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Mh.... you can't send fake bitcoins.
You can try to make 2 transactions one after the other and so try a double-spend but only one of them will be confirmed.
1 block usually is enough, but there is the chance (low chance) another one find a block and put into it the OTHER transaction and then the one who find the second block has the blockchain with the OTHER block and thus the first transaction is not valid.
But usually 1 block is enough
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Speaking about high end smartphones, there is the Samsung Galaxy S II with Android that is better than the "iphone"
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What about the camera guy assault by the police? Being assaulted in that way is illegal. Time to sue, i say
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Actually artists have no incentive to do a good job these days anyway because they can literally smear their own shit on a wall and call it modern art and get paid millions for it. I've literally seen bits of wood with nails in them called things like "Honour" valued at 30 grand. The most notable example I can think of is that fucking ass who just stuck 1.7 million dollars worth of diamonds to a plastic skull, called it "art" instead of "tacky shit" and was paid 15 million dollars for it.
Fuck artists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist%27s_shit A tin was sold for €124,000 at Sotheby's on May 23 2007[1]; in October 2008 tin 083 was offered for sale at Sotheby's with an estimate of £50-70,000. It sold for £97,250[2]. The cans were originally to be valued according to their equivalent weight in gold — $37 each in 1961 — with the price fluctuating according to the market[3]. And there are 90 tins Expensive shit is expensive. |
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Bitcoin is not a money and miners only hash keys and have keys, so we are not a bank and we don't have to register to ANYTHING.
We just have some alphanumerical keys
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Hi! Thanks for your suggestions. Sadly I'm pretty limited with the way google presents the forms  And the "why"s are actually the focus of the research - it's all well and good knowing some statistics but I'm interested in people's longer opinions! The Patriot Act is one reason I'm not asking where people come from, and why I'm not specific in what constitutes "illegal purposes"  I don't want anyone to incriminate themselves! I'll see what I can do about moving it from google - issue is that most survey sites are probably similarly problematic, law-wise. At any rate, I'm more interested in a general opinion response from the bitcoin community rather than a country-by-country breakdown of results. Since bitcoin is an emerging global technology with emerging impact on worldwide systems, I felt that identification of country of origin might be a bit arbitrary. Thanks to everyone who's filled it out so far - there have been some really interesting responses! Google can see the IP of people who did the survey and thus the police is able to find them... |
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Are you saying that if I set up a lemonade stand on my own private property (in USA) with the intent to sell lemonade, I would need to get a vendor license?
The police is shutting down a lot of kid stands that try to sell lemonade to earn a few dollars during summer (like they use to do) because they require to pay a license. We can not allow the kids to take business away from the big operators and so we need regulations to keep the big business safe... This was an act of protest against it. If you allow the kids to set up vending stand on someone else's property, then you have to allow the big business to do so as well. Is that really your utopia? One where people or corporations can come along, use your property against your wishes, the police do nothing and and you end up resorting to violence? Fail trolling is FAIL They protest against having to have a license to sell lemonade on YOUR OWN PROPERTY And in the video you see a PROTEST, not people selling lemonade, it's different. Can you understand? DIFFERENT. |
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The fact that they get arrested show us that protests are repressed, and that is a BAD thing.
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What people forget is that putting together computing power is useless. If you want consciousness you need SOFTWARE too. And good luck with that.
Having thousands of computer crunching SHA-256 is just that, crunching SHA-256, nothing more nothing less.
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It's a protest, it's not "selling thing on capitol land", try to understand
I don't live in USA and i find that a bad thing, tons of police and these poor guys ARRESTED for some lemonade? Meh, they really have nothing better to do? Like uh, try to avoid a default or retake AAA rating or these things you know...
Didn't know you could be arrested for some lemonade, maybe a fine but arrested? Ridicolous.
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Lol, what are you speaking about? A bunch of sha-256 hashing cannot be "conscious"  But a bunch of ion pumps can? Only if you invert the polarity |
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Lol, what are you speaking about? A bunch of sha-256 hashing cannot be "conscious" |
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Wait for gabicoin, that will be the true revolution! Or maybe not.
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How do you know when all the blocks are downloaded?
You check the total blocks number here http://bitcoinwatch.com/ Now we are almost at 142000 for example |
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Well helping science is income, since it help you too. I was partecipating in distributed computing projects for years before bitcoin, that's why i have an ATI card too |
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Theoretically it's possible to make a CAL client and be able to use the 2000 and 3000 serie but... it's useless, their performance would sucks...
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Wait, you have to leave bitcoins up in order to receive the money?
No, transactions are registered on the blockchain. But if you want to see these transactions on your client you have to download all the blocks, then your BTC will appear. |
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+1 to BOINC
I have a quadcore cpu here, i just put 3 cores on BOINC and i leave the other one to Guiminer (with 4 cores on BOINC m/hash drops a lot...)
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Probably, but there's a possibility it's for a scientific calculations (Folding@home, SETI@home etc.)  You should know that folding and seti are projects for nvidia... ati run very bad on them. Either they are mining rigs (99% chance they are) or they crunch on Milkyway@home/Collatz/DNETC boinc projects |
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Funny, until this thread i didn't even know what "groupon" is.
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