Oh please, do not fall for PKI monstrosity - this system is seriously flawed! (I have my own bitter experience with end-users of which ~100 have absolutely no idea how is SSL/PKI works and even how to use it securely!)
21mil BTC for the creator of trustless PKI replacement!
PGP + Due Dilligence I'll cut you a discount. Just send 5.5 BTC to the address in my signature. |
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lolz I looked up the definition of mania. http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/maniaMaybe I'm just very sexual then because it doesn't switch off very often  but honestly with times being what they are, don't be surprised if a lot of people my age or below exhibit bipolar signs etc. we're getting seriously fucked over by older people who just want to pay for everything by dumping it on us and then dying off, I take that rather personally, plus it sucks not being able to even get the most basic of basic jobs to earn a little extra cash for yourself. I'm young in my 20's, but some of us run up into awfully inconvenient evolutionary curios in our neurology. Spring and summerI'm down for anything, but come October if it's last name isn't Deschanel I'm probably going to be bored out of my mind. Most people will experience a manic, hypomanic episode, or several in their lifetimes just the same way they will experience bona fide clinical depression. The big issue is how much it affects them and how poorly it is timed. |
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Hi, I am college student newspaper reporter and have been allowed to do piece about economics. Through a friend's insistence I have decided to make my article about bit coin. I would really like some help and guidance on it. It's unfortunate that I haven't been able to post more on this forum due to the rules. I'm posting this here in a plee for information for the article. I will check back and hope that it isn't just a niche and exclusive forum. Regards!
You are just running against antispam rules. The most effective of those and most inconvenient for you is you need four hours actively reeding forums on here. I recommend not wasting that on old newbie threads. PM me if you would like to. |
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I'm a professional online poker player. Life is tough for us as the US government keeps blocking online gaming transactions and bitcoins are popping up big on the poker forums as a way around this.
I wonder how much new users is commin from this direction. Since you are professional online poker player, can you provide some links and stats? Thanks. Bitcoin is a regular discussion on 2+2 for two years. This has actually been a trend. I welcome our new gambling overlords as the will be the lesser fool to me when it comes to sports betting. I'm a professional online poker player. Life is tough for us as the US government keeps blocking online gaming transactions and bitcoins are popping up big on the poker forums as a way around this. I was thinking of investing in some bitcoins. I decided to do some research. 99% of everything I read blows way over my head.
What you need to understand is the size of the Bitcoin network versus how much or little the USG cares about online poker. The amount of computing power it would take to get to ten percent is astronomical at the present. It is beyond any combination of the three (probably more) highest performing supercomputers in the world at the moment, and as the wiki article shows the dangerous attacks from superior computing power aren't fast. They require sustained focus on the bitcoin network, which gets very expensive when you start talking about not only the cost of the computers, but the electricity to run them. The risk of a 51% attack happing is actually very, very trivial. |
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FUCK all bethsada recent games (the engine is fucking horrific) LOL I won't argue with you there, the engine made by Bethesda really is horrific and to top it off they actually went and said "Yes, we'll bring in Obsidian to make our next Fallout game" it's a shame though because Bethesda are actually one of the few games developers that make fun games. Yeah, I'm with you, a lot of the new gamers worship stupid bullshit like COD and BF3 because they have nothing better to play, eventually though, eventually, something way more amazing will come out and then the big companies will go bankrupt... I hope lol Interesting... Probably the best game I've played in the past 12 months is the DLC for Fallout: New Vegas. My favorite run in that game was when I started by playing Honest Hearts. Next best was probably Deus Ex Human Revolution, but that was intolerable on the console. That Yellow tint had to die. Third was Postal 2 on steam for Linux. |
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I can't view it. Needs to be looked into.
