If sell at the bottom of every correction and then rebuy as a new high is made and you are still way up on your trades, you might be in a bitcoin rally

koding.com/Hackathon

We are building a platform for allowing people to share their opinion with their Congressional Representatives, and to enable us to compare a district's consensus with the voting record of their representative.

We have two excellent Ruby coders and a top notch deployment engineer, all of whom have systems administration experience.  If we win enough prize money, we would like to make this thing ready to scale and roll it out well before the 2016 elections.  We would also like to allow public funding of bills to make them easier to get past finance committees, but dealing with such in the US, especially when politics is involved, is an expensive business to get started in due to a complex legal landscape, so that will have to wait for now.

Anyway, if that sounds like a mission you want to be a part of, and you have skills in HTML/CSS or Marketing please get in touch.

For the design, we will mostly need CSS, as we will use classes to tag out html for layout.  Familiarity with AJAX is a plus.

For Marketing, social presence is a considered in the judgement, so you would basically find interesting ways to talk about the commits we are making public and the discussions on our email thread on various social media sites (particularly twitter and facebook).

This competition started today, so there are 24 hours left.  If we earn sufficient prize money, we will continue to work on the project at reasonable rates.  If not, we will divide to prize money equally between team members.

The listtransactions API call allows you to specify an offset of how many transactions are skipped.  My question is this: is the ordering of this list stable such that you can simply track how many transactions you've already recorded and rely on a new call to give you any new information.  Specifically, if I import a private key that has a transaction that happened well in the past, will that transaction show up on my next listtransactions call, or will it be buried underneath causing my call to return a transaction I've already seen previously?

First of all, I would like to thank the Bitcoin community.  Without the support and guidance of many of the members here, I would not have been in the position to be able to return to school and work on my masters in computer science without taking on more debt.  From the pioneering miners and programmers in the early days of GPUs to the economics and speculation subfourms.  As some of you may have noticed, I have not been very active this past semester.  I'm sure there are many more who have never seen me post.  The reason I've been absent is because this semester I joined my school's team for NASA's Robotic Mining Competition.  NASA puts on this competition every year to help promote STEM education as well as to learn from a diverse set of teams.  Before I bore you with the details, you can watch our final run at the competition.  I am the tallest one at the interview afterwards.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/47930259

We had some minor communications issues at the beginning which is why it took 45 seconds to start, but we now understand what is wrong.  We simply weren't able to fix it in time for the run, but once we started, autonomy doesn't need communications.  Even manual control saw little lag.

As you can see in the video, our team took first place in mining.  We also took first place in outreach by devoting nearly 850 man hours to reach more than 4000 students throughout the year.  In addition, members of our team also fielded questions from visiting students and students from around the country via skype.  We also won second place for our technical demonstration and slide presentation.  For our technical presentation, we brought in our previous year's robot as well as this years and showed the changes we had made.  In addition we demoed the localization algorithm I focused the majority of my efforts on using real data we had collected from driving manually in the arena.  The top prize money at RMC is awarded based on a combination of mining, presentation, outreach, team spirit, and a technical paper.  We did not place in the top three for our paper or spirit, and this kept us from getting enough points to win that purse.

I'll cut to the chase.  There is a good chance this will not happen again next year.  Our school is involved in several robotic competitions, and our sponsorship money is spread too thin.  The other competitions have larger purses and the prize money is determined purely on technical merit.  As you can see in the video, our robot has several stickers.  Bitcoin stickers could be placed on the Robot and could also possibly be placed on the scoop or dump bin, which are very visible on the video feeds within the arena.  Personally, I like the idea of it being revealed as the dump bin is finally emptied.  We could also put a Bitcoin sticker on our tool chest, which is at the edge of our pit, where school groups, astronauts, judges, and any other guests of NASA's Kennedy Space Center's visitors center browse throughout the day.  I really have no clue what it would take the make the project happen again next year, I would have to speak with my advisor, but he is travelling for the next few weeks.  I do know the total cost this year was $30,000.  So, for $30,000 or potentially less, Bitcoin could be the primary sponsor.  This included all the parts and materials, transportation to and from the competition, as well as the hotel and food.  Additionally, I have been teaching computer science courses and labs for the past four semesters.  While this is rewarding, I would prefer to devote my time to this team.  I would put in 40 hours per week with 10 for outreach, 20 in the lab, and 10 at home working on code.  During the last 4 weeks before competition and during competition I will probably work 60 hours a week.  Would with some extra funding I could have a research assistant position.  Our university, colleges, departments, and any vendors that provide discounts will of course be featured as well but Bitcoin would be prominent.  If you are interested in supporting us, please post how much you would be willing to contribute.  If there is enough pledged, I will talk my advisor into another year.  I personally have a Casacius Series 1 Bitcoin that I will contribute if we can secure enough funding.  I will auction it off in the auction subforum.  If you have any questions, I will try to answer them in the next few days.  I just got home after 12 hours in the van and then unloading and I have had very little sleep this week, plus I am visiting a friend for a couple of days when I wake up.

Here are some photos of the rockets, the shuttle, and our outreach award.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/112701554024958242778/posts/BNB2W3P2D6y

All of the judges are NASA engineers and scientists and they primarily take notes for their own education and to share with their various labs.  For example, one of the judges we talked to explained how our robot helped open his eyes to the fact that digging your wheels in can be an advantage rather than something to avoid.  He will take this knowledge back to his lab where they design the actual rovers that go to the moon, mars, and hopefully one day soon, an asteroid.  I have some ideas on how to  improve our traction even more.  Additionally, I am confident I can get that thing to move much quicker and dig much more autonomously.  We actually have the capability to deposit autonomously as well, but it couldn't mine as well as the human operators and it would only gain us the equivalent of 33.3kg.  We can usually mine that in one run, but as you saw our operator got too aggressive with the scoop and tipped forward, dumping much of the regolith we had collected.  I believe I understand the physics of the problem and we should have that fixed in the next year's design.

