It's inherently classist. Only those with access to moderately high levels of technology can spend or receive it. Only those with access to exceedingly high levels of technology can "mine" it. Heterosexual, middle class or higher white males are disproportionally represented in the demographics of bitcoin users. Bitcoin only serves to uphold the current kyriarchal socioeconomic structures by making sure the privileged become more privileged.
And it's a terrible idea. You spend more on your parents' electricity bill and replacing burnt out GPUs that your parents buy for christmas and birthdays than you actually theoretically make.
Bitcoins are basically just this weird attempt by lolbertarian children to make their own currency and play stock market and dodge taxes.
Yes, because China, who is currently moving most of the money, are all middle class or higher white males and fit your general stereotype perfectly  This comment doesn't even deserve a proper response. White males are about half of that. So either prove less than 4% of bitcoin users are white males or admit you're full of BS. His ass. |
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Bitcointalk is a forum filled with bitcoin related businesses, offers, and entrepeneurs. Bitcointalk is also a highly concentrated community of bitcoin consumers and enthusiasts. Posting in the marketplace thread is a great way to attract attention towards your website, product, or service; but for that to be effective it needs to stay at the top of the forum, which can be a daunting task. Here's the idea. Dedicate a spot or a couple spots on the forum for advertisement. This could include banner ads on the top/bot of the page, a skyscraper ad on the left/right, etc. Create a tab or area dedicated for "advertisement." In this area there will be a dedicated button or area for advertisement templates, advertisement library/edit, advertisement upload, and bid options. The advertisement templates are a tool used by the community that can be downloaded to create a template for the correct size ad that can be bid on. Once finished, click on the advertisement upload button and select the advertisement you created from your computer, and upload it to the site. After doing so your ad will appear in your advertisement library. From the library/edit feature, you can select one of your advertisements and edit it; assigning your ad to a link, hover-over description, etc. Then go to the bid options area. From here users can select one of their advertisements from their library and using the advertisement options, create an advertisement that airs on the web. The options would include length of duration (in days), budget, and advertisement placement (determined by which template banner you used. Skyscraper advertisements are assigned to their respective ad space, and banners to theirs). After inputting all of the options, an estimate advertisement views will be given, along with a bitcoin address to deposit their BTC to. The ad will run from the time their BTC transaction has been confirmed to the time their duration is up. How ad priority works. Of course, much more than 1 ad will be bought at a given time. The way ad priority works is as follows: Your ad "strength" can be calculated by BTC spent/duration (in days). Your ad strength is then divided by the total ad strength of a given ad space and that is the percentage of page views that will see your ad. EX: User A, B, and C spend money to advertise on the top banner ad. User A spends 2 BTC over a 5 day span. User B spends .5 BTC over a 1 day span. User C spends .9 BTC over a 3 day span. Advertisement A has an ad strength of .4 Advertisement B has an ad strength of .5 Advertisement C has an ad strength of .3 On the first day the total ad strength is 1.2 Advertisement A is shown on 33.3% of all page views Advertisement B is shown on 41.7% of all page views Advertisement C is shown on 25% of all page views On the second day Advertisement B's duration is up, and will no longer be shown. The total ad strength is now only .7 Advertisement A is shown on 57.1% of all page views Advertisement C is shown on 42.9% of all page views On the 4th day Advertisement A is the only ad left, and will be shown on all page views. The total ad strength and advertisement showing percentages are updated with each relevant advertisement purchase, and the numbers can and will fluctuate Through an ad's duration. Using this system will allow all users to have an opportunity to advertise with little hassle to a highly relevant audience, without having to rely on their market threads to be viewed. This system will also bring in a healthy income for bitcointalk, and the users are shown relevant ads that they may very well be interested in. Post your thoughts below  Do you not see the ads that are currently on the forums? Go under the marketplace and auctions, and see how much they rake in. There is already an advertising system in place and it rakes in bank for the forum. |
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Not to be too much of a nuisance, but it looks like the BTC-E feed is broken (and has been for several days).  I'll confirm that. What do you think about adding China on there? With some at least basic 1/6 calculation in there. |
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I trust no one
Even escrow services if people want to go first we make deal otherwise we don't.I have not scammed anyone but that instant "-" reputation made me feel bad.
