Hey,

I'm writing a proposal and talking about security. So far my weak point is that one computer holds all the Bitcoins.

Is there a way to have an online wallet spread over 8 computers and requiring confirmation from all 8 parties to carry out a command?

The closest idea I got was using GPG to encrypt different parts of the wallet and then one node reconstructs the wallet, does the command and re-splits it up amongst the other nodes.

I couldn't get Mac OS to run in VirtualBox so I don't know about that.

But I run Linux so of course it will be multiplatform

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/28/internet-poker/rake-free-open-poker-room-run-poker-community-938389/index11.html#post23524794

Lots of interest on the 2+2 forums about this project.

About WSEX, check out my essay I wrote:
http://www.kartludox.org/index.php?title=Rake-free_Poker

We hope to cover this as on of the agendas at the meeting:
http://www.kartludox.org/index.php?title=Dec_16_2010_-_Public_Forum
(See 3rd point)

Interesting debate about Bitcoin raging on 2+2:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/28/internet-poker/rake-free-open-poker-room-run-poker-community-938389/

Would be nice to have some Bitcoin-FUD-fighters.

article is back now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin

thanks to everyone that took part pat on our backs.

Good point, I didn't realise that- thanks for the tip. I meant it in the way that all Poker sites charge the same rake. You have the choice to either play or not play.

Hey,

I'll keep this short but I know some of you are interested in Poker. We're a group writing Poker software and this might interest some of you. It's the text we spammed to various Poker websites.

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Everyday 200k play on PokerStars. After the day's end, PokerStars has netted a nice $1.34 million. They give themselves a nice pat on the back while the players have been exploited. Running a Poker site is not a high-cost expense.

Rake distorts the games. Without rake, a losing player might be breakeven, a breakeven player a solid winner and a winner is a MASSIVE winner. People move up faster leading to more fish at higher stakes benefiting the whole Poker economy.

Even with the huge sums taken out of the games by the sites, they still offer shoddy service in return. PokerStars gives you a couple of TV tournaments and a piecemeal updates to their software. Cake Poker gives you atrociously bad security; any programmer can tell you how easy it is to secure your software using programming that is free on the net.

We're proposing a community run Poker room. The software will be completely free/open so anyone can inspect it to make improvements. Because eyes of the whole Poker community will be fixed on it, flaws & security problems very quickly disappear. And if you wish to make your own Poker room then you can! As the server code is also free & open.

We've been working on this rake-free Poker room. For those interested there is an online meeting between Poker players at 22:00 GMT (5PM EST) on Thursday Dec 16th in #pokerface on Freenode. For anyone not familiar with IRC you can join the chatroom here:
http://pastecoin.com/cgi-bin/irc.cgi

If you're interested in this project but won't be able to make the meeting, don't worry about it. The meeting will be logged and posted on the wiki. Even if you're not a developer we need regular poker players to tell us what they want so please attend and voice your thoughts.

See you there!

--- some screenshots of our work so far ----

Hey,

As you know Wikileaks has been finding it very hard to get funding. Here's an idea:

Bitcoin transactions are basically free. That means funds can be bounced around the world many times without any problems.

Let's say person A wants to donate to Wikileaks. They go to our site and request to donate. We have lots of trusted people for different countries who will accept the funds into their bank account. Then each person holder trades their cash for BTC (eCardOne for € or £ -> $ Liberty Reserve -> mtgox $ -> BTC).

Next the BTC is funnelled through a money laundering service which is simultaneously taking many donations which goes through a tor service. The laundering service sends random amounts throughout an extended period which obfuscates the money trail for authorities to pick up.

Lastly we say to Wikileaks how much $ we're holding. Whenever they request funds, we simply sell BTC on a German exchange direct to their account.

For securing the funds, it's easy enough to just encrypt the wallet regularly using gpg and upload to an ssh server. Since Bitcoin doesn't require being online to receive funds then the gpg keys can be kept in a locked safe inside a bank on a USB thumbdrive, while the encrypted wallet is subdivided and uploaded to several redundant servers.

I think this donation system is unbeatable from a government point of view. It requires a network of volunteers to liquidise assets and then one or more _trusted_ points (shared by several people) that authorise funds to Wikileaks.

Unlikely since other sources don't go into as much technical depth as do the forums.

Sadly I use GBP and eCardOne charges 8%, Liberty Reserve charges 2% and mtgox charges 1% = 11% lost.

BTW Thanks so much for the donations! Very nice surprise to have gotten

ok, I've been trying to fix up this Wikipedia article since the writing in most places is very bad. Here's some tips for other editors:

- Do not put sources in the middle of sentences. They go on the end otherwise it makes reading very difficult and breaks up the flow.
- Paragraphs should not be too thick, nor too thin. Too thick = wall of text. Too thin = jumpy interrupted reading.
- Therefore, however, also <- useless fluff. Unencyclopedic 'filler' words
- Some organisations (who?), ... Some (who?)... After an amount of time (when?)... A number of traders (which?)... Be highly specific and exact with your wording. Better to list the exact traders or exact number; five traders do X.
- "and use the Bitcoin software to trade bitcoin money" <-- I think it's clear that Bitcoin is software and that it's trades money which are called bitcoins. Better would be "and use Bitcoin to trade."
- OH WOW ZOMG LOOK IT HAS ALL THESE FEaTURES. don't do that either. state facts.

kk get cracking.

Hey,

Lot's of people from 4chan using the tool Loic with the channel thealps.anonops-irc.com #loic or the command 'sudo hping3 api.paypal.com -p 443 -S -i u3000 -q' have managed to take down all these sites!

This is illegal and wrong. I understand people have different views on Wikileaks but taking illegal action is not the correct path. Better to voice yourself through the correct legal channels and signing petitions.

Amazing how easy it is to get these tools:
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/LOIC#Download
it even runs in wine.

Hope the good boys (police) catch these criminal hackers soon.

Peace.

http://bitcoinwatch.com/ - $900k economy.
bunch of people on youtube accepting them like http://www.youtube.com/user/stefbot
http://www.bitcoin.org/trade
https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AoZuext-s46CdHp2YmlXWkxMd0FzbloyMUcwZVdET1E&hl=en&gid=2

#bitcoin IMO. Talk to people on #freenode and they'll be able to get you setup.

when i first heard of bitcoin I insta-joined #bitcoin and saw hardly anyone there/ it's only through luck that i found the -dev channel.

otherwise i might've thought this was a dead project

gavin suggested and I've confirmed there's a problem with this where if you do:

bitcoind move "OldAccount" "NewAccount" 10

Where NewAccount has never received any BTC before, then it doesn't work.

Surely since the WalletTx are added sequentially to the wallet, we can assume that older txid's appear earlier in the wallet?

Then it's simply trivial to do a linear lookup and then continue on spitting out the txid's after that one.

Can anyone confirm this?

logical. yes.

Hey,

Is the limitation of 8 decimal places a protocol one or a client one? If so, why?

I know that 8 decimal places is MASSIVE, but I'm just wondering why since it's inexpensive to have 16 decimals.

ah this does the trick. Still a listaccounts JSON method is a good patch to have.

ah great.

See attached.
(add .diff please to attach forum filter

http://pastecoin.com/uploads/rpcdiff