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Self explanatory thread title is self explanatory.
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I believe that modern escrow solutions are archaic at best and rely too much on the opinions of a possibly ignorant third party. I propose a feature to bitcoin that will remove the need for an external escrow solution, strengthening the economy and ridding our community of fraud once and for all. I will call this proposition "coin fragmentation". To properly explain coin fragmentation, I must first briefly outline the process of a bitcoin transaction based on the current implementation: - Jon sends 1BTC to Mary
- Jon loses access to that 1BTC
- Mary gains access to that 1BTC
As anyone can see, this requires that Jon trust Mary first to provide whatever services she has offered, and as such opens opportunity for fraud and confidence trickery. As you can see from the following outline, by inserting just two programmatic steps, we can remedy this once and for all: - Jon sends 1BTC to Mary
- 1BTC is split and locked into two individually worthless fragments
- Jon loses access to that 1BTC
- Mary must now provide promised services before Jon will release his fragment.
From this point, we have several possible outcomes. For simplicity, let's separate them by an honest and dishonest transaction. Honest- Maria proceeds to provide services rendered, Jon releases his fragment. Maria now has 1BTC.
- Maria does not provide services rendered, Maria releases her fragment. Jon now has 1BTC.
As is clear above, no additional complications arose from implementing this feature given an honest transaction. Dishonest- Maria proceeds to provide services rendered, Jon does not release his fragment. Neither Jon nor Maria have the 1BTC until the other releases their locked fragment.
- Maria does not provide services rendered, Jon does not release his fragment. Neither Jon nor Maria have the 1BTC until the other releases their locked fragment.
In the above outline, all monetary incentives to defraud have been removed. With implementation of this feature, bitcoiners would be able to: - Trade safely and openly with complete strangers
- Return incorrect amounts back to sender
- Provide refunds
- Improve negotiation and problem solving techniques
- Enforce higher standards for service quality in the community
Thank you. Matthew N. Wright |
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In an internet-wide effort to raise awareness to the negative effects of SOPA, the following businesses and websites from the bitcoin community will be blacking out on January 18th, 2012. Post your business/website below and it will be added. Thank you. |
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This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen and I feel like I'm in an old AOL chatroom using 'phaderz'.
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EDIT:
BitTalk.TV will interview Zhou Tong this week regarding the now famous Bitcoinica.com.
We’ll probe his mind on the making of bitcoinica, the issues he faced, the success of it, and his future projects. During the interview, Zhou Tong will be announcing some very important news that you won’t want to miss.
If you have a question you’d like Zhou Tong to answer during our interview, please post it below.
If it makes it on air, we’ll give you a free issue of BitTalk Magazine, the new digital magazine made for bitcoiners, by bitcoiners.
Everyone at BitTalk.TV would like to introduce themselves here and announce our plans for 2012 (which we are all very thrilled about).
For the sake of consolidation and avoiding spam, we’ll be putting all updates and announcements into this thread and changing the title of it accordingly.
In 2011, I had some fun with a webcam and some stories that I thought someone should talk about. That grew to a whole bunch of people being interested in doing it right and not the shitty way I was doing it alone.
After a pretty handsome donation from some hardcore bitcoiners and my inspiration to do something entertaining, I mostly ad-libbed an entire Christmas Special. It wasn’t meant to be serious, and it was coming right off the heels of a death in the family and our funds coming in late (e.g. we had 2 weeks to buy all the necessary equipment in Korea, plan, write and shoot everything, and none of us had worked together before).
We had some fun with a camera and now we know what not to do (like recording skype calls as AVI at a different framerate than our Premiere projects and to CS5.5 instead of trying to get 2 machines with CS4 and CS3 to work together well.)
After the Christmas Special, people knew that I was actually serious about what I’m doing, and by association what everyone who believes in BitTalk.TV is doing behind the scenes. With that came another handsome donation of proper state of the art rendering hardware.
We’ve come a long way from CosbyCoin webcam announcements and recording everything on my iPhone, but we’re still only getting warmed up. We’ve got a digital magazine planned for release at the end of the month as well.
The idea behind bittalk.tv is a simple one-- provide some actual quality entertainment in combination with some vivid education. Something we want to stay away from is 45 minute self-important interviews, crackhead-like fidgetting, and constantly belittling everyone who comes on our shows.
We truly hope the community supports us for what we do, but the bottom line is, even if they don't, we're doing it anyway because it's fun and we want to.
The day before yesterday when I gave an interview with Charlie Shrem of BitInstant, he told me that bitcoin needs a proper media outlet and that he believes we can be it. I hope nothing I do fucks it up, and that's why I try to get others involved in what I do-- to make sure it has the proper substance in addition to the obvious enthusiasm that comes out my every hole. With time, the things I record will stop looking like they came out of the larger of those holes.
Thanks.
