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501  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I'm planning to write a book about Bitcoin, any ideas? on: September 26, 2011, 10:27:38 AM
Do you have an outline you could share with us, Alex?
502  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Cryptographic reasoning for double-hash? on: September 26, 2011, 10:25:00 AM
Most of those hash computations haven't been recorded, though.  Only the ones meeting the difficulty requirement. 

Think about it.  A wimpy GPU can generate 100MH/s.  Do you really think it's going to be more efficient to pull pre-computed preimage/hash pairs over the network?

It is just possible that there are some interesting relationships in the preimages to the hashes which met the difficulty requirement, but they will probably be very hard to tease out.
503  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: "I know what I need and it's not bitcoin" - my mom on: September 26, 2011, 02:09:32 AM
You are lucky to have such a Mom.  She has a lot to teach you.

You know her better than I, but what she is saying appears to have nothing to do with religion, she is pointing to the need for emotional support.  ("It's going to be alright" in this context means "I will take care of you.)  An anonymous currency like bitcoin, though I find it fascinating, disconnects us from communal interaction.  This also has practical implications (we can't trust each other, "everybody's a scammer," massive friction in economic transactions, etc.), but what your Mom is pointing out is that it's very lonely.

Express your feelings to her, don't gossip about her to us.  She cares about you.  We are just words on a screen to you.
504  Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: Random shut-downs. Dying PSU? on: September 26, 2011, 12:58:33 AM
It would be worth tracking the temperatures to verify that it's not overheating.  The fact that you have been using it for months does not necessarily imply that heat is not the issue.
505  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Silk Road on: September 25, 2011, 11:15:51 PM
Traffic to SR never goes through an exit node.

When you go to a hidden service the "exit node" is the node hosting the service. So its an unencrypted http connection to (I assume) localhost
  Oh.  Thanks for the explanation.
506  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Silk Road on: September 25, 2011, 10:42:43 PM
Ah, PGP authentication would help a lot.
507  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: EU to declare bitcoin as 'overlay currency' on: September 25, 2011, 10:40:45 PM
What would be the regulatory implications of such a declaration?
508  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Silk Road on: September 25, 2011, 10:33:47 PM
Yes, it's pretty remarkable that the Silk Road doesn't do https, only http.  I wonder why that is.  The CIA/NSA must have tor exit nodes...  You could really have some fun by hijacking some high-profile accounts there...
509  Economy / Speculation / Re: Why has bear sentiment gone up again? on: September 25, 2011, 06:24:22 PM
The fact that all we have to go on is sentiment is the core problem.
510  Economy / Economics / Re: [POLL] Where are you putting your money? on: September 25, 2011, 05:19:12 PM
Primarily in the fiat currency of a country which has not yet resorted to inflating its way out of debt.
511  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Spartan6-LX150 board for $250 -- gauging interest for mid-Oct ship date on: September 25, 2011, 05:10:45 PM
For everyone else, the LX150 isn't supported by the free version of the Xilinx tools. You'll have to buy the full version ($5K?) to develop for this board.
Thanks.
512  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I'm planning to write a book about Bitcoin, any ideas? on: September 25, 2011, 01:29:36 PM
Heh.  Very convincing comeback!
513  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: The Miner's Swap on: September 25, 2011, 01:28:45 PM
If anyone has any comments or suggestions for improvement, I'd very much appreciate it.
  Hi, I read your document.  I don't really see what this gets the parties over a simple   "You pay me $x now, and I will pay you y bitcoins at time t."  Also, I am fluent in the notation, and did not have a problem reading it, but you really buried the lede by describing the contract using mathematical equations.  The document would be more accessible to more people if you had a subsection of the introduction describing the key ideas of the contract in words.  If you do that, you will probably get more people asking the same question I am, but you need to answer that question anyway.
514  Economy / Speculation / Re: Crash to $2 imminent. Willing to bet. on: September 25, 2011, 12:29:11 PM
Yes, it's not going to go down to $1 without quite a few miners throwing in the towel...
515  Economy / Speculation / Re: Crash to $2 imminent. Willing to bet. on: September 25, 2011, 12:22:40 PM
Interesting, wisdomtool.  That is about where I would be comfortable getting in, too.  But it's just based on a gut feeling.  What is your reasoning?
516  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Looking for a 8 pci expansion slot case on: September 25, 2011, 12:16:25 PM
It probably reflects my relative cluelessness about computer hardware, but what surprises me about these caseless rigs is that they don't get damaged by dust and other insults. 
517  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How much do you have invested in bitcoins? on: September 25, 2011, 11:57:55 AM
Financially, zero.  Timewise, I've done quite a bit of research.
518  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Spartan6-LX150 board for $250 -- gauging interest for mid-Oct ship date on: September 25, 2011, 11:42:14 AM
Will it be possible for the end-user to reprogram this thing?  Might be fun.
519  Bitcoin / Press / Re: Bitcoin press hits, notable sources on: September 25, 2011, 11:35:00 AM
...as long as China doesn't shoot itself in the foot first.
China has been implementing a slow-motion GSW to the foot for decades, same as every developed nation.  (They learned the model from us.)

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/08/chinese-banks-these-things-arent-banks.html
520  Economy / Speculation / Re: Why has bear sentiment gone up again? on: September 25, 2011, 02:33:25 AM
The last two days are a blip on the screen.  Go take a look at a chart from the last two months.  And yes, there has been progress, and it is important, but in terms of price in USD, it is a tiny factor compared to the publicity bitcoin enjoyed at the start of the summer, the effects of which still have a long way to fade.
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