I apologize if I hurt your feelings, but your actions are not trustworthy, and others need to be informed of the risks. If you continue to act in a trustworthy manner in the future and establish yourself as a trustworthy person here at bitcointalk.org, I'll consider removing the negative trust. For now, you've done nothing to instill faith in you. I have trust issues about people sorry about that for now i am postponing the idea to buy bitcoin from people around here. When i beat down my trust issues i will re open this thread again I would be happy if you remove that negative reputation but it is okey though danny thanks anyway Try local bitcoins and meet someone in person. If you have trust issues I guess you could bring a weapon. |
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It's inherently classist. Only those with access to moderately high levels of technology can spend or receive it. Only those with access to exceedingly high levels of technology can "mine" it. Heterosexual, middle class or higher white males are disproportionally represented in the demographics of bitcoin users. Bitcoin only serves to uphold the current kyriarchal socioeconomic structures by making sure the privileged become more privileged.
And it's a terrible idea. You spend more on your parents' electricity bill and replacing burnt out GPUs that your parents buy for christmas and birthdays than you actually theoretically make.
Bitcoins are basically just this weird attempt by lolbertarian children to make their own currency and play stock market and dodge taxes.
I don't know how I missed this thread a while ago... but WTF? I can only speak on the United States, but every fucking pre teen + and older has a fucking smart phone in their pocket. Every illegal immigrant at Home Depot has a smart phone in their wallet. Fuck... government even subsidizes internet costs for low income families. Everyone has internet. Sure, Rowanda may not have internet access, but everyone else can send or receive BTC. |
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As the price of one bitcoin approaches and hopefully surpasses $1000, many ordinary investors will feel that it's "too expensive" to buy in. Yet they would be happy to buy if the asset were denominated in millibitcoins (mBTC), because then it would "feel cheap" at ~$1 per unit.
This psychological resistance to the high price of one unit of an asset is the reason why most stocks do splits, to keep the price of one share under a few hundred bucks.
Also, we should keep in mind that bitcoin is still essentially like a penny stock or a pre-IPO security -- i.e. a risky early-stage investment -- and therefore in most people's eyes a price of nearly $1000 seems overpriced. I'm talking about the Average Joe here.
We need to bring the quoted price of the unit in line with the very early-stage nature of this investment opportunity. We don't need Average Joe comparing the price of one bitcoin to the price of one share of Google stock, because it is entirely inappropriate to compare bitcoin's current stage of development to the stock price of a well-established huge corporation. As long as people are inclined to make this comparison, due to the price, it will hold bitcoin back from widespread adoption.
I believe the bitcoin community should change over to a mBTC standard as soon as $1000/BTC is reached. Exchanges should report the exchange rate in mBTC, and bitcoiners should talk in terms of mBTC. This would reinforce the reality that we are still near the beginning of the process of bitcoin's growth.
If you want it to feel cheap, let's move all the way to uBtc |
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A newb with no trust wants $8400 worth of bitcoin, won't go first, and refuses to use escrow?
Sorry, that doesn't sound safe. Use extreme caution everyone.
Where's your sense of adventure Danny. You used to be fun.  But he has an aged account. He probably paid $5 or $6 for the account, don't mess him up yet. |
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This must be the new person to put on ignore... too many puppet accounts to block. |
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That means, he wants you to send him $8000 up front with no trust. Your offer doesn't meet his expectations, he has no comment... lol |
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Yeah I bought a couple of USD Erupters out of hobby/interest in August, they've been mining almost non-stop since. I've watched my pool on BTCGuild go from less than 70 Th when I started, to nearly 1.5 Ph today. So my daily earn is almost going to fall off their decimal scale soon when I start earning less than 0.00001% per shift...  But ... I've mined around .25 BTC, and haven't sold any of it yet, so I'm on track to break even as it stands. I wouldn't care if I didn't anyway, more out of technical interest. Sell the hardware now, suckers are buying them up. |
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Sorry to bring this one back from the dead, but I've added secure remote generation to Scallion. I'm now generating vanity .onion addresses for a small fee. See the Scallion as a Service documentation for more details. In particular, 7 and 8 character .onion addresses are free if you send me a dirty limerick featuring Tor in some way. Contact me through the email in the documentation above or with a PM here. I do it cheaper than him and have references lol, PM me  |
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Catching up? Thursday, November 21, 2013 Shipping Update
by BFL_Jody , 11-21-2013 at 09:48 PM
Jalapenos 5 gh/s: May 28, 2013
Little Singles 25 gh/s and 30 Upgrades: June 24, 2013
Single 50 gh/s and 60 Upgrades: June 6, 2013 pay date
They are only six months behind. I guess that is catching up after being 12 months behind. You're right. Thanks for pointing that out. lol wtf... |
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I have an other question, what is better:
a) delivering shares with an diff of 1024 (on my Jupiter) or shares with an lower diff (on eligius my shares mixed 128 / 256 / 512 but no 1024)
Will the shares with higher diff paid better?
