The prices won't be reduced. They may be increased if the BTC price gets really low. Additional lower-price statuses may be created later. I don't want to manually deal with too many payments, though.

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 this week will be 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

Efficacy stats:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=54182.0

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.

- 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 0.5.
- The bidding starts at 0.5.
- The auction end time is 11:00:00 on August 24, UTC. Countdown. (The end time may be extended -- see below.)
- 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 any valid bids occur less than 30 minutes before the auction end time, then the auction will be extended by 30 minutes. If any valid bids occur less than 30 minutes before the new end time, then the auction will be extended again, etc. The time will not extend beyond 6 hours total.

You must pay for your slots within 24 hours of receiving the payment address. Otherwise your slots may be sold to someone else.

Yes, though the Singularity Institute doesn't directly work on transhumanism much as far as I know. They focus mainly on trying to kick-start the singularity (ie. explosive technological progress) by creating benevolent human-level artificial intelligence that is able to quickly improve itself.

- The Bitcoin development group
- The Seasteading Institute
- The Singularity Institute

You're too late.

Final result is:
Slots BTC Person
4 5 cablepair
2 2 Goat
2 2 TangibleCryptography

If you hash something and then hash the resulting hash, the combined "doubleHash" algorithm is slightly weaker against certain theoretical attacks than just hashing the data once. Every additional hash round weakens it more. You should at least mix the password back in during each round:


That method of getting salt seems secure, but it'd be easier and even more secure to just use some random data stored with the password.

It's best to use established algorithms like SHA256-crypt, though. These use even more mixing to prevent cryptanalysis.

Bcrypt is no better at "being slow" than SHA-based password hashing schemes. When you increase bcrypt's difficulty factor, you're just increasing the number of times a hash-like algorithm is applied to the data. It's exactly the same as increasing the number of rounds in SHA256-crypt. I prefer SHA2-based schemes because SHA-2 was specifically designed for things like password hashing, and its use is recommended by many standards.

Blitz deleted it. It may have been too insubstantial for Speculation.

~15 hours left.


Right.

Slots BTC Person
4 5 cablepair
2 2 Goat
1 1 rate5
1 1 dree12

I'd guess that Satoshi has 10,000 - 50,000 BTC. He once said that he has plenty of BTC, but he didn't seem to be mining much.

Oh, checkAddress actually says that that's valid. My web interfaces all check base58 validity before using checkAddress... I'll update it soon to fix this.

It says that that address is invalid, which seems correct.

You can use it for other things. The base58 functions can be used for working with other address formats, for example.

You can restrict "show unread posts since last visit" to only certain boards like this:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=unread;boards=83,9,39,78

I find this useful, but it's not exposed through any UI feature.

sendfrom never tries to send BTC from specific addresses.

Fixed, thanks.

I created the subforum. Someone else can move the posts.

No forum staff gets paid from forum revenue. Only about 75 BTC has ever been spent from the forum funds. The rest is kept in reserve (mostly in this cold storage address).


Allowing potential con-artists to post here is entirely consistent with the forum's policy of free speech. Free discussion and free trade will help Bitcoin more than (temporary) PR gains would. Truth is best determined through discussion and a free market, not through decree by moderators. When BS&T defaults, I will be happy that I:

- Allowed individuals to make their own investment choices freely.
- Allowed individuals to freely post their thoughts on BS&T, positive or negative.
- Posted my own honest thoughts on BS&T. (I'm pretty sure it's a Ponzi scheme.)

Both.