pooled bitcoin miner (pbm).  |
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Yes, but i suppose that you live in the US, so obviously you can have other alternatives.
Not me.
Nevertheless, the trader can even appeal to people like yourself, not wanting to «wait half-a-year to get their bitcoins» by offering them a "call option", that is, giving them the right, but not the obligation to purchase the bitcoins after the half-year, for the agreed price.
there's already quite a bit of trading for various tx methods going on on #bitcoin-otc. paypal, bank transfer, moneypak, cash... even some short-term options have been traded. |
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with that amount, you can just wire funds to mtgox directly, and avoid the LRUSD completely (along with the extra exchange and transfer fees).
on the mtgox page, go to "add funds" and select 'wire' for instructions.
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What if I send the escrow payment from an e-wallet provider, ... MyBitcoin, for example.
If I fail to release the escrow amount to the counterparty, after the 30 days the refund goes back to MyBitcoin, ..., which would not make it to my account with them, correct?
when you set up your account, you can set the 'refund address' to whatever you want it to be. and you can change it as many times as you like. |
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because nobody wants to wait half a year to get his bitcoins.
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ooh, i like some of those ideas. i'll take your "Make a page editable only if you send as much as the previous person or more." and raise you "Make the amount required to change what the previous person posted decay with time. Starting at >= what previous person paid, and dropping by 5% every hour." (this way you don't eventually get someone who 'outbids' everyone else willing to play) |
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Next stop Erie, PA. He should arrive late Saturday and be available for a day or two.
what is your usd/btc rate? |
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FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
the block was at 3am and I missed it to a goddamn auction sniper.
Gratz tho lets see if there is a market for this.
sorry bober... i was hanging out there... thinking should i or shouldn't i bid... then i saw block 97999, and figured, why not. |
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FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
the block was at 3am and I missed it to a goddamn auction sniper.
Gratz tho lets see if there is a market for this.
You can make a bid to nanotube. I've tried to make it possible to sell the share after this auction. He owns the password that identifies the owner of the share. You can buy him this password. PS. I'm working on a CGI script that will be GnuPG based. No password would be required to transfer ownership, you would just sign a text saying you give the share. that sounds like a good idea. |
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Nanotube, I'll PM you the current password once I acknowledge the paiement of 10.01 BTC at the following address :
1NkfLHmCRb7uYMwYiDpgxZwc9naxnxxQSC
payment sent. |
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davout: well, you're a little undershooting it... at current diff, it's closer to 90ghps for 10 minutes. and the current 'next estimate' is based on the average of the generation speed in this chunk, which, if it is growing, is under the actual speed at the tip.
just fyi. your basic argument about the ballpark cost being relatively small is still valid.
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btw, grondilu, for future sales: you might get more interest for a share that is currently paying dividends.
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so essentially... once someone buys the share from you, he'd have to trust you /in perpetuity/ to keep delivering any possible future dividends. and trust you not to get hit by a truck at some point, or if you do, to trust you to put it in your will that "this ebay share belongs to some guy" when they distribute your assets after your demise? not sure i like that proposition. Again, this is essentially what any broker do. well, no... brokers have official account books... if a broker dies, you don't have to worry about getting your shares. (not to mention that a brokerage firm is usually not a single guy, and further to mention that these firms have insurance against various losses that may happen). Also, nothing prevents you from pricing this risk and thus to give a low bid, considering that I might be a thief or die next year.
An eBay share that I sell certainly worths less than an eBay share sold by an official broker. But it doesn't worth 0BTC.
yes, of course. i was just pointing out the risks to potential bidders. |
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so essentially... once someone buys the share from you, he'd have to trust you /in perpetuity/ to keep delivering any possible future dividends. and trust you not to get hit by a truck at some point, or if you do, to trust you to put it in your will that "this ebay share belongs to some guy" when they distribute your assets after your demise? not sure i like that proposition. |
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haven't read the whole thread... but here's the framework as i see it, back to basics.
with 30 percent of total cpu capacity, a party has 30% chance of generating any given block, and "the rest of the network" has 70% chance.
to run the "reject other blocks" attack, as i understand it, i'll generate a block but keep it to myself, while continuing to work on generating a block that builds on top of my hidden block.
so, let's say that I generated a block. now, i have two choices. choice one - i release it to the network, and claim my 50btc, and start working on my second block, which i then later also release and claim my next 50 btc.
choice two - i keep it hidden, and work on generating another block building on top of my secret block, all the while the rest of the network is still toiling away on the first block. in order for me to make the network 'waste power', in other words, in order to be able to trash the rest-of-network's block, i need to be able to generate another block after the rest-of-network generates one block, but before the rest of the network generates two blocks.
the probability that the network will generate 2 blocks while i'm working on the next block is .7*.7 = .49. so /given that i have generated one block/, i have a 51percent chance of making the network lose a block, and a 49% chance of losing my own block.
what's the expected value of this proposition? 51% chance of keeping 100btc for my two blocks, costing the network 1 block... and 49% chance of losing both blocks and having nothing to show for it.
in all, a losing proposition, if i ever saw one.
now, if my goal is simply to make the network slower - i can see this working. if my goal is to somehow make a profit... i don't see how.
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how are people to have any guarantees that you won't just walk away with the funds?
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I'd like to buy some (maybe a few hundred) coins using either Swiss Francs or pound sterling, but it seems the existing markets are primarily requiring US dollars.
Does anyone know where I can make such a trade. Is my best bet to use PayPal or something like that to convert my currency into dollars then convert again into BitCoins?
try the #bitcoin-otc channel. see http://bitcoin-otc.com for info. |
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1269.64380952381
bitcoins don't have that many decimal places.  |
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Are we...dead?
no. |
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I am just promoting Bitcoin and I have not enriched myself in any way.
Max
no worries amigo - we already know from an upstream post. |
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