I'm just thinking you might be a good consultant if/when I ever decide to launch a Bitcoin site that actually handles people's Bitcoins.  Sometimes, you seem to be the only logical thinker in a group full of people discussing proper security methods and techniques.  Lots of people can't seem to think outside the box, and miss important potential threats.

Anyway, thanks for answering my questions.

BTC_Bear, you seem to know a good deal about security.  What are your credentials?  Do you have a related degree?  Related job experience?

Just curious more than anything.

THE PAY IS LOW FOR THIS.  Just want to get that out up front.  You will be paid by the amount of work you do, but I calculate it out to be about $2/hr, paid in Bitcoins.  So, this is mostly a job for someone who is unemployed and desperate or just bored.  Some greasemonkey scripting may help get the job done quicker, so if you want to get creative with that, you might increase your earnings/hr.

I am looking for someone to do some data entry on a website.  The person must be able to type or copy/paste quickly.  The data must be entered accurately, 100% of the time.  Capitalization, proper punctuation, and attention to detail is required.  There will be a penalty for anything I have to go back and correct.

Serious inquiries only please.  I don't want to give someone all the instructions on what to do, have them enter a few, then decide it isn't worth it.  If you won't work for $2/hr, then don't take the job and say you will!

If I don't get any interest, I MAY raise the payment rate.  We'll see.

PM me if you are interested.

Right, exactly.  I couldn't care less what chip they use as long as it does what is advertised.

BFL did make a claim that the chip was their own design.  I don't remember when or where they wrote it, but I do remember reading it.  Then again, I could have remembered reading it wrong too... perhaps mem can point us to the proof of where they said it. 

If we all got scammed, then there's going to be a heck of a lot of people needing to have scammer tags added to their profiles, including Vlad.

No, sorry, I agree with #2.  They did say it was their own chip design, and it was proven that it was not.  I don't know that there's any way around that.

It won't stop me from ordering BFL miners, but they did lie about what chip they were using.

But yes, #1 and #3 are essentially the same.

^d

Mmmmm, smexy.  I might have to take you up on that offer!

Ok, good, so we have interest.

Certainly, a LOT more details would need to be worked out. ribuck, I like your idea of converting GLBSE shares to regular voting shares if they have ownership of at least 1% of the company.

Hashking, you are right - there are more expenses to consider, and I have heard my share of renter horror stories.  Property taxes, for instance, I did not take into account.  My post was built hastily, mainly to gauge interest.  Management companies are easy to find, though I need to get a better handle on exactly how much they charge.  I can't say what my monthly net income on this particular property would be, only estimate it.  Property taxes would be around $1300/year, so that will cut into income.  I'd have to take into account some rate of empty-rental period, as well as some monthly expense based on the risk factor of a renter destroying the place.  At any rate, I'll continue to do more research on all matters, and won't even think about offering a GLBSE until AFTER I am confident that I have accounted for all potential and real expenses.

Of course, we don't have to buy only one house either.

Sukrim - you are absolutely right.  This is part of the problem with a deflating currency that no one here likes to address - it discourages investment in other things. 

Chaang - Good point about the taxes.  I suppose it would be interesting to find out if there are any planned property tax hikes.  In the past 5 years, the property taxes have risen by 9.5% on average, but the past two years, it had only risen by 2.1% average.  Certainly, if the economy turns around, I would expect to see the property taxes return to some of their former rates, but the city might even have some hikes planned regardless of the economy.  All of that would need to be taken into account.

Hashking - Aside from my own house, I have not done any other real estate investing.  To tell a little more about myself - I am 25, married for 6 years, graduated with a BS degree in accounting in 2009, and bought my first house in late 2008.  I do believe that my accounting degree helps with "crunching the numbers", and deciding on what investments make sense.  But because I have little experience with real estate investment, I would either rely heavily on my father for advice, or perhaps make him the "president" or key decision maker of the investment group to start with.  He has bought, fixed up, and resold many houses in the past, subdivided land and sold it, and really knows real estate inside and out.  He also currently manages 3 rental properties, including a vacation beach house on the coast.

