Anxious to see results. Preliminary track odds should come out tomorrow (april 27) morning. Don't think she will be the track favorite. Her workouts were good, not great, but we have been treating her workouts like pre-season football - Get her gate card and not get injured.

Update:
Satoshi's Daemon has been placed into RACE #5 at EVANGELINE DOWNS on Wednesday, MAY 2nd!!

Dividend Schedule:
JE2 and I are crunching numbers to calculate dividend payouts. Look for preliminary dividend schedule here and on satoshisdaemon.com. A finalized dividend schedule will be posted late Sunday night. Dividends will be paid Saturday, May 5.

Participate
* Come on out to Evangeline Downs on May 2nd and join the fun. If she wins, we are allowed a few to join the winner's circle for the photo.
* You can watch the race live at http://www.evangelinedowns.com/racing

Thanks to all of our patient investors. Hopefully it will be worth the wait.

Mods: Please move to the securities discussion

I'm in for 90 tickets for 36 BTC.

If anyone wants the pro-rated amount of BTC mined from the 7M+ shares if we win, send any amount to: 1RaFfLeY1bqDhR1ZPpsTxXa64Q4MPxXki. Must send from personal wallet. Anything over 36 coins total will be refunded to the sending address. Example: 0.360 coins gets you 1% of mined coins. Otherwise, I'll take all proceeds from 90 tickets.

PM me for the email I used when buying tickets to verify hash if you wish.

Offer good until 1 hour before draft.

To make it random, have option for user to input his own values prior to each spin. i.e 1,2,4 combined with 2,1,0 from site  = 3,3,4.

Up for auction is a brand new bitcoin coffee mug, see pics. Since the value of the mug is worth less than the shipping out of the country, this auction is for USA ONLY, unless you would like to pay for shipping.

Instead of a 'normal' auction, I am going to try the auction "Vickery" style. I think this style of auction has a clear benefit to sellers, and doesn't encourage last minute bidding. What is a Vickery auction? It is a sealed bid auction. The high bidder wins the auction, but at the second highest bid price! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickrey_auction) Thinking about designing a site around this, want to get thoughts on the idea.

Rules:
* Post a hash of your bid, not the bid yourself. Bidding ends Monday, April 9 11:59pm ET.
   * you can use: http://www.webutils.pl/index.php?idx=sha1 or http://www.xorbin.com/tools/sha256-hash-calculator . Not sure if they log hashes, use your own if worried.
* Starting Tuesday, April 10 ET, Bids are closed and everyone can reveal their bids. Just post the text that gave the hash. Reveal ends April 10 at 11:59pm ET
* On Wednesday, April 11 GMT, Reveals are closed, and a winner will be chosen. Please reveal before the auction end.
* Highest bidder WINS the mug at the second highest bid price. I will pay shipping to any USA address.
* Only 1 bid per username. Last bid is the only one that counts, you must reveal this bid.

Example:

You Post while bidding is going on:
77e9e52f7e7213078bceb1f85847658fa899110fd6a0fd9757cc33c2b236442c (sha256)

April 10th, reveal your bid (bidding closed):
"TTBit bids 1.2345 bitcoins for the coffee mug. Hope I win!!!!"
(http://www.webutils.pl/index.php?idx=sha1&mode=sha256&enc=ENCODE&data=TTBit+bids+1.2345+bitcoins+for+the+coffee+mug.+Hope+I+win%21%21%21%21)

If 1.2345 was the highest bid, and the second highest bid was 0.8453 btc, you win the mug for 0.8453 bitcoins!

If you can't reproduce the hash, your bid is invalid. I'm not a crypto pro, so keep it easy please.

Strategy:
* Bid only as much as you are willing to pay! Bidding 100btc thinking you'll take it when the next highest bid is 2.422 only works if you are the only one with this strategy.

Received my tiny payment. Thank you.

Hopefully this was a proof of concept this year. I see advertising potential with this, you could get some bitcoin businesses donating a decent amount of coins next year.

We were delayed. She has had 2 official workouts now.

There are some videos of her galloping on Youtube, just search for "Satoshis Daemon". Feel free to post your thoughts.

Thanks everyone for the interest. I don't want to be bumping threads with little information.

Events:
Satoshi's Daemon had her 2nd workout today at the Louisiana Fair Grounds (3/31) and finished with the best time (#1) out of 8 horses on a good (not fast due to the rain) track. Improved her time by 2.40 seconds despite the sub-optimal track.
Two weeks ago (3/18), she had her 1st workout ever and finished 17th out of 18 horses. She started out *very* slow in her first official event.

Some Official Links:
Workout link for today: http://www.equibase.com/static/workout/FG033112USA-EQB.html#SATOSHISDAEMON
Satoshi's Daemon profile page: http://www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=Horse&refno=8602579&registry=T

History:
This has taken longer than we had hoped. She had (has) an attitude problem and our attempts to fast track (no pun intended) her only frustrated the trainers to where they didn't want to deal with her. She was shipped to Mississippi and took the long, slow track to becoming a racehorse. I am not the horseman that my partner is, but this is common.

Status:
Satoshi's Daemon needs to get gate approval, then can be scheduled to race. She will be entered into a 4.5 furlong training race on April 18 2012. If she breaks well, she gets her gate approval, then can be entered into an official race! Early/Mid May is my best guess without setbacks.

I want to thank all bitcoin interest rights holders (traded on the GLBSE) for their patience.

I pledge $49.99+ in btc when it hits beta. I have been on the losing side of up front costs too many times - while this seems like a slam dunk, it is a personal issue for me. I check the armory thread all the time.

OT question about deterministic wallet: If someone were to get a few private keys from a deterministic wallet, can he extrapolate the data to retrieve all the keys?

Great Job with the site. Wish I saw it earlier, I would have created a pool.

Do the funds somehow wind up with the RP campaign, or in your pocket?

Me too. I think I broke it. Links to 4 torrents, first 2 went started OK, then the phantom box.

Maybe an incentive, or at least the ability, for the user to delete the file after successful download?

Thanks for doing this. I can read the man pages, but this is easier for me to understand.

"TTBit guesses BTC>Gold on April 15th, 2014"

has been entered into the blockchain

sha("TTBit guesses BTC>Gold on April 15th, 2014") = 2b84d2e8e6354b3a5e287db8b4208a95f6322f302480cb0b8dd1e296dd8b8e52 = 136Am6E2PQbTwHyN7fba3rtSLy1HHpybYX

sent 0.0001 coins.

How do we know you didn't just create a name here of a respectable ebay account? Does it say anywhere on your e-bay account that you are Zodiacdragon84 on bitcointalk?

I have taken the $483. Thank You.

But I would have the newspaper IN the 'after' photo. Wouldn't this satisfy doubters?

Day 0: 'Before picture', place MD5 in blockchain
Day 100: 'After picture' with today's Newspaper

Thanks.

My situation is a bit different. If you ever see before and after photos of a fat person who became thin using product X, how do you know that person wasn't thin and got paid to get fat? You will sometimes see a person holding up a newspaper, but the problem is you can always hold up news from a year ago.

So, my solution is to throw the photo's MD5 into the blockchain once taken. I don't want to post the picture first, or even announce the md5 publicly. If my project works out I want to prove before and after.

Looking at that story gave me an idea though: have the camera put the hash into the block chain when taken. You can the photo existed at least when it hit the chain, and not later.