I'm open to the potential of NXT, but it just doesn't strike me as a system that's adopting a very "unix-y" philosophy, of which I'm suspicious.

Whenever I hear people talking about NXT, I can't help but think of a TV-VCR-DVD player combo. Sounds great if you're aiming to directly lure in consumers, but not what you want in a platform...?

"Strength in Number Foundation" is something you run, correct? You keep speaking as if it's a third-party, so if it is your non-profit, that might be something you want to be careful to be candid about

Anyhow, I look forward to the whitepaper. Cheers

Wat. Why does everyone say this? I've been messing with it and doing tutorials for a month, and I'm late to the game.

It exists if you code and like to experiment with technology. It does not yet exist if you just like speculating and buying crypto-assets.

I feel anyone who's attended their share of doors-open bitcoin/crypto-asset events will be familiar with that line of inquiry. After all, you've got some people in suits overplaying their importance/understanding, some people in rags who are the most interesting and/or wealthy in the room, and a couple who are genuinely crazy or otherwise unstable. But don't assume the latter, because maybe you're misreading the anti-social genius-type.

Basically: That's just how you get to the point with people in this space. There are a lot of bullshitters and the room is busy.

Disclaimer: I am acquainted with some of the Ethereum team from the Bitcoin Toronto meetups, and trust they are dedicated, passionate and intelligent people in their respective domains. So I have to assume you're projecting something silly onto them.

I think the lower level feature that we need on any service holding bitcoin is the ability to provide an address into which the funds are automatically swept into after a designated period of inactivity. This address could be the address of loved ones, or it could be an address under your control.

Specifically, an address under your own control could be managed by some future tool that helps you manage a dead man's switch for all your crypto-assets. It would be silly to expect to implement a complex inheritance feature in every service that might manage small amounts of our bitcoin

Searching is one of the most intensive things you can do on a forum. They throttle it because it kills performance. Just means you have to be more thoughtful with your searches, unfortunately.

I think it's upped when you're out of newbie jail, fwiw

Just tossing an idea out there that we're thinking about implementing at the web development company where I work.

Currently, we're set up operating via a very autonomous agile team structure. Right now, teams who complete a project ahead of time or under budget get a larger share of the profits. Also, team members rate each other weekly in a transparent way, so that all the comments and "percent" contributions are public and discussion is encouraged. So if you weren't pulling your weight this week as a team member, I might give you an "80%", and that score, averaged based on what each member indicated, determines my weekly bonus. "100%" is the standard, most of the time, and lower or higher are the exceptions to the rules.

So basically, we're thinking about switching this percentage-effort based system to a BTC quota system. So essentially we each have x bitcoin to give away per week, and we get to distribute that as we see fit.

I've been looking for a reason to create a bitcoin-based tool, so I'm thinking about writing a hubot plugin that will allow us to give out the bitcoin just by leaving a comment in our IRC chat during the weekly retrospective, kinda like the bitcointip bot

http://hubot.github.com/
http://imgur.com/kvGk6

Anyhow, not looking for any particular feedback, but just wanted to share. Obviously the code will be open source from the get-go! I can update this thread if people are interested.

Weird. Five posts and I'm still not allowed into the larger forum...

Hello! Here is an animated gif of a manatee:
http://imgur.com/YHUxY.gif

I'm pretty much just leaving this comment so that I can hit my 5 quota, get out of the newbie pen, and claim my ripples in that "free ripples" thread

I know it operates differently than bitcoin, but I frankly don't understand why people are so opposed to it on principle. So what if a company seeds the network and makes some money. How if that any different ethically from someone making money off an exchange like mtgox? If anything, it should be seen as better, since there's still a finite supply of ripples (if I understand correctly), and so eventually they will all just be released into the system and the company will only benefit from running the service itself...

Oh man, I really need to comb over their wiki. I'm way too ignorant of how it works on the technical end of things :/

AidoATP looks interesting man, but haven't looked into it.

My first thought on reading your OP was that this project might be of interest to you:
https://github.com/maxme/bitcoin-arbitrage

I've got no affiliation by the way

Unaware of an option, but this is a really awesome idea!

I'm a web developer and server infrastructure guy who's in bitcoin for the long-haul and trying diligently to avoid paying too much attention to the prices.

Really interested in building really general parts of the Bitcoin infrastructure using the model that Travis CI has been using on github -- community-supported and totally open.