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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / What to do when MTGOX gets shut down ? Are we ready for coincalypse ?

on: April 20, 2012, 05:29:15 PM

It is quite obvious that in (maximum) few years some of world's Governments are going to start perceiving Bitcoin as a threat. When they do, first thing they are going to try is closing the biggest players (like MtGox, which allegedly is reponsible for 80% of all BTC trade in the world) to force the currency into underground. Taking megaupload takedown into consideration this scenario is IMHO not only probable, but inevitable. I wonder, is the market decentralized enough currently to support transition from big players to smaller, local markets ? I mean, shouldn't we all support different (other than MtGox) services so when government shuts it down, devastating effects of the catastrophe will be smaller ? Government will try to stop Bitcoin, that is only a matter of time. We kind of already know that is going to happen since the beginnings, so why so many people are still using MtGox ?

Other / Politics & Society / Most of influential IT companies support SOPA 2, what to do about it ?

on: April 08, 2012, 11:02:37 PM

Quote from: http://intelligence.house.gov/bill/cyber-intelligence-sharing-and-protection-act-2011 See what major US corporations and business associations have to say about the new bipartisan 'Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011' Letters in Support AT&T Boeing BSA Business Roundtable CSC COMPTEL CTIA - The Wireless Association Cyber, Space & Intelligence Association Edison Electric EMC Exelon Facebook The Financial Services Roundtable IBM Independent Telephone & Telecommunications Alliance Information Technology Industry Council Intel Internet Security Alliance Lockheed Martin Microsoft National Cable & Telecommunications Association NDIA Oracle Symantec TechAmerica US Chamber of Commerce US Telecom - The Broadband Association Verizon So unless some serious event on a massive scale happens, we're doomed. Are people of the world going to become slaves of a new generation of world-wide fascism ? The future doesn't seem very bright for personal freedoms. Can anything at all be done about it ? Will we be telling our children that once wa had the thing called "internet" where everybody could share stuff and communicate freely ?

Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Apple, Nokia, RIM Provide Backdoor To Governments on their devices

on: January 08, 2012, 05:58:53 PM

Leaked Memo Says Apple, Nokia, RIM Provide Backdoor To Governments ...so think again if you plan to use Bitcoin on your IPhone. http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/01/08/069204/leaked-memo-says-apple-provides-backdoor-to-governments http://www.zdnet.com/blog/india/have-rim-nokia-apple-provided-indian-military-with-backdoor-access-to-cellular-comm/838 Quote from: http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/01/08/069204/leaked-memo-says-apple-provides-backdoor-to-governments "In a tweet early this morning, cybersecurity researcher Christopher Soghoian pointed to an internal memo of India's Military Intelligence that has been liberated by hackers and posted on the Net. The memo suggests that, "in exchange for the Indian market presence" mobile device manufacturers, including RIM, Nokia, and Apple (collectively defined in the document as "RINOA") have agreed to provide backdoor access on their devices. The Indian government then "utilized backdoors provided by RINOA" to intercept internal emails of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a U.S. government body with a mandate to monitor, investigate and report to Congress on 'the national security implications of the bilateral trade and economic relationship' between the U.S. and China. Manan Kakkar, an Indian blogger for ZDNet, has also picked up the story and writes that it may be the fruits of an earlier hack of Symantec. If Apple is providing governments with a backdoor to iOS, can we assume that they have also done so with Mac OS X?"

Bitcoin / Project Development / Excellent article about Bitcoin's future by Genjix on BM

