How are shares distributed initially?

I think it only alerts you of new topics.

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. Eight 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 8 slots @ 5 BTC and this is the highest bid, then he'll get all 8 slots. If the two highest bids are 8 slots @ 4 BTC and 1 slot @ 5 BTC, then the first person will get 7 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.

Slots BTC/Slot Person
2 4 TangibleCryptography
1 3.25 Namworld
4 3.25 RoyalBitcoin
1 3 Inaba

Slots BTC/Slot Person
2 4 TangibleCryptography
1 3.25 Namworld
5 3 Inaba

Slots BTC/Slot Person
1 3.25 Namworld
7 3 Inaba

That's a transfer from my live wallet to the 17RTTU... address. It includes ad revenue from the last few weeks and donations from Donators/VIPs who needed unique addresses.

That's generally OK, but torac is banned. Any accounts he uses will be banned.

supernatural is selling his own invites/accounts as far as I can tell. We're not going to enforce the terms of service of other sites. Terms of service are not recognized as legally binding in all countries, and it would be too difficult to understand and enforce all such terms.


Yes.

The forum isn't registered with any government. You seem to assume that no organization can operate on a non-profit basis without permission from a government, which is a strange assumption to make.

By blockexplorer.com's count there are 10,679,713 transactions, 21,808,789 inputs, 24,869,221 outputs, and 8,778,013 keys. 1,252,442,844.03996469 total bitcoins transferred. 1,571,400 BTC still in unspent generations before block 70,000.

That's not how lockTime works. lockTime prevents a transaction from getting into blocks. Once it's in a block, it can be spent.

These transactions were always final because all of their inputs have sequence numbers of UINT_MAX:
000000000000036a546044e094db778e1c146f051cd5d0e52fb0e6c43e63ea8c
000000000000049bd7c8aebf91efc907c880a35c05b7861b4eab3fc09655bb05

The other transactions all became final two blocks before the blocks that they were added to.

LOL

I've been convinced that allowing trades of clearly-hacked accounts is too risky. So I locked torac's account-selling threads and I will ban him if he creates any more.

These accounts are hacked. Trading them might be illegal. Therefore, these trades are not allowed on this forum.

These accounts are hacked. Trading them might be illegal. Therefore, these trades are not allowed on this forum.

These accounts are hacked. Trading them might be illegal. Therefore, these trades are not allowed on this forum.

These accounts are hacked. Trading them might be illegal. Therefore, these trades are not allowed on this forum.

That's a terrible way of deciding an important issue such as this. Miners are not a very important part of the Bitcoin economy, and they don't have much more understanding of Bitcoin than anyone else. Their "votes" shouldn't matter more than anyone else's. (There shouldn't be general voting at all, in fact -- democracy is a poor way of making decisions.)


The block size limit doesn't need to be centrally-determined. Each node could automatically set its max block size to a calculated value based on disk space and bandwidth: "I have 100 GB disk space available, 10 MB per 10 minutes download speed and 1 MB per 10 minutes upload speed, so I'll stop relaying blocks [discouraging them] if they're near 1/8 MB [enough for each peer] and stop accepting them at all if they're over 2MB because I'd run out of disk space in less than a year at that rate". If Bitcoin ends up rejecting a long chain due to its max block size, it can ask the user whether he wants to switch to a lightweight mode.

Users could also specify target difficulty levels that they'd like the network to have and reduce their max block size when the network's actual difficulty level drops below that. A default target difficulty level could maybe be calculated based on how fast the user's computer is -- as users' computers get faster, you'd expect mining to also get faster.