Just discovered this trust feature on user's posts. Looks like a more sane version of OTC where users have to specify who they want to listen for feedback, cutting down on trolls / sockpuppets.

Are there much interest for a free faucet script? With the new dust limit, free mBTC would have to be tallied up per address and sent (in batches) when it crosses a threshold.

The script would be free, with source available, but not open source.

With Bitcoin, 1 BTC is 1 BTC. They're accepted in every BTC accepting site.

With USD, 1 USD is 1 USD. They're accepted in every USD accepting site.

With Ripple, 1 BTC-Bitstamp is 1 BTC-Bitstamp. You lose them when Bitstamp [gets hacked | by owners | raided by DHS].

You will lose your BTC-Bitstamp, because no site lasts forever. Eventually, it will get shut down, hacked, etc.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/eff-will-accept-bitcoins-support-digital-liberty

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=207921.0

It looks like he built up more posts this time on his sockpuppets (all registered 14 or 15th), and also locked the topic.

Please, add a giant red warning.

lessthan 64000   1dice9wVtrKZTBbAZqz1XiTmboYyvpD3t    97.6563%   1.004x   1.900%   98.100%   0.0100   500.0000
lessthan 60000   1diceDCd27Cc22HV3qPNZKwGnZ8QwhLTc    91.5527%   1.071x   1.900%   98.100%   0.0100   500.0000
lessthan 56000   1dicegEArYHgbwQZhvr5G9Ah2s7SFuW1y    85.4492%   1.147x   1.900%   98.100%   0.0100   500.0000
lessthan 52000   1dicec9k7KpmQaA8Uc8aCCxfWnwEWzpXE    79.3457%   1.235x   1.900%   98.100%   0.0100   500.0000
lessthan 48000   1dice9wcMu5hLF4g81u8nioL5mmSHTApw    73.2422%   1.338x   1.900%   98.100%   0.0100   500.0000
lessthan 32768   1dice97ECuByXAvqXpaYzSaQuPVvrtmz6    50.0000%   1.957x   1.900%   98.100%   0.0100   463.5871
lessthan 32000   1dice8EMZmqKvrGE4Qc9bUFf9PX3xaYDp    48.8281%   2.004x   1.900%   98.100%   0.0100   441.9523
lessthan 24000   1dice7W2AicHosf5EL3GFDUVga7TgtPFn    36.6211%   2.670x   1.900%   98.100%   0.0100   396.0801
lessthan 16000   1dice7fUkz5h4z2wPc1wLMPWgB5mDwKDx    24.4141%   4.003x   1.900%   98.100%   0.0100   321.1334
lessthan 12000   1dice7EYzJag7SxkdKXLr8Jn14WUb3Cf1    18.3105%   5.335x   1.900%   98.100%   0.0100   222.4240
lessthan 8000   1dice6YgEVBf88erBFra9BHf6ZMoyvG88    12.2070%   8.000x   1.900%   98.100%   0.0100   176.8535
lessthan 6000   1dice6wBxymYi3t94heUAG6MpG5eceLG1    9.1553%   10.666x   1.900%   98.100%   0.0100   176.7836
lessthan 4000   1dice6GV5Rz2iaifPvX7RMjfhaNPC8SXH    6.1035%   15.996x   1.900%   98.100%   0.0100   113.9458
lessthan 3000   1dice6gJgPDYz8PLQyJb8cgPBnmWqCSuF    4.5776%   21.326x   1.900%   98.100%   0.0100   84.0648
lessthan 2000   1dice6DPtUMBpWgv8i4pG8HMjXv9qDJWN    3.0518%   31.987x   1.900%   98.100%   0.0100   86.8392
lessthan 1500   1dice61SNWEKWdA8LN6G44ewsiQfuCvge    2.2888%   42.647x   1.900%   98.100%   0.0100   64.6107
lessthan 1000   1dice5wwEZT2u6ESAdUGG6MHgCpbQqZiy    1.5259%   63.968x   1.900%   98.100%   0.0100   42.7335
lessthan 512   1dice4J1mFEvVuFqD14HzdViHFGi9h4Pp    0.7813%   124.933x   1.900%   98.100%   0.0100   21.7121
lessthan 256   1dice3jkpTvevsohA4Np1yP4uKzG1SRLv    0.3906%   249.861x   1.900%   98.100%   0.0100   10.8126
lessthan 128   1dice37EemX64oHssTreXEFT3DXtZxVXK    0.1953%   499.717x   1.900%   98.100%   0.0100   5.3955
lessthan 64   1dice2zdoxQHpGRNaAWiqbK82FQhr4fb5    0.0977%   999.429x   1.900%   98.100%   0.0100   4.6861
lessthan 32   1dice2xkjAAiphomEJA5NoowpuJ18HT1s    0.0488%   1998.853x   1.900%   98.100%   0.0100   2.3419
lessthan 16   1dice2WmRTLf1dEk4HH3Xs8LDuXzaHEQU    0.0244%   3997.701x   1.900%   98.100%   0.0100   1.1706
lessthan 8   1dice2vQoUkQwDMbfDACM1xz6svEXdhYb    0.0122%   7995.397x   1.900%   98.100%   0.0100   0.5852
lessthan 4   1dice2pxmRZrtqBVzixvWnxsMa7wN2GCK    0.0061%   15990.789x   1.900%   98.100%   0.0100   0.2926
lessthan 2   1dice1Qf4Br5EYjj9rnHWqgMVYnQWehYG    0.0031%   31981.573x   1.900%   98.100%   0.0100   0.1463
lessthan 1   1dice1e6pdhLzzWQq7yMidf6j8eAg7pkY    0.0015%   64000.000x   1.844%   98.156%   0.0100   0.0731