on: December 25, 2011, 03:05:52 AM

There is a new awesome article about Bitcoin on BitcoinMedia. (A little TL;DR though) Quote from: http://bitcoinmedia.com/the-future-cannot-exist-without-the-past/ We are on the verge of revolution. A revolution that will make the industrial revolution seem trivial. We stand at the focus, the cumulation, the precipice, of a fundamental re-thinking of our shared social fabric. Actions today will reverberate for centuries. Technologies like bitcoin evince prophecy. (...) To create a computer program, programmers write in a special language called a programming language. This programming language is a halfway point between the ambiguous world of human language and the highly mathematical world of machine language. This code they write is termed sourcecode. If I wish to understand how a program works or make modifications to it, then I must have access to this code. This source code was shared freely between developers. Source code has the unique property of being free to redistribute, free to manufacture into software and of being highly reusable across many projects. By mixing and matching pieces of software across projects, developers created a new world in cyber space. Tools to write, edit music, solve math, discover science and create art. (...) We stated before, the 3 principles underlying the hacker movement online; privacy, anti-authority and transparency. One particular sub-group within this movement are crypto-anarchists. Using cryptography, the idea is to enforce privacy by encrypting communications protecting personal privacy and making them impossible to eavesdrop on by authority. My congratulations, Genjix ! //BTW, Before somebody asks, I was not asked/told/paid/forced/whatever by Genjix to write this post. //I just noticed it fits this forum, so here ya go.

Other / Politics & Society / USA, land of the "free"

on: December 20, 2011, 10:43:55 PM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/30/jefferson-memorial-dancing-arrests_n_868719.html Quote from: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/30/jefferson-memorial-dancing-arrests_n_868719.html U.S. Park Police arrested five people on Saturday at the Jefferson Memorial. Their offense? Dancing. The dancers were protesting an appeals court ruling handed down last week that the national monuments are places for reflection and contemplation -- and that dancing distracted from such an experience. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWeF6lwg4aY

Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / The world is ruled by total of 147 large corporations

on: October 24, 2011, 07:11:13 PM

I will just leave this here... Quote from: http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1542240/the-147-corporations-controlling-most-of-the-global-economy "Researchers at the Swiss Federal Technology Institute in Zurich have identified a 'Capitalist Network' [PDF] of well-connected companies that control most of the global economy. They further identified the 147 'super-connected' companies that control forty percent or more of the global financial network. If one believes the mega-corporations have most governments of the west in their pockets, does this mean we have a global oligarchy?" Quote from: http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1107/1107.5728v2.pdf Abstract The structure of the control network of transnational corporations aﬀects global market com- petition and ﬁnancial stability. So far, only small national samples were studied and there was no appropriate methodology to assess control globally. We present the ﬁrst investigation of the architecture of the international ownership network, along with the computation of the control held by each global player. We ﬁnd that transnational corporations form a giant bow-tie struc- ture and that a large portion of control ﬂows to a small tightly-knit core of ﬁnancial institutions. This core can be seen as an economic “super-entity” that raises new important issues both for researchers and policy makers. Introduction A common intuition among scholars and in the media sees the global economy as being domi- nated by a handful of powerful transnational corporations (TNCs) (...) http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/1542240/the-147-corporations-controlling-most-of-the-global-economy http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1107/1107.5728v2.pdf

Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / [bitcoind] Transaction fees: One annoying shit i have stumbled upon

on: September 22, 2011, 12:40:15 PM

Hello, While developing a bitcoin-related app, i have stumbled upon some seriously annoying shit. The problem is that apparently, using the default client's bitcoind, there is currently no way to determine what the transaction fee is going to be, before sending money ! (So i could, for example, tell the user how much will he be paying BEFORE he sends the money). Should there be a method in the API like "checksendtransactionfees <address> <amount>" ? Can somebody correct me please if am I wrong here?

Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / [ANN] Bitcoin "No Forced TX Fee" 0.3.24 avaiable

on: July 10, 2011, 03:05:57 PM

In case of some of you are using my little "No Forced TX Fee" branch, I have updated it to the latest version, merging back all the changes from the mainline client. https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/ FYI, since I don't copy/merge back tags from the original client, to get exact 0.3.24 code please use the "nftf-0.3.24" branch instead, avaiable here: https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/tree/nftf-0.3.24 Trunk contains latest trunk source like in the original client, not 0.3.24.

Economy / Trading Discussion / [SOLVED] MtGox isn't SCAM. "An email has been sent to your address"

on: June 29, 2011, 04:52:53 PM

Quote Mt.Gox Account recovery service Step 1/2: Identify your account An email has been sent to your address with further instructions. This is all i get after trying to recover one of my accounts with 125 Bitcoins on it. I was trying this form for about 50 times already, and i STILL get no email at all (i have a GMAIL address). So my question is: WTF is going on here ? Anybody got similiar experiences ?

Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / [UPDATE: 2015-05-10] Bitcoin Core soft-fork "No Forced TX Fee" v0.10.1 available

on: June 25, 2011, 03:14:24 PM

Warning: Only use this fork if you know what you are doing. Otherwise, there is a low probability that some coins sent without a fee will be ~~lost~~ stuck in a limbo and difficult to recover. Read details below. ------------------- 2013-03-24 WARNING !! PLEASE NOTE THAT UNTIL MAX BLOCK SIZE PROBLEM HAS BEEN SOLVED BY DEVELOPERS, SOME FREE (WITHOUT FEE) TRANSACTIONS CREATED BY THIS FORK MAY CONFIRM VERY SLOWLY OR NEVER. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED, THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION. ------------------- Okay, here we go. So as I promised, I created the "NFTF" (short of No Forced TX Fee) section on Github. This isn't going to be anything big & professional, just few lines of code changed comparing to the standard client. I did it, because i was unsatisfied with standard client forcing people to pay fees, even when they are not necessary at all. I wrote many complaints about this on multiple topics on this forum, and for unknown reasons the main developers do not want either to remove this broken algorithm, or to improve it. Mining cartel ? CIA-related conspiracy ? Who knows & Who cares. I don't know and I don't care so I am going my own way. So here you are. Full list of branches & tags is avaiable here: Code: https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/tags https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/branches Branches contain code of older versions (from 0.3.21 to 0.3.24). Tags contain newer versions, 0.4.0 and up. ---------------- Warning: Use this fork with following precautions (the same as if you would use mainline client v0.3.20 version): - Make sure you get at least 7 confirmations first when resending the money without a fee. - Sending small amounts (< 0.01) without any fee may be risky. - Include a fee when sending money received from a lot of inputs. ---------------- 2011-09-22 Update: Today I have merged back the commit from trunk which fixes an unfairly high fees that have to be paid to the miners sometimes due to a bug re-introduced in 0.3.24. For details see the discussion here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=45259.0 The patch is/will be already present in 0.4x version of official client, but i have also merged it back into 0.3.21, 0.3.22, 0.3.23 and 0.3.24 versions - for people who like to use older and more tested apps. https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/commits/nftf-0.3.21 https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/commits/nftf-0.3.22 https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/commits/nftf-0.3.23 (that version already contained the patch) https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/commits/nftf-0.3.24 If you have used trunk version, it already contained the patch, merged back from official client. https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/ Enjoy your no-unnecessary-fee transactions ! As always, wait for at least 7 confirmations before re-sending money so you lower the risk of transaction not being accepted by the network. ---------------- 2011-09-24 Update: NFTF - version 0.4.0 released. Also: - Removed all the messy git tags merged previously from the mailine client - Created new, clean tag for NFTF-0.4.0 - Minor cosmetic changes in comments So from now on, code will be organized in tags, not versions - as it should be from the beginning. 0.4.0 code is avaiable in the tag: https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/tree/nftf-v0.4.0/ And trunk code is avaiable from the trunk, as always. I usually only update it on major version changes or important features/bugfixes, so don't expect me to keep up with mainstream client developers all the time. Trunk: https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/tree/ Also, i have performed few tests, sending back and forth small amounts of BTC (0.01) having only 2 confirmations, and it seems that my fork is stable enough for the payments to get confirmed easily (up to 2 hours) without using any fees. ---------------- 2011-12-03 Update: NFTF - version 0.5.0 released. A fresh tag - nftf-v0.5.0 is avaiable for download. https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/tags Trunk code was also updated: https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/tree/ ---------------- 2012-01-07 Update: NFTF - version 0.5.1 released. A fresh tag - nftf-v0.5.1 is avaiable for download. https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/tags Trunk code has also been merged back: https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/tree/ ---------------- 2012-02-12 Update: NFTF - versions 0.5.2 & 