interesting.. wouldn't have thought I'd see a ham radio operator in the bitcoin world  I let my VK2 ham ticket lapse many years ago, but I would be interested to see someone connecting a bitcoin client via EME (" moonbounce"). Just because they can. |
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It's also extremely annoying when people correct me when I use "he" as a gender-neutral pronoun.
You have history on your side, but it's a losing battle. |
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What does "134,184 blocks" mean to a user? A time-based approach would be more informative. Tell them how out-of-date they are...
That is a brilliant suggestion. It would avoid a lot of new-user problems. |
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This is certainly one of my top three most annoying stylistic errors.
And the other two? I nominate the unnecessary use of ( TM) when it is not legally required, and the way that people who use Microsoft Word just put up with the way that MS Word superscripts dates without being asked (e.g. 25 th rather than 25th). |
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I think your bitsquirrel is perfect! |
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Is Joe an evil man?
No, Joe is not an evil man. Oh hang on, is this one of those feminist tricks where the right answer is "We can't say for sure that Joe is not an evil man, because Joe might be Josephine or Joanne rather than Joseph"? |
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do you guys think it would be a good idea if the bitcoin community developed a set of "acceptable uses" for bitcoin trading...
maybe something like a code of honor of sorts...
Put it this way, lechuck: Suppose the community developed a set of "acceptable uses" that excluded something you wanted to do. Suppose that sending bitcoins to people under 18 years old was not an accepted use, yet you wanted to send some bitcoins to your children. Would you still think it was a good idea to have this "code of honor"? |
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... and leaves its customers open to man in the middle attacks because then you have no convenient way to distinguish between the legitimate self-signed cert and an attacker's cert... True enough. But how do you conveniently distinguish between a legitimate purchased cert and a cert that was sold to the CIA by a compliant cert-issuer? I wouldn't trust anything of value to a site that used self-signed certs or a private CA unless I went through extra effort to verify that it was ok.
Fair enough. Anyway, regardless of the technical issues, a service will not be commercially successful if it causes the browser to display frightening messages. |
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A compromise between right and wrong is still wrong. A compromise between good and bad is still bad.
In everything but the simplest questions there's a compromise. Not in questions between right and wrong. "Shall we start WW3 and obliterate the world?" "No, that would be evil" "OK then, let's compromise. We'll obliterate half the world and leave half untouched". |
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... the worlds first working smartphone application for sending and receiving bitcoins ... Not the first smartphone app! Forum user doublec ported bitcoind to the Nokia N900 smartphone, and on December 7 2010 we exchanged coins phone-to-phone. |
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1. The next "best thing" after sliced bread was wheeled luggage. 2. The best thing since wheeled luggage is Bitcoin. 3. It's getting close:  (blue = "bitcoin", red = "the bible") |
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Technically it's doable, but the need just isn't there.
There are already notary services to record prior art. But for most purposes (including trademark and patent disputes) the Wayback Machine works just fine.
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MtGox recently posted some adjustments to people's accounts, to bring the balance equal to the sum of the transactions.
Before assuming that your friend has 60 extra BTC in his account, look back to the early transactions to see whether there is 60 BTC missing. Perhaps your friend didn't notice the discrepancy at the time, due to the lower value of BTC back then.
My MtGox account was credited with some "extra" Gox dollars, but when I looked back to my very first transaction, it didn't show the Gox dollars that should have been on that transaction. The adjustment was actually balancing out that problem, and the resulting balance is probably correct now.
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What's the deal? Why don't they have a legitimate certificate?
Oh, a self-signed certificate is perfectly legitimate. It actually provides better privacy than a purchased certificate. The only thing a self-signed certificate doesn't provide is any assurance that a third party has confirmed the identity of the website. But you can obtain that assurance yourself by reading around this forum. Unfortunately, the browser message is very frighteningly-worded. Which is just how the sellers of commercial certificates like it. |
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Cuddlefish didn't "break the other guy's website", because the other guy's website was already broken.
Also, posting publicly serves as a cautionary tale for every other website owner to re-check their own websites.
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This. Is. Awesome. Except, f lat money?!  I think that should become the new meme. We should call all govt-issued paper currency "flat money". |
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Thanks dooglus, your patch was an important improvement.
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If anonymous money is outlawed, only outlaws will use anonymous money. How exactly does that benefit society?
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Use Operation Fabulous to easily place ads on a wide variety of Bitcoin-sympathetic websites. |
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