I just realized I've never paid anyone to their firstbits before ..how the hell would that work? If I see btc.to/4a1 or payb.tc/345 <- which part of that am I paying it to and where would I put that in instawallet? I feel like such newb!  edit: I mean I see http://www.firstbits.com/ how the hell do i even get a firstbits address to begin with ? |
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I've always wondered how does one read this ....
"Zynga posted a loss of $85.35 million on revenue that climbed to nearly $321 million from the $242.9 million seen in the first three months of last year."
So they lost revenue but revenue climbed to 321 from 242 how is that a lost ? so confused....I'm bad with math lol
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I believe this is the first VC backed bitcoin start up ?
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interesting conversation was looking into the same thing and came across a service that offered below. My question is say on $15 worth of bitcoin they say there fee is $1.75 but I see the carrier fee there listed as an astrick of 53 percent so they are saying there is additional fee added based on the carrier? just confused ...  |
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Damn it, the IP evidence is inconclusive.
arrrgh  really ?? any of these username/handles should be purged out of the system this is getting absurd and effecting the community.... don't you think? |
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Morons...
Nuff' said...
How many family/friends have you lost to suicide? It sucks for everyone. I hope his family gets him the help he needs. Three last year alone. Making it look like an accident is definitely kinder to survivors. Of course I'm referring to the real thing, not a "cry for help" gesture. I've penned it before on this forum, and will state it again. I've tried it myself. Each time (twice) over pussy. But it was only a gesture, for in no way did I really want to die. My sister has tried it a small handful of times, but she's a little messed up (not on drugs). I'm pretty sure all her cases were gestures as well, seeking attention or whatever (not a doctor, so not really sure what was being sought). Chances are pretty good I won't be ever doing it again. Not for pussy, lack of money, or (can't even think of another good reason). ~Bruno~ Bruno , glad to hear you made it through ( assuming you don't have any more problems) we are all better with you here not without you. Bbit |
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As much as we love trolling this probably isn't to funny...everything like this should be taken seriously if it turns out to be a hoax it could go the other way also against the OP ..we shall see.
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So everyone provided some good information on both sides of the spectrum I wonder what to do next ? Seems there is a business model any people who are programmers want to figure something out PM me. Thanks!
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So basically, if you could set it up so you have to send 25 cents worth of BTC to an address, then after a certain amount of time (a month?) you get it back...that would be no big deal to regular people. You spend a few bucks a month on captchas and get it back.
But for spammers...doing 1000 at a time, you have to spend $250. Then wait to get that back. That cuts into the monthly budget, $250 for every 1000 captchas used.
Your first part is right. Obviously, not everyone is a spammer so they will have to figure something out. |
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Idea: Instead of a captcha, send a 1 bitcoin deposit. After a certian amount of time they determine you arent a spammer, and they send you your btc back. This could at least work on forums and wikis.
This is where I was heading with all of this. Basically, help eliminate all the hassles with captcha's. |
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Or combine a bit of captcha and btc?
The image will have some random tiny amount to send them, you send it, then enter a unique receive address for the refund. That way the costs to spammers are 2 way. 1 for the btc amount, then for the btc they have to spend to go through.
Basically, this is what I was getting at. What you could do even is do a "strongcoin" type element where you "unlock" the content - there would be a "pool of bitcoin" that could be used for people to unlock the captcha/content. |
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If you can figure out how to sell captcha solutions of 95% accuracy rate on recaptcha for less than USD $1.35 (about 0.25 BTC at todays price) per 1000 solutions, then you will have found a business model.
interesting ....never occurred to me sounds like you know a lot about this ? Indeed. We're currently spending about $600 a week on bulk captcha solutions from imagetyperz and get their best pricing, but I think there is still room for improvement as the service is paid by paypal or credit card. I also believe they are just reselling some foreign labor using some kind of data entry platform, and that probably involves more fees to get the payments to the individual workers who end up typing these things. Now I have no idea what country or language the actual workers who type the captcha solutions are in, but they are there doing it reliably 24/7 and I'm thinking that there must be ways to connect those workers with the $$$ being paid for the bulk services without the middle men or fees, and the end result should be the most cost competitive captcha solving service out there. Having such a service only available for Bitcoin but at a clearly better pricing will encourage the whole black-hat-seo industry to think about getting into Bitcoin simply as a matter of operational cost savings. I had no idea about this stuff. So your basically saying there are services that have human beings breaking captcha's and people pay for them ? lol Scalpers trying to buy up everything on Ticketmaster.com the moment tickets are released Hmmmm good point ^^ never thought about it like that. |
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If you can figure out how to sell captcha solutions of 95% accuracy rate on recaptcha for less than USD $1.35 (about 0.25 BTC at todays price) per 1000 solutions, then you will have found a business model.
interesting ....never occurred to me sounds like you know a lot about this ? Indeed. We're currently spending about $600 a week on bulk captcha solutions from imagetyperz and get their best pricing, but I think there is still room for improvement as the service is paid by paypal or credit card. I also believe they are just reselling some foreign labor using some kind of data entry platform, and that probably involves more fees to get the payments to the individual workers who end up typing these things. Now I have no idea what country or language the actual workers who type the captcha solutions are in, but they are there doing it reliably 24/7 and I'm thinking that there must be ways to connect those workers with the $$$ being paid for the bulk services without the middle men or fees, and the end result should be the most cost competitive captcha solving service out there. Having such a service only available for Bitcoin but at a clearly better pricing will encourage the whole black-hat-seo industry to think about getting into Bitcoin simply as a matter of operational cost savings. I had no idea about this stuff. So your basically saying there are services that have human beings breaking captcha's and people pay for them ? lol |
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Any chance your the son of Bruce Wagner ? lol |
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If you can figure out how to sell captcha solutions of 95% accuracy rate on recaptcha for less than USD $1.35 (about 0.25 BTC at todays price) per 1000 solutions, then you will have found a business model.
interesting ....never occurred to me sounds like you know a lot about this ? |
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What's to prevent spammers from automatically sending bits? Difficulty in obtaining bitcoin?  good point so maybe take out the part about getting bits of bitcoin lol ...hmm how about a system that is paralleled to the traditional captcha saying if you have bits of bitcoin send and then it passes it back to you ? What publio meant was what will stop spammers to automate the process of sending/receiving bitcoins to pass your protected page? ahhh will ya true that would suck if they come up with that lol hmmm |
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What's to prevent spammers from automatically sending bits? Difficulty in obtaining bitcoin? good point so maybe take out the part about getting bits of bitcoin lol ...hmm how about a system that is paralleled to the traditional captcha saying if you have bits of bitcoin send and then it passes it back to you ? |
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Captcha's are so annoying I figured there must be an easy way to eliminate them using bitcoin. I would think this would help keep the bitcoin economy going. One idea would be a full-cycle solution so basically if you don't have any bitcoins to release the captcha in front of you you can dip in and pick up a few bits through a "send me a few bits" system - to send against the captcha payment address of course if you do have some you would just send a few bits to it and again hit the "send me a few bits back" system . I dunno just thinking out loud ....  |
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I'll help let me know what I need to do!! |
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