I will be tagging forum topics with [BUYING] and [SELLING] tags to make it easier for forum users to navigate.

You are welcome to object to this policy if you feel it is a bad policy, etc.

I am willing to buy three good 5 minute tutorial screencasts for the following three areas:

1. Beginning Javascript

2. Beginning Python

3. Basic Sorting Aglorithms (demonstrated in javascript)

The format will be very plain, no frill, no music, no fancy special effect, etc. The lecturer will not appear in the video, etc. Look to KhanAcademy for inspiration.

The code shown must works and should not be too difficult to code. If you make mistakes in the process of coding, that's ok. Just make sure you get it done by 5 minutes. Be clear in your speaking and make sure people can understand without difficulty.

To prevent duplication of work, you are welcome to offer your service in the thread and lock in. I will set a reasonable two days deadline.

All videos and content commissioned by me will be placed under the public domain to the greatest extent possible. I will use them to start a new site.

All videos are to be delivered privately, not published anywhere else. I wish for the privilege of being the first to publish it.

Recommended encoding: H.264 in MP4 at 1280x720 and AAC or whatever happens to work for youtube.

I think it's inevitable that the namecoin discussion will become an entire category in itself.

I am looking  to draft a formal employment contract that people will sign cryptographically. The goal here is to formulate a clear procedure for employment. I am not a lawyer or a grammatican, so I am relying  on people to offer critiques and corrections so  that people can't twist the contract(employer or employee, or otherwise)

Here we go:

TERMS

1. The price of employment shall be [X] Bitcoin per week.

2. Negotiation of the price of employment shall be done before next [Y] day. New price shall reflected in the amendment section.

3. Both employee and employer may terminate the contract at any time.

4. Notice of termination should be delivered within 24 hours of decision using the noted [D1] for employee or [D2] for employer.

5. For each successful week of employment, the contract will noted the successful employment.

6. [] are variables that must be filled out for the contract to be valid.

7. The arranged payment must be made for this week even if termination notice is delivered.

VARIABLES

I am looking for a writer that will reliably write an article every week and reviews other people's articles. The position will starts with the pay rate of 2 BTC per week.

Your job:

1. Write an article every week about cryptography, economics, politics, etc...all of which have to do with bitcoin.

2. Peer review at least two authors' article every week. If there's no authors, you're a lucky bastard.

Keep in mind that the pay-rate of 2 BTC is better than the 1.66 BTC per article commission but you will also have the tedious job of critiquing some other guys' article.

I know the rate is a lot worse than The Bitcoin Sun, but the Bitcoin Weekly is a capital and revenue constrained operation. We also accumulated a lot of trust by simply paying writers so you can trust the Bitcoin Weekly to reliably pay for articles.

Since satoshi has been confirmed to be not coming back, the bitcoin community now have to fend for ourselves.

I propose we make a bitcoin holiday in honor of our legendary anonymous founder and to observe the fact that the bitcoin community will be just fine after the inventor of bitcoin left.


Even if Gavin is hit by the bus tomorrow, we can live.

I do not know how to profit from my creation: http://bitcoinweekly.com

The business operate at a loss because I have to pay writers. Also,  Operation Fabulous ads don't rake in enough revenues to cover the cost of operation. I dislike the idea of putting more ads on the site...

I also posted to http://witcoin.com for the purpose of attracting traffics, with the occasional profit.

I got some donations from time to time, but it seems that I am still losing money at a lower rate.

Summary: Revenue < Expense.

I am interested in hearing business idea from you guys and see how I can capture value without detracting from the value of my site.

As self-appointed project lead of the chrome-bitcoin project, I would like to see a standardization of API across bitcoin wallet providers so that bitcoin users can easily use multiple wallets at once.

You may remember this thread: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2280.0

In any case, I am continuing maintenance of this project. Plus, it's a good learning experience for me.

However, I  am skeptical of the possibility of building a full pledge bitcoin node within chrome. I think a far more fruitful endeavorer is to work with bitcoin banks/wallet providers on a standardized interface so that users can sign up with any wallet service they want.

The codebase is here: https://github.com/kiba/chrome-bitcoin

Being the ever greedy person I am, I am going to ask for donation for my otherwise unpaid effort:

1BeFSdc4JNKTBg8h1Fw1TuKHGs17suAjKP

TODO at present:

1. Display a list of received transaction
2. Cleanup the codebase. (Damn disorganized and repeat itself too much.)

I propose an Operation Fabulous ads to be placed on the top of the forum so that the site will support itself. 

