What about putting changetip links on our own web site that are for someone else?  e.g. Suppose you wanted to ask for donations for @MakeAWish (via twitter). 

Precompose a tweet, then you can tell visitors, "Instead of buying me a present for the holidays this year, just make a donation to <whatever the charity is> by clicking on this link."  You could always offer to match some of the donations to encourage people to sign up!

That way, if you want to encourage use but don't want to ask for ask for yourself, you still can.  Something like:

Donate to Make A Wish via Twitter, ChangeTip and Bitcoin

Which is just this link:
http://twitter.com/home?status=Hey%20%40MakeAWish%2C%20here%20is%20%241%20for%20your%20good%20work%20%40ChangeTip%20Thanks

with a URL anchor attached.

I get it.  I just doubt you'll have many people take you up on it!  :-)

If you can get someone (or many people) do destroy 1 million BTC, more power to you!

lol.  

Some of the ideas that get floated that will never happen are just amazing.  "Someone else please destroy your coins so mine will be worth more."  No offense steelhouse, but if you get this to fly with anyone, I'd be amazed.  ;-)

"IS BITCOIN A FACILITY?"

I still don't know what that is supposed to mean.

I think it is supposed to be "Is Bitcoin a Fad?"  -- looking at the original link now that it is up from here it says "Fad" not "FAC".

As risky as a guaranteed loss of purchasing power every year by holding fiat?

Seems like the big brother, nanny-statist, control-freaks are trying to scare people.

Beat me to it. He'd obviously need to prove ownership, then burn them.

Probably off-topic for this section...

It is extremely difficult to do it properly.  There are numerous attacks on TOR - one study de-anonymized 81% of users (1) for example, there are many more examples such as ddos.  Some of these are not problems with TOR, just problems that TOR does not protect against (e.g. a state sponsor who controls many routers on all sides of TOR.  Then you have to worry about other security holes in the software (e.g. php, mysql, apache, your own software etc).  Then you have to worry about misconfiguration of your software.  Then you have to worry about whomever you hire to do the work for you - are they going to blackmail you later, are they working for a government etc.  Then you have to worry about the legal jurisdiction you are working from and the consequences of that.  

It is easy to give a glib answer and say you can do it easily, but that is untrue.  It is very, very, very hard to do it correctly, and even if you think you have covered everything it only takes one screw-up for as long as you run the web site and you will be done.  There have been a large number of discussions as to what SR, SR2 etc all did to get caught, some believe NSA and then they used parallel construction ("legal perjury by the government"), others just believe mistakes.  Probably some combination of all of the above for various web sites.

So, you'd want someone (a computer programmer, engineer or the like) who has done this before and is knowledgable.  Even then someone will probably make a mistake or a well-funded government will use their resources to figure out who is running the site.  Right now unless you are working for Putin in Russia (Castro in Cuba, any intelligence agency anywhere, as an example) where you have protection in your own jurisdiction it would be extremely unwise to trust the anonymity tools currently available.



1, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/17/deanonymization_techniques_for_tor_and_bitcoin/

What is a FAC?

Time will tell if he is correct, but people don't need to know how to build an automobile engine to use an auto so this person seems to have not thought out things very well.  Most people don't know how lift works on an airplane, but they still fly.

This is bad advice (except the https part).

notme has given you good advice if you want your funds to be safer. I won't repeat what he said, but his advice is sound.  (You should also be concerned about using a VPN, bitcoins have been reportedly stolen from them even with good security, by ISP employees.)

If you haven't already read it, which seems likely, you might start here:
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf


edit:

e.g.  Here are a few answers
3.f. They will spend a lot in fees if these bots try to spam the network.
4.d. See the paper - each is working simultaneously so that is not the case.
4.e. See the paper.

6. " serial number" - think about it as inputs and outputs. see https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-guide

This.  Also, in the not too distant future we'll hit the same process as CPUs, memory etc for miners.  E.g. 14 nm, 7 nm, 5nm.  Once mining rigs hit the same process that CPUs and other semiconductors are using for that generation hash rate increases will level off and growth will be due to the number of chips sold and much slower increases in hash rates due to process improvements.  E.g. the Avalon was a 110nm process for their chips, the AntMiner S3 is 28nm process and other chips are using smaller processes (all iirc although I think they are accurate or very close).  The performance increases between GPU and 110nm was huge.  The performance increases between 110n and 28nm (for example) are large too.  

However, going from 28nm to 14nm (what Intel is using in many of their chips now) is good, but not the same order of magnitude as 110nm to 28nm.  Once you see new mining rigs all running on the current process at a high clock rate, then I believe that you will end up with more opportunities for "hobby miners" since they will be able to project an ROI much easier and it will be much more likely that they will be able to have a ROI.  People will be much more inclined to purchase a miner if they know it won't be replaced by something 100 times better in 3 months.

This will be a somewhat more stable situation in terms of hash rate increases and miners coming to market.  It will be closer to how CPU mining was in 2010 and GPU mining was in, 2011-2012 (even the first third of 2013) where you could buy a few video cards and have a pretty good idea that they would return X BTC/week (decreasing slightly each week due to added GPUs on the network) for a year or two until a new video card came out and that might cause a slight increase in the difficulty increases.  And even then you might mine some fewer BTC/week but not 1/1000th of the number in that period like the difference between January 2013 and November 2014.

It is difficult to model and so it is not surprising that they may not be catching all the nuances there.  I certainly wouldn't be confident in being able to predict it all going forward.  Particularly with so many variables - regulations, halving in ~18 months, improvements (e.g. sidechains etc), new uses.

Yeah, 600 bitcoins isn't much when there were 50k+++ elsewhere.

600k, I never heard that number except as a total that flowed through SR.

Make sure it was the real 2048, not a back-doomed version

It definitely does matter what they do IF, as franky was discussing, people are relying on it for price information.

This looks like it has at least one confirmation now.

This seems like the wrong section depending on what you are asking.  I don't understand the question though.

If you are asking how you point a domain name at your server, you configure the name servers so that www.domain.com points to your IP address.

His answer to your question was correct.  The 20 zeroes does not change the difficulty at all.  Anything less than 8 zeroes is acceptable in your example, and that continues until the next difficulty adjustment.

Yeah. He left there and moved to the Caribbean, taking his jobs and money with him. He wasn't alone leaving fewer people to screw next time they need cash.

Bad advice.  Look up cold storage here, if you have any significant number of coins, storing them on your computer or on the internet (e.g. "the cloud") is a bad idea.