This thread is live! That means that the topic will change and all future announcements will be posted directly here. Might want to subscribe!
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EDIT:
BitTalk.TV will interview Zhou Tong this week regarding the now famous Bitcoinica.com.
We’ll probe his mind on the making of bitcoinica, the issues he faced, the success of it, and his future projects. During the interview, Zhou Tong will be announcing some very important news that you won’t want to miss.
If you have a question you’d like Zhou Tong to answer during our interview, please post it below.
If it makes it on air, we’ll give you a free issue of BitTalk Magazine, the new digital magazine made for bitcoiners, by bitcoiners.
Everyone at BitTalk.TV would like to introduce themselves here and announce our plans for 2012 (which we are all very thrilled about).
For the sake of consolidation and avoiding spam, we’ll be putting all updates and announcements into this thread and changing the title of it accordingly.
In 2011, I had some fun with a webcam and some stories that I thought someone should talk about. That grew to a whole bunch of people being interested in doing it right and not the shitty way I was doing it alone.
After a pretty handsome donation from some hardcore bitcoiners and my inspiration to do something entertaining, I mostly ad-libbed an entire Christmas Special. It wasn’t meant to be serious, and it was coming right off the heels of a death in the family and our funds coming in late (e.g. we had 2 weeks to buy all the necessary equipment in Korea, plan, write and shoot everything, and none of us had worked together before).
We had some fun with a camera and now we know what not to do (like recording skype calls as AVI at a different framerate than our Premiere projects and to CS5.5 instead of trying to get 2 machines with CS4 and CS3 to work together well.)
After the Christmas Special, people knew that I was actually serious about what I’m doing, and by association what everyone who believes in BitTalk.TV is doing behind the scenes. With that came another handsome donation of proper state of the art rendering hardware.
We’ve come a long way from CosbyCoin webcam announcements and recording everything on my iPhone, but we’re still only getting warmed up. We’ve got a digital magazine planned for release at the end of the month as well.
The idea behind bittalk.tv is a simple one-- provide some actual quality entertainment in combination with some vivid education. Something we want to stay away from is 45 minute self-important interviews, crackhead-like fidgetting, and constantly belittling everyone who comes on our shows.
We truly hope the community supports us for what we do, but the bottom line is, even if they don't, we're doing it anyway because it's fun and we want to.
The day before yesterday when I gave an interview with Charlie Shrem of BitInstant, he told me that bitcoin needs a proper media outlet and that he believes we can be it. I hope nothing I do fucks it up, and that's why I try to get others involved in what I do-- to make sure it has the proper substance in addition to the obvious enthusiasm that comes out my every hole. With time, the things I record will stop looking like they came out of the larger of those holes.
Thanks.
This thread is live! That means that the topic will change and all future announcements will be posted directly here. Might want to subscribe!
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BitTalk.TV is hosting our own awards ceremony that will be broadcast on BitTalk.TV announcing the winners. We are in no rush to hurry up and finish and for this reason we will allow a full two weeks for entries. Since other similar contests seemed more focused on giving away bitcoins to anyone willing to participate than actually doing a good job creating a fair contest, we will focus on rewarding individuals the proper way. To combat cheating, add value to the votes, raise money for charity, and ensure that only serious bitcoiners are participating in the contest as contestants or voters, a microtransaction to a specified bitcoin address will be necessary. To ensure a fair contest, no members of BitTalk Media, including myself, or any individuals directly affiliated with them may claim candidacy. Any nominations for these individuals will be ignored. All finalists of the BitTalk.TV Best of 2011 contest in each category will: 1) be published in the BitTalk.TV magazine's January issue; 2) be broadcast in a special presentation on BitTalk.tv; 3) receive a free year subscription to the BitTalk.TV magazine (est. $30 value) 4) receive a FREE casascius coin in the mail! The categories will be soft-listed on the official forum thread. Feel free to petition for additional categories if you believe it is appropriate. Good luck to everyone! To vote for your favorite nominee:1) Send 0.10BTC to 132kGxDjTyRjYRtsco9p99Y9uznSybskFg 2) Reply to this thread in the following format: My address:
YOUR_BITCOIN_ADDRESS_USED_TO_SEND_VOTING_FEE
Best Influence to Bitcoin
your choice
Best Bitcoin Event
your choice
Best Mining Pool
your choice
Most Helpful Bitcoiner
your choice
Most Interesting Bitcoin Project
your choice
Most Inspiring Bitcoin Start-up
your choice
Most Deserving Bitcoin Charity
your choice
All fees collected less cost of Casascius coins will be donated to the highest voted Bitcoin Charity. |
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GoogleCheckout wants $25 for an Android developers account. I've got bitcoins. Anyone willing to facilitate?
Never say no to a panda.
