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Wieder mal gibt es eine neue Folge des Bitcoinupdates. Andreas+Andreas unterhalten sich ca 38 Minuten darüber was sich in der Welt von Bitcoin getan hat - und streuen dabei eine gute Portion persönliche Meinung ein. http://bitcoinupdate.com/index.php?id=27Wie immer freuen wir uns über eure Mails an feedback -a- bitcoinupdate.com. Danke an Levin Keller für das wertvolle Feedback. Wenn ihr automatisch über neue Folgen Bescheid bekommen wollt abonniert unseren RSS feed. - Link auf der Homepage http://bitcoinupdate.comDie Themen diesmal: - SEC verklagt Pirateat40 - Troubles mit Mtgox - Troubles mit Bitinstant - Paypal verbietet Bitcoin Hardware - Block erupter billiger - O'Reilly Buch über Bitcoin - Gavin schlägt 2-Faktor für Wallets vor - Interview mit Fidor Bank * mit erratum - Währungsbalance im Wandel - Inside bitcoins conference |
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Hallo! Hast du Interesse an den USB ASIC Minern? Wir machen eine Bestellung zum Selbstkostenpreis. Trage dich einfach in diesem Formular ein: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JntLdV_3wio8sZ3hrIRlg7CwENTnAvD9R1FwEwVTlnM/viewformDie Liste ist nicht öffentlich, da sie email-adressen enthält. 130-161 der 300 Geräte von 13 Bestellern sind schon eingetragen. Das Ziel ist es sie auch gleich anzuschließen und das nur funktionsfähige Geräte mit nach Hause genommen werden. Primär sprechen wir Leute an, die das Gerät selbst abholen. Derzeit mögliche Orte: Wien, Graz, Bratislava. Möchte jemand per Versand daran teilnehmen, erhöhen sich die Kosten entsprechend (Material, Versand). Das Mindestlimit für Versand sind außerdem 10 Geräte. |
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lets assume the following scenario:
attacker connects to all miners directly.
constructs transaction with very healthy fee (0.01 btc) and 1 dust input + multiple fat inputs. outputs all back to him.
now he sends those directly to all miners. they may or may not relay it. but they will propably accept it to their memory pool to collect the fee on the next block.
now Mr. Attacker goes and pays at a merchant or digital download / vending machine.
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the merchants sees the 0-conf TX and thinks it is ok. but in fact the inputs are conflicting with the 1st transaction.
previously this fact would be known quite fast because the original transaction would have flooded the network already and all merchants would have rejected it instantly. but now, he has no way of knowing that the conflicting transaction is already sitting in all miners memorypools and on the next block he will have a bad surprise!
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Our stroke of bad luck continues.
I just checked the Mozilla Location and they are closed down totally (the lady at the reception told me)
So our options for tomorrow are:
Get an official slot at the London Hackspace
the tourist agency recommended to us:
Pubs have sometimes larger rooms willing to give away during the day if we consume something
get a conferernce room at a hotel
pascal and i will do a pubcrawl looking for a possibility.
if you know any place in london for up to 9 bitcoin people who want to code for a day and maybe a halv please let us know.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdDvfCvxIw8#t=1606sQ: Do you see any events on the horizon that teachers should be aware of and ready to talk with students about? Ben Bernake: ... You can explain what a Bankrun is. The whole show the FRB uploaded to youtube is really awkward. Ben Bernanke is posing with teachers to give him some kind of down-to-earth reputation. A minute later at 29:00 you can see listeners sleeping while BSB goes on with his speech.
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is something going on? why is there so much thread necro'ing?
conspiracy theory: is there something important that someone wants not attention on? thread necroing is a common technique when trying to control a forum
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So here is my guess:
Pirate was approached by "big players" that they want to invest USD in Bitcoin, but without moving the market.
They are committed to buy whatever amount he offers them, as long as the price stays low.
Pirate needs Bitcoins for two reasons:
1 - he sells them for a defined rate to the big players most likely at a high premium
2 - he uses bitcoins at strategic moments when the rate goes too high to create askwalls to push the price down gently. hopefully for him he does not actually sell them.
then he uses his USD to cover his expenses to pay the interest
their hope may be to aquire a significant amount of bitcoins without overpaying. and doing it that way it may actually work.
So my guess is, as long as the bitcoin rate stays relatively low his lending scheme will go on. once the price reaches his pain point (maybe 10 USD/BTC) he will start to unwind the loans and maybe even repay the lenders (or keep all the precious bitcoins himself). in my theory it could very well end with a drastic bitcoin rate increase which could spark another mania.
is this a possibility? is there any evidence which falsifies this theory?
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A somewhat gold-centric blog/site featuring a Bitcoin-laden Article by Detlev Schlichter, our beloved austrian economist and author of "Paper Money Collapse". That book is sitting right here on my desk waiting to be read. http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com/the-death-of-banks-and-the-future-of-money/A very good take on bitcoin from a macroeconomic viewpoint, full of praise. Go read it ! |
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With Julian Assange, Jacob Appelbaum, Andy Müller-Maguhn, Jeremie Zimmermann http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DQghUChYtkThe discussion ist for a large parts about the dominance of the payments industry. at 8:05 [...] just the same as the architecture of the financial system. and what the Cypherpunks wanted to do was to create systems where we could compensate each other in a truly free way where it was not possible to interfere - and with financial issues it is the most dangerous thing to be working on. I mean there is a reason the creator of Bitcoin did so anonymously. |
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Bitstamp, a nice solid exchange located in europe was having a solid steady growth. recently this happened:  apparently some bitcoiners are switching to this exchange. i can understand why. very low fees and good legal standing in europe. what is still missing is some more market depth. |
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We are preparing a position paper regarding bitcoin which we plan to distribute to european politicans. one of the reasons for this was : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=77311.0currently only industry expert from banks, credit cards are represented in this forum, and we hope that the opinions from the bitcoin community will also be heard there. so please tell me your ideas. we will let you know when we have finished the first draft of this document. |
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