Thanks weex, and thanks for sorting out all the upload side of things on this. Just to add to the album info above, there's a review of the preview single "Ordensburg" at the documentary evidence blog. A quote: The track is a sublime piece of filmic, ambient electronica. Taking gorgeous synth pads and shimmering arpeggios, some discordant background noise and deep bass swells, 'Ordensburg' feels like something Cliff Martinez might have produced for the soundtrack to Drive, only with more of a symphonic edge thanks to the synth strings. Aside from Drive, I find it impossible to listen to this track without thinking about some of my favourite Eighties movies.
I believe a full review will be coming soon. |
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Also looking at setting up an album download for a cousin. Will try to get hold of WAVs - I currently have MP3s + image - I guess I can upload this if needed, but wavs would be better? Or does it just depend on the quality of the MP3s I have?
Looking forward to hearing what you've got! If the MP3s are good quality that's probably fine for now. The WAV idea is part of an ongoing effort to create a multi-format rendering system. Now available! Link and more info available over at this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=101960.0 |
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Now available at CoinDL.com: https://www.coindl.com/page/item/385
_-_ _-_ .~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.
/ \ / \ | |
/ \ / \ | Rupert Lally & Espen J Jorgensen |
\ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ \ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ \ _| |
\ / \ / \ | STILLIUM PARTITA |
\ / \ / \| |
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-[ 17 tracks ]- -[ 320kps MP3 ]- -[ 1% of sale goes to the Bitcoin Faucet ]-
"Åpent Sår" introduces Stillium Partita with a gentle build of rhythmic
kicks, layers of sweeping electronic samples, and tones hanging in the air
waiting for everyone to take their seat. The scene for the album's 17 tracks
settles into place.
A collaboration between Swiss/English electronic musician & sound designer,
Rupert Lally and Norwegian electronic artist and filmmaker, Espen J. Jörgensen;
Stillium Partita sets out a diverse landscape of ambient sounds, with hints of
Orbital, 65daysofstatic, and even Vangelis.
The preview on CoinDl.com is taken from the track "Ordensburg", but check out
http://www.rupertandespen.com/ for a full preview. (Information wants to be
free - but artists like to be paid.)
With its international foundation, and exploration of the electronic realm,
the album is a perfect fit for a Bitcoin release. As such, 1% of sales from the
album will go directly to the Bitcoin Faucet (http://freebitcoins.appspot.com/)
to encourage more newcomers into the Bitcoin economy.
The download comes as 320kps MP3s with no DRM restrictions, plus high-res JPGs
for the album cover and inside art.
What more reason could you want for supporting music *and* Bitcoin?
Grab it here: https://www.coindl.com/page/item/385 |
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I'm totally confused by the timestamps. It looks like some of the communication was happening around midnight UK Time, e.g. Aug. 13, 2012, 11:57 p.m. Chris needs_staff_action -> needs_admin_action
Was that really the case, or have the timestamps suffered some kind of translation? Edit: Oh, just seen this: note UK time is actually 1 hour on from that quoted on these messages...
Was it actually happening at around 1am then? |
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Great to see you got a solve/workaround, would never have found that :-)
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Looking lovely - just as with the coins, I think the big bonus here is it makes Bitcoin look Gooood. I guess they're not too different from Bitcoin cheques, except if the private key is available, these are maybe a bit more transferable/disposable/usable as a paper wallet? Also like the idea of a keyfob with QR codes on. Might be a good excuse to finally get out that keychain digital photo frame I bought cheap ages ago... |
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There are still 2 codes for free Bitcoin cheques available from the latest post: http://bitcoinlife.wordpress.com/2012/07/30/cheque-this-out/Also going to be reviewing the chocolate-buying process very soon (arrived in the post today...), hopefully including a Q&A with The Chocolate Tree as well. Click now. Go. |
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Technical unfriendliness is definitely an issue, yes. But the other aspect is that Bitcoin has made it clearer that people don't really understand any system of money - that's all handled by the banks for 99% of people. Getting to grips with Bitcoin means not just an interface understanding, but also a value understanding.
