" Visions, Part 1: The Value of Blockchain Technology
 Posted by Vitalik Buterin on April 13th, 2015. "


https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/04/13/visions-part-1-the-value-of-blockchain-technology/

"We recently put almost all of Augur's contracts on chain and last night made
our first live function call on Ethereum's Frontier testnet. "

http://www.augur.net/blog/augur-creates-first-on-chain-event

Introducing the Team Building A Decentralized Prediction Market

"Tony Sakich, Augur's Director of Marketing introduces both Lead Software Developers for Augur, Joey Krug & Dr. Jack Peterson.  

Joey and Jack co-wrote the Augur White Paper and are a part of the brilliant development team currently working for Augur."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64ArAtF0flw

What is the $USD cost to operate a MS Azure bitcoin node for a month?

"Augur Bets on Bright Future for Blockchain Prediction Markets"

http://www.coindesk.com/augur-future-blockchain-prediction-market/


The article w/ annotations by Joey Krug:

http://genius.com/4974142/Pete-rizzo-augur-bets-on-bright-future-for-blockchain-prediction-markets/His-latest-idea

At least they keep trying, eventually they will figure it out.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=916418.msg10066992#msg10066992

You include website links to info on nxtforum.org.
Is this app a port/fork of nxt-related code?
What is the relationship here?

2015 Gates Annual letter

"Mobile banking will help the poor transform their lives"

http://www.gatesnotes.com/2015-annual-letter?lang=en&page=3

SF Bitcoin Devs Seminar:  Using Serpent on Augur to Build Prediction Markets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7JVcAgP1nw

Published on Feb 11, 2015
Jack Peterson & Joey Krug present the details of how they're implementing a decentralized PM, why Bitcoin is the best fuel for a decentralized PM, and how (+why) they are using Serpent to do it.
http://www.augur.net/

Why Augur chose Ethereum as the development environment for its 'decentralized prediction market platform'
 
http://www.augur.net/blog/why-ethereum

https://blog.ethereum.org/

"Push to make Haiti an e-cash economy fell far short"

"The Gates Foundation, Mercy Corps and others hoped ‘mobile wallets’ — cash disbursed via cellphones — would propel Haitians to new level of economic and financial security.   Initial success gave way to failure, but now locals are reviving this effort to leapfrog into the future."

http://seattletimes.com/flatpages/nationworld/haiti-shaky-recovery-part-2-earthquake-five-years-later-annivers.html

[2014-10-02]  Bloomberg video:  Bill Gates- "bitcoin is better than currency"

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/gates-says-he-s-very-happy-with-microsoft-s-nadella-Lrm7RF_9RRq7vO2mFqvwPA.html


"Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) – Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft Corp. and co-chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, talks about financial payment systems in Africa, Microsoft's strategy and the outbreak of Ebola. Gates, speaking with Erik Schatzker on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart," also discusses his charitable efforts. (Source: Bloomberg)"



edit: sorry, didn't notice this had already been posted... you can delete post.

I am interested in using CoinControl and am wondering what direction to go...

I'm running standard Bitcoin-Qt ver 0.8.6 at the moment.

Can I just run an installation of win32  0.8.5-OMG10 and overlay onto my existing  0.8.6 version of bitcoin-QT?

or should I do a seperate install of 0.8.5-OMG10 into its own directory, then copy over existing blockchain and wallet.dat directories?

Which method would least troublesome?


I would of course do full backup of existing sys before trying this.

Thanks, Blockchain.info for breaking-out 'Discus Fish' on the pool pie chart... It's good to see who the big players are.

Here is some info on Discus Fish  http://bitcoinstats.com/irc/bitcoin-dev/logs/2013/12/29

Why doesn't  Blockchain.info identify the 'Discus Fish' pool in the pool pie chart?
http://blockchain.info/pools

It's the 3rd largest public pool,   http://www.f2pool.com/    ... why hide it under 'unknown'?

This site knows about it....
http://blockorigin.pfoe.be/top.php


And this site knows all about Discus Fish, too:
http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/

Shouldn't it at least be grouped into the 'Other Known' category if only Chinese residents can join?

Which pool would be good to set in BFGminer as a fail-over when primary pool goes down?

I would probably accumulate at most 30min a month of mining on the fail-over pool.

Would PPS payout method be best since fail-over looks like 'pool hopping'?

I don't think I would log enough time on other share calculation methods to ever get a payout.

Should I just chose from the PPS pools?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104664.0

It's not a big stretch - just dispensing value on a piece of paper.

It looks like the value is printed at time it is dispensed.  If it is inkjet technology then it would be easy to print a bitcoin value w/QR code.  The machine would check with a server to determine exchange rate, etc. 

If it is a different technology then it would probably require a retrofit with thermal-printed slips instead of card stock.  Preprinted vouchers would be too risky.

Yeh, somebody could hack this out, but it would probably be easier to work with the manufacture to modify the existing system.

After the Olympics someone should buy up these machines and modify them to print Bitcoin vouchers. 
Place them in malls, recruit some stores to accept bitcoin and print store names on back of vouchers.

Maybe Bitcoin Foundation or one of the major bitcoin businesses looking for publicity could sponsor - because VISA sure won't do it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojo9M1cPSPI