I propose to make national sections of the forum. As a minimum, the Russian section is ripe.

I can envision a pleasant marriage between Progress Quest and the bitcoin client.  (http://www.progressquest.com/)

I always check it like a junkie to see if I've generated a block.  Why not have something interesting to look at when I open the client?

I am new here and I must say this idea looks interesting.I have just set up a  classified ad site and was wondering if it could be used  as a place for people to post things they want to sell using the new currency.It doesnt have a default currency or country setting so you could use any one you like.Would anyone be interested in using such a site?It is free to post if you want an alternative to craigslist .I would like to set up an auction site as well in future.I hope my node is up and contributing soon.I have a crappy old laptop so I hope it is viable for me.Once again,hello to everyone . 

I see that there is a new client available which has a few updates. Can I just install the exe over the current one without any loss of data? (I plan to backup everything before doing it just in case)

I couldn't find a thread or FAQ on upgrading, just the changelog itself.

Thanks.

Imagine, you've managed to get your own sovereign island of around 100 sq.km. If you do nothing extremely objectionable, the sovereign nations of the world won't bother you. No one protects you against pirates. You are not prevented from buying arms from international dealers, but no one considers you big enough to actually try to make a sale. You have exhausted your cash in buying the  island and have enough money to feed your family for around 2 years only, left with you.

Assume that you have hot weather, but plenty of water.

Design your government and tax system. (Anarchy, minarchy, actual signed social contract, townhall democracy, etc)

Design your monetary system. (A new fork off bitcoin, bitcoin itself, modified peer to peer currency, Gold, etc.)

Significant variations from today's laws that you want to note (intellectual property, personhood laws, etc.)

Any other individual quirks you'd like to add ( Entry for hot girls only, Everyone speaks a new language, anything that strikes your fancy)

What would you do to convince productive people around the world that they will be better off if they come to your little island compared to wherever they are living right now?

Hi everyone, so I've been looking into Bitcoins for about a week now and was wondering, which Bitcoin miner came first? I've already done the basic googling and searched the forum for it, but no answer, so I'm starting a thread.

As I understand it, Bitcoin miners are the programmes that are adding to the block chain, then the Bitcoin client checks the blockchain for validity etc. I don't know if the miners check the blockchain too, but that's not entirely relevant. So, if its only the 'miners' that are adding to the blockchain, to start the blockchain, one of them must have come first/been developed by bitcoin.org. Which one?

I sent this to Barack Obama's e-mail. After being amazed by my plan he forwarded it to our friend Tim (Geithner) who is now looking like he may stick around a few more years with this brilliant new theory on debt. No promises folks, but I wanted to get a wide cross section of the American public to see their reaction to our my plan. Unfortunately, many Americans find the idea difficult to grasp and so we are experiencing low ratings... Those that do grasp it have given incredibly negative responses thinking we would ask them to do the same, and we will, as a benefit to society. Our Utopia will eminently come in the American domain!

Interested in a bitcoin funded kickstarter like clone for disruptive direct actions. For example, crowdsourced bounties could be offered (10 bitcoin to each person that drops a banner that says "XXX" off a major highway overpass and gets it on the news) or people could offer actions to bidders (Fund my project for 1000 bitcoins and I will hack into this major corporate website and put your message there) Sky is the limit. Do people remember the old rtmark site?

Hello, I just started using BAMT yesterday and finally got it working but am not getting the hash rate I would like. Below I have attached my cgminer.config file that I have been tweaking with for a while and has not changed my hash rate at all really. I am trying to mine scrypt/LTC and says on cgminer I am only get 0.41 Mhash which is only about 300-400 khash. I tried to overclock the GPU in the cgminer. config file but on the BAMT web dashboard it shows no overclock to the core or memory, but when I go into overdrive and change the settings then it changes on the web dashboard but when I close overdrive it says settings could not be applied and they obviously are not because the hash rate is still low. If anyone has any suggestions or if I should just not use BAMT anymore that would be great, before I was guiminer-scrypt with 690 khash which is nothing special but is better than what I am getting now. I did also edit the bamt config file and pools but I do not know that they are right, I am assuming the low hash rate is because of an overclock config issue but I have not been using cgminer for longer than a day and need some help, Thanks!


