Some idiot loses his wallet. My wallet becomes worth more. No problem!  For bonus points, can you tell us how this info is transmitted?  How long does it take for your wallet to be worth more? |
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You overslept. That is exactly what version 0.3.18 is doing using isStandard() function. It filters out all non-currency transactions unless I am not misunderstanding something.
It doesn't stop this: You don't get it. It's not steganography at all. You don't really send any data to the network. It is the same amount of "data" injected, whether you timestamp a "hello world" or a 1Go tarball ! It seems that I have to make an example to make it really clear. So, I'm going to time stamp the tarball version of bitcoin, version 0.3.19. First, I make a GPG signature of it : $ gpg -s bitcoin-0.3.19.tar.gz This creates a bitcoin-0.3.19.tar.gz.gpg file, whose sha256 sum is : $ sha256sum bitcoin-0.3.19.tar.gz.gpg 9e3d69700386772814b0e8c9723d8162c8d88c94479dbd24f18f280b I turn this hash into a bitcoin address using the convertor in bitcoin block explorer $ wget -O - -q http://blockexplorer.com/q/hashtoaddress/9e3d69700386772814b0e8c9723d8162c8d88c94479dbd24f18f280b1BehjJ4trLTY1G148PntLkzb99UYYg5qWEotEAGudWXaW Finally, I send 0.01 BTC to this address. $ bitcoind sendtoaddress 1BehjJ4trLTY1G148PntLkzb99UYYg5qWEotEAGudWXaW 0.01 Hum... bitcoin tells me it's an invalid address. There must be a bug, but you get the idea, right ? |
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My little company, http://www.moonlitconsult.com, accepts Bitcoin in addition to other payment methods. So far I've had no takers, but I hope this changes. How do you like my proposed exchange rate?  Cool. Exchange rate is not so good, 20 cents for a coin is considerably less than you can get in a lot of places. As much as I like to transact in bitcoins, if I needed to buy anything substantial from you I would convert to USD first, even with the PP surcharge. |
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Thanks for the info.
Do you know of any plans to update the clients to support that?
The reason I ask is I have a few ideas that I think could be interesting, but if currently 1 bit coin is approx .25USD, the idea is not feasible since it would be cheaper for people to pay in traditional currency.
Thanks.
Where can you send $.0025 or less? |
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En route to Erie, PA from Kansas City, probably too late for route cities, but he should be in Erie for a few days and could probably be convinced to travel from there at the right price.
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Dear bitcoins enthusiasts, Forban is a simple link-local opportunistic p2p client. Forban allows to do local p2p file sharing while not depending on Internet with all the computers connected on the same shared LAN or wireless network. In the spirit of promoting p2p technologies, Forban is only accepting Bitcoins donation to its address : 13Q8TCJqLQ8tfL7rhoa16PmgQrBTjkZ26i . For more information about Forban: http://www.foo.be/forban/ and the github development page: https://github.com/adulau/ForbanThank you, 5BTC sent, sounds like a good idea. |
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That's not really what I'm looking for. I'm trying to get a feel for the long term trends in market prices.
Oh sorry, then do you know about bitcoincharts.com? |
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Did a small transfer to a friend and saw no way to reverse the transfer. Beyond that, I was pretty satisfied with the service, it was speedy, clean, and convenient.
Email them and say your account was hacked and that you did not authorize the transaction. This still won't prove anything because they'll probably look into your IP addy and stuff and see that it was legit. Afaik no site has a "yank back payment" button, but virtually all of them have a method for doing it. I'm not saying this makes it impossible to use, heck I'm still using PP. It's just important that rules not be misrepresented because it will cause people to do larger amounts than they would otherwise do with strangers/dubious acquittances. |
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Do you know about blockexplorer.com?
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Manipulation of price for bitcoin is not the problem, but rather the ability for price information is the problem. Shutting down liberty reserve and other way to exchange currencies for bitcoin meant that people no longer have any way of price estimation for bitcoin.
That's right, because without such an exchange bitcoin worthless. Becouse for them you can't buy food right now What, coffee isn't a food? |
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The US governments could not do that alone, because it can control only its own territory.
Do you think it can convince other countries to track their citizens and prevent them to run the bitcoin client ?
I doubt so. USA's influence is not that strong.
The US has already been quite successful in pushing the rest of the world to adopt legislation to curtail p2p file sharing. It would probably be able to achieve the same with p2p currencies, unless the other states support bitcoin. But what incentive would they have to support a currency over which they will exercise absolutely no control, and that will compete with their own national currency? Unless a major nation state steps in to support bitcoin, I don't see how it will be able to withstand the pressure from the American government. They don't have to "support" bitcoin they just have to not eliminate all internet freedom. Which many may not want to do if they could since the internet enables huge quantities of taxable trade. |
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Hold dollars at your moral and financial risk!
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The Kaiser report touches upon the topic of cyber currencies, and p2p currencies in particular: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMngK0t5WkYI wonder if the report was actually inspired by Bitcoin? I am currently watching the show, and they haven't talked about the cyber currencies yet. EDIT: Yes, they are talking specifically about Bitcoin. I guess this is the first mention of bitcoin on mainstream media. Is he really "mainstream"? Good publicity anyway. edit: So, I guess he is on tv, was this particular clip on tv? |
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In personal opinion too, and thanks for your vote of confidence, but we have to wait for the big man don't we? I don't want to go treading on anyone's toes.
You don't have to wait for anyone, no one owns or controls bitcoin. It's great to discuss things though and this is the perfect place. It sounds great to me. |
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They are private companies. They get to accept or deny whoever they like.
Yeah, because private companies are free  If I start "Whities BBQ, no blacks a loud" I get fines until they put me in a cage and then killed if I try to get away. That's the rule on my private company when there are millions of alternate ways to get food, but a huge monolithic company with government connections, they get to be private. Nice, nice double standard. When these private companies announce that they won't support a government that violates our freedom to associate or not then I'll happily grant them the same. I'm going to stop dealing with them all ASPA, with malice. |
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Anyone still playing poker on betco.in?
I just discovered the site today.
I tried to play today but all tables were empty.
I'm willing to play 4PM-9PM EST any day of the week at least for the next couple weeks as long as there are a few player, I can't spare enough attention to play HU or 3way though. Any stakes is fine. |
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Yes, but i suppose that you live in the US, so obviously you can have other alternatives.
Not me.
Nevertheless, the trader can even appeal to people like yourself, not wanting to «wait half-a-year to get their bitcoins» by offering them a "call option", that is, giving them the right, but not the obligation to purchase the bitcoins after the half-year, for the agreed price.
This doesn't really solve the problem because they can freeroll since they can yank back what they paid for it every time they don't want to execute the option. |
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What about a collusion attack? In an attempt to get an unfair total share, multiple miners join the pool and pretend they are computing hashes, but only one of them (the master) is actually hashing. All the other miners report the same hashes as the 'master'.
Would that work?
I guess it would work until/unless the operator started checking that hashes weren't identical. He'd only have to keep to check against for as long as the exact same block was being hashed. |
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Agree with 1 caveat.
The ratio can stay unchanged at a high level even if both go down.
As there are big speculators in the gold market on top of longterm investors, if the crisis gets worse (which I believe it will), Gold will also go down as hedge funds need to unload gold to pay out fund withdrawals and stay liquid.
Hence, Gold is likely to go down towards 1000 and possibly towards 650-850 by 2011/12 before sharlpy turning up and making new highs.
What do you think about paper vs physical? |
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