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ipod camera works, use salty's if its better/you can
do you have a casascius physical bitcoin? one of those vs. a quarter would be great.
If you print out pictures, you could do celebrity matchups- I want to see Romney vs. Obama!
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It was my understanding that the "finished" product was all there was to it, and you stage the crows around the machine. I don't think the machine is any different in the stages, you just scatter some peanuts around the machine... then when the crows are comfortable with htat, you scatter some coins and put some peanuts on the machine.
Then put a coin on the machine or some such and a peanut in the hopper... then when they figure out a coin going in the machine yields a peanut, there you go.
Klein built his with a 4-learning-stage shaping procedure, but if those stages aren't necessary, even better. I'll pay whoever can successfully train crows to use it, however that is. (Could be totally different design) |
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OP updated Hmmm, well seems like this project may be harder than I initially thought.
Alternatively, if someone can create a working prototype and record a video of a crow successfully exchanging a coin for a peanut, I'll send them 20BTC. Please include your username and "bitcointalk" on a sign in the video, just to be sure its actually you.
My previous offer still stands (after seeing the good video, I'll buy it for an additional 40BTC). I would like you to include plans.
it would take a while for the crows to become a custom to this. Id say more then a years worth of time to go through all 4 stages. IF you want a machine with just the last stage thats not so difficult. The stages are key: they are what teaches the crows to use the machine. The reason why I am offering such a high bounty for the video (20BTC!) is because there is now doubt about whether this can be done. I don't expect this to be a "quick buck", but rather a parts plus a small stipend for an interested hobbyist. |
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I'll donate at least 0.2 for the next one if you can promise a video of the test. (And you post each week's bet video to youtube for viral growth) I'll probably bet too  |
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Hmmm, well seems like this project may be harder than I initially thought.
Alternatively, if someone can create a working prototype and record a video of a crow successfully exchanging a coin for a peanut, I'll send them 20BTC. Please include your username and "bitcointalk" on a sign in the video, just to be sure its actually you.
My previous offer still stands (after seeing the good video, I'll buy it for an additional 40BTC). I would like you to include plans.
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I have thought a lot about this, but don't want to deal with possible legal hassles of being the one who creates it. You should build it, or someone else. Whatever. I'd use it.
The way you integrate Bitcoin is by paying people for successfully delivering the file you previously stored. Then, you effectively create a market for data storage and retrieval latency.
If I want to back up my family photos so I don't lose them if my harddrive fails, I could pay 0.05 BTC, once a month, for someone in the cloud to deliver a complete set of blobs. By offering this prize once a month, you give them an incentive to hold onto the info.
If you want a rapid-accessible data-store, you could pay much higher rates to whoever can get the data to you first. If you offer > 1BTC per MB, you will get a lot of people storing the file, so they can hopefully be the first one to respond when a request for the data is sent out.
There are some other possible optimization to reduce trust and bandwidth requirements, like letting people send you a hash of the file with a custom salt every day (to prove they actually have it), or sending bitcoins directly to a private key generated from the hash of the file.
By creating a liquid data market, you would get people aggressively hosting and promoting copyright content (because pirates would prefer getting reimbursed), which would bring serious heat from the media industry. If you build the system well, the financial incentives for the pirates will make their innovation outpace the lethargic copyright lobby's efforts.
If you (or anyone else) wants to build something like this, PM me. I am happy to share more ideas about the subject.
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Is this a real bridge? Googlemaps link?
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Impressive sleuthing, psy.
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Threads like this make we wish this forum had more active moderators. This is why nobody takes Bitcoin seriously.
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Thanks for the question. Thinking of it, big block chain is less of a miner's issue than a full client's issue. Considering that any kB of dust transactions not only needs to get verified by <5k miners (once per pool + solo miners) but also saved to millions of full clients (if we don't have millions now, all the data accumulating now will be downloaded at some point by all future clients) it is more an issue for those full clients especially in cases where bandwidth is an issue like full clients on the mobile phone.
The real cost of blockchain bloat is that it reduces the proportion of Bitcoin users who can run their own client. The larger the blockchain is, the fewer people will have the bandwidth and hard disk to download and store it. You only need the blockchain if you are generating your own work to mine. You don't need the blockchain to mine on deepbit because deepbit sends you all the information you need to hash. |
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We valued the company at 20,000 BTC because [...]
If I am not mistaken, you valued the company at 200,000 BTC, and the IPO is for 10%, 20,000 BTC worth of shares (100,000 x 0.2 BTC). |
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Today, for the first time in Bitcoin History, the number of transactions in a 24 hour period has exceeded 20,000. As of time of this post, the total is 20,138. Pop the champagne  PS: Thanks SatoshiDice. |
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I spend $200/month on kickstarter/indiegogo. If you make it, I will definitely come.
BitcoinStarter has been under construction for 6 months+, makes we wonder when it is finally going to be launched. Hopefully it will be worth the wait. Skeptical but optimistic.
Tangentially, if someone can figure out a good way to offer fulfillment insurance alongside a kickstarter interface, I think it would be really powerful. It would offload risk that the project owner fails to follow through, so you either get the product or money back. A debt-trading platform laid on top of this would be amazing.
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Here's what I would like to see:
A debit card that holds a balance in BTC, but is usable in USD. As soon as I swipe my card, the conversion is made at the current spot price, the vendor is paid in USD, and the BTC equivalent is deducted from my account.
+1. I would put up with the KYC hassle for this. Requirement to convert BTC back to $ on deposit has kept me from jumping in so far. |
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What they should do is mail something (a verification code) to the residency address the user provided, with instructions to access a particular webpage to verify.
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Watching
Seriously ? This is the 5th thread I have seen you post this in. Why don't you go back to 'counting to 74 bazillion with pictures'.....and 'Watch' that instead. subed double-subed witnessed Certified Stamped with approval parking validated Posting is how you get a thread to appear on your "new replies" page. It's not ideal, we all agree, and we all look forward to new forum software eventually. |
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Thanks, but yeah I'm already stuck with this topic. So the key element is to discuss potential savings with bitcoin's low transaction costs. Also, to consider the efficiency for healthcare providers and especially hospitals or healthcare systems. It could be a tremendous advantage for hospitals to not have to worry about chargebacks, bounced checks, etc. Hospitals still take a considerable amount of payments by check and I know they get a fair amount of insufficient funds.
I see these aspects of bitcoin as major advantages:
1. Immediate payment - credit cards take at least 24 hours to clear
2. Reduced fraud - no fraudulent cc payments and the ability to possibly stop taking checks
3. Reduced fees - credit cards take a much higher percentage of each transaction
4. Reduced infrastructure - no more cc terminals, use pre-existing computer systems to process payments
Advantages: 1. Credit cards can be reversed for at least 90 days later (sometimes more). You just cannot trust that any money you receive from a credit cards is completely yours for 180 days. 3. Credit cards charge 3%, bitcoin transactions cost a flat quarter-of-one-cent. ($0.0025) You can probably do the math to see how much expense 3% of the health industry is. (This should probably be your biggest point). |
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Watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhmZBMuZ6vEI want a crow vending machine, exactly like the one in the video. Can you build this for me? I'll pay 40BTC for a working one. I will want to escrow the funds with someone reputable, to be released upon receiving and successfully testing the machine. It should be able to do all 4 steps on this page: http://www.josh.is/crow-machine/UPDATE: I'll pay 20 BTC for a video of a working crow vending machine, verified with a sign including your username and "Bitcointalk" Then, I'll pay 40 BTC to buy it from you. And Inaba, also wants one (presumably at same price?) 100 BTC total for building two crow vending machines. |
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