Got a very valuable suggestion for you : CHANGE YOUR SIGNATURE  Fantastic suggestion! Now, if there was only some directory that I could look you up in, to shoot you some Bitcoin for such a valuable suggestion... ahhh THERE IS!  For that suggestion, I'm gonna refund every Bitcoin you paid me to date! |
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Thanks for claiming it for me. I was just wondering. Is it possible to change the background colour? That yellow is very very bright.  OK, I toned down the Yellow. See myB.TC/jerfelixAny other suggestions or bug reports? Thanks for the testing, folks! Get your own personal Bitcoin Directory page at myB.TCNever be without your wallet address again! |
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Listening to it right now. Good music!
Let me know when yer done. I'd like to listen. |
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@fadisaaida: The attributes in the HTML seem to be swapped: <a target="_blank" href="http://myB.TC/fadisaaida">http://myB.TC/fadisaaida</a> I claim http://myB.TC/bgeron (code=78142). It looks like, in the database, yours was able to claim! Let me know if this didn't work for you. |
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Thanks. I claimed it manually for you. I might have this figured out! |
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Thanks for claiming it for me. I was just wondering. Is it possible to change the background colour? That yellow is very very bright. Color changes, home page customizations, images... all are in future releases! right now, I just use color= "yellow", pink (for available), and gray (for reserved). But these will be customizable. I believe that color will be another distinctive identifier of your page. ("Mom, if you see a yellow page, that's not me. spell my nickname right!") Thanks for the suggestion! PS, I'm having a heck of a time getting this "claim" thing to work! Sorry I have been mucking with it in real time! |
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Note: This is in no way intended to be accusing or rude to the inventor of this awesome site.
Just a word of caution though in case no-one else thought of it: Site owner could easily randomly swap out addresses for one of his own, say every 100 views, and collect that beer money for himself.
Having said that, I'm gonna get myself a URL... thanks!
rats, yer onto me! Seriously, I know I can trust myself - I feel pretty good about that. I just have to build the trust of others. I fully intend for this site to be a long-term strategic asset, and I have done a lot of things to try to build trust. For instance, you know my name, I haven't made the domain registration private, so you effectively know how to reach me. I know we're dealing with money here, and so it's a serious matter. My concern is not trust of me, but that someone else will hack in and change the wallet ID's of users. So I have some security features planned (like an email notification and 2-factor authentication for locked accounts). It wouldn't stop someone who hacks the database, but it would stop someone from hacking at your end. I'm glad you pointed that out, though, because you can never be too careful. Think like a criminal! It'll help you spot vulnerabilities. |
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Thanks for trying. I manually set you up. Checking for the bug. Testing: I claim http://myB.TC/jerfelix (code=18654) |
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Rats. OK I manually claimed it for you. I'll take a look at what happened. Edit: Looks like it might have been a case issue. I've made a correction to the claim software, so we'll see if auto-claims work now. So far, we're 0 for 1. |
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I've built myB.TC, and am looking for some gentle testers and some feedback. myB.TC - A bit.ly type service for your wallet IDConcept:Each user can set up their own web page, accessible from a tiny URL of your choice (a short name), that lets you store your wallet ID on the net. That way, when your drinking buddy says "I'll pay you for that last round in Bitcoin", you don't have to rattle off a 34-character Bitcoin address. Instead, you can direct him to your personal webpage that holds your wallet ID. "OK, my Bitcoin shortname is jerfelix." The User pages look like this: myB.TC/jerfelixYou, the user, can maintain your public page. You can put a unique phrase on that page, like "I'm John Smith, the car enthusiast from St. Louis". That way, when people look you up, they can have some reassurance that they got the CORRECT John Smith. Later, if you want to update your public wallet ID, you simply log in, and make a change. In fact, you can use multiple short names. If you want myB.TC/GiftForTheBoss, you can reserve that one, and direct your co-workers to pay you through that, as you collect money for the Boss's birthday gift. New Convention Proposal:In addition, I'm proposing a new convention. Instead of including your wallet ID in your signature, I propose we begin using the convention ฿shortname or B/shortname. What do you think of, when you see "@name"? Twitter, right? Well, with ฿shortname or B/shortname, let's get people to think Bitcoin. And more specifically, that you can be found in the Bitcoin directory myB.TC, under that shortname. I'm proposing that you use this convention across the net, in forums and on web pages. What do you think? So, I'm ฿jerfelix (alternately B/jerfelix, for the unicode-impaired) and you can see my page at myB.TC/jerfelixReserved Names:I took the liberty of reserving people's forum names, so that you can claim your name. This was a little tricky. I thought it would be nice for people to be able to grab the name that they use in the Bitcoin Forum, and the only way I could think of to confirm that you are who you say you are, was to have you post some specific text in any forum message, and then tell the software the URL where it can be found. So try to claim your forum name as a shortname. You can post your claim text in ANY message - preferably a witty message that you were going to type anyway. I am a little hesitant about "spamming the forum", so hopefully people will keep their claiming messages all in one thread. If this gets to be obnoxious, I'll turn it off. I doubt that I got the claiming part of the software working exactly right, so gentle testing is encouraged! (This was very hard for me to test without spamming the forums!) Note, I made some names unavailable. If your forum name doesn't meet my shortname criteria (because it contains illegal characters based on what's permitted in URLs, or because it's under 4 characters, or if it's a collision with some famous name (like walmart)), then this feature may not work for you. I did extend some shorter names with underscore. So if your forum name is ab, it would be ab__ (that is, 4 character minimum for now). If your forum name is walmart, tough luck - pick a different one. Bounty Hunter:myB.TC was developed in response to the 200 BTC bounty posed at http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1429.msg145713#msg145713 . Unfortunately, just prior to me publishing the site, the bounty was lowered by 95% to 5 BTC. Needless to say I was bummed. But I reworked the site to allow people to buy shortnames for a nominal fee, and to claim their own forum name. So, if you like the site, I won't complain if you help to make up that 195 BTC discrepancy!! remember, I'm at ฿jerfelix and you can see my page at myB.TC/jerfelix - (the old fashioned way is for me to post 1BZbpx7wHAUcBgzAtH4KeogTmtgUrq5Nkk ). ~Ain't to proud to beg, sweet darling ~ Please check it out, and let me know what you think. Be gentle. Ideas, comments, enhancement requests, and bug reports are ALL very welcome! Is there anything else out there like this? myB.TC |
