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Upon request, I added Vircurex.
Stats will be skewed, as Vircurex was added very late in the poll and missed (possible) votes early. I would welcome reviews of Vircurex, please.
As always, this is not a scientific poll and has been updated twice to add participants. Use common sense in reading the results, pay more attention to the personal review expriences
Thanks
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Checkout OpenPaperWallet, a community project where we're building a kit for making beautiful, secure paper wallets. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155847.0;allThe designs are coming out great, the project has been moving at a nice speed and we should be doing the first production run in a couple of weeks... |
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btcprice.info is entirely free, no charge for alerts. No charge for anything.
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aantonop : I think you mean your github link in OP to go here https://github.com/openbitcoinstore/openbitcoinstore no? [/quote] Thank you. I had since moved the code to its own organization, since this got a lot more "real" after I posted that message! I'll correct it immediately |
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Ahh, I see... I thought you were making a separate platform to interface with Wordpress. My bad...
No, I'm not that ambitious ;-) I'm only streamlining the minimal viable setup for a bitcoin store. By the way, I think your CoinGig initiative is great. I don't think I'm "competing" with you because once a store becomes even slightly successful, it will probably migrate to a platform with tech support and professional backing, such as yours. I'm trying to fill a different niche, really, which is for the open-source barebones equivalent. Just lowering the barrier to bitcoin retail commerce. We're working to the same goal, and I hope you are very successful! |
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Wow. Great initiative! I'll be sure to set up a store for a test drive when it's available.
The beta test is available now. Do you have time and interest to test a store? If yes, I will have one up for you ASAP. |
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Why would you even want to suggest this?
Why regulate miners?
What problem are you solving?
Leave bitcoin mining alone. There's no need to regulate or license anything and plenty of reasons why it is a very bad idea. Ultimately such a scheme directly undermines the security of bitcoin. Restricting the supply of miners allows anyone to artificially takeover the network.
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What youre looking for is
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More than a dozen very skilled coders, engineers, designers and architects have been working around the clock for the last 5 days on exactly that https://github.com/buttercoin/buttercoinOpen source, high-speed trading engine, build by bitcoiners for bitcoin. The project is moving at an incredible speed - one you rarely see in software projects. As people go to sleep in one timezone, they hand of tasks and the work continues The passion and intelligence floating around the buttercoin project is incredible... |
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Some FAQ clarification
All the stores also support credit card payments through merchant accounts, paypal or Google wallet.
They also support bitcoin transactions via Bitpay.
You can price your products in fiat (USD, EUR), or in bitcoin
You can sell the products in fiat (USD, EUR), or in bitcoin
You can also accept credit cards...
Other questions that come up often:
Q: Does OpenBitcoinStore support PayPal
A: Yes
Q: Does OpenBitcoinStore support credit cards through a merchant account
A: Yes
Q: Does OpenBitcoinStore support multiple currencies
A: Yes, hundreds
Q: Does it handle intangible products
A: Yes, both downloadable and intangible
Q: Does OpenBitcoinStore support shipping charges
A: Yes, the stores have shipping modules, up to complex multi-shipper, global shipping with weight and fixed rates
Q: Does OpenBitcoinStore support sales tax
A: Yes, origin, destination or both.
Q: How is OpenBitcoinStore free?
A: The code is open source, the hosting can be free for small sites via Heroku or AWS t1.micro
Q: Is there a transaction fee?
A: No, you run and manage the store. If Bitpay charges you a fee, that's between you and them. If you host it somewhere you have to pay, that's you. But OpenBitcoinStore is just code, no hosting, no fees. It really is free
Q: How much will it cost to try out and find out if anyone is interested in buying my products
A: That's the point: NOTHING. Try it for no risk or cost.
Q: Why are you doing this?
A: Because I want to see bitcoin succeed for broad commerce, not just drugs and illicit products
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MtGox needs to be acquired by some big boys...yesterday.
Mike, why would anyone buy them? They have nothing to offer an investor: No technical skills, no management skills, no operational excellence. . They are worth a lot. Name recognition. Banking relationships. Real-world security experience. Infrastructure that, although is broken, can probably be fixed. Y'all just said "domain name and brand" a few different ways, as I said in my original message. As for the "infrastructure", no it cannot be fixed it is much less than worthless. Their code is shit. No, a smart investor would build on a completely new platform (a real trading engine, EMS/OMS) and just slap on the acquired brand. |
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MtGox needs to be acquired by some big boys...yesterday.
