Hi

i'm using your widget for a half year and so far everything was good. but lately i have added a Namecoin widget for BTC-e and its not working properly. The price it displays usually 0.5$ higher than the real one on the website.

How can I fix this?

Hm... Good question. I believe as a protection against copy-pasters who love to launch cryptoclones. Stakeholders paid real money, they wouldn't be happy if someone launched a clone.

The source code will be released on the 3rd of January (if most of stakeholders vote for that). All that we have now is SHA256 hash of the source files.

Are customer funds stored in cold storage?

My reasoning is that the problem is perception: what your platform offers is brilliant; actually it looks too easy to people. It looks so natural that traders think it just must be this way and they have a right for exploiting all those arbitrage possibilities. That's why I am proposing to let people "feel" the strain. Whenever there is excessive buying on Bitstamp, this would decrease a certain visible indicator and at the same time make buying on Bitstamp automatically more and more expensive. Selling on Bitstamp and trading on the internal exchange would not be affected. (And the other way round when the liquidity problem is somewhere else) This way, the Ask side of Bitstamp would be moved up in the combined orderbook, which creates the incentive to sell at that higher rate. Of course you make an additional gain margin this way, which needs to be spend in a way which feels justified to the users. You could e.g. pick up the other proposal and let lenders participate on that additional margin, on the condition that they agree to lock their money for at least xx days (so you can send it to Bitstamp and use it there for some time).

The basic idea is to create a continuous feedback loop. So that money on Bitstamp won't be exhausted entirely, since buying on Bitstamp becomes exessively overpriced. This way the system would regulate itself. You would just need to define that automatic, controlling factor such, that it truthfully reflects the efforts, costs and limited bandwidth of the real-world connection between Bitfinex and Bitstamp.

Was this a small or large amount? Small amounts seem to go through at the moment.

Pretty sure no USD or swift withdrawals of any kind for the past few months. Small quantities of EUR arrive in European bank accounts via SEPA with massive delay (6 weeks give or take). Those with JPY accounts in Japan have had a bit better luck. Fortunately the decentralized method of moving money seems to work just fine still.

We're still mining, but it's definitely getting close to the "not-worth-it" point. One issue is that each payment needs to be over 0.00005430 BTC for the client to send it, and with the shares spread out over so many people, the payment per account is tiny until it has been mining for months. I made a payment today almost 3 months since the last one and there will still some accounts that were under that limit. I had to manually remove those and will need to carry over the unpaid earnings for the next payment... an extra pain in the neck for me.

So, my plan at the moment is to just continue letting the FPGAs do their thing, and checking on the earnings occasionally. When it's enough for the majority of shareholders to receive a payment, I'll make one. I'll keep an eye on the difficulty/price ratio and not mine when the cost of power outweighs the earnings. At that point, we should discuss selling the boards off. Thoughts on that plan?

Today's payment txid: 986d9a5048e9b29ed4af96c3868f981955e645b9529c3ff93e511751480a91b0

There haven't been any payouts anymore for a long time.
And the official homepage does not exist anymore.

Has this contract been canceled without notice?

Some pools, noteably GHash.IO and Eligius, use their own proprietary fee settings, and normal transactions don't always make their standards.  Stay away from those pools if you mine.  Those pools delay transactions for their own profit (smaller blocks propagate faster, and are less likely to get orphaned), and stand in the way of further growth.