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Where are your servers located and in which country do the operators of this service reside in? Because the .com domain is under the US jurisdiction...
the worst US courts can do is shut the domain down In case of a serious breach of law can't they prosecute the owners of the domain and ask to hand their clients' data if the owners of Cognitive Cryptography live in US? EDIT: OK, I see, they would have to contact the Malaysian govt. first. What data ? Usernames ? MtGox transaction ids ? We only store safe things, that would not even be a problem. - JackSparrow Paypal emails?  You have no ToS and no mention of illegal activities so I guess someone should check what's safe and what's not? Or are you a honeypot? Don't take me wrong - I'm happy to see new businesses offering bitcoins as a payment but you have no reputation here - and you remind me of our forum Pirate (probably due to your nickname). I have a few questions: 1) Is 100 GB bandwidth per month? 2) Uptime? 3) What are your policies on running Tor exit nodes and torrenting? |
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Where are your servers located and in which country do the operators of this service reside in? Because the .com domain is under the US jurisdiction...
the worst US courts can do is shut the domain down In case of a serious breach of law can't they prosecute the owners of the domain and ask to hand their clients' data if the owners of Cognitive Cryptography live in US? EDIT: OK, I see, they would have to contact the Malaysian govt. first. |
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Where are your servers located and in which country do the operators of this service reside in? Because the .com domain is under the US jurisdiction...
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Hello Jenger here!
I first came across bit coins when they were about $4/1btc. Saw them not too long ago at $8/1btc, then at $15/1btc.. now at $33/1btc.
When I first heard of this market, I thought it wasn't going to be a BIG hit. But it grew, faster than I ever expected. I knew the "black market" was a big player with bit coins and I thought that's where it would end. Now I see a potential money maker with the introduction of online gambling (poker) with infinity and I am sure others. As a poker player I know this is potentially huge if sites can generate enough traffic. This would IMO drive the market up.
I am sketched out & have read horror stories of people losing large sums of money through computer error and that has kept me from ever purchasing any btc. I have a LR account that I have made months ago but that's as far as i've gotten.
Looking forward to chatting with some of you guys here.
Hi Jenger, There were a few times when bitcoins hit $4, when was it that you learned of Bitcoin? Do you think you are involved enough in the Poker community that you could convince someone (preferably a larger site) to accept Bitcoins?  |
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I'll put it differently. Complete store was closed few days ago because one of the people checking the content uploaded was and is strongly against Bitcoin (not actualy having a clue what it really is). Once situation was cleared (luckily, there are CafePress people able to listen and reason), due to few bugs on CafePress side I lost over a day* to restore everything to current status. The last thing I need right now, after shop is announced to Bitcoin community, is store closed again because of me weaving the Bitcoin flag around CafePress staff. Few guys there seem to be properly informed about Bitcoin so I'll opt for just letting time do the neccessary work. * Shop announcement was scheduled for late friday or early saturday GMT time. I already had www.bitcoinmegastore.com domain purchased, redirect set and so on. Like 20 people I know in real life were expecting opening as scheduled, and I was expecting easy riding weekend. It turned out into personal Doomsday! This looks completely different now, thanks for the clarification and I understand your choices, hope it turns out well and you manage to offer your products for BTC, that's when I'll buy. |
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For the same Bitcoin Megastore is offering but with bitcoins as well as fiat currencies payment, I think we'll have to wait for a very long time.
I have checked not only with CafePress but Zazzle, Spreadshirt and few more Print-On-Demand services, and none of them seems interested
in allowing bitcoins as payment method.
I think it depends what was your attitude and efforts in trying to encourage to accept BTC as a payment: There is a currency menu at top right website corner, no Bitcoin on it though. CafePress seems to be not interested in accepting Bitcoin.
But, given that most people hoard bitcoins especially now when price skyrocketed, I don't see problem with not accepting them in the store. Don't forget that Bitcoin is not only a currency but (as I think it should be more promoted) a payment system and people are continuing to use it thus, regardless of the price of BTC. |
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Maybe it's just me but I doubt you'll find customers from this forum unless you start accepting bitcoins.
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Alternately, screenshots may be provided in the first place as a weaker evidence.
Maybe it might work, but not on the bitcointalk.org forum where a lot of people are aware how easy it is forge the screenshot (knowledge of HTML is all that's required). |
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then what? how can I ensure u wont just take the funds without giving btc?? all u need is the numbers and receipt information to have access to the funds correcT?
