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Is there a tool out there that I could use to see if I am assosiated with any of the adresses, for like 5 tx's forward. I personally have about 20 adresses so the manual work amounts to too much. Also if such a tool would exist Im sure it would in the long run make life atleast slightly more difficult for random thieves, so if theres a programmer out there, consider making one pls.
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I guess that's a point for some people.
Personally, I think it would be interesting to see what happens at halving... and then again at ASIC release. We can expect a quick crash and even quicker recovery when ASICs hit... but halving may slowly drive the price or may do nothing at all...
I would also prefer if these two massive changes did not coincide. It would make things much simpler. |
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An explanation would seem proper.
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Your tiepin made me think of how cool (and somewhat ironic) a BTC money clip would be. I'd buy one for sure.  Money clips are under production, the design is similiar to my the first batch of items, but with a larger bitcoin-logo. I will toss you a discount for suggesting the item. But pricing is open untill I have a batch ready. If I'd have to guess that would be in about a week. |
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Good for my fpga's that havet yet reached 100% RoI
Kinda bad for my gpu's at my electric rates the off chanse of breakage is not covered with what remains of profit after the reward halving.
Bad for my Asic order.
I guess atleast I have my risk decentralized ?
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Games, physical bitcoins, random items from bitmit and website hosting/domain.
[edit] Graphic desing.
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Bought another game, smooth and fast as usual, thank you. If you happen to use bitcoin-otc web of trust I would not mind getting a rating.
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I like it, but lets take it further:
Bitinstant debit card flash mobs
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Bump (and a heads up, Im in the process of getting some keychains made)  |
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I'm looking to buy a graphics card for under 100 USD. I'm willing to pay in bitcoin. A 58XX or something else that will put out 300+ Mhash/s would be nice but feel free to post anything else you have. It's nice to have options. I'm looking to mine with the card but not for too long so It would be best if you knew the card worked for gaming as well. It would be really nice if the card has not been run into the ground Feel free to PM me after you post here. I'm willing to negotiate. Where are you located ? (as delivery is a major cost) |
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Isokivi,
That does look to be the fan that I am able to order, at today's exchange rate it would be about 2.55 BTC shipped to your door. I do not have any in my own stock but I can order them from several different suppliers in China, Singapore, Japan, etc...
I do not see your location in your profile, however that price is including S&H to the USA. If you are interested please let me know here and via PM and we can work out the details. It looks like shipping time would be about 2 weeks.
I just (15 minutes ago) gave up on you and ordered a fan set that looks like it could work for me from arctic cooling. ..Talk about bad timing. If it does not I will get back to you, Im located in Finland. |
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Got the same email, didnt even remember I took part in this |
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I personally did not set up an otc rating, but am outright telling who I am irl, all my products are available trough escrow if customers so want. I did try but (quoting myself): "talk about an unncessarily long and overcomplicated process."
Ok. I now copy your tellings, pictures, whatever you put up and claim I'm you. What can you do? Read this and think about it. It may be seem long, unnecessarily complicated or whatever. It's in fact the minimally complex functional solution. I do believe I stand corrected, I guess it's back to several hours of trying to figure out why the "guide to using the OTC web of trust" does not seem to work for me : / |
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Okay, it's not a crime. It's just the first step down the road which brings pretty much 9x% to crime within six months to a year. So, here are some simple easy steps for your convenience.
Im commenting this as someone who just started a bitcoin buisness (the trade and production of physical goods for bitcoins). Im new and it's a learning process but Im doing supprisingly well so far. 0. Starting a bitcoin business is a liability. The first thing you need to understand, and you need to understand it well. At sixteen hundred hours while you were sitting around your living room scratching your ear you were worth X. Your life, your ideas, your business, the shit around your house that you own, all that which makes up your life, added together, worth X. At sixteen fifteen, eight minutes after you had started your Bitcoin business you were worth X-k, where k is always positive and SIGNIFICANT. Starting a Bitcoin business is a liability, it makes you worth less. In fact, all the rest of your life in Bitcoinland will be attempts, more or less successful, to limit and reduce that liability. This is the outlook you must have not in order to be successful, but in order to have a shot at it. This is the outlook you must have in order to not guarantee failure.
