You guys should certainly stop doing that. Harceling people about bitcoin
gives the worst possible image of the community.
Bitcoin doesn't need such methods to succeed.
yeah but some small pushes can do any wrong. A small chick does the same when trying to hatch from it's egg  |
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Something is wrong with the site right now ... recent blocks aren't showing up.
Blocks seem to be stalling occasionally, not sure why. I'm on holiday until the 3rd so can not take a look until then. what version are you on ? i have the same issue with 0.5.1 (client and daemon - linux), it stalls block receiving for hours with over 40 active connections. Never had this happen on 0.4 though |
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i think i lack the experience atm to convince a gold buying office about bitcoin  The office doesn't need to have a long or short position, or assume any risk. Think of them as just a retail outlet for bitcoin exchange. They trade wholesale on the exchange for 0.5% and charge the customer 6-10x that much. got it, would be great if all those gold offices had bitcoin exchange on their menu |
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awesome post NASDAQEnema +1
@Goats Cheese For Your Information
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The cost savings for a business on a per-transaction basis will not be a huge selling point. Plus they may have up-front costs associated with integrating and debugging a new payment system, whether they use a package like ours, hire someone to do it for them, or futz around with it themselves. It will take time and money to get it working. So saving money is probably the weaker argument for a typical business.
The bigger benefits are
- no hidden fees
- no chargeback risk
Now if your selling point is "lower fees" then a better market to go after is Remittance. This is where people pay outrageous fees.
Try sending $200 by Western Union from the US to someone in Mexico. The fees can be as much as 20%. Bitcoin can be one tenth the fees. if one guy in the Mexican village will act as a local bitcoin dealer, then we can put Western Union out of business pretty quickly.
What we need are more individuals (like us) stepping up to be local bitcoin-for-cash dealers in each community. Or getting all these "cash for gold' places that are popping up on every corner to add "cash for bitcoins" to their menu. that would be better, as they already have an established retail location with staff. just give them another product to sell.
+1 i was thinking about this few days ago but i think i lack the experience atm to convince a gold buying office about bitcoin |
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Good paper. I will print and hand this paper to my friend who want to learn more about bitcoin.
+1 nice read |
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marcus, "Stratum" sounds cool and I especially like the meaning of the word. It's my favourite choice so far...
Sound good, yeah "Stratum Protocol" could be included in the standard client one day so that all ppl can be servers for the thin clients based on the protocol  edit: there is a small chance that gateways to bitcoin network collecting some fees for their services ? would be a real incentive to run a full node that supports thin clients based on the proposed overlay protocol |
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lol, we should put it on craigslist
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Oooh, sweet bananas! Edit: I like how we're above paypal  yep indeed they deserve more than the btc cent i sent but a i have them bookmarked in my wallet edit: they misspelled "through" - "If you wish to donate to us though Bitcoin..." |
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I'd like to mention in this thread that Wikimedia NYC has started to accept bitcoin. At the time of writing they have 68 BTC, maybe a few of us can donate directly and prop it up to 100 BTC? There's probably no need to turn this into a full Bitcoin100 thing, unless we feel otherwise. https://nyc.wikimedia.org/wiki/Donatethey posted the bitcoin address on NYC chapter homepage too https://nyc.wikimedia.org/wiki/Home |
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Hello, I am Peter C and I am an intern at Wikimedia NYC. I like pie, cake, and long walks on the beach!  Welcome Peter hope you enjoy your stay on these forums and fyi some bitcoins managed to find Wikimedia NYC bitcoin address already  |
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Thanks, i will happily read some advertising too if i get paid
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Merry Christmas ppl |
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I could do data entry for your reciepts and stuff
+1 count me in casascius |
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yay, i just realized we have lots of methods that we could combine and help detect or mitigate any 51% attack.
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I was working on user-defined checkpoints today-- command-line/bitcoin.conf (and maybe a RPC call) that just says "Add this block hash at this height as a checkpoint."
You and your 10 trusted friends could then run a little program that coordinated automatic lock-ins whenever you like...
cool man, then we could take our measures in case anything nasty happens |
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more pr0n pls LOL. check the FAQ page link I posted a few posts back in this thread. They have a lot of Raspberry porn in there... lol thanks, missed it somehow |
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more pr0n pls |
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Full block chain mobile clients won't become popular, because downloading the block chain is pain in the ass. Just my two bitcents.
I agree if you only have an iphone around and you have been waiting a long time for a native wallet then it's easy for me to note that you don't really know how a thin client works. I actually have both, iphone and android, around so i've been using the bitcoin app with android for quite some time, few months. I can say it's awesome fast downloading blocks, a month for example downloads in 5-10 seconds, easy to work with and doesn't depend on any central server either. I only hope iphone will get equal or better user experience with this app or future ones because we need to get bitcoin mobile with any means. But it's so much wasted disk space. I have my phone full of music and movies and am not interested in an app that will constantly grow. tell me if you really note 10-15Mb a year in a 8Gb storage space of a cheap iphone. Can't really speculate what the storage space will be in 100 years but i know for sure bitcoin blockchain Merkle-tree compressed will be 100-150Mb  Satoshi did think about storage space requirements and had a few words on it in the original paper. Btw we got a nice Christmas gift for our phones, hope they keep up the good work |
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