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2941  Economy / Speculation / Re: How long until Oprah discusses Bitcoin? What effect will it have on the price? on: May 01, 2013, 09:22:06 PM
Didn't Oprah leave whatever show she was on and move to a still-obscure channel she created for herself?
2942  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: hidden mining software in windows/osx? on: May 01, 2013, 08:11:50 PM
Search Carrier IQ, then. Still not exactly what you want, but closer.
2943  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Should I cancel a BFL preorder? on: May 01, 2013, 08:03:16 PM
I'd definitely advise against a refund, because you can sell your place in line to someone else. If BFL's very slow or shipping a few prototypes which'll never be remade, put that risk on someone else and collect a small sum extra over just getting a refund.

Generally, because BFL has some dislike of preorder resales, you have the units shipped to the same address (yours), then ship to the buyer once the product's in your hands. Oh, and you should use free escrow (mine, merely for example! Tongue ).
2944  Economy / Economics / Re: One day, there won't be any bitcoins anywhere on: May 01, 2013, 07:47:12 PM
One day, ECDSA and SHA-256 will be able to be broken pretty quickly, and it'll probably be way before there's less than 100b Satoshis in circulation. One day, we'll all die.

BTCs being nearly non-existent won't be a problem for many generations.
2945  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: [BETA]Bitfinex.com first Bitcoin P2P lending platform for leverage trading on: May 01, 2013, 07:36:45 PM
WOW.

Holding from a buy my position from $142 was just completely forced liquidated at $110, no notice/email/anything whatsoever and the required margin was nowhere near what I had available. I still had more than enough to cover in the account, I even still have .6 BTC after forced liquidation of entire position Then it in turn sold my BTC's @ 108. This is absolute insanity. Loans were to expire in about 1 month. I have high fortitude and would have kept holding. Just lost more than 2 Bitcoins because of this. Was so excited about Bitfinex since the error pages and other errors went away Sad

This is SERIOUSLY not cool. Can I get any type of aid please?


Username: graphicimpulse


I'm pretty sure that's intentional, to help make sure you have coins left over and that the account is not in default once you're force liquidated. A last price of $110, as is evident by your example, does not mean your position can be closed at $110. Yours was closed at $108. If BFX waited to force-liquidate until there'd truly be nothing left (going solely by Last price), the slippage would cause a default, which either BFX or the lender, or the new third-party insurance provider (unsure if implemented now or not) would have to eat, assuming the leverage trader does not pay the default balance.

I'm not completely sure, and I don't use the leveraged trade options, so have no idea if that's explained somewhere or not. Fwiw.

ETA from FAQ:
"After you've logged in, you can immediately see your real-time account Net Value (total assets) and Maintenance (minimum net value). When your Net Value falls below twice the amount of Maintenance, we will issue a margin call."
2946  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Bitfinex stopped working? on: May 01, 2013, 05:13:19 PM
Scared me just a bit -  didn't know if site was down, or related to a prior session on my android, or Huh

Could have been a problem if I had needed to exit a trade quickly, but all is good now.
I've had weird problems if I try having BFX open in multiple tabs/PCs, so I'd guess it's related to that (Cloudflare).
2947  Economy / Speculation / Re: Boooooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggg! on: April 29, 2013, 05:07:34 AM
It's funny how many of us are just waiting for a side to make a big move. I'm just sitting on my hands with a near-equal stack of cash and coins waiting in trading account for something to happen.

Oh, well. Managed to get out some 6xx% loans on BFX which are still active. Unfortunately, they'll probably continue past May 1st.
2948  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Bitcoin clients should have a MESSAGE option ! on: April 29, 2013, 03:35:37 AM
I believe that Bitcoin should follow its initial design goals, and should not try being everyone's everything (chat client, name resolver, distributed evernote, torrent seeder... )
Absolutely, but limited encrypted messaging attached to a transaction looks like a core feature of a payment system. Traditional payment systems also have this feature.
I disagree. A messaging system should not be in the core part of a decentralized currency.