I suggest someone make a movie about who is satoshi with stick figure as art style.

It will be incorporating a number of memes:

1. Alpaca sock crypto-terrorist. That mean he also ride an Alpaca.

2. Satoshi is a time traveler from the future and he was created by multinational Asian megacorporation to save humanity from fiat currency.

3. Incorporate this poem:

Satoshi is everywhere and nowhere.
Satoshi could be all of us, or none of us.
Satoshi came from nowhere and dissappeared to nowhere, but his coins are everywhere.
Satoshi has no past, no future, and no present, but his creation is immortal.
Satoshi is an idea.  Satoshi has inspired all of us.  Satoshi is a legend.

My imagination is that as he face down feds bankers in a paintball shootout that will decide or not he get to release the bitcoin source code, the poem in #3 is spoken.

Hmm..I am thinking of starting a robotic courier network...for real!

I think the first step is to start small, yes?

Delivery of USB drives is ideal! The first route between two bitcoiner that is the shortest distance will have to be determined.

That mean:

1. We can start with a small robot prototype..and can be used to conduct the first courier transaction!

2. Start in an area where bitcoiners are unusually concentrated such as New York and Washington, D.C. area!

3. Start with delivery of a cheap but still valuable good.

http://operationafabulous.com

It seem that the site is down and I am advertising losing revenues.  I PMed biomike but I am not sure if he knows or not.

Well, somebody wants a bitcoin t-shirt!

http://twitter.com/#!/holmesworcester/status/55784600844255232

What we need to do:

1. Get a t-shirt store to accept bitcoin.

2. Sell bitcoin t-shirt for bitcoin.


Where the money would go?

1. Pay for the hosting cost.

2. Fund bitcoin bounties.

Guys, such an important news should not be neglected. I'll get started with something:




The producers of http://weusecoins.com won the first, as well the biggest of all bitcoin bounty. Bounties are sponsored by community members to award members for working on bitcoin economic development tasks. The prize money for this bounty was a total of 8511.96 BTC.

[The Game]

So guys, I am going to put my reputation on the line and everything.  

As soon as I am finished with a multiplayer tetris game and can put it in maintenance mode(fix bugs and all), I will be working on my next video game project. It will use bitcoin, require bitcoin, and be funded with bitcoin. It will be placed under the public domain.


The Game

Here's a brief description from another thread:

My game is in essence Globulation 2 crossed with core wars.

Basically, you have a colony of square cells in a square world that reacts to certain rules. Your job is to basically make the colony gathers energy, stockpile, reproduce, and destroy the opposing enemy colony all with indirect operations.

You can control one cells at a time but it will be hard for you to organize an military strike, gather energy en masses. But you can organize them through swarm logics, chemical emitter cells, and other tools of the trade.

For example, you could combine a danger sensor cell with a "avoid emitter cell" to create a cell that tells the rest of the colony to avoid an area in case of an enemy attack.

I will have a site up and some codebase up as soon as possible when I reached 1200 BTC in pledged funds. If you're not confident about my coding ability, you will see my multiplayer tetris clone game pretty soon.

Pledge Rewards

What's in it for you to pledge?  Well, there's several levels of reward for pledging and more information will come up as soon as I figured out the pledge level. But here's the initial levels:

Level 0: Any BTC amount: You will get energy credit and an account as soon as the game enter beta.

Level 1: 5 BTC and higher: You will get your name on the credit page.

Level 2: 10 BTC and higher: Access to the game forum. 1 memory slot.

Level 3: 25 BTC and higher: alpha tester. 5 memory slots.

Level 4: 50 BTC and higher: You get a map named after you! 10 memory slots.

Level 5: 75 BTC and higher: coding session via skype for an hour. Views my coding at work and chitchat about the game for an hour. 15 memory slot.

Level 6: 100 BTC and higher: 30 memory slots.

Level 7: 250 BTC and higher: 50 memory slots.

Remember, the more BTC you pledge, the more stuff you get. However, only memory slots don't accumulates.

Note: Memory slots are simply genetic information that you can carry to each and every game. It give you great advantages if you can utilize it to save effective design. Otherwise you will only have human memory to save the design, which in the heat of battle, can be hard to remember.

