I sent the dev an email and within minutes he spotted me on IRC and addressed my question. Very responsive and very easy to deal with. +1 coinswap

Maybe it's like a Peter Jackson movie and we'll see more out of the devs in one year

Oh I think it's very innovative. Can't wait to see what happens. Best of luck!

Can't wait for the POR-house jokes :-)

It might help on launch if you explain some about the sponsorship of products in our store, rather than leaving people to draw their own conclusions. It's interesting to watch how devs try to differentiate themselves at launch. If you had backers, for instance, that were willing to risk offering some real products at fixed prices in a new scrypt coin, that would be interesting news and worth watching. But I can't really draw that conclusion from the sparse information I'm seeing here.

cross-compile problems? I get this when trying to compile the qt client on Ubuntu 13.04:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_system-mgw48-mt-s-1_55
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_filesystem-mgw48-mt-s-1_55
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_program_options-mgw48-mt-s-1_55
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_thread-mgw48-mt-s-1_55
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

I've compiled quite a few of these wallets from source... I do have boost installed.

metacoind compiles fine though, so I'm trying it.

For autosell, I'm using this: https://github.com/dtbartle/altcoin-autosell

I tweaked it a little, as per instructions I found (didn't save URL, sorry) to raise trade minimum in exchange_api.py (2 places in that file) so that it wouldn't try to sell balances under 1 of whatever coin. Reportedly works on Cryptsy too, but I don't need it there. Works great, I've never had an issue with it.

So does the site enforce uniqueness for the workername or the workername/password combination?

I'm mining on it just fine after I found the FAQ and got that info about using workername only, just wondered.

In the pool for about an hour now... all unconfirmed. Shouldn't the transactions start confirming pretty quick?


---edit nevermind, as soon as i finished that post i got my first confirm 

website content seems to be gone, stratum doesn't answer

So, since it's come up, I ought to say, they way I think I need to work right now is to take the amount in coin that is currently equivalent to the dollar amounts I already had on the work. This is my first venture into taking bitcoin as payment, and at least in the near term it's what i'm comfortable with.

In addition I fully understand why there would be trepidation about sending coins for a physical item that must be shipped, especially from someone without a history in fulfilling bitcoin transactions. I'd use an escrow in that situation if I'm the buyer, and have every expectation that anyone who wants to buy from me would do the same.

Cheers :-)

For now we'd just convert the $ value on the website as given here: http://coinmarketcap.com/. If there's a source of conversion data you like better, I'd be willing to look. So, anyway, if you pick the right day you can get a better deal :-) Hopefully someday we'll all be able to use cryptocoins everywhere, and won't have to convert to dollars. For now, though, that's the way I need to do it.

Thanks for visiting the site and looking over the work!

I've done a few portraits but they aren't my specialty.

Yes, absolutely. First I'd advise you have a look at my work, make sure the style is what you like. Then drop me a line on the "Contact" form and let's talk about it.

I am an oil painter and will accept Bitcoin in exchange for original artwork. http://www.terrymullettfineart.com/

For the time being at least, I would also accept Litecoin, Doge and Quark. But I don't know how much dabbling in alts I really want to do, so no promises there. And of course legacy USD payments are accepted 

I can do a google image search and get you photo proof that I own a kraken. Sad to say a few hardware dealers are ruining it for everybody. These guys might be squeaky clean, but I wouldn't trust anybody. Escrow or wait till they have VISA/MC back online (note how this trend is really bad for BC adoption in general, and thereby in the long term diminishes the value we mine for)

How would China seize their Bitcoin payments
:-D

kjeems, I hope you get a sense of what an arms race this is. Who makes money on arms races?

Cash is more fungible that bitcoin now. Normal cash, at least, not considering marked bills. You really can't tell, when you catch the serial thief, which of the hundred dollar bills he's carrying was stolen from you and which one he got from his mom for his birthday.

But, even though you might look at the blockchain and tell what the immediate source was for a coin given you, recourse (on anybody's part) is an entirely different question.

I am an artist, and have original oil paintings for sale online. I accept Bitcoin as well as a few of the popular alt coins (though I don't intend to start wallets for every alt that comes along).

My art can be found at http://www.terrymullettfineart.com/

I am also a long-time IT professional, have programmed over the years in C, C++, Perl, PHP, Python, COBOL, Java and Javascript. I think it will be very exciting to see how the Bitcoin platform evolves architecturally over the next few years as it faces the challenges of scaling globally. I recently began writing a mining pool server in Node.js, though I admit it is mostly to amuse myself and learn more about how Bitcoin works. We'll see where that goes, it's fun but it's cutting into my painting time.

Traders specifically or Bitcoin in general?

Paypal could see the Bitcoin network as competition, and transformative competition at that.. Once upon a time, there were questions about whether Paypal would be legal, and they had Mastercard and Visa looking at them as transformative competition to be thwarted. Now they're on the other side of the divide and, like any incumbent, shouldn't be expected to be very happy with a newcomer in their market.

Bitcoin takes the disintermediation PayPal started to another level entirely, requiring no intermediary at all if both parties are happy with the cryptocurrency and don't need it immediately transformed into something else. If a party does need the coins transformed into their local currency, somewhere along the way an exchange needs to be involved. That "last mile" into fiat is a necessary enabling capability until people begin to think of Bitcoin as a unit of account instead of just translating BC prices into $ (etc.) for every transaction. If I were PayPal, MC, Visa etc. trying to impede Bitcoin adoption, I'd be going after the early enabling capabilities.