I don't like to ruin it for you guys but what's going to prevent me from shopping a message & timestamp onto some random picture floating around the web?
Presumably only idiots will send money to a shooped address. That's why it should be written on the body or in her own handwriting. Shopping is getting pretty good, also for shortened addresses just one letter change makes a world of difference. It is a valid concern. I expect the future will be unbranded content delivered via a site that has profiles etc. Even I'll fall out of love with cardboard rectangles with firstbits on them eventually. Writing on skin might help somewhat. |
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Bounty Tournament Thursday 10pm ET. 1000 chips (1BTC) to enter. 750 goes to the prize pool, 250 goes to your bounty, no rake.
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And also Bryan Micon who's been promoting Seals for some time now on donkdown.com, playing as donkdown.
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want me to help program stripcoin.com to be a place for girls to make a profile, upload photos/videos, and have live streaming shows?
While this gets built girls will be doing their own bitcoin thing on existing sites. But this could become Bitcoin Porn Mecca (no offense Muhammad). In addition to the obvious girls profiles it can have guys (or viewers I suppose) profiles that show (optionally?) who they pay, what they want, when they want to watch live shows, etc. You could easily (for a lot of coin obv) get tons of girls exactly your type asking when they could preform for you. |
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Scott Fischman, two time WSOP bracelet winner has joined Seals. He plays as emptyseat88.
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20% seems totally fine for a site that has -tons- of content. It's really nice to be able to think of something and go get it for coin or to browse through a bunch of neat stuff you haven't seen.
But right now you aren't really able to make that kind of offering and you need people to help you. That makes me think free or cheap to start is the way to go. Maybe leave the fee, but give rewards to the providers of the most downloaded material?
But otoh, there isn't really any competition to speak of so you can price pretty... aggressively.
But on the third hand, you invite competition pretty quickly if you charge too much.
What do you think about using your software under different branding to sell porn? it seems to be a growing thing the last week or so. reddit.com/r/girlsgonebitcoin if you didn't know.
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If you divided by the 4th root of 2 every 52500 wouldn't you be producing at the same rate as the old way for one block every 210,000 and producing fewer all other times leading to way fewer blocks? What is the right number?
To restate everyone, this isn't happening. Fantasy is fine.
I wonder how much thought Satoshi gave this and what his main reason was. I think it was kind of a fairness thing. Whatever it was I think this decision more than most involved his guessing about how (time line etc) Bitcoin would be adopted.
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I'm wondering why someone doesn't start a service where they offer a download service with two rules:
- the site wont check what the file is
- the site doesn't allow file names, every file gets an unique ID and that's it
Then you'd need to have another site owned by someone else, maybe hidden via TOR with a forum where each ID is matched with a description.
I wonder if such a site could keep plausible deniability of knowing what is hosted on their servers to allow anything to be sold without being attacked by the government?
Maybe all files are encrypted and someone else sells the keys? Like you (person who has some reputation) says "file 00456 on bitcoindownloads.com" is the next comic in this series. Send X to address Y for the key". The site with the file has no way to check without buying all the keys which seems too much to ask and the seller is not selling any content. Seems too easy. Sorry for the slight diversion OP. Good luck with the site. |
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Are you joking? There is completely the possibility for the owner to cheat.
The owner can always submit the last bid, keeping the prize for themselves and taking everyone else's bids.
At first, all bids are public. Also I have no motivation to send fake bids. I have other legit methods to prevent loss: a reserve price and first bid limit. They only benefit the auction site owner, and everyone else loses.
Tell me please at least one casino in the world where players have positive expected value! House profit is included in the game rules (e.g. "zero" sector on roulette) and it is not a cheating. My game is not an exception, just another form of gambling, but more skill based and interesting. You can read rules here. His objection (I think) is not that you have an edge, it is that it is unknown. Making bids yourself (which no one could detect) would be easy and pure profit for you. I don't think it's 'wrong' to run a game like this, but no one ought play it, there are better gambles for sure. |
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Here's a thought. In addition to a warning about typos losing money. You could choose whatever length is 'near impossible' to generate to be the 'secure' firstbits. Probably 11 chars would do, now if there is a typo the space is so large it probably won't map to another address in the chain. Granted 11 is a bit rough to remember, but maybe not if there is a word to start it out it is easier than a phone number. Display like this maybe:
1jamie54jr3hpP5mWdrkQ4BzruSa3wVRT
Or, maybe just note that more chars can be used for more security against typos.
