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" One [could] not merely confiscate bitcoins", gloats a forum member regarding the Cypris bank crisis. Bitcoin is great, but it's not immune to 'powers that be' corruption. Governments could legislate 1 a 'buy back'. Corporations could seize assets via heavy handed legal action. ISPs or agencies could subjugate the network via technical (ISP/Backbone) level filtering, man-in-the-middle attacks, denial of service. What could be done to the bitcoin network to prevent - say a government, corporation - from network/developer/miner coercion? How resilient would Bitcoin be to any of these 'social engineering' scenarios? At the technical level, consider ISP port filtering (ala Bitorrent) (I have not read the whitepaper as to how much thought was given to this). Bitcoin Network Monitor, Bitcoin address <=> IP monitor, ISP subpoena, etc. If BTC nodes end up requiring services similar to TOR to survive, what chance does legitimate BTC usage have? Offline, deposit only 'cold' wallets could protect against technical efforts. Pre-existing software security solutions might help when applied to BTC (i.e. randomize Bitcoin port, bundle Bitcoin-QT with TOR, one click cold wallets...) Hoarding physical cash might prevent 'bank' level manipulation from effecting you, similar to cold bitcoin wallets. Think of physical fiat as a cold wallet, and electronic fiat as online wallets. The benefits of 'running your own bank' might not seem significant if you can't connect to the network (i.e. you can't process transactions). /TheEndIsNighRant 1 1933 Emergency Banking Act authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to order any individual or organization in the United States to deliver any gold that they possess or have custody of to the Treasury in return for "any other form of coin or currency coined or issued under the laws of the United States - http://tucnak.fsv.cuni.cz/~calda/Documents/1930s/EmergBank_1933.html |
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Purchased "Hack, Slash, Loot" during Steam quick sale.
Responsive friendly service.
Recommended.
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in terms of venue's, surely someone has fingers in the pies of universities - I can't imagine some of those types wouldn't at least raise their eyebrows.
double negative.
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Something to come out of this is the need for a Not For Profit Bitcoin organisation in Australia to promote and publicise bitcoin. We will need some Australian Bitcoiners to form a management group and would like to hold our 1st full meeting at Bitcoin AU 2011 and invite all Australian bitcoiners to participate  I'd like to express my desire to be involved / part of this idea. Oh, and in other news I own bitcoin.org.au I have limited experience with NFP, insofar as a member, never on a board or whatnot. I am however a somewhat active entrepreneur, between enterprises, and the idea of starting Bitcoin Dot Org (or whatever nomenclature) is enticing. Expressions of interest to discuss this further? |
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persistance got you down? unable to force your sync into your newfangled key? have no fear... bootstrap is here. whipped up a bootstrap turns a virgin linuxcoin boot into a mother of all bitcoins. initial version does the following - launches the ATI license agreement (read fast, mash enter)
- launches the timezone set utility
- installs a screensaver file set to 1 minute, no fade, blank screen
- attempts to make sure screensaver is running (needs work)
- changes to cgminer-2.0.3 directory, ready for action
has bugs, read the code before u run it mmmkay? public domain, unless otherwise stated. useful when persistance isn't from an lxterminajig git clone git://github.com/metonymous/lc.git
cd lc
cat bootstrap.sh # for what could it do? it might be a bad bad cat
#./bootstrap.sh Then voilà! My scar! Pepito knows what to do. Did you know the voice for Madeleine was replaced by the voice for Chloe in season 2 onwards? True story. Now, run "./cgminer <options>" from that dir Or over-write the default cgminer if u desire. I said good day, sir. |
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melbournite, count me in. I'd submit the form but it be broke  |
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Proof of concept by Metonymous Online. Run it on a secondary monitor and feel like you mean business. OS X? Download yourself the GoxSaver Mt. Gox Stats Visualiser (ZIP contains an app). Feature requests? Show me the BTC. Serious enquiries email admin@metonymous.com.  |
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pushpoold is if you want some type of logging/administration/tracking otherwise it's very opaque, unless you have GH/s I guarantee you'll get anxious about whether or not your pool is working - bitcoin won't show you if anything is happening... perhaps this solution is more to your taste - http://forum.bitcoin.org/?topic=1458.0 |
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Question for the donors, re: clarification of pool type required for bounty - Public pool with registration/signup automated payouts(i.e. deepbit, eligius, continuum)
- Private pool with administrative interface (with or without automated payouts)
Specifically, would a front end for pushpool which had share tracking per miner & miner management, or is there an expectation that automated payouts be part of the system. Is there an expectation also that users be able to manage their workers (would require user management, username/password, create/delete/forgotten password, email notification etc. etc. etc. etc.) |
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The Diablo miner wasn't specifically what I was referring to, as you are correct, it works as suggested (although not in my card).
The RPCMiner, however, doesn't work (sorry for the confusion)
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hey, don't bother if it's too much work, people like me number few
1st gen MacBook Pro's have Intel Core Duo's, which are 32bit x86...
Could you possibly compile it somewhat universal?
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Anyone have luck getting this working on BSD?
Does OS X count as BSD? I'll be publishing my efforts to get it to compile on OS X soonish. Frick'n hell OS X makes it difficult. Gnulib, endian problems, aye aye aye. Anyway, I managed to get it down to 4 linking problems, but no idea if the binary would have run... |
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As difficult as it can be to get the software compiled and working, I'd like to extend my thanks and gratitude to jgarzik for open sourcing pushpool and the cpu miner. You may cop a lot of flack for it not being "easy" to setup, but the community is strides further than it would have been had you not stuck by the OSS philosophy to such an extent. Anyway, thanks again |
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No bounty? Is there a trustful btc website set up for pooled bounties? Like clearcoin, escrow or something? I admire greatly that jgarzik has released so much of his code. The incentives to *not* release code ATM is greater than the incentives *to* release it. I don't know who's gonna donate much to this bounty, but I for one am amidst development of a complete stack, and given enough incentive could release it - eventually. I've already got a tonne of scripts and such, and every time I go to push it to github I stop and go... wait, don't help the competition. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's thought along such lines  |
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hey all, I couldn't grok blkmond, or seemingly get it working. it runs and sits there... doing nothing even when a block turns up. Anyway; from that engineering "do it yourself" mentality I wrote a substitute that operates in possibly the least efficient way possible, it just polls bitcoind over RPC ever 0.1 of a second. Huzzah! Anyway it works, and it's a "fixed cost" work, it won't increase usage if you increase pool size. I jokingly called it pollpokepush.py (it's even fun to say!), To get it working: #!/usr/bin/env python
from jsonrpc.authproxy import AuthServiceProxy
import sys
import os
access = AuthServiceProxy("http://RPCUSER:RPCPASS@127.0.0.1:8332")
blockcount = access.getblockcount()
from time import sleep
while(True):
newcount = access.getblockcount()
if newcount > blockcount:
os.system("killall -s SIGUSR1 pushpoold")
sys.stdout.write("B")
sys.stdout.flush()
blockcount = newcount
sleep(1)
else:
sleep(0.1)
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Was thinking of setting up something like this, congrats on pulling it of.
Can Java access Cuda/OpenCL?
Oh, and from a HCI perspective, it'd be nicer if the start button became a stop button after being clicked; or that they were next to each other; or that it was more obvious that the start button had been pressed (I'm colourblind, I had to watch the numbers to see if I'd actually pushed it).
Also, it sux that leaving the page to register stops the miner, dunno waht u can do about that, maybe make the signup link on the front page ajax with login pop-over?
Good work anyway.
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The background image you use makes it really hard to read. Duley noted; (edit removed dead link) |
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