Well, the day arrived, but I'm going to postpone a bit since there was almost no action on DR. For those that are unable to access funds due to the lack of a public ripple client you may want to take a look at https://github.com/jatchili/minimalist-ripple-client which is not visually polished and you really need to know what you are doing but does allow for a simple method of sending your funds to DR for redeeming.

In a couple of days we'll take the patient off life support, so let us know if you are having trouble.

Unfortunately part of the backend decided to quit early, a hardware failure that we can't fix immediately. In all probability there'll be a week long delay because of this, so please don't redeem your funds until we have this covered.

If you already did it's not really a problem, it'll just be picked up once the system is operational again, of course.

I'll update everyone as soon as there's more information.

I'll step away. The price is very close to the refurbished price, and would still make sense given the fact they are mint or close but only with the paper trail. I bow out and let others take it, but thanks for the quick reply!

I'll take the lot if you can provide the phones in advance (or we can meet), delivery to the UK (where I assume the phones are), if you can provide me with a copy of the original invoice your company was issued.

It has not been an easy decision, but complete lack of interest in DR added to running costs in both time and money forced us to pull the plug on it.

There are still client funds lodged with us, so we're giving another 4 weeks of uptime to allow everyone to withdraw, after which the service will have to come down. Assuming funds are still left behind there will be another period of 2 more months (so, September 5) where any eventual funds will be held and we'll return them to those that prove to be the rightful owners, and finally if any funds are still with us we'll take ownership of them.

We'd like to thank everyone for the support they've given along the way, and perhaps soon we'll come up with a better version of this service and give it another go, time permitting!

Let us know of any issues or questions and we'll do our best to address them.

DividendRippler now supports the new Stellar core, and you can read all about upgrading your old stellar account registered with us here.

Also, since there are no transfer fees on Stellar any more, we've removed transfer fees from Ripple too, meaning that bar mandatory fees on the crypto currencies, we are completely frictionless. This will change soon as we implement a fee schedule that works with both Stellar and Ripple, but for now we're as close to free as possible

Let us know of any problem you may have.

I've been trying out CLAM and while keeping the client always open (on OSX) with an expected reward time of 17~22 hours, I got 3 CLAMs since the 21st, so 7 days ago. The thing is, I got the 3 within 12 hours and haven't got any since. I know variation is expected, but how much of it is normal?

Thanks! So not black and white, as the supreme administrative court proposed that the swedish court should reply vat exempt, it didn't rule that it is vat exempt. It doesn't prevent any EU state to locally overrule that proposal but it does provide some guidance when local tax agencies start procrastinating to avoid making a decision, so that's great.

Care to point me to where you got that information from? I would really appreciate it!

Can you point me to an exchange with any significant volume? Or a forum thread that shows any activity? I searched for a while and failed (though I'm always doing 10 things at once, so take it with a grain of salt).

Original DividendRippler announcement here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=180717.0

Right now DividendRippler supports BTC / LTC / NMC / DASH / TRC / XRP / STR, serving as gateway for Ripple and Stellar. Of course Alts come and go, but there's a reason for each of these, except Terracoin. This was added because, well, it was one of those "why not?" moments, to be honest, and right now TRC is all but dead so we want to remove it from the supported Alt list, which means getting people to redeem all TRC credits they have within a time frame.

This post is the initial request for comments, so if you feel strongly one way or another, please let us know.

Shameless plug here; if you need a ripple gateway for cryptocurrencies then https://dividendrippler.com might be what you are looking for

It has undergone a healthy number of updates and rule changes across the years, and, time permitting, I'm always available to make it better. The thing is there's a real effort in keeping this thing working, and if it get abandoned by users it is just wasted time. When it first started there was quite a bit of volume to it, of course, but then came competition, lots and lots and lots of it and even if I think I did it better than others, these others are *much* better than me at PR and publicity (I suck there), so as new users came and gone, taabl was all but forgotten.

I may try to put some effort in once more, we'll see What exactly do you mean "a sort of jackpot website"?

Talk about a necrobump

It did go down for real, back in 2011, but came back with a slightly different set of rules. Now, many updates later, it has become all but abandoned, despite my poor attempts at getting people interested again.

As such this historic service, the first ever automated bitcoin lottery, will likely go down soon. But it had a good run

It's going up, 0.30 BTC now

There's almost 0.25 BTC up for grabs in BTC's Pick4 at TAABL right now!

And... it's gone. Congrats to the winner! There's still very little volume around TAABL but slowly and surely someone's getting the higher hand (and it isn't me, honest ).

Almost 0.15 BTC on the Pick 4...

Tsquared: Yes, something was wrong. The web frontend and the processing system are separate for security and the backend side experienced a bunch of network outages from late last night to this morning (UTC).

But all bets were processed and handled and the web UI is once again linked to the processing side of things.

I have now seeded all BTC games again.

Good luck!