Hey,

Lot's of people from 4chan using the tool Loic with the channel thealps.anonops-irc.com #loic or the command 'sudo hping3 api.paypal.com -p 443 -S -i u3000 -q' have managed to take down all these sites!

This is illegal and wrong. I understand people have different views on Wikileaks but taking illegal action is not the correct path. Better to voice yourself through the correct legal channels and signing petitions.

Amazing how easy it is to get these tools:
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/LOIC#Download
it even runs in wine.

Hope the good boys (police) catch these criminal hackers soon.

Peace.

Hey,

Is the limitation of 8 decimal places a protocol one or a client one? If so, why?

I know that 8 decimal places is MASSIVE, but I'm just wondering why since it's inexpensive to have 16 decimals.

See attached.
(add .diff please to attach forum filter

http://pastecoin.com/uploads/rpcdiff

So I'm unable to use the graphical client as I'm using the SVN.

I have 20 btc somewhere belonging to an account I don't know. How can I get a list of all the accounts in my wallet?

Is there a way to send X just from all accounts?

Bitcoin is for money

A lot of us are investing considerable time, money and energy into Bitcoin related services. There's talk on these forums of embedding DNS, files, ... food  

Bitcoin should focus on money. By including all these extras in here, you will scare off others. Focus on one thing and do it well. I don't want the code-base to become bloated/be debased with all these extras that may not work and just use up our energy.

We have something that works. Lets try to protect the parade.

However, having said that: if there is some way to generalise Bitcoin so that anyone can setup services with no preference, then that can only be a good thing that'll strengthen the network. I'm against though including specific things in the main codebase.

Hey,

< MT`AwAy> genjix: http://pastecoin.com/ <- you're generating a new
                 bitcoin address at each page load, don't you fear wallet.dat
                 will grow to astronomical size?

Is this correct? Does my wallet save every single address?

Hey,

I've made a new site, http://pastecoin.com/ *plug*

Anyway here's my idea:

On Christmas eve & Christmas day I will set the charges on that site to 0. Before then we all make something related to Bitcoin (music, poetry, picture, anything) and post the direct download link here, together with the paid download link.

Then on Christmas eve/day everyone will go and pay 1 BTC to the posted content they liked the most (except their own).

- People post files.
- Others check them out.
- Everyone pays 1 BTC to their favourite download on Christmas.

Example:
http://pastecoin.com/uploads/cairo.jpg
http://pastecoin.com/download.php?file=1

(You can set more than 1 BTC if you wish, but then we might donate to someone else and 1 BTC seems reasonable

Just an idea that came to me. If it's liked then I'll clean it up.

It's supposed to be a b made out of a 1 and a 0 (representing a bit and the digital aspect of it), and it's round (representing it as a coin shape).

http://www.speedyshare.com/files/25560952/bitcoin10.svg

I have never had more than 100 BTC in my account ever.

What is this first entry all about?

Code:

[
    {
        "account" : "",
        "label" : "",
        "amount" : 212.67000000,
        "confirmations" : 1441
    },
    {
        "account" : "127.0.0.1",
        "label" : "127.0.0.1",
        "amount" : 5.04000000,
        "confirmations" : 1
    },
    {
        "account" : "Your Address",
        "label" : "Your Address",
        "amount" : 5.25000000,
        "confirmations" : 3
    },
    {
        "account" : "betcoin",
        "label" : "betcoin",
        "amount" : 14.34000000,
        "confirmations" : 6368
    }
]

Hey,

In the future there will be many different online bitcoin providers holding your money in a virtual wallet.dat online.

Many websites will want to accept bitcoin payments from a 'Tip Jar' button that requires minimal effort to click if you're logged in through OpenID.

The many content providers will need to agree on a method for allowing tipping, together with the online bitcoin services.

----
- Sign up to mybitcoin.com or whatever wallet service using an OpenID.
- Viewing video on dansblog.org. You like that.
- Click Tip Jar first time.
- OpenID sign up screen.
- dansblog.org contacts distributed database (like DNS) to lookup your wallet provider.
- dansblog.org redirects you to https://mybitcoin.com/mywallet.php?send=5&address=dsjsdjksdjksdjdsk23iuweewkc
- mybitcoin.com saves redirect header (who redirected). Displays confirmation page.
- You click OK
- Redirects back to previously viewing webpage.

Now I propose that we all decide on the distributed database part, so that we can start adding in wallet providers and provide an easy way to provide consistent service between many different services.

The returned URL would have an option for the amount to send and the address to send to.

What do you think? It'd be good to write a spec and put it out there. Even if it isn't written yet, there would be a definitive document that we point people to and say 'this is how it's done. comply with the standard.'

dansblog.org and felixsweb.org could both use different databases but they both sync with each other.

