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Oh I see, the character of the game is Faith.
That is actually a cool video (seems a realistic storyline, at least from the intro), and is exactly the future we have ins store.
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Seems you didn't see what i did there
The opening line of the WHAM song? I missed what you did there too. |
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I'm very new at all of this but I'm looking for the best way to throw a few hundred bucks at bitcoin in the riskiest way possible that gives me potential for the highest upside. I'm no financial expert and basically just want to gamble it up a bit. IIRC there is some sort of stock option where I'm basically buying a few thousand dollars worth of stock (or bitcoin in this example,) but if the price drops to a certain level those few thousand dollars revert back to the client/invester/someone that's not me and I just lose my couple hundred dollars. Can someone explain this to me and tell me if it's possible with this program?
You're talking about limit orders. It's ot built into the system(yet) but can easily be done with a trading bot. |
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Great! Anyway this should be an "option". So it will be possible to chose the level of security, and also "drone" should have the possibility to chose to be a tor-like drone or not. Example: I'm a drone, but today I just want to take flowers/pizza/cake/... things  Sorry for my bad english, I hope that you understood my idea ... I think I understand what you're saying. You would like to be able to opt-out of packages that are risky(unknown, possible illegal contents), this can be done. If someone wants package privacy then it's marked as a dark package, and only nodes(couriers) who have said they will accept dark packages will get it. Normal packages get inspected and signed off by the first delivery node, or something like that. Dark packets because they are higher risk cost more, someone willing to deliver them can charge more. Right? |
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Agreed that the upside would cancel out even a 50% chance of collapse, as long as I could afford the loss. But I'm a married man with a child on the way (and a wife who's a bit skeptical about this whole thing), so losing a few thousand dollars would not only represent a serious financial hardship but a serious domestic hardship. (We can handle the Fed, but we don't want to piss off any moms.  ) The Bitcoin stock exchange will be able to handle this, see this thread. It's testing now, you could try coming up with an options contract. Here's an example shares contract. |
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BitDrop implementation
Along with the initial idea (the subject of this post) some extra details.
1)Use Tor style onion routing to deliver packages.
What does this mean?
Every node(person doing delivery) must have a gpg key.
When a new package is to be entered into the system the sytem works out the route, selecting the appropriate nodes.
It then uses the nodes public key to encrypt the nodes delivery location.
The result is that each node can only know the location they deliver to and not the final destination of the package. If geocaching is used then each node doesn't even know who the previous node was.
Example.
Person in New York wants to deliver a package to Washington D.C.
Logs into the system, gives the pickup(either someone comes to collect the package, or the user delivers it to the first drop off point), and the final destination.
The system works out the optimal route, notifies all the soon to be involved nodes, and gives the user the first drop off point for the package (or someone will come and collect it).
The person who collects the package first is the first node, the only information they have been given is where to collect the package and where to deliver it to, the next location is the collection point for the next node and so on.
The result is each node knows only a portion of the route, it increases privacy, and the strngth of the delivery network.
I'm also thinking of having an android app that each node can use to sign the delivery of the package to the next node (using gpg), so if something happens to the package we know who's responsible, it also allows some measure of package tracking for the customer.
Each node gets a portion of the overall payment for it's delivery.
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Also I've just added a webpage to allow users to view assets that are listed on the exchange. Right now when you click on an asset, you get a whole face of ugly in return. I'll fix that over the next few days. http://dev.glbse.com/cgi-bin/list |
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Thanks vuce. BitterTea (and anyone else with 64bit windows systems) install this(also possibly re-install openssl), it's the 64bit C++ redistributable. Then give it a try again. let me know the results. http://glbse.com/downloads/vcredist_x64.exe |
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vuce, do you have your machine configured in a certain way to handle 32bit applications?
no, nothing. Just clicked install and it worked like a dream. There was some openssl warning (i think) but it doesn't seem to affect anything. Could you check add remove programs in the control panel and see if you have Microsoft Visual C++ redistributable package installed, perhaps you have a newer one that's 64bit? If that's not the case then I'm stumped. |
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Well Tea, the problem is that its 64bit windows you're using, someone else has pm'd me with the same problem.