There's some dirty shit there mange |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HypersexualityHypersexuality is extremely frequent or suddenly increased sexual urges or sexual activity. Although hypersexuality can be caused by some medical conditions or medications, in most cases the cause is unknown... I am not a doctor and there is substantial variance between individuals, but generally hyper-sexuality is one of the hallmark signs of mania. As in the medical condition. This kind of thing is just nonsensical bullshit stereotypes from people in denial of the real world, I'm certainly what you'd call hyper-sexual but I'm not dumb enough to get involved with another man's woman or anything like that but equally I know girls who are more horny and perverted than I am, they're just far better at hiding it and I suppose if there's any difference then that's it. People are going to believe the innocent looking wide eyed girl who'd break down into tears over being accused of anything over the guy who just shrugs and doesn't give a damn what people think.  That's my take on it anyway There's a difference between being a very sexual person and being hyper-sexual. One is a part of who you are and the other comes in phases where... you happen to be more "activated" |
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Also I did a bit of digging and this user is using a brand new wallet address.
Nothing to be alarmed about really, but consider the following...
Read Got BTC's past posts...he definitely is not new to Bitcoin. Quite the opposite actually. So he probably has had a couple established wallets by now right? I have been in BTC for about 7-8 months now and I have about 4 established wallets ALL with transactions. So why make it a point to make sure you have a brand new wallet to go with your brand new username? Looks like someone is trying to hide something.
Wallet address: 1A4VwqyRgQvbN4KAR86xgjPmDgc2ULaVv7
It's actually the default behavior for the Armory client. It is an aspect I find both convenient and as annoying as hell, but when deterministic wallets become standard on every client it will be the default behavior. Jakers is as shady as shit, don't get me wrong. I just want to discourage confusing prudence with malice. |
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Gigamining
I thought that MP's opinion on Gigamining wasn't that it was a scam, but that it was just absolutely worthless. Mining bonds depreciate faster than a Chevy Celebrity in a demolition Derby. |
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P2p markets will become interesting if/when governments around the world actually start prosecuting people for Bitcoin, provided that if that actually happens Bitcoin still retains some utility/value. Even at that point, they'll still work as a p2p implementation of centralized markets. Well, the main point is that issuers and shareholders do not depend on a particular exchange platform, they cannot be held as a hostage. (I'm posting this now because tech sorta kinda works. I mean, we need to fix a couple of problems and make it more robust and friendly, but basically people can create assets and exchange them securely without depending on anyone. (OK, transport is kinda centralized now, but it's a tiny issue.)) Well, how much of a bounty is there for making open transactions useful versus the number of developers willing to touch it. |
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What is the projected date for the event? April 1st seems a good candidate.
Well, I've been without a steady pay check for nine months and American so location would be more important to me than the exact date. April 1st sounds great though because hopefully shit will have warmed the fuck up. Too much sooner and we won't have time to map an ASIC design. Now that Avalon is delivering a sweet ASIC miner, I'm wondering if there might be interest in developing a different kind of bitcoin mining ASIC. One that celebrates the development Avalon gave us in its small batch artisan high performance computing by making things still more artisan. Here's what I'm imagining in this new celebratory ASIC: - A die size of 1 to five acres
- Design based on http://rijndael.ece.vt.edu/sha3/publications/DATE2012SHA3.pdf
- We drive stakes into the ground for attaching nodes and guiding interconnects
- Cheap speakerwire interconnects
- USB interface
- Controlled by Arduino or Raspberry Pi
- Just maybe abuse some arduino boards to serve as nodes
- Assembled over the course of one day, maybe an afternoon
- Target speed of at least one valid mining hash in under fifteen minutes or less
- Lots of beer and barbecue
Maybe this is the vodka talking and I came up with this just now or maybe I've secretly been planning this for months. This is the internet, I'm probably a dog and not even something adorable like a Corgi or Saluki. Maybe I'm a Caucasian shepherd. Is this not though, at least a mediocre idea for a bitcoin meetup? We take over a park for a day and in large scale and coarse detail construct a massive tribute to the fact cryptography in a project beloved by nerds, geeks, anarchists, and libertarians has moved from software which has been democratic since the great Stallman the First to fabricating hardware using cutting if not bleeding edge technology. I'm in Awesome. |
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I have always thought that there really needs to be some trusted third-party verification service for Bitcoin addresses, which would work in a similar fashion to an SSL CA. I don't believe the pgp-style web-of-trust model gives enough guarantees (or has enough defense against bad actors (edit, CACert is pretty close)) and using a cryptographic solution invites namespace-collision problems (i.e. the super secure third-party escrow solution at casacius.com.) I don't know... I kind of like keeping my recieving addresses roughly as disposable as toiletpaper. Rather than trusting the address, it seems the stronger solution is trusting the way that you are given the address. |
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Lets say for example we set a Target, that the average Blocksize is always 80% of max. Blocksize and adjust the max. Blocksize by max. +-20% all 2016 Blocks to meet this Target.
