of html_entity_decode for PHP version compatibility reasons.
    additionally converts   and '.


I have had similar headaches with buggy password managers and such, when using type-able characters such as <, >, that they get interpreted, stripped, or truncated (or even better, put into HTML raw without converting to &gt; which breaks the HTML.)

Your logic is I should pay more to give away something for free just because some dickhole hits the shared host pipe I am on hard enough to bog down the connection for all the domains on it? Here's another 60G in two hours (from Ukrane) before I caught it and blackholed him, why don't you do the math and see how fat of a pipe I've already got?

Anyway, this guy was likely just burning through different VPN services until he got the boot or uses up his bandwith.

(more kBs of log removed)

Deepceleron's razor #17: If something is worth saying to a noob, deepceleron has probably already said it.

This loser has hit my site for 100GB of download in the last few days, here's just the first day of logs... Who wants to nuke him from orbit as a favor to the Bitcoin community? (or find the ISP to report abuse...)

"Download Master" is the browser user_agent. Every line is him getting about 200-300MB of incomplete blockchain files. There are more lines than I can post in one forum post.

edit: removed log; wildcard blocked the user agent.

11.6 has been the most stable and best performing in the face of any further updates. I would recommend 11.11 if you are doing other OpenCL stuff like vanitygen.

Q:"Multiple 5970s tearing my hair out" - A:"Keep hair away from fans"

Here's some cheap crap:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7114016

.mobi is a domain. They have rules that require mobile-friendly web sites on there. The whole concept was from the days when a WAP browser that gave you a fake version of the web was all you expected on your Nokia. Ipad 3 users don't need a mobile version of the web, unless your original site design sucks (like this forum...).

Yet 1990's HTML still works fine on every device:

http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~chris/MR/class_intro.html
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/tut23_ex/index.html

Notable old skool, you use a better "HTML" editor posting a message on this forum than most of those 1995 programs reviewed here:
http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~eknuth/obcomp/htmled16.html