The two most recent links look like they would work, although the ports are on the same side, so using them on most dead drops would render the other ports inaccessible. Cords would solve this problem, but that seems less than ideal.
Have you considered making one?
I would make one, if a kit were available, say from adafruit. |
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So that I (or anyone else) can walk up to a deaddrop location with this device and a thumbdrive with a respectable amount of freespace, plug it in for a couple minutes, and take off without ever having to stand there with a laptop in the open. If the user wishes to place something on the deaddrop, he just turns the device around and uses his own thumbdrive as the source.
What about an Android phone with USB OTG support? http://youtu.be/giJXF5pIITcMight work, but I'm not willing to buy a new phone for this. I'd prefer a standalone device. |
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I don't know, then. Either it's a fee schedule imposed by the creator of that client fork, or you had a massive number of inputs. |
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ArtForz has done all of that, and even commissioned a small run of asics for his (not insignificant) mining cluster. By reports, each card produces 200 Mhashs per second while only using 8 watts. Most of this is hearsay, of course, but he was discussing ASICs back in September.
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Where have you found survivalist gear for sale?
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If you can get ArtForz to talk to you, then you just might be able to buy his design off of him.
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if the output is less then the input
then
excess = fee
Now it doesn't say who specifically who pays the fee here. It only states that the fee gets taken from the difference of A and B.
So was this decision that the buyer pays the fee made after "careful consideration" of the impact vs seller paying it or was it just arbitrary?
It's not arbitrary, it's just that the sender's client is the one that creates the transaction. But, under most circumstances, a fee is voluntary. This permits the costs of processing transactions to be borne in another fashion. For example, if in a future that Bitcoin is very successful, and you are shopping at (for example) Wal-Mart; it is generally assumed that Wal-Mart is not going to expect you to pay the transaction fee, but the client may or may not be able to respect the vendor's request that the fee be deducted. It doesn't much matter, though, because it's in the interests of Wal-Mart to have those transactions processed quickly whether there is a fee paid or not; so Wal-Mart has a strong economic encentive to either run their own datacenter to process Bitcoin transactions sent to themselves, or contract this activity out to a professional mining datacenter for the same ends. Thus, Wal-Mart bears the transaction costs and also keeps any savings (or fees) gained by mining for themselves. All other consumer or retail businesses have similar encentives, and therefore we can expect that "bitcoin banks" serving business interests will be responsible for processing the free transactions to or from their own clients/customers. |
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well maybe i'm just complaining then. Here was my real life example that made me start this post.
I sent two people .50 bitcoins each
The fee was 0.05...
This should not have been required. Did you send these from your own client? Did the client ask for a fee, or refuse to send without one? |
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MtGox is not your wallet. It's a website.
No, I'm saying the "Your bitcoin address:" in my local client. The address changes each time I receive coins from Mt Gox. Ah, must be a new thing. I've never noticed my older client changing the address without me explicitly telling it to do so. |
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I'm pretty sure when I send coins from Mt Gox to my account the string in "Your Bitcoin address:" changes. You don't think so?
MtGox is not your wallet. It's a website. |
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Question 2: Why does the client create a new address every time I receive coins?
It doesn't. It creates a new address every time you send coins, or ask it to do so. |
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It's a shame that LRC couldn't manage to wrap their heads around Bitcoin before posting this.
It's astounding how many people state that Bitcoin is worthless because they did not value its initial state. I valued it because it was cool (and should have paid more attention with BTC I bought/earned). Now I value it because it will revolutionise the world. Trading shiny lumps of metal is no more fundamental than transaction announcements. They're both pretty good. I look forward to when we can trade gold based predominantly on its industrial value. They also tend to forget gold's initial use value was little more than "ooooh, shiny!" |
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Stop the client, let it finish up, then restart it from the command line with the -rescan switch.
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You don't have to, but it's just default policy to use a new address for every transaction.
Using a different address can improve your anonimity, but if you would rather just give a different address to each person that you transact with, those addresses are still good forever. So you don't have to tell a new address to your friends just because you changed the address that the client displays. |
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Does the wallet.dat need to be backed up after each transaction? Its not clear. I've back it up plenty of times and was just wondering if it was necessary after each new BTC received. I'm guessing yes but wanted to make sure.
No, because the client automaticly generates 100 keypairs for future use upon first boot. It will use a new keypair with each send by default, and everytime that you hit the 'new address' button. Those keypairs (and addresses) are good forever, so as long as you back up at least as often as once every 100 transactions you will be okay. You can also tell it to make a lot more for you by starting it with the -keypool=somenumber switch. |
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If there is nothing else I know about governments, it's that they are just people with their own agendas and factions like anyone else. If one set of government busybodies openly wants to shut down bitcoin, it's a sure bet that there is another set of busybodies who privately want to see it florish. The same is true for any other government as it is for the US. If the US government settles on the decision of suppression, then there will undoubtedly be other governments that will support bitcoin for no other reason than the US overlords don't like it.
For example, if Schumer wants Bitcoin stopped; that alone is enough to get the attention of his own critics. If the Koch brothers get the idea that supporting bitcoin would undermine Dems who openly oppose it, we are going to see a lot more positive press than we could have ever imagined.
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There seems to be an ongoing attack of some subtle sort disrupting connections to nodes that announce themselves via the IRC bootstrapping channel. Look up the "bitcoin fallback nodes" on google, and use several ip addresses randomly using the following -connect=ip.address.goes.here and also use -noirc to keep your own ip address off of the irc bootstrapping channel.
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