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      "url" : "stratum+tcp://stratum.give-me-ltc.com:3333",
      "user" : "",
      "pass" : ""
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      "url" : "",
      "user" : "",
      "pass" : ""
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"auto-fan" : true,
"auto-gpu" : true,
"temp-cutoff" : "84",
"temp-overheat" : "81",
"temp-target" : "77",
"gpu-fan" : "0-100",
"intensity" : "13",
"vectors" : "1",
"worksize" : "256",
"kernel" : "scrypt",
"lookup-gap" : "2",
"thread-concurrency" : "8192" ,
"shaders" : "0",
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "120",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-platform" : "0",
"gpu-threads" : "2",
"gpu-engine" : "1000,1000,1000",
"gpu-memclock" : "1500",
"gpu-powertune" : "20",
"log" : "5",
"no-pool-disable" : true,
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "60",
"scrypt" : true,
"shares" : "0",
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Going to be posting designs in here if anyone wants them:
Black T-shirt - "In crypto we trust"
Mug
..more to come! Cheesy

Half the earning will go to skull88, who did some awesome graphics, and the other half towards buying more of this materials for a promotional campaign here in Mexico City which is yet to come. I am writing/designing some ads and products so everyone can start promoting Bitcoin wherever they are. Smiley

EDIT: BTW, feel free to post any other promotional stuff you make/sell. Smiley

There was some one on bitcoin-otc who mentioned he "the man that got this rally going from $0.7 cents by pumping $22,000 into the market in 5 days."

Is it possible this amount could move things so much? He then sold some at a loss and re-bought to keep the rally going.. is this possible?


"Gentleman, I am the man that got this rally going from $0.7 cents by pumping $22,000 into the market in 5 days.

I even sold up to 10,000 btc at a loss so I could get the cash to keep the rally going or cool it off if needed.

today, the game go much bigger than me

I am now along for the ride

>>>> if what you say is true about driving this rally, did it feel like there were other large buyers lifting the market along with you, or was this all you?

no this is not all me, look at the volumes

...

I was fool enough to try to slow down the market this morning

dump a lot of coins

but then relized too much money was there and had to get out of the way"

I would like to ask the RBE (Resource based economy) crowd the following;

Do you recognise that money is originally emergent and not enforced?
(Meaning something, gold, silver, shells, salt, massive stones, automatically becomes money without govt decree)

If you agree it is emergent then what purpose do you think money plays in an economy? In other words what problem did it solve?

edit: meant to post this in main forum, mods plz delete.  (why no delete function in edit post??)

Who is running this?  The video quality is terrible and you can't hear a thing.

They should not be allowed to run it next year.

Also anyone know if a better video might be made available later?  I had really wanted to hear the keynote stuff.

I was talking about bitcoin on some forum and at some point I was explaining that all transactions are public.  I gave bitcoinexplorer.com as an example of a website where people could have details about any transaction.

At this point there was a misunderstanding, for one of the guys I was talking to thought bitcoinexplorer.com was part of the system, that during a transaction, both parties had to refer to this website in order to perform the transaction.  Of course, I had to explain that this is not the way bitcoin works,  that bitcoin doesn't need any website to function properly.

However, this made me think of something.

Right now there are a few websites that are very useful to the bitcoin project.   bitcoin.org and its forum of course, Bitcoinexplorer.com, bitcoinwatch.com and others.

Would the use of bitcoin be really the same without those websites ?  Isn't bitcoinwatch.com quite reassuring for instance, since it allows a user to check that "everything is right" by comparing his block number to bitcoinwatch's block number ?

So, if governments decided to shut down all bitcoin related websites and forums, then bitcoin would need to work in "silent mode".  People would have to trust their client only.  They would communicate via encrypted email about their chain length, making sure it is more or less the same.  It would be the same system, but I guess it would surely "feel" different.

I'm pretty sure it would work fine, but we should be mentally prepared to use bitcoin in such a "silent mode".

So I've been thinking about selling some things I don't use anymore on biddingpond, but I haven't much an idea where to start.

Any advice for setting up a listing, performing the trade, or estimating a price would be greatly appreciated.

To start out, which website's exchange rate can I trust most?

EDIT: Sorry, I believe I put this in the wrong forum. Mods/admin, could you please move it to a more appropriate location?

BitcoinPool.com had a service interruption this morning that has since been resolved. 
The pool is back online.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
 :

Well, this explains a lot. Was wondering why I couldn't post.

GUIMiner's share count is not matching what BTC Guild is reporting.

For one of my workers I have 169 shares, and 2 stales. Reported as 169 (2). GUIMiner is reporting 173 (6), so that's at least 4 shares short. More so, I've done some mining before using GUIMiner and so I should have more than 173 shares submitted.

The same for another worker. I have 393 shares accepted, 7 stale (invalid) but BTC Guild reports 376 (9).

So is GUIMiner counting incorrectly? Or am I being jacked by the pool owner?

At present there are 3000+ unconfirmed transactions. But why the newly found block adds only 8 of them to the block chain??

who controls how many will be added to the block chain??

Thanks

Hi guys.

In order to have a mining pool server, what's required?

Connection: ?
Hardware: ?
Software: ?

I must say I have tried a little to search, but didn't really find anything useful.