Is it 12/12/11? The calendar year before 12/12/12?
It's 12/21/12 you gotta watch out for  . |
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The challenge of bitcoin is to evolve it into a scalable, robust, fault tolerent, decentralized, efficient and secure system GIT belongs in the "secure" category. GIT belongs in the "scalable" category. GIT belongs in the "decentralized" category. Etc... So already three reasons to support GIT, ideally if anyone can run a GIT server and the client can pass around the latest HEAD hash. Some people would just use GIT to pull from a trusted source, others would retrieve the block via the bitcoin network. ^ That idea could probably be better than bittorrent because it immediately allows the blocks which were downloaded to be checked for validity. FTFY Seriously though, I'd like to see more variety in block chain storage and transmission. I'm sure what we have now will prove to be quite primitive compared to how it will be handled in 5 years. Of course, even simple a round-robin with parallel connections would be a great improvement. |
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Proverbial cats are prone to death by curiosity.
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If all the actors play nice it will be fine < Yubikey
Yubikey would have protected your account.
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Alright, I am going to address the Keynesian vomit in here:
If breaking windows and having people fix them helps society, then why don't we bomb everything and rebuild it again? That will certainly create jobs.
However, what you described is exactly how we made it out of the great depression... Myth. The nation had to live in a rationed dystopia prior to the end of the war. It's no miracle it looked like a boom afterwords. So the great depression ended because things couldn't get worse, not because we had massive exports? I'm pretty sure most people would agree it had a large influence. It certainly can't be brushed aside by the powerful force of "it can't get worse". You're going to need a better explanation than that. |
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Or just a command line script if you lean that way.
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Mtgox ruby gem and some ruby integrated with a rails app. You could probably throw together a quick Sinatra app in a few hours if you know ruby.
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Pretty sure the password just encrypts the private key. The private key can't be changed without changing the receiving address.
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I don't know about that. Block chains are huge over time. Like, way more than tor can move unless you run a node.
I would download the chain the first time off TOR for sure, but regular traffic is pretty light. |
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I would not recommend trying to do this.
1.) It doesn't anonymize you any more than you already are (bitcoin is already anonymous and decentralized)
2.) Bitcoin client is essentially a torrent client. You are not supposed to run this on tor--it harms anonymity and puts undue stress on the network.
3.) Using tor browsing is safe enough--your goings on will not be tracked. If you're worried about it, use something like instawallet.
1.) A connected node could potentially identify the ip address that broadcast the transaction. 2.) Much lower bandwidth than a torrent... really not that much traffic. 3.) Instawallet is a good suggestion. If you want to run a native client on tor anyway, and you aren't on Windows, torify is your friend. If you run Windows, ask someone else. |
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The link in general yes. But the quoted fees are for all international transactions. I guess GBP/EUR might not fall in that category though I would expect the 2.5% conversion fee to apply.
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You could just use bitinstant API to move funds between exchanges. UBE is a great idea, but the biggest problem is not funding, but building it. If you build it funding the buffers will be easy.
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1. visit https://www.mtgox.com2. login 3. click "Funding Options" 4. click "Withdraw Funds" 5. Fill in amount and address (and Yubikey if you use it) 6. Click "Confirm" |
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I found another one too!
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No! That's a framed int.! It's signed too. |
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I don't get it  It's a lame joke, to use an alternate meaning of "signed" integers, besides "to include the negatives of non-zero natural numbers". If only signed ints included the negatives of all non-zero natural numbers..... |
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So then difficulty is moved by price, rather than the other way around, yes?
If difficulty is moved by price, then what caused difficulty to increase before there were Bitcoin exchanges? Organic growth. Difficulty is certainly moved by price, but price is not the only factor. Back then, each new user was significant with their CPU mining. |
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Maybe not billions of dollars a day, but as far as my limited information goes, credit card fraud is widespread. The credit card companies just accept it and pay for it out of their lucrative profit, which they take from their customers who accept credit card payments. 5% are not unheard of.
As JohnOliver has been trying to say, this fraud is _not_ because their computer systems are highly insecure -- feel free to disprove that, I'd be very interested in any reports to the contrary. The situation with current credit cards and bitcoin as we know it is totally different from user security POV: In the former users (rightfully or not) feel fairly safe because the "system" is essentially controlled by someone else and someone else is going to cover "system failures" (fraud, basically). In the latter the "system" includes users own computer and if the admin (user herself usually) forgets to update IE... poof goes the wallet when user clicks the wrong link. Sometimes CC fraud is due to insecure computer systems. Keyloggers can capture your card number when you buy something in your out of date IE. Your distinction is correct though, with CC the loss is absorbed by the CC or passed on to the merchant and with Bitcoin there is no middleman to take their "protection" money from every transaction. |
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No. This won't work if you have billions of dollars. Funds manage millions to billions.
This is why selling your system makes it less effective each time. |
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Alright, I am going to address the Keynesian vomit in here:
If breaking windows and having people fix them helps society, then why don't we bomb everything and rebuild it again? That will certainly create jobs.
I never claimed it would help society. I only claimed that it would be less harmful than handouts. I live in rural WV, and I see a large amount of generational welfare. The kind of people who have another child because the increase in benefits is enough for another pack of cigarettes each week, or a payment on a big screen TV. It's disgusting. And I do believe hard work is good medicine. Productive work is the best medicine, but pointless work is better than no work. Also, bombs are very expensive. However, what you described is exactly how we made it out of the great depression, except it was Europe's windows we broke, then we made them pay us to fix them. |
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