0.6.0rc1 released. NOTE: From now on i will also include release candidate (rc) tags in my fork. Fresh tags - nftf-v0.5.2, nftf-v0.6.0rc1 are avaiable for download. https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/tags Trunk code has also been merged back: https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/tree/ ---------------- 2012-03-21 Update: NFTF - version 0.5.3.1 [critical security vulnerability hotfix] released. Fresh tag - nftf-v0.5.3.1 is avaiable for download. https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/tags More updates (other tags, trunk) should follow soon. ---------------- 2012-03-25 Update: NFTF tags for mainline client versions v0.5.3rc1, v0.5.3rc2, v0.5.3rc3, v0.5.3rc4, v0.5.4rc1, v0.6.0rc2, v0.6.0rc3, v0.6.0rc4 released. https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/tags Trunk/master has also been fully updated to the latest mainline version. ---------------- 2012-05-08 Update: NFTF - versions 0.6.0.7/0.6.1 & 0.6.2 released. Fresh tags -are avaiable for download as usual. https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/tags Trunk code has also been merged from mainline client: https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/tree/ ---------------- 2012-08-15 Update: NFTF - version 0.6.3 released. Fresh tags - nftf-v0.6.3, nftf-v0.6.2.1 are avaiable for download. https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/tags Also, I may be making a new repo with Gentoo ebuilds avaiable soon, since I am creating them anyway for my Gentoo. So stay tuned. ---------------- 2012-11-04 Update: NFTF - versions 0.7.0 & 0.7.1 released. Fresh tags - nftf-v0.7.0, nftf-v0.7.1 are avaiable for download. https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/tags ---------------- 2013-01-27 Update: NFTF - version 0.7.2 released. Fresh tag - nftf-v0.7.2 is avaiable for download. https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/tags MASTER branch was also updated to latest Bitcoin version: https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf ---------------- 2013-03-24 Update: NFTF - version 0.8.0, 0.8.1 released. Fresh tags - nftf-v0.8.0, nftf-v0.8.1 are avaiable for download. https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/tags MASTER branch was also updated to latest Bitcoin version: https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf ---------------- 2013-06-23 Update: NFTF - version 0.8.2 released. Fresh tag - nftf-v0.8.2 is avaiable for download. https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/tags ---------------- 2013-08-19 Update: NFTF - version 0.8.3 released. Fresh tag - nftf-v0.8.3 is avaiable for download. https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/tags MASTER branch was also updated to latest Bitcoin version: https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf ---------------- 2013-10-07 Update: NFTF - versions 0.8.4, 0.8.5 released. Fresh tag - nftf-v0.8.4, nftf-v0.8.5 is avaiable for download. https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/tags MASTER branch was also updated to latest Bitcoin version: https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf ---------------- 2014-01-26 Update: NFTF - version 0.8.6 released. Fresh tag - nftf-v0.8.6 is avaiable for download. https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/tags MASTER branch was updated to the last tag (0.8.6). ---------------- 2014-06-01 Update: NFTF - versions 0.9.0 & 0.9.1 released. Fresh tags - nftf-v0.9.0, nftf-v0.9.0 are avaiable for download. https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/tags MASTER branch was updated to the newest tag (0.9.1). ---------------- 2014-08-10 Update: NFTF - versions 0.9.2 & 0.9.2.1 released. Fresh tags - nftf-v0.9.2, nftf-v0.9.2.1 are avaiable for download. https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/tags MASTER branch was updated to the newest version (0.9.2.1). ---------------- 2014-10-05 Update: NFTF - version 0.9.3 released. Fresh tag - nftf-v0.9.3 is avaiable for download. https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/tags MASTER branch was updated to the newest version (0.9.3). ---------------- 2015-05-10 Update: NFTF - versions 0.10.0 & 0.10.1 released. Fresh tags - nftf-v0.10.0, nftf-v0.10.1 are avaiable for download. https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/tags https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/archive/nftf-v0.10.1.tar.gz https://github.com/ShadowOfHarbringer/bitcoin-nftf/archive/nftf-v0.10.0.tar.gz MASTER branch was updated to the newest tag (0.10.1).

Economy / Economics / Bitcoin 50x parity. When will 1BTC=50 USD? Vote!

on: June 02, 2011, 03:10:20 PM

OK, so we broke 10 USD barrier ! The old poll is no longer valid, let's move on. It's time to vote for the next one.

Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / [FEATURE REQUEST/BUG REPORT] Limit maximum number of connections to X

on: May 24, 2011, 01:13:52 PM

Hello, I'm having theoretically unimportant but practically problematic small problem with the main bitcoin client: it produces too many connections to external clients and clogs up my bandwidth. On my 2Mbit broadband home connection, after the client passes 100 connections, most of webpages becomes unreachable. Yeah, i know it is a weak broadband because it becomes clogged easily, but still. (For bittorrent it usually takes about 150 connections to fill the pipe up) I would like to propose adding "-max-connections=X" command line argument and/or "max-connections=X" directive to bitcoin.conf. ---- EDIT: It seems that actually it is UPnP support in the client that causes this. So this is more of a [BUG REPORT] than ft. request .

Economy / Marketplace / Btcex.com down, but trades still on bitcoincharts.com ?

on: May 15, 2011, 08:08:25 PM

I am confused. When i go to http://btcex.com, it says that the site is closed. But the courses still dynamically change on here: http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/ Can somebody explain WTF is going on ?

Other / Off-topic / "The war is over and Linux has won" - says Linux foundation CEO

on: April 06, 2011, 06:19:54 AM

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/04/05/2243209/Bashing-MS-Like-Kicking-a-Puppy-Says-Jim-Zemlin http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/040511-linux-vs-microsoft.html?hpg1=bn Quote from: http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/04/05/2243209/Bashing-MS-Like-Kicking-a-Puppy-Says-Jim-Zemlin "Two decades after Linus Torvalds developed his famous operating system kernel, the battle between Linux and Microsoft is over and Linux has won, says Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin. With the one glaring exception of the desktop computer, Linux has outpaced Microsoft in nearly every market, including server-side computing and mobile, Zemlin claims. 'I think we just don't care that much [about Microsoft] anymore,' Zemlin said. 'They used to be our big rival, but now it's kind of like kicking a puppy.' From Android and the Amazon Kindle to embedded devices, consumer electronics and the world's largest websites and supercomputers, 'Linux has come to dominate almost every category of computing, with the exception of the desktop,' Zemlin argues as Linux approaches its 20th anniversary." We won ! Let's now make a new goal: Making entire human civilization be run by geeks, and make the official currency Bitcoin ! Open Source won with Microsoft, so it is clear that Bitcoin can defeat FED & fiat money system The next era of human civilization will be a geek era !!

Bitcoin / Project Development / Slashdot again today. Prepare for onslaught & Rally mode !

on: March 23, 2011, 01:43:29 PM

We hit slashdot again today, prepare for the worst (best) : http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/23/0210207/Google-Engineer-Releases-Open-Source-Bitcoin-Client It also contains link to a nice interview with Gavin Andresen: http://www.cio.com.au/article/380394/open_source_identity_bitcoin_technical_lead_gavin_andresen/ I guess another rally is ahead of us (looking at MtGox's charts - I would say it already started).

Bitcoin / Project Development / Wikipedia polish translation 100% completed

on: March 20, 2011, 09:14:29 PM

I am happy to announce that i have completed translation of the english wiki article to polish some time ago. http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin Donations are welcome, of course. 1NLWBAD7ZD82fJDDawKfp5RAKSR8YWWYd3 (You can confirm that 99% edits are mine, because i my wiki nickname is the same as on this forum) ------------- Z przyjemnością ogłaszam, że zakończyłem translację angielskiego artykułu na wiki na polski jakiś czas temu. http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin Dotacje są miło widziane, oczywiście. 1NLWBAD7ZD82fJDDawKfp5RAKSR8YWWYd3 (Można potwierdzić, że 99% edycji jest moich, ponieważ mój nick na wiki jest taki sam jak na tym forum)

