chinese exchange is coming, I can't imagine that daily trading volume over 100,000 per exchange for several weeks. More, a vicious competition with 0 fee, and its shady trading will be come.

even we can see "OKCoin Wants to Rule the International Bitcoin Exchange Market" on coindesk

god is the universe
we are a part of him, but he is oblivious to our existence.
will humanity ever find out what our purpose is, and one day travel the stars doing our small part?

chances are slim.

I love all of these cute anime picture replies on this thread haha, really fits the theme of the coin.

One of the key tenets is that bitcoin block data is easy to distribute widely.  Information wants to be free.  One of the ways we may keep bitcoin healthy and free is finding alternative ways to distribute block chain data.  This provides resilience in case the P2P mesh network is attacked.

My personal favorite is satellite distribution, something I have been working on quietly in the background.  Satellites means one of two things:

• 1. Buy some bandwidth on an existing satellite.
• 2. Launch your own satellite.

Buying bandwidth is the most cost-effective, and readily attainable method today.  However, not just any satellite channel will do.  Bitcoin requires a dedicated, one-to-many broadcast mechanism.  This is like renting a TV channel -- although at much lower bandwidth requirements (1MB every minute or two).

Nanosatellites have recently cut satellite costs down from the absurd, traditional $20m+ build, $50m+ launch.  There is now a standardized cubesat size.  Two innovations reduced launch costs down into the $100k's range: (1) Many organizations collaborate together (rideshare), paying a portion of the launch cost.  Sometimes 27 or more cubesats are launched at once.  (2) These clusters of cubesats are launched as a secondary payload.  A primary payload has priority, which means secondary payloads are sometimes not launched into a proper orbit.  With these two factors, cubesat construction and launch is lowered to a reachable price: $2m or so.

Several people, including some investors, in the bitcoin community have privately expressed interest.  It seemed like a good time to move forward with Phase 1 of the project.

Phase 1 is:   flesh out cubesat specifications, research leased bandwidth pricing, and specific data needs (xmit tech, frequencies).  The initial goal is broadcasting worldwide (or at least major continents) the latest bitcoin block, over and over again.  Stretch goals include broadcasting recent chains, recent TX's, and other data.

A word about government involvement:  Set expectations properly.  There are three points at which government is inevitably involved, at some level: (a) getting launch approval, (b) ground station(s) inevitably must be located in some useful geolocation, and (c) frequency selection.   Fundamentally, these satellites will be broadcasting public, not-encrypted blockchain data, so the content should not be an issue.

Donations accepted at 1M9MyyPsAak7zRjW4D96pTxDaAEpDDZLR7

Feb 05 update:

Project update #1 (PDF): http://www.dunveganspace.com/goals/bitsat/BitSatUpdate1.pdf
BitSat architecture, v0.1 (PDF): http://www.dunveganspace.com/goals/bitsat/BitSatArchitecture-0.1.pdf

Files posted on http://www.dunveganspace.com/goals/bitsat

Sponsors (1 BTC or more):

• Mohit Kalra (2 BTC, May 2014)
• Unknown (1 BTC, Apr 2014)
• http://www.redstarmining.com/ (1 BTC, Jan 2014)
• Roger Ver (5 BTC, Dec 2013)
• Erik Voorhees (5 BTC, Dec 2013)
• Rusty Russell (1 BTC, Dec 2013)
• BitcoinGrant.org (25 BTC, Nov 2013)
• Jeff Garzik (1 BTC, Nov 2013)

Standard disclaimer:  This is a personal project.  Nothing to do with my employer.

It's fairly simple to create a bootable usb stick with linux using http://www.pendrivelinux.com/. I'm not sure how this compares to creating paper wallets on fresh, offline install of windows, but wouldn't it be pretty safe? Basically you're booting into a fresh OS (assuming) with no internet connection. Then you can just run the bitaddress.org html file from the usb or your hard drive and print the wallets. Is this a good idea or no?

Last Updated Jul 23, 2014 1:00 PM EDT

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Israeli troops battled Hamas militants on Wednesday near a southern Gaza Strip town as the U.S. secretary of state flew into Israel to press top-gear efforts for a truce in the conflict that has so far killed at least 657 Palestinians and 31 Israelis.

Neither side appeared to be backing down, after Palestinian rocket fire led several international airlines to cancel flights to Tel Aviv and Israeli troops clashed with Hamas near the Gaza town of Khan Younis in heavy fighting that forced dozens of families to flee. Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal later demanded Gaza's borders be open and an end to the blockade against it, calling Palestinians "the true owners of the land."

Trapped by the fighting in Khan Younis, a town on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip, dozens of Palestinian families scrambled to flee the area.
 
