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1  Other / Off-topic / Re: Vintage photo needs a caption! on: April 26, 2013, 10:37:12 PM

April 1862: "We will deliver your BFL ASIC miner in 4 weeks, promise!"
2  Other / Off-topic / Re: chat with a scammer on: April 26, 2013, 09:39:37 PM
Questions:
- Are/were you receiving psychological treatment or do you plan on getting treatment?
- Assuming you are honest about wanting to stop scamming people: When you say you want to reimburse all the people you burned, do you think that you'll eventually live up to it or do you reckon this could be coming from an urge to tell people what they want to hear? Like some kind of scamming automatism?
- As for your personal environment having a negative impact on you, have you ever tried changing your environment? Do you think you could ever start over somewhere else and successfully establish "normal" personal relationships based on mutual trust and without the feeling that you're being taken advantage of all the time?

(Sorry if my wording is a bit awkward, but English is not my first language.)
3  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Isn't this newbie restriction promoting spams? on: April 19, 2013, 04:23:53 PM
it serves as a proof of work I guess...
Grin
4  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Dynamically change prices based on BTC's value on: April 17, 2013, 01:02:08 PM
Sounds good, keep us posted Smiley
5  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Bitcoins, Gold and Silver - all slaughtered down.. buy or sell? on: April 16, 2013, 03:09:59 PM
I'd say buy. Or sell. Or just sit and wait. And then buy. Or sell.
HTH
6  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Stolen bitcoins? on: April 15, 2013, 11:53:48 AM
Man, that sucks... Sad
Also be aware that if someone managed to get ahold of your wallet in the past (!) or got ahold of an old backup of your wallet, he/she will also be able to access your funds added to existing addresses after that point in time. This is often overlooked. So there doesn't even need to be malware on your PC right now, instead it could already have happend weeks or months ago, depending on your wallet's age.
7  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Dynamically change prices based on BTC's value on: April 14, 2013, 06:15:54 PM
Ha, I had a similar thought not too long ago and was wondering about the pros and cons Smiley
Not sure if such a feature would be widely adopted since probably most merchants still have to buy the products / services they are offering in other currencies than BTC themselves. So if they accept bitcoins at a real-time exchange rate, they risk losing money if BTC drops in value after the purchase. Especially if they aren't early adopters and haven't already built up some significant BTC deposits to compensate for such a case.
So as I see it, there should at least be the possibility for the merchant to apply some (configurable?) "smoothing" to the exchange rate being used as well as some kind of add-on buffer to compensate for the currency risk. E.g. "current USD/BTC exchange rate plus 15%".
Also, you'd have to find a way not to be dependent on a single exchange like mt.gox for determining the current exchange rate, in case they temporarily go offline once again. Maybe build an average across multiple exchanges? I dunno.

Unless the exchange rate becomes much more stable, I guess this would probably mostly be for the bold or optimistic / idealistic merchants out there, who trust in BTCs mid- to long-term stability. And maybe the primary target group could be those who are offering services with relatively low expenditure in other currencies, such as artists or software developers.
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