 I did a sendmany transaction recently and added individual comments. Before, I never added comments in sendmany txs, because I was pretty sure it wouldn't be displayed usefully, but I was proven wrong. Armory separates comments in the transaction and even adds in a rounded amount next to each comment based on how much was sent to the address the comment's attached to. Surprises me every day. 
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I feel like there should be a decentralized virtual world that goes with Bitcoin... what do you guys think...?
http://www.dragons.tl/ ? You can theoretically buy a high-level account for the Treasures bonus, and work at compiling data on mechanics and statistics to "sell" in exchange for mentorship over students, slowly releasing that data to them for continued Treasures points. Since the Treasures bonus can be withdrawn for direct BTC, this could be considered an actual job with enough students, and there are people clearing an 8BTC bonus weekly. I don't know of anyone who doesn't just gamble it back away, though.  The devs could probably be enticed to add more SL-like VR stuff to the game, to change it more from a gambling platform to a weird VR. Excuse me..? ? ETA: Oh - jargon. Treasures are accumulated by mentoring students. When students bet, the mentor gets a cut (the formula is something like mentor bonus [based on in-game level] minus student bonus -- and this is multi-level, so if your student mentors other students, you can also get a cut of their students' bets). The game's mechanics and statistical information for what happens in certain games is mostly unpublished, but a mentor could collect this information and use it to try gaining students. A mentor does not necessarily need to bet anything to accumulate "Dragon Treasures." At 100% "Treasures," the mentor is able to collect 8BTC. Theoretically, there's nothing stopping a mentor from simply working and never touching the gambling side, where they "sell" the information they collected to students in exchange for those students selecting the information-collector as a mentor. This could be considered a job if the mentor does not gamble his "Treasure," but instead just withdraws it to a wallet. Most (all?) mentors choose to gamble in part because they can only raise their in-game level (and thus the % cut they get from students "Treasures") by gambling. (Just in case: SL - Second Life, VR - Virtual Reality) |
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There are four (possibly more, depending on if there's an even longer chain than I can quickly see displayed) unconfirmed inputs with below-recommended fees. That transaction will probably disappear from the queue before it ever goes through.
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After Kerry's hilarious misstep (in which he may have accidentally saved thousands of lives), it looks like the strike is off for at least another week. US admin is taking heat from all sides domestically.
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Transaction alredy took 26 hours and still "0 confirmations".
What's the txID? |
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I feel like there should be a decentralized virtual world that goes with Bitcoin... what do you guys think...?
http://www.dragons.tl/ ? You can theoretically buy a high-level account for the Treasures bonus, and work at compiling data on mechanics and statistics to "sell" in exchange for mentorship over students, slowly releasing that data to them for continued Treasures points. Since the Treasures bonus can be withdrawn for direct BTC, this could be considered an actual job with enough students, and there are people clearing an 8BTC bonus weekly. I don't know of anyone who doesn't just gamble it back away, though. The devs could probably be enticed to add more SL-like VR stuff to the game, to change it more from a gambling platform to a weird VR. |
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Exchanges are dead to me in the US since Gox broke. I don't feel confident the USG won't be seizing my funds (in an exchange), having my bank (or Dwolla, a payment processor suggested to file for $2.5k transactions instead of the usual $5k) file SARs against me every time I twitch, or otherwise impeding transactions. Local BTC<->cash exchanges, I've found, are most convenient, low-to-no fee, lowest-hassle, and always fun.
Finding trustworthy people looking to buy or sell all over the world isn't a big issue, but it's a much more "uncertain" process than following a rigid exchange procedure, and you have to work with someone else's schedule.
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I also discussed with satoshi, and he said that his employers at the NSA wanted him to create the first P2P currency with a back door in it. That back door happens to be in this specific elliptic curve. Government supercomputers searched for a random elliptic curve that contained a back door.
Just joking, but that's my conspiracy theory. Actually if there is no particular reason for this elliptic curve to be chosen, that is actually suspicious...
 We can't do anything but speculate, though. Earlier, it's said Satoshi picked it "just because." |
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They have a math department but no science department.
SCAM.
