The client tells you that the sender is unknown because it is not safe to refund bitcoins to the "sender address". The sender may not actually receive your refund.

You can't send data with normal transactions. Labels and comments are on your end only.

I like the idea of having units for 1 BTC, 0.0001 BTC and 1 satoshi rather than using SI units, but "bit" seems too ambiguous. Too much like bitcoin. People will say stuff like, "Send me 1 bit coin," which is confusing.

Some more Bitcoin-related avatars would be nice.

SMF default.

Yeah, the main problem I see with Ripple is that it's probably a lot more centralized than it appears, even ignoring the issues with XRP distribution and source availability.

AFAICT, Ripple requires that your UNL:
- Contain entities that won't cooperate to defraud you.
- Contain entities that themselves have good UNLs, and the entities in their UNLs must have good UNLs, etc.
- Form a "good network". A UNL containing just your friends wouldn't form a good network because you wouldn't be linked well-enough to the rest of Ripple. Your section of the network might get into a situation where its idea of history will never converge with the rest of the network's idea of history.

As a result, I believe that Ripple can really only be used reliably and securely if everyone has pretty much the same UNL. It's probably OK to remove or add a handful of nodes to your UNL, but at least a big portion of it probably needs to remain the same between users. So this ends up being a distributed system, but not a decentralized one. Whoever decides who's on the canonical UNL has a lot of power over the network. Also, people generally can't be "full nodes" in Ripple and participate in the consensus process because full nodes need to be online all the time and in someone's UNL.

Despite this, I wouldn't be surprised to see Ripple grow over the next few years. A lot of people think that it's decentralized and safe, and if they use the default centralized Ripple configuration it probably will be safe and stable in the short-term, and it'll be a lot cheaper to transact using Ripple than with Bitcoin. But it won't actually be as decentralized or as robust as Bitcoin, and legal issues may bring the whole thing down eventually.

Who should be the Greek moderator? He must be able to speak decent English so I can communicate with him.

Unfortunately, a lot of people are retarded.

So people in that community know who to contact if they need help.

I'm going to add a Greek section soon, so we'll see how that affects the number of posts. Thanks for the stats.

John K speaks Chinese and does some moderation there.

supersatoshi?

Your browser is caching the old image.

Did your account get compromised due to that recent phishing?

If the topic isn't about altcoins but on-topic replies are about altcoins, that's OK.

In what cases? It should be identical other than /q/checkaddress's additional info about why the address failed.

Fancy authentication options should be provided via OpenID support. It doesn't seem easy to add OpenID support to SMF, though.

/q/checkaddress uses this plus some extra checking. Note that the checkAddress function assumes that the input is valid base58. Do something like:

That's fine.

http://blockchained.com/ ?

Thanks. Everything looks good, then. I don't know why some Gmail users still have forum mail marked as spam.

There are other threads about this. It's a very low priority.


The SMF karma mod is garbage.