Mike, why would anyone buy them? They have nothing to offer an investor: No technical skills, no management skills, no operational excellence. Just a brand and domain. If that's what you meant, well yes. Just redirect the domain to a real exchange built by pros, not amateurs |
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I really don't understand how MtGox is still the default exchange. What with all you highly skilled technical enthusiasts devoting so much time an energy to the bitcoin experiment. Oh, wait, that would be actual work and not just a circlejerk. My bad.
The actual work is happening in a number of projects, including "buttercoin" that is a project that launched four days ago and has already built a working trading engine that is ridiculously fast (millions of transactions per second). https://github.com/buttercoin/buttercoinIt's a fair question to ask: What have you done for bitcoin lately. It is not fair however to assume that people haven't done anything, or that only those who have have a right to complain or an opinion. |
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MtGox needs to franchise out and let others open smaller local MtGOX exchanges. People might pay a bit extra to support a local exchange and support decentralizing bitcoin exchanges.
MtGox has nothing of value to franchise. What would they share? The platform that is 100x slower than any in the industry? Their operational skills? Their management skills? Their PR skills? The only thing they have is money, which is not that useful if you have no clue. Let's direct *our* money to other exchanges instead. |
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Had the great good fortune and pleasure to listen to all 5 episodes today.
Simply awesome in production and content, informative, entertaining and right on point, particularly enjoyed the "Andreas M. Antonopoulos" segment and hope he continues to contribute his very incisive comments.
All in all, a great effort and a great show, props to the three of you, loved the intros, not sure if I'm a Geek or a Freak, but it seems the only option is to get in, sit down, shut up and hang on, this going to be wild.
Andreas here, Thank you for the support! Our producer, host and leader Adam B Levine has done an incredible job with this show and with his entrepreneurial skills secured funding to make it last for at least a year. Having a high-quality and professionally produced show is critical for the success of bitcoin. I will continue to support the effort wholeheartedly. Andreas |
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For clarification:
Yubikey has TWO built in keys, the "short press" and the "long press" key.
So by pressing and holding for more than 2-3s it actually sends a different key
The MT.Gox security app has set one key (short) to login, and the other (long) for withdrawal.
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If you "believe" in behavioral evolutionary psychology, then racism can be explained quite simply:
Humans are a social animal, with evolved group behaviors. Part of that group behavior is inclusion/exclusion based on shared characteristics. The easiest way for humans to do that is to evolve instinctive distrust to those whose phenotype and genetic makeup is most dissimilar to their "in group", and to evolve instinctive trust to those who match us in appearance (language, culture, etc).
It's an evolutionary "shortcut", a pattern matching heuristic that served well in times when a tribe removed enough to look different was probably very dangerous. As any heuristic it had very rough applicability in a man-eat-man world.
Today, it is a mental handicap. As a heuristic it is wrong most of the time. As a cultural practice it is abhorrent. Yet, as an instinctive reaction has been scientifically shown to exist in almost all people in some measure, through minute timing differences in association tests. We all do it, only some of us try to be aware of it in order to rationally dismiss and remove the bias from our actions. Others are either oblivious, or thrive in the feeling of "common purpose" that group inclusion/exclusion dynamics offer.
The same dynamic applies to race, religion, gender, disability, sexual orientation, accent, economic class (visible), health, age and many other recognizable characteristics. Basically, anything you can identify in a person to separate into "us" and "other", at a glance, will be a focus of such biased thinking.
tl;dr: we are not that much more enlightened than monkeys.
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You can't run an exchange as a single-stack application. No way it will scale.
The fact that they are still trying to throw hardware at this means they simply do not understand scaling.
They will not solve these problems because they don't have a clue how to solve them
RUN AWAY, don't just walk away.
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Of course, multiple exchanges are the best option (I'm registered at ALL of those).
KRAKEN is currently only available to selected beta testers. That is the only reason they're not in the poll. Should I add them anyway?
EDIT: I added Kraken.com with the qualifier (beta) next to it, which I believe is the fair solution.
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Please suggest others I have missed. Please post reviews with your vote, explaining why you prefer a certain exchange.
This is not a thread for ranting about bad experiences, if you don't like an exchange, pick the one you *do* like and tell us why.
Thank you!
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