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Free bump.  Quantum Kiwi has recently taken on a rogue customer, yes thats right a rogue customer. This client signed up to a $4.95 web hosting plan of ours, located on our website - The Iron hosting plan. 13/08/2013 - Client Signed up to plan. 13/08/2013 - Email received - " Was I scammed or are your statements false? " - This email was sent in near immediately after signup, accusing us of being a scam and why isn't his account instantly activated - We have a policy of not activating bitcoin services immediately, well because bitpay only shows the invoice as paid until confirmations have gone through... Paypal is instant. Also said hes been waiting 12 hours+. 13/08/2013 - Clients account & order was activated. 20/08/2013 - Support Ticket submitted - Stating that he could not connect to his account - He said Quantum Kiwi was also down at the time, yet our pingdom monitoring states we have had a 100% uptime on QuantumKiwi.com... Strange? We located the issue to being his IP blocked by our CSF WHM firewall which blocked him due to a connection limit of 64, He was then further blocked for 12 hours automatically by our firewall due to excessive attempts to access the server again. His IP was unblocked and added to the whitelist immediately. 21/08/2013 - IP was unblocked. Account has had an uptime of 99%. Datacenter outage of 10 minutes effected the account, other than that it was fine. 21/08/2013 - Email sent to client explaining in full why his system was blocked automatically by our systems - No reply. Several weeks later, We get a notification of a blog comment - Stating from " Donald aka Scott Deleon " that Quantum Kiwi is a scam see here: New comment on your post "Quantum Kiwi - Bitcoin Web Hosting" Author : Donald Smith (IP: ******* , ****) E-mail : dodoking***@gmail.com URL : Whois : http://whois.arin.net/rest/ip/**** Comment: Quantum Kiwi is false advertising their services. They claim instant setup after purchase and I have been waiting over 12 hours already and my account is still pending. I suggest anyone looking for a fast service with support that responds, to look somewhere else. So far they have been nothing but a major disappointment to me. So, we decided to contact him via email and ask hey? Whats going on - Why post this stuff up when we didn't scam you, our firewall blocked you due to your system having too many connections? We then get this reply; The website stated that setup was instant and it did not say anything about different payments. Not only that but for the first few weeks the server was inaccessible to me because you blocked my IP from my own server after I used ftp to upload my files. So I paid and was unable to use the server for half the month. You admitted that it was because your system accidentally banned me.
That being said. I stand by the statement I made. It was not stated that only paypal is instant. Then half of the month the server was not even usable. I feel like you ripped me off. I had to go and get a new host provider already because the service you provided was always down; with over 90% down time that you already have admitted was your systems fault.
Praticully feel scammed as half the month the server was unusable; which was acknowledged by your company already. I then had to find a new provider. So I paid you for a full month, half that month you had me blocked from my own server... So you actually only provided me with less then 2 weeks for the cost of a full month?
Should I go ahead and post the full story and your email replies admitting the 2 weeks of down time was because your company "accidentally" banned me?
We then contact him again, attempting to explain how and why his IP was blocked and that we are not scamming him... Reply from " Scott Deleon ": You scammed me period... I paid a month.. The "cloud" was down you told me, but I was blocked at the same time... so since your email stating the cloud had difficulties you never said it was back up... meanwhile you had me banned for 2 weeks... so the month I paid resulted in me just being scammed for 2 weeks... and by then I had to find a service that doesnt scam..
Also I will be posting my experience of you scamming me, and your mistreatment of customers, all over...
The truth hurts.. In this case your business...
Be ready for the world to know that Quantumkiwi.com is a scam... His latest accusation - spam: QuantumKiwi.com is a scam. Please do not use them!
I paid for a full month and they banned me for 2 of the 4 weeks... Why was I banned? For trying to upload my website by ftp... They claim It was only me banned and other could access. BUT I PIAD for the 1 month service for ME and not for others... So since they banned me for no reason for 2 weeks.... They have SCAMMED me for the 2 weeks... They then canceled my service ahead of time when I asked...
That means quantumkiwi.com only gave me 1 usable week for the entire month I paid.
That being said I was scammed by them, their owner called my phone and started calling me an idiot and so on, which was ALL recorded as well.
JUST REMEMBER QUANTUM KIWI.COM IS A SCAM!
What is really puzzling us is - Why would we want to scam someone for 2 weeks of web hosting when we have several hundred clients - a $4.95 plan is the smallest plans to us, We don't hold peoples services back 2 weeks so we can scam someone else....? Its really strange these accusations... It seems that Scott, is really annoyed that his IP got blocked - Went to another host instead of sending in a support ticket, Now he has two web hosting plans to deal with - Hes wanting a refund but didn't go the right way about it - So now hes on a rampage to take " Quantum Kiwi down ". Now, after the recent email - We had a meeting and said look " We will give this guy a call, try and explain whats happened - If hes understanding give him an account credit of $30-50 to keep things all nice and comfortable. " Hah, that was a joke. Our CEO Logan called him - Well that was interesting. Logan attempted to explain what had happened with the IP block, However " Scott " kept on talking over him and interrupting him - Accusing QuantumKiwi of being a scam. Scott then threatened to " Take down Quantum Kiwi and let everyone know on the internet that Quantum Kiwi is a scam ". Scott then hung up. We have since made a decision to terminate Scott's services with us due to his abuse & accusations. Our lawyers are looking into it, but really - I think people just need to watch out for this guy and his associates - NO business should be subject to abuse and/or false accusations by someone with a problem of their own. Here at Quantum Kiwi we are respectful of peoples privacy however in this case, we are making scotts name public as we think its fair that everyone gets to see both sides - If we are being accused of being a scam... Quantum Kiwi is not a scam, We have many happy clients and 2 weeks of hosting is well - FREE for anyone that wants to trial our PAID web hosting services..... Best Regards, Chief Administrator - Allan @ Quantum Kiwi edit: His latest email: ( Accusing us of mis-treating him due to a Mental illness ) This is a private email for only the owner or manager of Quantumkiwi.com to see. Publishing this email would be a violation of the senders privacy and also violate quite a few laws (privacy act's) in the process.