With this I can agree. 1. Identify yourself to the community. This means, at the very least, creating a WOT account. If you do not have a WOT account you are not part of Bitcoin business. This is the criteria, no matter what you might think. That's where everyone looks, no matter what social media might be telling you. If you aren't in the WOT you aren't in Bitcoin.
I personally did not set up an otc rating, but am outright telling who I am irl, all my products are available trough escrow if customers so want. I did try but (quoting myself): "talk about an unncessarily long and overcomplicated process." This might also mean making a few social media profiles. The difference between an account on StumbleUpon called MyBTCBiz, a reddit account called BtcBlaBla, a myspace, tumblr, whatever and a forum account called MyBizPr is nil. They're all the same thing: social media profiles. Sure, they may be useful. You wouldn't think to substitute a forum registration for a company registration IRL, now would you? Same thing here.
Did the facebook thing, useless so far. Reddit had an obvious short time effect on sales. Havent tried anything else. 2. After completing step 1 spend at the very least six months learning. This attitude whereby you think you're great and valuable, so great and valuable in fact that you had the business idea first, then you ran into Bitcoin and then in the heat of the moment saw to that formality of a forum account so now you're ready for "investment" five hours later after dealing with the pesky minimum posts rules is bullshit. Pure bullshit. This isn't how it works, if you've not been in the WOT for six months you are not ready to start a Bitcoin business for reason of intellectual incapacity, irrespective of what you might think. (And yes, of course you will think you're the exception to this rule. You are not the exception, you are just unskilled and unwarare of it. The rule is exactly about you.) Yes, maybe if Warren Buffett decided to go into Bitcoin he'd just put a notice on his Berkshire Hathaway website identifying his WOT handle and be ready in five minutes. The reason Warren Buffett can do that and you can't is that you're not Warren Buffett. Yes, one day you might become the next WB. That doesn't mean you're it today, consumer credit does not work in this field. So, what you do during your six months is that Im in buisness but very well aware that Im on this step, I am propably months away from having an automated payment system incorporated in to my own website. For now Im working around this by doing things manually on every order. 2.1. You buy some Bitcoins. Get a good idea of what the options for doing that are, how the exchanges work, how the OTC market works (if by now you do not know what OTC or WOT stand for add two months to your lockdown as punishment for being the sort of idiot who, when he encounters words he does not know, instead of investigating their meaning brushes them off to "get on with the reading").
2.2. You sell some Bitcoins. Get a good idea of how that works, how you get your money back out, what the limits are, so on and so forth. You wouldn't want to discover later that you have a billion dollars in Bitcoins you can never spend in any way, other than by donating to the Bitcoin Gates Foundation now would you? What sort of WB would that be?
I've been using bitcoin for 10 months now, so I'd like to think Im past this. My computer can be hacked but at most I allow myself to have 35 bitcoins on it at once, rest are split between an offline wallet and an exchange account with a strong two factor authentication. These are not a waste of time. They are here to give you an idea of how your future customers will be seeing life. You want to buy some Bitcoins even if you don't need them, and sell them even if you don't need to and buy back just on general principle. You are unit testing the currency. Boring? Fuck you.
2.3. You read, on this forum, and you discuss with the market participants. You get your pecking order straight. Who are the movers and shakers? Whose word is worth 10k Bitcoins no questions asked and from whom? Why? You get the history straight. Who were the scammers, historically? How did they do it ? What are the patterns? How did the people who matter react, and why? What does that say about them, how does that color their relationships among each other?
I dont think I'll ever be looking in to lending, borrowing or investing any bitcoins. So I'd like to think this does not affect me. If you don't have the list and don't comprehend how the interactions work, if you look at DeathandTaxes and have no fucking idea who he is, if you think we're buddies cause I mention him by name and so forth you're not done with this. Must lurk moar. 2.4. You ask questions. Only on step 2.4 do you ask questions, by the time you're here you have already done a lot of work! You have sunk into this upwards of a hundred hours of your spare time, whether you like it or not, you've filled half a notebook with dumbass scribblings, you have fucking hand-drawn maps hanging from your bedroom wall. This level of intensity is not an upper bound to aspire to, but a minimum requirement. Your questions will get a lot of stupid answers but also a complete set of correct answers. Pick the set, disregard the rest, you're on your way. +1 You always seem to get three wrongs for one right answer on these forums. 3. Announce your business plan. If you think your business plan has to be kept secret because otherwise others will steal it you are probably too stupid to be in business (not just BTC, but in general).
