Sorry if this is a little off topic. Force on children is terrible. 

Stef says frequently that we have no unchosen obligations. I completely agree.

He says we've chosen to have children so now we have an obligation to feed, clothe, educate, whatever. Even if this is true what does it mean? That they can punish us? That anyone can? Does this mean that we have to meet someone's definition of minimum care?

I have a son and I don't feed him, play with him, keep him safe, or anything out of obligation. So far there hasn't been a day where I haven't wanted to do these things; there have been minutes, and I don't do those things in those minutes.

What I'm saying is that I don't understand what obligation means here or why you would need it. Doing things out of obligation sucks, everything is better if you do things out of a real desire to do them.

Is there a particular reason for 40kb as the size limit? I have a fairly normal skyscraper that I can't get under 42kb even as a jpg.

It would be easy to confuse with probiwon's method. If he gives you an address it is good for a long time.

Thanks, glad you like it. She hasn't gotten many downloads and I'm afraid my wife is going to fire me as business manager or quit altogether so I'm dropping the price to .1BTC

I reduced the resolution so the file should load quickly now. It's still plenty good quality.

http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/107

Your sniper either doesn't exist or isn't useful. I am willing to pay 60BTC for something. I type that in and forget about it. You can't snipe me, the site just auto-bids me over you up to 60BTC. You can win if you are wiling to pay more like everyone else.

Is that how you operate? Do you deal with people who would do those things?

We already have and use ethics that work in a voluntary society. We carve out special exceptions for a certain class of people and the areas they get control of end up sucking, to put it mildly.

I'd say it's going pretty well.

Someone should warn Slush.

Good stuff. "Value of transactions" could be a little misleading on that chart. It would be an interesting stat though (USD value of the # of bitcoins transfered).

btw, over 1M coins were moved today. ArtForz I guess since it was 400k put together and then broken into 150k and 250k.

Ah, sometimes I wonder if every idea I've every had is just me forgetting that I've heard it somewhere before. I'll read a book, learn something, think of it 2 years later not remembering the source, read the source again - DOH there it is.

I only meant that as an additional step to eliminate the log aspect of wallet so that you could be safe even if someone later got a wallet file of your mix service. Would doing this in addition to the mixing already discussed reduce anonymity? You could arrange your mixing to periodically empty a wallet without sending all of the coins to one other wallet and delete the empty wallets. The period doesn't have to be strictly fixed either.

Do you really have to modify Bitcoin? Isn't it enough to send all coins to a separate wallet, delete original wallet, make empty wallet, send all coins back to blank wallet.

Obviously you'll want to automate. Do it every 6 hours or something.

If everything looks efficient and legit I'm in for 200BTC, possibly as much as 1000. I can also 'buy in' via PP if USD are needed.

I haven't had that much trouble, but they are a pain. Why not limit failed attempts/time instead of captcha?

To me it makes more sense to buy according to personal wealth. It would be hard to buy 2100 if you couldn't afford it, and probably a silly place to stop if you are a millionaire.

Grondilu, I'm sorry if you were expecting something else!

Who runs bitcoinservice? I'm having trouble with my account and can't find contact info.

Is the picture too high resolution, should I cut it in half?

Something that can take the heat for a long time. Of course the point will be to blow the heat away from the thing and onto your feat, but I expect it'll still get pretty hot.

Yes, but it might even pay you to run it!

You could blow people's mind with this. "Here, this heater costs $800, it doesn't get all that hot, but it costs less than nothing to run."

 

This chart is the same data, but I think it is more readable and less misleading. There were virtually zero coins traded at 0.50 a daily average is more honest data imo.

It is from bitcoincharts.com which you should probably mention anyway since it's an awesome site. Ah, i see it is already in the upper right corner.

A few small things:

I think it's more accurate to say that bitcoin generation decays geometrically, not exponentially. Maybe write "New issuance decreases geometrically leading to a fixed limit of 21 million bitcoins in 2140"

50 every ~10min is more accurate

It should be made clear (verbal is fine) that the faucet is just a site someone runs, not another method of issuance.

Maybe replace "Sell something for them" with "Accept them as payment" or "Sell your products for them". I think it's more inspiring and less one-off sounding. Personal preference though.

The richest list looks weird being highlighted grey like that. You might also mention that those could be the balances of banks so it's misleading both ways.

On the map slide I would say verbally that it only shows nodes that are active now or recently and reiterate that you don't need to run a node to use bitcoin so there are more users than the map implies.

Addresses are not always 34 chars. 33 and I think 32 are possible.