the volatility is something drummed into you by media.. if you have not learned yet, coinbase, circle, bitpay don't care about volatility and neither do their merchants.

i do not see it as something that NEEDS to be released today, but to be thought about and to grow in the minds of outerwall inc, so that its ready for when bitcoin moves out of innovation phase and into mass adoption phase.

well i just sent them a message


ill update if I get a reply.

(message was sent to Outerwall Inc, their main company)

and before rebuttals start about that i did not explain bitcoin in all of its great ways.. the reality is that techno waffle doesnt work at first contact, especialy if its seems too sales-pitch 'pushy'. (subtlety works best)

NOTHING?

https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.9.3/bitcoin-0.9.3-win64-setup.exe

hmmmmm..........
i guess you can get the official bitcoin-core exe FROM THE SITE

also note that bitcoin.org is NOT the bitcoin foundation. bitcoin.org existed far before the bitcoin foundation, it is managed by gavin andressen and the community of developers. and yes gavin and a few others are are paid by the bitcoin foundation but also remember that gavin and the developers are smart enough to have his own mind and care more about bitcoin, than the bad acts of those fiat loving, tax dodgers of the foundation.

so dont confuse bitcoin.org with the foundation

tor is only good for onion websites that use https....

normal dot coms and http sites are not protected via tor.

it is presumed that the first couple hundred blocks from genesis were done with throw away wallets, they kept changing addresses and playing around with the code and thus the amounts satoshi has physical access to is far far far less than people expect.

while its hard to calculate how many addresses he discarded as part of his testing, it also becomes hard to get a definite amount of lost bitcoins as many would not want to admit their stupidity of bad back up processes or ignorance that bitcoin would ever kick off from the early days.

so whole alot of people are shouting out small numbers.. the reality could be much larger

well just to burst the balloon.......... its already been done


no media was interested, no users seen an uplift in users...

anonymity is only as anonymous as YOU decide to make it,

EG. things we can find out about Awesome31312 in 2 minutes

went to chicago bitcoin meetup
doesnt wear glasses
bitcoin clients: armory(back in the day) now bitcoin-core
likes runescape, dislikes world or warcraft
main bitcoin address: 12vARzQRPwUf19sCGUNUYasBK1kYu3F3xw
torchat id: ykdqiugengjud62z

and thats just 2 minutes of searching.....

i think the point is that anything uploaded to bitcoin.org has atleast been tried and tested to not be scamware.

EG id only trust to get bitcoin-core.exe updates from there, and not dodgycopywebsites.com/fulloftrojans

cant people be happy that anyone can buy a ticket onboard virgin galactic for bitcoin??

why are all of these "sponsor me" publicity stunts, things that dont really help the community or have any long term impact.

we really need people to stretch their braincells and think more long term rather than the 'get me rich quick scheme' that most idea's end up as

i gave up donating to the corporate and government level "charities" years ago.

if you people want only 10% or less funds ending up doing anything practical. then throw your funds at the burning fire of the corporate charities.

otherwise think smarter, think about actual frontline services that do not have head offices, that do not have offices hundreds/thousands of miles away from where they are presumed to help. that do not have "employee's" who sit in offices.

im all for animal/human welfare where paying a doctor/vet to care for the ill.. but not national charities where 90% goes to some office, and only 10% goes towards the promoted theme.

if we are trying to do something different with bitcoin compared to fiat, then lets not just throw funds at these rich corporate charities. instead lets find the true front line services such as the charities that mimic seans outpost. where the guy receiving the funds is the actual charity worker feeding the poor, no middlemen.

getting corporate charities onboard should be less priority than getting proper frontline services onboard, getting local media to cover the story of how a local neighbourhood homeless or animal care charity gives more of a 'feel good factor' than simply having some middleman donating dollars to corporations in response to receiving bitcoins. or simply having a 'we accept bitcoin' bitpay button on their page. thats not really news worthy, afterall.

when people stop thinking about the 2 minutes of fame of having bitcoin exposure, and think about bitcoins true usefulness for people to actually help those in need via bitcoin, then that will last longer than 2 minutes of fame

if ebola does expand beyond US hospitals. then no one will want to touch other peoples bank notes, nor would people want to touch the buttons of keypads at cashier desks/ATM's

so bitcoin does have an advantage because you can scan QR codes at a distance without touching another person or item that 200 people a day may touch

would be nice to know what area atleast. or even country

theymos done a fundraiser in 2012 to be used to update the forum with promises of major updates......................... still waiting

kinda funny that theymos hasnt attempted any bitcoin adoption with SMF

seems more people mis-understanding bitcoin and the future of bitcoin.

the altcoins and other tech which have (purely for advertising hype purposes) adopted the term bitcoin 2.0 have nothing at all to do with bitcoin. some of them are not even bitcoin technologies but purely SQL databases stored on a single web server. Some are as mentioned, altcoins with a totally different blockchain that has no transaction linkage or history of the true bitcoin.

as for a web app, requiring trust of the owner of the server to continue running the service for 130 years...... ummmm i dont think that too has anything to do with bitcoin technology

bitcoin is suppose to be............. wait for it............ BITCOIN, meaning decentralised and peer to peer. so unless your peer-to-peer without a single sql database used, where by all transactions are viewable on the true bitcoin blockchain... then the idea has nothing to do with bitcoin

afterall you dont call visa or mastercard:
doller 2.0
fiat 2.0

its simply a service on the side of fiat that HELPS at most, but is not itself fiat

if someone could hack coinbase and had peoples login details.. they would not need to ask for bounties

also its usually the OP posting a link to a scam that is usually the culprit that will financially gain from it

SSH secure?


lol learn BASH / SHELLSHOCK vulnerability (hint: google is a free resource to teach you)

havnt you read that accessing the internet via someones personal connection is risky. why are you continually trying to defend that your personal connection is secure enough for financial use..

i would far trust random proxies far more then a server owned by the person posting it on this forum..

no one should ever be connecting to someone's personal connection especially if they know about bitcoin..

ok lets word it differently
 will the OP reveal his real life information and home address so that if any funds go missing due to looping through the OP's server, anyone can pay him a visit and slap him with a wet fish or court order.

OP get the hint, no on will trust your connection.. its better to use other means of getting around the firewall

its YOUR server dumbass... i didnt want to just shout out to everyone that your grabbing their data, as i wanted to be subtle..

but to hell with it..

Server: ssh.eldin.co << this server belongs to the OP. its not some random connection he found. its his own computer so guys your data is looping through him if you use it,

which is far far far far more riskier than using tor or other proxies/vpns

i would not risk using this kind of stuff for bitcoin based connections as all data routes through someone elses server.

much like how those using blockchain.info got hacked because they looped through tor and proxies.

instead use a tool that someone that is not part of the anonymous/bitcoin community uses.
EG ask a trusted friend/relative to set up a raspberry pi and then those stuck behind the great firewall can then teamview in or use other methods to control the remote raspberry pi to ensure better security.

using proxies for facebook posts is acceptable,
using tor to access secure onion sites is acceptable

 but when funds are involved, especially on normal domains. be extra careful

under 4200 transactions per block

under 52gb a year

currently the blockchain is filling up at well under 10gb a year