Hello all,

I'm working on starting a Bitcoin and Altcoin Mining Pool called Salaril.  I currently have a gofundme page set up to try to get support to be able to develop this to be the best it can be.  Details of what I plan to do with the pool and what will make it different is all on the gofundme page.  There are rewards that can be earned by supporting this project at this stage, and those can be earned by either USD donations through gofundme directly or by donating Bitcoins or an Altcoin.  To donate coins and receive the rewards, you can contact me here, through the gofundme, or by emailing the address listed in the description there.

If you can't support financially I would also love any help I can get in getting the word out so that more people see it.  The more people know about it, the greater the chance of success.  I want to make this the best multicoin pool out there!

As far as the pool itself and the reward system and other features, I would be happy to explain in more detail or answer any questions and discuss the pool in general here.

If you've even considered helping in any way you can, thank you so much!

I think this could cause some of its own problems, though.  If you have a user that simply trusts what the software tells them (which would be 90% of the normal population if/when bitcoin/armory gets extremely popular, luckily it's much lower while bitcoin is a niche market) they may send coins again if it says that it failed, without even looking at the history or manually checking if it really did go through.

It may be a lower priority bug for the time being, but in the long run, it's something you would want to try to find if at all possible, in my opinion.  But that's just my two cents.  

Thanks Psy, that would certainly explain the behavior.  I'll look into what I can do to get it to use 2.7 - unless someone knows an easy way already, as I just started really using linux in the last couple of months and haven't run into this before.

edit:  I ended up getting it to install by using dpkg with a -i flag.  Guess it was simpler than I thought it would be. 

Well I did try again when it was close to being synced but Armory was continuously toggling between thinking it was connected and scanning and disconnected.  Once the sync was finally done, it scanned and seemed fine (though I didn't really do much with it, since it didn't fully sync until I got back home).

Now that I'm here, I downloaded the .deb of the new version to try it out on my Ubuntu machine, told package manager to upgrade to it, and it gave this error:


I tried uninstalling Armory 0.82.2 and installing 0.84 again, with the same result.  Then I tried re-installing 0.82.2 (which had been running fine a few hours ago) and it also complained of the same.  Then I decided to see if the 0.82.2 with all dependencies would work; tried it, and it complained a lot and evidently broke some things.  I ran apt-get install -f, apt-get update, and apt-get upgrade, and tried 0.84 again and got the same result yet again.

I have python installed, so I'm not quite sure what it's having a problem with.  I kind of have a feeling it has something to do with my upgrade to Ubuntu 12.10 last week, as that seems to have caused some issues with other - minor - things as well.  Any ideas on where to go from here?  I guess it's a good thing I installed Armory on my laptop, might have to use that till I can figure out what's going on with this one lol.

Normally I'd be trying out the new version on my Ubuntu machine at home and reporting back that it's awesome - but I'm not at home this weekend, so I'm stuck on Win7 on this laptop, which I hadn't had bitcoin run on before.  I downloaded the official bitcoin client and started syncing the blockchain, then downloaded and started up the new Armory.  It pretty quickly said "Online" and I was wondering if it would realize that the current block data wasn't synced to the blockchain (it didn't) but it seemed to be adding the blocks to its count at the bottom right of the window pretty close to how fast it was being downloaded by the bitcoin client.  It ran like that for a little while (10 minutes probably) but eventually crashed.  I'm assuming it just couldn't handle that amount of new blocks.  That was last night, and I haven't tried it again since then (the block chain is still ~12k blocks from fully synced), but I'll go start it up again now and see how it handles, will report again when the chain is synced and mention whether it was able to handle the last 12k blocks updating while it was open or if I waited for the full sync before re-opening again.

(and yes, I know that Armory asks for the chain to be synced before being opened, but I figured I'd try it this way and see how/if it could handle it. )

The examples Luke-Jr posted (including the page specifically created for this he linked) don't look very good on my system either (more like a B with a single vertical line but farther to the right than the Baht symbol).  Of all of the single-character symbol options posted here, I don't see any significant reasons that ฿ or Ƀ can't be used.  I agree that the confusion with the other currency using that symbol would be minimal - I am more than used to seeing things listed with three letter codes in addition to currency symbols for clarity (e.g., $15 USD) and in fact use that myself anytime there is any possibility of confusion.  At the same time, I think the need for a single-character symbol is grossly overstated.  It's not a crisis that we don't have a standard symbol that can be used on any system - I use "BTC" to denote the currency anyway because I think it's easier.  And "BTC" will work on most any system widely used, for obvious reasons.

I have Armory running on Ubuntu 12.04 (32 bit) for my offline wallet and on 64 bit for my watch-only, and it works perfectly for me.

Yes, I read the thread in its entirety in fact.  There still is no evidence of any scamming having occurred and it is still uncool to try to smear someone because their logic doesn't exactly coincide with your own.  You are more than welcome to have any opinion you like of anyone here, Luceo and myself included, but to be purposefully derailing topics and throwing around accusations with nothing behind them is just rude.