The m2crypto package that I included is 32bit M2Crypto-0.20.2.win32-py2.7.exe
And it seems that only activestate python business edition (not free) has a 64bit windows build.
Anyone know 64bit m2crypto packages for windows?
Perhaps it needs to be run in 32bit mode (is there a way to do this?)
vuce, do you have your machine configured in a certain way to handle 32bit applications?
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Having a problem on Windows 7, 64 bit. Ran the setup, everything installed fine. Need any more information? Traceback (most recent call last):
File "blackmarket.py", line 10, in <module>
from M2Crypto.util import passphrase_callback as prompt_password
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\M2Crypto\__init__.py", line 22, in <module>
import __m2crypto
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found. OK, I've cleaned a machine here and just run through the setup process, now my machine is 32bit XP so it's not comparable to yours. I've found that I've had no problems, the installation went smoothly. So the issue is either due to it being Windows 7 or it being 64bit. If we could have someone with a 32bit version of Windows 7 give it a try and report back that would help narrrow things down. I'm guessing it's the fact that it's 64bit that could be causing issues, see this link. But until someone with plain old 32bit windows 7 gets back to us we won't know. |
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Down to be a runner in my area can carry anything and have certain experience doing it already.
During the summer we had this local wargame with about 100 people playing and i was one of the messengers.
shit was so cash.
Did you get chased do this or shot at(bb gun, paintball gun?)? Sounds like a lot of fun. |
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And this is why it's opensource.
How would you recommend we generate the keypairs?
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Spelling: "Assest" should presumably be "Assets".
haha, good one, this is why we're showing it, to find these kind of mistakes. |
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This would be great in the summer, where i'm super bored. :p
Exactly, also, I envision lots of kids, think 10-15 years old who aren't allowed to work doing deliveries or collections on bikes 2-3miles from their home. I remember when I was 12,13, bored, no money, and not allowed to work (what a load of rubbish that is). This is a going to be a great way for them to earn bitcoin. |
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! I'm very happy this thread popped up! Thanks Nefario!  I really do think with a little love, this idea could bring about great things...it seems like it should start with a bounty for a proof of concept, then a site, and a city-by-city trial period... I'm no coder, and I don't have the time or experience to spearhead something of this complexity, but I really appreciate you taking my idea and giving it to more eyeballs. I'm going to be doing something with this(coding it up), I've spent quite a bit of time thinking about it, and I've got a lot to add (will over the next few days, busy now). Can't start right now on development, currently doing bitcoin stock market, and there is a pre-requisit of a reputation system (which I've also got figured out and is my next mission) before something like this could be done. It's going to be done, hopefully before the full summer kicks in. |
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Yeah, just displays the gui. Once we have the command line client working well we'll start tying the GUI onto it.
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How can we get namecoins without the namecoin client?
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What was the reasoning for using a command-line client instead of a web interface? A web interface would be more friendly to the average user.
Edit: I see you are working on a graphical client, so I'll rephrase my question: Why a desktop client instead of a web interface?
There are no passwords, we use public/private keys to verify a user. Ot provides excellent security and requires there to be a desktop client. We may at some point in the future provide a web-based client for those prefering convienience over security but thats far down the list of things to do(could change if there's demand). |
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Nefario, this however requires thrust in the person issuing the stock/bond/future that they will pay out later and don't run off with the bitcoins. How are you going to handle that?
Yes(as do all shares), which is why you don't buy any from someone you don't trust and who are not transparent. When the exchange launches we'll be listing shares for our company(actually these will be shares already issued to the first investors, myself and several others), we have accounts, will have quarterly reports, and auditing etc. There is myself as "CEO", ColdHardMetal as secretary and accountant, and theymos as the company treasurer. We also have several shareholders (remaining nameless) who have a high reputation in the bitcoin community. |
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