Isn't a bitcoin-bong equal to a satoshi?

Why did you check this box?

Thanks.

It's good that you upgraded. Upgrading is required before May 15.

I think he's consistently using the Tor browser bundle, so no easy attacks on my end. Maybe someone could run a few Tor nodes and we could try a Tor timing attack.

Run Bitcoin-Qt with the -rescan switch.

Ah, interesting. I'm not sure that I've seen that happen before, though I don't pay much attention to precious metals prices.

Maybe I'll have to change it to diamond coins!

The current auction is usually linked from here:
https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adinfo ("Your ad here")

The ads are updated now.

My plan is to remove the newbie restrictions once the moderation tools are improved enough to make this safely possible. I've so far completed one of the three necessary moderation improvements.

This is totally different:
- You said that you would get a scammer tag if you didn't pay.
- You scammed on this forum.
- You broke explicit agreements. BoB doesn't have agreements that dictate exactly how they will decide events.


Luke-Jr is not an employee. The true side might have won due to the timezone thing and some other factors, but it's close enough that BoB is justified in calling it a draw IMO. It'd be different (though not enough for a scammer tag) if it was BoB's policy to never decide events as draws if at all possible, but they seem to decide events as draws frequently when there would be significant controversy if either side won.

I actually considered betting on the true side of this bet several months ago, but I decided not to do so because the wording was far too ambiguous and general. I thought at the time that the bet was created by a BFL supporter and written to be very difficult for them to lose...

Even though it's clear that BFL didn't really "ship", the false side has a very good case according to the bet's conditions. So I think that Bets of Bitcoin did the right thing.


What's false about them? I tend to think that BFL will ship at some point.

Yeah. That's why there is no rulebook. People would be rule-lawyering all the time.

In order to collect more money for the creation of good forum software, 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 7 days starting from when I put it up.

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 0.5.
- 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 results:
1 5.75 Entropy-uc
1 5.5 Inaba
2 5 Inaba
1 4.75 bit365
1 4.75 Bogart
1 4.25 InspiredEye

I'll do it automatically if someone writes me a PHP/Python/Perl/Bash script which logs a user onto reddit, fetches http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/about/traffic.json, and then prints it to stdout.

I'm not giving him a scammer tag. By using betsofbitco.in, you agreed that betsofbitco.in staff would be the ones to decide events. It's none of my business how he does this.

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This is ridiculous.

Yes. An ECDSA private key is just a random number.

All of the existing "competitors" are just Bitcoin's code with trivial modifications. Their prices are supported entirely by speculation: some people think that these altcoins will increase in value just like Bitcoin did. However, Bitcoin has 4 years of inertia. Any altcoin that doesn't have huge improvements over Bitcoin (likely with totally different code) is no competition at all.


They announced that on April 1^st...

This isn't "standard", but I made a utility to properly hash data like that:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=148620.0

Then you can turn the hash into an address using Bitcoin Address Utility, brainwallet.org, etc.