We have so many ways of sending simple text messages to each other. Why on earth would we want to put this sort of trivial data in the block chain, to be stored for ever and ever?

Every single bitcoin transaction is necessary for the system to work; we need them to figure out if an output has been spent.

Messages like "A no. 5 with extra cheese and mushrooms" is the exact opposite: absolutely irrelevant to the currency itself, and utterly unimportant as soon as the good that the payment was for has been delivered and consumed. Storing this message for eternity in the block chain would be a waste of the scarcest resource in the Bitcoin system: storage space.
It helps prove intended use of the money (similar to check memo), which might be helpful in law. If the intent is disagreed with, money can be refunded with the memo stating so.
2949  Economy / Goods / Re: AR 15 Lowers on: April 26, 2013, 07:43:22 PM
Out of curiousity, how many of these letters have you seen?

Tactical Machining posted theirs.  So there's one.

Well I'll be damned. I've never encountered one before, but I've never purchased any boutique blanks.
2950  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Mining with one GPU on: April 26, 2013, 06:59:32 AM
You don't need to run your PC headless to mine.

Assuming you have a CUDA-compatible or OpenCL-compatible card (pretty much every ATI & Nvidia dedicated card on the market), you can simply head over to http://bitminter.com/ , create an account, download the miner, and click start.

Is bitminter any better than Guiminer?
It's a lot simpler to run and provides a nicer-looking GUI. There is negligible performance difference between running either, though BitMinter will cause a minor slowdown if you have all the graphics on it displaying.

I didn't like the idea of a java miner, but it was the only program which ran my FPGAs correctly back when I mined with them. I ended up liking it enough to move GPUs off cgminer and onto BitMinter's client.
2951  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Q: transaction commission on: April 26, 2013, 06:50:05 AM
Did a copy&paste of the info the bitcoin client is showing me, translated to Ensligh:

Status: 3/non confirmed, transmit through 7 nodes
Date: 26/04/2013 07:50
To: zephyr @ bitcointalk.org 162HWpt9njiDsk5nwGixw7fDPuNy55Kh9X
Debt: -0.86 BTC
Commission: -0.001 BTC
Net: -0.861 BTC
Transaction Id: d60a39fadd551b2dae9d487dbc69f30ab9ebb46b1abd62dad75f23674bafff23

So you don't see 15sJQqE2dEGi5dLQi4MyDw5ZQ4HKzT7P3d in Bitcoin's "Receive Coins" tab?
2952  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Q: transaction commission on: April 26, 2013, 06:37:46 AM
Yes, you are right, I've got the new address in my wallet, and THE OLD ONE DISAPPEARED!! :-/

But I've got an incoming transaction to my old address!!

Any way to recover it?

Thanks!
A screenshot of the Bitcoin Transaction window would help. Bitcoin doesn't delete old addresses, but might hide addresses which don't have coins in them. You shouldn't have any problem receiving coins at old addresses.
2953  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Mining with one GPU on: April 26, 2013, 06:33:21 AM
You don't need to run your PC headless to mine.

Assuming you have a CUDA-compatible or OpenCL-compatible card (pretty much every ATI & Nvidia dedicated card on the market), you can simply head over to http://bitminter.com/ , create an account, download the miner, and click start.
2954  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Q: transaction commission on: April 26, 2013, 06:26:31 AM
This isn't very intuitive, so bear with me.

When you send coins from an address, Bitcoin sends any "change" to a new address in the same wallet.

In your case, you sent .86BTC, but the address you sent from (called an "output") had .9531BTC in it.

You paid a .001BTC fee.

.9531-0.0921-.001=.0921BTC change.

The change was sent to 162HWpt9njiDsk5nwGixw7fDPuNy55Kh9X which should be an address in the same wallet you sent coins from. Thus, you should still have the .0921BTC in your wallet. Bitcoin does not record the "change" transaction in the ledger.