This would ensure that Blockchain space always remains scarce, therefore ensuring TX fees for fast transaction, by at the same time ensuring that it will always be possible to make a transaction.
I'm looking forward to learn why this wouldn't work.
The problem with this is that some pools still mine blocks where the only transaction is the one that awards them their subsidy, and that can really poison averages. Than change it to The average of the biggest 50% of all Blocks mined every 2016 Blocks. That would also mean that at least 50% of all miner would have to agree that a increase of the max. blocksize is necessary and also ensuring no minority can keep an increase from happening. So (numbers changed a little): Target: Average Blocksize of the biggest 1008 Blocks is always 90% of max. Blocksize Adjustment: Max. Blocksize, max. +-20% all 2016 Blocks to meet this Target. Isn't it amazing the difference adding one small caveat makes. This is why I'd default to trusting Gavin's judgement, because everyone is trying to smash all of these ideas in his face and he has to make decisions that protect brialliant ideas from naive attacks. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/04/schneiers_law.html |
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You seem to be heavily invested in Terracoin crazy rabbit.
I'll break it to you: No there isn't a ideal FPGA coin - yet
SHA-2 neither makes use of the DSP blocks found in FPGAs nor is it particularly beneficial to the layout of the chips. It would certainly be possible to create such a coin, if one find the correct hashing algorithm.
Hahaha, i wouldn't say invested, but I am really into it. :-) its my hobby! Really I am btc but I enjoy alt coins. The fresher the better! As for the block taking 20 minutes, I am surprised. Actually the hash rate is the same, so I guess that is just variance? Dunno. But hash rate is the same. :-) I love me some altcoins, but terracoin seems like a dead end now. Maybe you can come around to love PPCoin or Freicoin, but I know I can't. For FPGAs the best bet is probably merged mining chains like namecoin. Namecoin might be the oldest of the altchains, but it has a lot of potential uses and people are just now starting to recognize that. It's the only blockchain that found a use beyond bitcoins in that it also serves as a fairly excellent datastore. It will probably be a while before people point their ASICs at Bitparking. Pointing your FPGAs there or mining the same mix they have solo probably wouldn't hurt too much, and ASICs are still coming online in a trickle so you might even get some BTC out of it. |
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Funny, but not a bad idea..
I'm thinking somewhere in Southern Illinois or Central Missouri. It would be inconvenient for everyone and shit is cheap here. I'm open to other locations though. |
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Lets say for example we set a Target, that the average Blocksize is always 80% of max. Blocksize and adjust the max. Blocksize by max. +-20% all 2016 Blocks to meet this Target.
This would ensure that Blockchain space always remains scarce, therefore ensuring TX fees for fast transaction, by at the same time ensuring that it will always be possible to make a transaction.
I'm looking forward to learn why this wouldn't work.
