Well its been a little more than one word...   

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=82648.msg926694#msg926694
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=82648.msg928916#msg928916

But I'll keep using your site and let you know if there are any other problems.

Thanks for reminding me about that. I will have to make sure to use it more often.


And about the owners/managers of Virtex; they used to hang out at #bitcoin-cad
using the handles of Grady2000 and virtex I believe. It's been a while since I've logged
in there so I am not sure how it is now. Back then I remember people saying how easy
it was to just pick up the phone and talk to Grady2000 if there were any concerns.  
I have never had to wait long for replies to any email I sent their way. Hell, they
are even close enough to me that I could probably drive to Calgary and talk to them
in person.  

Hmm, they should do something for the Calgary Stampede week this year. A free pancake breakfast or something.
It's the 100 year celebration of the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth this year, July 6-15.

No problem.

Btw, you can use this address: 1Nudc52nUTCgF9mx1j2hSgMCXQDdxtNdft
if any of my suggestions or testing qualifies for that .5btc bounty I noticed you mentioning on your site.   

 

Ya, if only there was a quick and inexpensive way of getting the money back out of MtGox again
to continue the cycle... I would be doing a lot more of that. 

I have never seen it down, at least not recently, and I have the order book opened all the time while I am working on the computer and refresh it often throughout the day.

But what I would like to know is... who is that Mr. 2.54
filling up the order book and making it less useful with garbage like this:

May 29, 2012, 10:08 p.m.    2.54/2.54    5.20000    13.21 CAD
May 29, 2012, 10:08 p.m.    2.54/2.54    5.20000    13.21 CAD
May 29, 2012, 10:08 p.m.    2.54/2.54    5.20000    13.21 CAD
May 29, 2012, 10:08 p.m.    2.54/2.54    5.20000    13.21 CAD
May 29, 2012, 10:08 p.m.    2.54/2.54    5.20000    13.21 CAD
May 29, 2012, 10:08 p.m.    2.54/2.54    5.20000    13.21 CAD
May 29, 2012, 10:08 p.m.    2.54/2.54    5.20000    13.21 CAD
May 29, 2012, 10:08 p.m.    2.54/2.54    5.20000    13.21 CAD
May 29, 2012, 10:08 p.m.    2.54/2.54    5.20000    13.21 CAD
May 29, 2012, 10:08 p.m.    2.54/2.54    5.20000    13.21 CAD
May 29, 2012, 10:08 p.m.    2.54/2.54    5.20000    13.21 CAD
May 29, 2012, 10:08 p.m.    2.54/2.54    5.20000    13.21 CAD

 

Did you make it harder for it to go to 0.01(and to 0.02 if one wanted to wait the 5 min.)
or did I just get lucky those few times there.

When you say, "Stay there and get more coins!"  Does that mean one should leave that
new page open in a browser tab and then go back to the original page and open another
ad page in a new tab, and just continue that way. 

I was thinking, before you probably changed some things, that it would be good if the
timer kept running while one was on a page opened by clicking on an ad box, so one
could spend some time checking out the page instead of rushing back to make sure the
timer kept going. I am sure the advertisers would like that as well... but perhaps there
is no way to determine that the other tab one is on is actually the one opened by
clicking an ad.


"Believe" is spelled incorrectly on the news slider on the right btw.

There already exists a thread like that where people can submit free bitcoin sites.

Look in the New to BitCoin? Start here! sticky in the general Bitcoin Discussion forum for this line:

Where do I get free bitcoins?        Discussion thread here

I tried it again and I got the 0.02 this time. Thanks.

A couple other things...

Once when I tried it I got the captcha wrong ( couldn't see the right letters against the background ) so I refreshed the captcha with the circular arrow thingy to the right and tried it again and it gave me a warning message as if I was trying to get a second payment in less than 12hrs. 

And those operation fabulous ads on either side breaks one out of the page and when one goes back the timer is reset to 300.  That might upset some people who might expect them to act like the ads in the boxes. 

And the Kessler syndrome.

Bug

I log in to the site and the Your Coins display shows 0.0025

I click on the ads until the display changes to 0.01

I let the timer run out and the display changes to 0.02

I click on the center box which reads "Click Here To Claim Your Coins" and submit my address etc.

I later check that address to see how much I actually get paid:  0.005

I did this twice to confirm. It only paid out 0.005 both times. 

It will only send you 1 email notice until you check into the thread and read the new replies since you were last there.

I don't see how setting up a decentralized network like is presented in the OP is anything like a centralized - Statist - system like Communism.

I am not a communist. That doesn't mean that I look at every situation and relationship I encounter ( especially involving family, friends, neighbors etc. ) as a potential way to make money.  

