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1  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Main developers don't give a damn about us, bitcoiners! on: March 29, 2013, 03:34:50 PM
As the reference client, I can sure understand that devs may be reluctant to introduce patches without a lot of testing first. If a released were to introduce some nasty bug, it could quickly create a nice chaos given that most people just run and update the official client without asking themselves many questions (which is understandable, the official client, being "official", is supposed to be stable and running out of the box).

That said:
"Addition of Import Private Key Menu" - https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/2050
Too dangerous for easy access - do you really want to enable people coins from newbies? Power users can already import private keys using the debug console.
What? Please listen to yourself. The answer is yes, people can and will take care for themselves.
Using the console for this is good enough to me (it's not as if this was a very frequent operation), but it would be nice though if the client was able to dump encrypted private keys... It's a bit sad that the official client provides a way to encrypt a wallet but no way to decrypt it... (and it doesn't really help switching from one client to another)

For something like coin control, parts were merged already, but the GUI wasn't. Well, honestly, if I was maintaining a wallet (I'm not) I wouldn't merge it either. We should be trying to make Bitcoin easier to use and less nerdy, not exposing the guts of the protocol in the UI. Rather I'd want to figure out a list of what people are using the coin control gui for - find a list of use cases then encourage people to implement them in a more direct way. Is this a privacy thing? Is it an accounting thing? Both? Neither? There's probably a better way to solve those problems.
Well, GUI coin control would actually make Bitcoin easier for anyone needing coin control... A basic design which looks useful to me would be:
1. a list of balance per address
2. from this list, allow to pick one (or optionally several) addresses to spend from
And to avoid clogging the main GUI, it can just be buried somewhere into the menu Wink
2  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Win 10 BTC: Guess the price on February 1st (no entry fee) on: January 25, 2013, 01:20:29 PM
$16.95
3  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: permanently decrypt an encrypted wallet? on: December 24, 2012, 10:40:23 AM
Necromancing this: any plan to at least make "dumpprivkey" accept the decryption key as argument? The function has to exist in the client, it's just a matter of making it reachable from the debug console... This is making me wish I hadn't encrypted my wallet... :/
4  Bitcoin / Mining support / Re: Haven't seen a penny? on: December 24, 2012, 09:23:12 AM
BTW, ssateneth, I wouldn't call a 580 "puny"... It's not a fast miner, true... but as far as an actual graphics card goes it's blazing fast. I've gotten several years of dutiful service out of it and still maintain ultra-high framerates on modern graphics apps and simulations. It will run even sophisticated simulations like ArmA and IL-2 at max graphics settings and thousands of enemy soldiers/aircraft.
It's just that, generally speaking, mining-wise, NVIDIA GPUs are slow compared, precisely, to their gaming value.

Congratulations on 140mhash from an nvidia card
Indeed that's quite fast IMO for an NIVIDA.

