I just flew to Canada, without a passport, to open up a bank account, funded in cash. No weird "airplane authorities" shoved a magic wand up my ass, and I didn't need to give my fingerprints at the bank. It was great! I was kind of surprised they were so unfazed by a five-year-old opening a bank account, though.  |
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Stephanie: It's like when you make a loan to your cousin. Don't loan them anything that you wouldn't consider a gift. Andreas: Well, I can always track my cousin down and kick him in the nuts. Stephanie: That's true. You can't do that with a Bitcoin address. http://letstalkbitcoin.com/e18-its-not-that-simple/#.UodX2flusxk |
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Thanks for the data, Kludge.
I'm curious about the throttle, though, what do you think it would look without it?
Anyway, I'll monitor bandwidth of QT client too, from now on...
I'd guess it'd be dependent on the total amount of bandwidth available unless you have a lot of slow peers (like me) connected, where they can't "eat" as much as they could be sent. Most wired connections are asymmetrical, so the user probably wouldn't notice if QT consumed the vast majority of their upload bandwidth unless they were uploading large files. I'd guesstimate if you had a 756kbps up connection, many peers, and left QT on 24/7, you'd probably be looking at ~100-150gb/mo. |
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Proxy-reserving 36 & 46 for someone off-forum who's interested.
ETA: Fixing Andreas' name, changed Adam's id to ABL. ETA2: Scribd upload revision function appears down. Will fix later.
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Why doesn't the lendee just offer the moneypak/whatever as collateral?
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Idunno. I'm pretty freakin' excited just to see a two-hour Bitcoin discussion on basic cable (... even if it is CSPAN).  This is probably the most extensive coverage of Bitcoin ever on a television station most US citizens have access to. ETA: Son of a bitch - it's on CSPAN3.  |
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Throttle web browser TDP bandwidth to 1kb/s. You will not be addicted for long. It may actually be a legitimate quit technique - some type of diversion/aversion combo therapy. Irritated by wait, find something else to do while it loads, end up forgetting about the page loading.
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To combat this, an organization should start offering rewards for tips on crimes or finding lost children.
We should just do it ourselves. A few mid-20 male neckbeards on the Internet offering people money to tell them where particular children are, and we'll use Bitcoin. |
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That is surprising. I have my Bitcoin-Qt node running 24/7 at home. It states around 60 active connections, 8 of which are outgoing connections and the rest are incoming. For that reason, I would have thought that the up bandwidth would have been noticeably higher than the down bandwidth... Not that I care that much. I have a flat rate monthly contract In most cases, upload bandwidth would be dramatically higher. In my case (made a little note in OP), I always have QT throttled to 1kb/s because I can't handle more and still be able to browse online. I also throttle download speed to 9.5kb/s, but that's more than enough to stay sync'd to the blockchain. Download speed throttle is only to even out strain of receiving new blocks so I don't notice it as much. |
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Estimated minimum TCP throttle: 3kb/s (likely lower, will continue testing) Estimated minimum UDP throttle: 1kb/s (likely closer to .1kb/s) Caveats: Because throttling will prevent you from truly acting as a full node and processing the transaction queue, you will likely not see transactions sent to addresses you control until it's included in a block. If you receive a low-priority transaction, it's possible your client won't notice it for a looong time (a 10kb/s throttle appears to keep up fairly well with the transaction queue). There may also be a delay when you send a transaction out, though temporarily unthrottling the connection would obviously fix this. This minimum WILL change due both to changes to Bitcoin's rules and the increasing blockchain size. I figured someone may be interested in how much bandwidth running QT actually consumes per month in a scenario. It's right around 3GB down, 1GB up, assuming network is caught up AND you have severely throttled upload bandwidth allowed to QT (in these stats, QT has always been throttled to 1kb/s UL). December 10, '13 update: That statement is false. QT downloads transactions for queue as well as blocks. By throttling (for these stats, I set DL limit to 9.5kB/s) above the "true minimum" required, bandwidth is still going toward downloading transactions, which is non-essential. This makes these stats useless except to know QT will currently function (without accumulating a block backlog) with less than 9.5kB/s or ~3GB/mo allotted to it. QT consumption stats:  Grabbed on December 10, 2013 The stats file gets enormous, so I semi-regularly delete it and don't have older data - sorry. For the sake of comparison (I'm not trying to make any kind of point with this), here is "real" consumption from a well-used Skype client without use of video/audio streaming:  ETA: Stats on Chrome are incomplete for some reason... so here're the stats for the download manager I use (every large file I download off the web):  Other data: Sync times and theoretical "cost to sync": https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=334778.msg6306363#msg6306363Blockchain compression (not pruning!) methods compared: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=334778.msg6352393#msg6352393 |
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You're one lucky kid, unfortunately i don't have any good skills except downloading mods for video games. I am a fast typer as well. Eh that probably doesn't do anything really. If you're willing to really work, you can make money in pretty much anything. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=294947All of it is confusing, what do i do to make 0.04 fast? Transcribe an episode of LTB. It takes maybe 6 hours, or one night after school. |
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Ordered plain water every time I go to McDonald ...
Wife does this, too. She also collects non-burnable trash to take to a store trash can so we aren't paying for trash-hauling service. |
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IA certain liberty in transcription is allowed, as long as the meaning is unaltered.
I.e., you are encouraged to leave out filling phrases like "uhm, uh, you know" etc.
Ads have to be transcribed as well.
Oh I just read the part about "you know". Adam says that pretty much in every sentence and I've been insisting on including them all along. That's fine (I think). Don't bother removing them if they're already in there, just try not to do it again. |
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Any updates on the PR of Ep. 18?
ETA: Actually, 18 is slated to be proofread for tomorrow. Disregard what I said, heh. |
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I can sort of relate to that. Had a part with bad audio as well. Tweaked the audio a bit to make it sharper.
Kluge, you may need to tweak the audio a bit on some episodes to get through the unintelligible parts. Need any help with that?
Maybe. I'll let you know. Probably won't get through yours today - probably tomorrow. Have been busy getting AML-compliant today (haven't made a USD withdrawal from an exchange in, err... a LONG time. Forgot how easy forging notary stamps was), trolling forum, and daughter just woke up. Have big delivery coming later today, and stuff to set up for wife from that. |
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Do we need to add our Playtex ID in sigs to receive payment?
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more and more people are copying inputs.IOWE business model
You must mean the MyBitcoin, Bitcoinica, Bitomat, Bitfloor, Bitcoin7, Bitscalper model. Though... neither Global Bond Limited or Inputs.io have "bit" in the title. Maybe it's a new trend...  are you an employee? why do you advertise it in your signature After careful consideration, I have decided not to continue advertising Inputs. |
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She'd sign one of the many copies of Satoshi's PGP pubkey floating about.
We're in the internet dead-zone. Remember Ironman? You don't need an Internet connection to use PGP/GPG (by the way, absolute worst name acronyms ever -- I can never remember which is which). Any true Bitcoiner has at least 10 copies of Satoshi's .asc hidden around the house (and at least one on their mobile device!). (and no, what the Hell is Ironman? That hair band song?)  ETA: I guess if that fails... tits or gtfo?  |
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