@gweedo: Luceo has publicly asked for someone to step up and tell everyone that they were scammed by him.  The lack of this happening seems to indicate either that a) he hasn't scammed anyone, b) the person he scammed is no longer active or hasn't seen this request, or c) is for some reason scared to do so.  The fact that you are trying to label him a scammer but not giving any details of any actual scamming that has occurred indicates to me that it is neither b nor c, therefore the most likely scenario is a.  Either back up what you claim or stop harassing people - just going around saying that everyone that isn't extremely well known in the community is a scammer if they can't prove that they didn't scam anyone (which is impossible to prove) isn't cool; it doesn't help the community unless there is evidence that something illegitimate has happened.

Back to topic: I talked with Luceo about ordering a server about a month, month and a half ago (not sure exactly when) and he was very friendly and answered all of my questions professionally.  He also didn't pressure me into ordering anything; when I said I wasn't ready yet he accepted that and let me take the time I needed to make the decision and to prepare for the transfer from my previous VPS.  I ordered a server from him a little over a week ago and have had no significant issues.  He has been helpful and reasonable in all transactions (I also bought a couple of anonymous domains and upgraded the server since initial purchase) and has been willing to help with anything I requested.  FIS has so far been a very nice and usable service that I'm happy to be doing business with, with better support and cheaper prices than many of the other VPS hosts I have used in the past (including ScopeHosts, HostAVPS, Softsys Hosting, and NQhost).

You may be wondering about the phrase "no significant issues" I used above.  Nothing is perfect, but so far the only issues I've had at all with this service is some non-urgent communication lags (playing IRC PM tag) as we are in very different timezones, etc, and one downtime of the VPS yesterday for a short time which was out of Luceo's control and he has made significant efforts to make up for it (crediting everyone that was affected extra time for their services, etc).  None of these "issues" come close to overcoming the positive things FIS has to offer.

Just thought to check this thread again, and that daemon looks like it could be extremely useful.  Thanks for working on this and putting it out for the public to use!

I was pointed to this thread by etothepi when I sent an email asking about generating addresses for my server to use, and ended up deciding that the best implementation for my needs was to generate chunks of addresses at a time with the method described in the first post, and putting them into a redis list (acting as a queue) which would get refilled when it dropped below a certain amount of addresses.  I'll probably stick with my current implementation as it is more than sufficient for what I need right now, but I will certainly keep an eye on this daemon and might decide to switch to it later on. 

Double check your spam folders.  I use gmail and these emails were going to spam.  I had to create a gmail filter to tell it specifically to never send these emails to spam.

This looks like some real talent!  Look forward to working out a deal via PM. 

The Q&A section of weusecoins.com is also great for learning concepts that you're interested in, just look through the list of questions and click on any that sound interesting to you. 

I agree with the above post; just because someone wants to hoard their BTC it doesn't mean they can't just buy however many they need to purchase what you have to offer.  As far as would I personally be willing to pay BTC weekly/monthly for something, well it depends on what it is, but I've already started using a service that I pay for in BTC in certain time increments, so yes I would!

I'm working on developing two websites (one has taken priority over the other for development purposes right now, but I hope to have both running eventually).  Both will accept Bitcoins as the main (if not only) payment method.

One is a browser RPG, will be text- and image-based, and will have a unique storyline, as well as some features that I haven't seen anywhere else before.  So far I've just been working on the backend of this, and it doesn't have any content yet, but it's starting to get close to being able to start working on content soon.  It will be free-to-play, but there will be a secondary in-game currency that can only be purchased with BTC (or similar?) which will give access to some benefits.  I hope to make the prices reasonable, or even cheap compared to other games' cash shops - I don't want to stiff my members, but I'd like to be able to pay for the server and some of my time spent on creating it. 

The second website would allow someone to avoid the ridiculous fees that are charged by cell phone carriers for SMS messages in some circumstances.  I'm being pretty vague on this one on purpose, as it is on the back burner and I have no idea when I'll be able to go back to it, or if it will even take the same shape then as I've been imagining so far.  If anyone has experience with both PHP and SQL (preferably MySQL) and would like to help get this back in development, feel free to PM me.

Hello all!

I've been getting into bitcoin recently, and have a couple of different projects I'm working on that will accept BTC as the main (if not only) payment option.  I look forward to meeting and interacting with some great people here. 

Such a list itself shouldn't be trusted as it would be written by a person (or multiple people) on the internet, and in compiling such a list they are implicitly asking you to trust them and their list of trust.  Now a web of trust may be another matter, but I'm neither very well versed in the details of a web of trust nor aware of such existing with a focus on the bitcoin community.

On topic: I've been on the internet for a long time and have learned by watching others how important it is to not trust anyone with much of anything, even a login to a game or somesuch.  Luckily I've never been burned by anyone I did trust, but I am always very careful.  Anyway, before I even started actually purchasing and using BTC I set up an offline wallet and all of the BTC I've bought so far have (and any I plan to buy in the future will) be sent to an offline wallet ASAP after being converted.  I do need to get my encrypted backups distributed though, as a fire or similar here would wipe most of my copies.  Someone here mentioned it before; you shouldn't trust yourself or your home/computer/HDD to be around or available forever either!