Username: Michael. https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Michael
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Admittedly I haven't logged in for a while...

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Can you please use your private key to sign your post? I mean, anyone could come along and say that they have the public key. That isn't hard, 'cause it is public. However, if you sign your post with the private key, someone could then easily check to make sure that the public and private key match by decrypting the signature using the public key.

Thanks.

I think it would be grand to get all the gambling, pyramid schemes and similar threads out of the main marketplace forum and into a subforum. End.

If you have not encrypted your home directory, then no your login is insufficient to protect anything. An attacker, once they have your computer, can remove the hard drive, mount it on an other computer, and get whatever they want.

If you have encrypted your home directory, then, I'm unsure. Seriously, I don't know. I don't know enough about how Ubuntu does home directory encryption. However, I would guess that it would be enough.

What do I need an exchange for? I do work, people pay me in bitcoin. I want something, I pay in bitcoin. Where do external currencies come into it?

(Also, you missed off some exchanges, like that cash to bitcoin or cash for bitcoin or whatever it's called site.)

You can adjust the difficulty so that it takes less time to hash the password (which'll reduce the security though), and in most cases you'll be a tiny small website anyway, so it won't matter. (Most cases being when I said you shouldn't use a general hash.)  If you are getting big enough hits that it matters, you should darn well hire a decent security expert. If you can't afford it, maybe rethink your business model.

Also, what do Yahoo, Google, et al. use?

But hardly actually does anything constructive, like build the economy, or encourage people to use bitcoins. I think I much prefer the idea of just giving them to Gavin and the other developers to do with as they please, rather than that.

You don't "encrypt" passwords. You use a one-way hash on them. A non-reversible one-way hash. MD5 and SHA512 are examples of general purpose one-way hashes, and shouldn't be used for hashing passwords in most cases.

A very too the point article "How To Safely Store A Password", the answer is simple: use bcrypt.

Indeed.

(I'm guilty, at the moment, of not following my own advice. I am working on fixing that.)

It's a shame, though I certainly understand the reasons behind their actions. (Basically, they aren't sure of the legal implications, and don't want to be a test case, and they also don't want to be seen as endorsing bitcoins.)

However, I would rather see most of the coins go to another organisation, such as the FSF or Freenet. I donated (either 10 or 15 bitcoin, back when they weren't worth as much) specifically to help fight for Internet freedom. While I like the idea of some of they money going to the Faucet, I don't see the need for all of it going there. After all, the Faucet can run off a trickle.

Hopefully they think about their decision a bit more before they go through with it.

Rules? Where we're going, we don't need rules.

But if you want some rules, it's simple. Proper nouns come with a capital, other nouns don't need 'em (except where they do, such as the start of sentences). Bitcoin and bitcoins are not proper nouns if talking about the unit of currency, but may be if you are talking about the project or software.

As for BTC, that's just a shorthand, the same as USD is a shorthand for US dollar. Use it in place of "bitcoin" if you want.

Why not, here you go: http://payb.tc/m

Buy (sorry, "rent") a domain name (about $10 a year or less), and setup a catch all on it. Then use a different email for every online service. Alternatively, some free web mail providers (e.g. Yahoo, at least for me, maybe not for you) let you have multiple email addresses as well. For Yahoo, you could have a stem such as "mymail-" and then all the different emails you create would then be of the form "mymail-mtgox@yahoo.com". YMMV.

It was briefly mentioned that the way to counteract volatility is to use the average exchange rate over the last few days. I would go even further and take the 30 day average.

But above all, I would say, be fair to your customers. You don't need to rip them off just because they want to use a different currency. Indeed, bitcoin might well be something that you could offer a "discount" for using. Because of the deflationary nature of bitcoins, you'll make up the "lose" if you keep hold of them.

If you are worried, just don't sell everything for bitcoins, or only sell a certain amount of each product each month for bitcoin. That'll let you work it out, and if it's all good, then switch to bitcoins for everything.

hi i want to be whitelisted because i have something urgant to sell in the marketplace. i promise i am not a spammer.

i have this really awescome scam business opportunity i thought up, and i cant run it from here.

Any decent operating system will have a tool such as "nice" which can be used to prevent programs from using CPU time if other programs want it (or you could give programs priority over others). I'm not sure if the GNU nice (which will come with virtually any Linux based OS) allows you to set a maximum CPU usage regardless of other programs. But I don't know why you'd want to do that anyway. If you aren't using the computer, just let your miner run free...

The network is already big enough to prevent any small time operator from taking control.

As for the rest of it, I wouldn't worry. Someone once wrote something to the effect that the entire world economy could run off one bitcoin (because it is divisible by so much). As for stable prices, well. They'll come soon enough. As more and more people use bitcoin, prices will stabilise. You'll always get people like me who are willing to use bitcoin simply because we desire a truly independent currency. Bitcoin works for that.

Talk to your lawyer, laws vary from place to place. However, considering that people have been prosecuted for "stealing" other electronic goods, it would be fair to say that it is probably possible. IANAL.

"Technically everyone using BTC in North America is breaking the law (as BTC is an un-taxable good/service)."
It really depends on what they are using it for. They might well be declaring it as income, or whatever. It might be considered a hobby. Where I am from, income earnt from hobbies isn't taxable (above a certain amount it is considered not a hobby, no matter what you say). (Also North America is a big place, with at least two countries (depends on where you draw the line), you shouldn't really conflate them like that.)

Some forums have a lot worse restrictions than the ones here. Personally, I look at the whitelist thread and see people with between one and  three posts all going "hi, I'm not a scammer, please let me out" or "i have very important job to do, please let me out" or even "i wanna sell something let me out!". You'd think they'd read the first post, which includes simple instructions about demonstrating knowledge of bitcoins...

I really can't see a problem with that sort of person being restricted to this forum. It suggests to me that they are scammers, and who needs them? (The latest post as I write this is "I'd like to become non newbie. An Un-used Adobe Flash CS3 Professional license is waiting to get placed to the marketplace Smiley." the person has one post. Screams scammer to me.)

If you do have an honest, thoughtful response to a thread in another forum, post it in the whitelist thread and say "this is why I want out". Otherwise, go and make a few pointless posts in other threads, idle for a bit, and just have a bit of patience.

Damn, and here I am creating a "legit" account (as opposed to the other account I created months ago, but only ever argued politics and and discussed ways to use bitcoin more anonymously) and I can't use the thing properly...

*shrug*

Oh well, it's still better than some forums I've been on.

Oh, and, I've introduced myself @ http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=15672.msg221611#msg221611