Matthew
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Click above to watch the Christmas Special!We learned a valuable lesson about having expensive video equipment but shitty substandard hardware for rendering and encoding. We ended up releasing this almost 3 days after Christmas as a result. What a joke. We'll do better next time. Let's play a game-- SPOT THE MISTAKES! 1) @36:52 - Subway sounds found their way into the interview
Dear Bitcoiners,
As I type this we are finishing up our last rounds of rendering and editing for the Christmas Special on BitTalk.TV.
What is the Christmas Special you ask? Well, I am a firm believer that everything should be interesting, thought provoking and entertaining and have noticed a huge stick firmly lodged up the buttox of the bitcoin community. To remedy this, I have spent much of my time making light of people's not-so-serious problems, keeping humor in conversations, and trying to weed out the self important money grubbing turtles.
What I have learned is that trolling is an art form, and as with any art form there are always idiots incapable of understanding and appreciating it. So, I decided to use my talents to bring some of that artform to a more appropriate medium-- video!
The Christmas Special represents myself, Vicente Santinavez (film), Mihai Alisie (marketing), Vitalik Buterin (editor), Vladimir Marchenko (security), GoWest (columnist), and all the rest of our legal, accounting and writers' belief that not only does this community need a better media outlet, but that when things are too serious, dry and boring (or when the host spends all his time looking at his cellphone) it doesn't really provide any value to anyone and it just serves to make everyone bored and shit themselves. This Christmas Special is our way of greeting the community proper and letting them know we are here to stay, with regular videos and even a magazine to boot.
We had a month to prepare but we wanted high quality equipment and there was also a death in my family, so scheduling got all fudged up and we ended up needing to rush a lot of it. Better late than never though, ey? I believe that this Christmas Special will have something for everyone (especially a few interviews with bitcoin businessmen never seen before and a few announcements no one knows about yet).
We're making this Christmas Special with entertainment in mind, but have left nuggets of education in it for both hard core bitcoiners and those right off the street.
Watch this thread and bittalk.tv for the Christmas Special airing on December 25th, 2011 - Christmas Day.
Happy Holidays!
Matthew N. Wright
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Sub-$10 solution to QR scanning for a system on a chip.
Can a tiny camera be purchased that cheaply to install on a board?
Can a cheap laser work for modern QR codes?
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Deleted because it was dumb.
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There's always something going on that only my group knows about.   Also, Christmas Special for BitTalk.TV is coming! Anyone who has something they'd like to share to the community, let me know. It's gonna be stupendous. Matthew |
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We need something like the Pipboy for our military boys, the kind of technology that bitcoin miners use at home probably.
Except you shouldn't make it out of metal because the military doesn't use metal for their equipment anymore.
Two reasons. Heavy and magnets.
If anyone doesn't understand why magnets are bad for metal military, just watch robocop. Or road runner.
Magnets suck. Literally.
They will create an air vacuum that picks soldiers off the ground and rip their pippy arms off.
But if we use pipboys for our military boys, we should totally not use circuits.
Military doesn't even use circuits. They don't need to.
They have elite mathematicians. They figure that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Duh.
So they just use straight wires for everything.
Circuits and chips are just a bunch of inefficient random direction paths.
The key is to just shorten the path of the power to where you want it--- at your enemy.
Point wire at enemy. Instant power.
I am talking a battery and a wire. That is all you need.
The military is about killing people.
Circuitry is about wasting time flashing lights and beeping while killing people.
I want the military to use mining rigs and pipboys. Yea!
Matthew Badass Pipboy Wright
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Greetings! As soon as Atlas finishes transferring the bittalk.tv domain, I'll continue making videos for it as I've been doing for months now. In fact, we're planning on restarting it with $11,000 in video equipment, hosting game shows, interviews, debates, and all kinds of goodness. This winter the 25+ members of my organization will be helping me put the biggest, bestest Christmas bash together for bittalk.tv and broadcast it live. I am not Bruce Wagner and I am not making a convention with millions of people but rather just doing a humble show to help bring the community together to enjoy the Christmas season. Most of the work for the Christmas special is already being done by myself and my dear companion Vicente....wait...a white guy webcasting with his South American partner....no, nevermind. All I want is to have a neat intro to the Christmas show showing our very own bitcoiners. If you're brave enough (Vladimir, Zhou, Atlas, Adam, lots of people are doing it) visit this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mMJni4vudlEAll submissions used will be rewarded with a Selly (DialCoin) T-Shirt! The lyrics are in the video description, as is the link to the downloadable karaoke mp3. Youtube it. Link it. I'll include it.For advertisers: There will be no cold advertising on bittalk.tv Christmas special. You have a service you want to announce? A product you want to announce? We would be happy to accept any Christmas greetings sent to us from bitcoin businesses. I know that MemoryDealers and OKPAY are already shopping for appropriate attire....If you are worried about the quality of your recording, please do a better job until you're no longer worried. If you have any questions about how to operate a camera, please ask your grandson. |
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