Why would the "buy bitcoin" and "buy bitcoins" searches increase, then?

Any idea why they did that?

IMO we should have a unit for 1/1,000 and 1/1,000,000 only.


It would be like having millimeter, meter, and kilometer.  It is less confusing this way.

Google trend traffic about bitcoin is DOUBLE that of last week: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=bitcoin&date=today%201-m&cmpt=q


"buy bitcoin" is up from last week: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%22buy%20bitcoin%22&date=today%201-m&cmpt=q
"buy bitcoins" is also up from last week: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%22buy+bitcoins%22&date=today+1-m&cmpt=q


It looks like we might go straight into another bubble.

Has Bitfinex stopped working in the last few minutes for other people?

The order book is completely empty.  (No MtGox orders, no "MtGox is having issues" error,  and no BFX orders).


I can't buy or sell anything right now.

Did coinjedi take part in this bet?


That is the only way that his actions would make any sense.

I'm so pissed at betsofbitco.in right now.


They owe me THOUSANDS of dollars from that bet.

I agree, but betsofbitco.in said it was a draw!

http://betsofbitco.in/item?id=701

WTF??

Want to bet?

http://betsofbitco.in/item?id=1402

This would not work.

1) This is not proof that the borrower will actually pay.

2) This is not proof that the borrower will not use the bitoins for some other purpose after doing the proof.

3) This not even proof that the borrower actually has access to the bitcoins.  For example, an online service could be made to do the zero knowledge proof for you. (You would then just act as a willing man-in-the-middle).

Good point.  Someone might be reading this conversation!

Anyone want to bet on it?

http://betsofbitco.in/item?id=1402

11.85 now

Is it possible to know if you are going to solve a block, then just not pass that information on to the pool's server (just to be a jerk)?

Someone with at least 10k BTC placed a wall.

Perhaps it is the same person?

If energy is not a limiting factor, other things will be:
-Space (with high enough difficulty, a room full of computers wouldn't get you minimum wage)
-Computation speed
-Cost of labor (with high enough difficulty, people will realize they are making less than minimum wage setting up computers)
-Heat (even with free energy, heat will be a problem as you will need fans or air conditioning)

...and so on

Agreed.

I was long 10:1 but deposited money in USD.  Going from 5.00 to 5.90 would have nearly tripled my money.  The least you can do is give me 1:1 by giving me BTC instead of USD.

www.btccharts.com has not worked since the move
btccharts.com works just fine, though


I was trying to access the site by typing "chart" into FireFox's address bar, and www.btccharts.com shows up since that is the URL that I first used.


I wondered why nobody else was posting about it being down.   

Now Bitcoinica is paying shorts...



What happened?

That's a good point.

One problem in D2 is that there are eight ways to play (classic or expack, ladder or non-ladder, SC or HC... 2*2*2=8) and there are 6 realms (east, west, euro, asia1, asia2 and asia3) for a total of 48 places you can make your character.  With D3, it looks like there will be only SC/HC and 6 realms, for a total of 12 places you can make your character.

That should make it somewhat easier to start a new community since you won't need as many people before the network effect starts to take effect.




If there is a bitcoin trading site that has enough buyers and sellers then yes.

For example, on Ogrr.com on the USEast classic forum, there are only 5 threads. https://ogrr.com/forum.php?f=122
-4 are SCCL (Softcore classic ladder)
-1 is SCCNL (Softcore classic non-ladder)
-0 are HCCL (Hardcore classic ladder)
-0 are HCCNL (Hardcore classic non-ladder)

As you can imagine, it wouldn't work very well to trade with such few people.