I want to share with you something that really gave me goosebumps.

As you know Bitcoin has also reached Israel, and I'm an Admin in a Hebrew facebook group regarding Bitcoin.

A few minutes ago, this guy posted the following image:



He has made a new line every 800 letters, and this is what he got:

In red, you can see "ביטקוין", which is the Hebrew for "Bitcoin".

Even more, in the line for the 'i' or 'י', Chapter 10, Verse 13, you can see "עשרים ואחת" which is twenty-one (in black).

Following this discovery I have read a bit through the Book of Daniel and found even scarier analogies - precious metals turning to dust, war of north & south... Writing this gives me goosebumps again...

Hi guys,
I have been looking for the right place to put my idea and get your input, and couldn't find the right place, so I'm putting it here.

My suggestion is to add a very simple (KISS) pruning method for the blockchain, so we don't need to worry (or worry much less) about block sizes and the bloating of the blockchain.

So, I suggest adding a snapshot block every X blocks (2016?), this snapshot dates back Y blocks (420000?) and consists of all the non-empty wallets and their balance.

After such a block is mined (let's call it S), all full-nodes validate it and can safely drop all blocks BEFORE S-Y.

Such nodes are not needed so far, as HEAD-Y < 0, but will start when we reach Y+2*X.

What do you think? Did I re-invent the wheel or is it new?

Thanks,
Gil

I think have a good solution for blockchain pruning (yeah, another one of those  )
I have been looking around and tried to find the right place to read about the latest solutions offered, and see if the problem has already been solved or if my idea has already been raised. Couldn't login to Bitcoin Foundation - it says they don't allow new users.
Where do you think is the best place to get updated and suggest my idea if it has not been offered already?

Hi!

I really want a Nexus 4 (16GB) phone.

However, Google Play is currently not available in Israel, so I'm looking for someone from the States that is willing to buy one for me.

The price is 349$ for the 16GB version. I will add a 1BTC payment for this favor + pay for all shipment fees.

I have no knowledge as of how to escrow this deal, but I have the Bitcoins needed.

This is a my first international non-face-to-face BTC purchase.

Next milestone 1B USD 

Hi.

Been looking around and thought the thing I'm missing most at the moment is a web page with graphs measuring bitcoin adoption rate.

In my mind I see a page with unique user count, number of unique wallets, "bitcoin" word occurrences count in google search etc.

Above all of those graphs and indicators, I would love to see a percentage, where "100%" means everyone is using only bitcoins, "0%" means nobody ever heard about bitcoins, and I would guess we're now at somewhere around "5%" or so.

What do you think? Is there such a web page that I missed?

Hi. I was wondering whether 1 MHash/sec is 10**6 or 2**20 hashes per second? Thanks.