It's not suppose to work this way! Notice all the arm twisting by Chris before brewster reluctantly agrees to trying. Perhaps, if Chris wouldn't have been so wordy with his question, brewster may have been more receptive with his answer. Let's work together and rewrite this question so that it only contains three, four max, words. Chris says: December 7, 2011 at 3:27 pm
Do you accept bitcoin donations?
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brewster says: December 7, 2011 at 4:03 pm
Absolutely. Not sure how, but lets try. pls write to june@archive.org.
-brewster
Seriously, this is great news. In fact, I just used the wayback machine prior to coming back to this thread to do the bi-daily housecleaning. It's amazing the shit you'll find on that site once you start searching. Case in point, I found... (may continue on some other thread). Thank you, Chris, for getting the ball rollin' over at the Wayback Machine. But do consider using less words on your next target.  ~Bruno~ I am confused. Who is Chris? You think that "What is your bitcoin address for donations?" (from the blog comment section) is "so wordy"? But, "Do you accept bitcoin donations?" (presumably your own revision) is "three, four max, words." The first one is 7 words, the second is 5. I must be misunderstanding you, because it looks like you think 2 words is going to make a significant difference. I like your humor! Almost similar to my tongue-in-cheek post you're quoting--the one with the smiley wink. You'll find Chris here: http://blog.archive.org/2011/12/07/please-donate-to-the-internet-archive/ This link was provided from here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=53986.0;topicseen BTW, I did quote it correctly, and not a revision. Hope this clears up the misunderstanding. ~Bruno~ Oooh, that comment was further down in the thread than the one I thought you were talking about. Should have scrolled down, it would have been much clearer. Don't mind me! I'll just show myself out. PS: I'm in for the pledge. 1BTC per charity for me |
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It's not suppose to work this way! Notice all the arm twisting by Chris before brewster reluctantly agrees to trying. Perhaps, if Chris wouldn't have been so wordy with his question, brewster may have been more receptive with his answer. Let's work together and rewrite this question so that it only contains three, four max, words. Chris says: December 7, 2011 at 3:27 pm
Do you accept bitcoin donations?
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brewster says: December 7, 2011 at 4:03 pm
Absolutely. Not sure how, but lets try. pls write to june@archive.org.
-brewster
Seriously, this is great news. In fact, I just used the wayback machine prior to coming back to this thread to do the bi-daily housecleaning. It's amazing the shit you'll find on that site once you start searching. Case in point, I found... (may continue on some other thread). Thank you, Chris, for getting the ball rollin' over at the Wayback Machine. But do consider using less words on your next target. ~Bruno~ I am confused. Who is Chris? You think that "What is your bitcoin address for donations?" (from the blog comment section) is "so wordy"? But, "Do you accept bitcoin donations?" (presumably your own revision) is "three, four max, words." The first one is 7 words, the second is 5. I must be misunderstanding you, because it looks like you think 2 words is going to make a significant difference. |
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Thanks for posting screenshots. I am still confused though. It looks like you are trading at a loss.
Your total expenditures : $3116.19
Your current assets: $3034.00
Net loss: $82.19
Then you have some phantom payment. It is not clear if it is being paid to you or you are paying it to scottrade.
Phantom payment value: $94.49
If (and this is a big if) the phantom payment is actually going to you, your earnings are still much lower than you are reporting.
Net profit: $12.30
This is a three month return rate of 0.39%. That is if I trust you. Otherwise you are trading with significant losses.
Of course the payment is going to me, look at the signs. (1234) means a negative, thus taken from me. 1234 means a positive, thus given to me. My current assets of NVDA is $3034, but that is because I decide to KEEP it that way, I could have sold NVDA for higher gains, but I don't want to. Plus... I got another payment..... So no, I am way ahead of the game. 3 month gain is $82.19/$3116.19 = 3.03%. Again, I still have NVDA, and that is only because I decide to KEEP it. In my other NLY example, I sold it. 3 month gain is $82.19/$3116.19 = 3.03%.