Banks are "successful" - and mainstream currencies by extension - not because they handle this (they do, but badly), but because they act as risk-taker, or a party trusted to understand the economic mechanisms in place. When things go wrong, it's the banks that take the blame - not the underlying economic system, and not the people whose money it "is".
Bitcoin has a triple whammy of trying to explain the economics without the banks, the technicals of cryptocurrency, and the (often annoying and glitchy) interfaces.
Hell, even I don't understand a lot of the stuff that goes on already. But I understand enough to use it - and in a way, that makes me part of that replacement for the "trust" that people put in banks. I've carried out a couple of exchanges for people new to Bitcoin, and they always ask questions like "how stable do you think Bitcoin is", and so on. There's great value in just being part of a system/community/scene/whatever, especially when perceived from outside of that.
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I'm signed up to a local scheme which offers "shares" of the food grown and picked per week (rather than a set amount), where you subscribe for a year and pay monthly. Could anything using Bitcoin work like this - on a small scale, maybe even just on an allotment? Some kind of cross between a pledge of cash (like a bounty pot?) and a local currency?
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Has anyone tried out the walletbit.com instant exchange functionality yet? https://walletbit.com/exchangeSeems to use MtGox to turn BTC into USD as soon as possible, so you dampen the effects of the price of BTC changing - i.e. BTC namely just becomes the payment protocol. Not sure on fees, ease of use though. |
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A lot of Bugs Bunny and Roadrunner. And the Mysterious Cities of Gold (recently out on DVD, and a new series announced) for its golden condor and temple traps. Oh, and Terrahawks. These days it's hard to find good stuff as a parent. Baby Jake is pretty trippy though...
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Bitcoin exchanges have been experiencing harassment from investigations now for years.
I remember we had the exact same thing happen a couple of years ago and it kept happening with various banks since then. I think we've gone through LloydsTSB and HSBC and Metrobank now and that's just in the UK.
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So tell me, now that you've got burnt, how would you do it differently next time?
This needs remembering all the time. We've got so used to digital "tokens" being virtual and worthless that we forget that Bitcoin is neither "real world" money nor "virtual tokens". Up until now, money has been subject to a gargantuan amount of legal backing (aka regulation). Bitcoin is (currently) free of all that, but more out of obscurity than design. We're all still working out just how it works, and how it fits in. The issues with banks is the same as the issues around hacking thefts and even companies adopting Bitcoin (or not) - integration of something entirely new - or at least hybrid. As an Intersango user, do I like the disruption? Of course not. Do I understand it? Absolutely. Will I go somewhere else? Maybe, maybe not. For now, I still find it better to get excited by Bitcoin as an idea, and by people willing to build systems I never could, than to get annoyed by the rifts caused by this massive new system settling into place. YMMV. |
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Also looking at setting up an album download for a cousin. Will try to get hold of WAVs - I currently have MP3s + image - I guess I can upload this if needed, but wavs would be better? Or does it just depend on the quality of the MP3s I have? Anyway, I'll upload it under "pay what you want" whenever I get cleared. It's on itunes too.
Let us know when this is up - really like the video you linked to. |
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Ain't that special! If that's the case, then why are there people still using it today (Twitter, for one) to direct traffic to Godadday so that they can possibly earn a commission like they do for the other affiliate sites they're hawking. I can't believe they would use legit codes for all the others, but use a generic code for Godaddy, leaving a potential 20% referral fee on the table.
Do you mean the 1stchoicedesign Twitter user? How are you getting these URLs? Most of them are the result of about 4 or 5 redirects, especially on Twitter which goes through t.co, then bit.ly, then affiliate.godaddy.com, then finally the URL above. For instance, one of the links from that 1stchoicedesign feed is https://bitly.com/ICBH3R - which according to the bitly info page ( https://bitly.com/ICBH3R+) goes to http://affiliate.godaddy.com/redirect/E9F84F788EF630C486E5CDAE5CABFD65A2DB03FA65D00418FFD24E97A0061A070914402DD3F7CEEFCEAIf there was a way to check where else the ZT affiliate link had been used, you might dig something up. |
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You can now use bitcoins to checkout on our site....
