After an impressive rise during the Coinbase euphoria, bitcoin price didn’t manage to remain near the reached peak levels. Although Bitfinex BTC/USD climbed up to $314 a bearish bias has started haunting the bitcoin price  once again. In the meantime, the 24 hour trading volume dropped by about 100.000 BTC

Source:
http://newsbtc.com/2015/01/29/bitcoin-price-crashes-200-next/

What do you think? Who'll win tomorrow's battle? Bears or Bulls?

Is WC creating another video? Let him know that I made a tutorial on how to render videos so it doesn't take 2 days to upload again. 

Don't mention it. Harassment is the last thing you'd need you receive for doing something good.

I think my post count on the doc is wrong. It would mean that I had a negative post count when I started or something. Here's my starting post

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=877765.msg10143921#msg10143921

Edit: Please take care of it before the payout hehe. 

I had some coins stolen from me being sent to Ross' legal defense fund. true story

I use this as an example, I'm sure there are other examples of posts that need to be taken down as well.

Several reasons,
1 they 'steal traffic' from this forum. (not my concern)
2 who knows if they're run by someone trusted (look at what dogie posted)
3 sometimes content NEEDS to be deleted.
4 almost all content posted here is original and 'leeching' websites never ask for permission to do what they do
5 it makes everyone less confident with what they post, since they know it'll be extremely hard for them to remove it from the internet after it's posted (this goes both ways)

3.1 Can you imagine your dox being posted here, and mirrored by 2-3 other websites too? Your personal info could be exposed online forever and you'd maybe have to mail the admin of a website in order to get it down.

Maybe more could be named.

Simple question, but what if more sites like bitcointa.lk appear? Websites that leech and reupload content originally created in bitcointalk? Are we ever going to see any measures against such websites?

To me, nubbins did an actual PSA, converting his free time to a public warning. Nubbins did the right thing. I think we need more people like him in this community. We all have some special knowledge on different topics. Sharing it will help the community in its entirety.

Now on this specific case, I think the evidence presented was quite convincing. You can't really say that it was a baseless accusation. Bitcointalk seems to have pretty decent understanding of who is a bad guy and who is not. This community usually comes to the right conclusion when appropriate evidence is presented.

You're surely not the only one that realized this. Every Greek and Cypriot knows about this. Hell even people that had an idea what was actually going on in Cyprus knew. People there had tiny withdraw limits for days. All until the huge cuts were made.

The dots didn't connect, there's no logical way Cypriots would have been "using bitcoin as an escape boat". The Greek community was almost nonexistent back then, I have only heard about a couple of Cypriots or so being aware of bitcoin to this day. There's no way this could have worked even as a concept.

Me myself being extremely pro-bitcoin back then didn't dare to speak out while I was seeing bitcoin growing. But now that the price craze has settled, I couldn't help but get this off my chest. Really, if they'd want to use the media for positive coverage they'd have to feed them with something that is at least realistically possible.

Here's an article analysing the current situation in Greece:

http://newsbtc.com/2015/01/28/will-bitcoin-solution-greeces-deep-rooted-problems/

Syriza isn't liberal enough for bitcoin apparently. We'll have to deal with it. Bitcoin will probably never gain mainstream interest in Greece. And that's a sad realisation to come to especially since I'm Greek.

Fishy? More Fishy that the coverage claiming that Cypriots were transferring money into bitcoin while their money was LOCKED into banks? I don't think so. I'd rather say bad reporting.

Since I don't want to derail the original post, I'm taking this here.

As requested above, I'll be downloading his video directly from youtube. I thought it would be quite fun.

Detailed updates on the process to follow.

Stel 1: Downloading the video
First things first, I'm using some freeware to download the video as mp4 from youtube. (Downloading starts as soon as I post this.)



Background: In layman's terms, .mp4 on its own is a good file format if you want to save space. Many professional cameras and software don't record directly in mp4, but the video can easily be converted into .mp4. A conversation that will allow us to compress the video and reduce it's size even further using different tools as we go on.  

Step 2: New Codec and final result

It wasn't that hard was it? Nearly lossless conversion (and some color correction too) but it now takes nearly half the space than the original. Imagine how much space rendering would have saved if we were rendering an .avi file that has minimal to no compression.

Original: Vs Rendered:



Only tool used for this is Handbreak and it's H.264 codec. Handbrake is open source too!

Hope ~500Mb/h of video is a decent rate for you. Feel free to use the information above as you like (Just remember that I posted this mainly for fun purposes).

Sorry for only replying to this part of your post, but as someone who does video editing I can't resist giving my two cents on this.

To be brief: Any and I mean ANY video can be reduced to a few hundred megabytes with proper compression.

There's no way uploading a 1 hour and 20 minutes video could take 2 days. And WC is no exception to that, he has no excuse. He could have simply googled "video compression" and found a technique in 2 minutes instead of waiting 2 days to "upload".

Just my 2 cents.

Yeah, I fixed the mistake in the title. Thanks for the reply.

What success are we talking about?  hehe

By the way, aren't gateways able to be run by third parties as well?

So I recently renewed a domain+hosting plan and I was given a free Google AdWords credit code. I have no use for it at the moment. Does it have any sell value?

I noticed that the current camptcha system for registering accounts is quite different than the one used before.



It looks like this and each leter consists of a different image now. Maybe that's supposed to be more secure? I still see the same letters after several reloads though.

You must be referring to the panda/penguin updates. However, PR6 forum backlinks are still considered valuable by many. I'm not sure how the updates actually would have affected them but I'm still seeing them being sold here and there.