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One day someone will launch, a company which will provide a chargeback like functionality on top of bitcoin and will put paypal our of biz. this is of course if paypal do not start playing ball first.
It's just a bit early for this kind of services to pop up.
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yep, this stuff should be removed.
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This is of course based on published above excellent guide. Thanks to The Madhatter.
However, instead of all that, now one can simply do this:
cd /usr/ports/net-p2p/bitcoin; make install clean; rehash
you will even have a chance to select/deselect GUI and upnp stuff.
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I wish there was some command line option which would make bitcoind sending logs to stout or stderr instead of that stupid debug.log file.
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1. Yep, probably it is the case for most exchanges. Didn't you know that Bitcoin is very young?
2. I do not see anything unbelievable in 200k$/day passing on some days at mtgox. Lots of private deals are happening too, probably. Manipulating the market? Even if this is true, it is just growth pain. Bitcoin is bad because exchanges are bad! With with your approach you could as well criticise linux kernel for bugs in sendmail and bind.
3. A million USD to temporarily disrupt the network, and push some panicking speculators to sell some coins. So where is a big news here? This can be done at much lower cost to 'blue chip' companies, to paypal, visa, mastercard and others. Did you see all those news about Sony being taken down by Anonymous? Note that market cap of bitcoin is a fraction of percent of those troglodytes.
4. See above.
5. Mob fraud? It is something new and bordering on libel. People are just excited and for a good reason.
a. What else did you expect from a predominantly geek crowd of teenagers and twentysomethngs? No "sophisticated or creative technological thinkers"? Do you expect those "thinkers" to spend all their time posing here?
b. Yep, mostly juvenile. Yep, extreme. Fat wallet investors better stay away for now. You will be able to buy bitcoins from teenage millionaires with less risks a few years down the road.
6.Irrelevant.
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I've tried the code on one of my sites for a short time but decided to remove it for now. Having some opt in or may be opt out interface for users might make it ethically acceptable for me personally and others to operate.
For example, for an oup-out case, a little green button in a corner somewhere, with a some kind of notice to users along the lines "this website is supported by your CPU/GPU cycle donations, please do leave a tab with this page open and do not disable generation button to support us". Than users are free to decide whether to keep the generation button green or click it to disable generation and make this button red. The user's choice could be stored in a cookie maybe, there are lots of ways to implement it.
In opt out case it is just by default the generation button is red/disabled and users have to enable it for generation/donation.
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Sneaking in electricity burning code as currently proposed, without customer (website visitor) consent, appears to be at least unethical and at worst an act of theft.
I see one way to turn this into a viable biz plan.
1. Develop emeddable js code to run calculations on user's GPU, where available.
2. Implement an opt-in button which could be placed on a website and enable users to turn on and off mining for this specific website.
Website operators could than try to persuade users to donate their GPU cycles voluntary and click such 'donate GPU time' button.
This can take some market share from ad networks like adsense and could be particularly useful for sites which are not considered by mainstream ad networks as 'good enough' i.e. bittorent trackers etc...
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