Hey,

I have no feelings against any type of politics (except mild+ authoritarianist governments). In principle I really like the idea of personal freedom- everyone can do whatever they want as long as it doesn't affect me. However everyone is not a separate island and we do all affect each other. I'm going to illustrate with 3 examples:

In the UK seatbelts are mandatory otherwise you get a fine. All cars come equipped with seatbelts. I love seatbelts since they significantly reduce the risk to my life by many orders of magnitude. In Iran not many people wear seatbelts. Often many cars just don't have them. So if I want to take a taxi then I can only have the choice to risk the taxi or not take it. Add to this that road laws are virtually non-existant and
cars just swamp the roads (meaning road accidents are super high). My life is endangered by someone else having their freedom.

In the UK it is illegal to smoke indoors. Otherwise I would be the single person in a group that boycotts places which allow indoor smoking. Either my life is endangered through risk to my health by someone else having their freedom, or I am a lonely person. As someone with bad asthma, it's killing when in other poorer countries people smoke everywhere and I can hardly breathe.

Immunisation only works once a majority of the population has been vaccinated. Vaccination does not prevent you getting an illness- only makes it less likely. In this way the disease is less likely to transfer across to another person and it's more difficult to spread. So difficult that it disappears. However for the individual, it's not worth the cost. And for immunisation to be effective, it needs mass mobilisation. Who would organise a state-wide immunisation campaign for a net loss?

Thanks. Looking forward to feedback.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11811238

Hey,

I wanted to send a letter to Wikileaks about Bitcoin since unfortunately they've had several incidents where their funds have been seized in the past.
http://wikileaks.org/media/support.html

Anyone know where to send a message to them?

When I first discovered Bitcoin, my reaction was "Ohhh, deflation. Bad.". Having thought about this, is that really the case?

Sure inflation encourages spending, but mostly the willy nilly impulsive consumerism. If people were encouraged to save, then people would have large amounts of capital to spend on larger worthwhile projects.

And people always need to pay for *something*. Trade still continues. Micropayments for insignificant amounts aren't stopped because Person X's currency is slightly deflationary rather than inflationary.

Can anyone correct me if I'm wrong? This is a biased place to ask but what the hell

I used to be a graphics designer and spent some days making these. You can say they're shit if you think so- I don't take criticism personally.


Smaller versions:



what do you reckon

Hey,

If on a site you enforce that each user is only allowed one bitcoin address that isn't publicly visible, could there be any unforeseen issues? AFAIK it should be OK- if someone discovers their bitcoin address then they just make a new one and get a new username. And if someone DID get their bitcoin address, all they could do is view their transactions using that address.

Am I correct?

Thanks

Hey,

Right now I'm working full time on a Bitcoin app and haven't got the time to do this. But it just occured to me that if you message a lot of free software projects then they would likely add one. Especially if you gave them a bitcoin icon or premade button.

Then someone could make a topic here of a list of projects accepting donations. Good way to promote bitcoin.

Hey,

Over the past days having discovered bitcoin has driven my mind wild. All this year I've been reading a lot about distributed networks. I was a programmer and I'm hugely interested in maths.

When we play Poker online, we are using a centralised network. You deposit your cash online, sit down at a game and play. You place your trust in the site to be secure; no other players can see your hands and no money is being secretly stolen from you. Even big name sites have been known to cheat and smaller sites just shut down and steal your money.

There are two well known sites- PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. By being secure, they charge you excessive amounts to use their service. The market is monopolised by them since small sites are untrustworthy. This year I played on PokerStars and made $3k profit and payed $4.5k in rake- so I had to win $7.5k in total and hand over more than half my winnings to PokerStars. Many players hate this.

A decentralised Poker network (using bitcoin). Here's the advantages:
+ Government heavily taxes Poker sites. Decentralised networks are outside the law.
+ No rake.
+ Don't need to place your trust in a company
+ Customise your client since you own the source!
+ No tracker sites gathering statistics on your play against the rules of Poker

How could such a thing be implemented?

Mental poker is a scheme for neutrally verifying cards among players but is slow. Yet I imagine there's ways to speed it up by relying on trust/probabilistic methods.

The real problem is money put into the pot. For those unfamiliar with Poker I'll explain: People bet on the strength of hands, and put money in a pot. After so many betting rounds, both players show their hands. The strongest hand wins the money put in the middle. How can this be decentralised?

The best scheme I imagined was if the pot was stored by a third party. We want to protect against collaboration so using the other players not involved in the hand at the table is not possible (5 of the 6 players on the table could be collaborating together and just steal your money). Each player could nominate a few escrows each that hold fractional amounts of the money. Since people disconnect (bad internet .etc), the escrows would need to be dedicated services.

6 players sit down at a table. Each nominates 2 escrow services that hold the money (12 in total). Player A and B start betting and putting money in the pot. $200 goes into 12 escrows or $17 each. After they show the hand everyone agrees player A won. But one escrow refuses to award their share of the $7 to A... Everyone at the table blacklists that escrow to never trust them again and alerts everyone else in the network. If the majority of the players at the table >50% agree that an escrow is bad, then everyone blacklists them.

This would be a great boost for bitcoin. My scheme is full of holes though. Looking for ideas.