Ask someone to do escrow? That may or may not cost (1 or 2%?) though. |
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the joint, any news from your accountant? I am curious about her having talked to the IRS about Bitcoin.
Haven't heard a thing. I talked to my CPA today. He doesn't really know what to think. He is leaning towards business income/self employment income. (USA) I don't like that at all. I was hoping for either rental income (The pools pay to rent my equipment) or short term capital gains (I'd prefer long term of course but I sell way too soon for that). He said that if I could come up with a good way of describing using a pool as them renting my equipment then I could at least get away with rental equipment income and therefore not have to pay Social Security and Medicaid on top of income tax) Thought? Comments? I am not from US, but wouldn't you need some kind agreement or a contract with the pool operator? If you use a US pool and he is willing to spend some time to sign such an agreement (it would be preferable if were a big miner maybe?) then perhaps someone it should work? The pool pays you in BTC (not sure about the block transaction fees in your pool) for processing shares and securing the Bitcoin network (contributing to the security of the network?) - but retains a fee for to cover operational costs (if applicable). alternatively, you can find someone who would like to rent equipment from you for mining (remember how GPUMAX worked?) If you do manage to solve this problem let us know so others (in US) may use the info. |
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Any chance to make it work on 32-bit XP SP3?
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I'm curious about this one. It was a poorly written bet statement at best, or deceptively written to get people to bet on the losing side. Fugitive Ex-LAPD Officer Chris Dorner Will Be Apprehended by Law Enforcement by end of day 2/28 ESTAt-large fugitive Christopher Dorner will be apprehended by law enforcement by February 28, 11:59pm EST. - http://betsofbitco.in/item?id=1215The timeline shows that he was cornered in the cabin that was set fire on Feb 12th. His body was positively identified on Feb 14th. He (living Chris Dorner) was never apprehended, so I think False would be the outcome, though I'm not entirely certain. He died without being apprehended so I'm pretty sure True would be the wrong outcome. Maybe a wash (and refund of all bets?) If it is decided as False, I wonder what date was the event date. The 12th? ... thus only bets made on Feb 11th (the date the bet statement was placed) are valid, with all others getting returned? I didn't bet myself but I think False should be the outcome because he was NOT apprehended. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/apprehend |
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Out of interest anybody know how much it would cost to design say a poker or gambling site integrated with BTC?
I got a quote from one company in Eastern Europe (they are somewhat familiar with the concept of BTC) that it would cost ~$3000. Obviously the cost will largely depend on what the site and software should include and I'm sure a Western company would charge more. As for the law I presume you are in the US, as far as I know subscription-based poker site would be legal. I have a question to those acquainted with bitcoin poker sites, which one is the most reputable (= non-scammy) that offers the Texas Hold'em variation? |
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IIRC this would be the third betting site to run away with users' money.
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If I were you I would accept Bitcoins and immediately convert them into fiat - either with Bitpay (or a similar service) or by yourself. For the purposes of accounting use the fiat currency after conversion. Haven't done it myself because I don't own a business in UK but maybe this would suffice.
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The primary issue is not with IP addresses, though that's certainly one way for information to leak.
The primary issue is with insufficient obfuscation of the block chain. Consider Joe Sixpack who receives his salary in bitcoins (for now ignore that some countries have already made that illegal). He gets one gigantic output at the start of every month and then spends it. Now anyone who happens to receive money from Joe can just trace back the transactions in a block explorer until they arrive at a salary-sized output and make the very reasonable assumption that this is how much Joe earns. Probably he would feel that this is a major privacy violation.
Bitcoin is full of these sorts of things. Fixing it is going to be a lot of work. We started already - the payment protocol is laying the foundation for resolving it and improving the privacy of the system by allowing single logical payments to be created out of multiple independent Bitcoin transactions.
I think there was a patch for the Bitcoin client which made it more anynonymous? Can't find it now. We also have Bitcoin mixing services, they are an another mean of identity protection (or one can learn to mix the coins themselves with proper knowledge). |
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It just occurred to me that mining economics in China would be much more favorable
It is already happening since 2011 AFAIK. |
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It's not much less if you want middle to upper tier care though in many other places as well.
From what I looked up and heard a day in a US hospital costs somewhere in the range of $3000-5000 and that is excluding the costs of operations etc. If I am wrong about the numbers please correct me. The same costs $80-150 in Poland and $250 for upper tier care in a private hospital. |
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