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I don't see Ponzi at all. Here's a question for you. What are the odds that Bitcoin after ten years will be "as successful" as Paypal was after its first ten years? Say the odds are 10% that Bitcoin will have as many users after a decade as Paypal did. Pick any number that you want. I'll use 10% chance. And say that each user holds on average, a small amount of money in Bitcoin - some amount that they can conduct business, but not so much that they would have fit if they lost it. I'll say $10 worth, on average. You use whatever number you want. OK, Paypal had 150 Million users after its first decade, according to this NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/19/technology/19ecom.html (combined with the Wikipedia article that said that Paypal was founded in 1998, meaning nearly ten years old at the time of the NY Times article.) If Bitcoin has 150 million users after a decade, and each user holding (on average) $10 worth of Bitcoin, and, in January 2019 (its tenth anniversary), there will be 17 Million Bitcoins (a known value), then how much will each one be worth? That's $1.5 Billion worth, divided by 17 Million. That's $88/bit coin. Simple math. And if there's a 10% chance of that happening exactly, and a 90% chance of them being completely worthless, then today, each bitcoin is worth $8.80. Or even if the "midpoint" of the 10% probability is equal to Paypal's success, with some probability that it will do slightly better, and some equal probability that it will do slightly worse, but a 90% probability that all bitcoins will become worthless, then they are worth $8.80 today. Now, as each day goes by, and the word spreads, the probability of such success may go up. And that means that the value will go up. If more people hear about bitcoins, then the likelihood of such success may jump to 20%. And then their value should double as well, jumping to 20% of the $88/Bitcoin. The value is proportional to the perceived likelihood of widespread use of Bitcoins. And when there were just a few Bitcoin owners with little press, the likelihood of success was small, so the value was small. With the recent press, the likelihood of success goes up, so naturally the value goes up. And if there's some government crack-down or some flaw in the system, then the likelihood of success will go down and therefore the value will likely go down. Naturally, their value is what someone else will pay you for them. But as you can see in the above model, there's nothing to say that Bitcoins can't get to $88/coin by 2019. I'm calling this the "JerFelix Bitcoin Valuation Model", in case you want to refer to it later. Learn it. There will be a test! |
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On the side note, Bitcoin Signature Generator was subject to an attack a week ago. I got hundrets of new registrations with names like: 1 UNION ALL SELECT null,null,null,null,null--
999999.9 UNION ALL SELECT 0x31303235343830303536--
/\\../\\../\\../\\../\\../\\../\\../etc/passwd
${@print(md5(acunetix_wvs_security_test))}\\
sample@email.tst\' and sleep(4)=\'
etc.
124.148.255.198 UA String: "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) Havij" "Havij" is a popular vulnerability scanner. This probably means the attacker is a script kiddie who is bored. Indeed. If you have a website with a web form, you will be under attack all the time from these things. People just leave them running day and night, crawling the web, and looking for vulnerabilities. I've seen normal sites under attack daily from these. |
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When you start up Bitcoin, a window should open, and you will see the number of connections at the bottom of the window (initially 0, goes up to 8, I believe). Once you make a connection (which might take 15 minutes or more), then you'll start to see the number of blocks start at zero, and count rapidly upward. Current Block is 127691, but it increases every ten minutes or so.
When you are all caught up on the blocks (which might take an hour), you're good to go.
And yes, there is a lot of information here and at bitcoin.org that can help newbies. I am one.
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There's also a link on there that says "tell us about a lower price".
You could tell them about the $0 version, however I have no problem with some random person making 99 cents if it means more people read the paper.
Good point. There's something fundamentally wrong with a person selling someone else's work for a profit without permission. I personally wouldn't do that. But it's really up to the author to enforce this, if Satoshi wants to. On the other hand, I have no proof that this isn't Satoshi that's put the eBook out there, or that he hasn't given permission. So really I should mind my own business. |
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Probably a better option if this is a scam, is that if you have an Amazon account, sign in and review the book. Give it a 1 (or a zero?) rating, and link people to the free online paper: http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf |
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It would be signed if it was authentic. Maybe there is the signature somewhere - but I guess not and I think this should be reported to Amazon.
It's a little difficult for somebody to report it to Amazon. Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement If you believe that your work [emphasis added] has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide Amazon.com's copyright agent the written information specified below. Please note that this procedure is exclusively for notifying Amazon that your copyrighted material has been infringed. An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed upon; A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the site, including the auction ID number, if applicable; Your address, telephone number, and e-mail address; A statement by you that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf. Amazon.com's Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement on its site can be reached as follows: Copyright Agent Amazon.com Legal Department P.O. Box 81226 Seattle, WA 98108 phone: (206) 266-4064 fax: (206) 266-7010 e-mail: copyright@amazon.com Courier address: Copyright Agent Amazon.com Legal Department 410 Terry Avenue North Seattle, WA 98109-5210 USA |
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