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Is it because these are out of stock that they go so much higher than market price?
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Are there any other services that will host a wallet in a secure and safe fashion for you?
Am not sure how much I would trust any online wallet but I will say that the support from WalletBit is quite good (there you go Kris - something positive from me at last). This looks better but still a little too much. The ideal situation would be a service where you would simply get json-rpc details to a hosted bitcoind instance where the third party ensures security for the hosting. Does that exist? YES. Jfreak was advertising exactly such a service earlier in the year. I thought it was neat, but didn't have any use for it. It sounded like he had it very secure (as much as a live bitcoind instance can be secured, anyway). Contact him for more details though. |
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Sorry Xenland, I just haven't had the time to devote to giving this a try yet. Will try to do so soon!
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I believe that's just showing the date of the posting in which the images were uploaded to. See my edit above. Believe me, I'm no bASIC fan, but I don't believe they just pulled photos off of a random website like this, and google's cache seems to confirm that. |
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I'll take it off your hands, I was actually saving up for a 5850, but i was looking on miner specs and you said you only get 170mhash, it states that it should be like 300+?
Model Price [25] Availability Avg. Mhash/s Mhash/J Mhash/s/$
5770 $136 Moderate 212.83 1.45 1.56
5830 $92 Moderate 302 1.68 3.28
300+ is with a decent overclock. I used to have several 5830's, and at stock speeds, they would do 220-230MH/s. My 5770 was the only one slow enough to go below the 200MH/s mark. It could have to do with what miner he is using and what pool he is connecting to though. Also, 5850's are being sold left and right for $60. $80 for a lesser card seems... overpriced. Just my opinion.  |
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Chinese New Year is not going to be a problem for a variety of reasons, so don't worry about that. Translation: Chinese New Year won't introduce any unforseen delays, because we don't intend to release anything ever. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. I will be heading east at some point to babysit the process, as soon as I have dates for that, I'll let everyone know. Translation: I'll soon be smoking cigars and drinking champagne from the navels of exotic beauties in Havana, Cuba, suckers. I'll be posting pictures of lighting my cigars with your dollars. Doubtful. If it was a scam, they would have left a long while back. They are getting more refunds than orders at this point, so if it was a scam, by continuing to sit on it, they'd be losing money. What would be the sense in that? ...umm capturing a market they couldn't have captured honsestly? By repeatedly lying about shipping dates they've increased their share of the ASIC market dramatically while locking in pre-orders to them that would otherwise have gone to competitors. They didn't lie, they had unexpected setbacks. There's a difference. But what I mean by my statement is that they aren't leaving to Cuba, or anywhere else for that matter. If they were planning to leave with customers' money, they would have done so long ago. Right now, they are issuing refunds, probably in greater quantity than any additional sales they are making at this point. Which means it wouldn't make sense to stick around, since they would be losing money. |
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Chinese New Year is not going to be a problem for a variety of reasons, so don't worry about that. Translation: Chinese New Year won't introduce any unforseen delays, because we don't intend to release anything ever. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. I will be heading east at some point to babysit the process, as soon as I have dates for that, I'll let everyone know. Translation: I'll soon be smoking cigars and drinking champagne from the navels of exotic beauties in Havana, Cuba, suckers. I'll be posting pictures of lighting my cigars with your dollars. Doubtful. If it was a scam, they would have left a long while back. They are getting more refunds than orders at this point, so if it was a scam, by continuing to sit on it, they'd be losing money. What would be the sense in that? |
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So obviously, it is possible. But deepceleron, you are saying the one sent to me wasn't a "normal" transaction, per say? |
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Thanks. Now I'm getting: An error has occurred...
Error communicating with Bitcoin, please try again later when trying to request a new vanity address. |
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I agree with evorhees, sgtspike and technomage that we should not talk about mining unless asked about it.
I'm gonna admit, I'm a little butthurt that you didn't include me in the list even though I brought it up first  We have avatars.  |
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I've been spamming replies on it all day (good legitimate replies, that is). Hopefully discarding some of the myths people have about bitcoin.
