OK, I feel ready to release the Android app. It's not finished yet but last night I stayed up way too late tweaking the graphics a little and adding a settings screen so you can view your own hashrate and not just mine .

http://perihelion.nfshost.com/hhttwatcher.apk



Any tips welcome. Suggestions also welcome but any accompanied by a little BTCBTCBTC will obviously get more attention

Though it may not be worth it, I'll give it a try.

Does anyone have a link to cheap, decent cases for the coins? Probably don't want to buy more than a few if I can help it.

Not locally. It's always possible something happened upstream but I've never had an issue like that and 3333 is a bit of an obscure port to block at random.

As well, I'm no expert on stratum but that looks to me like it was able to connect and then ran into other problems. Unfortunately, it's not exactly the most enlightening set of error messages (bane of my worklife at the moment) so *shrug*. If it would be helpful to you, I'd be willing to throw on a little packet sniffing but since I'm hearing happy fans right now, it's not a big priority for me (I've been working on that Android app and will throw it up somewhere tomorrow)

Dons traditional Wednesday rally costume

Yes. I guess on the upside, I would likely have been cursing myself for giving away something that became worth so much (I probably wouldn't have directly replaced them).

There was a guy trying to sell gold plated silver coins in another thread and not having much luck. I'm no collector but I don't really see the point myself. I do really like the look of the gold BTC on the silver coin though and hope to own one at some point.

Isn't that basically the idea of most MMORPGs? Grind for 24 hours and get a new level and a fancy sword?

I understand. It would just have been a convenience thing for me so I would have been happy to pay a little more to save the hassle of chasing one down. Either way, I've been wanting one of these for a while. Wish I'd bought some when they were cheap to give away...

Yeah, I just thought you might like to know if you didn't already.


Nice. If you weren't limited to the EU, I might be in for some.

Cat Stevens?

We could get into some interesting discussions about the meaning of the term "Voluntary". Bear in mind that "I was just following orders" isn't really a valid defense.

Here's another fave quote of mine:


“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”

I'm not sure where it comes from. There's definitely a kernel of truth to it. Sure, I understand the rationale of acquiescing to it, I do so myself but that doesn't mean I don't get a share of the blame.

I think the main thing is to stop blaming others for our woes and to look within. It's hard to do but worthwhile.

I'll see if I can find that argument somewhere...

Two thoughts to consider:

"A population gets the government it deserves"

"If not me, who? If not now, when?"

I believe the "correct" way to do this is to generate a new public address for the transaction (though presumably you could reuse old ones). Though if your method is working, why mess with success?

Don't know if you saw my PM but I am interested in buying one.

Just as an aside, if you don't sell the cases, it might be something you might consider as an up-sell.

Ah, if we want to take it back to the original point, Bubblesort summarized as "Basically, he says that bitcoin is not really being used as a medium of exchange because it's deflationary."

Which is quite clearly nonsense. First of all, Bitcoin is currently inflationary in terms of the supply. Secondly, it may not be being used because the value is rising but this is due to speculation rather than any deflationary aspect to the supply. Now, you can argue that this rise in relative value is equivalent to or even actually deflation but that is still different than saying that it is not being used as a medium of exchange because it is deflationary. I believe it is hard to argue against the reason that it is not being used as a medium of exchange is that it is young and lacks critical mass and critical infrastructure.

Personally, I spent several BTC last week and am looking to spend a couple this week (plural of anectode is not data, of course).

Careful about pointing fingers. There's a valid argument that if you pay taxes, you are an accomplice to this mess.

This is true. Even if you don't want to go quite that far, once upon a time, most people would be content to live with their parents until they were married. And even then, many would continue to live until they could afford a house. Of course, housing now is much more expensive than housing was back then. Now, why was that, again?


And I respectfully disagree with your assessment that it is turning the clock back. Rather it is moving the clock forward, as it does from time to time, to individuals being more in control of their own destiny rather than it being decided by central powers.

To pop back to the business side of things, why can't people start a business from their savings? Oh, that's right, their savings have been stolen. lolgovt.

How many people do you know that *needed* to purchase a house when starting out? No one renting? Oh wait, no, they have to buy a house. It's the American dream! Wait, isn't that how we got in the mess?