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1301  Economy / Exchanges / Re: [OFFICIAL]Bitfinex.com first Bitcoin P2P lending platform for leverage trading on: January 18, 2014, 12:04:51 AM
https://www.bitfinex.com/pages/stats

Currency    Flash Return Rate    Average Variable Rate on CFD    Total sum of active swaps
BTC    0.0055%    0.0302%    3,380.38 BTC
LTC    0.0055%    0.0108%    14,399.06 LTC
1302  Local / Projektentwicklung / Re: besterTee(.de) akzeptiert Bitcoins nativ(!) und sucht nun Blogger on: January 17, 2014, 11:54:53 PM
Ok, ich hab mir das gerade mal durchgeschaut - ist ja ganz nett, ein QR Code mit zumindest Adresse + Betrag wäre aber schon sehr fein... abtippen auf einem Handy ist nicht gerade lustig!
1303  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: about alternate chains vs using bitcoin blockchain on: January 17, 2014, 08:35:13 PM
The only one I'm aware of is ripplescam.org, written by TradeFortress (well, see for yourself how he ended up himself...).

Google is not directly involved in Ripple, it's Google Ventures (which are independent from Google itself) who invested in RippleLabs. They also invested in the Bitcoin exchange project "Buttercoin" by the way, also e.g. Mike Hearn, a Bitcoin core developer and a great asset to Bitcoin works at Google. If you do mistrust them, that's your personal opinion, not a universal fact.

Nice try of trying to derail this thread further ("aside from this"... instead of "Sorry, I was wrong"), I'm outta here to not bump your promotion of your website even more.
1304  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: about alternate chains vs using bitcoin blockchain on: January 17, 2014, 07:56:53 PM
Regarding Ripple,  It's also somewhat deceptive.  They made a few tricky moves regarding their open source status.  It's a commercial product and their business model was to sell and market XRPs(similar to Mastercoin).  At one point I asked: If Ripple is open source, why can't I just issue a new set of XRPs?  XRP2.0?  Soon afterwards the project seemed to have faded out of existence.  Ripple also has virtually NOTHING to do with the original ideas associated with this name.  It's all part of the Googleplex mega-complex, which I will never(and probably can never) be a part of due to my outspoken opinions on the surveillance machine they are running under the guise of 'entrepreneurship' and 'startups'.  Thanks to St. Snowden I can now say these things without being branded a mentally insane schizophrenic(which some people in these circles have already tried to do).
You can just fire up rippled and will immediately have 100 billion XRP at your disposal. Just like running bitcoind with a non-Satoshi block chain/genesis block however, no other server will accept these.

You are free to fork Ripple, the only requisite (similar to Bitcoin) is that you change the name and logo.

unless something has changed, you are only free to fork the CLIENT.  Secondly it is unclear what sorts of patent protections there are surrounding Ripple.

It's not a community project, it's a commercial project.
https://github.com/ripple <-- the server is called rippled, it is open source since September last year.

You can just ask RippleLabs about pending patents (I'm unaware of any - and releasing source code before potential patents are granted would also not have been a smart move by them...), the only thing that is protected as far as I know is the "Ripple" brand and logo.

1305  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: about alternate chains vs using bitcoin blockchain on: January 17, 2014, 09:53:18 AM
Regarding Ripple,  It's also somewhat deceptive.  They made a few tricky moves regarding their open source status.  It's a commercial product and their business model was to sell and market XRPs(similar to Mastercoin).  At one point I asked: If Ripple is open source, why can't I just issue a new set of XRPs?  XRP2.0?  Soon afterwards the project seemed to have faded out of existence.  Ripple also has virtually NOTHING to do with the original ideas associated with this name.  It's all part of the Googleplex mega-complex, which I will never(and probably can never) be a part of due to my outspoken opinions on the surveillance machine they are running under the guise of 'entrepreneurship' and 'startups'.  Thanks to St. Snowden I can now say these things without being branded a mentally insane schizophrenic(which some people in these circles have already tried to do).
You can just fire up rippled and will immediately have 100 billion XRP at your disposal. Just like running bitcoind with a non-Satoshi block chain/genesis block however, no other server will accept these.

You are free to fork Ripple, the only requisite (similar to Bitcoin) is that you change the name and logo.
1306  Economy / Speculation / Re: You guys gonna become paranoid about Ripple on: January 17, 2014, 09:44:05 AM
Ironically the only way to ensure that Bitcoin miners are not secretly colluding and you don't need to trust them is by having >50% of the global hash rate yourself, thus forcing others to trust you...

I think I can explain it, let me give it a shot.

A centralized network is susceptible to attack. A decentralized network is resistant to attack.

