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1  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Win 10 BTC: Guess the price on February 1st (no entry fee) on: January 22, 2013, 06:40:33 PM
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2  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: We just reached 1 million posts! on: July 24, 2012, 08:17:08 PM
Not only 1000000 posts... but now 60000 members!

(and, only recently, 60000 topics).

How many of those 60k forum users have logged in within 30 days from now?
3  Other / Archival / Re: delete on: September 13, 2011, 05:07:43 PM
I'm surprised users like the one who's threatening and damaging the Bitcoin community like this, gets room to speak on this forum.


I'm (positively) surprised. I don't condone what he's doing, but refusing to speak to him will not make the attack not happen. He would simply do it anyway. We can still do whatever we can to stop him from succeeding. Having a direct line of communication to your enemy is mutually beneficial.

Can someone record a screencast of the attack and post it to youtube? It would be interesting to watch the video afterwards in case there are some lessons that could be learned. There was a guy who recorded the Mt. Gox first incident when the prices fell to below one usd. It was interesting to watch his reaction and comments. That time it was only a fluke that he could get in on tape. This time we could be prepared and have analyzing software running and ready for the 19001 block (when the attack is scheduled).

4  Other / Archival / Re: delete on: September 13, 2011, 05:29:00 AM
Bad people like BitcoinEXpress exist in our society most them work for governments but the rest that where too evil even for government exists in the public.  This attack will show the world the power of bitcoin if namecoin survives it.

I'm feel like selling 40K of gold to kick this ass hole to the curb.   But I must be clever and out smart instead of out spend.

So sad people are destructive not productive even sadder is some destroy for sport.

Ah well Like I said it's part of life we (good people) need to deal with it.

You're going to need more than 40K of gold to stop this. The commitments from people wanting to start a "Hit Pool" now exceed 200GH/s. We have some very sharp people working on this and it will occur before merged mining. We needed a Guinea Pig and in this case it sucks for Namecoin to be the Guinea Pig. But hey, your leaders volunteered you guys by leaving the door open so long even after they were informed several times.

All of the exchanges have been notified, so no one should lose any money.

One of our "super coders" has actually (in theory) found a way to go back in the chain and start from there, thus invalidating everything in front of that block. We will test that also.

In the name of science...

If you are successful in resetting the blockchain to ~10,000, then my namecoins will seize to exist. What is your plan to reverse this fact once you're done with your testing? I paid real money for the namecoins that I bought. If you don't reverse the consequences of your test once you're done, you will in fact have taken real money from me because the namecoins I had in my wallet will have seized to exist, and the new ones that will have been created instead, will be in your wallet.

My namecoins are in this block: http://explorer.dot-bit.org/a/NEuKQ4uJPRrE7Bf5TmYAByhHieeFqLzYrd

Will you be transferring the same amount of namecoins to that address once your test is over?
5  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Is Satoshi actually Richard Stallman? on: September 08, 2011, 04:33:01 AM
Nah, he was speaking in very general terms about some way to send money, quickly, easily and anonymously to content creators. That's not far off from what he's been evangelizing for decades, so I see no significance in his mentioning it at any particular time in 2009.

Has RMS made any public comments about Bitcoin?  In light of his past commentaries, he should have something notable to say about Bitcoin.  If his public mentions of such cryptocurrency ideas cease after Bitcoin's metoric rise around October 2010, about the same time that Satoshi disappeared, this might be a significant link.

Where do you want to start?  "Richard Stallman" bitcoin     -->  http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=%22Richard+Stallman%22+bitcoin  About 132,000 results

Correlation does not mean causation. A Google search for "Richard Stallman" porn returns 290,000 results, none of which stars Richard as the porn star. According to your logic, it should be about twice as likely that Richard is a porn star than that he is Satoshi.

Surely, you don't think that I didn't know that. Hence the question. With so many results, where do should we start?


You already knew "Richard Stallman" porn returns 290,000 results?

P.S.

Just trolling with you. No suggestion intended.
6  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Is Satoshi actually Richard Stallman? on: September 08, 2011, 03:43:18 AM
Nah, he was speaking in very general terms about some way to send money, quickly, easily and anonymously to content creators. That's not far off from what he's been evangelizing for decades, so I see no significance in his mentioning it at any particular time in 2009.

