I set up some stuff yesterday using the Coinbase API. They give you the option of creating a new receiving address, and adding a callback url, so when anyone sends a payment to that address, Coinbase's server is supposed to report it to the callback url. The callback is triggered immediately, at 0 confirmations.

My address and url show up correctly in their admin panel, but I was tailing my logs, and there was no hit to my server whatsoever when I sent payments to the address. I put in a support request 14 hours ago with no reply, and I just tested it again with no callback being triggered.

I found a support thread where people had this exact problem in late March and late April, the company only replied in late April saying oops, they had fixed it.

At this point, I can't really imagine using Coinbase for my application, because I would be constantly worried that it stopped working with no warning again, but it made me wonder: Are many people using this feature of Coinbase? Has anyone tested it lately to make sure it's notifying them? It'd stink to rely on their API and not even know this feature isn't working.

 

I love the OP's implying that whatever web scraper he wrote is some kind of amazing quantum AI that is so CPU-heavy he had to turn off all his mining programs while it rans for weeks doing the kinds of pattern recognition you usually see on TV shows like 24 or Person of Interest. I picture it like this:

-OP types "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?" into his hackstation, which appears on 9 screens at once.
-Green letter scroll across black screens for hours, surveillance photos of asian men flash across the screen.
-Computer speaks in half robotic/half human voice "There are a number of possibilities, Michael"
-OP says "Narrow the search. Enhance the variables."
-Montage of OP pacing around his dark apartment while the computer runs.
-Computer speaks "You're not going to like this Michael".
-OP speaks: "Just give me the results, S.A.T.O. !"
-S.A.T.O. : "I've narrowed it down to a list of suspects. Number one is the forum poster DeathandTaxes"
-OP : "Okay, now we're getting somewhere. S.A.T.O., give me the case on DeathandTaxes"
-S.A.T.O.: "He gets quoted all the time on bitcointalk."
-OP: "BINGO. Thanks buddy. And now the game begins".

The superhackcomputer powers down as OP opens a forum window and types "WHO DEATHANDTAXES IS?".

Fade to black.

The new orange one look okay, did you ever think of a polo shirt with that same logo on the breast perhaps? Just a thought, I wear a lot of polo shirts personally.

In the words of Borat "VERY NICE".

Maybe since people aren't realizing you buy them with BTC, you should display the current price on the front page in BTC, beside the fiat price?

THIS. The whole "oh some malware got on his USB stick and it autoran on your computer" is sooooo unlikely, that is not how most malware is spread whatsoever, and most people have USB autorun off, I think it's off by default in most modern Windows installs.

The argument of "he didn't do this scam in the same way that many thieves do scams!" is just silly, there are tons of novice criminals, dumb criminals, etc., and it's even possible that he had only vaguely thought of it before, but once he was there and you left the room, he went "ah why not".

Anyhow, if the guy claims he ALSO had coins stolen at the same time, I'd like to see him prove that, show a transaction at the same time from an address he can prove is his. THEN maybe I'd start to believe him.

gl OP

Just voting now. Dropbox site is slow today, let's hope it's cause this thread brought 200,000 ppl to it to vote

Okay voted to the max.

I didn't even realize Dropbox had this feature, and I'm a pretty heavy user. I almost want to vote for lower Dropbox prices, but they probably don't even care how many people vote for that - one of the top requests for ANY business would be to have lower prices, it's a silly option (even though I'd love it OBVIOUSLY)

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"Does everyone think its' gambling" - Everyone who ISN'T into Bitcoins think it's gambling lol

Not only is CPU mining illogical, it's near impossible for a newbie. I tried to set it up just for a laugh, and I couldn't even figure out how to get it going without a GPU (which I don't have) and gave up after a short while. I'm sure I *could* get it going, but it definitely has been made very tough to do for a newbie - if you're savvy enough to get it working, you are DEF savvy enough to realize it's not profitable, which is a good thing, will save people time and money.

Give details or a link, or don't even post at all, what good is this.

How long since you wrote to Bitcoinstore? It is a weekend after all, I wouldn't expect them to reply within seconds.

This reminds me of the online gambling world, where people spent years going "the Chinese are coming any day now and are going to make us all rich!". Since they're so far away and we don't really know what's going on so much there, it's easy to pin all our hopes on them.

Ahh this explains a lot. 5.