Bitcoin / Project Development / Top reasons why bitcoin is awesome (or "killer feature list")

on: March 11, 2011, 01:08:55 PM

I just had an idea to write down all "killer-features" of Bitcoin in one place, so it can be used later to advertise it, or convince people to use Bitcoin. Rules: Every "feature" has to be a sentence and have max 24 words in it. 1. Governments cannot control Bitcoin. 2. Using Bitcoin, you can earn money by keeping them in a safe. 3. With Bitcoin, you are your own bank. 4. No one (and no government) can tax Bitcoin users using inflation. 5. With Bitcoin, tomorrow's pizza will always cost less than today's pizza. 6. Thanks to Bitcoin, for the first time in history you can have monetary value without any government stealing it from you. [by noagendamarket]. 7. Using Bitcoin, you don't have to trust any middlemen when transfering money. 8. Bitcoin protects you from instability caused by central banks. 9. Bitcoin is an open-source project and everything about it is transparent, so you can easily audit it & trust it. 10. Bitcoin allows cheap and easy international funds transfers [by ColdHardMetal]. 11. With Bitcoins, you don't need to pay commissions for transactions [by mico] 12. The Bitcoin payment network never has downtime [by mndrix] 13. Bitcoin payments are not subject to fraudulent chargebacks [by mndrix] 14. With Bitcoins, nobody can restrict you in the way you want to spend your money. [by genjix] 15. Using Bitcoins, you can send money to anybody in any country without any border limitations. [by genjix] 16. With Bitcoin, money you own are only yours and are stored on your computer, nobody else owns or keeps them. [by genjix] 17. Using Bitcoin, you are your own master and you can be truly independent. [by genjix] 18. Bitcoin revolutionizes the way artists/producers can earn on the internet by allowing cheap & easy microtransactions. [by genjix] 19. Bitcoin gives you the ability to easily send somebody some money when they need it, no matter where they are. [by theGECK] 20. Bitcoin just works [by vladimir] 21. Using Bitcoin, you can make fully autonomous payment handling code with zero-dependency on third-party APIs. [by forever-d] 22. Bitcoin makes it possible to become rich without becoming famous. [by forever-d] 23. The divorce lawyer may take your house, but he will never get his hands on your Bitcoins.[by forever-d] 24. You don't have to trust Bitcoin, because you can verify it yourself. [by forever-d] 25. Your Bitcoins won't be gone once you get out of prison. [by forever-d] 26. Bitcoin makes banks useless. [by grondilu] 27. The price of a bitcoin is the price of freedom. [by Sedo] 28. Bitcoin is the 2.0 version of gold standard. [by nofuture] 29. Bitcoin could be the next forex market [by johnieeliang] ------------- Please write down new ideas in replies, i will add them to the list. In a month, I will make a multi-selection poll to choose the best ones.

Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Bigger "B" versions of Bitcoin logotypes [Fixed - working image server]

on: March 09, 2011, 08:06:42 PM

Hello, These are bigger "B" versions (done by me) of bitboy's BTC logotypes licensed on public domain. Links from the old thread stopped working because they were supposed to be freely-downloadable, but somebody (not me) mistakenly placed them behind a paywall instead. This work is in the Public Domain. (Only the biggest one is a little blurred, because at the time i lacked a SVG version to stretch it to any resolution, the others are OK) Enjoy. Also, please do not hotlink as this is my private site. Please right-click & select "save picture as" or something. If you like them, don't hesitate to donate a small amount of BTC to 1LZUUGcEPZiiTLvEtqT3MXgcojGMZuNq1w, or to original author's address. EDIT: ---------- The original thread with "smaller B" versions of the logotypes by bitboy is here: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1631.0

Economy / Marketplace / How do you see MtGox (objective/neutral, not rigged poll)

on: March 05, 2011, 03:43:07 PM

This is a new, better poll created because the previous one was ridiculously rigged: ( See http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4065.msg60298#msg60298 ) The questions are balanced so there is the same number of negative and positive answers.

Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / A network lag around 19:25 GMT today ?

on: February 26, 2011, 07:32:31 PM

Has anybody except me noticed a network slowdown about 3 minutes long around 19:25 GMT today (26.02) ? In that time my new transactions sent from both MyBitcoin and MTGOX didn't show up (even as unconfirmed) in client's list, and were not present in block explorer, which is weird because usually they appear withing seconds after i click "Send payment" on MyBitcoin. I wonder if anything serious (like DDoS) was happening, or was it just mybitcoin & mtgox's lag.

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