Has RMS made any public comments about Bitcoin?  In light of his past commentaries, he should have something notable to say about Bitcoin.  If his public mentions of such cryptocurrency ideas cease after Bitcoin's metoric rise around October 2010, about the same time that Satoshi disappeared, this might be a significant link.

Where do you want to start?  "Richard Stallman" bitcoin     -->  http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=%22Richard+Stallman%22+bitcoin  About 132,000 results

Correlation does not mean causation. A Google search for "Richard Stallman" porn returns 290,000 results, none of which stars Richard as the porn star. According to your logic, it should be about twice as likely that Richard is a porn star than that he is Satoshi.
7  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Rate My Bitcoin Rig on: August 19, 2011, 06:02:14 PM
Hehe, nice site and idea!

BUT... much more important....who are we looking at? I...can't tell from the curves... Smiley


And get rid of the porn. Geeeeezzz.
Please don't.

Or just add the possibility for both posting user and viewing user to tag rigs as nsfw.
8  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Rate My Bitcoin Rig on: August 19, 2011, 05:47:27 PM
Made this just for the fun of it, because I wanted to rate rigs!  Grin

Rate My Bitcoin Rig

If you get the Top Rated Rig by the end of September you will get 1 Bitcoin!

Have fun

Kind regards
Kris

Cool Smiley. One[1] suggestion though: Your randomizing function could be altered so that it only shows every rig once. As it is now, I can get the same picture several times in a row, before I get a picture I yet haven't seen. It would be good to also have a "back" link so one could go back to a previously already seen rig. Also a comment form field for each rig would be nice. Oh, and urls that could be copied as direct links to each rig.

[1]:
Several.
9  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Play a sound every time /anyone/ finds a new block. (Perl script inside). on: August 19, 2011, 05:37:14 PM
Neat.  Works for me.  you can also change the mplayer line to use a text to speech robot voice to tell you about the new block :

Quote
`echo 'new block' | espeak 2> /dev/null`;

here's a "fembot"
Quote
`echo 'bit coins!' | fembot 2> /dev/null`;

requires this  espeak hack.  


Cool patch Wink. Thanks!
10  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Is there a Bitcoin market cap graph anywhere? on: August 19, 2011, 04:55:11 AM
Is there a Bitcoin market cap graph anywhere? I can see the current market cap on http://bitcoinwatch.com/ but is there a graph somewhere so I can see what the market cap was for each day, historically?
11  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Play a sound every time /anyone/ finds a new block. (Perl script inside). on: August 19, 2011, 01:41:43 AM
Hello everyone,

I made a Perl script that I want to share with you. It plays a sound every time anyone finds a new block. It's very short and you can download it here:

https://gist.github.com/1155780

It's written for GNU/Linux. I'll cut-n-paste the instructions from the file itself:

Quote
## Program name: make_sound_on_new_block.pl v1.0 (for GNU/Linux).
## (c) 2011, Tomislav Dugandzic (neo101.org).
## License: GPLv2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html).

## Description:
## This Perl script plays a sound each time anyone has found a new Bitcoin block. Run it in a terminal and leave it running.
## It does these checks once a second.
## The purpose for this program to exist is so that Bitcoin users can do others things while waiting for transaction verifications to complete. A sound will be played when done.
## That way we don't have to stare at the bitcoin client to see the block count increase slowly and intermittently. Bitcoin exchanges tend to not let you use your bitcoins until
## a certain number of new blocks have been generated, after your transaction. Ideally this kind of audio notification would be integrated in the bitcoin client. But you can
## use this until someone implements it in the main client.
##
## What you need for this to work:
## 1. You need the Perl interpreter program installed.
## 2. You need to have the "mplayer" program installed.
## 3. You need to have this perl script file in your ~/.bitcoin/ directory.
## 4. You need to have your bitcoin client update the debug.log file. This is currently (2011-08-19) already so by default.
## 5. You need to have the mp3 file you want to be played, in the ~/.bitcoin/ directory.
## 6. You need to have your bitcoin client running.
## 7. You need to run this perl script from a terminal and leave it running.
##
## I commented this program in great detail so that programmers who don't speak Perl more easily can verify that this
## doesn't try to steal your wallet.dat file or tries to be bad in other ways.

