I've offered "man in the middle" service on a few occasions for people doing high-value transactions. Nobody's taken me up on it due to the extra shipping expenses and probably trust issues involved.

Buyers and sellers are both encouraged to film boxing and unboxing if worried. Package weight by shipping company can help in some cases, but not for light items, or in cases where it's claimed a certain metal was purchased, but the buyer received a similarly-dense metal. (tungsten instead of gold, for example)

tl;dr. Post your address so we can contact the police before you kill someone.

Texted Brendio.

Looks like progress? Hit "refresh" ~10m ago and it loaded the page I was looking for, though it appeared the db was rolled back a bit.

Dammit. How much did myself sell his account for? I want in on that. 

Business as usual. Got some morbid laughter from me, but that was a very powerful article... If community leaders took his tone, there could be riots. Very possibly, they could be race riots. Minorities rioting against a Black president who recently made the shocking Defense nomination of Chuck Hagel, an outspoken opponent of the USG supporting Israeli aggressiveness toward neighbors. I really have no idea what to make of the political landscape right now. Having trouble imagining Obama having support from anyone but his spin doctors, corporate execs, and those who don't follow news.

Bitcoin is p2p, so you're connecting to various international nodes. Your anti-virus doesn't like one of the peers you connected to, for whatever reason. I'm assuming something similar would eventually happen if you used something like a torrent program.

Probably shouldn't worry about individual IP bans, since there are plenty of peers to choose from. If the AV program blocks Bitcoin from using those ports on an application level, though, you'll want to modify your AV settings to allow Bitcoin. If you're really concerned, though, you could use something like PeerBlock in conjunction with AV software, which can pull lists to block whatever types of entities you'd like per IP instead of per application.

Wasn't anything too bad. Tosaki made a recent post @ https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=41592.msg1440279#msg1440279

Forum software generally has easy-censorship settings, probably usually intended to filter out curse words. "Fuck" could turn into "Love," "****," or " "

I'd like to post a quasi-listing (no contract -- they'll need to see a forum post for updates on value of "hard debt" because payments will be irregular) for BDK.BND to allow users to trade the debt if they so choose.

BDK.BND represents a total of ~1.7kBTC worth of debt, with 61 unique holders. I will not be moving BDK since that'll be settled privately on January 28th. The list Nefario sent to me is 100% complete, and all but a couple people have given me a BTC address for where there wasn't one on Nef's list.

Small-amount unit-holders will be paid off prior to listing on BitFunder (January 28th), if accepted, and will bring the number of unique users down to something like 35. If it wouldn't be a giant pain in the ass, it'd be nice if users who don't want to register on BitFunder for whatever reason to still have a kind of "quasi-account," where their "dividends" are just automatically forwarded to their address.

I do require the 10BTC to move forward with this, though, since I'm quietly desperate to collect any possible funds ASAP for repayment.

The listing on BitFunder would technically be perpetual, with a regular payment schedule occurring after "hard debt" is paid off. These "bonus" payments will be a gratuity for unit-holders letting me get off without even a slap on the wrists. I don't think any unit-holders ever really complained at all between the time I initially announced default and now.... not sure if I'm supposed to feel humbled, ignored, or just glad. Nobody even leveled a charge of gross incompetency when I had an account compromised on GLBSE, much less a scam accusation.

Web dev/design always needed by pretty much everyone looking to start a BTC business.

Trouble is, startups by unknowns (which's who you'll likely end up working for without a decent portfolio) often will want to pay you in equity because they need a proof-of-concept before they can bring in funds to actually pay people. Hard to have a proof-of-concept when the site is practically a necessity. This generally means those interested in starting a business need to code and skin services themselves, have friends who do that, or somehow be able to obtain enough money to have it done professionally.

Lots of good ideas, not a lot of money being thrown at unprovens. By taking equity for work, you're basically making an investment, so your work ends up being pretty similar to that of a VC, which's no good if you need to eat now instead of possibly eating later with whatever you might be paid out.

Otherwise, Bitcoin businesses seem pretty desperately in need of cheap security audits, professionally-done insurance on funds held, financial audits & accountants, and lawyers. Web/VPS hosting options are currently pretty limited, though. The BTC community could probably use a good many PIs and bounty hunters... Most of us could use a humbling kick in the ass, too.

Distributed blockchain, distributed losses. Normally, you'd only lose to the casino. With Bitcoin, you lose to SDice, piuk, AND miners. 

If you're not talking about Bitcoin businesses, most states have very broad categories published online (and I've never heard of a search by category feature), but there is no federal registry AFAIK.

Hover over the green checkmark (ETA: Oops - or the orange-yellow circle with "update" arrows) in furthest lower-right of the qt window. Should say "downloaded xxxxxxx blocks"

Probably nothing, assuming nothing was compromised. Assuming it'll just poof back up within a couple days as quickly as it poofed away. If someone shipped an item out, or is waiting for escrow to be released, the transaction will just take a bit longer since they can't update status on Bitmit.

I think Tosaki said he was waiting on datacenter to respond and it should be within 12 hours. I think he may've said that ~6-12 hours ago, though.

The paranoid may want to start making sure they didn't use BitMit password anywhere sensitive. I'm not exactly sure how BitMit handles wallet funds, but probably safe. Not like anyone could withdraw... so just a waiting game for users to see if it'll just be a short outage or something worse.

GPUs are not only $/MH cheap, but will be easy to pawn off on someone else once ASICs hit, whereas selling FPGA chips will be a bit more of a hassle (cablepair's buying Spartan chips off 'em, though, IIRC). Running a GPU probably isn't profitable in most situations, though.

If you're looking for an FPGA which does more than Bitcoin, ngzhang sells dev kits with his no-longer-produced Icarus units (and proposed Lancelot units, but I think he's focusing on Avalon, so possibly no Lancelot), which could give it longer-term uses. I asked for vanitygen compatibility... no dice, yet.

If you're looking to mine for profit, best advice would probably be just to stay away at this point, I think.

Incidentally, that's proven true with most BTC businesses, too. On average, companies or individuals looking for startup capital will likely fail within a few years.

On the same page, though. Nobody in the community has a long-enough reputation to risk sending money to for a % of interest, except those established outside of Bitcoin. It's spurred a ton of people with passing interests to suddenly start various businesses, whether finance or productive, and without a track record, you'd probably be better off just investing in upfront ponzis (bitcoinduit.com as an example) or using SDice.

Okay.

You're an idiot. Go away.

It's been down for nearly two days, now. Tosaki's obviously aware of it, and says he's fixing it (waiting for datacenter to respond). I'm guessing there's a sustained DDoS attack. For some reason, he said the site was slow and might need a hardware upgrade (maybe I misinterpreted and he's talking about DDoS-prevention hardware)... vast majority being unable to reach the site vs. the site loading slowly are two different things. If he hadn't have said the site's just slow, I would've assumed maybe a hard drive crashed. Dunno, though.

Probably nowhere, but you might be able to search the forum for some of the news (BitInstant/Coinlab/ASICMiner). Charlie keeps hinting at the debit card publicly (including BTC Magazine ads), but I'm not exactly sure of the route he's going. Speculation and second-hand info, mostly...

I guess there's a niche to be filled on BTC business rumors and news dissemination.