I seem to recall etotheipi, the developer of Armory, speaking eloquently on why he wants to keep his client free...  Perhaps you could seek out his words if you are still unclear on the concept of being more interested in the good that systems like bitcoin can do for everybody - or at least those communities that one feels a part of - and not just for oneself on a financial level alone.  

I have nothing against making money, but I am sure I am not alone in feeling that it is not the most important thing in life.

Even if one is only interested in making money there are still positives, for oneself, that come from things like philanthropy, and charitable and generous ways of conducting oneself and doing business.  

Also it is best, I feel, not to think in either/or terms.  I am not suggesting that there be only exchangers that don't charge fees and operate in the way the OP gets into. There is room for a lot of alternatives, giving each individual as many choices as possible for a system they feel comfortable in using and supporting.  

That goes against the view expressed in that article, "Don’t charge an exchange fee."

I agree with that view and not the view you express, which would tend to make the exchanger look like he is more interested in making a buck then in
helping the community he is a part of. 

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This should ( at least it does on windows ):

Ya, and then if we decided to use a word like "voluntary" we would have some idiot shouting, "VOLUNTARY? I WAS ONCE TOLD BY A POLITICIAN THAT X WOULD BE VOLUNTARY AND IT ENDED UP BEING COERCIVE AND RIGGED! I WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH VOLUNTARY!"   

LOL

How about learning the actual meaning of words and then if someone misuses it blame them and not the word?   

"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."


I won't argue with that but I think the marketers will beg to differ. In modern times they have made neuro-semantic manipulation an artform and taken it to levels that would shock even Goebbels.   

But anyway we can end now... hazek has given us truth!   

or so it seems to me... but i am common... and a weasel... lol

And then there is the seeming contradiction of your complaining about democracy being only about people ruling over others while you seem to want to rule over others in how they describe bitcoin. i.e. your saying as much as "People must not use the word democratic to describe it!" ( note I said "your saying as much as..." That is not meant as a verbatim quote. ) 

I don't care if people use that term to describe it or not. I am just offering my opinion that people should be allowed to use that term if they want, since by the proper definition of the term "democratic", bitcoin is democratic in many ways ( if perhaps not in all ways ).

I also agree with others that to call it undemocratic is a misrepresentation, although they are free to do so, as much as I and others are free to state our opinion about that, while not going so far as to try and coerce them to stop.

This whole thread is a democratic thing, with the poll for people to vote in if they want and the opportunity for everyone to have their say if they so choose. 
But perhaps it isn't perfect. There are certain forum rules that must be followed, and not everyone might agree with all the various rules, and there is the centralized authority of moderators ( but they seem to be nice rulers pretty much. All hail our forum overlords! lol  ) and other things that not everyone agrees with, or has a free choice in... it is still largely democratic just the same.

You still seem willing to participate. Do you feel like you were forced to come here against your will and made to state your views in this evil exercise of democracy?   

tl;dr  I am not trying to attack the views of anyone but to defend* "democracy" and democracy.... the word and what it represents. ( *not too actively but just with a few words of support etc. )

ftfy

And neither does there have to these things in a democracy as has been pointed out to you now many times. Just because you don't like something that someone inappropriately calls "democracy" and you let them change the meaning of the word for you doesn't mean it still doesn't have the original meaning for most people who use the language. I don't have to justify using it in its proper sense. It is people like you and certain politicians etc. who misuse it who have to justify yourselves.


If it is a lie then why let them get away with it? Why let them change the meaning of the word? Why give in and let them push you around like that? You say you will have none of it but it seems like it is me and others who you are arguing with are the ones who want to stand up for the proper use of our language.

If a politician told you 2+2=5 will you just shrug your shoulders and ask, "But how am I going to balance my checkbook now?"  

+1


You don't need to be so strict in your definitions. Instead of "rule" in its most nasty connotation it can be seen as, and takes the form as in certain real world applications, as
"supervised."

Bitcoin is supervised by computer systems, which are supervised by the common people.  That is a good thing.

And about the notion, brought up by a few here, that we should not use certain words because politicians misuse them all the time... What? We want those politicians to rule over us and push us around and keep us from using perfectly good words?  Instead of letting them get away with the misuse I would prefer to see people speak up and point these things out. This is the information age. We can use it to our advantage like with systems like bitcoin. We can speak to power. We can neutralize their propaganda with education and reasoned argument, without needing to be insecurely belligerent about it either. We don't need to bow down to them and let them redefine our world with their doublespeak and all the rest.  We can see the man behind the curtain... let us tell everyone instead running away... we can see how powerless and frightened he really is. We don't need to fight him but just recognize our own power... not a power over others but a power to be what we want to be, without the need of the hand-holding of a nanny state protecting us and powerful centralized masters keeping us in line.