ETA: I'm slow. Sad
2955  Other / Off-topic / Re: You know what I find the most disturbing about the God-Grilla community? on: April 26, 2013, 04:48:19 AM
God-Grilla was created in 2009, the year where president Obama was first inaugurated. The recent increase in media attention also coincided with Obama's re-election. None of this is exactly surprising when you take a look at the demographics of the God-Grilla purchasers. The presence black president no doubt represents the deepest fears of the paranoid, fearful, and delusional libertarians/survivalists/conspiracy theorists/other assorted weirdos and kooks who make up the vast majority of the bitcoin community. Hence the creation of bitcoins and it's sudden rise in demand when Obama was elected and re-elected. 

So on top of God-Grilla BBQ units having nearly no practical uses outside of grilling live horses, people, and other highly illegal activities unsuited for proper grills, the God-Grilla userbase is also made up of bigots, racists, fearful gun nuts, paranoid survivalists, economically illiterate nitwits, delusional libertarians, and profiteering scumbags.

Not really helping to prop up God-Grilla's facade of legitimacy, is it?   Roll Eyes
2956  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Why bother to use Dwolla instead of transfering money direct to Mtgox on: April 26, 2013, 04:40:16 AM
Dwolla is cheaper, especially for smaller amounts than yours.
Cheaper, and you don't need to do a wire, which I don't trust and would require I get off my lazy ass and interact with tellers at the B&M bank/CU.
2957  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Now that bitfloor is gone, we have no more american exchanges? on: April 26, 2013, 04:18:11 AM
TradeHill came back a couple or few months ago, but is geared toward larger traders.
2958  Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: Crossfire 7770's worth it? on: April 26, 2013, 03:49:56 AM
Definitely, if you already have the parts. You should be making >$2/day after electricity costs right now. (keep in mind, advertised $/kWh rate is NOT true kWh rate after fees and taxes, which isn't a figure most electricity providers furnish. You should divide your total bill by kWh consumed for a better picture if you're just relying on the numbers in the bill)

To get a "real" idea, buy a Kill-A-Watt (or similar) if you don't already have one. Measure power consumption, plug numbers in @ http://www.bitcoinx.com/profit/ . If you keep the computer on while you're not using it, make sure you account for this by subtracting power draw while hashing from power draw while idle, since that'd measure your real cost over what you're currently doing.

You should also keep in mind that if your temps are fairly high, this will cause the GPUs to "degrade." Heat's bad whether hashing, gaming, or anything else resource-intensive. AFAIK, there are no good studies on how running a GPU 24/7 under various temperatures affects MTBF (I'd like to be proven wrong, though!).
2959  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Hack at 6:22pm EST on: April 26, 2013, 01:10:06 AM
I was out of cell range, but hooked up to a friend's satellite via wi-fi (way way out a rural area where there is just about zero chance that the wi-fi was hacked unless through the friend's hard-wired compute or ipad or router.)  I received a chat and it was in some foreign script.  I then noticed that my keyboard had changed to Arabic.

Oh -- is this that BTC-e (hope I'm remembering this right -- sorry if I didn't) chatroom javascript hack we saw a week or two ago, anyone? IIRC, it used a keylogger, too.
2960  Economy / Goods / Re: AR 15 Lowers on: April 26, 2013, 01:05:02 AM
I sincerely doubt selling them in pieces as a kit gives you any more of a legitimate defense than a "build-a-bomb" kit, or selling government secrets but with two documents available with each containing half the letters of words to make up the "whole" document. "Well, there are no secrets -- it just says 'Rnl Raa kld hmef n 18 bt ws rpae wt a coe md ot o crbad' on one, and 'oad egn ile isl 92 u a elcd ih ln ae u f ador" on the other,' so there's obviously no state secrets there."

For the sake of minimal obfuscation, I'd want at least two separate LLCs owned by unique people. LLC A makes one half. LLC B makes the other half. You can only own one of those. Don't reference each other anywhere on the sites.

IANAL... but you should really try reaching out to lawyers to double-check if you haven't already, because this could easily be hard time.

ETA: They see me derpin'.
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