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#ICantGoOneDayWithout is currently the hottest trend on twitter. So, I made a FeedZeBirds campaign to let them know how I feel about Bitcoin. If you feel the same, please retweet. http://www.feedzebirds.com/kepud |
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You can now use your cell phone to control your Coinapult funds. This is accomplished through simple SMS commands sent to the Coinapult phone number: (603)509-2102 Basic commands are: help me - prints available commands
send (person) (amount) - Sends (amount) to (person). (person) can be a phone number, email or btc address.
bal - Returns your Bitcoin balance.
txs - Returns a list of your last 5 transactions.
addr - Returns a new Bitcoin address for you to receive at.
yes (code) - Confirm a send request
All Bitcoin sent to your phone number is accessible through these commands by default. Each time you receive funds, it will still give you the recovery URL, if you prefer to use the website. In the future, I'll allow site accounts to be created, and users will be able to combine multiple email addresses and phones into one account. So, I've played around with this enough to be confident that it works well. I'd like feedback, though. I will send 0.2btc to the first 5 people who PM me their cell phone number. Please just leave your thoughts in this thread. Currently only U.S. and Canadian numbers are supported. [EDIT] All funds are sent. [/EDIT] |
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BitInstant and Coinapult have been getting emails from Tormail users all day expressing that they have not received retrieval links to their funds. We got suspicious, so I sent an email to my own tormail account. The email did not go through, leading me to believe Tormail is experiencing issues receiving mail. Sending mail seems to work fine. If you are waiting on a Coinapult email to your @tormail.org address, please use the contact form and let us know an alternative email address. |
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Dunno how long this bug was in action, because that is quite a backlog! Basically, the last couple hundred user accounts created (out of 2600) were not able to receive payouts. I've got a few more updates I'll be making tonight, so the site will be down for a little while.
If you have any requests, now's the time to make them, and this is the place.
EDIT:
I should tell you my agenda, I suppose...
1. Integrating Coinapult for email withdrawals, so email address payouts will also be going out later tonight.
2. A bundle of database/backend changes, which should greatly improve page load times.
3. Adding a basic API for querying campaign status. (balance, payments, etc)
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Announcing... Coinapult!!! From the team that brought you FeedZeBirds, Coinapult is here! Coinapult is how you send Bitcoins via email.If you want to send Bitcoins to someone, traditionally that person needed a Bitcoin address. No longer! Now, if you know someone's email address, you can Coinapult coins over to them. See a cute girl, and want to launch Bitcoins at her? Great idea! Just load them up on the Coinapult (instant confirmations), and let slip the machine of war! The coins will be launched thousands of miles instantly and smash down in the girl's inbox. She'll have simple instructions on how to access the coins, and she can then do what she wishes. She will be impressed, and will love you forever. Uses for Coinapult:- Send coins to friends and family easily - Introduce new people to Bitcoin by giving them coins upfront - Tip anyone in the world - like a certain news article? Sent Bitcoins to the author's email! - Businesses: plugin to Coinapult's API to send refunds, distribute winnings, or <insert creative idea here> We know the community will find exciting new uses for Coinapult, so give it a try and see what you come up with. Launch Some Coin Right Now! https://coinapult.comEDIT: Just added SMS support. Simply type in a 10 digit (US + Canada) phone number into the "to" field to send money via text message. |
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All BTCinch cart transactions are being processed through a new wallet, which is cut off from the situation I am about to describe. It is 100% safe to use BTCinch for checkout out with merchants, so please do not hesitate to patronize their stores!
It is my obligation to report that there is a hold up in distributing the remaining BTCinch funds. The old transaction server and wallet are in the physical possession of my erstwhile partner Victor O'Rourke. Since Tuesday morning, he has taken the transaction server offline, rendering me unable to distribute the funds as intended.
I have since made repeated attempts to call Victor. His phone has been disconnected. I have written numerous emails, to which I have received no response. I stopped by his house, but he was not home. He called me briefly Tues. night to tell me that he did not want to steal anyone's money. He also said that he would not bring the server back online for even the 10 minutes it would take him to send me the wallet file. He then hung up. This was the last I heard from him.
