http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF6tCPlFaO8

Normally I'm not a huge fan of rock, but this band is pretty good. This song is unusual.

OK, I guess it doesn't matter since there's a clear link on your profile.

Ah, I forgot that scammers can't edit their profile info. Would have been easier to use the signature to start with.

That text isn't clear enough.

The idea is to warn people who might trade with him, not to punish him. The forum doesn't handle justice.


I don't think that's necessary.

I added a note to terrytibbs's profile so people can see why he has the scammer label.

That will probably never be implemented because it's too dangerous. Search for OP_BLOCKNUMBER.

Why do you care about difficulty? ~7200 BTC is put into the economy each day regardless of difficulty. I don't believe that difficulty affects prices in any significant way.

I haven't seen any changes in fundamentals. Unless popularity soars for some reason, I expect the price to go very steadily downward due to inflation until perhaps three months before the subsidy adjustment.

That sounds amazingly cool.

I'll pay 100 BTC to anyone who builds a successful self-reproducing, "self-adapting" system like this.

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.

Your visible ad text (ignoring link URLs, etc.) must be less than 150 characters in length, and it can only contain links: no other style. It 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. (One of the remaining slots has random factoids, and one links to the current ad auction.)

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 December):
- 1^st: 117218
- 2^nd: 113702
- 3^rd: 101787
- 4^th: 93767
- 5^th: 122460
- 6^th: 109000

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 05:00:00 on December 14, 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.

I'll put you down for 5, since 4.5 isn't enough to get you in.

Your bid extends the auction by 30 minutes. (The auction will end when the countdown timer reaches +30 minutes.)

State:
Slots BTC Person
5 5 wm-center.com
1 5 Andrew Bitcoiner
1 4.5 Goat
1 4.5 BTC Servers

Auction ends in ~25 minutes.

Current state:
Slots BTC Person
5 5 wm-center.com
1 4.5 Goat
2 4.5 BTC Servers

Current status:
- Request seemed to have a reasonable idea (which he conveyed to me in private), though I think he underestimated the work that would be required of him. He never got back to me when I asked for more details, though.
- Xenland I am not sure about yet. (My fault for not following up enough.)
- FlipPro's idea of sticking with SMF appeals to me because I've grown to like many aspects of SMF. However, I still don't have a ton of confidence in the code architecture. (The DB handling is an improvement.) TweetForum seems mostly unmodified, so I'm not sure of FlipPro's experience.

The forum now has 920 BTC on hand. More bids would be welcome.

The idea is to:
- Eliminate drive-by trolling
- Introduce a cost of creating a new account once banned (since IP bans can be bypassed)
- Concentrate automated spam in one area

It solves these problems, and I think it's better than nothing. It is annoying, though, and it may end up creating the wrong kind of community. I probably wouldn't have registered if I had to go through this. Other solutions are planned for the future.

It's the "within the next 25 years" part that makes the quote funny. Representing time with a signed int doesn't become a problem for a long time, so Satoshi was being sarcastic.

Am I the only one who finds this quote funny? Maybe it needs more context.

It is near the top of the "agreement".

BTC_Bear got VIP status through his charity auction. He also donated ~50 BTC to Toys for Tots. Thanks!

Forum donation received. Thanks a lot!

Specialized hardware can always beat consumer hardware, so CubeHash isn't going to be any better than SHA-256 in that area. That CubeHash is slow does affect verification speed, which should be fast.


Concatenate them (or parts of them).

I put up an ad for this auction in the two reserved forum ad slots.

I don't think it should be merged. I like to see a heterogeneous network with regard to limits. If some limits cause network stability problems, it would be best for the entire network to not fail. The code is also new, and new code is the enemy of stability.