Not down for me now.

Yeah, those are probably the same coins over and over. And it's rarely at 90k, I often see it in the 20-40k range. I mean sometimes I buy 2k on BCM and then send it to MtGox inside of a few hours, and that makes me over 10% of the 24hr traffic. Also if you look in the blocks there are lots of 50BTC transfers, I assume these are people sending recently generated blocks from slave machines to their main, not actual commerce.

Imo, the very beginning was the hardest bridge to cross. There is still a long way to go, but I'm pretty confident.

No work is lost because each trial is done in a tiny fraction of a second. Think of it like playing the lottery 1.2 million times per second. Because there are so many people working now and the system recalibrates the difficulty to keep an average time of 10 minutes per block it takes an individual a long time before they can expect to make a block now. This is good for the security of the system though and hopefully it will get much harder over time. This is disappointing for people who are trying to get free bitcoins, but it is exactly what people who want a good solid money are looking for.

It is easy to transfer bitcoins. Install the client on the other computer and get the address that appears at the top. Send coins to it with the client that has coins. That's all.

If you post an address I'll send you a bit to play with.

How hard would it be to set up an email system with payments attached? If you have that then you just make emails with <.1 BTC or whatever you set attached invisible. You make a "refund" button to send it back on legit emails, or even a refund all from this person, or refund all from everyone button to make it easy.

If your mother refuses to ship your BTC back, just don't write for a while. This works nicely with the celebrity mail idea from before. Celebs just don't send back and everyone knows it. Busy/important people could check their 50+ BTC mail frequently and their 1+ BTC mail when they have extra down time.

I have no suggestion, but I am interested.

If it was something that wasn't going to get done otherwise a bounty beforehand to show people's desire would be good.

This is going to get done though for sure and I bet the majority of donations will be paid afterwards.

Why? Seems fine to me.

I think everyone working towards an open version is a great thing for sure. It has huge positive externalities that accrue to all of us, even if we don't ever use it. Bitcoin is not very secure when one programmer and 20 GPUs can double spend. Once there is efficient, open code it will take much much more power to corrupt the system.

I think you guys should give the pudding berating a rest. He did some work and made an offer, that's all. Of course it would be nice to have it done for free, and I'm sure it's annoying redoing it, but he hasn't done anything bad at all. And there is no reason to think he's putting malicious code out there, and if you are worried, obviously you should just not use it.

Damn, that's 11am Sat here, I'll still take it though. :-P

Ha, friendly wager? 10BTC? :-)

And you can buy all the tickets you have coins for, no problem.

Working week ends Friday?

Okay, I was thinking of 6 months ago when I walked into a dealer, obviously having a coin sent is different and the price is up since then too. 450 doesn't seem so bad. Also, I'm probably off of reality from the great silver deals I've been getting on biddingpond.

I take my time and use it to earn USD on PS, then I trade it for BTC. Is this a BTC business? Did I profit?

Why are you stuck on the generating time? How long does it take you to generate $$ with your computer? At least compare apples to apples man.

Yeah, it isn't like we have a good currency to use and we're just mucking about with another for kicks. I want to use a good money.

Or I want to buy things from you without telling you my name? Or I want to accept payment from strangers and know it cannot be charged back? And I don't have to Pay fees to a CC company? Lots of reasons.

edit: I am not BSing either. I would never and have never sold PS money for PayPal, it would be stupid and I would have to worry about charge backs for 60 days, and I would probably have zero recourse because I was selling poker money. I have sold $500 worth for bitcoin. I saved some, spent some on silver, and got some legit PayPal from MtGox. And some people who could not or would not give payment info to poker sites have been able to play.

Yeah, it would suck if bitcoins could just be created on demand... like dollars are. Do stuff people want done or make stuff people want to have to get bitcoins. Thanks to the markets (mtgox and bitcoinmarket) you can trade to get USD then BTC if you need.

Seems high to me.

I think the idea is that using the link tells amazon how you got there so he gets credit.

Even if they immediately cash out it still has a lot of upsides. They see that people who support them think it is a good way to transfer value, maybe they will be more inclined to accept bitcoin as payment for other things they sell, maybe they will find something that is good to buy with bitcoins like a server and now they will buy or earn more coins to keep buying the thing.

Donating and spending don't add value to bitcoin, accepting them for goods and services does. If no one or very few people accept them, then your donation will be literally worthless to whoever you donate to.