I just wanted to say that mccorvic sent me the finished video, and I am very impressed.  It was exactly what I wanted and more.  It was finished within a reasonable time, and it was well worth the relatively small price he quoted me.  I highly recommend this guy.

Luceo did a great job with the task I paid him to do.

Mccorvic delivered an amazing video in a decent amount of time for a reasonable price.

J.P. Larocque also did a great job and was a pleasure to work with.

How do I know if I have these things?


To all:  What kind of hourly rates are you expecting?  What kind of experience do you have?

"If I teach you you won't learn as well, so I'll just do it for you instead."? 

Unfortunately, as I state in the first post, I'm looking for instruction, not service. 

Nothing personal, but I'd like to suggest you work on your sales pitch as well.  The attitude you display in this post is not the attitude I'd want a person I hire to have.

Civilization as we know it is depends on the control of land.  If a farmer wants to grow crops on a certain piece of land, he has to make sure the cowman won't graze his cattle there, that the undertaker won't build a tomb there, and that the chemist won't dump toxic waste there.

This is why we have private property in the systems we call capitalist.  Private property does not exist in nature.  What owning property means is that the government recognizes you as the sole proprietor of that land.  If someone trespasses, you can call the police and have them thrown out.  You own that land only because the government says so.

How would this work in an anarchic system?  Who would determine who has the right to use which land?  How can I buy a house from someone if it's not clear that it's theirs to sell?

I haven't obtained the VPS yet, but when I do it will probably be some version of ubuntu.

I'm very glad to see your interest.  What shall we use for real time chat?  Either XMPP or skype will work best for me.

I see.  Guess I was misinformed.  So it was just normally market activity that brought the price down to where it is this year?

Hm, good point.  Wasn't it the case last year that a major heist sent the value of bitcoin plummeting?  I guess the market has grown since then.

I like to think my panic at losing hundreds of bitcoins was justified, especially since I had no idea where the breach was and whether or not my remaining balance was safe.  My only consolation was that if it was blockchain.info that was hacked, the price of BTC would plummet and I could buy back the ones I lost.

Hm, ok.  I can see the merit of that, although it seems like something that should be optional.  I'd rather keep my bitcoins in a limited number of addresses, so I can easily import them into other wallets.

Thanks everyone.  I guess I've made enough of a fool out of myself for a good while.

Why not just send it back to the address that the transaction previously occupied?

Ok, everything's fine, but can someone please explain to me the necessity of "change", and the merit of storing it in hidden addresses?

Forgive my ignorance, but why did a transaction of less than 2 BTC need "change" of 107 BTC, and why did that change have to be sent to an address that's not shown in the client?

I was just about to post that I see it with "balance" but no "addresses -b".

So if it's mine, how do I find the primary key?

I think someone managed to leech a good chunk of my bitcoin.  I sent a transaction of less than two bitcoin, but it somehow got coupled with a transaction of 107 bitcoin to an unknown address.  In panic, I tried to move all my bitcoin to a new address.  That transaction went through, but then another transaction was sent to the same address and an unknown address.

I used to use the blockchain e-wallet, but that seemed to be having trouble today, so I made an electrum wallet.  I know that wasn't a good idea, since my system isn't secure, but any idea what could have happened?

Thanks, finally got it to work.

Is there a program that converts between different formats?  Or at least a set of algorithms?

What key format does electrum use?  I just tried to import my wallet from blockchain.info using every format they provided, and none of them worked.  I keep getting an "unsupported key format message".  Furthermore, why do I have to provide both the address and private key?  Shouldn't the client be able to compute the address from the private key?

I'm currently experiencing a weird bug.  Whenever I try to send money, whether within the wallet or not, I get an error that says "Unknown Error Pushing Transaction".

In addition, whenever I try to do a "custom" transaction, the confirm screen shows an amount much higher than I specified on the form.  For example, if I try to send 20 BTC it will say "Please confirm you would like to move 109.00 BTC between your own bitcoin addresses".

If you have experience with just one of these programs that's fine too.

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