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When a new node starts up, it initializes its block database with the genesis block, and then start synchronizing. However, it does not add the coinbase transaction from the genesis block to the transaction database. Hence, no client has that transaction in its database, and no node will consider spending it valid.
This may have been intentional by Satoshi, or a bug, but we certainly can't change it now.
Wow, learn something every day. So is this a client implementation quirk or a protocol quirk? Seems like you are saying it is protocol level since you say we can't change it, but it seems to me like "initializing it's block database" is a client specific thing. Obviously you need 50%+ mining power to have made that change and it seems like, uh, not a priority at all. |
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It may have huge historical value, but note that the coinbase from the genesis block can actually not be spent.
Ehh, why? |
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Well.. I dunno about setting up the camera part, but if someone pleasing to look at can get a live cam set up and is willing to play with the (mostly) guys I will gladly gladly hook them up with chips.
I'm imagining "I'll fold if you touch your left nipple". This could be good.
Also if there ends up being an active live cam site I envision an invitational strip poker tournament.
Oh, it could be so good. I'm thinking I put up big prizes, free to enter, 'rebuy' tourney where girls pay to get back in by removing more.
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I have to chime in as someone who has been naked on the internet for almost a friggin decade now. I may purchase some "sexy" things with bitcoins, however I make a living on the internets and it would be hard to keep me from "cashing out" when I need to pay bills. No matter how much I would just like to spend in the bitcoin community to support businesses who accept them, I gotta eat and have electricity. I will say this, I do plan on investing in silver when I am ahead on my expenses and have the funds. Anyone have a bacon store that accepts bitcoin? I also invest in my bacon habit!! Not all girls are going to be spending what they earn on panties and sex toys  Cashing out is totally fine. The onus is on bitcoin merchants to give you what you want for your coins, like that property company in Vegas. More will come I'm sure. But right now MtGox usually has what people want. |
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Firstbits is essentially a scheme for registering a short name for a static bitcoin address. So far so good, but it uses the blockchain to store the registrations. This encourages spamming the blockchain to be the first to use a particular prefix, and is not compatible with pruning (consuming the outputs of the first transaction that used a particular address, may change the firstbits mapping). This problem can be avoided by keeping a separate database of each prefix along forever, but at that point it has no advantages over a third party registration system for address aliases anymore.
Furthermore, it enforces the notion that a single static address should be tied to an identity, instead of using a new address for each transaction. Almost by definition, since a firstbits mapping is intended to last forever.
For these reasons, I would not accept such a patch for the reference client.
You need a full chain for firstbits lookups, you can use a pruned chain if you are just mining. This is another good reason not to include it in the main client. |
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If other people can print money it saves me misery? I guess because I could borrow it if I wanted to buy all the normal overpriced things gov and bank will lend for?
If we're going to use an easy money lets at least be fair about it and each print the same amount, eh?
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I dont think its really necessary. It was mentioned in the r/gonewild thread but its easy enough to use coinad or a similar service to get the address into the chain. Maybe if you can give a good example of why someone would need to use a firstbit IMMEDIATELY! how much would you charge for premium bits?
Girl is naked and has a marker in her hand? edit for elaboration: compare: 1. go to instantfirstbits.com 2. write your firstbits wherever appropriate to 1. go to instawallet.org 2. go to coinad.com 3. copy address from instawallet to coinad 4. wait an hour (maybe more, just keep checking) 5. go to firstbits.com copy and paste address again 6. write your firstbits It isn't even close. The difference for me and probably you is remembering to do whatever we needed it for an hour later. For most people it's the difference between doing it and not. |
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Do people really have mining gear and reliable electricity in places that this would help? And won't a phone call when they need to check on or make a payment be all they need if not mining?
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Damn that's good, I put it up on Seals.
You are more than welcome to make something for Seals.
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I don't think it should be in the mainline client. Mainly because a typo causes lost coins and 'bitcoin' shouldn't take risk of blame for that. People should at least realize they are doing something more on the edge.
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