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€40 in BTC

I'll have to pay you back becauise we're sailing out and I've only got one bar before complete internet lock down and no way to contact anyone!

help please!!

DNS is slow so low bandwidth!

 I've been fighting this for days now and it's driving me nuts.

I can flash a Samsung ROM, root it, get a recovery image working but as soon as I update via a .zip file I get bootloops and I have to start all over again.

 $10 for any help toward managing to get a 4.0.4 ROM on there successfully, such as an image I can simply flash straight to the phone instead of all this .zip recovery mode business.

 I wonder if a phone shop might be able to help...


edit to update without bump:

Thanks but those 2 threads didn't seem to mention what I finally found out; that you need to apply the .zip file twice. This isn't documented anywhere for some reason! I'm gonna send some coins to the person on xdaforum who helped me via a private key & email - should convert them hopefully!

 Just a warning.

 Don't try and use SecondLife as a easy way to get BTC via creditcard and VirWOX. There is a very opaque risk API in place which will block nearly everyone.

 In general it will only work if you already play SecondLife regularly or know someone who wants BTC but hasn't traded a lot already.

 Anecdotal findings on limits could make the enforcement impossible but would require more established players wanting BTC too

 Let's say you have a group of 10 people.
Each person has 1/10 of the private key for an address. They pay their fees for membership the group to that address.
Then they vote on what to spend the money on by sharing their part of the private key.

A shared address can be used for each issue and the importance of each issue can be communicated by the value of each address associated with an issue.

In this basic example I use splitting the key into 10 parts but of course you would use a better method of this using cryptography.

The whole system could be polished into some kind of website which displays the results of the system and makes it easier to setup your own voting system.

I would expect this to be in the form before, where did I miss it if this is so?

Thoughts?

 If I click through:
http://blockchain.info/tree/2893660

 I can see the LinNode theft.

 I can also see IP's.

 Has anyone tried to contact the people at these nodes? It's a shame I can't copy and paste the IPs.
 
 Is there anything I can do to to avoid accepting coins that have had contact with thefts in the same way MtGox does? (disgarding that this may be a philosophically flawed idea for the moment)

 Is there a summary as to what happened regards the MyBitcoin and Gox thefts as well? Possibly an easier to navigate map or general commentry that is understandable to the layperson.


edit, afterthought: There ought to be something that automates the whole process of watching the coins move and looking up IP addresses. This would also make the privacy situation much clearer for all

 Using a debit card is very handy when the person paying only has that form of payment available, 

but Paypal at 10% is a rather expensive surcharge.

 Is there anyone accepting card payments via another means? Either a merchant account or Skrill perhaps?

 I'm sure there is on the DIY route but I don't fancy soldering; a few projects in the past have gone very wrong :p and this time I don't want to risk 100's!

 Summary of top selling boards:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=68379.0

 (all paypal or btc afaik)

 I can't help but wonder why so much violence in the world is centred around muslim countries.

 The conventional thought in the west is that it's a violent religion.

 However, is it a coinsidance that Islam has 2 clear rules on fiat and debt.
 First, there's the rules on debt and usury. They're pretty strong and islamic banks are having a hard time trying to bend the rules on this.
Then you got gold as a defense against fiat. The basic advise is only to use gold as currency. This has pretty much been bypassed and it's only now that they're trying to get this back in places like malaysia with the dinar.

So 2 strong defenses against financial attacks, gold and usury laws.

It seems like such a coinsidence to see so much violence around these concepts.

And it's not simply the middle east. Argentina had a brief flirt with a muslim president and then coinsidently the usa bombing a weapons factory that was supplying iran.

Then again there's the old jews fighting muslims thing we get bored of so quickly and the oil factor.

What do you think... who's backing fiat&debt against gold and anti usuary laws

 I want to assure customers that I won't spam them.

But how do I do that?

 Is there a service out there from a very reputable company that will hold my customers email addresses for me and forward my emails for me?

 Or is there anther way to reassure people?

Resident level 2, Business, enterprise or currency trader

Following up on the conversations on Iran and Bitcoin.
 
 A girlfriend and I are hoping to move together to Europe from Argentina. I'm from Europe.

She has savings in a bank account here which is well in excess of what the tax authorities allow her to convert. This is also devaluing at about 25% a year.

Typically what people here do to avoid this is:

- take cash to a neighbouring country and exchange it there
- buy things like property and even cars

However, the first is not a good option because there is a limit of $10,000 and also carrying and storing this is a risk too.

How do we get this cash out of the country?

At first I thought I could sell her something in a different currency outside the country via a webcart checkout and credit card.
Add item "Being a great boyfriend for a year" and x5.
 But the problem with this is that the transaction will be routed through the central bank of Argentina and they convert and reconvert the currency - double conversion costs. This would be in addition to a ~4% Google Checkout fee. The other problem is that the transaction is logged to her account. If I go unverified with Paypal, Moneybookers or Google Checkout then I can have some anonimity but I've heard so many horror stories of unverfied accounts on these services. Is this worry justified? It shouldn't be a problem for someone who isn't intending to visit Argentina.

The next one I thought of was just to buy a load of gold here. But then we're coming into Europe with a stash of gold and that looks dodgy as heck.

Chile is close, which was where tradehill was based... shame.

The second way of spending the cash on something could be an idea but I can't think of many things that are liquid (easy to sell) this way. It's not enough for a house but is enough for a car...

Ideas?
Regards marrying if you must bring it up... It's a complicated one. Aside from the emotional side of that, for me there's an element of marrying into a country and I don't want be associated with Argentina in that sense as this has knock-on effects. Worldwide taxation is just one example.

 $750 is obviously too much: http://indoorsecrets.com/?q=agencypackages

 There might be a better solution.

