So, anyone else received theirs?

Have to agree with that.  Some people manage to live their entire life without working for another person (and also without living off the government or anyone else).

Yes, because the government doesn't already have enough control over our lives!  

As much as I abhor the fact that people kill little babies who haven't yet been born, I am still unsure whether it is my moral obligation to speak out against it or stop them.  I feel like I am being judgmental of people if I do so.

Then again, the US invaded Germany to stop them from killing people, and no one outside of Germany thought what Germany was doing was right, so maybe it IS appropriate to use force to stop mass genocides.

 

Lol, krokodil.  Yeah, would have to say that's about the stupidest thing a person can get involved in...

The other thing to think about is how many people have bought these, and how much profit will be squeezed out of mining by them.  BFL told me that their initial production run of Rig Boxes is already sold out..!  I don't know how many they are planning to make even in this initial run, but at 50GH a pop, they'll add to the difficulty quickly!

Just thought I'd input that generally, yes, emails are binding contracts.  And they have been held up as such in countless cases in court now.  I'm not going to give examples, that's just what I remember from my business law course.

Also, Chaang, IMO, you are being completely unreasonable.  Just reply to the email as they requested, and you'll get the refund.  Why are you continuing to drag this out?  If the refund is received, why do you care who it came from?

That's one thing I don't get.  How do people extrapolate the content/value/quality of the magazine based on a disagreement going on in the forum?  It makes no sense to me...  A disagreement outside of the magazine is just that - outside of the magazine.

Weren't those only generating something like 200MH/s though?

I already read the whole thread before posting.  You didn't make mention of any exchanges that currently accept whatever currency is used in Argentina.  Saying "You can buy bitcoins with local currency" doesn't explain how or where this might take place.  For all I know, you could have been referring to just finding someone else in the country who uses Bitcoins and is looking to buy more than $10,000 worth of them.

This thread is hilarious.

Is there no way to buy Bitcoins with her money?  You mention Tradehill, which makes me think you've already thought about the Bitcoin route, which makes me think that there aren't any exchanges currently accepting whatever currency Argentinians use.

Hopefully you're finding Bitcoin to be a positive thing thus far?  We need more positive publicity!

So payback in 7.5 months (roughly).  Wow, not bad at all...

Of course, I guess you have to count the amount of time you are waiting for the product to actually arrive! 

820MH/s?  And how much did it cost?

And it looks like you just joined him on that!  :p

Mmmm, good point - I'll have to look in to that!

I like the Strongcoin API because everything is already set up for digital goods distribution.  It's all already coded.  I'd need to add stuff like seller logins and control panels for uploading files, etc, but the base code is all set up, which is awesome.

Definitely!  It's not a bad business model, just not one that I'd like to pursue.  A bit more involved than I'd like, I guess.

EDIT:  Also, as an anwer to my above questions, Strongcoin's API DOES send a response at 0-conf, which means something is wrong with their demo page.  I'm working with them to find out what.

So, looking at the Strongcoin idea more seriously... (the ubitious requires a VPS or better with Ubuntu installed, whereas Strongcoin does not).

The fee is a modest 1% for using the Strongcoin API.  I think that is more than reasonable.

Biggest issue is, it seems to wait for a certain number of confirmations before the API sends a response of "paid".  I don't know about you, but if I'm a customer that wants to download goods, I don't want to have to leave a browser window open for an hour to wait for 6 confirmations to go through before I get a notice that I can download the file.

0-conf would be perfect for this sort of system.  Yeah, a few people would figure out ways to scam it, etc, but those people probably wouldn't pay for the goods in question to begin with anyway, so it's kind of a moot point.

Question is, is there any way to get the Strongcoin API to reply with a 0-conf status instead of waiting for a certain number of confirmations?

I'll be contacting the folks at Strongcoin to find the answer to that question.

This doesn't look anything like what I was talking about.  It doesn't look like you can sell files, and apparently costs money to get an account to download things?  But thanks for the suggestion anyhow.

Eh, I don't like it.    There's already plenty of sites that offer free file hosting - why would someone choose mine?  And I wouldn't like pressuring the digital goods sellers into paying the hosting fees of the free content either - I'd rather see them get as high a percentage cut of their asking price as possible.

I wouldn't be looking for traffic on the site just by people going to the site itself.  Most traffic would be generated from the sellers' sites.  Kind of like bit-pay.  No one goes to bit-pay to see what's for sale.  They reach bit-pay as a payment processor for whatever they are buying from the seller's site.  I'd like to see a site operate in the same manner, but for digital goods.  Maybe go a step further and have a catalog of everything for sale for people who are interested in looking at such things, but beyond that, it would be the seller's responsibility to drive traffic to their goods on the site.

I don't think your idea is bad, but it just doesn't seem to differentiate itself enough from the many sites already out there that do the same thing.  Megaupload is shut down, but there's dozens more free file sharing sites that serve the same purpose.

Kind of exactly what I was thinking.  If the fee was low (1-2%), then I think it could be a very viable option for people wanting to sell no-hassle digital goods.  Having a sortable/filterable catalog of digital goods to look through would be nice too (option of the seller to list their goods in the catalog).

Open to everyone would be interesting, but again, would require a way to pay for all the bandwidth required to host large files and give them to anyone who wanted them.  That would mean pages full of advertisements, pop-up ads, etc.  Not really sure I'd want to go that route... those sites always bugged me.  One option might be to "fund" an address with more than required to allow free downloads to others.  So if someone wants to host a 1GB file, and let it be downloaded for free by 100 people, then they could "fund" the address with 0.1 BTC (or something), and for each download, 0.001 BTC would be deducted.  And anyone could fund the account.  Kind of like the Bitcoin Faucet, but for downloads instead.

*shrug*