Now, if I was to manage all of this, I would want to keep some portion of issued shares myself.  What would be a fair percentage to keep?  2%?  5%?  10%?  Obviously, I want to make it worth all of the work that I would be doing on my end, but I don't want it to be an amount that makes it seem unfair to investors.

The Bitcoin Island idea got me thinking.  Just curious, what do you all think of a real estate investment group through GLBSE?  If I started one, intent upon purchasing real estate for cash and renting it out, would you invest?

Buying houses outright is so cheap these days, especially when you're paying cash and can pick up foreclosures easily, while rental prices are skyrocketing.

Here's a decent example:  http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/285-S-38th-St-Springfield-OR-97478/48377601_zpid/
House that sold in 2006 for $162,000 is currently in foreclosure and for sale at $70k.  Current monthly rental rates for comparably-sized houses in the area are $900-$1000.  Figure, $5,000 to $10,000 in necessary improvements to make it ready for a renter, 20% off the monthly rental fee for a rental agency to take care of finding renters and taking payments, and you're looking at a payback period of < 10 years, plus owning a house that has likely appreciated in value at the end of that period.  And of course, more than one house can be invested in...

Seems like it would be a good way for people who are interested in real estate to get investing in it.  It's difficult to do without a large amount of upfront cash, or large amount of extra monthly income.  Pool a bunch of BTC up front though, and it becomes possible...

I don't think it would be feasible to raise enough BTC on GLBSE, or even through other methods, to actually get something like this going, but if there is enough interest, I will totally try it!  If all went through, I would obviously register a company, and give written notice that ownership is shared through GLBSE, etc, etc.  Details, details.

Thoughts?

I have all 10 of my singles (soon to be 4) lined up in a row, with a 6 inch fan blowing over the top of them.  Not much space between them, yet they still all stay below 60c.

They do NOT like to be stacked!  I tried that, all the ones on top got hot, up to 63c!

www.minecraftcc.com
bitcoinforums.net (though it is currently down while the new site owner works things out on his end)
Or, just www.xenforo.com itself.  You can even get a 3-day "demo" forum setup with one click to give it a try, including all administrative functionality.

I suppose, for me, the fudging they do (or potentially, just the lack of sensitivity they give to updating customers to their current situations), doesn't bother me.  I halfway expect it in a startup company that suddenly gets way more business than they can handle.  They put a higher priority on fulfilling orders than they do on apprising customers of when their orders will be fulfilled.  I don't know that that is the right way to handle things, but it is their way of handling things.

That said, they are FAR from being a scam.  Everyone who has ordered units up through the middle of March now has received them.  Feel free to call them liars about their delivery times and what chips they use, but that doesn't make them scammers in my book, and I'm pretty sure most people agree with me on that one!

One definition of a scam is "to swindle (someone) by means of a trick".  How is BFL swindling anyone?  They are delivery a product (albeit late), and it is doing exactly what they advertised it to do (albeit with a different chip than they claimed).  I just don't see it as a scam.  Liars about some things, sure, but a scam, no.

1) Perhaps they thought they could meet those shipping deadlines from day one, but kept running into delays (as they stated)?
2) So?  As long as the chips do what they need to do, I don't care which ones they use.  Most reasonable people don't either.
3) I'd rather them accept pre-orders than not accept orders at all.  That'd make more of a mess, as people compete to try to get an order submitted whenever they open it up for new orders.
4) Pointless point, and not a fact.

I have no idea what twitter bootstrapize and jquerize means... SEO stuff or something?  Or is it for design?

Updated the Leave Feedback page!

- More room to see the comment you are typing
- More room for the reference URL
- Business name and URL are no longer required
- The biggest change is that you can now leave either a range or exact amount of value.  This will give people a better idea of if the person/business is dealing in transactions of 1 BTC or 1,000 BTC.

Still open to further comments on how to improve usability, etc of the site!

I still don't think it is a scam, but I wish we could get some kind of update as to WHY it hasn't been delivered yet.

41 days here... though I joined up a year ago, so I guess that makes me less obsessed than you. 

There's only one way to find out...