http://blog.wmtransfer.com/en/blog/wmx-the-new-type-of-title-units

The new type of title units named WMX has come into service at WebMoney Transfer system.

WMX is a unit of measurement delegated by WebMoney Transfer users and stored in the Guarantor`s (INDX Transactions LTD) storage for property rights to publish entries in the distributed transactional database of the bitcoin.org peer-to-peer network.

You can perform operations with X-purses using ether WM Keeper Classic ver. 3.9.9.1 or WM Keeper Light. WMX funding and withdrawal are available at wmx.webmoney.ru service.

Please read the rules of WMX funding/withdrawal and the Agreement on Property Rights Keeping.

After depositing bitcoins to be stored in the Guarantor`s storage, the WebMoney Transfer user can exchange them into WMZ, WME or to other title units at wmeng.exchanger.ru and make a purchase at any of tens of thousands online-shops connected to the System.

You can now purchase BTC with a credit card, and various other payment methods (deposit with those methods first, then buy WMX, withdraw them). It's pretty huge.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=206948.msg2166173#msg2166173

This social experiment has ended - here was the goals:

1) teach people that Ripple BTCs are not real BTCs
2) teach people that your BTC.* can be substituted for anything you trust, automatically

There was also mass invasion of ripple.com/forum posters. It's not too hard to figure out who they are. Keep this in mind:

1) I have not profited at all from this.
2) Anyone who lost BTC.* had their BTCs exchanged by other people.
3) Anyone who I sent a BTC to could have redeemed someone else's Bitstamp or whatever IOU.

Please read http://ripplescam.org/ to learn more!

I HACKED A BANK!!!1111



Learn what XSS is before you go launch your "BTC-escrow Bank"

no you hacked a MySQL databse. get it right.

Go try actually hack the bank by playing with the demo account my friend.

http://btc-escrow.co/login

User - demo
pass - demo

if you can do some damage, then ill pay you 20bitcoins straight off.

20 BTC like you promised to 1GLadosEkeAsLReqS3yQ51E1R3wVtbJCDF please - everyone can see if you sent the coins or not.

The bank owner refuses to pay, as he thinks it is not hacking that I got into his admin panel, just cause he hadn't hooked a MySQL database to it so I couldn't do any damage (but there was no damage you could do).

[If you haven't, read RippleScam.org - and listen to it now until when the crackdown on cryptocurrencies happen.]

Seen the news earlier about Mt Gox and Dwolla?

It takes one court order from the DHS to seize all your Ripple balances - because Ripple is centralized, and it's closed source. Joel isn't going to go to prison for 10 years just so you can have your XRPs and imaginary BTCs.


If you haven't, read RippleScam.org - and listen to it now until when the crackdown on cryptocurrencies happen.

[What if the Department of Homeland Security seizes the gateway's stored bitcoins, like what happened earlier?]

Your balances on Ripple are not real. They don't exist, they never existed in the first place and will never exist. Some people honor their printed Ripple balances, but for how long?

It doesn't have to be malicious by the gateway.

What if the gateway loses all the bitcoins through a natural disaster and a poor back up strategy?

What if the Department of Homeland Security seizes the gateway's stored bitcoins, like what happened earlier?

The answer is.. nothing changes. You never owned anything of existence in the first place.

"We can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years. Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella and Tor seem to be holding their own." - Satoshi Nakamoto

Napster was a centralized network controlled by one company. It was closed source. You had to trust files that they were legit.

