You're welcome. The translation job was relatively easy, as the text to translate is not too much. As yossarian said, it should take a little more than one hour. It probably took me a bit longer to think about how to translate certain words and phrases than the actual typing.

An important point to be careful about when translating is the encoding. I used Notepad++ on Windows, and I had to manually change the encoding option from "ANSI" to "UTF-8 without BOM" before translating. Otherwise the accented letters would end up in the wrong encoding.

I've started the Spanish translation. It should be finished tomorrow (Sunday 14 August).

Puedo hacerla yo. Intentaré tenerla lista entre hoy y mañana.

Muchas gracias a davux, majamalu y ffuentes por los comentarios positivos y por difundir el artículo.

Desde que conocí Bitcoin hace un par de meses, he estado leyendo mucho sobre el tema y hace unos días publiqué en mi blog sobre programación y tecnología un artículo en el que intento explicar las características generales de Bitcoin y mi opinión sobre el fenómeno: http://www.nubaria.com/es/blog/?p=43

Escribí primero una versión en inglés del artículo, pero después lo traduje también al español con la esperanza de poder contribuir a que haya un poco más de información sobre Bitcoin en nuestro idioma, que es aún demasiado escasa. Espero que pueda resultar de interés a quienes buscan información en español sobre Bitcoin.

Por otra parte, aprovecho para presentarme en este subforo en español (creía que aún no podía publicar nada por mi condición de "newbie", pero parece que las restricciones a los novatos no se aplican aquí). Me llamo Ángel, soy español, de Asturias, y  me dedico a la programación como freelance (bueno, lo intento más que otra cosa...) y siempre me ha interesado también mucho la economía. Tal vez por ello, ha sido inevitable que me haya fascinado un proyecto como Bitcoin, que aúna conceptos de ingeniería de software con cuestiones económicas profundas.

Yo compré hace tiempo mis bitcoins a través de Bitcoin.com.es y el servicio fue bueno. Debido a la escasa información que aparece en la web, le pedí a su responsable que me diera más detalles sobre él, a lo cual me contestó con un correo bastante extenso en el que me daba sus datos personales (que corresponden a los del registro del dominio que citó ffuentes) y me contaba un poco cómo funcionaba la cosa. Al tener un poco más de información, decidí fiarme y la compra de bitcoins fue muy rápida. Por mi experiencia personal, parece un servicio fiable y el responsable, Eduardo, contesta muy rápido a las consultas.

You can use the Bitcoin Block Explorer (blockexplorer.com) to check whether a transaction has come through. In your case, if you check http://blockexplorer.com/address/1GaPxTRqtLVsbhe6bZSDCzhyKZnfoTDQFK  you can see the details of the transaction that added BTC 0.0105 to your receiving address. This is often more reliable than using the client because: 1) the client may not have downloaded the whole block chain yet, and 2) you could have swapped different wallet.dat files (for example if you keep one for savings and another one for everyday use) and you may be online with the wrong wallet.dat file. Remember that you don't have to activate a wallet.dat file to receive payments.

I agree that it shouldn't be that difficult, but the problem is how do you convince your customers that your system is reliable? Both Mt. Gox and mybitcoin.com claimed to be using state-of-the-art security and then the Mt. Gox database got compromised, with passwords being published on the web and all, and mybitcoin.com had an unknown part of its bitcoin deposits stolen. These security breaches have made people very sceptical of online services that advertise themselves as safe. That's why I think it will take a few years before a new mybitcoin.com can become successful. It's not just a question of having the know-how, but also a question of building a reputation as a reliable service, which should take some time.

I think you mean www.mybitcoin.com, which has been attacked recently and has lost an unknown amount of bitcoins of its users. There's a lot of threads on the mybitcoin fiasco on the 'Bitcoin Discussion' subforum. The problem with bitcoin services on the cloud is that it is very difficult to trust anyone who claims that they can store your bitcoins safely, and this is even more the case now after the high-profile mybitcoin.com theft. I think we will probably have reliable online wallet services after a number of years, but right now it is better to store your bitcoins on an offline wallet.

The only way in which I think you can store your bitcoins on the cloud would consist in using software like TrueCrypt to encrypt a wallet file that you've generated while you were offline, and then storing the TrueCrypt-encrypted file on a cloud-based service like Dropbox. As long as you use a strong password with TrueCrypt and you're sure that no malicious software is tracking your file system while you're offline, this should be safe, I think.

Hi everyone. I'm a software developer based in Asturias in the North of Spain. I'm currently trying to set up my own software company, which is turning out to be hard... and I've become quite interested in Bitcoin during the last couple of months. I've written an article with an introduction to Bitcoin on the technology blog I keep: http://www.nubaria.com/en/blog/?p=428

I've been reading some of the discussions on these forums for some time, which has helped me understand Bitcoin much better, and I decided to register as a user today. I hope I can keep on posting on the forums and contribute with any ideas I may have.