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1.0.1 seems to work fine so far (testing on ubuntu). I just have 2 minor complaints/requests, but they apply to all versions of you app;
first of all, "break Interval" settings arent saved. Every time you launch the app, you have to reconfigure it again.
I also think the default shouldnt anywhere near 50, it makes the pc very sluggish to the point of being unusable. Im using 10 and that is much better, with afaict, zero difference in MH/s. I would actually want to set it lower even, but it wont let me set anything lower than 10. Can you set 10 as default, and allow lower values?
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Personally I think there's already plenty of confidence - that's why the value is as high as it is now. What we need is more commerce which long-term will drive the value far more than trying to improve market sentiment. The currency has to be useful to justify what you're making through mining. Otherwise people are "investing" in a useless fiction.
+10 Even the current price is 1% commerce and 99% speculation based on hope (or confidence if you prefer) that bitcoin will become more popular. |
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A "drug currency" would be the US dollar. That stupid Gawker article did nothing but damage Bitcoin in my opinion. As far as "pyramid scam" I will just assume you have no idea what you are talking about.
I think you missed the quotation marks. But indeed the average online merchant will have no idea what you are talking about when you bring up bitcoin, and if he has, he might well associate bitcoin with drugs, scams, and malware, that is a big part of the problem. |
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I would say that bit-pay allows a merchant not to lose money by accepting Bitcoin, which is not a bad deal right now.
Its a start I guess, but at those rates, not much of an incentive for more established online merchants, particularly when you consider how small the target audience still is. For niche products like.. , say, alpaca socks, it might be good as the free publicity that they get would make it worth it, but the 0.x% lower fees (if that, Im not even convinced) isnt going to entice many to invest a lot of time and research in accepting a "drug currency" or online "pyramid scam". Then again I imagine if Amazon or newegg where to give them a call, those 2.99% would be negotiable.  |
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I'm thinking we send our Bitcoin Babes on a road trip around the country, what do you think?
ahm.. I think you should start in Europe. Particularly in Belgium. Ill be happy to drive them around to the most promising prospective customers and other bars, and give... presales support  |
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Anyone with a template to send to merchants? Not sure if this is any good as template, but this is what I sent to TRNN (I left out the first personal paragraph, as I happen to know the person): [removed intro] The idea is simple: you should start accepting bitcoins for donations. Bit-what you say? Explaining what exactly bitcoin is would make this a very long email, Ill give the very short version: its an opensource, peer 2 peer virtual cryptocurrency and an alternative internet based payment method. Should you have heard of it before, it might be because Wikileaks accepts it. Its perfect to send and receive donations. You can find a short video that explains some of the advantages for a company or organization such as yours, on the homepage of bit-pay here: https://bit-pay.com/Please note, Im not affiliated with bit-pay, who is just a service provider for bitcoin, nor do I endorse their product; frankly I dont even know it, but the video gives you a good brief introduction why bitcoin is interesting for TRNN. I hope you will give it 5 minutes. If you have any questions about bitcoin dont hesitate to ask. Feel free to adapt and use if you think its any good. Note that I mention wikileaks because TRNN has done a fair number of actually balanced stories on wikileaks. Im not sure its a good idea to mention it to, say, wallmart What about thinkgeek though? Was there some legal requirement for them to only accept dollars?
No idea. Something specific for thinkgeek then? If you glance over, for instance, Democracy now's donation page, you'll see they accept just about everything from used computers, stocks, cars, estate.. anything but bitcoins : http://www.democracynow.org/get_involved/donate |
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Yep Bit-pay's system is fantastic. They give merchant the option of taking the Bitcoin payment as Bitcoins (charging .99% fee) or as USD (charging 2.99%).
Ah, thats the first time I see their rates. They are a higher than I had thought (/hoped) and TBH, too close to credit cards I think to make many merchants jump on the opportunity. In fact, Im not sure but isnt 3% higher than you'd pay for most credit card merchant systems? I understand they have fixed costs to cover with very little business right now, but if needed, they should seek funding (AFAICT, there is no VC funding or?) so they have breathing space to aggressively price their services and get this business going. <1% should be their goal IMHO, or at least low enough so that its a real advantage for merchants. |
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Yeah, you gotta get the latest and install them by hand. I use:
Seems like I better not. Works fine with 11.3 or whatever I have. Pretty much no CPU load at all. |
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P4man, if you created your account using OpenID, you should not provide username or password at login. You should just provide the system with the OpenID URL on the login page.
I tried that, but it didnt work. Gave me some message about, not associated or something, dont remember. But it seems to work now. Perhaps I was logged in with a different gmail account. Anyway, like I said, Im now. |
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each time i hit on some shop that would work just so much better in bitcoin i tell them in lengthy emails or personally.
