@TTBit: That graph is bloody brilliant! Netflix stock went to shit days after my site was announced.
What an hilarious financial shenanigan

This project has indeed been a much bigger success than I had anticipated. Thanks to everyone who has used the service so far, or intends to do so in the future. And thanks too to the shareholders, who gave me that capital injection that I needed. You made a great investment!

Try something along these lines:


for testing purposes, it says on the dwolla site:


So I think if you change the amount value to those test values, and it will simulate a success ($1), a too large failure ($3), a user invalid failure ($4) or an amount invalid failure (any other value).

You can call the functions by using:


I think your way will also work i,e, $client->SomeFunction(yada, yada);
It's just a slightly different way of doing it.

Set each variable first, before the call. So you can be sure your strings are strings and amounts are numbers.
I believe your call failed because where in your call you put "1.50" in quotes, the handler is expecting a decimal value, not a string.
Try removing the quotes and see if it works out for you.

The parameters, types and descriptions of the functions and their variables can be found here:
http://www.dwolla.org/d/showthread.php?3-SOAP-API

You can use their test API (https://www.dwolla.com/api/TestAPI.svc?wsdl) to mess around, rather than their official one.

The following code:


returns the following:

Just thought I'd post some of the google analytics stats for anyone who is interested:

You use the SOAP protocol to communicate with their API.

Here is a link to a discussion on the API:
http://www.dwolla.org/d/showthread.php?3-SOAP-API

Here is a link to the php.net database on SOAP, and how to implement it:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.soapclient.php

This is the address that you use to communicate with the API:
https://www.dwolla.com/api/API.svc?wsdl

You authenticate with an API key, generated in your dwolla API settings, I believe. Then you can use the other functions of the API.

Sorry can't be more specific right now, it's pretty late here right now.
But it's pretty easy to do, just read through the documentation on both of those links, and you should figure it out.

I can post more detailed information tomorrow for you.

@terrytibbs:

I have added your button to the affiliates section:

Very kind of you mate.
PM me your username on bitcointorrentz and I'll give you an extra 20% discount, if you like.

Looks pretty good mate. Thanks for taking the time to brew one up yourself.
Do you mind if I add it to the collection in the affiliate section?

@dancupid: I do have some other bitcoin related project ideas. Though, I want to focus on one at a time. A vpn service is a great idea though. I may indeed decide to offer vpn. Thanks for the suggestion!

But as terrytibs said, mullvad accept bitcoin as payment. Competition is a good thing though!
They charge 1btc per month for their plans. I could match that at a minimum, and indeed beat it I think.
I wonder how much demand there would be for such a service?

With regards to updates to the site, I have added affiliate banners with the users referral link pre-formatted into HTML and forum BBcode for easy copy-paste insertion. These can be found within the members area:



I have also added further affiliate statistics to the members area: earnings per hit and conversion rate.

These are pretty much self explanatory, but just for the sake of clarity, earnings per hit is your average earnings per referral visit rounded to 6 decimal places. Conversion rate is the number of downloads your referee's have made as a percentage of your total hits. Both of these are indicators of how well the affiliate program is working out for you.

I have also made some major syntax improvements to the code, which is not really evident to the end user, but will make future updates much easier to implement.

Keep torrenting guys!

@bitfoo: I'm not sure really how necessary an alternate url is. It's already torentZ with a z. As for the obscuring of filenames, it would be rather difficult to implement in multi-file torrents. You would have to recurse through the directory and rename every directory and file to a random string. This would make navigation through the contents a nightmare. I am trying to think of ways of achieving this without having to rename the actual torrent files themselves. Perhaps place them in a randomly generated directory instead?

I am in no way saying that I disagree morally with adult services. Porn is great! And prostitutes are even better... I hear Amsterdam is lovely this time of year. At the end of the day, it is the woman's right to choose for herself. What I have a problem with is the sex-trafficking trade, i.e the forced prostitution of women. And it is rife. Only when this industry is legally recognized and regulated properly, like they have done in Amsterdam and elsewhere, will the problem be solved.

I don't want to drag this thread OT, but... seriously. Caucasian or not, the concept of slavery doesn't vary that much from country to country. The consensus opinion is that it is not a positive thing for the world. History has shown us that.

Give me a few examples of people willing to give up their human rights willingly, without external pressure, prejudice, abject poverty or violent coercion driving them to do so. I'm sure there are some willing to do it. But many would probably have some sort of psychiatric disorder. Only a small subset of those have rational and justified reasons for 'giving up' their human rights, not "LOTS".

Despite what ethnic background you come from, basic intuition tells us that slavery is morally not right.
Would you consent to it if you had any other option?

I was referring to the recent upsurge in adult related threads in the services subforum.
I have no problem with it whatsoever. Was just pointing out that it seems to be quite prolific lately.

Also, I can't quite see the relationship between a torrent site and a prostitution ring?
A torrent won't suck my dick for 20 bitcoins...

I know for a FACT there are things out there that I cannot even conceive of.

The only thing I can be 100% sure that exists is my own consciousness. At least in some size, shape or form. You know, Descartes... cogito ergo sum? I think therefore I am?

We perceive the universe through a narrow window of the electromagnetic spectrum. We rely on light reflecting off objects in order to see them. We rely on vibrations through the air to convey information between two individuals. We are all highly limited by our relatively poor sensory modalities. Fish, swimming around an ocean, unknowing of what lies above them. At least some of us are aware of this and accept it. Others are, unfortunately, blissfully ignorant of their own biological insufficiencies.

Who is assuming that? Did you for some reason assume that I was? Hmm.
To assume what others are assuming is what is retarded...

And anyway, how can you be so sure how retarded it is when neither of us know for sure? All I'm saying is that multiple investigations have been done by various organizations, and it is known to be a widespread problem.

Therefore, there is a higher probability that a prostitute is a sex slave if she/he is from eastern europe. You don't assume that she definitely is, you just realize that there is a greater probability that it is the case.

Who in their right mind would want to do that willingly?
Those that do may be suffering from psychological disturbances, or being exploited or threatened in some way.

While I agree that if a rational argument for becoming a slave was put forward, someone should be allowed to do so, as long as it is proven that they have not been coerced and are of sound mind.

However, I think that this is a very hot moral, ethical, political and legal issue.
It can not be as simplistic as 'if a person wants they can give up ALL rights'.
That is a very naive point of view.

There have been multiple investigations into sex-trafficking of women from eastern europe in the UK, and it is a big problem. As another user has already said, these women are brought into the UK often against their will or tricked into it by false presences of a legal job offer. Once they arrive, they are forced to work as a prostitute, prevented from contacting home, threatened with violence by their 'employers' and in many cases actually living in confinement.

I don't like the sound of this service one bit.

It is getting a bit ridiculous! It just seems to be a little undignified, particularly the london escort thing.
And don't forget about the asian breast implant pics!

Ok, the status page bug discussed earlier has now been fixed. Thanks guys for being my beta testing guinea pigs!
The page still needs to be converted to use ajax rather than a javascript reload, but this is already in the works.

@Ben Walsh: in order to provide https downloading, I would have to obtain a ssl certificate from a certificate authority, which is quite pricey. I could generate my own self-signed certificate, but that often throws up trust errors to end-users and might scare people away. Right now, the best I can do is provide users with FTP-SSL access (encrypted ftp, i.e. ftps), on request. If they want HTTPS access to the site itself, they could just access it through TOR, providing similar levels of encryption and anonymity from snooping. Also, this would not affect the speed of their remote downloads negatively.