Note2: I won't be responsible for holding your money in escrow. If you are a trusted member of the community, this is your opportunity to earn some reputation by being an escrow agent for this project.

How Will I Use The Money

What would I used the money for? It will be saved for "rainy day" fund and I'll use the money to sustain myself to work on this game. This way, I will be able to work on the game full time.

The Deal

When I complete this project, the game will be public domain and its source code glory will be revealed for all to see. Plus, pledgers get goodies.

The Price

I am funding this game "kickstarter style". I am looking for 1200 BTC in pledges.

Stay tuned for more information in the future.

The Pledgers
Pledge:

1. em3rgentOrdr - 50 BTC
2. molecular - 25 BTC
3. BlueMatt - 5 BTC
4. hozer - 50 BTC
5. diablo - 10 BTC
6. SmokeTooMuch - 10 BTC
7. dirtyfilthy - 50 BTC
8. ducki2p - 50 BTC
9. EvanR - 10 BTC
10. BioMike - 50 BTC
11. AtroXious - 5 BTC
12. noagendamarket - 20 BTC
Total: 315/1200 BTC.
Percentage Raised: 27.9166667

Ladies and gentlemen!

I announced the animation bounty prize winner to be http://weusecoins.com.

A total of 8511.96 BTC was rewarded. See this blockexplorer history detail: http://blockexplorer.com/address/17eSZivDJpuJp9TxezTXVxkgLbsr3XZM1i

Thread on the voting process:

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5140.0

Thread on the animation bounty thread: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=697.0

Can you guys come up with a good game name by 0:00 UTC April 5? If you can, you will win 6 BTC. But if it is not better than the name choice, you will get 5 BTC. Fair?

My current choice is "Automata RTS".

Here's a description that will help you figure out a good name:

My game is in essence cellular automata crossed with core wars.

My game is in essence Globulation 2 crossed with core wars.

Basically, you have a colony of square cells in a square world that reacts to certain rules. Your job is to basically make the colony gathers energy, stockpile, reproduce, and destroy the opposing enemy colony all with indirect operations.

You can control one cells at a time but it will be hard for you to organize an military strike, gather energy en masses. But you can organize them through swarm logics, chemical emitter cells, and other tools of the trade.

For example, you could combine a danger sensor cell with a "avoid emitter cell" to create a cell that tells the rest of the colony to avoid an area in case of an enemy attack.

A mises.org blog post called to my attention the unemployment rate of teenagers.

http://blog.mises.org/16222/set-kids-free-to-work/

In 2000, 34 percents of boys are employed. Now in 2010, 14 to 15 percents of boys are employed. Same trend for girls as well.

However, old people employment rate went up. Back in 2000, 29 percents of men aged 60 to 69 are employed. In 2010, it's 34 percents of men are holding a job.

That's pretty bad for kids. They have less and less job experience. They will probably go to college with a loan and will have no job experience whatsoever too. We have structural problems in our economy as requirement tighten. (need college degrees and stuff)


So guys, with bitcoin, teenagers can work unregulated and unscrutinized by the law. They will gain experience necessary to succeed in the job market. If they're good, nobody will be the wiser and will pay them lot of  bitcoin.

The only question is how we reach them and expand our job market?

I lost a job with Nefario a few weeks ago without knowing it. Today, he informed me the reasons why I lost my job.

I did the work and meet the deadline as far as I know. However, he said that I was unenthusiastic, slow with my work, poor communicator and was not very autonomous and that I was only in it for the money. He did not informed me weeks ago as to why he have an issue with my work and hence discontinuation of no more jobs. of work.

So, I do not have opportunities to fix my mistakes and I have the impression that I have an amicable relationship with my employer. That was not the case!

Consider the implication that my reputation will be damaged if Nefario told others how bad my work was and I did not know of his opinion. I cannot fix it until after the fact!

The pay was very good for what I can get in the job market and he promised me work and work for months. It would be better if I had known it way back then that he did not like my work and will not continue to employ me.

Unemployment due to perceived or real bad performance is bad, but false hope of employment is the worst thing.

Others who worked with Nefario may have good experience with him, but not me.

Truth-telling and accepting truth and doing it in a timely manner is a very important quality in an entrepreneur or a boss. Tell me what I don't want to hear, now! I want to know he fires me, now! Not several weeks later.

That is the extent of my complaint on Nefario.

P.S.

This is not an April Fool joke.