Just make a bash script that checks your balance and whistles if it has increased. #!/bin/bash
oldbalance=0
if ! balance=$(bitcoind getbalance)
then
echo coudn't retreive the balance 2>&1
exit 1
elif (($balance > $oldbalance))
then
mpg123 someCoolSoundFile.mp3
oldbalance=$balance
fi
And then in the bash command line (or in you .profile or whereever): $ while thenameofthescriptabove; do sleep 60; done & |
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I'm curious, why do you think this? Lots of people seem to want it. It wouldn't be a "full" client anyway, in the sense of retransmitting blocks or verifying every transaction.
I just don't trust smartphones for security. Most of them don't even ask for a password to connect. How is that even possibly secure? |
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If I make a copy of my wallet what prevents me from useing both copies? for example if I have 2bct and make a copy then load it onto another computer what happens?
You won't be able to spend the coins twice. The network will prevent it. However, Bitcoin is not meant to be run like this, and you might lose coins by accidentally making invalid transactions. Nice try, anyway. Not especially smart, but quite an amusingly naïve attempt. |
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D'accord. Moi, j'ai. C'est pour ça que je trouve cette histoire de monnaie locale bête. C'est économiquement inférieur.
Même si c'est économiquement inférieur, les gens ont le droit d'essayer. Avec ce genre d'argument on pourrait interdire les bitcoins. Le seul moyen de prouver l'inefficacité économique, c'est la mise à l'épreuve. |
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Ce texte est fabuleux. C'est le meilleur texte contre le protectionnisme que j'ai déjà lu. Voui Bastiat est une référence incontournable, surtout pour nous les francophones. A noter qu'une bonne source pour lire Bastiat est http://bastiat.org |
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I'm actually in favor of trading vote rights, which is mentionned at around 8'10'' in the movie. I'm not sure those guys would like the bitcoin idea. Just as I'm pretty sure those guys don't like gold or money in general. |
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Le protectionnisme et la culture ont ils un rapport? Pour moi le protectionnisme, c'est rendre par la force (taxation, quota d'importation,...) plus cher des biens qu'ils ne le sont. Le meilleur argument pour comprendre ce qu'est réellement le protectionnisme est la petition des fabricants de chandelles de Bastiat: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A9tition_des_fabricants_de_chandelles. Où l'on comprend que le protectionnisme ne protege ni l'emploi, ni le niveau de vie, au contraire. Bah les gens qui plaident pour les monnaies locales ne prônent pas l'usage de la force pour imposer leur monnaie. Pour moi si c'est un protectionnisme, c'est plutôt à rapprocher du protectionnisme qui consiste à dire "achetez français". C'est juste une sorte de préférence nationale individuelle. C'est comme les produits Bio: ça coute plus cher et rien ne prouve que c'est meilleur pour la santé. Mais si y'a des gens qui les préfèrent, c'est leur problème. |
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I may be wrong about where the bottleneck is, but I was referring to the initial verification of the 100,000 existing blocks when you first start using the client.
It is the downloading part which takes some time. Not the verification. It is therefore a matter of bandwith, not computing power. This becomes much less true if you use getheaders to download the blocks on a comparatively under-powered device like an Android phone. I very much doubt it is a good idea to run a full bitcoin client on a smartphone. But this is my personnal opinion. |
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Amongst the numerous questions you have, one is worth answering right now:
Yes, it is possible to backup your wallet, and you really should do it once you got a significative amount of bitcoins. Check out the FAQ and the wiki.
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Pourquoi?
Tous les fois que j'en ai entendu parler, elles étaient défendues par un discours protectionniste.
Je n'ai rien contre le protectionnisme. Tu peux regretter que des gens souhaitent se "protéger" ou affirmer leur différence culturelle, mais c'est leur droit le plus absolu. D'ailleurs, bitcoin n'est rien d'autre qu'une monnaie locale. Pas au sens géographique du terme, mais au sens communautaire. La communauté en question est simplement les utilisateurs de bitcoin. |
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Don't hesitate to give me 1, 10 or even 100 BTC.
I sent you one, because I enjoy reading your insightful posts. Don't spend it all at once on drugs and hookers! lol thanks  |
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Digital cash
Bitcoin has some attributes of cash, but it is really not that exactly. Digital cash is rather David Chaum's e-cash, which is based on blinded signatures. |
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I may be wrong about where the bottleneck is, but I was referring to the initial verification of the 100,000 existing blocks when you first start using the client.
It is the downloading part which takes some time. Not the verification. It is therefore a matter of bandwith, not computing power. |
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C'est très bien les monnaies locales. Je n'ai pas besoin de lire l'article pour m'en convaincre.
Pour moi en économie, "small is beautiful". Je n'ai personnellement absolument rien contre ce genre d'initiatives et je leur souhaite le plus de succès possible.
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Oh this reminds me of a calculation I made few months ago.
In order to back gold by bitcoins, or bitcoins by gold, we'd have to set up the price of gold to 8 BTC per kilogram.
And I think I was wrong about that, it's rather 8 kg of gold for 1 bitcoin.
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Gold will be backed by bitcoins someday. Exactly! Let's think about a golden meteorite. What will happen?  Sorry to disappoint you, but something like a meteorite which mostly consists of gold, is very very unlikely to ever happen. LLOOOOLL yeah right I want a golden meteorite falling in my garden, and also a super good looking woman knocking at my door, requesting to be my slave. Like this will ever happen lol |
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Therefore, No. There will always be some circumstances in which your right to conduct only voluntary and consensual relationships should not be respected by all. In a pride of lions, the top male decides. In our society, at present, there are laws which decide, but in a stateless society... damned if I know who decides. I have a big problem with libertarianism and conflict resolution. Help me to understand guys.
I think you're confusing libertarian with minarchist or anarcho-capitalist. Libertarians generally agree that police and a legal system to resolve disputes are a proper role for government. True. And as far as an anarcho-capitalistic society is concerned, conflicts are resolved by force. Just as it is in the current society (policemen do have guns), except that this force is not monopolised by one entity. |
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You don't think if bitcoin gets really successful and there are hundreds of millions of dollars poured into engineering efforts for it (and if it is wildly successful, big companies WILL invest huge amounts of money on it), that any scaling problems won't get solved?
Well, if you present it like this, I guess it could After all, we only have one implementation. There is a lot of room for improvement. |
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The value of BitCoins will be limited to:
1. The future infrastructure to deal with the massive number of potential transactions.
2. The security of personal computers.
If these two things can be overcome, BitCoins could theoretically replace the current currencies. If not, BitCoin will be relegated to the fringe.
I agree with 1. Indeed I'm not sure bitcoin could be used simultenaously by billions of users. However, point 2. is not limited to bitcoin. If security of personnal computers is compromised, then any electronic transaction is. Not just bitcoins. |
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