The problem with this is that some pools still mine blocks where the only transaction is the one that awards them their subsidy, and that can really poison averages. As far as using bitcoins in retail on a reasonable timeline goes, a few of the gambling sites have developed very good ways to prevent nasty stuff by identifying the low risk transactions which may as well be accepted immediately. I don't find the interval of time between blocks to be problematic. Honestly as far as block size goes, I'm pretty comfortable with Gavin making a decision as benevolent dictator and letting everyone know at what point in the future the blocksize increases to its next finite (or formulaic) step. |
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Now that Avalon is delivering a sweet ASIC miner, I'm wondering if there might be interest in developing a different kind of bitcoin mining ASIC. One that celebrates the development Avalon gave us in its small batch artisan high performance computing by making things still more artisan. Here's what I'm imagining in this new celebratory ASIC: - A die size of 1 to five acres
- Design based on http://rijndael.ece.vt.edu/sha3/publications/DATE2012SHA3.pdf
- We drive stakes into the ground for attaching nodes and guiding interconnects
- Cheap speakerwire interconnects
- USB interface
- Controlled by Arduino or Raspberry Pi
- Just maybe abuse some arduino boards to serve as nodes
- Assembled over the course of one day, maybe an afternoon
- Target speed of at least one valid mining hash in under fifteen minutes or less
- Lots of beer and barbecue
Maybe this is the vodka talking and I came up with this just now or maybe I've secretly been planning this for months. This is the internet, I'm probably a dog and not even something adorable like a Corgi or Saluki. Maybe I'm a Caucasian shepherd. Is this not though, at least a mediocre idea for a bitcoin meetup? We take over a park for a day and in large scale and coarse detail construct a massive tribute to the fact cryptography in a project beloved by nerds, geeks, anarchists, and libertarians has moved from software which has been democratic since the great Stallman the First to fabricating hardware using cutting if not bleeding edge technology. |
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ASIC development is a fast business :-) We can not wait. We need to restructure the bASIC project within days.
We will setup a new management structure, change the information policy (boost transparency), review the technology status and the financial situation.
Only after proposing and implementing changes we will have an idea about the chances of success (potential future profitability of bASIC / BTCFPGA, LLC) and the timing of the first delivery. According to what I know since yesterday the March deadline is feasible ... but we will never claim that this is the ultimate deadline :-)
Bitcoin ASICs maybe, but ASICs in general... What is the node size on the latest discrete sound processor... To really trounce what avalon has and BFL might, you won't just need die shrinks. Those will be BFL's saving grace if they come to pass. You will need serious hardware engineering prowess... I love watching more mining companies take silly peoples money, carry on. This is better than the pennies.
And the more salient point. Mining investments are depreciating assets. Much like going long on bitcoin, if you want to go long on mining it is best to take delivery and have real equity in your investment. |
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I truly dislike people who grow pot and sell it via Bitcoin. It ruins Bitcoin's reputation.  Pot are more commonly sold with cash. If I had a smartphone and the friendly neighborhood dealer accepted bitcoin in person to person high-tech-mobile-buzzword-2.0 transactions, then I might go back to toking up for the novelty of it. I'm kind of partial to my cheap Motorola burner though, it would take an OpenBSD phone to pull me away. |
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Off by a single order of magnitude. The correct math should be: one third of one tenth of one percent.
89 / 24,500 [current network estimate from bitcoincharts.com] = 0.0036. x 100 = 0.36%. So two orders of magnitude. One third of one percent. It figures my brain would have skip the step that converts it to a percent when I'm trying to do math in public. Hahah...I found 4 blocks in one night on my laptop CPU...man have things changed. If only I had found Bitcoin sooner...it was literally a week later that CPU mining went kaput...
Sometime in the spring of 2009 I'd just heard of this bitcoin thing on some forum, it was probably a cold story in the Slashdot firehose. It was Friday and I was headed out of town for the weekend so I just left my laptop mining these things. I come back there's a 150 bitcoins in my wallet and I just forget they exist for a few months. That fall I'm cleaning out app I hadn't used and stumble on this bitcoin thing again and decide to see if they are worth anything. When I find out they are worth somewhere between a dime and a quarter I'm like fuck this shit... uninstall. When the news of dollar parity hit I spent a good several hours finding out that wallet.dat was definitely overwritten. At least I donated their value to all of the other bitcoins instead of helping that Pirate fellow overdose on mountains of cocaine and strippers. |
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