Wallets still had multiple keys, they just weren't pooled. The key pool feature makes backups much safer.

The one I checked was from telepac.pt, same as you.


Me too. I also ban people who post nothing but insubstantial garbage.

The max number of online users isn't being tracked anymore.


Thanks.

You're not from a university IP.

In order to collect more money for the creation of good forum software and for other useful purposes, the forum is selling ad space in the area beneath the first post of every topic page.

Ads are allowed to contain any non-annoying HTML/CSS style. No images, JavaScript, or animation (no marquee or blinking). Ads must appear 3 or fewer lines tall in my browser. Ads will be prefixed with "Advertisement:". Ad text may not contain lies, misrepresentation, or inappropriate language. Ads may not link directly to any NSFW page. Ads may be rejected for other reasons.

There are 10 total ad slots which are randomly rotated. So one ad slot has a one in ten chance of appearing. Seven of the slots are for sale here. Ads appear only on topic pages with more than one post, and only for people using the default theme.

The ad lasts at least 7 days starting from when I put it up. (However, if you look at the ad history you'll see that ads frequently get 1-2 extra days, but this is random and definitely not guaranteed.)

Stats

Exact historical impression counts per slot:
https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adstats

Info about the current ad slots:
https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adinfo

Auction rules

Post your bids in this thread. Prices must be stated in BTC per slot. You must state the max number of slots you want. When the auction ends, the highest bidders will have their slots filled until all eight slots are filled.

So if someone bids for 7 slots @ 5 BTC and this is the highest bid, then he'll get all 7 slots. If the two highest bids are 7 slots @ 4 BTC and 1 slot @ 5 BTC, then the first person will get 6 slots and the second person will get 1 slot.

The notation "2 @ 5" means 2 slots for 5 BTC each. Not 2 slots for 5 BTC total.

- When you post a bid, the bids in your previous posts are considered to be automatically canceled. You can put multiple bids in one post, however.
- All bid prices must be evenly divisible by 0.25.
- The bidding starts at 0.50.
- I will end the auction at an arbitrary time no more than 12 days from now. (I will probably end the auction 1-3 days before the ads are scheduled to go up.)
- If two people bid at the same price, the person who bid first will have his slots filled first.
- Bids are considered invalid and will be ignored if they do not specify both a price and a max quantity, or if they could not possibly win any slots

If these rules are confusing, look at some of the past forum ad auctions to see how it's done. I also post periodic status updates which should help make things clear.

You must pay for your slots within 24 hours of receiving the payment address. Otherwise your slots may be sold to someone else.

Auction ended. Final state:
Slots BTC/Slot Person
1 3.5 Vorksholk
1 3.5 bitbook.biz
1 3.5 Bogart
4 3.25 Inaba


This is invalid. See the rules.

He may have been doing that just to throw you off, though. Unlike most ways of modifying your speech patters, that's very easy to do.

DISADVANTAGES:
- Annoying interface.
- Categories, not tags. (Any forum I switch to must have hierarchical tags instead of categories.)
- Non-threaded discussions. (Ditto.)
- I'm not a fan of Ruby.
- Uses Gravatar, which never works correctly.
- No watchlist?
- "User-controlled" moderation, which is terrible for free discussion because people censor each other.
- Probably very limited mod tools. It's probably worse than Stack Exchange, and Stack Exchange is pretty bad -- I see spam there all the time. Can Discourse split threads, merge them, send PMs for deleted posts, automatically ban proxies, smartly detect spam text, subject new/suspicious users to additional proof-of-work to prevent spam, have self-moderated topics, nuke users with automatic smart IP bans, track all of a user's IPs with proxy detection, etc.?
- Doesn't seem to support OpenID.
- No polls
- Limited user stats, etc.
- Can't ignore users.
- Can't ignore categories.
- No categories that only some users can see (?)
- Doesn't print nicely.

I'm not going to use Discourse.

No. Early versions had most of the functionality that Bitcoin-Qt's GUI has now.

The default timezone is UTC.

Thanks!

It was just a guess. I didn't do anything to manipulate the price. I wanted to guess above $100 and below $102 because the market often likes to stick to values near round numbers like $100. I chose 101.12 arbitrarily. It just looked like a nice number. If anyone drove up the price for my sake: thanks!

The bitcoin.org domain name is thankfully not controlled by the Bitcoin Foundation. It's controlled by Sirius, who was given this control by Satoshi. So if a version of Bitcoin released on bitcoin.org does anything funny, Sirius can take it down. If Sirius does anything funny, the release won't be properly signed, and the Bitcoin developers could also issue a network alert. I think that this is a very nice arrangement. (And it was set up this way by Satoshi, so it must be good!) Though Gavin has said that he would like the domain name to be under the Bitcoin Foundation's control, which is something I definitely wouldn't support.

I don't think that the Bitcoin Foundation does much harm if it doesn't get too much power. It might be useful for it to hold any Bitcoin trademarks and patents in jurisdictions where it's not safely possible for no one to hold such things. It's good that Gavin is getting paid. I haven't been too impressed by their other activities, though they haven't done much harm IMO.

I'll probably release Satoshi's PMs and logged IPs addresses in ~8 years. This'd probably be of great historical interest. (Though he always used Tor, as far as I can tell.)

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2021 edit: I changed my mind: I am not going to release Satoshi's PMs in 2021. See my post here.

Any normal person would have told people about the giant programming project to which he dedicated 2+ years of his life, and these people would have eventually blabbed, so Satoshi must have been unusual. I always pictured him as a shy but brilliant guy who doesn't normally deal with people. "I'm better with code than with words," he said. Maybe he left when he saw that Bitcoin's future had a lot more social problems than technical ones.

I don't believe that Satoshi was a group of people. I was here when he was active on the forum and I directly communicated with him a few times, and I got a distinct impression that he was one person.

The second half of the graph definitely doesn't look very convincing. Also, is it known for sure that any of the black dots are Satoshi's blocks?

I hope that Satoshi does have a lot of bitcoins. He definitely deserves them, and it's better that he have them than someone else. He mined them fair and square -- this is not equivalent to premining.

I doubt that Satoshi threw those bitcoins away...

Fixed.

101.12

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"Breaking news: Terrorist-operated Bitcoin currency behind the Boston attack."

Why would he bomb a marathon, though? That's only going to create more government.