Buisness plan sure, products that Im not selling yet, no... I dont need competitors that fast Tbh I didnt announce anything until I had my first products and photos of them to show. Let me explain to you how business "stealing" works: at the time MPEx was created (Feb 2012) there existed GLBSE already, which sucked at that time. Nobody flailing around in a cloud of stupidity almost mould-like in consistency seemed to be aware of it, but GLBSE sucked. And so Mr. P decided to make a securities exchange that worked right and was run correctly. So, pro tip #1: there's so much to do and so few people capable of doing it in Bitcoin that if your plan makes sense and you seem even remotely competent everyone else who is competent will breathe a sigh of relief. They aren't going to "steal" your idea of doing the absolutely fucking obviously banal, cause so much is needed I couldn't begin to tell you. Pro tip #2: if you are incompetent, the people who are competent aren't going to steal your business early. They are going to steal it late, just like MPEx demolished GLBSE. They don't need early mover advantage, they will come to your market six months or a year late, break off your arms and beat you over the head with them until you are reduced to a bloody mess. So, forget about anyone "Stealing" your business. When S.DICE was announced, a bunch of forum muppets rambled on about how it's not worth its valuation because "everyone could do it". And I laughed at them then and so to prove my point that they're laughable idiots they declared that they shall do it! It's been months, who has managed to steal the business? You can't steal any business from the competent, and if you're competent yourself you don't even try to, cause it makes no business sense. Thus, at the very least, step 3 gives you this measure of protection, whereby other competent people know you're doing X and so don't start doing X too. It saves our time and effort, rather than doing something twice do two of the fifty billion things that still need doing. Obviously your announcement will gather a bunch of crap from a bunch of nobodies. But lucky for you, you've been doing this by the numbers, and you have the list. You know why you don't care what Joel Katz says about anything: what people who don't run businesses say is irrelevant. You know why you care what piuk says about anything to do with the blockchain (do you?). 4. Almost there.4.1. If you actually got no objections, just pats on the back you're golden. Go do your thing, try your best not to fuck up, when in doubt ask people you trust and that's that. 4.2. If you actually had some objections, do not proceed until the people who raised them declared themselves satisfied. The odds that they don't have a point are dismal, and more importantly, the odds that they wouldn't withdraw objections along the lines of the most favorable construction for you are nil. If someone's pointing things out to you that won't work with your model they're right. If nobody is that still is not proof your model can work. Stick to this and I might be hearing your name in a year or two. Don't, you just fade into the background noise, yet another of the many who keep paying ten or fifty dollars a month to be part of a new and exciting MMORPG, sorta like the glassy eyed FB credits buyers. Good luck in any event. |
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I've done some reading and I'm still not sure I understand how the upcoming change of the block reward from 50 BTC to 25 BTC will affect the money supply. Is it as simple as halving inflation (i.e. the number of coins created over the next year is half that of the previous year)? Are blocks easier to unlock now as a result?
The difficulty of blocks is dynamic and depends only on the network hashrate. The network always adjusts itself with the target of 6 blocks found per hour. The block reward halving will force some miners to quit, thus lowering the difficulty in the long run. However asics are supposed to come out soon which will increase difficulty by almost the same factor as when cpu mining got replaced with gpu mining. |
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I have been building a bitcoin automatic teller machine which consists of a computer, webcam/QRcode scanner, bill acceptor, touchscreen and receipt printer. The idea of it is to allow anyone to purchase bitcoins with cash just by scanning their bitcoin address and depositing cash into the machine. The machine then instantly sends bitcoins to the address at the current exchange rate plus some minus a fee of some sort. Has anyone done this yet? Does anyone think that this is something people will use?
I will eventually post a video showing it in action once I fix a few more bugs in the user interface.
Consider seeing this device at an airport as you are about to leave the country, with a random amount of local currency in your pocket that you'd have to exchange for your local currency at some point. |
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Epic, you have my kudos sir.
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