John Kerry landed in Tel Aviv despite a Federal Aviation Administration ban following a Hamas rocket near the airport the day before, reflecting his determination to achieve a cease-fire agreement between the warring sides as international organizations, the United Nations and the U.S. government expressed mounting concern over the toll on Palestinian civilians.

"One child has been killed in Gaza every hour for the past two days," said a statement released Wednesday by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

According to OCHA, "a request for a humanitarian pause has been rejected by the Israeli authorities."

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Caramba! Não fazia ideia que isso aconteceu!

Vou tirar rapidamente meus reais desse site!

Se bem que nunca tive problemas, mas nunca se sabe, melhor cair fora ahahaha

Canada is a good place..

Why don't we play a little? Let's make a prize draw from the Animecoin CrowdFund donation list?

It works like that:

1 - When making a donation, each donor will inform the amount sent, the txID, and also his Animecoin address (in this case, I am not sure, but I think it is against the rules of the Bitcoin Forum to post addresses here, so maybe the address should be provided by private message).

2 - Each donor will receive a number respective to the donation made. The AnimeLotto number will be published at the Animecoiner Blog.

3 - The donor will have exclusive rights over his AnimeLotto number received: if he makes more than one donation during the period of the month current to the draw he will hold more than one AnimeLotto number.

4 - Every last week of each month there will be a draw.

5 - The specific date for the draw will always be previously announced here and at the Animecoiner Blog, with a link to monitor the results.

6 - For fairness, a random generator (http://www.randomresult.com/ticket.php) will be used.

7 - 3 (Three) random numbers will be picked by the random generator, from the donations made on the period of the month current to the draw.

8 - The #3 will receive as the third prize 5% (five percent) of his picked donation multiplied by half the number of donations during the period of the month current to the draw, with a limit of 5% (five percent) of the total CrowdFund Balance.

9 - The #2 will receive as the second prize 5% (five percent) of his picked donation multiplied by the number of donations during the period of the month current to the draw, with a limit of 10% (ten percent) of the total CrowdFund Balance.

10 - The #1 will receive as the first prize 10% (ten percent) of his picked donation multiplied by the number of donations during the period of the month current to the draw, with a limit of 20% (twenty percent) of the total CrowdFund Balance.

11 - Whenever the Random Number is "1" (one), then the respective prize is kept for the CrowdFund balance (no one wins, or better, the Animecoin Community wins).

12 - At the end of each year, the AnimeLotto of the last week of December will be a special one, including all the AnimeLotto numbers of that year (BIG PRIZE!).

The motivation for this game is to attract the attention to Animecoin, and, of course, as an incentive for more donations, working, at the same time, as an Animecoin Giveaway.

So, How do you like this idea? Any comments, or opinions are very welcome.

I think we should try it, and see if it works.

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Description: И снова всем привет) Активно идет подготовка к третьему фестивалю. Открыт прием заявок. Ура, товарищи!
Website: http://vk.com/baf_fest
Location: ТЮЗ, Горького ул., Bryansk, Russia
Start Time: 26 July at 1:00 pm

Hi Ocakypa

I've just sent 300k in 3 parts of 100k for the festival .

TRANS-ID:

#1: f62ea048cb7cd244b94b60eb1c78d95323643d8b9ebb63677660d5c9da52eb0a
#2: 78ec3d8a57201dd2fa4fb0b3f677f892f1247ebed9dd9c503ada7bf28a8dbeaf
#3: 0154b58c50d35f11e21eb5bd448c816ab9d28650e026041ad8f17cc4fa7bf9ed

PT: your english is better than mine U-U

Why Japan? I'd never prefer that country. Here are the reasons:

1. Expensive as hell.
2. No one speaks English there.
3. Food is horrible.

i dont understand why i should mine with my asic on xpool when only profitable sha256 is BITCOIN!  
i can mine it directly on old school slush pool

i dont like this scam pools... and people are idiots for givig their hashrate to pool like this!

use your brain, dont let someone think for you... so mine what you want and dont do xpool

anyone interested in buying 10k anime coins? let me know and pm your price!

I'm very curious about it 

+100

I'm in for the long term. I recommend it, it saves a lot of stress.

I wasn't aware of any conclusive evidence pointing to Putin's involvement, or for that matter the Russian separatists'. The pair of you look like a couple of shills spreading propaganda. I'm quite sure you're not, but the willingness to accept the MSM's version of events so readily is a little worrying. I know that it shouldn't get political in here but I think most Darkcoin supporters should be capable of critical thinking - we've seen it many times disputing the trolls and questioning their intentions.

Here is an interesting article on the Russian version of events for anyone who is interested: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-18/final-moments-flight-mh-17-russian-side-story. There are a few more thought-provoking posts on the same site. As very often is the case in war though, not everything is as it seems