Oh, and it seems like this forum allows code to be posted inline as well. So I'll do that too:

Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl

## Program name: make_sound_on_new_block.pl v1.0 (for GNU/Linux).
## (c) 2011, Tomislav Dugandzic (neo101.org).
## License: GPLv2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html).

## Description:
## This Perl script plays a sound each time anyone has found a new Bitcoin block. Run it in a terminal and leave it running.
## It does these checks once a second.
## The purpose for this program to exist is so that Bitcoin users can do others things while waiting for transaction verifications to complete. A sound will be played when done.
## That way we don't have to stare at the bitcoin client to see the block count increase slowly and intermittently. Bitcoin exchanges tend to not let you use your bitcoins until
## a certain number of new blocks have been generated, after your transaction. Ideally this kind of audio notification would be integrated in the bitcoin client. But you can
## use this until someone implements it in the main client.
##
## What you need for this to work:
## 1. You need the Perl interpreter program installed.
## 2. You need to have the "mplayer" program installed.
## 3. You need to have this perl script file in your ~/.bitcoin/ directory.
## 4. You need to have your bitcoin client update the debug.log file. This is currently (2011-08-19) already so by default.
## 5. You need to have the mp3 file you want to be played, in the ~/.bitcoin/ directory.
## 6. You need to have your bitcoin client running.
## 7. You need to run this perl script from a terminal and leave it running.
##
## I commented this program in great detail so that programmers who don't speak Perl more easily can verify that this
## doesn't try to steal your wallet.dat file or tries to be bad in other ways.

while (){

  $cli_data = `tail -n 1000 debug.log | grep -i best | tail -n 1`; ## Look at the last 1000 lines in the debug.log file, pick the last line, and see if there are any lines that describe a newly found block.
  
  $latest_block = $cli_data;
  
  ## The commented line below is how a row we want to find looks like:
  ## SetBestChain: new best=00000000000007ac4781  height=141545  work=85257364198960066368
  $latest_block =~ /new best.* height=(\d{1,16})/; ## This and the next line tries to filter out only the block number from the found line. It looks for any numbers that contain 1-16 digits.
  $latest_block = $1;
  
  if ($previous_block == undef){ ## The first time we run this while-loop, there are no older block numbers that we can compare the latest block number with.
  print "A sound notification will be played each time anyone has found a new block. The currently latest block in your blockchain is: \"$latest_block\".\n";
  $previous_block = $latest_block; ## From here on, we will have an older block number to compare newly found ones with.
  }
  
  if ($latest_block > $previous_block){
  print "Someone found a new block: \"$latest_block\".\n";
  `mplayer ./make_sound_on_new_block.mp3 2> /dev/null`; ## This is the command that uses mplayer to play the mp3 file.
  $previous_block = $latest_block;
  }
    
  sleep 1; ## Wait one second before looking at the debug.log file again.
 
}

I hope you like it Smiley.
12  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: False Alarm on: August 16, 2011, 09:05:03 PM
Link to Reddit discussion where the btcnow.net service operator also comments (He says he only has access to post in the "newbie" section on this forum): http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/jk3k8/btcnownet_instant_bitcoins_via_google_checkout/
13  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ixcoin - a new Bitcoin fork on: August 12, 2011, 05:41:45 PM
There's a guy here saying the code will break once it reaches 21 million coins
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=36701.msg451411#new
Which makes it no different than a couple old versions of the bitcoin client. An oversight in the code doesn't make it a scam, though I am keeping a close eye on how quickly this one gets fixed...

Indeed. We're working on a updates to the Ixcoin client such as integrating 0.3.25 changes. The above issue won't come into play for a few years so we still have time but we'll address it in the next version.

I think that most miners will abandon mining ixcoin as soon as it stops being more profitable than mining btc. Do you think this will happen? Why / why not?

What do you think will happen if and when the majority of miners abandon ixcoin for mining bitcoin? How long will it take before the next difficulty decrease will come into effect? How many blocks per hour will be generated with a sudden drop of miners, and how will that affect the ixcoin network? Have you done these and similar calculations, or is starting the ixcoin chain more of an experiment for you?

Also, why do you think a faster generation of new coins is advantageous enough to merit starting a new blockchain? How do you respond to the idea that you started this new blockchain with the primary purpose being to make you an early adopter so you can get rich quick, especially considering you made 250'000 ixcoins for your personal use (not bounties) before even announcing your project? Many people on this forum including me think just that.