I completely agree with Erik - never talk about mining. It is pointless these days. Point out the merits of Bitcoin as a transaction system. "You can send money to anyone anywhere in the world, instantly and for free, and there is no government or bank acting as a middleman." When you make simple statements like that that people can relate to, they begin to understand why Bitcoin is such a revolutionary idea.
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So, I want to request a vanity address to be solved for me, but I don't know how to generate a private key/public key in the proper format for my side? I tried looking at the FAQ, but it only tells me to go here: https://gobittest.appspot.com/Vanity which seems completely unrelated. I did find this: https://gobittest.appspot.com/PrivateKey which seems to generate private keys, but doesn't seem to generate the public key I would also need to submit to the vanity mining site? |
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I use a single address (18tkn) for all my transactions with the public. It's easy to remember, and that way, I don't have to be at my "bitcoin computer" when I want to give someone an address that I'd like to receive Bitcoins to.
For a business, it'd be wise to give an individual address to each person, because it does indeed make order tracking, etc much easier. For personal usage without worrying about privacy, using a single address for interfacing with the public works perfectly fine.
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IMO Vladamir made poor monetary decisions. If this is eventually qualified as "stealing" I would not be surprised. The nature of the relatively large personal payments towards the end of the business relationship certainly does not look good. His statements in this thread I will qualify in my head as net negative to his case. Having said that, it also appears to me that Mihai acted quickly and possibly breaking the former bitcoin magazine corporate laws. However it is also my belief that Mihai did this for the good of the company, so Bitcoin Magazine could be in the safe hands of well-funded champions of bitcoin industry. Bit-Pay satisfies this and I personally do not think Mihai's actions were for personal gain or anything other than an altruistic love of the project and the bitcoin idea.
I completely agree with this. Vlad's actions seem focused on his own personal gain - what the magazine could do for him, rather than what he could do for the magazine. But Mihai is very much focused on the success of the magazine. To me, it seems as though he cares much less about what money he can "make" from the magazine, and much more about the success of the magazine and the well-being of the people involved in producing it. 1 gambler's thoughts only. I will continue to write for Bitcoin Magazine if would like my articles.
I very much enjoyed your article, and hope you do write more for the mag! |
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You might want to wrap the amounts in floatval(); Also you need to json_encode the array that is the issue you can't just pass the array.
floatval() wrapping is valuable advice, as I found. But the issue is that the array is organized in such a way as to use each address for the identifier of the element in the array. You cannot use the same ID in the same array twice, thus eliminating the possibility of conducting a sendmany with multiple outputs to the same address with this particular PHP code. Exactly. Is there any other way to do this? Yes after you build your array, do a search and combine the address into one. The goal is to NOT combine the outputs to a single address into one. I.e., you want to send multiple outputs to the same address at the same time. |
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You might want to wrap the amounts in floatval(); Also you need to json_encode the array that is the issue you can't just pass the array.
floatval() wrapping is valuable advice, as I found. But the issue is that the array is organized in such a way as to use each address for the identifier of the element in the array. You cannot use the same ID in the same array twice, thus eliminating the possibility of conducting a sendmany with multiple outputs to the same address with this particular PHP code. |
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@creativex seem you can't read the third post.. I've seen the BFL sockpuppet posts. They're completely meaningless when they contradict official BFL policy. You ARE aware of BFL official refund policy are you not? ...do you really believe that BFL_Jody<insert random name here>'s forum posts legally trump BFL's own policy faq? Having been reading their forums for about a month.. It seems everyone that requests a refund gets it. I have seen the refund policy posted on their main website which makes it confusing.. but if you're complaining here.. chances are you've taken a look at their forums that say you can get a refund whenever.. So if the OP bothered at all he could get his refund. Bottom line is, the official policy on refunds stands. For now, they are issuing refunds to everyone who asks. But Josh made it clear that they can choose to revert back to the official policy at any time and stop issuing refunds. Of course, whether a court of law would let them get away with that is a whole 'nother story. |
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I have found compelling evidence that oranges make a less than optimal artificial heart.
I demand proof. |
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