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Is there any interest in a Southern Illinois and St Louis Bitcoin meetup? We might not attact the names other regions do or the number of people, but I'd be interested in anyone else is down.
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Thank you for your business!  We are glad to serve you the cheapest rounds. The dollar formula is again updated, to accommodate the falling price of silver. Now you get about 4 Uncirculated 1oz Maple Leafs for 1 BTC. O tempora, o mores! I'm guessing you don't ship to the US and don't carry Philharmonics or Libertads in the larger sizes? |
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I am currently using MultiBit. I want a change, and am considering Armory. If there are any other good clients, please list their specifications here. I appreciate any help/advice you can give! I want one with a good GUI, advanced features, and can import/export private keys.
Thanks!
Armory + Bitcoin-QT is the best if you can handle it. |
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One day you are going to wake up and wonder why you didn't look into this more when you had the chance. I really am surprised you people have bitcoins. So many people believe the whole bitcoin concept is a ponzi so I thought people that owned them would be smarter than that. Obviously I was wrong.
MORE personal attacks? As someone who doesn't follow this thread and only comes back once in a while to read a few of the latest comments: You are not making bitbillions look good at all. And you wonder why no one here wants to invest? Seems you go by this philosophy: 1. Make a presentation in unprofessional-style post with an overly excited to the extent of crazed looking avatar. 2. If people question you, instead of making well thought out and convincing posts, insult them. 3. Tell everyone who doesn't appear interested that they are morons and will regret it. Don't forget the violence he implied might be headed my direction in post #79 in this thread. To aussie_striker: Post a PGP fingerprint to this thread and I will PM you, encrypted, what bar I will be in on any given Friday night. I can promise that I will not need to return any violence you send my way. I'll decline to take responsibility for what the local yokels and the 5-0 do in response while I'm headed out to the hospital as you promise. (So long as the fingerprint resolves to a valid email address I will let you know exactly where you can kick my ass on a Friday of your choosing). Alternately I can buy you in to a couple more shares of this scheme if you promise you'll at least take me to a Cardinals game before you fuck me. It'll be a blast. The way Kozma and the Federalist knock off foul balls there is a really good chance you'll come away with a souvenir. I would vastly prefer a game when Wainwright , Miller, or Garcia is starting over one were Lynn or Westbrook is starting. We can have a gay old time watching Carlos Beltran making the smoothest catches ever to happen in right field, and Yadie continuing to be one of the best players in the history of the game. (Note: it would take a number of PGP signed statements to get me to agree to this outcome, but if you come through I've got coin) Regards |
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I suspect, from the bottom of my sleeve, that there are maybe 100,000 addresses with any balance whatsoever, and of these, 10,000 hold a balance greater than BTC1. A few lucky guys maybe holding BTC100.
So the amount of data is reasonable, and they are well positioned to return all bitcoins to their rightful owners, and everything is proceeding as planned.
The 90 day account freeze is a must, because some owners may not access their wallet every week. Further, I believe they will have a claims department open ever after for anyone who wakes up late but remembers his URL. In my opinion, Instawallet team may recover their reasonable costs from the amount returned, if a claim is late for more than 1 year.
The general history of bitcoin "businesses" and "services" suggests their is a precedent for this services users to express some skepticism that the claims process will be executed smoothly to its completion. Another precedent suggests there is a sufficiently large number of bitcoin users who simply don't care to know better that might have chosen to use installation as a long term storage solution for more than small amounts of coins. The positive side is, your bitcoin wealth is frozen at the exact time you might be most tempted to sell it, and you should thank the "hacker" for this  This all depends on how a person would be tempted to sell it and in what portion. Bitcoin has incredible supply inflexibility that could keep this rally going to the moon, but this week's rise has me concerned enough I've bought myself into a healthy precious metals position (a mix of silver and rhodium) as a hedge. If we are back to $20 or even $85 in a month my hedge would have been untenable, because I've elected not to use an online wallet I had the decision making power to do this. Even if we are pushing four digit USD/BTC prices I'd be sore that the power to make this decisions was not allowed to me by these nebulous things known as "circumstances." |
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So to me the question: How do I predict the cost of getting my transaction into the next few blocks?
Is really: How do I predict the cost of getting a byte into the next few blocks?
My half-baked thinking on this is to:
1. Look at the last 144 blocks (24 hours)
2. Filter away gratis transactions
3. Filter away the bottom 25% and top 25% transactions that include a fee (measured in fee-pr-byte)
4. Calculate f1 = my-transaction-size-in-bytes * <the average fee pr byte in the remaining transactions>
5. Calculate f2 = the fee using traditional fee mechanisms for my transaction (0.0005 pr 1000 bytes)
6. Final fee = max(f1,f2)
(Obviously step 4 and 5 will have to iterate until a fix point is reached as the size of the transaction may be affected by the fee size.)
Step 6 is there to avoid situations where f1 < f2, and miners still use the classic fee rules
On top of this the user could configure his wallet to be:
Economic: f1 = f1 * 1/2 (get confirmed when there is room)
Normal: f1 unmodified (get confirmed at a 'normal' rate)
Priority: f1 = f1 * 2 (get confirmed quickly)
This way end users have some control over their fees/confirmation-times without having an extended math degree, plus we get a fee market going.
What do you think?
This sounds like a fairly reasonable setting for your client, whether you set is as the default or make it an option. As long as not every client bids for space in this same manner it shouldn't be tempting enough for miners to try to game it. For your app, make the default fee 0.0005 but in the advanced options, users can set the fee to 0.0001 if they want to. Then just put a notice that fees other than the default are NOT guaranteed to be included in the next block.
