I don't think this can be done using any "standard" client (things like "coin-join" are somewhat similar and they require specialised software).

The raw tx RPC calls will let you build up the tx piece by piece but a non-complete tx is not able to be broadcast to the network (AFAIA).

Seriously "ideas are worth very little".

Anyone can say "I thought up the idea of faster than light travel" (but didn't actually manage to even design it or even if they did it didn't actually work). So now are they supposed to get all the "royalties" in the future because "they announced they thought of it"?

Copyright is *dead* and patents should be buried as well. They are not at all suitable to the 21st century.

As the NSA has already effectively installed spyware on nearly all computers made in the world (via HDD firmware as has been published in the mainstream media) it actually seems quite reasonable that China is doing this (and installing their own spyware for every US citizen that buys Chinese made hardware).

It used to be you had a choice to be spied upon either by the US or by China but from now on you are going to be spied upon by both. Enjoy!

This used to work fine:

http://blockchain.info/q/addressbalance/1ciyam3htJit1feGa26p2wQ4aw6KFTejU?confirmations=1

but now just comes back with nothing.

Has the API changed?

The real problem with such things are the "oracles" needed to be trusted to "publish the results".

Once we have elections actually running on blockchains then you'd have a much better system.

If this stupid arguing continues then I'll just unwatch this topic (which will probably be more your loss than mine but if you guys think it is better to just fight then go ahead - this topic can just become a wasteland of idiots arguing for all I care).

Everyone has read enough about it to make up their own minds by now (assuming that they even care about the accusations being raised).

The bounty is for a Bitcoin clone (which Qora is not) and actually it is the CIYAM Developers who have written the AT code for Qora.

Also if I see progress from an alt coin developer by the end of the month (in terms of actual code having been written) then I will extend the deadline for this bounty.

In the case of AT it would only really be possible via the AT API having a bug (which is why it is purposely not a very large API).

Thorough testing of API functions should ensure that there is no "deadly memory leak" or the like but of course "complete coverage" isn't so easy (so constant reviewing of the API source code would be required).

Just try making money from arb and you'll soon realise that unless you have some "special contacts" then it is basically impossible.

(the only person that I know of that made a lot from arb is a Chinese guy who had Japanese contacts and that fucked up when Mt. Gox went under)

Exactly - when the USD prices on Gox BTC started to go up I knew that it was "time to remove all BTC from Gox" but plenty of suckers thinking that they would get rich from arbitrage stayed on until the collapse (and are now just hoping to get anything back from that failed exchange).

You clearly have never tried to make money from arbitrage.

Arbitrage is generally not really possible due to "delays". Even when Gox had a "huge difference" people didn't make money from that.

ATs cannot execute any code outside of their own machine code and its API has been kept intentionally very minimal so that it isn't possible to create anything more nefarious than a smart contract that fails to work properly.

For example - it cannot create files, it cannot create or use internet connections but can only operate within its very limited sandbox.

Although I haven't studied Ethereum in detail I would expect it is also safe from this sort of issue.

Of course a "bug" in a particular implementation (of the API in particular) could present a huge problem and that is why such things need extensive testing.

Unfortunately still no altcoin devs have "stepped up" to implementing the Turing complete Automated Transactions system - so in order to provide a sense of urgency please note that I will be removing the bounty after the end of this month.

Now that we have the Bitshares fanboys attention I think it is time to lock this topic.

(beware of anyone trying to change the definition of "decentralised")

An update just to say that the blockchain code is progressing well (you can check https://github.com/ciyam/ciyam/commits/master to keep a track of what is being developed).

Automatic "checkpoints" are a key feature now and blockchain rewinds (back as far as the last checkpoint) are now working (these are needed to reorganise a blockchain in the case of nefarious block minting).

Also the ability to "prune" old checkpoint blocks and transactions means that a CIYAM blockchain will always be compact.

If it is anywhere near as boring as Ayn Rand's stuff then I don't think I'd bother even trying to wade through it.

I had come to the conclusion that pirateat40 was a scam a good couple of months before its actual collapse and as soon as I saw the huge difference in prices on Mt. Gox compared to other exchanges I knew it was time to remove any BTC from there (there was a window of about a month with that).

Honesty and decentralisation (especially if you want any degree of anonymity) just don't mix IMO.

It probably has got far too big for that now - but at least newbies won't really lose anything by creating a new account.

You can also buy senior accounts (assuming one for sale has a name you like) for well under 1 BTC.

I do *get* the idea of the "wisdom of the crowd" but I think that the way this is being *used* currently looks just like pirateat40's "investment scheme" looked like (which took a hold of quite likely 50% of this forum members that were "wanting to get rich quick").