http://blog.icann.org/2012/06/farewell-my-friends/

Apparently he announced his resignation a while ago, but I just heard about it now. I'm a little disappointed, since Beckstrom advocated for decentralization (he wrote The Starfish and the Spider), keeping governments out of ICANN as much as possible, and leaving law enforcement to more local organizations.

What do you think?

I expect insurance costs to increase a lot over time, which will prompt more regulation to once again "fix the free market".

I would love to see some states nullify this. My state probably won't, unfortunately.

Here are some of the old images:
https://bitcointalk.org/oldSiteFiles/
https://bitcointalk.org/oldSiteFiles/images/

The client uses the fee rules that it would use if it was a miner. If all miners used the bitcoin.org client, not paying the required fee would certainly cause your transaction to get stuck forever. And there's no way to cancel a transaction. (Not all miners do use the bitcoin.org client and its fee rules, of course.)

Sending change to the same address wouldn't reduce fees. Some sort of "coin defragment" feature would help, but that's complex.

Moderators don't have access to this stuff, either.

Yeah, victims and/or charities should pay people to compile the evidence. I certainly don't expect forum moderators to do these investigations.

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.

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 20:00:00 on July 5, 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 slot may be sold to someone else.

Sorry, you're too late.

BitLex sent me my 15 BTC. Thanks!

Since I already made a large profit, I will return this 15 BTC if the Randomizer runs out of money to pay back users.

Current state:
Slots BTC Person
4 3.5 wm-center.com
2 3 bitdaytrade
1 3 TehZomB
1 2.5 paraipan

About 1 hour left.

I prefer the more general phrasing because it includes specially-built mining hardware that isn't ASIC/FPGA. Readers of this section will be interested in such hardware. ASIC/FPGA is mentioned in the description.

This is what the top-level Hardware section is for, I think.

Good idea. Done.


What topics count as "custom hardware" that shouldn't be in this section?

Renamed to custom hardware for now. If you think it should be split, tell me why.

I don't like the idea of creating "Speculative" or "BFL" sections, as they are very specific to this situation. I want sections to be more general.

I don't follow the mining scene at all anymore. What FPGA mining hardware and ASIC mining hardware is available now, and what are the fundamental differences between these two technologies? I don't remember why this section is called "FPGA" rather than "ASIC" (which is better-suited for mining IIRC) or just "custom hardware".

I have a guess about what caused all of the problems today. While writing watchlist.php today, I ran an SQL query that seemed to really confuse MySQL. It was something like this:


I believe it was the ON (t.ID_TOPIC = t.ID_TOPIC) part that caused problems. (This isn't actually what I wanted to do -- I meant to compare ID_TOPIC in two different tables.) I think this query caused the database to lock up completely and refuse all connections, even after I stopped loading the page which ran this query. Maybe it also created huge temporary files which caused the other problems -- I didn't notice.

Added https://bitcointalk.org/watchlist.php

I've sold them all now. Thanks.