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661  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Anti-Laundering Policies US on: November 28, 2011, 06:33:31 PM
Bitcoin isn't money. It's signed certificates of speech.

If anybody tries to touch it, I cite The First Amendment.
That means nothing unless you have case law to back it up.
662  Other / Politics & Society / Re: That's it. I am done. This country is done. I am getting the fuck out of here. on: November 28, 2011, 06:31:43 PM
http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/senators-demand-military-lock-american-citizens-battlefield-they-define-being

We're only a relative step away from total martial law. Once they start occupying our own streets with troops, that is it, I'm off to the Canadian wilderness or the West Indies; whatever tickles my fancy at the time.

Tyranny usually comes with little and gradual notice. I am not going to hang along to see this abuse of power reach its conclusion.
Shouldn't you stick around and fight the abuse of power instead of running away?
663  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: SwitchPoker.com - Adds Bitcoin Deposits! on: November 28, 2011, 06:30:23 PM
There are hundreds of thousands of ways to waste money, poker is not the only option.  Why doesn't the US gov't just ban LIFE?
664  Economy / Services / Re: WTB Can someone crack this for me for 1 bitcoin? on: November 28, 2011, 06:25:28 PM
Thanks cablepair.
665  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: If I cared about Bitcoin I would do this on: November 28, 2011, 06:24:54 PM
Any low value physical transaction doesn't require any confirmations.

Yes they do. Ask any merchant if those "low value" transactions need confirmation. Many companies rely on those "low value" transactions so they want to be damn sure they take place.
It would be *extremely* difficult to pull off a double spend, and would simply not be worth even trying for a low value transaction.

So why does Mt Gox and everybody else wait at least 10mins and normaly 30mins even for "low value" transactions.

1. They probably wouldn't have to (they could wait for 1 conf. instead of 6 or Cool
2. Online transactions would be a lot more conducive to attempting a double spend than in-person, brick-and-mortar purchases, due to the logistics.
666  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: If I cared about Bitcoin I would do this on: November 28, 2011, 06:21:22 PM
Any low value physical transaction doesn't require any confirmations.

Yes they do. Ask any merchant if those "low value" transactions need confirmation. Many companies rely on those "low value" transactions so they want to be damn sure they take place.
It would be *extremely* difficult to pull off a double spend, and would simply not be worth even trying for a low value transaction.
667  Other / Off-topic / Re: Secret message hidden in this string on: November 28, 2011, 06:19:10 PM
As already suggested, you could have used the smilies as a cypher. Smiley
668  Economy / Services / Re: WTB Can someone crack this for me for 1 bitcoin? on: November 28, 2011, 06:10:47 PM
yes i extracted the files, I can rezip them into a non password protected .rar or .zip for you OP whatever you wish

just a little something I had laying around Wink

private app, non-commercial stuff, you could probably find it on the right ftp sites if you knew where to look

.ace is an ancient format, when I saw what the file extension was I knew exactly how to go about it... A lot of old warez used to come in .ace format way back when, like in the BBS days Smiley
Out of curiosity, can you share the app (after you make a deal with OP, of course).
669  Economy / Services / Re: Looking for someone to help a non american set up a bank account in the USA on: November 28, 2011, 05:41:24 PM
scamcorp
lol
670  Other / Off-topic / Re: Secret message hidden in this string on: November 28, 2011, 04:36:05 PM
This isn't even creative. It's just
Code:
:'( :-* :-\ :-X :-[ :P ::) ??? 8) :o :( >:( ;D :D ;) :)
repeated a couple hundred times.
671  Other / Off-topic / Re: Secret message hidden in this string on: November 28, 2011, 04:31:18 PM
We should limit smilies per post to about 20 max, I think.
672  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: On a decentralized bitcoin-based stock market... on: November 28, 2011, 02:52:27 PM
There's no reason there can't be more than one stock exchange.

Which is why I think a hybrid solution may be the best bet.

