Has there been any news on this subject?

I want to know how many $$ and BTC there are in the market and the sum of all orders would be the closest one could get to such a number.
Does MtGox disclose all orders somewhere in some way?

Do you know a graph of mining profitability? Should be doable:
We know the difficulty over time.
We know the exchange rate of bitcoin over time.
We should be able to get the hashing efficiency over time for the most common miners.
We know since when there is merged mining.
We know the exchange rate of namecoin over time.
People can set in their rate for wattage.

I would offer a bounty of 3BTC for a link to a page that respects all these for a nice trend line.

Yo tengo tiempo. Hast el miércoles!

Good luck preventing him from double spending. If all shops accept offline transactions, he walks from door to door spending the same coins over and over again restoring his backup in between. I doubt BTC will be any useful offline.

ok, fine, but with a sample of 6 peers, the Schildbach-Client could also just drop those with the stalest data and connect to fresher ones, couldn't it? How come there are so many stale clients that 6 peers are not enough to get the head of the block chain??

But if I need a connection to my bitcoinD, what's the point in having Schildbach's app? I can already remote control bitcoinD with other apps that are far less code.

Could you be more precise about your requirements??
The last post surprised me a bit as my shildbach-transactions always had problems. Once I sent 1BTC and it only got sent after sending another 0.005BTC. Now I have 1BTC stuck since weeks and sending another 0.005BTC went through without breaking the other BTC loose like last time. A permanent grayed out transaction.
Therefore my requirements would be some way to backup my wallet but if all txns get through, I'm happy with it.

Now that Bitcoin is dead, Satoshi could really step up

Opposed to this very common misunderstanding, ATMs actually *don't* print money.

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people are going crazy about a readjustment of the BTC/USD rate. I guess all arguments are on the table. At least those that I read were repeated 20 times each. Maybe it's time for a poll.
Please let me know if I forgot any important options.

... difficulty is the only thing that secures BTC. I don't mind if BTC falls into a 10 years slumber of low rates. I would mind though if some competing chain or banking cartel would destroy and control our block chain.

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So lets see when Amazon extends its one-click-patent to one-drag.

Huh??? Ultra-Huh?!?! Who's talking about outbound communication of any private key stuff?

I assume you misread this as requiring a private key? If you sell a book you generate a receiving address, 1GNQ5zGKBKwx6TQXPra7fhkQ33wBSq8cw9 for example. You set a price, 1.25BTC for example and you pack it into a swatch ... or such an url.

You can then make the bitcoin client consume the bitcoin-scheme and tada ... click should work. On android it already does.

Did you file a one-drag-buy patent already cause the only benefit I see is in avoiding the one-click-buy patent by amazon

Else the one click is definitely superior.

Ok guys why are you sooo excited about a name. "Raider" is called "Twix" now here in Germany, so what? This rebrand gave it quite some media attention and if we rebrand to TwixCoin, I'm 100% fine with that. No need to panic about a name!

Only problem would be to agree on a nice name and an organisation to register it for the good of bitcoin without having some stupid fraudsters TM it in the process again.

The battle for the name BitCoin might already be lost in many countries as Advocat said.

So I guess MtGox could do such a thing. Or TradeHill. Do a world wide registration for TwixCoin or any other nice name that is still available world wide. Do it secretly without any opposing lawyers and then give that name over to the EFF or whatever trusted entity that would take it. (And note down all the costs along the way for maybe you get compensations by the community. I heard some are very idealistic and welcoming to such a move.)

There is a battle going on between professional traders. Those who do fastest at arbitrage pay thousands of $$ for some ms less delay for connections between London and New York. They want to make a 5% profit on days the bitcoin drops 10%. Sure if you want to play in that league, you need HFT done by software, you need your client to be close to the exchange etc. but Bitcoin was not made for those guys and it was neither made for those who are too lame to operate HFT software and the community should neither support nor worry about them. They do a service to stabilize the currency which is good for merchants.
There are also long time speculators like me that bought at 9$ and now again at 5$ and are very tempted to buy again when it's dropping further and HFT is not preventing or causing the long time drop or raise.

I guess bitcoin will be dead if the price falls to a level where too many miners stop and a central bank can do a 50% attack on mining. We did not reach this point yet and I hope that all those miners that switched their machines off would switch on again for the sake of the good cause if that ever happens but for now I'm not worried at all.

if gox does this, they will lose more through reputation losses than they can win from the other platforms. *don't* boycott gox! they are the good guys (for now)

Thanx for the link.
I'm no native speaker and I don't understand what exactly "License should be valid on successors and assigns." means but I read it as "successors of today's MtGox owners may use the IP titles however they please." Anyway I would feel best if the IP stuff would be handed over to some non profit organisation. If Gox runs bankrupt they can't decide about their IP anymore so better give it to some other entity before.

And please, I'm not ranting about how you handle stuff. I'm happy you stepped up for bitcoin and have full trust in MtGox' best intents. In the end I guess even having to switch to TibCoin or any other name would not really harm the project. Screw those IP fraudsters.

so the server would have an interface waiting on http for someone to press a button? with login/password? Guess you don't need a server actually.

how about prepared transactions on your desktop client? so when you run low on your wallet, you send 1 satoshi to an address you know and get 10 bitcoins to your android wallet. With single-use addresses.

then do:
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