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For the first-time visitor to the site, there's a usability problem.
Clicking on the Play Poker Now button only seems to refresh the page. Of course, the reason this occurs is because the site requires you to log in or to register. But there is no message indicating this. Unless you are running a full screen browser window you won't even see the username and password fields.
So the first-time user might think the button and/or site isn't working.
Thanks for pointing that out. |
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Why is there only 10k on the buy side? Where is all of the natural sell side? Someone shopped this and did it that badly?
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To varying degrees "bitcoin denominated money" is not a complete substitute for real bitcoins. The amount and quality of BDM will be determined by the market. If people somehow value BDM that will obviously never be repaid "deposit 1BTC and get 10 happy coins fully redeemable for bitcoins!" then there may well be tons of it, but that crap won't affect me much.
A major difference from what we're used to is that when people get burned by bad BDM it is on them and the whole of users don't have to pay via bailouts. This will give very strong incentive for people to hold their own real coins or thoroughly vet providers of BDM.
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How does that even happen?
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I found this humorous: If you find this useful or interesting, please consider a donation: 1NYhM2pzT6PDfZyXbyFm3dVcoob4phrGc5 Ideally, wouldn't you preferred providing a unique vanity address, one hashed by the app? ~Bruno~ Look at his username. You guys wanted so much to make fun of him that you ended up ridiculing yourselves... That still doesn't explain why he pees zebra trees. |
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There is a method to play cards on internet and be fair and secure. However, I expect a generous tip, do you agree? If you agree then read on  1. There are N players at the table. 2. Each player generates his own encryption and decryption keys for commutative chipper. Both are secret. (More about such chippers later.) 3. A salt is selected and published. 4. Player 1 creates a deck. Each card consists of plain text: card,siut,salt 5. Each player, including player 1, encrypts each card with his own encryption key, shuffle the whole deck, and then passes the deck to a next player. 6. When the deck has been encrypted and shuffled by everyone, anyone can be a dealer. It can be player N, or 1, or random one. 7. When dealer wants to give a card to player K, he first passes this card to Player K+1 for decryption. (Of course if card is for player N then start with player 1.) Each player, starting with K+1, decrypts the card and passes it to next one (player 1 is next after player N). In this way Player K gets the card last. When decrypted by player K, the card will read: card,siut,salt. If message is readable (salt does match) then no tampering has occured. Since player K is the last to decrypt the card, he can be sure no one else knows what card he was delt! You can play any kind of card game in this way. How cool is that? Now about commutative chipper as prommised in step 2. This is a chipper where E(key1, E(key2, message)) = E(key2, E(key1, message)). This means that you can decrypt in any order. You can use a variation of RSA encryption to achieve this. In this variation both encryption and decryption keys are SECRET. However, the parameters necessary to generate them are public. In particular two prime numbers are disclosed. So we publicly generate two large prime numbers p and q, then calculate n=p*q and PHI=(p-1)*(q-1). Next each player in secret picks up his own encryption key e which is relatively prime to PHI. If N is large that is trivial with ony few trials and errors. Each player, also in secret, calculates decryption key d=e^(-1) mod PHI. Encryption is calculated as c = m^e mod n (where c stands for cypertext and m for message). Decryption is calculated as m = c^d mod n. For the sake of this example m = (card-2) + 13 * siut + 52 * salt card = (m mod 13) + 2 siut = floor(m/13) mod 4 salt = floor(m/52) My tip wallet is 1FQkH63k6hkexFMTRzLtJEE6ZAaTBRhjiS Edit: typo So if one player leaves at any point the hand is stuck? Or is it less strict than that? |
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The problem of fighting spam is not an economic one, it's about segregating and classifying mail streams correctly.
I work on the Gmail abuse (outbound spam) team. Forcing people to pay with money or resources to send spam will not work. The bulk of spam leaving Gmail these days comes from compromised accounts that are being accessed from compromised computers. At no point does the spammer ever use their own resources. Your scheme would just push even more pain onto victims of poor security practices.
