He's one of the more active users of the Spanish section. There have been no complaints about his moderation.

Right.

Yes.

Replacement isn't needed for this. The two parties can communicate their tx versions directly.

It was from Satoshi to Hal Finney.

No. If the lock time is extended after the channel is established, transactions after the lock time is extended can be easily reversed by the sender.

OK, verified. Thanks!

Exactly what address and message did you use to generate this?

The bitcoind command for signing a message would be:
bitcoind signmessage 1M4LFZyW7FTRAKXS1DHKfgzkNFeCKSk6vM 'I am vasgolova'

I don't know how you do it with Bitcoin-Qt.

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 13, 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.

You'll need to sign a message with one of the addresses you sent from. Otherwise I don't know that it was you who sent that 10 BTC.

Neat idea. The loan that the processor gives you is entirely risk-free, so it'd probably be pretty cheap. I could see this being commonly used for micropayments and instant transfers. It might even be the main transaction method in the future if the max block size stays fixed at 1 MB and blockchain transactions get really expensive. Even this might create too many transactions, though.

I'd guess that channels for receiving BTC would be free. The main benefit is to senders, who get their product instantly and don't have to pay fees for every transaction. But payment providers can only offer these benefits when recipients have channels set up.

Someone should make a diagram describing hashcoin's payment system. It's kind of difficult to understand.

Current state:
Slots BTC Person
4 6 aurumxchange
1 5.5 wm-center.com
3 5 cablepair

Maged's last list is accurate.

I think this was an accident. He unstickied it a few hours after he stickied it.

About 3.5 hours left.

His account was banned. (He still needs to pay back his lenders, of course.)

Right. An output's script provides an algorithm for determining whether that output can be spent, and any input trying to spend the output provides the arguments for that algorithm.


Everyone accepts non-standard transactions if they appear in a block. The default client doesn't mine or relay non-standard transactions. A few big miners like Eligius do accept them, though.

Email is P2P. You can easily run your own SMTP server.

It's essentially random. You can't choose which addresses to send from with the default bitcoin.org client.