WOW, I can't believe there's been so much interest in this thing in the past 24 hours! I'll answer everyone's questions.


I'm located in the Midwestern United States.



I actually own a small electronics business, and at one time I had a lot more of these TV's. This is the last one in my stock, I want to get rid of it before the New Year.


Also, I didn't mean for this to be an auction, I just want people to make me a deal and I'll sell it to the first person that makes me a reasonable deal. But if you guys want to do this as bids, I'll just accept the first one that I find reasonable.

Keep in mind that I'm going to pay for insured shipping on this item, and that will cost me 16 BTC alone. 40 BTC isn't even half of the price of the TV, so I don't consider it a reasonable offer.

I uploaded the picture, you can find it here: https://i.imgur.com/z3QyL.jpg

I've been trying to put off writing on this subject because it is a source of massive debate and flamewars in the Bitcoin community, however this user's thorough writeup of his experience has spurred me to record my thoughts on this subject.

The Bitcoin community seems to be at a theological crossroads, and the direction we take at this crossroad will have a huge impact on Bitcoin's future. On one side of the crossroads we have the more technical, more distributed approach. On the other side of the crossroads we have the more user friendly, less technical approach. Each camp hates each other, and refuses to acknowledge the benefits of each approach and work together.

The more technical approach argues that the only client that can be trusted is the main, bitcoin.org Bitcoin client. They argue that this client is superior because it has been reviewed by many, many people, and it ensures that Bitcoin is decentralized because each client acts independently of each other and has their own copy of the block chain. The more technical approach argues that each client having to download and maintain a copy of the block chain is a good thing, as it ensures the distributed nature of Bitcoin, and makes the network less susceptible to a man-in-the-middle attack by shared wallets.

The less technical approach argues that the difficulty of entry into Bitcoin with the bitcoin.org client is simply too much, and that it scares people away from Bitcoin. They argue that people on the internet have a short attention span, and many newcomers to Bitcoin will simply not wait for the block chain to download. They promote the use of alternative clients and web wallets as the solution to a new user's woes, as many alternative clients and web wallets work instantly and do not require people to wait hours to download the block chain. The less technical approach acknowledges that these alternative clients and web wallets harm the distributed nature of the Bitcoin network, but they maintain that for new users this risk is offset by the fact that adoption of Bitcoin is easier using the less technical approach.

I see no reason why these two approaches can't exist simultaneously. I tend to agree with the less technical approach's solution to new users, and I think that bitcoin.org needs to promote a "New User" approach that advocates the use of a single alternative client, one that has been approved by the Bitcoin community at large, and that advocates the use of a single web wallet, one that has been approved by the Bitcoin community at large. I also agree with the more technical approach that Bitcoin needs to maintain an option for "Advanced Users" that advocates the use of the bitcoin.org client, as this is essential to maintaing the Bitcoin network's distributed nature. This dual-user approach has been discussed previously in this thread.

Bitcoin is at a crossroads. Many new users are downloading the bitcoin.org client every day, only to be put off by the client's user unfriendliness. This is causing Bitcoin to be labeled more and more as a geek subculture, and a niche. The fact is that Bitcoin is useful for everyone, we just need to empower new users by giving them the tools they need to get tied into the Bitcoin ecosystem. We need to do this quickly, or else we will depart down the crossroads, and the public perception of Bitcoin will already be that it is a niche. We need to stop this stupid infighting, and ideological warfare, and advocate an approach that takes the best parts from both approaches, and leaves the bad parts behind.

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The TV is still available, and I'm going to post pictures tomorrow.

I'm selling a brand new, in box, 55 inch Samsung UN55EH6000 LED TV. It's an awesome TV but I don't need it and I want to get rid of it. I'll accept any reasonable offer in BTC or LTC, or a combination of both. I've conducted several successful trades on the forums here, and I'm also willing to do escrow. I will ship within 24 hours of receiving payment or setting up escrow, and the TV will ship insured via your preferred shipping method.

Post here and PM me your offers.

EDIT: Here is a picture, although its not very exciting since the TV is still in the box.

I did some maintenance on my mining machine this weekend, and I noticed that one of the fans on my Radeon 5870 is failing. The fan sporadically stops and starts again, and when it is running it doesn't run very fast. The other fan on the 5870 is running fine, and the 5870 still works once cgminer throttles the card after detecting the overheating and failing to increase the fan speed. I only lose 90 mhash/s from cgminer's throttling.

In my mind I have two options to rectify this:
1) Fix the fan on the card.
2) Buy a new card.

Even though Option 2 is in the realm of possibility, I'd like to go with Option 1 because the card still works, it just needs the fan fixed. However, I have no idea how to fix the fan. So I have two questions:

1) Is there a good reason to go with Option 2?
2) How do I fix the fan on the GPU?

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Kuusou contacted me about this via PM. We just finished the transaction, it was fast and went smoothly.

Closing topic because I now have what I want.

I want to buy Half Life 2: Episode 2 from someone on Steam tonight. I will pay 1 BTC for it, and since HL2: EP2 is 0.7 BTC on Steam, you'll be making some money. Since I want it ASAP, this will be first-come-first-served.

If you're interested, here's the process:
1) Post here and PM me.
2) I'll PM you back, giving you confirmation to buy.
3) You'll buy the game and gift it to my Steam account.
4) I'll send you 1 BTC after I receive the game.

Since I've participated in several successful transactions on this forum, you'll be going first.

Thanks for the feedback. I find LMGTFY links to be fascinating and engaging, but I can see how they are inappropriate for this situation.

For now I've changed the links to regular Google links, I'll change them to news articles when I get off of work.

I would encourage all Bitcoin and Namecoin users to participate in Dump GoDaddy Day, as SOPA is a direct threat to not only the open internet, but to Bitcoin and Namecoin as it outlaws any technology that can be used to circumvent the anti-piracy provisions in SOPA.

Happy Dump GoDaddy Day, Death To SOPA!

In honor of Dump GoDaddy Day, I'm giving anyone who uses my Namecheap affiliate link to move at least one of their domains 0.099 BTC. Note that you don't have to move your domains from GoDaddy to take advantage of this offer.

I would encourage all Bitcoin and Namecoin users to participate in Dump GoDaddy Day, as SOPA is a direct threat to not only the open internet, but to Bitcoin and Namecoin as it outlaws any technology that can be used to circumvent the anti-piracy provisions in SOPA. If you move your domains today you can also use the code SOPASucks to get a reduced price on the transfer. Namecheap also renews all transferred domains for one year.

How to get the 0.099 BTC:

• 1) Use my affiliate link to sign up for a new Namecheap account.
• 2) Move at least one of your domains to Namecheap.
• 3) Don't forget to use the code SOPASucks at checkout to get the reduced transfer price.
• 4) Send me a PM containing the name of your transferred domain, and the address the 0.099 BTC should go to.
• 5) The 0.099 BTC will show up in your wallet within 48 hours of the transfer being completed.

Conditions:

• 1) The offer is only valid if you transfer your domains using a new Namecheap account.
• 2) You do not get more BTC for transferring more than one domain.

Enjoy, and Happy Dump GoDaddy Day!

Closing this thread, I ended up selling this outside of this forum.

Sent payment, and promptly received the gift card code. Transaction went smoothly, this thread can be closed.

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Updated price to reflect the increase in BTC value.

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I PM'd you.