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SatoshiDice links to satoshidice.com, but sealswithclubs.eu and switchpoker.com link to calvinayre. I must not be paying off the right people.
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Even if you solve the pick-your-own timestamp issue which is far from trivial, like eleuthria says, you would just get wildly fluctuating difficulty. Sometimes you'll find blocks within 1 second of each other and difficulty will go up 600x or more, then since it will take so long to find that high difficulty block (much worse than you expect because many miners will just turn off) that you'll have a very low difficulty next year when someone finds that block and difficulty will go way down, then BAM next block found and sky high difficulty again.
Adjusting every block is not workable, but I wonder how fast it could be and still be mostly ok. Intuitively daily doesn't seem like it would be a problem, but you would have more fluctuations than now and I don't see the benefit. Anywhere from 1 week to 2 months seems ok, except if you pick something like 2 months and there is a big slowdown it could take a multiple of that to get to the next adjustment, that seems bad.
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As the rules are now people can enter their own timestamp on a block up to some distance from other nearby blocks. Over 2016 blocks inaccuracies of an hour or so don't matter, but it would be severe if we changed the difficulty every block. There are even blocks with timestamps before the blocks that they come after, what would difficulty be then?
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If you really mean small then they might not be for you, but OrangeWebsite.com is in Iceland and has been reliable and helpful for over a year. They accept bitcoin.
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I already cashed out. I got out of USD and now have real money.
you must be crazy I'd imagine having 20,000BTC/month in profits from SatoshiDICE probably helps him live without USD.  Is that an official number, or an estimate from the blockchain?  So its an estimate from the blockchain. At this point, those profits are as real as pirateat40 profits. Notice how SDICE is not confirming or reporting official numbers. They are just letting people run wild with their own imaginations so they can sell more "shares"... Makes more than mtgox with almost no overhead.
Doesn't sound very realistic does it? More revenues from people willing to risk all-or-nothing dice, or from people trading day after day on mtgox? I don't think so Your theory is that SatoshiDICE is playing itself in order to generate fake profits and sell more shares? I can't really see any way to discount said theory.... anyone else? They would need to actually send the 'fake' profits to the real owners of the shares so it seems like a terrible plan. Now if they didn't have other investors then making 'fake' wagers for publicity would be possible. |
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I cannot reach newswire.net at all.
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Can't you guys make those big tournaments Friday or Saturday?
I really wanted to play the 10,000 chip freeroll but it starts at 2 AM in a work day...
The 10000 chip freeroll for high krill earners migrates around the clock, it runs every 530 hours. The "Over 1 year!" 10000 chip freeroll is 9pm ET which works for a lot of our players, weekend might be better for many, but we do need to spread things over the week. |
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Does password incorrect mean they were used already? it was still aat 13/27 but nothing is working  ALl say pw incorrect. These one-time codes are redeemed on your "My Account" page, in the same blank as the codes that are worth chips. |
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The wings are a great deal on the menu I'm seeing, 0.00 BCT. I'm not sure of the current BTC value, maybe it just needs more significant digits  ETA on Pizza Hut and Papa Johns? |
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This appears to be several hours worth of well produced video. Running it now to listen for mistakes.
edit: 12 minutes in, it's decent so far, but he's not gotten to bitcoin yet.
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I think this is now fixed. Would some people confirm that they can now connect without https (you'll get forwarded to https now instead of failure). www.sealswithclubs.eu and sealswithclubs.eu for example should work now. Workin' like a charm for me. Tested on Chrome, Mozilla and IE, running W7 x64. Was just about to suggest that you should redirect from http to https. This was a big gap in security. That is what happened before cloudflare. I don't believe that http was ever accessible, it just went from redirecting to failing. |
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I must just be lucky, every time I buy three years later the price is way up.
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I think this is now fixed. Would some people confirm that they can now connect without https (you'll get forwarded to https now instead of failure). www.sealswithclubs.eu and sealswithclubs.eu for example should work now. |
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Considering that satoshi choose a japanese sounding name there is a very very tiny chance that he's from Japan.
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Sorry, it is just cloudflare doing a bad job filtering. Hopefully my last change improves the situation.
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I flop trips and the sites goes offline  Sorry, it isn't really offline, cloudflare is still overblocking no matter how it is set. The best way seems to be to try to hit the homepage then the blue button if needed, other pages seem to refuse entry longer. But once you get the homepage you can click wherever. We are working on it. Connection and flash troubles will happen and it should be a quick process to get back in. Sorry again. |
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Why don't we just let miners to decide the optimal block size?
If a miner is generating an 1-GB block and it is just too big for other miners, other miners may simply drop it. It will just stop anyone from generating 1-GB blocks because that will become orphans anyway. An equilibrium will be reached and the block space is still scarce.
I think this is exactly the right thing to do. There is still the question of what the default behavior should be. Here is a proposal: Ignore blocks that take your node longer than N seconds to verify. I'd propose that N be: 60 seconds if you are catching up with the blockchain. 5 seconds if you are all caught-up. But allow miners/merchants/users to easily change those defaults. Rationale: we should use time-to-verify as the metric, because everything revolves around the 10-minutes-per-block constant. Time-to-verify has the nice property of scaling as hardware gets more powerful. Miners will want to create blocks that take a reasonable amount of time to propagate through the network and verify, and will have to weigh "add more transactions to blocks" versus "if I add too many, my block will be ignored by more than half the network." Time-to-verify also has the nice property of incentivizing miners to broadcast transactions instead of 'hoarding' them, because transactions that are broadcast before they are in a block make the block faster to verify (because of the signature cache). That is good for lots of reasons (early detection of potential double-spends and spreading out the verification work over time so there isn't a blizzard of CPU work that needs to be done every time a block is found, for example). This rule would apply to blocks until they are 1 deep, right? Do you envision no check-time or size rule for blocks that are built on? Or a different much more generous rule? |
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How would you go about it?
I wonder if it's possible to derive a formula to determine how much money you'd need to raise it by what percent...
It requires knowledge of many bitcoin sellers desires to sell or not at various prices. Many times those people themselves do not know until they see the offer and how they feel about it, also their observation of other people's willingness to sell or not will affect them so it is very difficult to predict. Difficult to predict over large scales that is, you can just look at the order book on major exchanges and do arithmetic for small amounts and short times. |
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Security settings have zero to do with me typing in my personal info on..say..bitcointoystore.com. They STILL need my shipping address, name and will probably require some type of contact info i.e. email or phone number. Logically, they will have to have certain info to complete transactions. And more than likely they will store that info.
Of course Bitcoin does not automatically make you anonymous.
I don't see how it can be a flaw if it can be like the competition when you need it to and better when you need it to. Having to giving a shipping address in order to have something shipped to you is not a flaw of bitcoin. |
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