fwiw, I've been tracking it for the past few days in a little nook on my sheets. Frequent cancellations explain Thursday (any chance we could negotiate time/fee with lendees?). Other days might be mostly explained if on "Lending" page, the interest rate EXCLUDES (which would contradict the site saying "includes") the 10% fee... I have one individual loan which I've calculated should be bringing in $26.14/day and has been active for a few days, so that isn't really jiving with the data off BFX. That said, I can't really complain on returns for $1k.


Date___Expctd Gain__Real Gain__Difference
04/11/13   $273.97   $139.60   -$134.37
04/12/13   $28.77     $21.76   -$7.01
04/13/13   $27.13     $12.39   -$14.74
04/14/13   $26.97     $24.14   -$2.83
04/15/13   $26.49     $23.07   -$3.42

It gets a lot easier when you only have to accept vouchers. Loss of GoxUSD was a major blow to the parasitic grey market operators, and a major blow to Bitcoin-related USD usability. I'd imagine other exchanges will be following Gox's lead here with regards to FinCEN regulations. Getting fiat out of government control will always be a necessary goal, and removing the codes is a giant leap backward, even if I do suspect Gox engaged in FRB with it.

Idunno... Whatever happened to the sea platform The Pirate Bay was interested in buying....? Sealand. Surely we have plenty of multi-millionaire ultra-idealists in the community, now....

This sentence had me laughing... "Even as we speak, we are still being attacked by a yet-unknown group of people who clearly have intent to hurt MtGox and Bitcoin as a whole." [translated to English]

Here I was about to sympathize with you, but it's just some punk-ass kid.

I've been on 70kbps the last 5-6 months, so you can go fuck yourself, ingrate OP.  Kids wasting bandwidth on fucking Farmville and I can't even pay my propane bill...

*sniff, sniff*

Anyone else smell that? I'm picking up hints of LaRouche. It's just a matter of time before OP segues!

Thanks.

Name isn't Randy, doubt he'd use a hotmail account, so probably not.

Phishing attempt?

You got it. You can get as secure as you want. Security can generally be tiered as follows:

High-risk: pooled online wallets
These wallets do not let you extract a private key, so if the site goes down, you lose access to your BTC. Additionally, if the site's compromised and someone can access the admin privkey(s), they can take all your funds, so you're totally trusting in the competence of the admin.
Examples: MtGox, most mining pool wallets, MyBitcoin

Medium-high-risk: Individually-keyed online wallets which store privkeys on their server long-term (unencrypted hot wallets also belong here)
These wallets let you extract a private key in case the site goes down, but if the admin accounts are compromised, your BTC can be stolen. A crooked admin can also take your funds at will.
Examples: GLBSE v1,

Medium-risk (or medium-low risk depending on implementation): Individually-keyed online wallets (and many lightweight clients) which do not store privkeys long-term (or might use a signature system)
These wallets let you extract a private key and do not have long-term access to your accounts. In some cases they have no access. There may be some dangers of a type of MitM attack either from a third-party attacker or possibly the admin depending on implementation. These usually allow encryption of the wallets.
Examples: Strongcoin, Blockchain.info

Low-risk: Encrypted, local hot wallets ("hot" meaning the computer hosting it is connected to the Internet)
This is probably the most popular choice for those willing to host and keep up with the blockchain. You can extract and backup your keys, and if your wallet files are stolen, your funds will probably still be safe so long as your password is reasonably secure.
Examples: BitcoinQT

Ultra-low-risk: Encrypted offline wallets
Here, privkeys are kept on a computer not connected to the Internet or your local network. You have an online computer which can broadcast transactions, but these transactions need to be "authorized" by the offline computer. Generally, you use something like a thumb-drive to transfer files back and forth. This still has vulnerabilities, however.
Examples: Armory, paper/brain wallets (see Mike's post)


(apologies for any misinfo in advance. I didn't mean to write something so long, and I'm no expert.)

Yes.

Or the most dollars???

Old Bitcoin's blockchain format took up more space, I believe after skimming through my Roaming folder. blk1-4 + index in Bitcoin folder = 8.6gB. blk1-5 in "Blocks" folder shows 6.79gB. An additional 879mB is in rev.dat files, 32mB in Bitcoin->blocks->index folder, and 200mB in Bitcoin->chainstate folder. 16.6gB total, but I believe that's because I didn't do a truly clean install. Perhaps you have some of the old mixing with the new?

(sorry to thread-jack -- can I delete blk1-4 + blkindex in Bitcoin folder? I installed .8 on top of .6 without deleting that folder. SSD's down to 12.6gB free space, so removing waste would be nice.)

That's interesting. Could you direct me to one of the places you downloaded CGminer?

I have an ancient copy of CGminer (2.4.1) if you need it...

Tons of .1BTC orders executed in the past few minutes... Possibly a lag?

Probably wasn't written assuming Gox would keep cutting in and out...

"Cooldown" makes me imagine Mark hovering over a giant steam-powered computer wondering why it keeps burning up all the oil. The photo is obviously sepia.

$.35/minute for first job, $.50/minute after. Can probably caption videos if you'd like. Can't start until Monday or Tuesday, but can put in ~15h of work per week.

What is the required turnover time?

There's a pretty big and obvious benefit to include time-stamped "memos" directly with payments. Idunno exactly how fees and messages would work, but assuming it counts toward BTC/kB fee, seems like a pretty reasonable (if poorly-timed) request.

If I'm remembering right, it is not uncommon for mining software to get tagged by AV software.

Mining software uses tons of resources (whether CPU or GPU). If CGMiner were installed without consent and then used to mine for the attacker, most A/V companies would probably just slap a malware label on it. Since they're actually called "BTCMine" in the Dr. Web definitions, this seems to almost certainly be the case.

I'd still use it, but then I still use Windows, so I'm not credible.

We know Bitcoin is controlled by tens of thousands of people the same way we know God exists.

We know Bitcoin is controlled by ten people the same way we know God doesn't exist.

Yep. Gox sent out emails to people who used the system a few days before they cut service, but I don't recall any general announcement.

"You are currently making use of a system which will be deprecated on Thu 11 Apr 2013 12:00:00 AM GMT:

Generation of USD and CAD redeemable codes will not be possible due to legal issues"

Yep.

Found a page on BitMinter which might help. http://bitminter.com/shifts

Looks like you should start seeing BTC in your account after ~1h20m of mining if I'm reading that right. Doesn't really explain why you have NMC in your account, though. They might not use their "shift" system there.