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Can the .js be modified to display a different BTC address? In other words, do we have to rely on you keeping your site safe in order to ensure donators are donating to the right address?
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A white horse fell into the mud.
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I just don't see a way for paypal to use BTC in any successful way. It's never going to be in their interest to do so, unless somehow they found a way to stop us from using the bitcoin network outside of paypal. (  ) Meanwhile, they simply will not start up any type of an alt-coin, even to secretely use in-house only. They know they'd never get any miners to secure and process it while bitcoin exists, so they'd be much better off to just premine it, and process all transactions in-house... But doing so makes little sense, because it's not as secure and fast as using their existing network with a non-reversible service option. So I am calling it now: Paypal's model will not include any coin ever... Which hopefully means BTC obliterates them from the face of the planet in a few years. Why do you think Paypal couldn't use Bitcoin successfully? I'll give you a few reasons why Paypal + BTC would be very successful: 1) Want to pay with Bitcoins, but the seller wants to receive USD? Paypal does the conversion, just like it does with national currencies. 2) eBay. Existing platform with hundreds of millions (or billions?) in sales each year. Paypal acts as an escrow agent for each transaction, just the same as they do with fiat currencies now. 3) Want to send Bitcoins to your relative, but don't know their Bitcoin address? Simple - just send it to their Paypal account. 4) Integration with merchant systems that already utilize Paypal. 5) Good financial reporting on sales made in Bitcoin. And of course, Paypal would continue to garnish their 3% fee, and people would continue to pay it for the simplicity. Sure, the above could be accomplished with other 3rd parties, but the point is, Paypal is already very well established and could easily make a profit off a thinner margin than any smaller startup could likely accomplish. I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear that Paypal has a team of people already dedicated to figuring out how they can best integrate Bitcoin into their system. The big concern they're likely up against is how to deal with Bitcoin's irreversible transactions and how that might relate to fraud risks. |
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1% of your assets in Bitcoin...  1% of: The total value of the world's financial assets equaled $198.1 Trillion and the total value of all equities equaled $53.7 Trillion. Clearly equities, bonds, bank deposits and such are massively overshadowed by the notional value of the derivatives market which is over $700 Trillion. = $428,571 per BTC. |
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DM, I'd appreciate it if you could reciprocate by adding to my trust rating.  |
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I have 3 that were graded by ANACS. Of course, they'll cost ya... One MS64, one MS66, and one first-day-funded MS67.
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the deal is that exchanges in the past think that by moving fiat into bitcoin and bitcoin into fiat they did not need any fiat licences.
its all about fiat licences that these amateur businesses think they are strangely exempt purely because they also handle bitcoin.
its almost like saying your a vegetarian, but you are allowed to eat a proper beef burger on monday, a lamb steak on tuesday, a KFC on wednesday. a meat pie on thursday and a salmon sandwish on friday. as long as you have vegetables for the other days.
if you dont want to be ruled by fiat laws, dont touch fiat. this is why paypal and western union have no problems taking on bitcoin, because they already have the fiat licences
Exactly this. Playing by the rules is a multi-million dollar commitment, and those not playing by the rules are bound to be shut down sooner or later. I say all the more power to Paypal if they want to step in as an intermediary for Bitcoin. That doesn't stop people from using Bitcoin completely P2P, it only enables people who would rather use Paypal to also be able to use Bitcoin. |
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an NGC or PCGS ms-67 rating would be worth more, for traditional coins. unsure if someone buying that would care or not
in general, ms67 is worth a godawful amount more than ms63 or ms64.
