Fucking evangelists, that can't properly approach skeptics and noobs. Just STOP and let someone else that knows what they are doing do the dirty work. Those threads started by people with an agenda cause more people to spread bad things against bitcoin, and less to actually research any major amount and get converted and useful.
You have now successfully turned whole forums against bitcoin, for your failure to properly discuss bitcoin. Proper discussion includes but is not limited to abiding by the rules of the forums in which you are posting, such as that you must be a female in order to post, no spam or ads, or whatever.
Meh. I thought they sounded surprisingly reasonable. I've had much worse results in the past. Maybe it's a "girl thing" where even the scepticism is less aggressive? You must only have read the first thread. The second is an abomination after about 2 pages. |
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Very nice to see the Omaha games, although I saw one weird table that was 10/20 PLO but the game type was NL Hold'em. That kinda sucked especially because I'm only interested in playing 2 BTC+ buy-in games, so also hoping for at least one 5 BTC buy-in table.  My bad, fixed. I set up some 25/50 and 50/100 games now. Just wanted to make sure it was working for everyone first (and that I didn't screw anything up too badly). If you want anything particular else just ask. There are lots of possibilities now, limit omaha, omaha hi-lo at various. |
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Seals will be going down for 30-60 minutes in about 15 minutes.
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It makes the protocol more complicated but it is possible to design p2p systems which use random ports and encrypt the payload.
Bittorrent does this and it has been futile to curb (Bittorrent now account for about 50% of internet bandwidth).
peer detection becomes more difficult and anytime you add overhead like that troubleshooting everything else becomes more complicated. Still if push comes to shove it wouldn't be impossible to make Bitcoin traffic undetectable.
Yeah, and we're passing little tiny notes compared to bit torrent's flood of high quality porn. It will be easy to avoid censorship. |
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I'll post my transactions in the comments on propaganda articles at freedom.gov! And I'll have juicy fees attached!
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I think there might be more strategy if you let people pick the same slot and made them share the prize. Then there is a tension between the more likely numbers being desirable but not wanting to split. Being first on the best number that doesn't get doubled up on (will depend on the number of slots a player expect to be bought) would be ideal.
Curiously, what are the more likely numbers? Your suggestion would provide tension but lets see how the rules as set work for selling out. Do you think the game, as structured, is fair? I think it must be fair since we all have the same position and choices right now. Of course it could be that the right move is not to play and it seems to me (I've not thought carefully) that when you pick a number someone will come in and choose one number above you reducing your chances by a lot. The sums are certainly not equally likely. 16 can happen in exactly one way, disregarding order. 18 can happen with 1 2 3 4 5 8 or 1 2 3 4 6 7. The numbers in the middle have many many more ways of happening. I actually think that makes it a potentially interesting game. I think things like this need a seed to get the ball rolling. Take a cut so that if you make a fun game that people like you can get your money risked and more back. If you don't mind I might try to run a different version of this before long. If you want to try again though I'd rather not butt in. |
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Sounds like a Green Dot card. I no longer give out my SSN and it is illegal for anyone to ask me for it if it doesn't involve income taxation. I can't be taxed for debt so a credit card company doesn't need to have it. I am quite happy to purchase cards where I don't need to provide any personal details.
I think that moving away from the traditional systems is a much better direction, though some amount of interface between traditional systems and Bitcoin maybe needed to ween us off of the traditional systems.
Check_status, may I please have your SSN? |
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I think price stickiness refers to certain types of prices on (usually) short timescales. When there are strong economic incentives one way or the other prices will adjust. So I don't think it can be invoked as a serious factor when talking about whole economy destruction.
Other than that, the idea that people will always hold off on buying because their money will be worth more or (equivalently) prices are expected to be lower is empirically wrong.
The amount forfeit can be HUGE too. Like walking hungry into a burger place that has a half off sale on their Big Juicy Burger tomorrow. Or renting a hotel room on the weekend. Getting something today really is a different and more valuable (often) than getting it tomorrow and that keeps things moving very reliably.
