dwdollar, please take a look this thread:

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1559.0

I never said (or did I ?) that it will stop all scams.
But it is MUCH better than nothing.

I only wanted to create a solution which will enable re-opening of the trade websites.

I have a few observations.

1. It looks terrible.
2. YAK ! Dark green ! This is disgusting.
3. It does not look trustworthy. You really need to create a more professional image if You want people to trust You with their money.
4. You are a newbie on this forum, with 17 posts, with no reputation. How are people supposed to trust You anyway ?
5. Your domain name is VERY bad & unprofessional, If You're wanting to do some serious buisness with it.
6. EDIT: No SSL ? Not even a non-authority-signed certificate ? What is this ? It definately looks like a scam site, i can tell You.
7. Are you serious about this at all ?
8. GOTO 1

Agreed, but with one adjustement:

there should be a ~/.bitcoin symlink to ~/.local/share/.bitcoin

Not everybody is used to the "new way" and will look for the bitcoin folder in wrong place.

I would say that currency inflation encourages both wise investments and stupid investments, while currency deflation encourages only smart investments.

With deflating currency it is not beneficial to take big risks while one can earn more with just keeping money in his socks.

The question is: is that good or bad ? I personally think it is good, because :

1. If people stop doing stupid investments, there will be less of poor people.
2. People will be able to get richer just by keeping money in a safe. So anybody can invest easily, poor & stupid people too.
3. Less stupid investments = less financial crisises.

So the conclusion is that difference between rich and poor will decrease. Everyone will get richer. Deflationary economy is IMHO much more stable than inflationary economy.

I see that bitcoinmarket registrations are still closed, so I'm proposing a solution which should fix the paypal, moneybookers & other "soft" currencies scam problem, so the site can be opened immediately:

1. Allow trading in "hard", non-drawbackable currencies (such as Pecunix, LibertyReserve, Wester Union etc.) to everybody.

2. Allow trading in "soft" currencies only for users which are trusted. Trusted means:
a) Are registered for 3 months or longer, or are registered & trusted now
b) Have traded at least X BTC minimum and have perfect trade history without any scams or other problems
c) Have verified their credentials through some mechanism - credit card, mail verify code delivery or personal digital signature.
The solution can be composed of all a) b) and c) or their combinations.

3. Force all Paypal & Moneybookers transfers to wait at least 5 days before they can be finalized. This should solve the stolen credit cards reversal problem.

4. Allow paying with paysafecard and such.

Idea sounds interesting, but I'd like to hear satoshi opinion on this very much.
Satoshi, where R you ?

That is actually quite normal for a hacker/specialist.

I also try to keep away from any social-oriented sites, because they do great harm to one's privacy.
Most of normal people don't realize what these sites are doing to them, so they don't care. People who know how stuff works much often avoid such risks.

I am doing that myself, and many of my colleagues which are IT specialists do the same. What is put into internet just once, stays there forever.

1. We definately should not use any third-party tools for messaging.
Messaging should be done only using some decentralized protocols.

I mean what will happen if some company buys twitter and concludes that it should not exist and then shuts it down ?
Using external services as the core of bitcoin functionality is just not safe.

2. I agree with Satoshi on this - a separate protocol should be used. Perhaps another P2P protocol, or some messaging protocol like Jabber. Let's stick to the Keep It Simple Stupid (tm) rule.

Well it seems I'm lucky that i read this thread to the end.

I was going to donate 100 BTC to this bastard.

Forgot to tell You - don't use the *-9999-* ebuilds. They never worked for me either.
I'm deleting them from server. Also deleting all other irrelevant files & adjusting the Manifest.

The only working ebuilds in my release are "0.3.*c" ones.

Hello,

I'm starting this thread to maintain my Gentoo bitcoin ebuilds for CUDA version of bitcoin.
I will start a github repo later, so for now, ebuilds, patches and full sources are avaiable here:

http://tinyurl.com/2ujagcw

These are simply patches from puddinpop, adjusted for the newest version and with makefiles & dependencies added.
I also hope for some help from the author (puddinpop), because i don't think i can maintain this on my own for long, as I am not a C/C++ programmer, I am just good with patching & diffing.

I tested it on my 64Bit Gentoo, and they compile fine, but some paths are adjusted for 64bit Gentoo, so the ebuilds may not work without small adjustments of makefile (in net-p2p/bitcoin/files/Makefile.gentoo.cuda). So if it does not compile for You on 32bit, then try adjusting these paths in the makefile:

Any donations to make my effort worthwhile are welcome.
1NLWBAD7ZD82fJDDawKfp5RAKSR8YWWYd3

+50 to that.

KISS philosophy is what makes Linux so great.

My guess is that if we don't want to be advertised as "drug dealers" and "money launderers" by all the governments, we should stay away from such a buisness.
Or perhaps try to avoid doing it for at least few years, until bitcoin becomes mainstream.

Of course while saying this, I'm perfectly aware of that people will do otherwise, so i don't really know if there was point in saying it at all...

Actually, You're creating unnecessary theories about it. They don't accept bitcoin simply because it is a currency. And they probably do not allow exchanging any currencies on their site, except for "collecting" reasons.

I think I didn't exactly understand how the system works. So if the messages would be sent together with bitcoin, they will also be permamently stored in the block chain for ages.

It seems you're right, satoshi.

Yeah, I'm curious of that too.

I found something interesting.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1138345/best-compression-algorithm-for-short-text-strings

There is a small OS project on github, which does good compression of short text strings.
http://github.com/antirez/smaz


So we could further get the 384 bytes down to <200 or <175 bytes.

I will tell You what have i just done.
I clicked "quote", copied the message and pasted it in a text file.

Then, i have truncated the file to 512 bytes, and EDIT: GZIPPED  it. It now takes 329 bytes.
Next, i have bzipped it. Now it takes 288 bytes.

Of course, there is no need for such a long message. Let's try 384 bytes. I used lorem ipsum generator from here: http://lipsum.com/
Results:

I think that maximum ~260-280 bytes per transaction is not bad.

Sure it is "not necessary" but still would be useful for people.

Perhaps some people would like to keep one BTC address for some reasons.
Also bigger financial institutions won't really like the idea of different account number for each transation.