Since then, I have continued in my attempts to contact him, to no avail. I called the police, who assured me that Victor has not committed a crime. Though neither Victor nor the police will call it such, I consider his actions tantamount to stealing.
The total remaining in the hostage wallet is roughly 600btc, including 100btc of Bit Munchies and BTCinch funds. This includes all withdrawals which are currently shown as "processing".
I am a real person, who understands that I am responsible to BTCinch members and the public. Thousands of you have doubtless seen my face, and hundreds of you have met me in person. This post will likely do more harm to me than anyone else. Understand that I do not post this out of spite or selfishness. I have simply exhausted all other options in getting Victor to do the right thing. If needs be, I will make all of our customers whole out of my own pocket. This would not be an easy thing for me, so I hope it doesn't come to that.
Again, all BTCinch checkouts are being processed through a new wallet, which is 100% safe. Since Victor cut off access to the old wallet, we have successfully processed thousands of dollars in transactions, all of which have been withdrawn. Please do not punish BTCinch merchants for Victor's shortcomings.
Sincerely,
Ira Miller
Please join me in expressing to Victor the magnitude of his actions.
Victor O'Rourke
Email address:
voo200 (at) nyu (dot) edu
Mailing address:
9460 Meade St.
Westminster, CO 80031
To demonstrate my sincerity, I will post my own contact info along with Victor's.
Email address:
imiller (at) bearbones (dot) us
Mailing address:
431 Galena St.
Aurora CO. 80010
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When it rains it pours. I just got back online, and received a notice that Twitter has suspended the Feed Ze Birds application. Don't know why yet, but until further notice, I've taken the site down. Wish I could say more, but the totality of their message was: This is a notice that your OAuth token for Feed Ze Birds has been suspended from interacting with the Twitter API. Please make sure that your application follows Twitter's API Terms of Service To request for your token to be re-enabled, please write to api@twitter.com Will post here as more information becomes available. [edit]New information on the suspension:[/edit] Hello, Your application was suspended for violating our Automation Rules ( http://support.twitter.com/articles/76915 ). Specifically, Tweets with sponsored content must be manually written and/or approved by the posting user and may not be scheduled in advance. Furthermore, these sponsored Tweets must be disclosed as sponsored within the Tweet and repeat posts of the same advertisement are also prohibited. Please make the necessary changes to bring your application into compliance with our Automation Rules as well as our API Terms of Service ( https://dev.twitter.com/terms/api-terms ). It's best for both our users and your users if your application's behavior does not cause them to break our Twitter Rules ( http://support.twitter.com/articles/18311 ). Please let us know when changes have been deployed to bring it into compliance with our Terms. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. Regards, Twitter API Policy |
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Howdy folks,
I regret to report that BTCinch will be closing its doors. It has been fun, but there are too many legal and organizational barriers to continue on as is.
User registration has been suspended, and I'm in the process of disabling deposits. It is surprisingly tough, considering how Bitcoin transactions work. For now, you may still log in and send outgoing transactions. Tomorrow, however, we'll be transferring all funds to a new wallet for final distribution and turning off the BTCinch transaction server. In the meanwhile, outgoing transactions will continue to be processed. Feel free to log in and withdraw any funds on deposit.
Merchants
For the immediate future (2 weeks), the BTCinch payment gateway will continue to operate with a different transaction server. Withdrawals and conversions will continue to process as usual. By the end of the month, however, I will have replacement plugins for every cart that BTCinch supported. I will be happy to assist the new plugin installation in any way possible.
While BTCinch has lived out its useful lifespan, I am by no means getting out of the Bitcoin game. Quite the opposite. This is, for me, an opportunity to start fresh with more market perspective. In short, do not take this as a judgement on Bitcoin itself. Bitcoin is stronger than ever, and so your confidence should be.
Sincerely,
Ira Miller
P.S. I'm fielding a ton of emails, skype PMs and calls single handedly. I'll keep an eye on this thread and answer any questions, but maybe not right away.
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Hi all,
During our open beta this week for FeedZeBirds.com, we discovered a bug in our Twitter advertising system. Twitter was rejecting retweets of some campaigns, because they contained URLs and special characters that Twitter counted as going over their 140 character limit.
