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They're talking about cloning BitPay. It's reasonable, and PayPal's known for some adventurism. (remember money-market accounts?)
They're in a great position to do a massive launch. Reversibility is still possible, because the BTC is converted to USD at time of transaction. (or they might make you deposit into Paypal, then have it convert once there are 6 confirmations -- so it isn't an immediate source of payment, but a way to put cash in your PayPal account, which could of course be withdrawn)
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Can't gas me through my computer screen. (yet) I'm pretty sure if we want to stop the cyber-gas, we need to start with protecting women, who are unrepresented and bashed regularly for amusement. So let's all pretend we're strong-willed women.  |
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It might be a great time for remote hosting. It's getting hot, and difficulty's continuing to increase. You could probably get away with taking 50-75% of revenues for running others' GPUs, because they'll likely be unprofitable for the owner to run much longer (if still able right now).
You'll probably want a good gauge on boss tolerance, though. A few big clients, and you'll be blowing through thousands a month in electricity bills.
Although, if it's a big office building, chances are the electricity price is going to be pretty low. Maybe, depending on the electricity provider. A lot of places, at least in the US (including my residence in MI), charge in a progressive tier system, where "buying in bulk" bumps you up into way higher price tiers. Provider for my house does ~$.075/kWh for the first 200kWh, then soars up to ~$.1125/kWh, then soars again to ~$.18/kWh after 500kWh or so. Idunno if there are laws in some places mandating it, or if it makes sense for some reason I'm missing -- maybe it's just a way to hike rates on significant consumers while claiming it's a policy for the environment. I've heard CA is particularly horrible with the price tiers. |
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It might be a great time for remote hosting. It's getting hot, and difficulty's continuing to increase. You could probably get away with taking 50-75% of revenues for running others' GPUs, because they'll likely be unprofitable for the owner to run much longer (if still able right now).
You'll probably want a good gauge on boss tolerance, though. A few big clients, and you'll be blowing through thousands a month in electricity bills.
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Hot wallet's likely empty (either due to normal or nefarious reasons) and needs to be topped off with coins from a cold wallet. Ideally, the owner is not dead and can refill the wallet sooner than later.  |
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Hot wallet probably ran out of coins and needs to be topped off.
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There've been ASICs in the wild for a while now, including some BFL SC units. Avalon and ASICMiner have also shipped (ASICMiner only just started sending a few units out to plebs -- they've had ASICs running since February).
If you ordered a BFL unit today - going by the current time-frame, you'd probably receive it early-mid next year. Unless BFL hoarded all the BTC they received, though, or got a ton of new VC funding, I don't really see how they could last much longer after such severe delays and a disastrous "launch." They managed to piss off their biggest supporters when they recently decided to push back orders of anything than the little Jalepeno units. But Bitcoin, so who knows.
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Bump for how fascinating this thread is, if only because it was almost completely overlooked.
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Yes I am aware of that, however I was directed here by Slush'es pool, since his pool website is down and therefore this, and his thread about it, is the only way the pool members can communicate with each other. I understand newbie restrictions, but I was DIRECTED here due to a pool outage, which the restrictions are now defeating the point of that direction, since I can't talk to any of the pool members unless I spam useless posts i.e. I understand restrictions when they make sense in normal situations, but not when I get told to go here to talk with affected pool members, and now I can't. .... https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=177133.0 -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=15911.0 |
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At first, I was surprised so many'd heard of Bitcoin, but most responses in the affirmative have minimal familiarity with Bitcoin.
The income filter is fascinating. Seems like the middle-class are least familiar with BTC, while the ultra-poor and rich are both relatively familiar, though there aren't enough stats, yet. Other than that, most of the other stats are stereotypical for anything "tech" -- more men than women, more younger people, more in West than South.
ETA: Is the survey finished? It'd be interesting to see a larger sample size.
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Does your motherboard have an onboard graphics chip? Are you sure triXX is reading the 7850?
Can you modify it in the AMD "Vision Engine Control Center"? (Performance->Overdrive->"tl;dr - 'I ACCEPT'"->enable "Graphics Overdrive"->"Configure Graphics Overdrive")
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I propose the following subdivisions:
Newbies
<Only announcements and FAQs>
->Technical Questions
-> Trash Can
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How could I prove myself to be a reputable source for paper wallet generation? Does anyone have any ideas? Everything in this project is open source, but I'm unaware of another way to add another extra layer of trust, I would love some feed back.
Thank you
Well, your forum handle is "Niggawatts." |
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Bitcoin value fluctuates wildly day-to-day and is not currently suitable to provide long-term financing solutions. That's not necessarily a fault of Bitcoin itself, but it's just that current market conditions don't make it practical.
With that said, there's no reason GE Capital won't one day be lending out BTC. Anyway, this might be a calculated move on GEC's part thinking gun control laws have a solid shot and not wanting to be exposed to that regulatory risk, or GEC really is being stupid and their statement is true at face-value.
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It's against the rules to post any sort of link like that mate.
SR isn't a legal site? I thought the vendors were the ones breaking the law. IIRC, theymos didn't want to be facilitating the transactions at all. This was decided back when SR allowed much more sinister stuff (cp, credit card numbers, etc) than's on there now. ETA: Google "Silk Road URL" -- March 5th link is valid. |
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Hi Kluge,
Thanks for the suggestions. It was the proxy setting. I had checked it, because I use a proxy, and that's what was blocking me. I unchecked >Connect through SOCKS proxy, and I've got my connection back! Woo-hoo!
Can you explain to me why checking the proxy box broke my connection?
Cool, glad (and surprised) to help. Were you using Tor for the proxy? If so, Tor needs to be active and connected to the same network as last time (or -qt needs to be updated to the new proxy address), IIRC. I haven't used Tor with Bitcoin in a looong time, though - pretty impossible with the bandwidth now needed. If you aren't using Tor, I have no idea what the issue could be, aside the obvious theory that the proxy was no longer valid. Maybe the VPN or whatever you were using decided you were sucking down too much bandwidth and blocked it?? |
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When you upload a wallet.dat file to a new qt install do you also keep your old wallet addresses in thenew install? Im curious as to how I protect my signing addresses when changing computers.
Thank you.
Best.
I'm not sure what your setup is from the post. You have multiple computers with -qt, and want the same wallet on both of them, but don't want to lose any addresses from either? If so, I believe you want to merge the wallets. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=134669.msg1434445#msg1434445 |
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