I like the idea of being able to set a default fee too, but for the other reason. I like bidding a bit above market to make sure my transactions are confirmed fast. |
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I think the intersango code is opensourced? I also started a data model for an exchange, but especially in the eurozone, I see a lot of legal issues with an exchange,  Thanks for the pointer! Indeed there seems to be something here: http://gitorious.org/intersango/intersango Though the last commits are from September 2011. (I though Intersango is defunct? There doesn't seem to be any way to actually get into the site.) Can you elaborate on some the legal issues? From what I've read, the eurozone/SEPA area seems like a heaven compared to the regulations that US exchanges are facing. I wouldn't touch that code... It has a history of losing people money... |
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I didn't get to post this earlier, but another creative idea (which is extreme) is to.
1. print and laminate or engrave on metal or hard plastic.
2. pour melted wax around.
3. put in bigger wooden or plastic box.
4. pour cement around.
You get a block of cement when it's dry. You will have to break open the cement but since there is a box, the contents of the box is protected. The wax is also additional protection for the object which actually holds the private key for your bitcoins.
The problem with fingerprints is that it has to consistently give the same output. Fingerprint scanners work by comparing your scan of right now, with something it stored previously, and checking to see how much of before and now is the same. It can't give the exact same output all the time, because of finger orientation, so I don't know how a hash of your fingerprint would be secure.
Also if you wound your finger with a blade cut or something, or it grows a pimple, then the scan would fail.
Concrete might actually not be the best material for this because it can be rather corrosive, especially while it is curing... |
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Out of stock or did the price run up against another sanity check?
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Chrome is the ultimate spyware
And I love it for that. I can google for a new movie on my desktop, then completely forget about it and weeks later my phone will automagically remind me that "hey that movie you googled a while ago is now running in that theater near you". Without me doing anything. Or I look up a restaurant at lunchtime and later at dinnertime i'm in the area and my phone goes "dude that steak restaurant you looked up is like 20 minutes away thought you should know duder". Without me doing anything. Or when it's like half an hour before I usually leave work to go home and my phone going "Yeah, here's the thing. You know how you drive at x pm and take that route usually? That's gonna bite you in the ass today. I mean, just look at that traffic jam. Look at this shit. You'd better drive this way. Just saying". Without me doing anything. It's perfect and exactly what my phone should do. The lesson here is not: Google is evil. The lesson is: Security through Obscurity does never ever work. So true. |
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So do we think it is only affecting chrome users or is this just speculation?
Aside from that there is no news is there?
Speculation, but justified. Chrome is the ultimate spyware |
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Congrats to the MPEx team for providing such an incredible level of liquidity in the options market. The MPOE bot provides such an important service to the bitcoin finance community. I'm happy to see that despite the steep losses this month, all contracts were honored without even the whiff of a 'glitch', 'hiccup', or 'hack'.
Sure, take a seat near the carriage. Amazing how Mircea managed to keep the traders whole on thier options without resorting to "insurance" |
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Kiln has arrived. My goal now is to get it set up as fast as possible. First, I have to get the room ready. Waiting for the landlord to get her ass in gear etc. and then it's electricians turn. Do not worry, I am not sitting around and picking my nose I am constantly looking for potential clients, etc. For people who might be interested in renting kiln time with cryptocoins, where roughly might this studio be located? Promoting litecoin and bitcoin as a value transfer system is on my list. It's interesting. I asked for a location and received a platitude. |
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with this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=163261.0there is much renewed hope for BFL supporters. If anyone wants some 1:1 action on April shipping / 350 Mh/J+ and 5+ confirmed members rec'd I will bet up to 250 btc against that This thread is awfully cluttered, so you might as well let me know on here that you accepted my surrender in the March Madness Bracket. |
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saw the btc thread over 500 boners by dec 31 2013 +500, any plans to put up bitcoin futures. thanks 4 readin mr block
MPEX or Coinbr are where the futures are |
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All of these cards are designed to speed up a variety of cryptographic operations instead of raw SHA-256 hashes like bitcoin demands. These products are all kind of like Swiss Army knives in that they do a lot of things, but don't do any of them especially well. Many of these tasks they will handle better than general purpose hardware, but usually when they get used it is because guidelines require them as opposed to when performance demands them. |
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Well this was an interesting sweat. Congratulations on the relative success of you bracket as it is time for me to concede this bet. At least with these upsets this year the sports books have given me the chance to make back the buy in.
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The web of trust is more useful than the IRC conversation that happens in OTC. Being to auth people before you trade with them is about as solid as you can get in identity verification.
I agree, the WOT is a wonderful idea. Nevertheless, the proof is in the pudding. As I said, I have found that I can trade between BTC and USD faster, more safely, more profitably, and more reliably at mtgox, campbx, or bitfloor than OTC. YMMV. Estos cabrones se creen que la montan y cuando Los boricuas les damos shut down, se meten la lengua en el culo. Dile ahi puņeta que solo los Nerds usan IRC y que es mas sofisticado usar CampBx coņo. Carolina en la casa! Luis Lloren Torres! Minando bitcoins con luz gratis gracias a Carmen Yulin! Well, the Bitcoin client uses IRC to bootstrap... The web of trust is more useful than the IRC conversation that happens in OTC. Being to auth people before you trade with them is about as solid as you can get in identity verification.
I agree, the WOT is a wonderful idea. Nevertheless, the proof is in the pudding. As I said, I have found that I can trade between BTC and USD faster, more safely, more profitably, and more reliably at mtgox, campbx, or bitfloor than OTC. YMMV. Normally true, but sometime you might want to trade for something other than USD. The exchanges might also be having a day like today where they trouble reasonably accessing them exists. I only recently got on OTC, but it is nice having Gribble there to check identities. |
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I've been wondering why it's named Bitcoin if every sci-fi movie I grew up on always called future money Credits.
Because we are conducting trade with the asset rather than debt, also known as credit. |
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