$82.19 is your market losses  . You are calculating your "3 month gain" based on phantom payouts without taking into account your market losses. (94.49/3116.19 = 3.03% is your profit if you dont account for your losses of $82.19) Your actual return is 0.39% (It is positive though!) In one year (assuming continued results), you will book a 1.57% return (compounding interest every quarter). Either you don't understand what you are doing, or you are being intentionally misleading. Either way, you should not be selling financial advice. PS: you are right about the parentheses, thanks for clearing that up. |
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Thanks for posting screenshots. I am still confused though. It looks like you are trading at a loss.
Your total expenditures : $3116.19
Your current assets: $3034.00
Net loss: $82.19
Then you have some phantom payment. It is not clear if it is being paid to you or you are paying it to scottrade.
Phantom payment value: $94.49
If (and this is a big if) the phantom payment is actually going to you, your earnings are still much lower than you are reporting.
Net profit: $12.30
This is a three month return rate of 0.39%. That is if I trust you. Otherwise you are trading with significant losses.
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I would suggest you do not include such functionality, especially if you want to stand by your claims of weeding out spambots and the like. How do you verify all the twitter accounts that re-tweet all the campaigns? Do you plan on verifying them and then paying out to their account? Is it a manual process? If your service is successful, how much time can be put into such a process? I'm sure it's possible to do all of that work, but it doesn't seem worth it to me. I think those people who are curious enough will look into the service to collect their reward first. But that's just my opinion.
To be able to retweet from within Twitter, the user would still need to have signed up with FeedZeBirds.com. The point is that once they've signed up, they don't have to go back to the site to retweet. I think retweeting only after you have made an account is a nice feature. Allows it to be more organically viral. Any plans to restrict payment to a certain area? (ex. US only, california only) |
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It's a great game, have fun!
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So many ignorant people here, thinking everyone alive is nothing but scammers.
Do you think I am a scammer, too? Why don't you pay me $100 to help you out? Skepticism is healthy, especially on semi-anonymous internet forums. (If you give me a $100 I will actually help you, offer remains on the table, though I don't think it is prudent to trust that I am a credible source of information.) Extrapolating your data further than you should rationally be confident of is dishonest. You haven't tested this long enough to know whether it can work for a whole year, and so you shouldn't be advertising a yearly return rate. |
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I think the miracle berry substance would denature during fermentation: I don't think its very stable.
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Cool thread, I'll be keeping an eye out |
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It's crazy here. I've had over 300 posts, and I am still treated like a nobody lol.
You are trying to sell something site unseen, with almost no information about it. Outstanding claims require outstanding evidence. In the process of you defending yourself, you have already shown that you initial offer isn't as good as you claimed: You can make 15-25% or even more on your money per yr, with almost zero risk.
I profited about 5%+ in the past 3 months. Remember, these past few months stocks were all over the place, yet I still manage to come out.
With this system, your return will be more consistent if you have a long term view, such as 1 yr.
You are selling a system with year-scale performance estimates that you haven't even proven yourself. You have only used it for one quarter of that period. At best this is negligence, at worst fraud. Send me your method and $100 of BTC and I'll teach you how to sell a trading strategy without sounding like a scammer. I just earned a projected $100 in 5 minutes, I anticipate making over 12 million per year with my system! If you really do have a good system, find a way to give some evidence if you are going to sell it. S3052 is a good option. Screenshots of your scotttrade account balance/value over time (with specific trades blurred), perhaps? |
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I also have a secret that I will tell you if you send me $100. I can't tell you anything about it though or it would give it away. send your BTC to 1CZXpndJHigUQuRGYzQAziLdsMBHYMG68t
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Governments will build millions of slightly-different evolving automated versions. This Gray Goo ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo ) will be dropped inside a hostile state. Currently probably Iran. Or China even? The bots will try to profit off the economy of the hostile state. When successful profit-schemes have been found, other bots will be notified so they too can maximize profit. All profit will be turned in to Bitcoins. These Bitcoins will be "destoryed" (lost inside untracable wallet files). Thereby slowly grinding the economy to a halt as all money is drained away by these automatons. Descending the state into revolt and then anarchy. That isn't what Gray Goo means. Gray goo implies nanotechnology (read tiny robots). This would be entirely programmatic. If I was going to write one of these, I would make it a domain name and hosting service. Using genetic algorithms, it buys and sells domains, storage, and bandwidth from humans and other bots. It can trade successful strategies with peers, and when it amasses a certain threshold of BTC it can clone itself onto another server, while running the same or an evolutionary derivative set of code. I thought about this when I first heard about bitcoin. Haven't found a solution to the problem of memory providers stealing private keys though.
