Does the bitcoin client support dns lookups instead of having to enter a complete address?
If yes, how does it deal with upper/lowercase? Do A-records support that?
DNS lookups... for what? You could store a bitcoin address in a TXT record, I suppose. |
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I think the claim of legal protection goes a bit too far.
It certainly gave me a false impression, upon reading the headline.
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* The halfing of bitcoins reward every 210,000 blocks
* An always increasing difficulty
* use of SHA-256 for hash
* a target of 6 generated blocks per hour
Bitcoin is not built to continually increase the difficulty. Bitcoin is built to continually adjust the difficulty, to attempt to reach the target of 6 blocks per hour. If the number of miners decreases, then the difficulty will decrease. |
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Patch updated to latest SVN. See top of thread for URL.
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Patch updated to latest SVN + theymos's fix. See top of thread for URL.
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I'm thinking about billing where every user has a wallet address to send money on it. It will be permanent for user convinience. But how can I list latest transactions from some period of time to take them into account and list transactions on concrete address to make report showing that our calculations is clear and fair?
You need the 'listtransactions' source code patch. bitcoin cannot do this by default. |
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Any idea for a change in the protocol should not be applied to bitcoin, but to a bitcoin fork. I can't talk for Satoshi, but I guess he would accept new ideas only if they allow a better implementation of the protocol, but not a modification of it.
satoshi seems to fall on both sides of protocol compatibility ;-) He makes a very strong effort to support ancient clients (and their ancient implementations of the bitcoin network protocol). But he also suggests future incompatible changes may be integrated via patterns such as if (block > 200000)
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This is a generally awesome tool. In addition to it's other uses, it will allow us to keep Mybitcoin.com and it's (presumedly less honest) future competitors from the temptation of fractional reserve nonsense. Just the threat that any Joe can run his addresses past block explorer and tell if his funds have been mixed with other accounts not his own, or otherwise borrowed without consent, should be enough to keep most on the up-and-up. Not that I don't have a fair trust of Mybitcoin.com, I do have an account that has been climbing in value as of late, but I also feel better knowing that I can check on my balances without having to trust the websites' honesty itself.
hmmm, has this ever been possible? It seems like mybitcoin, bitcoinmarket, mtgox etc. all use a shared wallet to store deposits, and make withdrawals. Accounts are kept straight through a separate accounting system. Thus you cannot be guaranteed that your BTC deposit isn't immediately -- and legitimately -- withdrawn by someone else. |
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They also don't like you giving out a monetary type exchange because that is what they consider a cash advance and they charge steep fees for it. You do that without going through their cash advance and they can shut you down quickly as well.
Someone needs to figure out how to hook into the cash advance system. In theory, if one can withdraw cash or gold from an ATM, using credit card, one should be able to withdraw bitcoins. |
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Why the heck would you use Facebook's currency that they tax at 30% when you could use Bitcoin??
Doesn't FB force its new app developers to use FB points (their microcurrency)? |
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All bitcoin transactions are public, and therefore, not anonymous.
All bitcoin addresses are 100% anonymous... but evildoers may be able to deduce information by observing transaction patterns or amounts.
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Am I correct in my assumption that: The real stumbling block is usually getting money INTO bitcoin. Getting money back out of bitcoin is not as difficult.
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As I understand it, the current "best practice" is to: Use either MoneyBookers or PayPal (and wait 7 days extra), or a Bank Wire Transfer --> ExchangeZone --> LiberyReserve --> MtGox USD --> Bitcoin
Correct. Most mass-consumer payment methods support chargebacks. But chargeback-able payment methods make it trivial to obtain "hard cash" (bitcoins), and then chargeback the transaction. Thus, the difficulty arises from the vast majority having payment methods that are vulnerable to an obvious method of fraud, when purchasing bitcoins. Some bitcoin'ers are attempting to solve this using a web-of-trust, where trusted individuals may transact with others using chargeback-able methods. |
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Now the problem is to find merchants with QR code readers (or webcam able to focus on close objects + appropriate QR-decoding soft) ready to sell stuff for bitcoins
The merchants will be the ones with QR-codes listed on products; customers snap a picture with their mobile to add to a shopping cart, or initiate payment. |
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This has been mentioned in past forum threads, and I think there is general agreement that bitcoin payments via mobile phone should be possible.
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ok, well I have no moral problem taxing the rich to provide free healthcare and pay for science. Fine by me.
Yes, it is easy to come up with ways to spend money earned by others, then taken from them by force. |
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The problem is not the lack of food, but the lack of cheap, healthy food in our society.
The market is providing what choices people want; apparently, large volumes of people want cheap packaged junk food or drive-thru junk food. Even with "free" food vouchers, via food stamps, the nutritional choices made by the purchaser trend towards unhealthy junk. |
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