Yay - thanks. I was starting to think it'd never be done.

Dimensions - I haven't found exact dimensions of a ship, only length (which I guess is all anyone cares about in excavating the Norse longships). I'm trying to get in contact with someone knowledgeable on it, now. From eyeballing it, it looks like the "scale" of a Skeld is roughly 10 units long, 1 unit wide, 1 unit "high" (they're very "shallow"). It should hold right around two gallons of loot, though the loot is TBD - probably smaller items (like candies) which shouldn't have issue fitting in an irregular container. The shallowness of the boat may prove to be an issue (meaning it'd have to be freakin' giant) since they seem to be built for speed and maneuverability, not large cargo space, and I don't want to sacrifice authenticity just to put a few more trinkets on the ship.

Preferred materials - I don't imagine balsa holding up in shipping. Something like poplar, cedar or a light elm might be a good compromise in density, though I have no idea how hard or easy they are to work with. Oak looks like it'd be the most authentic, though (specifically, Irish Oak, which looks about as easy to obtain as a BFL Monarch). I think it has to be wood, though.

Longship type - A Viking Skeid is what I had in mind.


Paint - I don't see it needing paint, except on the sail. Maybe a darker stain could be used on the bottom to try indicating the iron botton.

Woodworking fanciness - Feel free to get carried away and bill me for it if you're feeling inspired (uh, within loose reason -- five-week project for one unique feature might be overkill). Oars would probably compromise its ability to be sent intact. I have no idea how long it'd take to put benches in, but maybe they could be used as structural support, with a significantly reduced number of them (full number might compromise cargo space too severely). No burning or logos of any kind are needed on the ship unless maybe you want to burn your signature somewhere. Here's an example model I'd be absolutely thrilled to see:

Another example (thanks, Phin):

^That's actually a mass-produced model, though made of plastic

Seaworthiness - Hrm. Well... It doesn't need to survive a sea - but if it'd only take a couple coats of sealant on the final design to float around a pond, that'd be pretty cool. I don't imagine reason to design it as a seaworthy vessel, though.

Sail - Yeah - if she's up for sewing it, that'd work out well. Less work put on my grandma, the better -- she's getting well up there in age with shaky hands and fleeting vision, but still loves to paint and does it really well, somehow.   

If you can give me a really rough guesstimate, I'll see how much it makes me cringe and maybe be less tight-fisted. 


ETA: Requirement for shipping costs and its ability to ship intact -- the mast (and sail) need to be able to be easily attached and detached from the ship. Something like a screw-on mast would work well, I'd think.

50% then goes back online, making actual attacks a bit easier to pull off. Hyper50 Attack. We need more unique names for different theoretical attacks. I was thinking earlier, about the one-Satoshi dust transactions I'd guess are aimed at connecting addresses to an identity. I decided it should be called Dusty Taint Sniffing. ... Uh - what were we talking about?

It's called the Kinect!

I don't think they would, but I don't trust them to ask first and try to understand all the regulations before being "safe" and just freezing it right off the bat. Maybe if you hold millions and've been a long-time customer with that bank, they'll ask first, but I don't have that luxury. It's rational behavior and I wouldn't fault them for being overly-cautious, but it's no good for me. Cash or metal in my hand, I can trust.

It's all paranoid FUD speculation, though - I don't think I've heard of anyone having a personal account frozen from an $xxK incoming wire associated with Bitcoin. (cue 5 responses to different, unique cases proving me wrong)

I'd advise trying to go a different route. I didn't have issue receiving multiple $xK & $xxK wires 1-2 years ago, but it's asking for bank desk jockeys to review and analyze your account for anything suspicious to add to the Suspicious Activity Report they'll be filing either way. Unless you're okay explaining everything, best bet, I think, would be trying to break up the transaction to receive physical cash or PMs. (or putting the fiat back into BTC and using that for whatever you're planning to purchase with fiat :p )

Fwiw, Bitfinex did fine processing smaller $xK wire withdrawals to my credit union earlier this year (their USD bank is French, IIRC).

Bump... Mats + whatever you ask on a platinum platter.

I don't want coins from the .00000001BTC sendmany transactions which worm their way around the network and occasionally into addresses I control to ever leave the address they were sent to - so I want to disown them entirely. If I send them to a black hole, it ends up costing me money in tx fees.

Would it be trivial to add support for "blocking" the sending of either coins from certain transactions or entire addresses in the GUI? -Basically just preventing them from being accidentally spent.

Those one-satoshi sendmanys always get me paranoid when they pop up in an address I control, like a van with painted windows parked out on the sidewalk. Have started trying to remember to always use coin control, but sometimes I slip up.

ETA: Maybe the address could just be "skipped" from the wallet? Say I have 500 addresses in a deterministic wallet. Address 140 has NSA taint, so I don't want to use it, so Armory'd only scan/load addresses 1-139, then 141-500.

Way lower fees for most transactions.

I think you must be doing it wrong. 

Maybe I'll buy some 2L bottles next time I go shopping if they have the codes on them. Haven't had soda in something like a year, but this'd bring cost down enough where I'd be okay splurging. (your pricing scheme is arbitrary as fuck  $.0033/pt for 75pt, $.004/pt for 100pt, $.0035/pt for 200pt)

Renewing.

http://www.gyft.com/ has been around for a while
(^Very notably lacks Walmart, though)

Gift cards have been one of the most widely traded items, and one of the first. There are a good few gift-card reseller sites which've been doing this for a while, though most of them are pretty sucky.

Bump. Mats + $12.50/hr, coin or cash.

Could someone explain to me why, in all the advertisements for ACA insurance, they talk about a premium, and then a fixed out-of-pocket %? I never heard of that, before. The poor would probably take 60/40, right? So let's say you wind up with pancreatic cancer and total costs are $800K. The supposedly-insured person would be bankrupted, expected to cover $320K.

It'd be $xxx ($40 per visit) for me now, no matter what the cost of treatment came to, because I'm insured - so I'm assuming there's something wrong with my understanding of what seems to be some weird cost-sharing casino game with folks' lives.

ETA: Lol - alright - finally found the answer. Out-of-pocket cost sharing refers to copays and pre-deductible costs. You only pay 10-40% (or more if catastrophic) of costs before the insurance actually kicks in. You aren't paying 10-40% of total treatment cost + full deductible.

-The fuck is gorilla warfare?

Hello.

What kinds of jokes? Do you have a sample of your good jokes?

Apparently. Google is telling me all sorts of stuff I didn't know about myself. For example, I now am interested in bicycles and East Asian music.

-And it's in the Auctions subforum. Fucking bullshit.

(I love it! Good work!)

What kind of password error is "Exceeded maximum number of characters." It's 16 characters -- what are you, my bank? 

You also cut off a letter from my title without telling me. Man, wtf.