Lol, he failed at quoting me asking him that after he seemed to be saying he could make a fake MtGox.

If someone wanted to hide even donations on their website a script can easily be written to give each visitor a new address. Now you only know how much you gave them. Bitcoin can be used for anonymous giving/buying, but it isn't magic you can give your identity away easily.

Someone bid that much, but it doesn't show it until it needs to.

I'm not to smart. Are people doing something besides requesting data from a server? I went to visa.com while it was down, am I a terr0rist yet?

The title is the only thing giving me that impression. "Could the Wikileaks Scandal Lead to New Virtual Currency?" implies Bitcoin was precipitated by the scandal, which is obviously not true even from the article since bitcoin has been around for more than a week or whatever.

I was just trying to hassle you for your wording. I don't doubt you changed some behavior.

Hmm, mine currently says "Generated (0.60 matures in 27 more blocks)" but then says 0.00 under the Credit column, I assume this is just because the amount isn't added to the balance yet. Is this what is happening for you too maybe? Or maybe it is the rounding thing.

Wow, can't believe it didn't work. Did you have some sort of mind zapping gun or something?

You seem confused, but I'm not sure where exactly.

You wouldn't expect the creator of anything else at all to make it 100% theft proof right? Even cars are easily stolen if you give away the keys. Nothing replaces a brain.

Oh, I really hadn't guessed that. I thought you were meaning the block chain. There is no automation for cleaning the wallet for it now, but it's fairly trivial. Send all coins to another computer, your own, mtgox, whatever then delete your wallet, open Bitcoin and it will make a new wallet. You will lose access to coins sent to your old addresses in the future. I imagine this is why bitcoinmarket made that announcement about deposit addresses changing a while back.

Imagine how fucked people were before the internet. You would think you were the only not crazy person in the world if you were even able to figure government/church BS out at all. This time is different, watch out mother fuckers.

Yeah, I was just curious about the size of the benefit of the pruning algorithm. It's probably complicated, I know.

There might be a language issue here. No amount of data will ever be infinite, maybe you mean it will grow indefinitely.

Lfm is not wrong.

Eventually servers will charge a little. People will pay to be in a big group with no downtime.

I think he means easy would be: download, install wizard, get prompted for a bitcoin address, click okay.

It's probably averaged 80,000kahsh only and there has been some down time. We're getting into mildly unlucky territory maybe.

This will make it grow more slowly. Is there some notion of how much more slowly?

Yes, exactly.

And on the point of "falling fast" people should realize that price is not a continuous function. It only exists where there are offers and that means that price can fall through any level instantaneously. So it isn't solved by MtGox giving them priority. The important thing is regular depositors funds aren't used for this without their consent thinking that a large enough swing can't happen or something.

Uh, will your program let everyone sign up and trade?

Maybe it would be useful to have a backup server? You could have users enter two IP addresses and have it try the second if the first goes down. Seems easy to me, but I wouldn't know.

But there will be some reward for generating in the bitDNS chain, right? And that reward will be transferable? And used for fees? Maybe I'm confused, but that sounds like a good money.

I'm pretty conflicted on whether new apps should attach to the chain or start a new one. I know the security benefits of having only one chain. But doesn't it seem silly for the first bitDNS users to need the whole list of previous bitcoin transactions? And then both chains will grow faster than otherwise. It just doesn't seems optimal for every app to need all the data from every other app in order to work.

Reality is though that if a few people think it's good to put the data in there then they are going to do it. If this is a problem for bitcoin then it is a problem with how bitcoin works. We can't just trust that people won't use something that would be useful to them for all time because it wasn't the original intent.

I fully realize that I may be making a bad assumption about the viability of using the current chain as a DNS, I'd love to hear why it can't work or wouldn't be the most efficient way, an explanation that completely ignores any harm to bitcoin.