Edit1: Added ", especially considering you made 250'000 ixcoins for your personal use (not bounties) before even announcing your project?".
14  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ixcoin - a new Bitcoin fork on: August 10, 2011, 11:53:19 PM
So basically, this new cryptocurrency comes with no new features, so basically it is just profiteering gluttons piggybacking on the bitcoin community?

It doesn't necessarily need new features (a la namecoin) to be meaningful. This is part of the coolness of open source, if you think something else will work better you're free to modify and distribute those changes. In this case we have someone who's decided that a brief introductory period of crazy steep inflation would be better since we get to the much-touted deflationary part of the curve sooner. I've considered creating the opposite: a variant where inflation occurred so slowly and over such a long span of time that it would be highly unlikely for the increase in supply to ever outpace the increase in demand. Someone who believes inflation is the way to go might create a fork in which nSubsidy never halves and there is no enforced ceiling on the number of coins.

Just because it wasn't a massive feature-packed fork doesn't mean it's not worthwhile. If you don't think a steep but brief inflationary period would be a beneficial change, then don't use ixcoin. If you think bitcon's curve has the wrong shape, duration, etc. then it's an easy matter to change a few key numbers and reshape the graph to your design. Saying this fork is worthless, profiteering, gluttonous, etc because the changes made aren't substantial enough is like arguing that bitcoin wasn't a substantial change because it's deflationary. Sometimes changing a single thing is a big deal.

Also, assuming any of the bounties on the wiki site are real and will actually be paid, it seems to add up that the original 580k that were mined before release are being used as rewards to help move ixcoin's infrastructure forward. Since ixcoin and bitcoin use identical RPC, any products developed for one should work for the other with little to no modification. If an ixcoin bounty leads to the development of something that can be useful to bitcoin then it has helped the bitcoin cause (and vice versa).

No one is stealing anything from anyone. Not any more than beertokens, weeds or any of the other miscellaneous feature-identical branches of bitcoin have anyway.

Edit: Oh, and since such forks tend to be lower difficulty (even lower than namecoin usually) they also make mining more accessible. BTC and NMC both have difficulties so high that CPU mining is more than unprofitable, it's flat out impossible. Let the casuals mine the forks and those of us with dedicated rigs will still mine BTC. There's nothing wrong with forks, we just need a good exchange to support them all.

I think it would be interesting if someone tried a fork of bitcoin with the same speed-of-generating-new-bitcoins-graph, but with no cap at 21 million btc. Instead, when the 21 million is reached, there will be an inflation of 0.7 % per year. That would mean that the money supply would double once every 100 years. That is an acceptable loss from a currency user's perspective, and would add any benefit(s) an inflationary currency arguably has. I could totally live with my savings halving in value once every 100 years, if that sacrifice boosts the usage of the currency, prevents hoarding etc.

Perhaps a fork wouldn't be necessary? Maybe if most clients accept this change to the original bitcoin protocol, there would be no need to fork? Is making bitcoin inflate like this after the ~21 million cap is reached a good idea? Maybe mining in that case would only be made by huge corporations / nation states with huge mhash capabilities, in effect "stealing" savings from individual users, in perpetuity. Just as GPU-miners today get all the new bitcoins and CPU-miners get zero even if they'd mine for years on end.

This leads me to a question. Let's say a miner with 1000 mhash capabilities generates 50 btc per day. Would a miner with 100 mhash capabilities generate 50 btc exactly once per 10 days? Or would he get constantly beaten in the race so he would generate even slower, say 50 btc per 20 days?
15  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: No bitcoin client asks to connect, even though 8333 forwarded - why? on: August 03, 2011, 01:42:39 AM
I just noticed that bitcoind no longer receives incoming connections if the public IP of the machine changes while it is running. I guess bitcoind does not detects this, and never publishes the new IP to the rest of the network. After stopping and restaring bitcoind, I see incoming connections again.

Perhaps your issue is similar: maybe your machine has more than one public IP, and bitcoind is publishing the one that doesn't accept connections on port 8333.

