Uh, you are already free to arrange whatever you want with whomever is willing. The fact that a site doesn't accept every form of payment, or even any form is not wrong.

The free market means that you are free to NOT associate with anyone you don't want to, not that site X has to facilitate your dealings no matter what. If you think there is some demand for a site that allows any type of payment then go for it. I can't even imagine what that would look like though.

Agreed. I really appreciate all the work though.

One thing that might help is to make empty categories invisible to buyers. When you are selling you can put it wherever you want, maybe even make a new category. It just make it look really empty as it is now.

Seems promising, reading the site now.

Cool. To be clear, I absolutely think you should rake it a little bit when it's good to go. You need money for advertising and promotion and eventually to get it on a good server or even two(?). But while it's in testing it's kind of silly. You'll want to know how to adjust in the future anyway.

Oh, that's much better.

Have you stopped the rake for now?

If the average price was .055 today, and it was probably higher since the bulk of offers were bunched up near the high end, then the 34k traded was worth about $1870USD.

Maybe, but he did sell a bunch to me at a great rate. So that isn't costless by any means. 

He could have got ~10% more just by waiting a few hours. Stolen coins occurred to me, but he'd only be in a hurry if the theft was from you or someone you would take them back for, so I guess you (MtGox) would know.

Oh, wow, it'll be awhile before we get that size. Maybe take 5% out of the pool, 2% of a different nice site every time and 3% for you.

Or, take 10% of the excess above like 1000 for a jackpot. So 1200 -> 20; 2000 -> 100; 4000 -> 300

It wouldn't be as regular income, but psychologically it's the least painful place to take it. It's kind of a fallacy, but everyone seems to be happier when big winners do the paying.

We/I don't mind if you take the bounty however often you need it.

That sounds like a good idea to me. Just the uncontroversial technical basics, no econ or social type questions.

Wow, cool. I'm so glad I had a lowball offer in. He didn't get to my really low one though. Is 30k really all he had?

The fact the dollars can be yanked back so easily and that the resolution methods that you implicitly have to pay for to use, PayPal, CC, etc is a negative on them and not on bitcoin.

If I have a coin it is mine to give, finally and completely and quickly. If I have money on PayPal how do I convince someone that I am really giving it to them? Sure it shows up in their account, but I can pull it back for a week? 30 days? Longer? If I can't give it away finally it is worth less. Coins don't have this issue and that is part of their value.

Dollar on string, lol.

There is a difference between not doing violence on people you disagree with and merely not hosting their content.

I won't hurt anyone, but if your poem is crap I'm not reciting it.

Sweet

No, since we are increasing speed the speed at the end of the period is higher than the average power over the period which is what is used to determine the new difficulty. So even at the beggining of the new period we are faster than 6/hr by the difference of average and final speed of the last periodLook on the statistix page, we've been around 8 for over half a year, it's because we're increasing the whole time.
 

Since we're back to 1 in 1048576 chance of winning the jackpot per ticket this is essentially always going to grow until you do a guarantee. So now you'd just have some lotteries that are a little -EV and some that are a little +EV, my buying will be something like 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 1000. Which is fine with me, but I'll probably only get excited about 6 times a year or something.

I don't know how you are going to remove math skill without just making it -EV all the time by raking it hard. Well, someone could back it and the payout could be static. That's 4096BTC with 3 digit, 1BTC tickets. The backer takes substantial risk though and would porbably have to be paid. I'm not saying you should do this, I don't think that it's important to eliminate skill, we just need to find a way to not make it a raw deal to get the ball rolling.

Maybe you are onto something though, the only issue is the fact that 5 will only get hit once a decade if we buy 1000 tickets each time. Maybe keep it 3 digits and pay out every time in the 75-80% range? Roling over the rest. There will still be incentive to cover the board and lock in profit in the amount of the jackpot.

This is actually pretty hard to design. I'll keep thinking.

Nothing wrong. You are downloading the blockchain from other nodes. There are 77095 right now. When you catch up you can start looking for new blocks with us. Don't get too excited though, all together we average about 6 an hour and there are thousands of computers working so it'll probably be a while until you get one. I've gotten 8 in about 8 weeks, but it is harder now than when I started, and I had 2 computers going for a while.

That seems overkill, is it not possible to lock it out for a week or something after 10 tries? It would be cool if you had multiple safe and it could send your coins on the Nth false pword then let the attacker in to see there are no coins. Eh, maybe bad if new coins were coming in.

But it was too late, the employee had already taken 8 days worth of wages....

Printing bitcoins is not all that compelling an idea to me, but it surely isn't because employees will finally have found a way to steal from their employers.