This meant that some retweets were paid out, but never actually occurred (bad for the advertiser, no big deal for the tweeter).
We've resolved the issue now, and the paid missing retweets will be sent out automatically (so the advertisers will be made whole). As an additional compensation for the bug, we're funding the advertisers who this affected with .1 btc in their campaign as a little bonus.
Twitter users who had retweeted these missing ads will now see the ad appear in their timeline.
Our sincere apologies for the bug, and once again it's now fully resolved.
Regards,
-FeedZeBirds.com Team
P.S. For those who are curious, URLs now count as a minimum of 20 characters. We'd love to not bloat your URL lengths, but this is how twitter counts them.
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BTCinch is putting together some educational Bitcoin flyers to distribute at Occupy protests. Bruce Wagner will be teaching classes on Bitcoin at the NYC Occupy on Saturday mornings. We're hoping that these flyers will be a useful tool in the class, as they provide basic info as well as funds for the class to use for test transactions. The flyer will be split into three sections: Focus on P2P nature and Decentralization - Bitcoin recovery QR code/url
Student scans code, and is sent to recovery page for their Bitcoin - What to do with your Bitcoin
Highlight products/stores accepting Bitcoin. Bitmunchies is giving all protesters 20% off and donating 10BTC to the class fund. If any other merchants are willing to give the protesters a discount or donations, let us know! We have limited space, but would like to highlight a few (3?) different options. We could use help with this effort in a few different ways. We can use constructive input on text/images for the flyer. We can use help with classes and/or handing out flyers at Occupy movements. You can also donate Bitcoin to be attached to flyers in two ways. Donate via BTCinch: https://www.btcinch.com/sendbtc/?mkey=0cD%23Dxs0eXJLwL4u&curcy=BTCDonation address: 13eVavx6CVVynp2CBRk3wAbkKVmTGEsPm4 100% of the donated funds will be distributed at Occupy protests. If there are any unclaimed funds at the end of this effort, we'll donate them to the Bitcoin faucet. We're also looking for a way to get water and food to the protesters. If you are willing to help us distribute these, or donate helpful goods, please post here. We contacted Feed The Protest, but have not gotten a response yet. |
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
BTCinch.com is upgrading SSL Certs. The new cert (public key below) is correct. This should resolve some integration issues with third party apps.
Sincerely,
Ira Miller
Correct Public Key:
Modulus (2048 bits):
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E0 73 C4 0F 3C FF 1B 6D 7F E0 34 05 AC F0 2D 31
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64 DF FA 14 D3 6A 46 BE F3 86 9B B2 A7 0F 68 38
37 C5 4B 09 D3 49 87 A0 31 9A 55 42 8A 5E EF EE
4A F1 D4 D4 E8 26 E0 DB 9C 10 AB BD 56 48 62 9A
62 1E 43 6A 69 D8 FD DE 9F 5B B4 30 FE DC 34 14
7A 46 0E 46 8D 20 E8 CB B5 9E CD 1D 5B 58 B2 2D
30 51 BF B4 2E E5 84 08 1E 2B 90 E7 F1 9F 57 E1
B7 25 1A AA F1 11 82 1E BC 4F 28 53 1F B9 E3 E1
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1F F4 A2 50 0B 02 A3 22 19 B6 73 27 F7 5F A2 E3
4C 5C 27 D1 41 D8 52 B6 98 B8 3A 0D 6D CD E7 7C
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66 B5 B1 F0 F4 E6 28 8C 50 DA 63 57 FF 5B 0A 01
06 F4 05 62 9B 3F 0B A7 F1 D6 9D 65 F8 AD 86 5D
Public Exponent (24 bits):
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Hello, My name is Ira Miller, and I own a few bitcoin businesses. You can find information on them in my signature, and elsewhere on this forum. I have a wallet service called BTCinch. I am looking for input from new users, to improve our interface. If you are interested in wallet services, post here or PM me. I'll email you an invite and some free bitcoin. In return, all I ask is that you use the service a little and let me know if anything is amiss. |
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Bit Munchies LLC is proud to announce the launch of a new bitcoin merchant site: http://www.discretehydro.comDiscrete Hydroponics sells general hydroponics equipment for bitcoin. We carry complete hydro systems, ballasts, fans, lights, nutrients, pest control, reflectors, hoods, soil, and fertilizer. Discrete Hydroponics carries a number of top brands, and can handle custom orders from all major suppliers. Discrete Hydro - Exactly What Your Garden Needs |
