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Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Android wallet balance viewer
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on: November 11, 2013, 12:12:40 AM
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I am not getting warnings, but yeah, the total currecncy value in the bottom right corner has been blank for quite a while now. It's taking the fun out of watching your USD grow during these crazy times.
API needs updating or something? I'm not sure which exchange the price is pointing to?
I'm travelling at the moment (in Singapore for the Bitcoin Conference) but I can certainly take a look at fixing the exchange API when I get back. It's using bitcoincharts.com at the moment, so something must have changed on their system. Cheers, Will Great, I've been using this app for ages, probably one of the most most exhilarating bitcoin apps. Seeing BTC climb from $120 to $360 is great, but seeing your balance represented in fiat triple is just AWESOME. Only wish it had a widget (and a way to add an arbitrary amount of coins to your balance if you're holding them at an exchange or something). |
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Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: is the network hash dropping?
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on: November 10, 2013, 04:17:46 PM
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One of the contributing factors to this apparent loss of hash rates we are experiencing is the huge volume of transactions recently.
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What? That's the most nonsensical thing I've heard all week. How is the hash rate affected by the transaction volume? I only bother asking because everything else you said was spot on. |
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Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: is the network hash dropping?
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on: November 10, 2013, 12:09:58 PM
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The overall decrease is exponential growth is fairly easy to explain. Most of the orders currently being shipped were ordered when difficulty was 5-10 times lower. Back then it was easy to fall for the "im gonna be rich" mentality. Now, there is no miner on the market that even if delivered today will make bank. Very few new orders are being placed for miners, and now that KNC has shipped very little new hash speed is hitting the market. BFL, Avalon, ASICMiner are done with new hardware. It's just not profitable enough even at cost.
The next jump will be cointerra. I predicted months ago the plateau would be around 4-5 Phash. We are there.
It'd seriously wager that it's mostly BFL orders too. For a long time they were the only company taking unlimited ASIC orders. And if you look at their shipping update blog, they were cranking them out like no tomorrow for a while, but have recently slowed down shipments. |
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Economy / Speculation / Re: When will the bubble pop?
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on: November 07, 2013, 10:54:02 AM
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After the real bubble begins and the chart rescales, October/November will be seen as the "steady rise period" like march. Anyone who thinks 4%/day is fast is new to bit coin.
i'm not new to bitcoin, i've seen 4% rise a day before, and i've seen the outcomeThen I hope you also see this as a huge opportunity. |
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Other / Off-topic / Re: Does money make you happy?
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on: November 04, 2013, 02:13:38 AM
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Beyond covering the essentials, I've found that money just compounds whatever your nature is. Happy people are happier with more money, miserable people end up more miserable with more money.
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Bitcoin / Armory / Re: Is Armory vulnerable to USB-Stick viruses like BadBios?
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on: November 03, 2013, 12:33:51 PM
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I've actually been thinking about exactly this for the last few months.
I thought I had something when I found UBS drives with a physical write lock, but that doesn't help when you need to write the unsigned transaction from the online machine to the device, and then sign it on the offline machine and write the signed version on again, which has to be moved to an online machine.
If you could communicate the unsigned transaction through QR codes, assuming the offline machine is not infected, you could write the signed version to the USB, then lock it and move it to the broadcast machine, insuring that nothing jumps to the drive.
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Least reliable company?
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on: November 03, 2013, 06:40:53 AM
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This poll only needs one option  and with your quick and accurate decision making skills you should probably be working for them  Sounds like someone's a little butthurt. Where did Josh touch you? |
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Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: BFL Monarch update
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on: November 03, 2013, 05:48:41 AM
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Unlike our first generation ASIC devices, we already have the vendors in place and ready to go, along with the substrate design and manufacturing slotted in and geared up. Right now, we are not anticipating any issues but unexpected things do pop up.
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Exactly the same BS they said after finally delivering their delayed FPGAs and trying to pitch their new 65nm ASICs. " Yeah, we fucked up with that last one, but THIS time..." I feel sorry for anyone who falls for it, but I hope they learn something from the experience and become all the wiser for it. |
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Bitcoin / Armory / Re: Armory - Discussion Thread
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on: October 25, 2013, 01:43:29 AM
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When unlocking the first wallet after an install, all the numbers on the onscreen keyboard start with a "#" symbol, presumably so you can easily differentiate numbers from letters on the pad, but when you press the number on the onscreen keyboard, two digits are entered into the field, presumably the # and the number you want.
So if you want to enter "3" as part of your password, you press the [#3] button on the onscreen keyboard, but "#3" are entered into the field.
THEN when making new wallets or changing the paraphrases there is no onscreen keyboard at all...
Am I missing something?
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Economy / Speculation / Re: Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP.
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on: October 24, 2013, 11:17:09 AM
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I think the thing Bitcoin needs to learn from Gold is how to market.
The Gold markets are driven by salespeople. Some of the best on the planet. Billions are spent on marketing each year.
Bitcoin needs to get some late night commercials going and more PR reps at CNBC.
And I'm being dead serious.
while certainly it wouldn't hurt, i think Bitcoin is doing just fine. It will happen. If Bitcoin can get pass the regulatory process, we will see US bitcoin exchanges and funds doing commercials and selling people on the concept of Bitcoin. It all depends on whether Bitcoin can get rulings that allow it to exist in the states. But if it does, it will eventually market itself. That's the remarkable thing about Bitcoin, it's weightless and has zero transportation friction. Gold is easily substituted for fake gold certificates because handling physical gold is very bothersome. But representing bitcoins by un-backed substitutes would require one hell of a sales pitch. |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I am pretty confident we are the new wealthy elite, gentlemen.
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on: October 24, 2013, 11:10:57 AM
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Yes I would be the elite if I had bought 10 000 btc at 1$, but guess what I didn't.
If everyone who thinks they could have bought 10 000 btc at 1$ had actually bought 10 000 btc at 1$ then none of those people would have actually been able to buy 10 000 btc at 1$. A single bitcoin is going to be very valuable in the future. I plan to have many. That's so predictable. I know a few guiys who were kicking themselves a year ago for "not buying in when it was under $10", now they're complaining about "not buying when it was under $100". And they'll still be complaining next year for "not buying when they were under $1000". I've been buying on a regular basis regardless of price and I'm bewildered by their thought process. |
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