What kind of shop is that? I’ve never heard of it.
I’ll add to OPs restrictions that the shop/organisation needs to have a website with a Google Page rank of at least 3 in order to get awarded with my bounty, because I don’t really care about obscure, unknown shops.
Couldn't agree more. Added. |
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I personally would love to get DOSBox to accept BTC. I wrote them a few months ago, but they were not interested. :/
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I think a temporary sub forum would be a good compromise. For those of you that care about Bitcoin's image, the marketplace currently looks super sketchy...
Completely agree, it's a mess. +1 |
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If you're ever in London, would be good to have a meetup here too.  Or Dublin. |
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Obviously there is enough power delivered? Did you say you tried the same setup with the same power supply with windows and it worked?
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Tried to close all other applications and remove the extra parameters, so I'm running: /poclbm.py --user=user --pass=mypass -d 2 -f 120 -o mining.bitcoin.cz -p 8332 But it's still the same. Both cards perform as expected on their own but when run at the same time performance does not exceed that of a single card. What if you get rid of -f altogether? |
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I'll pledge another 5 per shop and 2.5 per organization.
Excellent! Drew from Anarchy in Your Head recently switched to a funding based release schedule. Every time $40 in donations accumulates, a comic is released. I emailed him about Bitcoin and he added a MyBitcoin payment link to his page, which counts toward the comic fund. I'm not sure if this would count as a payment or donation, and I can't prove it was me, so this is a freebie.  The reward is only valid for the places that switched after this thread was created, but you will be in my prayers and mantras. Well done. |
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I own an online / physical business and I'm planing on accepting btc. I'll let you know when I do. I'm not sure if it counts if it's our own business. If it's worth bonus points I'm in Chile  might be a first. I'd like to open an exchange but I'm not sure if I've got the time / money / know how. It's something I was planing on doing anyways but here's my website www.chile-deals.com I sell electronics and semi trucks / trailers / whatever else. I'm also possibly planing on importing products to the US so maybe I'll be able to accept BTC there too. I do everything legally though so I'm not sure how I'm going to show receipts with BTC. That's fine - hopefully this thread will speed this up for you. Just let me know once you have this implemented. |
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True. I don't see anyone buying cute kittens with Bitcoins (yet). Of course, the real key to getting Bitcoin adopted is porn. Once you can subscribe to your favorite porn site with Bitcoin, it will hit critical mass shortly afterward.
Anyone, feel free to convince any porn website (or any other website) to accept Bitcoins and get some for yourself: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4667.0 |
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Lower than 120 (i.e. 60 and lower) makes it interfere with stuff, like HD video playback, games (on Windows with -f 120 I can mine even when gaming at about half speed) and more if it's really low. Considering the performance difference is less than 10% I keep -f high to not impact usability.
What If you start the miner without any switches and also, without any programs running? I know on my Ubuntu, even smallest applications were affecting the performance. |
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Okay, time to motivate people to do some work. I am going to pay 2 BTC for every on-line shop and 1 BTC for every organisation that you convince to start accepting Bitcoin as a payment/donation currency. They have to put an information about that on their website and they have to be existing, established businesses/sites with a Google Page rank of at least 3. I am not going to pay you if you create your own shop overnight just for the sake of winning the BTC or if the website is totally not popular. If anyone wants to join me in rewarding feel free - the more BTC offered the more people will hopefully move their arses. EDIT: If you are going to have a go at some business/organisation/site let us know before you hit on them, so that we know that it is actually you who got them to accept Bitcoin. Please do so by posting here. EDIT2: Please be reasonable and don't send silly spam to these entities; rather compose a tailored letter to each particular business. We don't want Bitcoin to be associated with spam. EDIT3: I thought that was obvious, but: The reward is only valid for the places that switched after this thread was created and after you declared that you were going to convince someone.Update: The pledges so far are: Mahkul shops: 2, organisations: 1 BitterTea shops: 0, organisations: 0Blitzboom shops: 0, organisations: 0dirtyfilthy shops: 0, organisations: 0cw shops: 1, organisations: between 0.1 and 1 (depending on size) slush shops: 3, organisations: 0 (Available BTC: 97) mrb shops: 125, organisations: 0 (Available BTC: 375) Note: Only shops selling tangible goods and having pagerank greater from or equal 7. Total (shops): 131BTC
Total (organisations): 1-2BTCEDIT 4: Here is the spreadsheet for this thread (note there are two sheets - one for pledges and one for takers): http://www.editgrid.com/user/mahkul/Earn_BTC_for_promoting_Bitcoin |
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I think one of the reasons the Bitcoin value is dropping is that there are more and more bitcoins everyday, yet the amount of people interested in Bitcoins is not growing fast enough. Therefore there is already enough bitcoins for the people involved, so the newly generated coins have to be pushed for "normal money" (of course not everyone is selling their generated BTC, but I would imagine a lot of new miners do) at a lower price. This is probably caused by promoting mining instead of promoting bitcoins as the actual currency.
Would you not agree?
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Windscreen stickers would be very nice, like those "Learner driver" or "Baby on board".
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Just imagine a 80286 or even an XT machine mining bitcoins and finding a block. |
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Ideally we would want something like a live chat option on it; we have the forum for tech support questions that do not need immediate (relatively) response. Other than that, I would see it as an on-line knowledge-base or even a basic expert system, where the users could help themselves. I hate to say this, but something like those "problem solving assistants" on Windows wouldn't be bad - of course, ours would be far more efficient (those on Windows are barely helpful). If the user fails to solve the problem himself, the technician would be available for chat. This may not seem important now, but people are lazy and the staff members may become very busy if there is no knowledge-base at hand for the users.
Just thinking aloud.
EDIT1: Why is this thread in Marketplace? I think it should be in related projects.
EDIT2: I wouldn't mind logging on to such chat myself from time to time to help newcomers.
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I tried to send a large amount of BTC - the Bitcoin application gave me a warning first that this required 0.02 transaction fee, but after that it crashed with this: 00:50:49: Debug: ../src/gtk/dialog.cpp(156): assert "Assert failure" failed in EndModal(): either wxDialog:EndModal called twice or ShowModal wasn't called
Trace/breakpoint trap
Any thoughts? |
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