The user from slush pool who found the block is: luckyshare.
according to slush he's pretty new on the pool and is mining with average gpu.
congrats, luckyshare.
Congrats! sorry, his name is "luckybear" (corrected above) |
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yeah. That's also why the suggestion of someone on irc to give luckyshare the tx fees wont work so easily  |
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The user from slush pool who found the block is: luckyshare luckybear laughingbear.
according to slush he's pretty new on the pool and is mining with average gpu.
congrats, laughingbear.
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slush's pool relayed it. probably mined it, too.
yep, they mined it. it's in their stats.
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Just want to know if this bounty is still good since it says that it would end New Year's Eve of 2011. The time was very short as most businesses at that level would take almost a year to make a final decision. If it is still good I have been talking to my store director at Best Buy as well as on their suggestion DB and they seem interested. In fact they have asked me to write up a presentation which I just completed and will submit sometime this week to the store director and/or corporate leaders. Let me know if I will qualify for the bounty because I would like it.  Sorry, the bounty is closed already. Hopefully someone else would be willing to donate for the cause. Looks like it's too late QK The thread title needs to change then. |
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Hmmm, there is an unexpected twist taking place with the block halving. The tenor of the articles (and quantity) has changed, become more curious, positive even maybe. It is like there is an audience that has so far only taken a superficial interest in bitcoin is now saying, "wait there is something else going on here ...." and then the bitcoin protocol with its regulation of inflation and "working harder for coins" meme takes hold and the nagging doubts about bitcoin=ponzi FUD starts to get blown away completely. Encapsulated well with these two quotes, first the "bitcoins are hard to get" ... and then the "very widely used digital currency". People trying to profit via the bitcoin electronic currency will soon have to work harder to mint the digital coins. Since the creation of the bitcoin network in early 2009, bitcoins have grown to become a very widely used digital currency. Agree with you. This article is a great promotional piece to spread awareness of bitcoin. Regardless of whether it is painted in a neutral or positive light, the benefits will come from the bbc's wider reach (in audience). I agree. Some month ago we'd have been posting threads like: "was this spike due to the bbc article?" Nowadays positive or at least neutral news about bitcoin is the norm. Negative events don't seem to capture journalists (if you can call these dudes that) attention that easily any more. I guess "bitcoins worth x Dollars stolen from site y" doesn't cut it any more. |
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France here (and the link works)
germany works. Maybe US is filtering positive bitcoin news at it's border patrol proxies. |
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If I designed the difficulty algorithm I'd look at the time taken from block 0 to the current block and compare it to the number of blocks times 10 minutes and adjust difficulty that way. So instead of the difficulty adjusting to the rate, the difficulty adjusts to the expected number of blocks for all time.
Intriguing. Seems to me it would work. Of course it would've had to have been introduced from the beginning. |
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Mein Tip: auf jeden Fall vorher mit nem satoshi oder so verifizieren, dass der Empfänger auch "verifizierungsfähig" ist (sein client läuft, er netz hat, usw...). Das kann kaum schaden und hilft üblen Überraschungen vorzubeugen. Mach ich immer gleich als erstes. Könnte ja sonst bei Problemen sein der Empfänger sagt: "da kommt aber nix, alder, wilsch du misch abribbe?!?"
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wenn du beliebige mengen bargeld an mein postfach sendest, bekommst du die BTC sofort nachdem ich den brief geöffnet habe.
Ich sehe du hast dein business neu orientiert? Aus steuerlichen Gründen vielleicht. inwiefern neu orientiert? neue geschäftsfelder erschlossen, vielleicht. gold und silber: bitcoincommodities.com bitcoins und cash: bitcoinsinberlin.com läuft alles sauber unter einem dach :-D Das ist schön zu hören. Führst du bei einem Verkauf von Bitcoins USt ab? USt auf Bitcoins?  Wieso nicht? Bitcoin == commodity. Auf Silber ist auch USt. Wie ich das sehe ist die Lage immer noch völlig unklar. Du weisst bestimmt besser bescheid als ich, aber endgültig geklärt ist die Sachlage wahrscheinlich selbst aus Deiner sicht trotz eingehender Expertenberatungen wohl nicht, oder? PS: Wollte nur ein wenig sticheln. das ist ja das schöne. also, die bafin sieht BTC als finanzinstrument, soviel ist klar. finanzinstrumente = 0% UST/MWST gewinn aus finanzinstruenten = 25%+soli abgeltungssteuer die frage ist, ob der handel mit bitcoins IN MEINEM FALL genehmigungspflichtig ist. daran arbeite ich. Auch ist offen ob das Finanzamt die Meinung der Bafin überhaupt berücksichtigt. Das FA könnte ja auch sagen: Bitcoin sind wie Kinderwagen. |
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true, but nite's suggestion would amplify changes in difficulty. for example let's say the network hashrate doubles and blocks are solved every 5 minutes. we would have a huge difficulty adjustment sure, but under nite's system, it would assume the network hashrate was going to double *again*.