The solution exists. It's called fully homomorphic encryption. See: https://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view_page.php?id=2661If you combine a) fully homomorphic encryption with b) mutation, genetic algorithms, and mitosis you could end up with truly autonomous software agents, that collect bitcoins entirely for their own benefit. They would be the bacteria to the computer virus. The interesting thing is about these "computer bacteria" is that, just like real bacteria, they don't need complex AI to be successful. They could do something relatively simple like the example of inducing people to solve captchas, mentioned above. So this would be almost possible using today's technology. As long as they keep finding people (and other software agents) who help them spread, they and their offspring could survive for a very long time and collect a large quantity of bitcoins that "belong" to them only and not a human being, not even the original author! I'm not sure to what extent fully homomorphic encryption is resistant to brute force attacks though. Very cool. I hadn't heard of this, thanks! |
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I thought about this when I first heard about bitcoin. Haven't found a solution to the problem of memory providers stealing private keys though.
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To sum up this thread: Why would anyone do this? I really have no idea.
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Thanks! Why do most of the pages ask me to install drupal? Is that because they have never been configured?
Pretty bad 404 - top level domain and most subdomains return with this. I assumed the site got wiped or something.
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I am pretty sure I saw a website that looked like an address bar that you could use to navigate to namecoin domains.
I just spent 30 minutes googling, trying to find it again (or something like it) and all I found was guides to set up my own DNS server. Ouch! There really needs to be a lightweight method of visiting these links if this project is ever going to get off the ground. Nobody is going to configure a DNS server to view their first namecoin site. Only people who are already sold on it.
What site can I use to view these domains?
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I think the solution lies within this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0HIF3SfI4No need to watch the whole thing and, for those who've viewed it before, re-view it again starting at 2:00, or skip to 4:05 where I feel the answer lies. I really liked that video. Here is my try. "My finances aren't anyone's business but my own. Bitcoin means I don't disclose or ask for anyone's permission when I make a transaction. Bitcoin lets me safely store, send, and receive money with anyone in the world for less than a penny per transaction. Unlike using my bank, credit card, or PayPal, I am the only one who controls my money, and there is no middleman taking a cut." This is shorter that 30s, I might add, "It uses the same top-of-the-line encryption technology as the US government, so my money is more secure than if I stored in Fort Knox." Might be a little weird to do it cold, but if you want to get bold you could try to buy coins from random people. Just be like "I need some bitcoins, do you know anyone?". You'll get like 100% nos of course, but you'll up exposure and it's just odd enough an interaction you'll probably get a solid % googling it later. And it'll help them understand right away that bitcoin isn't a MtGox(tm) product, you can buy it from your peers on the street.
Cool idea. "Like Western Union via email and almost no fees."
Short and sweet. |
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Do you turn off xfire while mining? What is your hash rate per GPU and Total?
Turning crossfire on or off doesn't seem to change hash rate significantly (maybe a slight decrease). Right now I run two instances of GUIminer, each set to one of the GPUs. I get ~350-370 mhsps per card while idle or doing lightweight stuff like browsing the internet. Crossfire on doesn't seem to increase the performance of card - . Usually have to turn one or both off for playing games.
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