If only there was a way to keep track of people's reputations and trade histories, so that you can decrease your probability of getting ripped off.  And it would be even better if that system were able to vastly reduce the risk of identity theft occurring.

 - http://bitcoin-otc.com/trust.php

Ughh ... the Wiki is getting crapped on again.   I don't know if it is a natural language spambot or just some vandal but new users are getting created and then garbage articles being created.

The http://bitcoin.it  wiki uses MediaWiki.

What can be done?

I can see those with a pool or others who get payouts wanting a static address, but others don't necessarily want that -- for privacy reasons.  So hopefully it isn't mandatory.

What is expected though is that there is a history of bitcoin addresses assigned to my account.  Or at least some register of transactions showing previous deposits and withdrawals along with the bitcoin address for both deposits and withdrawals.  Additionally, would like to see "pending" or "not yet confirmed" status on deposits where the transaction has not yet confirmed.

For those in the U.S., here's one way to earn a small amount of bitcoin.  

This site apparently is still operating and still paying out $1 USD in Dwolla USDs.

Send a text message with a profound message to: 1.515.650.4583

That number is for the site:
 - http://dollarthoughts.com

Then they will send a $1 Dwolla USD payment to you. You need to sign up for Dwolla then, but it is free and takes just seconds.

But then the Dwolla you got can be sent to any exchange that accepts Dwolla including Mt. Gox, Intersango, Camp BX, Bitfloor, etc. (sign up at any of these exchanges for free too if you don't already use one) and use the funds to purchase BTCs.

This offer might be limited to only new Dwolla users, I don't know.

Here's more on it:
 - http://www.twilio.com/blog/2012/01/dwolla-offers-a-dollar-sms-messaging.html

When the market exchange rate just moved about twenty cents I didn't see the price for the options move hardly anywhere nearly as much.  Are the quotes computed in real-time or are they instead based on a weighted average or something?

Has it been long enough now that a scammer label to be given below the forum user profile icon?   The site is still up and still accepting orders.

That pull-down for Order Type (e.g.,  Limit, Market) is easy to overlook.  Even though you have entered a number in the price field, if the Order Type is set to Market it will do a Market order.  That's probably what happened.

After reading the wikipedia article, I learned they work different from what I first envisioned.  Uses an LED [update: or a passive bokode that requires illumination like a camera flash].  So that limits how it could be used a bit.  
 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokode
 - http://www.bokodes.org/bokode.html

Flying Robots Deliver Cash To Your Location!



Being built right after they finish the Taco Copter:
 - http://tacocopter.com

Currently commercial use of these UAVs is prohibited and personal use is only allowed in unpopulated areas.  Bit think forward a few years with a GPS and it being able to receive instructions in real-time from the Internet imagine what these little drone thingies will be capable of.

 - http://www.digitaltrends.com/lifestyle/tacocopter-to-use-flying-drones-to-deliver-your-tacos-possibly
 - http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/14/out-of-hobby-class-drones-lifting-off-for-personal
 - http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/03/qa-with-tacocopter

Here's an example of an opportunity.

The comments board for the community of readers of Calculated Risk is a Drupal 6 system which runs on the site called "Hoocoodanode" (as in, who could've known that the ninja / liar loans and the resulting housing bubble was really Goldman Sachs, AIG, Hank Paulson, and Countrywide Financial, etc. bending us over..  really, hoocoulda knowd)?

The URLs are:
 - http://CalculatedRiskBlog.com
 - http://www.hoocoodanode.org/node/5771

The sites see a pretty decent amount of activity.

What is interesting is how widely used are the icons in communicating.  It isn't just a few emoticons like and  and these icons become a substitute for typing and help as a visual aid.  I can scroll down a topic fairly quickly just looking at the icons to see what might be worth reading and what can be skipped.