Ripple is a centralized network controlled by one company. It is closed source. You have to trust gateways that they actually pays out.

Bitcoin is an decentralized network, controlled by every peer (that's you) who run Bitcoin and enforces the network rules. It's open source, and you don't have to trust anyone. A bitcoin, is a bitcoin that can't be seized without physical or malware intrusion - because it's enforced by every peer.

History repeats itself. Don't blindly follow Satoshi, but as someone who has created Bitcoin, you have to give their word a moment of thought.

I'm using the term apparent because despite using the terms 'we' referring to opencoin inc multiple times, I (certainly) hope he's not actually hired by opencoin inc. Such as:

Yes, Bitcoin is premined, by Satoshi, despite the genesis block including a news string that proves the coin was not premined.

MtGox premined bitcoins because of the gox hack that bought down bitcoin's price on that exchange to $0.01 (wut)

"you -have- to construct payment networks around debt" despite the fact that Bitcoin isn't based on debt.

"Bitcoin (and other altcoin clones) don't rely on debt transfers to facilitate transactions" Oh yeah, so you have to construct payment networks around debt. Sounds legit.

"if Ripple is compromised by bad UNL hygiene we can abandon the network, and the underlying currency we have will still be in our possession" Correct.

"Whereas if Bitcoin is compromised due to a 51% attack your Bitcoins are now completely worthless." You still have your bitcoins under your 51% attack, 51% attacks just makes future transactions reorderable.

I'm not even going to approve the comment because of how retarded it is.

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[it is a question of when]

Ripple™ is a trademark of OpenCoin Inc, a private for-profit company. I am breaking their Terms of Service by using the trademark Ripple without permission. Sue me.

Satoshi Nakamoto:

The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust thats required to make it
work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of
fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust. Banks must be trusted to hold our
money and transfer it electronically, but they lend it out in waves of credit bubbles
with barely a fraction in reserve. We have to trust them with our privacy, trust them
not to let identity thieves drain our accounts. Their massive overhead costs make
micropayments impossible.

With Bitcoin, you hold your own money. You control it.

With Ripple, you don't hold money. You hold debt, IOUs. You hold debt issued by a "gateway", a central authority.

As it is debt, they can print as much as they want, when they want. (Aka debasing).

>> See here, I printed myself 1 trillion bitcoins on ripple.

With Bitcoin, miners are required to use their computational power to earn new Bitcoins and transaction fees.

With Ripple, OpenCoin Inc issued themselves 100 billion ripples. They promised to only keep half (50%) for themselves.


With Bitcoin, nobody can spend your money without your private keys.

With Ripple, as the server source code has not being released and it is still proprietary, OpenCoin Inc can change the rules and spend your money.


Bitcoin is v2.0 of money - where you control it in a democratic process via mining. Core network rules are embedded in open source code.

Ripple is v1.1 of money - building on top of existing central banks, and fiat money. Their current marketing efforts are set to overtake and destroy BTC, with their centralized system.


With Bitcoin, 1 BTC is 1 BTC. They're accepted in every BTC accepting site.

With USD, 1 USD is 1 USD. They're accepted in every USD accepting site.

With Ripple, 1 BTC-Bitstamp is 1 BTC-Bitstamp. You lose them when Bitstamp [gets hacked | by owners | raided by DHS]. And it is a question of when - no site lasts forever.


Learn more: http://ripplescam.org/

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I would like to advertise on a subreddit, however reddit's self serve advertising platform only takes US/Can/UK credit cards.

1. List an ad on /r/bitcoin with a budget of $30 per day.
2. Fund it the ad for 3 days at first.
3. Maintain an active presence in the comments. Learn about coinchat first.
4. When the ad appears on /r/bitcoin and I verify it, I'll send you $94.5 worth of BTC.

I might continue advertising on reddit if the results are good enough. Send me a PM if you're interested in doing this!

[MOD NOTE:Locked the thread because the raffle is over]

MOD NOTE:
Locked the thread because the raffle is over



(You can join if you're not a newbie too )

You need at least 10 posts to carry links in your signature! Please only participate if/when you have 10 posts.

1. Replace your sig with the following:

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It looks like this:

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1 BTC raffle - free to enter! You can include your bitcoin address here if you wish

2. Reply with a BTC address here.

3. After 1 month from now, a random winner will receive 1 BTC sent to their address. Simple as that. You must have this in your sig for the entire duration of this raffle.

The prize will be prorated to 0.01 BTC / reply if there are less than 100 entries to this raffle. So if 70 people enter, then the prize will be BTC0.70