Dont send them lengthy emails. They wont read them. Send them short emails and focus on the advantage to them, dont bore them with the technical brilliance, or philosophy or whatever behind it. What they need to know is that its easy, cheap and safe. No charge backs and free marketing. If that is enough to make them watch the youtube clip on bit-pay.com, there is at least a chance they will look in to it. If you send them your version of Satoshi's whitepaper, there is zero chance. |
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im just kinda curious why people here think a picture proves ownership, and how ownership would even be a sign of honesty? I can google and post pictures of 5850s all day long. 10 seconds of googling:  Heck, I could even have one (or two) and still walk away with your money and keep my cards. Not saying the OP isnt to be trusted, I have no idea, just curious why pictures would make a difference? |
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Cant seem to sign up. Selected Google as openID provider. Then it asked me a username and email (which ones would that be?). It sent me an email to gmail, which gave me a link. Clicked it, I was asked again username and password. Tried the ones I used earlier and got this: Server Error in '/' Application.
Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: InString
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: InString
Source Error:
An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.
Stack Trace:
[ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: InString]
System.Convert.FromBase64String(String s) +0
CopBE.Exchange.Engine.Managers.UserManager.VerifyHash(String plain, String hash) in C:\Users\benne\Desktop\CopBE.Exchange\CopBE.Exchange.Engine\Managers\UserManager.cs:372
CopBE.Exchange.Engine.Managers.UserManager.Authenticate(String username, String password) in C:\Users\benne\Desktop\CopBE.Exchange\CopBE.Exchange.Engine\Managers\UserManager.cs:66
CopBE.Exchange.Web.Controllers.AccountController.SignIn(FormCollection formData) in C:\Users\benne\Desktop\CopBE.Exchange\CopBE.Exchange.Web\Controllers\AccountController.cs:58
lambda_method(Closure , ControllerBase , Object[] ) +127
System.Web.Mvc.ReflectedActionDescriptor.Execute(ControllerContext controllerContext, IDictionary`2 parameters) +248
System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionMethod(ControllerContext controllerContext, ActionDescriptor actionDescriptor, IDictionary`2 parameters) +39
System.Web.Mvc.<>c__DisplayClassd.<InvokeActionMethodWithFilters>b__a() +125
System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionMethodFilter(IActionFilter filter, ActionExecutingContext preContext, Func`1 continuation) +640
System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionMethodWithFilters(ControllerContext controllerContext, IList`1 filters, ActionDescriptor actionDescriptor, IDictionary`2 parameters) +312
System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeAction(ControllerContext controllerContext, String actionName) +691
System.Web.Mvc.Controller.ExecuteCore() +162
System.Web.Mvc.<>c__DisplayClass8.<BeginProcessRequest>b__4() +58
System.Web.Mvc.Async.<>c__DisplayClass1.<MakeVoidDelegate>b__0() +20
System.Web.CallHandlerExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() +453
System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +371
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A 6770 is new, but its medium/low end card. Hence the hash rate isnt great. On the bright side, it doesnt use a lot of electricity. Mining isnt going to make anyone rich anymore, or not until bitcoin prices bubble in to the stratosphere for a while. A few months ago it was lucrative, as the price was really high (5-6x higher than today) and relatively few people where mining. It actually made sense to buy hardware for this purpose; lots of people made small racks at home with dozens of GPUs. But tHe word spread, everyone started mining now, difficulty went up and price collapsed. In short, like me, you joined too late |
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Bit-pay.com doesn't instantly cash out. With fluxations like they have been in the recent months, 2hrs could cost a large company hundred of thousands of dollars. (I said large, not a multi-national corporation) They claim there is no risk for the merchant, who gets paid in dollar (or euro or whatever) so I assume they do cash out instantly, or as instantly as possible. Whatever small risk there is with a 10 minute or whatever delay, Im sure they can cover it with their fee. |
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Looks like 11.3 to me.
That could explain it. Its the one jockey-gtk ("hardware drivers" app) installs by default for ubuntu 11.04. |
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I'm hoping prices stay stable between $4.50 and $6.50, like they have been over the past couple weeks. It's kinda nice. Maybe if they keep staying like this, retailers will actually start jumping on the BTC wagon and the price of BTC will start to slowly increase.
I disagree on both items; retailers dont need stable prices to start accepting bitcoins. They can price in dollar and use a platform like bit-pay.com to take out the exchange rate risk. Secondly, if retailers would start accepting bitcoins, its value would not likely rise slowly, but Im pretty sure it would cause a new giant speculative bubble. |
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Maybe there will, maybe there wont, but one thing is for sure: if there is another rally it will be a speculative bubble that will again burst. And this cycle will continue until bitcoins are more commonly used as a way to pay for things, thereby creating real and not speculated value.
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Im not sure what version Im running.. its the one recommended, and AMD numbering doesnt make a lot of sense to me. Which version is this?  [/URL] |
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Is this a windows only problem perhaps? CPU load under ubuntu is 0.5% while producing 320MH/s (5850).  |
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