About the pool war, my personal preference goes to PPLNS such as Bitminter (this one also pays tx fees as far as I know). Particularly interesting when you have a low hashrate and want to be the one (as opposed to the pool operator) taking the risk of good or bad luck without too much variance.
5  Economy / Marketplace / Re: Anonymous Ads - bitcoin advertising network on: October 12, 2012, 07:17:37 AM
Very strange, anonymousads.com website is down but banners work fine. Do you have 2 servers?
Most likely:
anonymousads.com => 78.47.172.10
ad.anonymousads.com => 78.47.125.166
6  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Silk Road Down? on: September 11, 2012, 03:30:07 PM
Fine for me
7  Local / Discussions générales et utilisation du Bitcoin / Re: L'analogie du ticket de loterie on: September 07, 2012, 12:21:34 PM
Je ne vois pas non plus pourquoi les mineurs auraient tous la même chance de gagner des bitcoin... La compétition est une bonne chose.
Moi non plus. Pas particulièrement parce que je pense que la compétition est une bonne chose, juste parce que je ne vois pas en quoi il serait anormal que quelqu'un qui mine 2 fois plus ait 2 fois plus de récompense. De toute façon avec les pools personne n'est lésé, même en minant à 50MH/s on peut arriver à gagner 1 ou 2 bitcents par jour, somme suffisante pour demander un retrait sur certaines pools.
8  Other / Off-topic / Re: Bitcoin advertising networks - oh, the irony on: September 05, 2012, 12:52:40 PM
Yup, can't wait to get more announcers. And more specifically bitcoin-UNrelated announcers: that would be more appropriate for my bitcoin-unrelated websites than all those ads promoting various services all around some obscure bit-thing that even "computer people" don't all understand.
9  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: free coins for new users [0.01 BTC] on: September 01, 2012, 06:06:54 AM
Nice initiative, I applaud Smiley
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10  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: What Am I Doing Wrong?! Please Tell Me! on: August 13, 2012, 02:17:45 PM
With a hashrate low like yours, I'd go for some PPLNS pool: this avoids the variance of prop, avoids weird "score" calculations that can result in some high variance too when you mine slowly, and avoids the usually huge fees of PPS pools.
BitMinter looks nice for instance: https://bitminter.com/
11  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: 50 BTC free to grab competition. on: August 10, 2012, 03:43:05 PM
I might  be interested in giving it a try, but I'm not sure I understand how the ranking works:
"The winners are the top 20 users that accumulated the most free credits during the month of August playing only the 2 games Live Roulette and Live Baccarat"
=> Is this the total amount of credits you earn, no matter how much you lose, or just your final balance? Do reloads affect your score (say, someone reached a final balance of 500 without ever reloading vs someone reached a final balance of 600 but reloaded twice) ?
12  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: anonymous MTGOX instructions wanted on: August 10, 2012, 12:26:15 PM
Sorry looks like I was wrong wasting everybody's time.
Pointing out that access to and trading of THE anonymous cryptocurrency is limited because the biggest entry point is regulated like PayPal is hardly a waste of time IMHO...
13  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: To the owner of Mt. Gox acct #118721- can I have my money back please? on: August 09, 2012, 02:44:24 PM
As far as I understood (as in, read in some other threads), withdrawing a certain amount (say, 1k$) of funds from MtGox is a major bureaucratic PITA because of all the ID and stuff they require (that's actually what refrained me from even trying their service so far). The thing that puzzles me the most is that given that bureaucracy, the least you could expect in return is them fixing such erroneous fundings with mismatching IDs a bit more promptly...
14  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: [ANNOUNCE] COINTUBE.TV - Earn FREE BITCOINS for Watching Youtube Videos! on: August 09, 2012, 01:44:51 PM
Doesn't look so. Now it says upfront "Suspicious ip detected. Website unavailable." I guess not getting to open the site is still better than watching the videos then not getting paid, eh ^^
15  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: [ANNOUNCE] COINTUBE.TV - Earn FREE BITCOINS for Watching Youtube Videos! on: August 08, 2012, 09:57:21 AM
Doesn't seem to be paying at the moment... site wallet empty or something?
16  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: [GIVEAWAY!!] *** 100 Bitcents *** [GIVEAWAY!!] on: August 08, 2012, 09:11:58 AM
1M97xiPAfiT6hC9CzDFhuazsjz7fXH7LdX

Will use it to buy ASIC when BTC reaches 10k$ ^^
17  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Is Bitcoin getting the wrong kind of attention? on: July 26, 2012, 08:17:16 AM
Reason #7 is pretty valid IMO...
18  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: For Inaba & Аdministrations on: July 25, 2012, 12:57:26 PM
In this subject https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=16385.2700, the user of https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=8198 arrived most not decently. It posted in the Internet private correspondence. His behavior isn't worthy behavior of the adult person.
[...]
For site Administration:
I ask to punish this user, for publication of private correspondence!
I'm just puzzled by something: it's not okay to publish a 4-line message you receive BUT it's okay to steal 47 BTC? This doesn't sound right...
19  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Bitcrate resurrected! Free Bitcoins everyday on: July 25, 2012, 12:30:23 PM
I think Bitcrate gives the highest micro rewards from this type of sites.
Yeah, a bit too high apparently: reward crate is empty  Grin
20  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: bitcoin-app.com - Facebook Bitcoin App - 0.01 BTC welcome present on: July 25, 2012, 12:28:31 PM
Could it be possible that there is a little bug in the welcome present routine? Not that I would want to complain...  Grin
Indeed, I connected to the app but this just redirects me to the login page... It's like login page->OAuth->back to login page->again. Is the service down or something?
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