I don't think that's a good idea, for it's been argued that MintChip is not a cryptocurrency. Moving it there would be like claiming it is.
You're right. The Off-Topic board would probably be more appropriate. |
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This kickstarter-led crowdfunding model really forced a change we're experiencing with the securities industry in the U.S. Years ago this fundraising model would have gotten shut down -- preselling products to the general public before you have the ability to ship the product was a violation of securities laws. Then KickStarter (which is very well connected to venture capital) came along and created the concept of raising funds as donations with some type of reward as a result, and gained big traction for the model. But now, this Pebble project thing is purely a marketing effort. If Pebble wanted capital, they could easily have raised it (or may have done so already). Here they get to sell a ton of product and don't need to give up any equity to be able to get the financing they need to be able to place the order for a large production run. I'm not saying this is bad, I'm just pointing out this is not what what KickStarter started out being and is something likely to still be in the "gray area" of whether or not this preselling violates existing securities law in the U.S.. Even the new JOBS act with its equity crowdfunding provisions doesn't change this -- taking money for the pre-sale of product is still not allowed. Perhaps KickStarter gets by doing this by being able to step in to return the payments if a Pebble were to end up being a fraud or something like that, I don't know. - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3828293I don't like how this seems to be something that appears to be allowed when it is a big corporation (KickStarter ... well not really big, but backed by big venture capital money) doing it but for you and I it is different. Try as an individual doing the same thing that Pebble is currently doing through KickStarter and I wonder how many days before PayPal steals your funds (well, not steal but freeze funds for 6 months), without you having any recourse. So either change the flippin law, or enforce it. |
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It would take you just a few minutes to register for a seller account and upload a song or two to CoinDL. - http://www.CoinDL.com |
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Is there any reason you don't also have an ecommerce site for offering these?
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The Withdraw page shows:
"We are working on a easy way for you to withdraw your Bitcoins to your bank account, as always to favourable prices. For now we recommend BitcoinNordic"
Does BitcoinNordic let you withdraw to a bank?
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If, due to exceptional circumstances, we end up with a diff drop of 3% that doesn't reflect a drop hashrate, then that difficutly was measured "wrongly" and we're hashing blocks faster than 1 block per 10 minutes in the coming period, which will effectively move the date closer, no?
Yup, but for some reason that hashing in the last couple days hasn't been rebounding to those previous levels. So there probably are other contributing factors. There has been some selling of hardware as some miners unload GPUs and buy FPGAs (here's one example, by the person who held at one time the record for "fastest rig" https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=75616.0 ). - http://bitcoin.sipa.be/speed-lin-2k.pngSo if those GPUs get sold to others who will be mining, that hashing will not just return but will be in addition to the new FPGA hashing purchased using the proceeds from the GPU sales. But with a sub-$5 BTC/USD and this difficulty level, those with GPUs and are paying $0.15 or more per kWh are just barely breaking even. Whether or not the new hashing from FPGAs more than compensates the lost hashing from those dropping out is the reason that bet could still go either way. |
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Is there (or could / will there be) a way to message the seller? For instance, the following looks to be in the wrong category. I think it is a graphic, but it is under the Apps category: - https://www.coindl.com/page/item/97The probable reason it was miscategorized is because Apps is the default category when adding a New Item. These important required fields probably shouldn't have a default, and instead should require the user to select the value. Incidentally, I noticed I had another sale of my first upload! CoinDL must be getting decent traffic. Why there weren't dozens or hundreds of mp3 uploads from all those musicians I keep hearing about complain about money is something baffling to me. CoinDL got a lot of good press earlier this week, so there were many many musicians who learned of CoinDL. It costs nothing to list except a little bit of time. (though, I suppose that time comes from their 24x7 updates of Facebook, so ya, I guess they have priorities.) |
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Banks Will End Up Obsolete as Silent-Film Stars, Unless.... by Kosta Peric Head of innovation, SWIFT But the banks are under pressure today to change, due to several factors:
- The advent of complementary currencies (such as airline miles or Facebook credits) and digital currencies (such as Bitcoin and Ven)
- The advent of easy, inexpensive person-to-person international payment schemes (Paypal and others)
- The advent of telecom operators as payment processors in mobile payments schemes not involving banks.
- http://www.americanbanker.com/bankthink/innovation-disruptive-technology-BankSimple-Movenbank-Bitcoin-1048311-1.html |
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Helpful hint: System administrators see everything. Don't put anything on a corporate PC that you don't want them to get their hands on. Such as unencrypted wallets.  This is really a bigger issue than we are acknowledging. Managed devices are just that -- systems that can be fully controlled by a remote. And not just that -- with a typical windows system almost any app that is installed has the ability to read the bitcoin wallet.dat data file. Won't it be just a matter of time before some contract employee of popular software package, for instance, puts in a rogue piece of wallet stealing code that doesn't execute until a certain date and time? Fortunately, encrypting the wallet helps raise the bar (so that more than just physical read access to the wallet.dat file is necessary) but a determined attacker can counter that hurdle as well. |
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4) Tipping my favorite bloggers when they post something intelligent. Unfortunately many bloggers don't post a Bitcoin address (yet)
Awesome list of uses, minorman! For #4, there's also http://BTCTip.com which creates a wallet that can be spent only by that Twitter user. - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Btctip |
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you sir, win an internet. Can I exchange it for bitcoins instead? shoot me your adress so I can show a tiny bit of appreciaton^^ Ha, ... that's wasn't what I meant by that. Being in involved with Bitcoin warps the brain after a while. I was at a convenience store pumping gas and in my mind I'm calculating the exact number of gallons a bitcoin will buy. A friend was getting rid of an old gaming PC and my mind right away tries to remember what the hash rate is for that model of video card. It's just nuts! I appreciate the thought though! |
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