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Here's another rather radical idea: Bitcoin addresses as usernames.
In order to "sign up" for the forum, you must have a legitimate Bitcoin address with a balance greater than 0.1 BTC. You use this address to digitally sign a message verifying that you own the address. In order to trade on the forum, your Bitcoin address must have a balance greater than, say, 2 BTC. Usernames are simply full Bitcoin addresses (or firstbits, if you want to shorten them up a bit).
This would virtually eliminate forum spam, removing one major headache from administration. It would make sockpuppeting more expensive (would have to put 0.1 BTC "on hold" for every sockpuppet you wanted to create) and more difficult to conceal (any accidental link between Bitcoin addresses could be proven by anyone, not just the forum administration looking at IP addresses). It would also force people brand new to Bitcoin to actually acquire some before joining in on any discussions, bringing up the quality of the discussions that do take place. But it wouldn't actually cost the forum users anything.
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Well, I remember when I posted pictures of one of my coins on Reddit, people were "trolling" it by sending various small amounts to it. I just said, hey, more bonus for the buyer!
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It has arrived, thank you for all the help guys. I'm extremely happy  Awesome, glad to see this worked out! I was going to say, if you see where the last acceptance scan was, you could probably phone the postal hub that it was located at and ask them. Looks like they were just being slow  The last thing the tracking information said on USPS's website is that the package left my city. Even now, that's all it says. |
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I got an email about this one, but the link was to an auction that ended a week ago. Whoops.
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Cheers! It was a pleasure doing business with you funkymunky.  |
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I'm just looking at what offers I can get. Not really selling unless I get an offer I can't refuse.
Check ebay prices to get an idea of what I might be looking for. Might be giving a slight discount if paying in bitcoins.
eBay prices are nonsense though When you buy bitcoin from me next I will use eBay prices, yeah? Lol Why are eBay prices nonsense? After fees are accounted for (~10% of final auction value), it's just as good a number as any. I've sold a couple of 2011 coins on eBay for almost $1,000 each, which would make ~$900 BTC for the same coins fair in my book. |
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What does "activity" actually represent? Time since first login on the forum? A complex function of days + time logged in + posts? The number of posts in the last X days? Something else?
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thanks for the feedback, my last question is:
is there a feedback from people who received their units? is mining using them is working as promised? is the speed as promised?
do they get bitcoins according to the current difficulty?
Yes, there's a lot of feedback on that. Many people have posted pictures, videos, reviews, etc describing their new miners. They perform as promised (well, with the exception of sucking up a lot more electricity than originally advertised in 2011). The speed is usually better than promised, and Bitcoins are mined normally, just like any other device running at the same speed. Look in the Custom Hardware section of this forum, or browse around on Butterfly Labs' forum to find some of these feedback posts. |
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do you advice me to order, taking into consideration the delivery is 100 days, and hash difficulty is changing every 2 weeks as per what i heard from a friend.
is it worthy? going to 50GHs/60GHs?
i need your advices for a beginner.
With the recent dip in Bitcoin price, I'm not sure that I would. Difficulty is shooting up while price is going down, which means profitability has the potential to not be profitable. |
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I tried starting up a Bitcoin forum back in 2011. It was largely unsuccessful, despite being the 2nd result in Google when searching anything like "Bitcoin forum". I own bitcoin-forum.net, and would be game to try starting something up again, now that the Bitcoin userbase is much, much larger than it was in 2011.
I prefer more modern, web 2.0 stuff. The forum software I ran was Xenforo, and, while it was neat and pretty, there are still some minor issues with it. Because of this, I am pretty open-minded about what software to use, depending on what is necessary to integrate the features I'd want.
All of this said, I would be interested in being involved in a project to develop a new, better forum. And here's what I'd do differently: I'd charge a small amount of Bitcoin for each account, say, 0.02 or 0.05 BTC (no one could register or post without paying the Bitcoin first), and hand out bans liberally (though where appropriate, of course). Sockpuppet? You're banned. Post something rude/disrespectful? You get a warning, and get banned the next time you do it. Etc, etc. This would provide a small stream of revenue to support the forums, keep the forums useful and relevant, and keep all the trolls at bay (unless they just have a ton of money to blow on alt accounts).
Maybe too much Facism ? Adolf Well, there's a dang lot of freedom here, and look what happens? If people want a clean forum with useless stuff gone, it's only going to happen with some set rules that are strictly abided by. If you think a decentralized self-moderating solution would work, just look at reddit to see that it doesn't (not saying that reddit is bad, only that it rewards the bottom-of-the-barrel sorts of discussions). |
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My opinion, the next boost will come when VC-funded companies start releasing the awesome products and services they have in the works now.
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The only thing is that newbies would consider Bitcoin as a scam that requests money to write in a forum.