Thanks. How much more is typical for 63/64 vs 67? 50% more or something? this is ms-67 Yes, yes it is. triple the value or (much) more, depending on rarity of coin (*maybe how old the coin is would be more accurate... very few coins pre-1960 or 1970 will be ms67... before people started getting stuff just as 'collector's items'.... think of like the baseball card price crash)...... ed: ANACS is a 2nd tier grading service, for a coin of significant value, i'd get it graded by PCGS or NGC. i don't really know what these are though? and i guess just a niche market, instead of coin collectors as a whole? Interesting...! I think it certainly would affect the price given the fact that there very well could be several other early coins like this one in just as good of shape, but it really does remain to be seen how many of them are actually out there. Especially the first-day mint coins, since those number less than 200. Regarding ANACS, I really had no idea who to send the coins to. I found them as the first grading service I came across in a google search, contacted them to see if they would grade Casascius coins, and the vice president came back and told me they would. I probably won't have this coin regraded, but I'll keep that in mind for any coins I have graded in the future. Good to know.  Casascius coins: https://www.casascius.com/ |
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Pretty much expected to win the 350's and lose the 150's
very curious... about a month ago I expected a flood of orders shipped / rec'd. I expected 100's of units reported rec'd by now.
But, it's BFL, so as usual we shall wait a bit longer for the results.
I think they've only shipped a few dozen units, many of them promotional. Several customers have reported receiving them, but this is the first one who actually took pictures of the power consumption. I'd say you won quite a while ago, but there you go. I would too. Just trying to make it a clean win. |
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THANK YOU for butting in!  Hey, do you happen to have the ability to take a couple of pictures of it mining with the kilowatt? 5400/34 = 158, so yours is beyond the 150MH/J requirement, and would fit perfectly in line for 1/3 of my bet! sure, if you dont mind waiting a couple days (memorial day long weekend here, got a lot going on). if its for a bet, I will want to get the kilowatt, power brick, cables, jally and cgminer (on my netbook say) all in one photo so theres no question of it being the jallys power draw. right now the kilowatt and brick are under the desk with the jally on a shelf to the side. no way to get it into one photo. Yeah not a problem! Thank you! here they are. sorry for crappy images, it was an ipod touch and I was kinda in a hurry. overview: Thank you very much!! |
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an NGC or PCGS ms-67 rating would be worth more, for traditional coins. unsure if someone buying that would care or not
in general, ms67 is worth a godawful amount more than ms63 or ms64.
Thanks. How much more is typical for 63/64 vs 67? 50% more or something? this is ms-67 Yes, yes it is. |
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Yep, I really did. Lots of little things I just really didn't like about it. The keyboard is terrible (all of them), the screen is very hard to see in sunlight, some apps are $10 or $20 on Android while free on iOS, I can't go from the lock screen straight to taking a picture, taking a screenshot of the phone didn't work 80% of the time, etc. The iPhone just does everything I want it to do except Bitcoin (hopefully more support in that area will come soon), so I switched back.
You sound like me switching from an iPhone. "Lots of little things I just really didn't like about it. The keyboard is terrible (there's no way to try even one other), the screen is tiny, the appstore is blatantly censored for political views and there's no way to sideload apps, I can't use lockscreen widgets (or widgets at all), can't replace the battery (useful on long trips), can't expand the tiny storage space with an SD card, no Bitcoin allowed, etc etc. Android does everything I want it to, so I switched to it. Agree that the screen is smaller than I'd like it to be on the iPhone, but it's too big on the S4 for some things... I never really decided if I liked the 5" screen size or not. 1080p was awesome, but I couldn't one-hand it across the entire screen like I can on the iPhone. It's more like using a tablet instead of using a phone. App store censoring is annoying, lockscreen widgets are cool, I agree, and replacing the battery and storage is awesome. The downsides just threw me off too much though. I'll probably try the latest and greatest Android offering in another year and a half, when I am again eligible for an upgrade, and see if I like it. The keyboard is way better on the iPhone though. It actually autocorrects properly. If you do so much as add an extra letter on the S4, it would come up with all sorts of words you didn't want. The iPhone's autocorrect is just a lot smarter, and means I can type essentially without looking and very quickly, and it almost always comes out how I wanted it to, even though every other letter was mistyped. It's true that the iPhone keyboard is better than the Samsung one - but Swiftkey (a third party app which replaces the Samsung KeyBoard) is WAY superior to both of them. You can actually fully customize it, it learns the way you write and it pretty much "writes all alone by itself". Plus, on Swiftkey you can set up three preferred languages for the autocorrection, so you do not need to switch between languages when writing. I know many english speakers only write in english, but for many of us who use +3 languages per day is a HUGE advantage. I think you shoud have given a little bit more time to your Android - it's true that iPhone works pretty good "out of the box", while on the contrary you need to tweak the Android for it to really shine. But, as soon as you have put a little amount to work in it (downloading the widgets that are relevant for you, replacing the keyboard and other apps that control key functions), you will discover a world where "everything is possible", while on iOS you are locked inside Apple's very limited world. I'll probably dive back in to the Android world in 18 months again, we'll see. But yes, I wish I would have had a chance to try out the swiftkey keyboard. For now though, I am quite enjoying the addition of an iPad to my arsenal of electronics, due to the money saved by just using my old iPhone and selling the S4. |
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Glad you are happy with it! If you could leave a trust rating feedback for me, I would appreciate it. |
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Thanks for the opinions all, I would tend to agree with you!
