Current state:
Slots BTC Person
2 3.5 Goat
5 3 wm-center.com
1 2.5 edd

New VIP donator: znort987. Thanks!

(There's been 4 10+ BTC donators today!)

The client already messes with the decimal point. Internally Bitcoin views all values as integers: 3 bitcoins is 300000000 base units as seen by the protocol.

That's more precision than Bitcoin supports.

The UI will probably just move the decimal if small amounts like that become common and are found to be annoying. For example, 3.12345678 could be "312,345,678 bitmotes", or even "3 gold bitcoins, 1,234 silver bitcoins, and 5,678 copper bitcoins".

- The vulnerabilty was not "well-known". It was a 0-day vulnerability later patched by SMF. Probably you took the Buttcoin "report" on the vulnerability to be true, but that article was entirely made-up. The vulnerability had nothing to do with JavaScript or smilies.
- The issue wasn't used as an excuse to transfer the forum to MtGox. Sirius and I tried to track down the vulnerability, but we had no experience in this area and we couldn't find it, so Sirius decided to transfer responsibility of managing the server to someone else.
- The transfer to MtGox wasn't a secret. Sirius emailed ~13 of the top Bitcoiners to discuss transfering management of the server to someone else. Mark volunteered: Jeff Garzik, Sirius, and I agreed that he was the best choice. I mentioned this on IRC shortly after the decision was made. The email conversation was later published.
- If that $100,000 offer would have been accepted, all of the money would have been donated to the development group or some other appropriate non-profit organization. (This offer was discussed among the same "core group" as above.)

Please don't post this video without telling people that most of it is false. Someone might get confused.

Done.

MtGox does host the forum on the same network as MtGox (I think), but it's definitely on a different server.

The forum isn't on the same server as MtGox.

You can also do:

I sometimes like it, but often it's too monotonous for my taste.

There's already a lot of caching.

Something does seem to have changed to make things slower, but I'm not sure what. I'm getting 6.6 hits per second right now, but I don't normally keep logs, so I don't know if this is much higher than normal. It's also possible the disk is broken somehow.

Anyway, I've made lots of changes to improve efficiency and I'll continue to do so. I introduced that error recently so that slow database connections wouldn't stop /q/getblockcount and other non-database pages from working.

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: On the 20^th of November, 2011, there were about 120,000 views of topics. So one slot would have appeared around 12,000 times per day. The ad doesn't appear on topic pages with only one post, though, and it only appears for people using the default theme. Total views per day on more recent days (in February):
- 12^th: 128225
- 13^th: 150235
- 14^th: 166040
- 15^th: 125832
- 16^th: 144355
- 17^th: 131821

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 bid, all of your previous bids are automatically canceled.
- All bid prices must be divisible by 0.5.
- The bidding starts at 0.5.
- The auction end time is 02:00:00 on February 27, 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.

The problem I see with that is that most hardware isn't necessarily usable only for mining. What do you think about "Computer hardware"?

Final results:
Slots BTC Person
2 4 Glasswalker
5 3.5 wm-center.com
1 3 edd

Change complete! We'll see over the next few days how common any problems are.

Probably at least the last two statements are immoral, but I'm not sure that it would be more moral to react to them with violence. In my ideal anarcho-capitalist system, you'd pay protection agencies to protect you from violence and enforce other "laws". I would not spend extra money to punish people for making threats like this against groups, even groups that I am a part of. I only consider more specific threats to be dangerous enough to react to. I would use a protection agency that prohibited the last statement (and maybe a few other statements in the poll), since I won't ever make threats like that.

I voted "All should be legal".

Check that your clock is correct.