It would 'make things worse' on cases when first hashrate is first increasing and the suddenly starts decreasing or vice versa. However it would make things go better when hash rate increases or decreases steadily or stays constant. And this case is 99% of the time.. Ie, if the hashrate has doubled, we have a *good reason* to assume it will most likely double again in the same time. Technically addition would be very simple, just add "+ delta hashrate" to the formula. We now have 170 blocks left. If we assume these last blocks are solved at a rate of 6 per hour, the network has spent about 36 days less than four years to solve 210,000 blocks. That's about 2.5% faster than 10 minutes per block, ie. 9:45 minutes per block. Even if your algorithm is more accurate than the one in place now, is it even worth the added code complexity to get closer to 10 minutes than 9:45 is? Why would it matter at all that blocks take, on average, 15 seconds less to solve? I'd say it's completely unnecessary to adjust anything, and the 2.5% difference will make no measurable difference to how the network operates at all. I agree. 10 minutes is arbitrarily chosen anyway. Accuracy is not a goal here. |
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wenn du beliebige mengen bargeld an mein postfach sendest, bekommst du die BTC sofort nachdem ich den brief geöffnet habe.
Ich sehe du hast dein business neu orientiert? Aus steuerlichen Gründen vielleicht. inwiefern neu orientiert? neue geschäftsfelder erschlossen, vielleicht. gold und silber: bitcoincommodities.com bitcoins und cash: bitcoinsinberlin.com läuft alles sauber unter einem dach :-D Das ist schön zu hören. Führst du bei einem Verkauf von Bitcoins USt ab? USt auf Bitcoins? Wieso nicht? Bitcoin == commodity. Auf Silber ist auch USt. Wie ich das sehe ist die Lage immer noch völlig unklar. Du weisst bestimmt besser bescheid als ich, aber endgültig geklärt ist die Sachlage wahrscheinlich selbst aus Deiner sicht trotz eingehender Expertenberatungen wohl nicht, oder? PS: Wollte nur ein wenig sticheln. |
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Looks a great way to buy your first btc. Mainly for young poeple (no online bank account? fear of paying on internet? simplicity), the problem for those new potential adopters would be to find thooes open mail box, and the need of reputation to back the bitcoin mailbox... any service for that?
It's actually how I bought my first BTC: put some old american dollar bills I had left over from travelling into an envelope and send that off to some dude in canada. I figured I'd never get any coins... and one day (I think 3 weeks later): CHACHING! coins in my wallet |
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it seems the eclipse will be at 15:33 CET. quick, mine faster, we can make it!
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wenn du beliebige mengen bargeld an mein postfach sendest, bekommst du die BTC sofort nachdem ich den brief geöffnet habe.
Ich sehe du hast dein business neu orientiert? Aus steuerlichen Gründen vielleicht. inwiefern neu orientiert? neue geschäftsfelder erschlossen, vielleicht. gold und silber: bitcoincommodities.com bitcoins und cash: bitcoinsinberlin.com läuft alles sauber unter einem dach :-D Das ist schön zu hören. Führst du bei einem Verkauf von Bitcoins USt ab? |
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200 blocks left... I can happen tomorow..  given that "tomorrow" can mean a lot of things depending on timezone, this is very likely to be true. |
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Hi, thank you for supporting us,
and for constructive participation in discussing tech issues in other thread.
Your are absolutely right about Order Book Volume chart - this is already planned with our soon release.
This particular feature is directly connected with implementation of the mtgox stream api full order book volume chart. In case of full order book the USD bid volume is ~1.8 M while BTC ask volume is ~0.24M.
and this difference is clearly visible. Thus we cannot display it on the same scale.
And we also plan to release multiple subscribtion plans to allow people who do not trade actively like you to try our paid service and stay within budget.
thank you,
once more
and till then
you're welcome and thanks again for your service. you say, " our planned release"... I'm still assuming it's just you, right? |
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The B exchanges are a joke, because they all still follow MtG and its pumpNdump teams up and down. Pathetic! Any price difference leads to arbitrage, which traders will quickly take advantage of and close the price gap. The problem with timely arbitrage is moving the FIAT from exchange to exchange. To do arbitrage you need to have sufficient funds on account at each exchange to allow for the time to move funds and rebalance accounts. yes. and there is also cost associated with moving the moneys. The following of exchanges is precisely why you know arbitrage is happening. That's what it does - it makes exchanges follow each other. The reason they follow MtGox is because it has the order depth. If another exchange moved away from MtGox and also had sufficient depth available then MtGox would follow it.
ie. If I sold a large amount of Bitcoin on exchange X, once I used up it's available buyers, arbitrage would bring more buyers who would then sell on MtGox and cause it's price to follow downwards. It's faster and cheaper to move the Bitcoins than the fiat currency so the response is asymmetrical.
arbitrage happening is not the only reason for the other exchanges following gox. Another one is everybody using gox as leading price. |
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just issued a short term update to subscribers 14 min ago
it probably says there's a 60/40 chance we will drop further in the short term? |
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