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money is pretty tight with just my living expenses though I do have some extra time to kill bout an hour or so a day so im just wondering if i could convert that to bitcoins?
I know you have a Seals account! The hourly freebie is riskless. The half hour is good value, more in prizes than players put in. There is a 10BTC freeroll sponsored by donkdown Wednesday at 10:30pm ET. The Sunday 60BTC usually has money added. The nightly cryptgolfer and the B2B have extra prizes beyond what you get for winning. |
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So if one person has 90% of share and one person has 10% the 10%er kind of has the other guy by the balls. You should make sure to be that 10%er. Or maybe you buy 60% from yourself and don't even have to send that 1 coin ever.
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For others, I wouldn't worry much about buying anonymously. If you are paranoid it should still be plenty good enough to buy at Gox and cycle the coins you get once. This would protect you from, hypothetically, buying from Gox, they know which coins belong to you, now you send to a person who ends up being law enforcement or other dangerous group and Gox tells them who bought the coins. But if you say send them to instawallet or other and withdraw over them course of a few days it's nearly impossible to connect. Put a few more hops and it's a lock imo.
If you don't want anyone to possibly know you use bitcoin that might be harder. You should prob not buy with digital fiat from a stranger you don't trust to keep your secret in that case.
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How many are you pretending to want?
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Recently the official client is often forcing me to pay a transaction fee of 0.002 btc per transaction, which adds up pretty quickly since I do hundreds of micro transactions daily.
Is there a way to lower transaction fee? I have heard I need to gather my btc in a new address? how would I do that?
A few options: Send all your BTC to yourself once, this will collect it into one address. Use a modified client that doesn't pay the fee, and potentially wait longer for confirmations. Wait longer for the coins to mature before using them (144 confirmations, usually, might be more for smaller amounts). Or, find out how you can stop doing so many microtransactions, since they fill up the blockchain faster. Any one of those 4 should work. ok for the send all btc to myself method, do I have to generate a new receiving address? or can I use one of my old address that already had transactions? Want to tell more about your the size and frequency of your normal receives and sends? If they are too small and too fast there might not be much to be done. Sending all coin to one address might not be optimal because then all of your coin will become 'new coin' very often and that causes fees, because that's what a tx spammer would do, send the same coin over and over. Someone else probably has a better idea than me, but sending to yourself something like 2BTC chunks might be good. If you plan to increase volume even more and speed is not of the essence you should look into finding or having made a SendMany script. That will let you make a bunch of tx at once for a fee that is only slightly larger than a normal fee. |
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Recently the official client is often forcing me to pay a transaction fee of 0.002 btc per transaction, which adds up pretty quickly since I do hundreds of micro transactions daily.
Is there a way to lower transaction fee? I have heard I need to gather my btc in a new address? how would I do that?
A few options: Send all your BTC to yourself once, this will collect it into one address. Use a modified client that doesn't pay the fee, and potentially wait longer for confirmations. Wait longer for the coins to mature before using them (144 confirmations, usually, might be more for smaller amounts). Or, find out how you can stop doing so many microtransactions, since they fill up the blockchain faster. Any one of those 4 should work. Those are good. If you can wait till they pile up another option might be SendMany. |
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We'll be going off-line briefly within an hour.
edit: scratch that, this has been delayed.
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The site looks good I hope Omaha cash games come asap. I would be very interested in those games. You are in luck! asap is the expected arrival time. :-) |
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Seal's new look is up. Let me know if you find any bugs.
Next up, Omaha and Omaha Hi-Lo.
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Lol, I'm really sorry, I totally thought this was the chess thread. And I thought I was derailing THAT by talking about chess variants.
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Do you have an idea about how much your future subscription will cost?
5$ or 1BTC /mo (not sure about currency) Really? You don't know if you'll accept btc? I must be misunderstanding. |
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