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Hello everyone, It has been a while since I've been on the forum, but I wanted to publish a BTCinch update here. I'll answer the questions posed in the linked post, as well as provide a status update. Congratulations Ira on the launch of your new site! Excellent interview on OnlyOneTv. 1. what bank do you plan on using for ACH? 2. when you say you don't charge merchants for converting btwn BTC and USD how can you profitably do this given your immediate need to buy/sell via the exchanges? if BTC gets volatile again i would worry about you getting caught like the Madhatter did with eMansipator. http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8258.0;all3. do you plan on offering an online widget? 4. how can you legally act like a Dwolla or Paypal? 5. doesn't ACH limit you to US tx's? 6. how do you plan to transmit fiat cash to foreigners? wire, check? (Qs 2, 3) BTCinch does not charge transaction fees, but does charge a small conversion fee. I said on the show that the only fee in our service is the conversion rate, but that is incorrect. We will charge monthly fees for premium services (better exchange rate, invoicing tools, etc.). Basic accounts will be free to use, and we will monetize by taking a small percentage for converting BTC to USD. If you are a store or an individual and never convert BTC to USD or opt for premium services, BTCinch will be entirely free to use. We built a trade-bot which communicates and trades on multiple exchanges in near real-time. It is obviously impossible to always stay ahead of the market, but the bot has performed well for 7 weeks of testing. We'll continue to improve on it, and are confident that it will perform well. Through use of the BTCinch trade-bot, we manage our own market exposure, and protect against situations like Bitcoin4Cash encountered. Withdrawal Methods (Qs 1, 5, 6) BTCinch uses US Bank for our pooled USD account, and ACH transactions. We currently only send ACH transactions to the US, though I believe that Canadian banks also use ACH. We have plans to integrate withdrawal methods for other currencies, but are focusing on the US market for our launch. Legal (Q 4) BTCinch LLC is registered in Nevada, and we intend to follow all requirements to operate as a general money-services company. We have been assured that our current legal status is sufficient to operate as planned until we grow significantly larger. If you have any more legal questions about using BTCinch, PM me. Current StatusWe are pushing forward with live testing on a very aggressive schedule. The feedback and interest we received at the conference were incredible, and we're trying to take care of all of the requests before our new transaction server arrives in 2-3 weeks. Until the server is up, we are not recommending BTCinch for time-sensitive transactions, as there can be delays. We're working with various merchants to test and improve a variety of core services. A brief status update follows for each. In Person CheckoutReceived a ton of interest in our In Person Checkout system, and are setting up a few stores to try it out. We're ordering personalized, We Accept Bitcoin QR codes for those merchants helping us test. Expect to see these pop up around Denver and NYC over the next few weeks. osCommerce PluginWorking perfectly, and currently in use on bitmunchies.com. If it continues to behave well in testing, we'll release the code publicly on Oct. 1, 2011. Zen-cart PluginCompleted, and undergoing unit tests. If you requested to test our zen-cart plugin, please be patient a little longer. We've been busy dealing with the transaction server and the conference, so it isn't quite ready. I expect to send the plugin to our beta testers this week, and release the code publicly on Oct. 1, 2011. OpenCart PluginThe OpenCart plugin is under development, and should be ready for testing by Sept. 2nd. OpenCart is the most requested plugin, so we're prioritizing it. Hopefully, the volume of OpenCart transactions should shorten the test schedule, but it may be the second or third week of Oct. before we're ready to release it to the public. Magento PluginA Magento plugin is on the development schedule for next week. It should be ready for testing by Sept. 9th. If you have a site and are interested in helping us test one of the above options, let me know, and I'll send you the respective plugin. Time-lineAug. 29th - Sept. 9th integrate requests from conference, continue testing In Person Checkout, Zen-cart plugin, and osCommerce plugin. Release OpenCart and Magento plugins for beta testing. Sept. 12th - 23rd Set up production servers and cold-storage systems. Last stage required for launch. Sept. 26th - 30th Finish beta test phase and assess launch readiness. Oct. 1 Open registration to the public, and release plugin code. That answers most of the questions we've been receiving, but please respond with anything I missed. I will follow this topic, and provide updates here. Ira Miller CTO - BTCinch LLC |