That's ok. Newbies can discuss topics elsewhere. It's not that I don't like them, but many of them ask elementary questions that truly do "clog up the system" with posts that most others have zero interest in seeing. Have a FAQ page to address the easy questions, then leave the rest of discussion up to people who are already familiar enough with Bitcoin to be able to send/receive transactions using it. So students or poor people can't register but scammers who got money scamming can?
Scammers would be banned, or prevented from registering in the first place if they are known scammers. Students and poor people can read along, find a different place to discuss Bitcoin, or scrounge around until they can find $3 of BTC. The idea is to make the bank of information and discussions stored in said forum useful for more advanced users. |
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I tried starting up a Bitcoin forum back in 2011. It was largely unsuccessful, despite being the 2nd result in Google when searching anything like "Bitcoin forum". I own bitcoin-forum.net, and would be game to try starting something up again, now that the Bitcoin userbase is much, much larger than it was in 2011.
I prefer more modern, web 2.0 stuff. The forum software I ran was Xenforo, and, while it was neat and pretty, there are still some minor issues with it. Because of this, I am pretty open-minded about what software to use, depending on what is necessary to integrate the features I'd want.
All of this said, I would be interested in being involved in a project to develop a new, better forum. And here's what I'd do differently: I'd charge a small amount of Bitcoin for each account, say, 0.02 or 0.05 BTC (no one could register or post without paying the Bitcoin first), and hand out bans liberally (though where appropriate, of course). Sockpuppet? You're banned. Post something rude/disrespectful? You get a warning, and get banned the next time you do it. Etc, etc. This would provide a small stream of revenue to support the forums, keep the forums useful and relevant, and keep all the trolls at bay (unless they just have a ton of money to blow on alt accounts).
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Can Obama be Satoshi? (LOL)
So Obama is secretly a closet libertarian, who knows the country cannot continue on its current path and be sustainable. He befriends the democrats, since they are furthest from a libertarian point of view on economics. He says he is for their ideals, but then he turns around and pulls crap like PRISM, knowing that it'll eventually be exposed and people will begin to hate big government because of it. Democrats can no longer trust their own party, so they're ready to pull the plug just as much as Republicans and Libertarians. In the meantime, he invents Bitcoin, meant to save the world from corrupted governments. He knows people will turn to it as the distrust for their own governments increases, and knows it will be a workable solution to move away from centrally-controlled currencies. He takes the hit, while his software is used to defend the people from the very sorts of activities that he promotes on the outside, fully knowing that he had to do what he did in order to move the people away from a dependence on large government. Good guy Obama? |
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A while back I saw a post that illustrated that since its inception the price of one Bitcoin has hit a rough benchmark baseline that it would never go below again every five months. The pattern was that every five months the lowest price would be twice what it was five months before. The post went through $8 and predicted that $16 would soon be the absolute lowest that BTC could go to.
In two years there are 24 months. Lets call that five periods of five months, because fuck it, this would mean that the price of one Bitcoin in two years would be $512 at the very minimum. (16*2*2*2*2*2)
If we are trading at a premium similar to what we are now (~$100:$16) the price would be about $3200.
Trends always hold true until they don't. That said, I am a bull on Bitcoin. It is an unstoppable monster now. |
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has anyone received any hardware from Butterfly Labs yet? or it is really a scam?
i wonder why this thread stopped on May!
Because many people received hardware from Butterfly Labs. Only a small dent in the vast sea of preorders, but people are getting their units finally. |
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It'd be neat, but a 3D-printed one would be too easy to counterfeit. One reason Casascius coins are so trustworthy from a security standpoint is how complex and detailed (microscopically!) the holograms are, as well as the fact that no reputable hologram printer will print the same one for someone else, since it is stored in some international database.
Just like nobody would ever dare to counterfeit fiat money like EUR or USD, right? No reputable printer would ever dare to do that... Well, they wouldn't be reputable for long after that! |
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I am the buyer in this instance.
Thank you for the help in trying to resolve this SgtSpike.
And thank you to the rest of you guys for offering advice.
Is there anywhere i can check within the UK to see if it is held up in Customs?
What is the normal entry point of USPS packages into the UK?
Thank you
I've been doing a bit of research... it sounds like, even if you can get a hold of the right person, they won't be able to give any answers, just tell you that they'll get to it when they can get to it. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090817033425AASNoVDI'd love to know if there was a way to confirm whether it was in customs or not though. |
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It'd be neat, but a 3D-printed one would be too easy to counterfeit. One reason Casascius coins are so trustworthy from a security standpoint is how complex and detailed (microscopically!) the holograms are, as well as the fact that no reputable hologram printer will print the same one for someone else, since it is stored in some international database.
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