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(It would be nice if someone tests out the system.... if you want your bitcoins returned instead of the order just write that in the comments box (i think bitfloor might keep some of it) )
I might have to try this out tomorrow. Happy to have a quick look at grabbing an exchange rate via javascript too if you like. Will PM... |
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Of course, in reality, the chance of an increase in value pretty much balances out the risk of a decrease in value. If you want essentially zero risk, Tony provides that service, and it's still cheaper than credit cards.
Yes, but HOW... I would either need to shift my whole cart to a new platform, or do everything by hand (and still pay the exchange fees). Both increase costs. taking bit-pay as an example I only save .59% over pay-pal (16 cents on the average transaction.) Perhaps, but you do save. If the bitcoin trade volume never amount to much, you've lost nothing for trying it; Except opportunity cost. And implementation costs. The gulf here is between hobbyists who are happy to invest their free time, and business-owners who need to know that investing time is going to bring payback. Time isn''t just money, it's risk. |
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Watching this thread with interest. I think some of (my) confusion comes from whether you're going for a currency symbol, a technology logo, or a company branding - each needs slightly different approaches IMHO.
I like the idea that a Bitcoin symbol would be a) easy to write, b) easy to type. Continuing on the Unicode path, a couple caught my eye:
In the Georgian set: ფ as it looks like a B with a coin in the corner (e.g. "Pay me back my ფ300 damn you")
Maths: ⊕ as it looks like a coin with a plus on it. Maybe combined with a B (e.g. "That'll be B⊕300 please")
Alternatively, ⟴ which has an arrow, like a coin MOVING THROUGH CYBERSPACE. ("Donate ⟴1 to me")
Personally I still quite like the current symbol but with some slight tweaks. I'll see if I can illustrate some basic thoughts some time.
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Thanks for the update - late reply due to being on holiday here... @ scribe:
Thank you for your nifty tool, today I compared its results with mine and they match pretty well (some differences due to differing ways to count or different due days). I would like to update my graph solely based on your tool, but in order to do that I would like to know what dates exactly it uses to set the numbers for its output, like what calendar day (and time) does it set for March 2012 for example?
Good question - because it's based on wiki edits, I used the latest edit available for each month, i.e. state of the wiki page at the end of each month. I could change this to use the first edit of the month fairly easily, if that's better - or possibly an average of the two. (I'm not keen on averaging all edits, just to avoid hammering the wiki...) Some more info/ideas from my blogpost write-up here: http://bitcoinlife.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/counting-bitcoin-merchants/Also, I like the google docs table you have provided. Unfortunately the graph looks disgusting from an aethetic point of view. Is there any way to beautify it a bit? Unfortunately, I cannot alter anything on there to make it look different, maybe you can? Would it in those regards even be possible to have an ever updating graph on the front post?
Yeah, Google Docs is, uh, "basic" - to be kind. Colours are basically flat, Google-style. Highcharts is much nicer in terms of output - I'll see if I can change the JSON output to feed out as Highcharts format, but not sure how easy it is to then save that as an image somewhere. Would also be good to save stats into a database rather than pulling from the wiki history each time (for historical data) - and maybe do a version for the German list... Edit: Highcharts output wasn't too tricky. Still need to play with the look, but a first draft version exists here, with "export as image" button included in top-right corner: http://www.exmosis.net/btctt/highchart.phpNot sure why older categories don't show up, so there's a bit of a mismatch before the start of 2012. Also managed to get it to read the script's previous JSON output, so I don't have to scrape the whole history each time the script runs now. (Easier than handling a database...) I'll set it up at some point to run daily, at which point the highcharts page above should at least update the latest figure whenever changes to the wiki page are made. |
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Did you try it with the "sendtoaddress" line of code commented out? Trying to work out if it's the RPC calls generally or creating the transactions that causes the problem...
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