Here's their legend for icons:
 - http://www.hoocoodanode.org/smileys_glossary

Here's a typical post to show how the icons are used:
 - http://www.hoocoodanode.org/node/15459

There's probably some monetization method there.  Like maybe to use more than one icon per reply you get a certain amount deducted from your balance.  Or maybe the operator wants to give an incentive for the use of the icons? I don't know, just that these are one example of something that I see on this one forum and haven't seen it anywhere else so I wanted to share.

Is there a way for me to change my password?

Oh, you are just asking for the rate at which long term capital gains are taxed?  15% (for most, from 0% to 28% for others)
 - http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=106799,00.html
 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax#United_States
 - http://www.bankrate.com/finance/money-guides/capital-gains-tax-rates-1.aspx

Transactions for BTC withdrawals from Mt. Gox generally get announced to the network immediately.  Because no fee is included the transaction may not get included in a block right away -- especially if it is for a trivial amount (e.g., under 1 BTC).

If you aren't seeing it in Bitcoin-qt, check in something like http://www.BlockChain.info to see if the transaction has been announced but is pending inclusion in a block yet.

 - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#I_was_sent_some_bitcoins_and_they_haven.27t_arrived_yet.21_Where_are_they.3F

A Bokode is an imperceptible visual tag for camera based interaction from a distance.  Essentially a long-range barcode.

Current optical tags such as barcodes and QR codes must be read within a short range and the codes occupy valuable physical space on products.

Bokode tags can be shrunk to a 3mm visible diameter and unmodified ordinary cameras several meters away can be set up to decode the identity plus the relative distance and angle.

Here's more info:
 - http://video.mit.edu/watch/bokode-imperceptible-visual-tags-for-camera-based-interaction-from-a-distance-4282

My first thoughts were that this would allow a physical bitcoin to have a scannable optical code whereas currently a QR code is too large for the small form factor of a coin.  [update: after reading up, these require an LED and power [update2: or illumination such as from a camera flash] so they are not simply a smaller optical code like I first thought.]

Then I was trying to think how else these might be of use.

I was thinking of laser tag, for instance.  The laser tag gun would have a camera that can scan the bokodes affixed to the players.  The shooter with the best aim and control gets the bitcoin.

Other uses are maybe something where a bitcoin-laden bokode is the incentive to pay closer attention to something.  Like perhaps when trying to awaken an audience by alerting them to the fact that the next slide will have a bokode worth $5 on it and the first to get a scan keeps it.  Or other less lame purposes that I'm not creative enough to consider.

Maybe like what Qriket does for QR codes:
  - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC5gGQSjLlg

Anyway, thought I'ld share this.

This could use a little editing for grammar, spelling and clarity.

"We do however recognised that for some users prefer for this not to be the case."
 - http://glbse.com/asset/view/BTC

It is quotes like that which make me really miss Witcoin.  It had a category for quotes that would be an aggregation of quotes from Bitcoin irc channels and the forum and was pretty entertaining.   This one would have made it in there.

I remember at one time Mt. Gox describing a report it could run to provide those numbers, ... on a FIFO basis, I believe.

This gets difficult when you use multiple exchanges.   I can't imaging trying to manually do the tax reporting for someone doing arbitration between the exchanges, for instance.

I'm presuming this is why:


 - http://pastebin.com/HM3PSK74

FYI, I created a new thread for discussion about the crowdfunding act that passed and a crowdfunding regulatory framework called CAPS:
 - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=73858.msg817102#msg817102

[Update: Also, when it was mentioned that GLBSE Charts is down and won't be coming back.  Is that meant that it is true for v1 or is this the case for 2.0 as well?]

Now, what I'm curious about is if this changes anything for Bitcoiners.

CAPS exists because "crowdfunding platforms owe fundraisers and investors a high degree of transparency and the ability to facilitate secure transactions to reduce the risk of fraud".

I wonder if a service provider would be able to take much of  the CAPS framework and apply it to a model that works for issuers who wish to use GLBSE (or direct, or other model) to raise funds.  It wouldn't be a CAPS accredited provider but it might parallel CAPS in most areas.

I'm sure there will be other instances where this new crowdfunding method in the U.S. will intertwine with bitcoin-related investment and trading.