While I do have a dynamic ip, it has remained the same for over half a year at least. So this is not my issue. I also tried to download the currently latest stable version of bitcoin for Linux (0.3.24) and tried running both the 64 bit and 32 bit binaries. It still didn't work. Moreover, I tried to run ./bitcoin -testnet and forwarding port 18333 as well. When I run the client in testnet mode, it gets zero connections and consequently does not download the testnet blockchain at all. I tried telneting from a server outside of my client's ISP, and it showed one connection. When I exited the telnet session, it showed 0 connections again. So the port forwarding works. But what could be wrong with my setup, when the "main net" always shows at most 8 connections and the testnet shows at most 0 connections?

Edit1:
Here is the output from the logfile (tail -f ~/.bitcoin/testnet/debug.log): https://gist.github.com/1121785
16  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: No bitcoin client asks to connect, even though 8333 forwarded - why? on: July 27, 2011, 04:32:31 PM
Have you catched up with the block chain?

I've noticed that bitcoind gets a lot of connections initially when started, but this gradually drops down again to only 8 and stays there while you are still catching up with the block chain. Once you're catched up, the number of connections seems to go up again. (I'm not sure if this is the expected behavior, just what I observed.)

Yes, I had it catched up. It got updated at a very high speed, so maybe my client just figured connecting to more than eight peers would've been unnecessary.
17  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoins are now Mobile and EASY - QR/Wallet/Android/iOS - MtGox Mobile on: July 26, 2011, 03:59:53 AM
2. When I exited the app on my Asus Eee Pad Transformer TF101, and tried to relogin again, there is no "submit" button or equivalent to submit my password.

[Solved]

FYI: I should add that I was using the Swiftkey Tablet X keyboard app, and not the standard Android keyboard. When I tried to change the keyboard to the standard Android one, and reran your app, it started showing the "login" button again. I then tried to reproduce the bug by alternating between the keyboards and force stopping the app in between. No success in reproducing the bug. Maybe it was related to me switching keyboards, or maybe the bug just happened to resolve itself for another unknown reason, at just the same time I tried to switch keyboard.
18  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoins are now Mobile and EASY - QR/Wallet/Android/iOS - MtGox Mobile on: July 26, 2011, 03:44:17 AM
Please add pinch-to-zoom functionality on the transaction history tab, or at least increase the size of the text. It's so small it's barely readable on my 3.7 inch HTC Desire phone.
19  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoins are now Mobile and EASY - QR/Wallet/Android/iOS - MtGox Mobile on: July 26, 2011, 03:36:20 AM
1. I tried to install the app on my Transformer tablet and the GUI isn't adapted to the higher resolution. Any ETA on when we can hope for a fix? The graphs and depth info gets really small.

Sorry about that, this is a known issue and we will get to this soon unless Honeycomb 3.2 can make it to devices sooner.   If you visit http://mtgoxlive.com/orders you will be able to see the view in a full screen.  It is merely an issue with the app and "xtra large" screens/honeycomb.  What Android OS are you running, sir?

No worries. I'm running the latest available (in Sweden) official unrooted Android 3.1 build number HMJ37.WW_epad-8.4.4.11-20110711, sir. It's better that the phone app works flawlessly and not the tablet app, than the other way around. But getting both to work is of course ideal Smiley. I'm giving the app five stars anyway.
20  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoins are now Mobile and EASY - QR/Wallet/Android/iOS - MtGox Mobile on: July 26, 2011, 03:07:28 AM
Please let us know your experience with the app and feel free to provide comments, suggestions, complaints, etc. Wink
edit: and more importantly, tell your local favorite shops and merchants!  They can start with their phones and get a true PoS soon!

Great app! Thanks for sharing. Two issues though:

1. I tried to install the app on my Transformer tablet and the GUI isn't adapted to the higher resolution. Any ETA on when we can hope for a fix? The graphs and depth info gets really small.

2. When I exited the app on my Asus Eee Pad Transformer TF101, and tried to relogin again, there is no "submit" button or equivalent to submit my password.

And to those who wonder where the "revoke" permissions button is: You have to reload the settings web page for the revoke button to become visible.

EDIT1:
3. Please make it possible to rotate the phone and/or tablet, and that the screen also rotates. On small phones' touch screens, it is easier to hit the correct buttons when the phone is in landscape rotation.

4. You could make the single "choose your password" field into two fields, where the second field asks you to "confirm your chosen password". Not a biggie, but makes the app behave as people are used to.

Comment: On point 2 above, the missing button I'm referring to is called "login" on the phone app.
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