Latest posts of: nanotube

Quote from: Vinnie on January 07, 2011, 06:01:03 AM

Hey! I'll sell you my BTC @ 1.3USD!!! Shocked

hey me too! count me in!

Quote from: Cryptoman on January 07, 2011, 05:17:55 AM

Change your name to "X." It will make signing documents very easy.

if that's your goal, go for "I". twice as easy as 'X'!

0.01 btc, for you to change name to "bobby tables" (http://xkcd.com/327/).

Quote from: mndrix on January 06, 2011, 04:41:01 PM

The service is open for business again. PayPal approved me for their micropayments fee structure which amounts to a 26% decrease in PayPal fees on a 20 BTC order.

cool!

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I made a few adjustments to fraud detection. If things continue working well for the next week or so, I'll increase the maximum order limit.

best be very careful with that.

yea, don't switch out... if you want, have a radio button that switches the pricings around... but i think the default pricing way should stay because that's what all the other markets do.

hey,
freenode does allow you to use tor... see http://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml#tor

Quote from: S3052 on January 05, 2011, 01:59:03 PM

You probably need to advertise outside of this forum to generate more trades as otherwise you are cannibalizing the other existing exchanges.
Don't get me wrong. It is great to have your service, but it is crucial to grow the bitcoin pie foremost vs. fighting on market shares.

nothing wrong with a little competition.

that said, these two things are not mutually exclusive. one can advertise here, and also elsewhere.

further, this exchange is foss... so that means people can set up country-local exchanges easily with this code, which will grow the bitcoin pie.

put up a sign... make sure to have a computer with an internet connection... and off you go.

Quote from: chris200x9 on January 05, 2011, 12:31:44 AM

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Quote from: ShadowOfHarbringer on January 04, 2011, 09:54:14 PM

Quote from: chris200x9 on January 04, 2011, 07:59:02 PM

yep just notify me.

edit: the only hitch is it could take up to 30 days...to protect myself from returns...

So how does this work, exactly ?

Must be an affiliate program. He gets some cut of anything you order, presumably keeps some and converts a portion into bitcoins, which he then gives back to you. Kind of a win-win.

exactly.

hey... i know it is obvious to people who know what's up... but it wouldn't hurt if you disclose the nature of the beast in your OP.

Quote from: nanaimogold on January 05, 2011, 04:30:09 AM

True enough. But consider that he does not know that, and we can't know where he got his PP.

talkinrock is not being personally insulted here. Chances are that his $11 PP is OK and chances are he would not mess around. But as a business policy, PP can't be acceptable for trade into cash.

indeed, running a business of trading 'cash-like goods' for paypal is dangerous. but occasional one-off p2p small trades... are probably ok if you can establish trust.

nice!
too bad i'm not in eu-land. Wink

Quote from: nanaimogold on January 05, 2011, 04:06:19 AM

Not only does the receiver have to trust you not to screw around, he has to trust that you know the PP is good and that you are not just a unwitting link in a chain of theft. That $11 PP you want to spend might be hot before you received it yourself. 45 days from now, everyone who touched that $11 might have their account frozen. You can't know, it's not about your "rep".

if the guy is pulling from bank balance, then there's no issue about 'chains of theft'. you only need to trust the sender not to be a dick, and that's all.

Quote from: Vinnie on January 04, 2011, 11:29:23 PM

OK, I'm working on this. It's been ages since I was last on IRC. Is there a specific network I have to be on to join the channel?

yes, freenode.
see http://bitcoin-otc.com/ for details.

Quote from: talkinrock on January 04, 2011, 10:50:37 PM

I guess I don't understand: I always thought that PayPal is one of the safest ways to do business online. What is so bad about it, in your opinion?

chargebacks. it's safe to give it... not so safe to receive it.

so for example... you pay someone via paypal, they send you bitcoins. then you claim you never received goods, and chargeback the receiver. now you walk away with both the bitcoins and the usd.

another alternative: someone uses stolen paypal account, receives btc... then real owner comes in and goes 'zomg, someone used my account, paypal help me', and paypal does a chargeback. end result, still the same that seller of bitcoins has ended up with nothing.

so in other words... paypal is very safe for the buyer of goods... but not safe for the seller.

Quote from: BitterTea on January 04, 2011, 07:48:41 PM

Took me a while to figure out too. First, set up an RPC user/pass in your bitcoin.conf:

# You must set rpcuser and rpcpassword to secure the JSON-RPC api
rpcuser=Someusername
rpcpassword=Somepassword

Then start bitcoind.exe or bitcoin.exe -server

I think poclbm.exe has a command line argument of --help which displays all other arguments.

From the top my head, you should start it with parameters something along these lines...

poclbm.exe --host=mining.bitcoin.cz --port=8332 --user=Someusername --pass=Somepassword

Welcome to the pool!

afaik, you don't need to have the regular bitcoin client running in order to use the pool, since the pool acts as your bitcoind instance.

100925 blocks. 75 blocks until auction end.

mm, raffle could be a nice attention getter.

Quote from: S3052 on January 03, 2011, 07:21:08 PM

good idea.. and hand over to each of (or some of) the attandants 1 bitcoin in a wallet on a USB stick so that they can get started and will talk about it when they are inside the Fest

er... handing out thousands of usb sticks... that's gonna be even more expensive than an $1000 official booth. :|

how about a printed pamphlet with some brief intro info pulled from the wiki... some links (including the bitcoin faucet), and call it a day on the distributed materials?

I think it would be pretty great exposure for bitcoin, if someone knowledgeable about the internal workings of bitcoin were to submit a proposal to OSCON 2011 (http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011) for a talk about bitcoin. The place is full of all kinds of FOSS ethusiasts, and besides the costs of making your way to Portland, Oregon, USA, it would be completely free (I think).

So... anyone up for it? Gavin, Jgarzik, Theymos? Bueller?