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THANK YOU for butting in! Hey, do you happen to have the ability to take a couple of pictures of it mining with the kilowatt? 5400/34 = 158, so yours is beyond the 150MH/J requirement, and would fit perfectly in line for 1/3 of my bet! sure, if you dont mind waiting a couple days (memorial day long weekend here, got a lot going on). if its for a bet, I will want to get the kilowatt, power brick, cables, jally and cgminer (on my netbook say) all in one photo so theres no question of it being the jallys power draw. right now the kilowatt and brick are under the desk with the jally on a shelf to the side. no way to get it into one photo. Yeah not a problem! Thank you! |
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Crazyates, how much power is that pulling? IIRC, I think SgtSpike had a bet with one of the forum trolls and he needs a total of three customers to report the power use in order to win a huge bet. Not sure where I read it, or where the thread is though.
hope Im not butting in (Im not Crazyates) but I have a killowatt and a jally too. 15 watts idle, 33-34 watts @5.4 GH/s. cgminer reports 3.29-3.30 volts, thats the chip voltage I guess? THANK YOU for butting in! Hey, do you happen to have the ability to take a couple of pictures of it mining with the kilowatt? 5400/34 = 158, so yours is beyond the 150MH/J requirement, and would fit perfectly in line for 1/3 of my bet! |
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So I "invested" in BFL mining equipment on 6/14/13. Long term capital gains tax requires that any investment returns be on investments over 1 year old, otherwise it is taxed at ordinary income rates. If I decide to sell any of the BTC generated from a BFL miner ordered a year ago, would it be reasonable to claim that USD income as long term capital gains? Or would I have to wait for a year after that BTC is generated in order to sell it and be taxed at the capital gains rate?
Opinions?
And I'm not interested in a "don't pay your taxes" discussion. This would be a large enough amount of money that I would want to be sure pay appropriate taxes on it, lest it attract the wrong sort of attention from the IRS.
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Agree to disagree on the keyboard. Having tried the iPhone keyboard, Swiftkey, and Swype (latest beta), I've found that swiping is much faster than tapping, and SwiftKey's AutoCorrect is more accurate than the iPhone's (it will sometimes predict 4 words in advance!)
Edit: yes, no Android phone that I know of ships with a good keyboard.
I think I tried a keyboard called "Perfect Keyboard" which was better than the default, but still not great with regards to autocorrection. If Swiftkey wasn't one of the stock keyboards available, I didn't try it, sadly, as I may have liked it. Swype is cool and probably fast if you're used to typing on a phone with one hand to begin with. As it is, swyping could never be as fast as I type with two thumbs, since it only uses one finger and have more traveling time between letters. Even after I got used to the swype keyboard (it was the one I used the most) and was swyping across words as fast as I physically could, it still doesn't hold a candle to just plain old autocorrected-without-looking thumb typing. Anyway, yes, agree to disagree. Obviously, different keyboards are better for one person vs another based on how they type. Wait -- it's possible to type on these things? My big, fat thumbs are always pressing 2-3 keys unless I switch to landscape mode, and then I usually can't see what I'm typing. Whatever happened to those phones with the slide-out keyboards?  Mine too. That's why I like keyboards that will autocorrect for me, so I can just get in the general area of what I was trying to do and it makes it into what I was actually trying to write. |
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