On that call it was your worker trying to interupt me as the recording shows, not the other way around. He even calls me an "idiot" which shows alot. Did this employee call me an idiot because I am mental disable, as I mentioned in one of my first emails to your compan? Everything I have posted about my situation with your service is completely true and you have treated me poorly since I mentioned having a mental problem.
I dont want free credit. I just want you to quit lying about what actually happend and also to quit mistreating me. |
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Don't forget it works both ways.
You are just as likely to find MORE blocks than expected when you are in a smaller, high variance pool as you are to find fewer blocks.
yeah I know. But usually those miners who want to gamble just go to a gambling site. I mean, if you invest thousands in mining hardware, you've already taken a considerable risk, thinking that you can gauge your understanding of the mining hardware market to have a positive expectation in this game. Then if you are rational, you don't just go and stake your profit on a 0-expectation high-variance game. The only gamble is if you use an unreliable pool and/or don't use failover. I'm sure the large hashers also use more than one pool just in case a pool does have problems. Yeaaaaah... no. High variance is very dangerous, especially with the very short shelf-life of the ASICs being delivered. If a pool takes 3 weeks on average to find a block, they're unlucky and don't find anything for 5 or even 6 weeks, you've probably lost thousands of dollars. You could get very lucky - but with smaller pools, that's his point -- there's a lot more luck involved in getting a decent return. 3 weeks is an extreme, but the more variance you add, the more your returns will be affected by luck. Some people gamble in the form of buying a USB block eruptor and just mining solo -- maybe they get a winning number and enjoy a 25+BTC jackpot, but almost certainly not. Mining in a tiny pool isn't much different. |
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Only thing they appear to have over Dwolla is that they take plastic (with roughly the same fee as Paypal), which makes it irrelevant since Paypal is generally used in conjunction with Dwolla, instead of Dwolla being the only choice. For mobile payments, at least in the US, this is taken care of with direct billing on cell charges (though most [all?] app stores have their own payment processor, too] - so I can't think of a market they're filling there. Unlike Bitcoin, Venmo has many direct competitors they don't offer something significant over. Dwolla's obscure -- why will Venmo be any different?
taking plastic is a huge advantage for adoption rates cause its simple to set up, Facebook didn't have any clear cut advantage over friendster/myspace from a functional point of view. but it had a great UI and it was cool and it caught on. Same thing i happening now, you can chef the adoption rates, venmo is out for a shorter period and has more users than dwolla, and the trend will continue How do I check the adoption rates? |
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Hm... Is there any software to generate "multiple-outcome" encrypted text or other documents? It would have multiple hashes to "solve," but only one would be legitimate.
For example passw0rd would give:
Hey, there. I lost your most recent pubkey. Would you mind sending it over, again?
while a3nomalym@@kZer39jooL would give:
Hey, there. Ready to bomb X embassy in PleaseDon'tRaidMyHouse-istan?
Would be similar to Truecrypt's ability to give "fake" information with certain passwords. This could be useful as an added layer in case a PGP privkey is compromised, for example. I'd guess the initial password key(chain) would have to be given in a very private manner, like in a face-to-face kind of way, then entered with a randomly-scrambling virtual keyboard offline.
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Only thing they appear to have over Dwolla is that they take plastic (with roughly the same fee as Paypal), which makes it irrelevant since Paypal is generally used in conjunction with Dwolla, instead of Dwolla being the only choice. For mobile payments, at least in the US, this is taken care of with direct billing on cell charges (though most [all?] app stores have their own payment processor, too] - so I can't think of a market they're filling there. Unlike Bitcoin, Venmo has many direct competitors they don't offer something significant over. Dwolla's obscure -- why will Venmo be any different?
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Great in-depth article, I think, for getting neutral or ignorant people interested. Dunno if it's really something to be posting around, though. "... In Washington, a crackdown on Bitcoin might be coming. ... Back in April, federal agents allege that they seized 11.02 Bitcoins from a 31-year-old hospitality worker named Eric Hughes, who was living in downtown Charleston. ... the DEA has still not charged Hughes with a crime. ... "Essentially, I think you're going to see more and more use of Bitcoins," [Hughes' attorney] says. "It's just another form of currency that's unregulated at this point." ... [long, almost entirely positive description of BTC] ... [Silk Road description] ... "In my opinion, not even DEA specific, but just in general, I think that the federal government is taking a vested interest in the Bitcoin world as a whole, and I'm sure are in some way or another engaging themselves in the process to have a better understanding of it and also to determine what all the capabilities are," [Hughes' Attorney] said. ... Back in Charleston, [Hughes' attorney] says a few years from now people will look back and think how crazy it was when they could buy and sell things online under the cloak of anonymity and with unregulated Bitcoins. "You're really starting to see it come to the forefront. I definitely don't think it's something the general public is familiar with right now, but I think they will be," he says. "If we were sitting here this time next year I think we'll really be in a completely different situation in regards to how the U.S. government particularly looks at Bitcoins because there are so many sides to it. ..." full, unedited article @ http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/a-fistful-of-bitcoins/Content?oid=4719104 |
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