A centralized con-artist is susceptible to attack. A decentralized con-artist network.......
...can only scam those who chose to "invest" into a dishonest scheme. Pirateat40s ponzi scam did not impact Bitcoin itself at all (and would have been far more evident in Ripple by the way) even though at some points his claimed balance must have been in the hundred thousands or did have any implications on user balances at e.g. MtGox. TradeFortress showed that you can scam people on Ripple (by scamming them... an interesting "proof of concept"), wrote ripplescam.org after that and proceeded to scam the users of his own webwallet services out of some undisclosed amount of BTC. Still this did not have an effect on anyone NOT using his "services" or falling for his scams or on Bitcoin (the system) itself.
1307  Local / Anfänger und Hilfe / Re: Bitcoin Programm - Datenverzeichnis wird extrem groß on: January 15, 2014, 12:11:21 AM
Ein GB an SSD Speicher kostet um die 50 cents... Um den preis eines big Macs kannst du also ein weiteres Jahr an Transaktionen speichern.
1308  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Ripple/Bitcoin and The Blacklist... on: January 14, 2014, 11:36:01 PM
I guess eventually Ripple will need to comply with KYC and AML directives.
How should that even be possible?

Ripple gateways (just like Bitcoin exchanges) probably will have to, Ripple itself is just a piece of software.
1309  Local / Anfänger und Hilfe / Re: Bitcoin Programm - Datenverzeichnis wird extrem groß on: January 14, 2014, 03:17:39 PM
Klingt nicht gerade realistisch, da die Blockchaindaten schon relativ zufällig sind - alleine mit einer zip-Kompression müsste man da ja auf ähnliche Werte kommen. Vermutlich ist also deine Anzeige nicht korrekt.

Trotzdem sind ein paar Dutzend GB ja eh ein Witz heutzutage...
1310  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Download any blockchain you need (If I have it) on: January 14, 2014, 03:08:03 PM
A database dump for a rippled node.db (or at least transactions.db and ledgers.db files) since genesis would be great too.
1311  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: [ANN] Bitcoin blockchain data torrent on: January 14, 2014, 10:00:18 AM
Maybe it would be better if jgarzik would wrap the statement in [ code ] tags
Code:
like this
as it preserves whitespace?
1312  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Marketplace (Altcoins) / Re: [WTS] $5 usd in ripple on: January 13, 2014, 06:06:48 PM
You are aware that Ripple is a decentralized exchange and you can buy bitcoins using any currency directly on there?

Anyways, I bid 3 mBTC.
1313  Economy / Exchanges / Re: [OFFICIAL]Bitfinex.com first Bitcoin P2P lending platform for leverage trading on: January 13, 2014, 05:58:14 PM
(notice the timezones are different indicating these messages were generated by different app servers)
Yeah, on the other hand GMT and UTC are the same time zone, might be an older loan with the yearly percentage still in place that expired?

I still have "interest" in older ledger entries, newer ones only state "Swap payment" - there might be some overlap of terminology.
1314  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: [ANN] Mocked version of the blockchain.info wallet API on: January 13, 2014, 02:52:04 AM
I'd recommend you to go the extra mile from that point and connect your "mock API" to a local bitcoind, thus eliminating the need to trust blockchain.info.
1315  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Miners Reward => Transaction Discount on: January 11, 2014, 02:32:35 PM
I still wonder why larger pools don't do this... Also they seem to use bitcoind default rules and settings far too often for my taste.
1316  Local / Trading und Spekulation / Re: Österreich-Thread on: January 11, 2014, 02:21:21 PM
Stell dir vor, es gibt auch Leute die steuern zahlen wollen und nicht auf Straftaten stehen...
1317  Local / Altcoins (Deutsch) / Re: Multibit für Altcoins on: January 10, 2014, 02:23:29 PM
Die Copy-Paste Fertigkeiten von Altcoin "Developers" hören vermutlich bei bitcoin-qt auf. Roll Eyes
1318  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: OpenSource Exchange Engine on: January 10, 2014, 02:21:43 PM
1. You did not specify anonymity as design goal in your example
2. Ripple is the network, it could be that you mean "RippleLabs", the company developing most software behind it? Anyone can set up validators by the way and anyone is free to choose their set of validators too.
3. What else? Gateways are the "licensed brokers" where you deposit fiat or crypto in your example, Ripple itself is the "P2P bulletin board" + trade engine. Transfers are atomic, so no need for additional escrow.
1319  Local / Anfänger und Hilfe / Re: [ANN] "inofficial" Bootstrap.dat bis Block 290000 / Speedup Blockchaindownload on: January 10, 2014, 01:58:59 PM
Wann kommt den die 0.9 raus?
When it's done (TM)

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin <-- besonders https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues?milestone=12&state=open sollte keine offenen Bugs mehr haben.
1320  Local / Anfänger und Hilfe / Re: [ANN] "inofficial" Bootstrap.dat bis Block 290000 / Speedup Blockchaindownload on: January 10, 2014, 01:26:39 PM
Warum diese Version nicht wirklich sinnvoll ist:
Ab Block 250 000 ist eher die CPU + HDD der limitierende Faktor, nicht die Bandbreite.

Außerdem gibt's bereits eine sehr gut geseedete Version für alle Blöcke bis 250 000, außerdem wird 0.9 da auch Verbesserungen bieten, die solche Torrents vermutlich unnötig machen werden.
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