 Why not use a website solution?
- because the girls can see the website and are likely to go direct.

 Any tips?

what are the big earners in bitcoin right now?

1) the exchanges.
Cavat = regulation in most countries

2) silkroad, and i'd guess weed would be most popular

What else is there? What is the next level down and how much are they earning?

 I've been playing with:

 https://www.bitcoin.de/r/475e9c
 Note: this is my referral link.

 I find it notable since it's OTC over the counter with ratings and so forth so as far as I can see it doesn't require regulation since it is simply enabling people and exchange.

 To get English you have to set it to Spainish first and then to English or login. 

Fiat transfer methods:
-SEPA
-Liberty Reserve
-Moneybookers
-German bank accounts

 I did a search but can't seem to get a match for "bitcoin.de" even though I've seen it mentioned in a thread before. Are there similar markets to this other than Bitcoinmarket?

Edit: how many of us have managed to keep our identity/banking system unlinked from out bitcoins? That is, i wonder how common it is to not have a link between bank account and bitcoins...

 Chain game.

Rules of the game are,

 think of the most ridiculous thing you could imagine buying at something like a car boot sale with Bitcoin. It should be real and something you've seen in real life, but anything online is a good sidetrack too. 
Kudos for bizzareness.

I'll go first with

1) Rubber Pigeon

 So it looks like yesterday we had someone dump a load of coins and loads of other people snapping them up.

The only volume we had greater than this was the mid Nov crash, and the market isn't phased.

Cheers people, we have some very strong stability! A strong market.

 Does it tells us that we have a diffuse number of people are supporting a base value of some kind?

 There are times when I have access to free or cheap electric.

The thing is, I don't want to cart a tower unit around with me. FPGA makes no sense because that's cheaper on electric anyway.

 What's the smallest a mining rig can be? It doesn't need to be efficient on power, quiet or light. But small is good.

I have to carry round a laptop anyway. How's about this:
http://hackaday.com/2011/10/19/beefing-up-your-laptops-gaming-chops-with-an-external-gpu/

How fast a GPU can it take I wonder? My laptop is on the compatible list:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/gaming-software-graphics-cards/418851-diy-egpu-experiences.html

Lugging round the PSU would be a pain too.

 Found this on ebay but when I look in my PCI express slot it appears it wouldn't fit (confused):
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PE4H-v2-4a-60cm-Flat-mini-HDMI-EC2C-SPB087-ExpressCard-PCI-E-Adapter-/180808629729?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a1908bde1#ht_3307wt_905

"ExpressCard (54, 34)" in my laptop.

 Hope this has inspired

 -j


p.s.
Sorry if this is a silly thing to say but it should be pointed out that you don't need a client or blockchain for mining with a pool. Took me a while to figure this out as most guides mention downloading a bitcoin client

i don't like to upgrade all the time because i prefer to see it verified by others if possible...
 I prefer to keep things as they are if possible.

But twice now i've needed to upgrade else have the 'invalid address' message.

This worries me a bit... It makes me feel like, what would happen if the dev site was shut down at this point and anyone mentioning it silenced.. Generally hard to find that client download... What could be done? Thankfully we have alternative places to discuss

Would be nice to give some more info in the client output to say 'don't panic, this client is just newer than yours'

so, i want to get paid in bitcoin.

How do i approach the subject?

Best case scenario, let's imagine I'm a subcontractor employed by a company i own that gets some of it's work from a work agency. How does one float the idea without getting laughed out the room?

I know people who've had choice of EUR, USD & GBP but that's the biggest choice I've seen; it's uaully dollars vs euros.

just trying to get my head around a few comments i've read regarding both gov attacks and also iran:

"we're studying the protocol" and "no miners, no currency"

Well, the 2nd one there says no currency if no mining but surely the inflation stops at some point anyway? I was under the impression that at that point it's just clients, and then hopefully more secure against mining related attacks. People will still mine because of difficulty changes right.

To be honest i thought i understood but now i'm not so sure.

Also, having connectivity is important too... I don't understand the details though... I think you just need a minimum of say 4 nodes? These could be manually entered right? And perhaps even transmit the blockchain semi manually... Using rsync even i wonder... If that can do partial files...

 Just wondering how secure the network is, getting a better understanding... I wonder how bad routing can get before things get shafted. For example if iran block at the borders could one wifi link over the border in theory sustain a whole country...

(Filed under offtopic as I can't see a section for Tech&Dev for stuff outside bitcoind)

I'm trying to figure out how the exchanges interface with the banks.

In:
http://gitorious.org/intersango/intersango/blobs/gbp/bank/import_csv_hsbc.py
from:
http://gitorious.org/intersango/intersango/trees/gbp/bank

I can see that a .csv file is imported and then parsed with:
http://gitorious.org/intersango/intersango/blobs/gbp/bank/parse_deposits_hsbc.py

So I'm thinking...
 does the exchange owner have to export a .csv file every day?

 I can't figure out how the LloydsTSB code does it; I'm not a programmer in any shape or form.

 And for this matter...
is a merchant bank technically essential for an exchange? Perhaps an exchange could receive payments as bank deposits (because non reversible-ish) but payout by another method. Legally a silly thing to do maybe... I don't know, but interesting to know if it's possible. I guess you could even have a one way exchange... assuming taking payments is seen by banks as not suspicious. I'm just thinking about all the hassles the exchanges have had and wondering where those result from.

 2 more questions regards exchanges:

1) Is it true that all USD wire transfers have to go through USA along with identity info, even if it's miles away from the USA, like Singapore?
2) Is there a way to link exchanges together... or perhaps for a bigger exchange like MtGox to do a large trade of Bitcoins for USD on another exchange for example. Many smaller exchanges have the problem of scale.