If you donate to my signature address, please understand I am under no obligation to use those funds in any particular way, although it will probably go toward living expenses.  This post will be updated later with an official donation address once enough pledges are made and my advisor approves the sponsorship.  I am, however, trying to finish my thesis this summer while I freelance.  Any donations or job offers would be appreciated.  I would prefer something that utilizes my expertise in probabilistic simulation.  This includes particle filters, genetic algorithms, and physics simulation.  I prefer payment in Bitcoin.  Now, I'm going to sleep for a day.

I have 3x 1BTC, series 1 with spelling error, and 1 each of 5BTC and 25BTC casascius coins.  1 and 5 BTC coins have some minor wear, but the 25 BTC coin has never been out of it's plastic sleeve for more than a few seconds.  1BTC and 25BTC coins are dated 2011, and the 5BTC coin is dated 2012.  I am probably only looking to part with one or two of the 1BTC coins at the moment, but I'm entertaining offers for any or all of it.

My BFL SC finally arrived today.  I plugged it in and was only getting 26 GH/s.  So I unplug it, remove the power cord, and wait a few minutes.  When I hook it all back up, it now caps out at 15 GH/s.  Any ideas?

I am developing some mining proxy software that allows me to pool p2pool shares from multiple users together to the same address.  This allows miners with less hashing power to use p2pool with less variance.  This is alpha quality software and I will be doing manual payouts for now.  Payouts will be proportional.  Please do not use this pool without a fallback since I may restart it frequently.  There are no public stats at the moment, but that is certainly on the TODO list.  At the moment, the best you can do is monitor the pools genearation address (1B1kSM3KfcP9BvGDC1G3cxZAV9LbxovpQi), which will include everybody's hashpower:: http://pool.yrral.net:9339/static/graphs.html

The goal of this project is to bring more interest to p2pool and also keep it accessible to small miners.

In order to mine, connect to pool.yrral.net:9339 with your bitcoin address as your username.  Password can be anything.  If you are using cgminer, you will see "Accepted untracked stratum share" instead of the normal message, but rest assured your shares are being tracked.  Also, if I restart the proxy you may see a message about shares being lost that you can safely ignore.

Fine print:  My p2pool instance is currently set to collect a 2% fee.  Payments will be made biweekly on Mondays and Thursdays at noon EST and will include any p2pool payout that has reached 120 confirmations.  If your payout is below the dust limit for the bitcoin network, your payouts will be accumulated until they exceed the limit (if a transaction has an output that is too small it will not be relayed or included in blocks by most nodes).

If it does, I will finally be free from the stranglehold of student loans.  My parents promised to pay for my school, then blew all their money on the kids they adopted to fill the nest when I left.  I'm left with $20k in debt with an interest rate over 6%.  But, C'est la vie, I love my new brothers and sisters and wouldn't trade them for the world.

For my data mining course, my team is experimenting with composing music using data mining algorithms.  To test our algorithms, we are running a musical turing test.  If you participate, you will be asked to identify 10 sequences of chords as human composed or computer composed.  At the end you will see your results and be given the option to start a new test run.

http://yrral.net/musicality.html

Thank you for your time.

My API usage was working fine an hour ago, but all the sudden I am getting this:
SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed

This[1] suggests adding a .pem file from haxx.se to fix it, which I tried, but it didn't seem to work.  I'm not sure I trust this random cert, so I deleted it.

1. https://github.com/sferik/mtgox/issues/21

Any ideas?

It's expired.

Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.
-Warren Buffett

I sell locally for cash.  I've been approached by someone who wants several thousand dollars worth all at once.  Naturally, I will meet them in my bank and deposit it immediately, but are there any legal limits I should be concerned with?  Normally I deal with a couple hundred dollars max.  USA here.

http://rt.com/shows/keiser-report/keiser-report-episode-413-674/

"Replacing humans with non-suicidal robots would get rid of environmental concerns, as well as all these pesky, GDP-busting human problems like hunger and fear. But would the courts even be able to examine their algorithms if a robot turns killer? They also discuss how a robo-pope would be first truly infallible pontifex. In the second half of the show, Max talks to author, comedian and gold bug Dominic Frisby about death crosses and gold prices, and about independent currencies – whether the Keiser dollar, the Frisby pound or the bitcoin."

Bitcoin all time highs mentioned briefly at the very end.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=123620.0

http://rt.com/programs/keiser-report/episode-365-max-keiser

Bullish?

I don't care if you get it or not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhVp5lcWIrQ#t=1336s

"I see very clearly, very soon, within next 5 years, a global currency happening"

Scared yet?  Then sell.  We don't want you when this turns back around.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=94477.0

I've got a 5870 with blown fan bearings.  I was home at the time so it was shut down within 1 minute of when it started screaming.  I will update with more details later tonight (brand, etc), but it was happily chugging along at 380-400 MH/s when the fan died.  It should be fine once you replace the fan, but I will make no guarantees since you will be responsible for properly replacing it (make sure you have some thermal paste handy).  Anyway, bidding starts at 3 BTC and the price will include professional packaging and shipping to any US state except Alaska or Hawaii.  I will ship anywhere in the world, but pm me your address for the premium.

[Double Ramp]

seriously guys; watch out for the Double Ramp...