Thanks, but I'm not confident in the security/stability of MPEx.
Leaving aside that MPEx hasn't been down in its entire lifetime as long as the forum was down this week, I guess that's a thought. Does MPEx have a thousand active users each pulling hundreds of db queries and executing php commands on the site at the same time? Also, I think that wasn't a purely *technical* concern.  Of course not, but that's not how MPOE-PR answers questions. The distraction answer is always better while throwing a tissy fit. |
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You know who would be the perfect candidate for Bitcoins?
Yes, Gas stations. I just read a (few years old) article where it said in the US on average gas stations pay 2x more in credit card fees then they make in net profit. IOW, their profits from accepting bitcoin could triple. And if they sacrifice some of that to reduce prices, I dont know about the US, but here gas is mighty expensive and people actively search very hard for the cheapest gas prices, or drive quite a while. So cheap gas might be a nice incentive for them to buy some bitcoins to use at the pump. /ot. If I owned a gas station I would be the first to implement this. Unfortunately, I do not. It would be easy though. Pay with bitcoins the amount you think you will need. If you click full before your coins are gone, they send the coins right back to you. I'd move to where I could pay for gas like that. I know casascius or however his name is spelled let someone pay for gas with bitcoins but not directly to the merchant. |
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I'm not so sure. Sheeple will hear about Amazon coin. Then when they understand its just Amazon's crappy alternative to Itunes gift cards, if they then associate it with Bitcoin.... that's not what Bitcoin is at all and I think it provides no help at all.
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March 2013, here we come. Be of good cheer. We Avalon customers are still waiting on ours.  (see how I inserted that jab for equalizations sake?) Both are better than where bAsic left off at? Right? |
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Thanks, but I'm not confident in the security/stability of MPEx.
Leaving aside that MPEx hasn't been down in its entire lifetime as long as the forum was down this week, I guess that's a thought. Does MPEx have a thousand active users each pulling hundreds of db queries and executing php commands on the site at the same time? |
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You just bought an order now, so you are not one of their first pre-order customers. You are 68+ months late to the pre-order game, and you are whining and bitching and threatening to sue because you're not in the last 1/3 lottery?
I fixed that for you. |
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Because I did a mistake and when I click to alert moderator the forum says that I had to wait 360 seconds !
You can edit your post. They look identical just different subjects. If you're just looking for the edge that the house maintains, they post that on their site http://satoshidice.com/It is 1.9% with the exception of less than 1 which is 1.844, which no one has ever won. |
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I don't get why all this attention about this amazon thing.
It is not anything new, facebook had facebook coins, this is exactly the same, it is totally unrelated from bitcoin.
Correction. FB had credit. Amazon has coins. I think the only new thing is them using coins in the name. |
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I have no idea how to calculate what percent my bitcoin holdings are because my net worth is negative. Fucking student loans.
Hmm... interesting. If you divide a number by 0, well, it can't be done. However, dividing a positive number (your btc) by a negative number (your net worth) you get a negative number. But. Your net worth is calculated by summing your total assets and then subtracting your liabilities. Maybe you could calculate the ratio of your bitcoin holds to debt. |
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How do we know for certain that they wen't all started by Amazon sockpuppets? And why isn't there a thread on this topic in Newbie? Don't they deserve the ability to comment on such a interesting topic? Good point, if you would like to create one, I will follow you and add it to the list. Am I the only one who thinks this kind of thing is good?
This kind of "store credit" with a static exchange rate is the best way to avoid bitcoin's scalability problems.
This is no different than Itunes gift cards or compare to a billion other things like zynga cash or facebook credits. Amazon coins cannot be traded so there is no trade value associated with it and it is not a means of storage of wealth nor is it a means to transfer funds. |
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Amazon is just following in a long line of other companies. Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, Zynga, etc. Really this is just a sympton of broken credit card model. Lower cost and more user friendly to make one payment gets a bunch of tokens and then buy on site. I mean an physical arcade might accept credit cards for a bulk purchase of tokens but they aren't going to install a credit card reader on every game and charge the card $0.50 a swipe. Casino's do the same thing. You can buy chips for a CC cash advance at the cage but you can't hand the blackjack dealer your card to swipe for every hand.
Credit cards are a pain in the butt and these in house tokens are a way to make them a little less of a pain (for both consumer and merchant). This neither helps nor hurts Bitcoin in the slightest.
Since this is already posted in dozens of forums, allow me to go COMPLETELY OT based on what you just said DT. You know who would be the perfect candidate for Bitcoins? It doesn't help with charging them by the day or what not, but redbox. A $1.25 rental half of that goes to the credit card company. Of course they would have to have you send $20 in BTC for a DVD rental and when you return it, they send the coins back... but they could double their profits or reduce the rental fee back to a buck. |
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It never ceases to amaze me that people will take the time to create a post without first taking less than a second to scan the subject lines of the most recent posts in the forum to see if the information has already been presented. Your example applies to this post and the newest one ending in 591. However, most of these are in different forum categories. But still...  |
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Couldn't be. He's not Japanese.  Seriously, this should not be limited to any one in particular. I would use the pseudonym Cheese Salad, would that necessarily mean that I am a salad? Congratulations. You just resurrected an 18 month old thread. ...by misunderstanding a sarcastic post, none the less. Win/win!  ...by misunderstanding a sarcastic post, none the less. lol |
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What could S.DICE realistically sell out for? I think $100-200m in the next 12-18 months is realistic. S.DICE is *only* about the domain though. It has no precious user data like other sites do. I'm curious how much a similar domain would be valued at. SatoshiBets.com lol 10$ http://hostye.com/d/satoshibets.com/I'm sure that's very accurate. Try it with SD itself, $2000 value. http://hostye.com/d/satoshidice.com/ |
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Couldn't be. He's not Japanese. Seriously, this should not be limited to any one in particular. I would use the pseudonym Cheese Salad, would that necessarily mean that I am a salad? Congratulations. You just resurrected an 18 month old thread. |
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Address: 1odfsrirfbxtwjoviseqdnuixwvhsnPbJ G3SlzMa3f1bwOv2VclxCCbVdBMiLbkmIX0ScKjA4GB7m1zBMsITSQW92ELKWapgSIIjIvjTJqUkd92TAlWrEDnM= Address: 19279281759997344NJ2KMcdRZNVT5rHhq G0qD75r1iPiY6uHDAzgg/uT20fVcQpgKrTxH5BcBwx3CxvLT0DENHQ1kFWRhF2/opxqTxSCJ0tvq3+k5XLlTlaI= Tada. I'd really like to find that all lowercase one. The all upper is easier and already found. I'm so friggen close! |
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Yep I'm getting the same error. I just updated to CCC 13.1, which updated the OCL runtime to 1084.4.
Getting same issue I assume as others. Anyone got a solution?  I think the solution that was working for everyone else was rolling back your drivers  |
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