I was going to dare him to lick the car battery properly *, none of this "I licked my hands and touched it" crap but I don't want to be responsible for the results

* notwithstanding you'd need a very long tongue and would actually need to attach wires first.

Didn't you ever lick a 9v PPA battery as a kid? That's DC and it gives a pretty satisfying buzz

Bid price? Ask price? Any trade made before 1st October being at or over 1.00000000? Need to be more specific.

Wow, you can still buy Cat5? A quick search on Amazon (UK) just gives me 5E and 6.

Seriously I'd have thought the price difference if you can even get 5 would be so minute this discussion isn't even worth having.

This is exactly the same as ignoring the previous difficulty entirely and just using the time delta between blocks since it changed - the only difference is it produces wild swinging numbers for the first few days, instead of an arbitrary steady number that relies on irrelevant data.

Using block data from the previous difficulty to try and estimate the next one is crazy talk.

It assumes that hashrate added or removed in the last difficulty is part of a trend and that trend will continue for the next one. Fortunately for bitcoinwisdom this is usually true but it is clearly not this time. Right after the last difficulty change they were predicting nearly 20% and I called BS on it then. Its still correcting downwards even now I see.

bitcoinwisdom even blatantly contradict themselves, they're saying the 6 block timespan right now (over the last 504, as mentioned above) is 1h which is bang on target, yet that's going to result in an 11% difficulty increase. :/

So they're using a different number of blocks to work that out, probably 1008, or maybe even 2016, can't be bothered to work it out.

I agree 1% is misleading, but the early signs are that it won't be another 25%+

Do bear in mind that as difficulty ever-rises the amount of hardware that must be rolled out per change also goes up by the same amount and I don't believe asic manufacturers are ramping up that fast.

With the announced S3 date I actually think this might be a reasonably low difficulty increase, yes. There's a couple of ways of looking at this, depending how tin-foil-hat you are;

1) the S3s are already running ('testing') and have therefore already contributed to the hashrate, and will sit there doing so until the 10th of July. Result, no difficulty increase of significant magnitude from available bitmain products, because who would buy an S2 now.

2) the S3s are being built by the bucketload ready for shipping, but will not do so until the 10th of July, not arriving with customers until the 12th/13th, around the time of the next difficulty change. Result, no difficulty increase of significant magnitude from available bitmain products, because who would buy an S2 now.

Great, I can quote websites as well

http://bitcoindifficulty.com/

16,818,461,371
Next difficulty (estimate): 16,940,141,261 (+1%)


I also note your link has already fallen to 19.9% just minutes after you linked its so it's correcting downwards.

You mean difficulty adjustment. To be fair right now its looking pretty stable. I wouldn't be so bold as to say it'll go down but even bitcoindifficulty.com is only predicting a 1% rise still.

Suggest a minimum bid increment? I don't really want to bid and then be outbid by 0.00000001 in the last second.

Now on BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27680109

Hardly: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.0

I've had no confirmation from fc nor havelock, so I suppose that's a good thing. They're still my direct shares. Better than being lost in the void. I'll just try again

Been waiting months now for a direct->havelock share transfer.

They haven't appeared in my havelock account but at the same time I can't confirm they're not my direct shares anymore as we haven't had a dividend since I requested it.

Guess I'll find out tomorrow what the situation is, if the dividend doesn't appear in either place then I have some shouting to do.

If you'd bothered to read the linked post, you can clearly see email ownership is the least of your worries in account recovery.

All the seller has to do is post somewhere in the board "my bitcointalk account recovery address is 1DhvgDsAQRW96bVmE8RiUFA7kD5SzDbRqD" at any point in the past.

You won't know if the account has posted a message like this because as stated in OP you don't get the account name until you've bought it. Once the funds are out of your hands the seller can send a signed message to theymos from the address and get the account and email address assigned to it, transferred back to him.

Is that clear enough?

The gall of this guy amazes me, that he strolls back in like nothing happened. Incredible.

Fixed that for you

I thought it felt a bit quieter in the offtopic section.

That's not even my money and I still feel a little bit sick looking at that

I went through a (very short) phase of trying gambling systems but fortunately it was a lot less than $60k lost to stop :p

Source? Or is this you presenting your own assumptions as cast in iron facts?