When attackers get a hold of a normal CPU they can use it to send email or (I guess) sell it to someone who will use it to send email. When they get a hold of Bitcoins they can use them for tons of other things, they won't squander the coins they find/steal on something worth less than the coins because they didn't pay for them. Just set the price above value and almost all spam would stop. But still 99.999% of people don't have coins so you'll have to see and whitelist all unknown address email anyway... so not workable now I think. |
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Yea I would see a boring future ahead if there was no internet. But then again people did it before, we could do it again lol
Not really. Once you grow into a place having it scorched doesn't put you back were you are, it puts you fucked. Obv some people will make it, but 'we' will be fucked. |
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I'd be down for paying for some series like:
"How does bitcoin do what it does?" mention each major dependency
"Peer to Peer Networking"
"Public Key Cryptography"
"Proof of Work"
Just watched one, he is good.
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Ben Milne is Satoshi and controls the relevant domain.
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Big game in 27 minutes. 1BTC to enter 100BTC in prizes guaranteed. Deposits are instant.
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The vast vast majority of people would rather pay 2 bitcents than figure out how to spoof a 0 conf. Your downside isn't even the 2 cents it's at most 2 cents, that assumes a 100% chance that the attacker would have bought the thing if he had to wait 1 confirm. You will absolutely lose 10% or more business for making people wait 10+ minutes.
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Thanks for that gorgo1. Wow the Times really love ripping you off for memberships that don't even last a lifetime. I have no love for the Times, but this is unfair. The downside of a lifetime subscription is that existing users can't exert any financial pressure on the provider. Normally if quality suffers some existing users will buy less, and just the threat of that keeps quality up. There is a reason we don't see many "All you can eat forever" diners. Granted content consumption is very different. Another downside is that no one knows how long 'lifetime' really is. How long do most brands last? And this is a downside for both parties. You can't charge nearly what 100 years of good content would be worth because no one believes you'll really produce good content for 100 years. But people will rightly be reluctant to pay even the value of 1 year upfront. |
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Max,
Love u Man!
However, Bitcoin is really backed by what has been invested in the Network, as in the people, USD's, electricity, time, effort, ingenuity, software, hardware, and efficiency, of which cryptography is just a part.
Some people mean 'backing' to mean a central authority promises (lies) to give you something else valuable in exchange for it. Bitcoin is not backed in that sense. But in our case Bitcoin is the valuable thing itself. I almost think some people would rather a promise to pay bitcoin instead of bitcoin itself. Afterall the promise is 'backed' by somthing. Same thing with gold. A paper dollar used to be a promise that you could get gold, gold is not a promise to get anything and that's why it's better. But somehow without central promises gold can be exchanged for stuff and so can bitcoin. |
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Seals is very newbie friendly. Freerolls (prize awarded but no charge to play) every hour on the hour and cheap tournament runs on every half hour usually with 10-20 players.
Today at 4pm ET is a 100BTC guaranteed prize pool tournament too btw.
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Bitcoin isn't really anonymous by default and I think we should stop spreading this misconception for our own good.
Otherwise I liked your article.
There is a lot of confusion around bitcoin an anonymity. I think it stems from confusion about anonymity mostly. I don't know the right word... but anonymity is the sort of thing where everything has to go right. If one step reveals your identity it is revealed the other steps don't matter (concerning anonymity anyway). So the statement to make about bitcoin is that you don't have to reveal your identity to use it. You might, probably will, but that's not about bitcoin that's the other stuff you do. |
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In the first year the inflation rate was infinity! But the price went up! Economic madddddness.
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P2SH looks very promising, but I fear I may be overestimating its potential. I can see various forms of escrow being very powerful and desirable features, especially with m-of-n transactions. Timelock (sp?) will add immeasurable flexibility as well. My mind reels with the possibilities for very complex scripts with very socially positive applications. It's not that I'm concerned about the bloating effect a transaction can have because it is very useful, but my only concern right now is simple. Can the Bitcoin network itself support complex scripts given enough fee incentives? In other words, aside from scalability, can these transactions get so big that they don't propagate?
Propagation is free now due to the tiny kindness of strangers. It is reasonable to think that it won't always be that way. But the problem is not hard. The person with the info wants to share it and the miners want to hear it. Maybe you learn about the 50 largest miners/pool and send direct to them and any small miners who want to hear pay a token fee to one of those. The fee has to be near zero because the small timer has 50 options (more really as they can buy from anyone who has a good supply). Also any public place that a bunch of users decide to send tx to will end up being monitored by miners. And you don't need all miners to hear about those complex tx, if you are willing to wait a while, 50. 10. 1% would even work. |
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