I'm looking for $100-$300 (you pick) in Bi-Lo gift cards to be sent via mail. I'll pay on receipt of cards, but lock in at Gox current rate.

http://www.godaddy.com/gift/gift-cards.aspx

I'll pay 7BTC for a $70 card. Offer good for a few hours. PM me to commit and get email.

You send first, payment when I get the card. Need a little rep, no brand newbies please, sorry.

I'm looking for a seal (the animal) showing it's belly. On the belly is a tattoo of three clubs (like a caveman's club) arranged to look like a club (playing card symbol). The seal is wearing sunglasses. The seal is grey.

I'm looking for good work and probably a few drafts. If you can do it let me know and offer a price.

It says:

Exception: NSt8ios_base7failureE
CAutoFile::read : end of file
C:\Program Files (x86)\Bitcoin\bitcoin.exe in AppInit()

Then when I press OK I get the same thing again and then it tells me that runtime has terminated the program in an unusual way.

I'm guessing something important on my machine is corrupt?

Bounty added.

I almost spent some coins during a rescan without thinking. This obviously can cause problems, right? I had a spend that wasn't refound yet and it probably would have used some of the coins that were already spent. Should there be a warning now that rescan is automatic?

I'm thinking take the classic bitcoin coin and make it dark blue and put it in place of the top globe. Maybe write "Bitcoin" across the top. Details up to you.

Make it look good large and small. I was going to just pay the first good one, but I don't want a rush job. If you think you can do it well and just need time say it and it's yours.

I'm thinking 0.5BTC and 2BTC more if wikileaks puts the little one on their donate page.


 

Firstbits.com makes addresses easy to remember and share. More info in this thread.

I think the most valuable use will be for in-person bitcoin transactions, but it is useful online too, especially where space is limited.

Under your avatar is a good place to put your firstbits.

To get 2 cents:
1. Go to firstbits.com and look up the firstbits of one of your addresses, the address must be in the chain so that it has a firstbits address. You can pick a used address or your can send any amount to yourself at a new address.
2. Put "Firstbits: [your firstbits]" or Firstbits.com/[your firstbits] in the "personal text" section of your profile.
3. Post in this thread to make sure I notice you.
4. Wait until Friday when I start paying. I'll keep watching through the weekend in case you see this thread late.

Since the main marketplace forum no longer has buying or selling posts in it it's been overrun with gambling games. I think a gambling games subforum is appropriate.

Bigger picture I think it needs to be Goods, Services, Currency Exchange, Gambling Games.

The main Marketplace forum can be for general bitcoin market topics like advertising tips and reputations and shopping cart interfaces.

Is this something that can be bypassed? Would you leave an unencrypted wallet behind it?

And while we're talking about it. If I don't browse to anything the least bit shady I'm not going to get a 'buntu worm guaranteed, right?

Is there anything stopping this?

1. get 25000 coins stolen
2. after a few confirmations submit a tx with 1000BTC fee that comes from the now empty address
3. The fee could be claimed by rewriting the block that the first tx happened in.

Obviously this could be used for bad (double spends) too. Right now it can't be done with normal client, and miners aren't on the lookout anyway, but is it possible?

What would one more bitcoin be worth to you?

I'm interested to know if anyone thinks their marginal coin is worth far more or less than market rates. If an extra coin is worth less than market rate to you, why aren't you selling some? If a coin is worth more to you than market rate, why aren't you buying? Do we really all value an extra coin in the same narrow range?

FirstBits.com tells you how much of a Bitcoin address* you need to remember to uniquely identify it, usually only 4-7 characters. Share this 'firstbits' address and friends can find your whole address easily.

This is perfect for when the person paying you does not have immediate access to a computer and you trust them to pay you later.

Meeting someone to make a cash<-->BTC exchange? Just remember your firstbits. Say it and your partner can have your address in their client in seconds.

Here is another potential use. A shop displays an address for you to pay, you need only type the firstbits address into your phone, no need for typing 33 characters or taking a picture of a QR code.

I'm sure people will come up with uses I haven't thought of. I expect that the ability to pass addresses like this will open up some new possibilities.

*Your address must already be in the chain in order to have a firstbits address. You can send a token amount to yourself at any address to get it in the chain.

edit: Firstbits addresses are case-insensitive. This makes them a lot easier to remember and say and doesn't make them much longer on average.

I think I got a fairly clever scam/trojan/something attack.

SilverKnife sent me a message addressed to someone else and quickly wrote another saying opps, ignore that. But the original message happened to include a link to a faster miner he knows about.

Maybe it's harmless (I doubt) but may as well take this time to give a general warning.

Don't run code from strangers, especially Bitcoin strangers, they know you've got a wallet.

edit: And it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to wait until like 24hrs after a members 5th post or something to let them PM.

Starting after July 1st, lasting 1-3 months. 1-2br. Near BART best. Looking to spend ~70/mo, flexible.

According to Urbandictionary.com defellatio is "While a male receives head, something is done to make his erection disappear". This definition is not useful. Now I can't find a link, but according to Mises.org defellatio is "An increase in blowjobs today at the expense of blowjobs in the future."

I think this points to an overlooked weakness of the Bitcoin System. It will suffer from major defellatio. This is bad by anyone's definition.

Suppose you give blowjobs. Of course you get paid for them. But if you take bitcoin as payment you will get fewer and fewer bitcoins/blowjob over time. If you are rational (and I know you are) then you will do ALL of your blowjobs today leaving very few (or none!) for future days. Some people might suggest that this is not a problem, but I suspect that they just don't understand how important blowjobs are.

I'm here to solve this problem, but actually I don't think it can be solved and the Bitcoin System is going to shrivel up.

Cliffs: FDA says birth pools are a medical device, seizes shipment, returns shipment, says they still own the pools and "will be back".

http://blog.cuntastic.org/2011/05/27/interview-with-barbara-harper/

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/card-data-is-stolen-and-sold/

This just makes me think "wtf is wrong with the people who run this system?" The best they have is "send the exact data that can be used for unlimited charges, then if any problems happen we'll all have a headache and roll it back probably" what the hell, it's so dumb.

This was kind of handy, but now it's a drag. I'm on a slow connection and I just had to click post 3 (3!) times. I didn't see a way to turn it off, do we really need it?

A lot of people have been making gambling games and it got me thinking.

Sell one time games sendable via email. Maybe you have the game on a site already, just add the option to pay for a game and send the link to someone instead of playing it yourself.

This could be a tool for spreading Bitcoin. I imagine the site partnering with Bitcoin shops so a winner is directed to something fun to buy right away.

Also I've always liked the idea of selling guaranteed winning scratch off cards as presents. A loser is lame and seems like a nothing gift sometimes, but a winner can make a day. Also you can give a lot more than you get credit for that way, if you're into that.

I have an idea for a site. It will need to keep a current database (listen to the chain I guess) and look up data for users from a list of all known bitcoin addresses and the block number of the first transaction to the address. It seems simple to me, but I don't know what language one uses for this. If there is one clear choice please tell me and I'll modify the title.

It would be nice if the same person was willing to help with domain name and hosting stuff. If you have these sort of skills PM me and I'll share more details and you can make me an offer. I'm looking for low rates but not pathetically low.