The higher the difficulty, the higher the variance. Over days, weeks, years, decades, it all should average out. Simply, if your choice is 1024 or 128, the 1024 shares will pay 8 times more than the 128 shares, but you will find the 128 shares 8 times as often, on average. |
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Wow, down for 3 days is no joke for my profits.
no worries your btc is being flipped in good hands ! lol  Well, usually any post you make carry no meaning at all. But this one actually has a meaning, congratulations on that improvement. Since there is no need for primedice publishing where its bitcoins are stored (please don't tell me there is no cold storage involved into this), they could have very well sold some amount of coins at a certain price and now got fucked because it is not going down. But this is a huge speculation, obviously. I had never even thought about this till you mentioned it. Same, but PEOPLE STOP REPLYING TO ANYTHING THAT ASICRUS OR HIS ALIASES SAY! Funny thing is, the only time I see his posts are when people quote them. He was put on ignore a long long time ago. So add to this recommendation, don't reply, and don't quote! haha |
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For people who are interested in how the 100% fiat settlement is calculated, here's a worked example:
Deposit 10 BTC on Sep 29th, considered $1430 deposited
Withdraw 1 BTC on Oct 2nd, considered $127 withdrawn
Deposit 1 BTC on Oct 16th, considered $154 deposited
Added together: 1430-127+154=$1457
The $1457 figure would be your re-denominated balance if you choose to accept, which is ~100% of the fiat value. Payment would be made in BTC using the latest MtGox ask.
Would this not make anyone think that, hmmm... supposedly coins were stolen. However, with the 500% rise in BTC... he magically has enough coins to cover the fiat value? Hmmmmmm No, what he is offering is that he takes the deposit value in $US on the day they were deposited (in my case, and most others I guess, $100- $110), subtracts any withdrawals (later, so usually at a higher $US rate, thus leaving some with even a negative balance!!). Then he is offering to repay the $US remaining balance at a rate of latest Mt. Gox or $750, whichever is higher, thus paying back approximately one seventh of the actual Bitcoin balance maximum. Yes, I understand that. My point still being, he has enough coin at this crazy formula to pay everyone back. Still seems like a gigantic stinky scam. |
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For people who are interested in how the 100% fiat settlement is calculated, here's a worked example:
Deposit 10 BTC on Sep 29th, considered $1430 deposited
Withdraw 1 BTC on Oct 2nd, considered $127 withdrawn
Deposit 1 BTC on Oct 16th, considered $154 deposited
Added together: 1430-127+154=$1457
The $1457 figure would be your re-denominated balance if you choose to accept, which is ~100% of the fiat value. Payment would be made in BTC using the latest MtGox ask.
Would this not make anyone think that, hmmm... supposedly coins were stolen. However, with the 500% rise in BTC... he magically has enough coins to cover the fiat value? Hmmmmmm |
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And we believe the future value is that of severely impacting or replacing:
PayPal
Western Union
MoneyGram
WebMoney
American Express
Visa
Mastercard
Discover
Banks
If it even replaces 50% of all of those, bitcoin will be worth multiple billions of dollars easily.
This is correct. Sadly more and more people see bitcoin as "gold 2.0". And this was never the purpose of bitcoin. The purpose of Bitcoin is whatever we want it to be. Ok. So there are (far to...) many people that want bitcoin to be gold 2.0. And imho this idea got more and more fans since the last ath and the media coverage. Because people get $ signs in their eyes and don't see, why bitcoin got so far. It got so far, because it is fast and cheap and worldwide. Not because it is rare. If these people define the way of bitcoin, the whole technology will be a giant bubble and we won't have decentralised cryptocurrencies in the future. But saying that it is ONLY a currency because it's cheap and fast... is just as silly as saying it's only gold 2.0. |
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No transactions and no balance in my wallet. Only a receiving address with the MtGox Address.
I still have my Gox account.
Where did the Gox output go? What address? If the wallet you have, has no transactions at all after a rescan, you found an unused wallet backup. |
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I tried running the -rescan as you suggested, but still nothing is showing up afterwards (Zero balance in the wallet).
Is there any other way I can track down the intial cash-out transaction from Mt Gox to my wallet based on the address for it so I can see where the coins went?
When you go into your transactions, do you see the transactions back and forth back in 2011 and then it ends up at 0? Or, no transactions, and no balance? |
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