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Soon, you'll be able to get all of your gardening supplies with bitcoin. The Grow StoreAs part of my ongoing bitcoin marketing campaign in Denver, I've been talking with The Grow Store about accepting bitcoins. The Grow Store is a local hydroponics store with two locations in the Denver metro area. They've got a huge selection of everything from nutrients and lights to timers, tents and ventilation systems. While they're not interested in accepting bitcoins for themselves, yet, they've agreed to resell their products. Discrete HydroAnd so discretehydro.com is born. Discrete Hydro will supply anything and everything you need for a top notch garden. Because The Grow Store has been generous enough to give us access to their entire inventory, we'll offer a vast (but still finite) selection from day 1. In return, all we ask is that you send us your bitcoin. Customers of Discrete Hydro can expect the same quality of service you've come to appreciate at bitmunchies.com. We are committed to customer satisfaction and privacy. Ask any of our customers! Sign me up!We should be launching in the next week or two. If you'd like to be notified when we launch, please leave your email address on the construction page at discretehydro.com. Happy gardening, Ira Miller bearbones.usbimunchies.comP.S. If you live around Denver, we'd highly recommend visiting The Grow Store. I can personally vouch for their expertise, quality products and great prices. |
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Hello, Some of you may be familiar with Bitmunchies. We provide food and other staples in return for bitcoin. In the past, we have sent orders to Germany, Austria, Finland, and other EU countries. I would like to let you know, that our website can now handle these orders automatically. You no longer need to email and wait for an estimate on shipping. Simply check out as you normally would, and you will receive a shipping estimate. We welcome your business, in this exciting, global market. Sincerely, Ira Miller bitmunchies.com bearbones.us Please let us know if you encounter any issues with the checkout process: contact form. |
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Добрый день, Некоторые из вас могут быть знакомы с Bitmunchies. Мы предлагаем продукты питания и другие скобы в обмен на Bitcoin. В прошлом, мы отправили заказов в Германии, Австрии, Финляндии и других странах ЕС. Я хотел бы, чтобы вы знали, что наш сайт теперь может обрабатывать эти заказы автоматически. Вам больше не нужно послать по электронной почте и ждать оценки на доставку. Просто проверить, как обычно, и Вы получите доставку оценку. Мы приветствуем ваш бизнес, в этом захватывающем, глобального рынка. спасибо, Ира Миллер Пожалуйста, дайте нам знать, если у вас возникнут проблемы с оформлять заказ: контактную форму. Я взял русского языка в средней школе, но я забыл. Полегче на меня! |
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Hallo, Einige von euch kennen vielleicht schon Bitmunchies. Wir bieten Lebensmittel, Softdrinks und andere Kleinigkeiten für Bitcoins zum Kauf an. Wir haben in der Vergangenheit schon erfolgreich Lieferungen nach Deutschland, Österreich, Finnland und in andere EU Staaten versandt. Aufgrund der großen Nachfrage wurde unser Backend erweitert und nimmt nun automatisch internationale Aufträge entgegen - das heißt, man muss nicht mehr wie bisher auf eine manuelle Bestätigungsmail warten, sondern bekommt einfach am Ende des Bestellvorgangs die Versandkosten mitgeteilt. Wir freuen uns schon auf euren Einkauf auf http://www.bitmunchies.com/! Ira Miller http://www.bitmunchies.comhttp://www.bearbones.usSollten wider Erwarten Probleme auftreten könnt ihr hier (bitte auf Englisch) mit uns Kontakt aufnehmen: http://www.bitmunchies.com/contact_us.php[EDIT]Fixed a few errors, and described our services better. Thanks to Sukrim for the translation help![/EDIT] |
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