Yes, I was thinking if Amazon allowed payments, then flux; but I expect that would happen parralleled by easy options to everyone to buy coin.

The promise of ZipZap CashCoin in the UK looks even simpler than ATMs.

Obviously, people need to be able to both buy AND spend bitcoin easily, for this to go mainstream. Also, perhaps worth noting the price of BTC won't be unaffected by merchants initially opting for immediate exchanging BTC to fiat; only later when merchants hold some coin and if investors look to BTC for longer term return, will we see a true stable value found.

It's possible for them to frustrate it though. If they see and understand the opportunity, then that is substaintially different to them seeing some random risk from something new they don't understand.

Key to wider adoption, will be that it's simple access. If you can walk to your local corner store and give money in exchange for the confirmation that transfers BTC to you, then that's a big difference from what we have now with exchanges that are rather a gamble to use.

If regulation is simply a requirement for KYC as people move in and out of fiat, then that's as expected. If regulation is instead made in error to pander to the concerns of ye olde banks losing market share, then that could be a real problem relative to what Bitcoin can offer the wider economy. The NY Hearings panel seem to have made key points and the questions asked were sensible, so I hope other regulators worldwide are becoming wise to what Bitcoin is beyond just currency|commodity.

Does that scan as barcode?.. Tempted to ask "Will it blend?"

Might have a lot of frustrated viewers unable to get anything from that, if it's not really a QR code.

Well it's unlikely it would be an issue for long as one of them would move the coins, if they weren't acting as one.

If such a trivial likelihood worries you, then do something that is dated and provable in a court - like copyright, post proof of it to yourself recorded delivery. Hold the earliest instance of a wallet, though perhaps equally remote that could be forged.

Better just not to share private keys. In the future shared accounts will likely be able to engage arbitrage that required both parties sign payments or random other scenarios.

It seems there is some way to go making install instructions for Namecoin on Linux, fullproof.


If namecoin is going to be used widely, it needs to be simple for everyone, not just devs.

I've had namecoind running previously and yet I struggled with this upgrade. Instructions are confused even on the main sites; it's unclear and off-putting why there are three repositories and how there are now so many warnings - someone here's suggested you can suppress those, so why not do that..


http://dot-bit.org/BuildNamecoinQTFromSource
Worked on a Mint13 for the qt but not for the daemon. That Mint13 install had clutter of software available, so must have had something to support it.
On Mint 14 those instructions failed with error - in '/src/qt/bitcoin/qtc': Cannot find file 'local/bitcoin_bg.qm'


Fortunately I've complied alsorts of random coins a while back and using qtcreator on the namecoin-qt.pro does work. I'm still without a daemon though and I'd have preferred having that, expecting it can do everything and the GUI perhaps is limited.


Given that the upgrade relative to Dec15th is apparently important, it is odd that there seems to be a requirement that user be committed enough to battle through poor instructions; even the main namecoin sites have old links and instructions for previous installations. If people are to invest and then use Namecoin, it has to be foolproof and fullproof.

Perhaps, I'm missing something here and I haven't spent enough time catching up enough detail.. but then why should that be necessary?..

Would be interesting to see the date of last transaction alongside those.

Surely this isn't necessary as the basis of the public-key is loss of information?

I hold one grain of sand and you can see all the sand in all the world. Have a competition to guess which grain of sand I hold..

Better article here.. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet-encryption.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

and then the Guardian.. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security

meh.. Snowden himself suggested encryption used properly does work. That article is alluding to obvious hacking and the illusion of security.. https and pwning of Skype; M$; VPNs and third parties etc - requiring providers to allow a backdoor to information they hold.

I wonder, given the time to move money between them, that there's a slow interaction too.

A few months back, I had it installed but it hit some bug. Tried reinstalling recently to find that although suggested as for Android 2.2 it seems only available now for 2.3. Obviously, it really needs to be made available as widely as possible, not just to the bleeding edge devices; so, I hope they do fix this.

Great abc - thanks.

I'm surprised that two versions - one on computer offline html and one on phone, are providing different keys and yet they both work.

It's possible but you're more likely to win the lottery multiple times. I don't know, if the chain could help enforce the first used instance as perhaps it doesn't see enough of the private key to be sure but then the extra effort is probably not worthwhile.

It would be helpful to have an answer to the original question - whether having a node running and whether then also having port-forwarding for more connections does anything useful for the network.

Do we know whether having a node running and not mining is substantially helpful to the network or just usefully locally for communicating the chain?
Do non-mining nodes even send any data or are they only receiving it??

 

I was just going to suggest that there is more interest than those willing to attend meetings - me being one.. but The Penbury Tavern is tempting! Not sure if I'll be around 23rd but if so, might drop by.

^ which is interesting but then you stopped short of suggesting what comes next regards mining. How long before ASIC are outside their comfort zone?

None of the above.

In future a pizza will cost BTC 0.00001  

Also.. why does that nice symbol above not appear when I copy it?

Perhaps we should just get Thailand to use Bitcoins.

Yes, it is the Unicode for the Baht, I'd forgotten that.

There is the ℬ = Bernoulli function.. and it's one of the limited ones that is visible without having special fonts installed.