I see there is a new bet: "Chrome will overtake Internet Explorer in May 2012 on StatCounter" - http://betsofbitco.in/item?id=366I remember creating a bet something like this while ago but don't remember seeing it launch. When I looked at my profile it doesn't show up under "Your statements available for betting". When I just looked at it, I don't see that it shows that I had any bids on it, I know when submitting a bet statement I must commit at least a 0.1 BTC bet on it. So, that would have been subtracted from my balance. Is there something that happened here? |
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What do you want to see in a mining company? Strategy, specifically what advantages this mining endeavor has over others (e.g., below average electric rates, low costs for network and facilities, rate charged to business by operator for labor, level of related experience in business and technical.) |
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If you currently are using prepaid cellphone/wireless/mobile broadband or planning to in the future would you be interested in a service which provides pin codes and RTR (real time recharge directly to phone #) paid for with Bitcoins?
PIN codes for U.S. carriers sold here: - http://www.btcbuy.info/CallingCards.cshtml - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=78050.0Pin codes would need block confirmation(s) but I think the risk of double spend is low enough on RTR to have them processed 0-confirm.
Yup, PIN codes are like a bearer negotiable instrument, so you'ld site pretty vulnerable the risk of a race attack or a Finney attack. |
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download the blockchain the hard way through the client (which is the safest way after all).
For one thing, your site isn't even SSL capable, so even if you are entirely honest, an attacker could alter the contents of the traffic between you and me, and I could end up downloading a different file than what you are hosting. Each bitcoin blockchain binary from BitcoinCharts gets digitally signed so that the download can be verified as being truly the one built by the site. - http://eu1.bitcoincharts.com/blockchain/Using your blockchain binaries means that I am trusting that you haven't injected data that would cause my client to think a transaction was valid, when elsewhere on the network that transaction will be rejected. Using these is something unsafe, yet for small amounts the convenience might outweight the risk of loss. Just wanted to make sure the risks of use got mentioned here. |
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Here is some of my work:  I like the use of using the BTC icon as the dot in the domain. Clever! |
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I haven't sold the first coin I've mined in months. Discuss. How might my actions effect the discussion of this thread?
Last week when the exchange rate was $4.85 ish, I sent some USDs to my exchange account to buy BTCs needed to make a purchase. Because of the reliance on the banking system to move those funds, I just got access to those funds in my exchange account today. Because you were hoarding your bitcoins and not selling yours at the $5 level, for instance, and others were not willing to sell at that price either, that means that today I had to pay $5.10 for my latest trade. At the same time, however, the price for the item that I purchased in terms of BTCs was lowered. So even though your hoarding (and that of others) changed the exchange rate it made no difference to me in making my purchase. My $100 of USDs bought the same item today just as it would have had I done so last week. |
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The only problem I can see is new users spamming "rebroadcast" in hopes of getting confirms faster. While this is not going to cause a flood, it is going to make it easier to trace the originator of a transaction, which reduces anonymity.
But that is their choice to do. And when anonymity is less important than resolving an outstanding issue, the technical ability to allow that seems a function the client should offer. Even if it is only at the command line level if necessary. |
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I strongly disagree with your decision regarding the FTL experiment.
There was further clarification here: That announcement has to come from OPERA only or could it come from someone else?
Statement description says "if there is an official statement from the OPERA collaboration", so yes it has to come from OPERA. |
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That chart is coming from Blockchain.info, which is coming back up from an extended outage. Thus that chart will be off for a day or so. Here's an alternative chart: - http://blockorigin.pfoe.be/chart.php |
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Some shopping addresses expire after 15 minutes, so the "rebroadcast now" button is definitely a good idea.
which merchants do that? Because for me that's obviously scamming. Can't they even save a few bytes for more than 15min :O Some do that to protect against exchange rate volatility. The coins aren't lost, and in most instances the transaction can still be completed, just that the rate isn't guaranteed. Generally you will only see this when there is a very low margin and that is the only way the service can offer the good at that price. SpendBitcoins, for instance, is one which limits the amount of time for a transaction to arrive. But they are giving credit at market price at the time the order is places, so even a 1% move in a few minutes (something that happens all to often with bitcoin) can cause them to lose money on the transaction. But the "on-demand" re-broadcast feature is something that makes sense. There is no technical reason not to have this, and it doesn't go against the protocol. |
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I was wondering if there are exchange fees for using the MTGOX.com service to sell or buy bitcoins. There are fees at nearly all exchanges. The fee for selling will vary as higher volumes get a lower rate. Starting out you are at 0.6%. There may be additional fees when withdrawing those funds as wel.. For instance, the least method is Dwolla at $0.25 per transaction. Wire transfers are much more expensive. What else is there to do with bitcoins, other than claiming them for cash?
Here's a post that describes a ton of different ways people are using bitcoins: - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=78755.0 |
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Thank you, good sir.
You're welcome. I see from spot-checking the Recent transactions that there is a wager on average between one and two per minute (i.e., the 200 row table holds six hours or less of wagers). That's a run-rate per-day of about 800 wagers per day, with my guesstimate that the 1,000 wagers in a single day threshold has already been reached. At current levels, that represents 10% of all transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain. Let me repeat that. At current levels, the two-week-old SatoshiDice.com is already responsible for 10% of all transactions occurring each day on the Bitcoin blockchain.Since the site was a tiny fraction of this level about a week ago, if this growth rate continues, we'll probably learn quickly whether or not bitcoin will scale. I know one thing will likely happen ... there'll be kvetching about how much disk space the block storage is taking up. |
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charged addresses: merging addresses reduces anonymity so why would people consider addresses staying constant for a constant user count?
When spending the client chooses coins so that the combination resulting in the least amount of change is the result. (Ignoring special case, like coins that haven't confirmed yet). Oftentimes this will "merge" coins whether that was the intention or not. So an active user will generally not have much growth to the number of addresses over time even though each payment received is to a different address. The ones that save without spending are the ones who will end up with many addresses holding unspent coins. But you are correct, it is really hard to have any assurance that an estimate based on data like "addresses with unspent coins" is anywhere near accurate. |
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