I already fixed it for you by uploading it to bitcointalk.org.

I like this the best. It's similar to Wikipedia "Comparison of x" articles, which is a format people are already familiar with. It'd need some explanatory text at the top and ideally info about every feature, though.

They were banned.

I don't think $1200 is the actual bid price:

I'd be worried about the whole thing collapsing and then being liable for cleanup costs.

It's been proven that bulanula was overpaid, so he's ethically obligated to return the extra BTC (minus a few percent for the inconvenience, perhaps).

I admit that "scammer" might not be the most accurate term, but creating a new tag would be inconvenient and "scammer" is close enough.

I'll see how many people complain. Those dynamic images seem unnecessary, though I guess whitelisting could be done if absolutely necessary.

Animated GIFs do not retain their animation when resized. I think you can still upload them if they're already correctly-sized.

I changed it so avatars given as URLs are downloaded, resized, and hosted by the forum. This will only apply to future avatars.

It's possible that his account was not compromised, so please don't send to his old address either.

Changing the crypto isn't backward-compatible, so everyone would have to upgrade. I don't think this would be too difficult, though.

Bitcoin's 256-bit ECDSA keys are really strong (equivalent to 3072-bit RSA keys in strength), and SHA-256 is still secure with quantum computers, so I don't see it being a problem in the near future. NIST and ECRYPT II say that Bitcoin's crypto is good until at least 2030.

You can't do it with just JavaScript, which is why torbutton allows JavaScript. You need a plugin like Flash.

I have finalized my course schedule for fall, and I will be taking French. Hopefully I'll like it (or it won't be too bad, at least). Thanks a lot to everyone who replied!

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 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 02:00:00 on May 2, 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.

Final result:
Slots BTC Person
1 3.5 bitsforcoins.com
3 3 Goat
4 3 aurumxchange

Only ~6 hours left! Prices are currently far below normal.

Current state:
Slots BTC Person
5 2 2weiX
3 1 cablepair

If someone is a proven scammer, then they should get the scammer tag right away. They can pay back afterward and have the tag removed.

I wasn't willing to scammer-tag shakaru immediately because I felt that he was not a scammer. At the time I thought that his contracts were broken accidentally and he was going to start paying back the money ASAP. I guess you want the "potential scammer" tag to apply to people who have accidentally broken contracts but haven't paid back yet, since intentional contract-breakers and people who refuse to start paying back are given the scammer tag right away. This seems too harsh to me, and likely to cause drama when a high-reputation member is accidentally a few days late on a loan payment.

Thanks to those of you who acted responsibly and tried to help the police locate him.

Atlas always uses Tor, so I can't be sure, but I'd guess that his account was not hacked and Emanuel Ortego is indeed an alt.

I think it's possible for a big, long-term mining operation like this to get funding and succeed, but this isn't a good way to issue shares. You should partner with someone who knows more about finance/business.

The recipient just needs to provide the device with copies of all of the transactions-being-spent (I forgot about this in my previous post). Then the device can calculate the input value and easily see the output value.

A secure Bitcoin spending device doesn't need to store anything other than its private keys. It can give its public keys to the recipient and rely on them to create a valid unsigned transaction. The device just needs to figure out the BTC spent by the transaction (total output BTC minus output BTC to the device's keys) and get the user to confirm. It doesn't matter if the device is given an invalid transaction to sign, since the network will reject it.

It'd be nice for the device to store some transaction details for accounting purposes, of course.

I think you'd be a good person to lead a long-term mining project, but I don't like how this is structured. The risk is much higher for early investors, since it isn't yet known whether your operation will be successful. Reasonable investors will wait until you start making profits and then buy shares at 1 BTC per share instead of buying them now at the same price. Even if you promised to increase the price later (maybe starting at a low price per share now), the price might still be too high given that each share will only get a millionth of the dividend eventually.

If I were you I'd get nanotube's advice on how to properly do something like this.