If bitcoin was invented in Japan, maybe it should be popular in Japan?
Why does everyone assume this? His name is Japanese, his race likely, but there is no reason to assume that his nationality is still Japanese even if it ever was. He is a very private person, with a much higher than average proficiency at English. Maybe Bitcoin isn't big in Japan because Satoshi doesn't care about Japan? Still, it would be nice if the bitcoin website had a japanese translation. |
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IF there are price deflation, the value of bounties rise. This increase incentive for people to complete them.
However, new bounties will offer less money.
WTF is a bounty ?? |
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BTC 150.00
mikegogulski leads at 150 |
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Running bitcoin feels like its indexing my harddisk. I will probably stop running the client, because of that. I don't mind the CPU usuage, but its seek behaviour is ridiculous. Isn't there some way to keep more in memory data structures and only write them to disk when the program is stopped or when there is a lot of date to write?
What are the harddisk requirements anyway?
I'm not sure I understand your pb correctly but... I guess you could make a symlink from a virtual fs to $HOME/.bitcoin, and crontab a backup of your wallet. |
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I'll go for 90. I'm able to pick it up in Paris, so less postal fees = even better bid  davout leads at 90 Nb. well a subway ticket is actually more expensive than a postal stamp. And I don't like walking that much  |
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Formatting a drive does **not** remove any data.
The data is still there, but in an unorganized fashion.
Any undelete software (example: GetDataBack NTFS) can recover the files. It also works perfectly well on encrypted Truecrypt volumes (checked myself).
Also, one need to be careful when selling a hard drive, because any data, that hasn't been securely erased or filled with zeros, can be easily resurrected.
I red somewhere that the only 100% sure way to erase data on a disk is to expose it to a 1,200°C temperature. |
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Sorry for your loss Always backup your wallet. One on a distant server, and one on a portable storage device. Encrypt both. Doesn't really matter for the bitcoin system. It's just as if you did throw an once of gold in the ocean. BTW, maybe your wallet is not lost. Search for data recovery tools. |
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It doesn't matter if the 20 are brothers, as soon as they collude prices will invite new players. And you don't need their permission, gov permits, licences, etc. You just do it.
Very true. The point is indeed that such a monopoly would not be enforced in any way. Nothing prevents you from competing for hash generation. Basically all you need is a powerful machine, an internet connection, and a little motivation. |
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J'ai compté toi + moi comme parigots
En tout cas j'annonce que si des parisiens génèrent des bitcoins et souhaitent les vendre, je peux les leur acheter cash, pour des transactions de quelques dizaines d'euros (pas plus sinon c'est risqué amha). |
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50
brocktice leads at BTC50 Anyone at 60 ? Edit. Please notice I won't always be able to aknowledge bids as quickly as I've been doing it so far. I'm a human being and sometimes I have to sleep, work, eat, and so on... |
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That would also mean that 20 people own 95% of all bitcoins ... I do not think that would be so fine ... and what's worse it may be actually happening - the deciding factor then is, what are those 20 people going to do with their bitcoins.
There would be no point for them in generating bitcoins if they don't sell them at some point. And if they don't, that gives even more value to the remaining, circulating bitcoins. I really don't care if bitcoins are generated by a few people. As long as this generation has a quantitative limit, it doesn't really matter. At some point they will have to abandon their bitcoins if they want to benefit from it. That's the good thing with fixed aggregate money. |
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Now this is interesting. BTC V Au. Clearly the seller wishes to exit gold and invest in bitcoin, whereas most people would want to exit [everything else] and invest in gold.
It somehow looks like real gold - I presume it comes with a certificate stating it's origin and quality? Will the posting be insured, even to foreign destinations [where are you based?]?
Current market value would put 1g gold at about US$45, maybe BTC190. However, just to get the ball rolling and see where this goes, I'll base my (first?) bid on some arbitrary future expected value of bitcoins. I bid BTC25.
I think it is the fourth time I sell gold on this forum. Each transaction occured with no problem. Ask around. I bought these mini bars with some certificates, but I dumped them. I'm not interested in owning paper. I think 1g is enough a small amount so that it doesn't require any insurance. I'll hide the bar carfully inside the enveloppe, and I'll send it as a normal letter. It should be fine. I aknowledge your bid of 25 BTC. So, fergalish leads the auction with 25 BTC. |
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i bid 10 btc
nanotube initiates the auction and leads with 10 BTC. |
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** Edit. THIS AUCTION IS CLOSED NOW. See end of thread. **
Here is an other auction for a 1g mini gold bar (see attached photo).
Price will include postal fees to wherever in the world. No starting price.
DO NOT BID IF YOU DON'T REALLY INTEND TO BUY THE BAR. Payment will be required before the bar is sent anyway, so there is no point making a fake bid.
The auction will end at block number 95,000. At this time, I will lock this thread and thus end the auction.
I may lock it a bit earlier and continue the auction on IRC if I see several people interested.
Do not PM to post your bid. Just put it in this thread, so that others can see what's happening.
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highly unlikely for 1 generator, but i could imagine a scenario where only 20 people are responsible for 95% of the difficulty. that seems like a shaky foundation.
Well, I wouldn't mind. Those people would just have a fair reward for their contribution to bitcoin security. It would be fine with me. |
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Is it an excellent thing? What if the CPU power responsible for raising the difficulty came from 1 miner? Wouldn't that person have by definition succeeded in taking over the network?
It seems higly unlikely. |
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I mean : the higher the difficulty gets, the more people are using bitcoins, right ?
I know that it may also be seen as a result of the increase of computing power of commercial machines, but I doubt it is that significant.
So : can I consider the difficulty as a good indicator of bitcoin's popularity ?
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Un site web.
Pourquoi pas un RDV hebdo dans un bar parisien en complément, mais l'idée principale c'est bien un site web.
Pour les rencontres physiques pourquoi pas, mais a ma connaissance on est que deux parisiens sur le forum.
Je sais pas si tu m'as inclu, mais moi aussi je suis à Paris. Ce serait bien d'avoir un lieu physique pour les échanges, en effet. L'idéal serait quelqu'un qui possède un bureau de change. Amha ça viendra tôt ou tard. L'ennui c'est qu'à mon avis pour l'instant il n'y a que des acheteurs. A moins qu'il y ait ici quelques hasheurs qui souhateraient écouler leur production. |
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