Have the stock ownership and transfers handled by a decentralized blockchain and then allow multiple exchanges to support higher level tools like placing trades/orders against that blockchain.
I agree.

But even if GLBSE wants nothing to do with a blockchain based solution, they could keep running.

True but I hope they would see the advantage (maybe not personal advantage) of having the actual "shares" exist outside of GLBSE.  Imagine if for whatever reason GLBSE goes down forever tomorrow.  The chaos and yet more negative PR that brings to Bitcoin.
I agree 100%.
673  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Whitelist Requests (Want out of here?) on: November 28, 2011, 02:31:43 PM
yes, i would like to post the bitcoin i have for sale.
How many bitcoins are you selling, and what are your terms?
674  Other / Off-topic / Re: 1GH/s, 20w, $500 — Butterflylabs, is it a scam? on: November 28, 2011, 02:30:26 PM
What if Paypal doesn't side with you?  After all, when you ordered it stated X time period, which hasn't passed yet.
675  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin and Hype Cycle on: November 28, 2011, 02:29:10 PM
Bitcoin will continue to have relatively dramatic ups and downs until their is enough volume in goods and services being traded in Bitcoin to stabilize it.
676  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Idea: new rules for block validation on: November 28, 2011, 02:27:54 PM
How can you force a miner to include a tx in a block?  What if they don't update their software?
677  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: On a decentralized bitcoin-based stock market... on: November 28, 2011, 02:16:29 PM
There's no reason there can't be more than one stock exchange.

Which is why I think a hybrid solution may be the best bet.

Have the stock ownership and transfers handled by a decentralized blockchain and then allow multiple exchanges to support higher level tools like placing trades/orders against that blockchain.
I agree.

But even if GLBSE wants nothing to do with a blockchain based solution, they could keep running.
678  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Online Litecoin Miner - beta testers wanted! on: November 28, 2011, 02:13:52 PM
On the technical side, I think it would be wise for such miners to leave single-core systems alone, and only start n-1 threads for an n-core system.
On a side note, it would also be nice to be able to throttle back the miner so it doesn't use 100% of the cpu(s) it's running on.
679  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: On a decentralized bitcoin-based stock market... on: November 28, 2011, 02:08:45 PM
There's no reason there can't be more than one stock exchange.
680  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: bitcoinbounties.org - collect bounties! on: November 28, 2011, 01:46:09 PM
4. Have a way for the original bounty creator to edit the title/description of the project.  Allow anyone to view previous versions of the title/desc.

The problem is - why bounty creator only? Why not the rest of the users as well? How'd we decide which description is right? Voting?
Make it editable by all members, like a wiki. Everyone can see the edit history.

5. Have a comment thread for each bounty for others to ask questions, clarify, make suggestions to improve the bounty, propose/discuss solutions/implementations.

That'd be a huge piece of code unless I'd use some external toys. I thought of allowing to add a bitcointalk thread.
A linked bitcoin talk thread (or more than one) would be better than nothing.

9. Have weighted voting on who wins the bounty after a solution(s) is submitted.  Have weighted voting where the bounty starter and people who contributed more BTC to the bounty have most of the say, but let other users of the site also have a small vote.  Have a comment thread for each proposed solution to discuss it / clarify problems.  Allow the person who submitted the solution to revise/re-submit, etc.

Kind of already implemented/discussed, just without the small votes and the last sentence.
Bounty hunters still need a way to revise/improve/resubmit their solution IMO.

10. Have a way to close bounties that are no longer wanted.
Again, who and how would decide that?
A voting system, along with some discretion by a site administrator/moderators, would take care of that. 

What language is the site written in?  I'd be happy to do a code review for you if you want to post/send a zip file with your code.

BTW, did you have a look at my messed up code?
I did.  For the time being I mostly looked for possible security vulnerabilities, of which I didn't find anything obvious.  As for stylistic/philosophical comments, I don't see a lot of need for that.  I would have done a lot of things differently (OOP, class design, MVC design, separation of concerns), but since this was a learning project for you, that's ok.
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