My point is (like others have written in this thread already) that those charges are passed on to consumers, who _don't know_ that they're paying for it and would in effect see lower prices on goods if the world moved to a Bitcoin transaction system.

I've used that argument with success when explaining "Why Bitcoin?". Actual savings do entice interest.

(I'm from a country where paying with cash is frowned upon and you're recommended to use credit/debit cards. They're touted as being the cheaper option due to less "hassle" with cash)

I'm not doubting it, but it needs to be sourced in some form of another if we want to actively use it to push Bitcoin (e.g bitcoin.org, the wiki).

I sincerely doubt it's _that_ common knowledge. Outside of the US you rarely hear consumers talk about chargebacks even.

If the top post can be readily verified or somehow otherwise accepted as true (I'm assuming a CC merchant doesn't want to put his business on the line?) it should at least go on the wiki and maybe even bitcoin.org

Also have a look att http://flattr.com if you haven't already.

It's by one of the founders of The Piratebay. I'm somewhat surprised they haven't integrated Bitcoin yet, they were one of few ways you could donate to Wikileaks and were vocal about it.

Bitcoin is technology for the future, like the Internet was created and used by a rising number of people for several years before going fully mainstream.

If you count all the ways us humans produce energy today (fossil, wind, nuclear etc) that's still only 1/20000th (yes, really) of the energy that reaches earth from the sun alone, and we're well on our way to be able to use all that energy.

Now, there are two forms of Greens. Some are green, and happily cheer the above development. Some are in reality more like watermelons, red on the inside, and would rather like to stop all technological development.

Which category do you belong to?

https://market.android.com/details?id=de.schildbach.wallet

Granted, it's for Android, but "the iPhone crowds" have no problem with that UI and functionality.


It's as valid instantly as anything else we consider valid in day-to-day transactions. After an hour it's more valid than a credit card transaction is for months.

Agree with all your points - although they're all on top of what's already a great service.

Why are you under the impression that Bitcoin is about making money?

Amongst all the other things it is about, it's about not losing as much money as you usually do with various forms of transactions - most of which are hidden to you and "included" in the price you pay. With Bitcoin as the transaction medium, that price will be lower.

FlexCoin promises even lower (and faster) transactions.

First, I think there is way too much negative feedback in this thread. "Don't use it if you don't like it" applies, and any and all serious businesses that help grow the Bitcoin economy are to be cheered. In the decentralized reputation economy trust is something you earn and FlexCoin do seem to want to operate that way. Kudos.

To my question: While you state on the website that you operate under US law, will you have non-US offsite storage? The US readily seize domains with content that is fully legal in their local jurisdictions and I consider it a significant possibility that we will see servers in the US hosting Bitcoin wallets be seized as well at one point in time. Being a non-US resident I have to judge that as a risk.

And the decentralization.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=35812.0

Just as last week, tonight was a great evening!

If there's any one thing that really defines StrikeSapphire it's the extremely friendly atmosphere - in no small part the result of its truly interested and engaged host

Didn't they just do that .. ?

(Thought I saw that in a thread today, I'm a bitmarket.eu user myself)

Right people, this starts now. Here's hoping people want to show off their skills instead of just betting in random lotteries ..

Now solved. Sorry I can't help out with the Linux OpenCL specifics, but others seem to be on that

Exactly. Devs who want to contribute to the success of Bitcoin need to put their effort into the BitCoinJ library rather than the Satoshi client.

http://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/

As far as I could see your vanitygen should indeed have linked fine - the linking error you posted was for oclvanitygen alone and the library it didn't find is also used by oclvanitygen alone.

Sorry for asking again, but didn't you get a "vanitygen" executable? Do you, if you do:


?

You should be able to do "./vanitygen -i 1bounty" after that ...

Did you get vanitygen working at least? For your usage that'll work just fine until you can sort oclvanitygen out.

Ok, so while I could probably guess as to what you need to do (install OpenCL) I'm on a Mac and it's better if someone on Linux helps you. On the other hand, that's only needed for oclvanitygen (the one that runs on your GPU). For the addresses you want you could probably find them in a short enough amount of time on your CPUs (50% in 1 hour on my laptop), and vanitygen compiles fine without OpenCL.

Either it's already there (try "./vanitygen") or you need to do "make vanitygen" without oclvanitygen.

If so;

Right, you need the PCRE lib installed. Download from http://pcre.org/

Linux? You should be fine just running


(play with the options for optimum performance)


See the pywallet thread - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34028.0


It's much more simple than you might think, just try it. Give yourself the reward when you've succeeded