You've either completely missed my point or never actually worked on an open source project before (or both). Assuming it's the latter, you need to realize that opensource isn't the same as democracy: Which is very good in my book. Democracy, facism, etc... all kind of authoritarian systems, apart from being inmoral are not efficient. opensource projects are very
often in practice controlled by a tiny group of trusted individuals.
When large disagreements about the code occur, there is either
a unilateral decision taken by those folks, or the project is forked
(see gcc vs. egcs for example).
These don't occur that often for open source stuff because there
is rarely an incentive large enough to maintain a fork for very long.
But in the case of bitcoin, the incentive may get arbitrarily large.
Also, for bitcoin, neither of these scenarios (fork or control by
a small group) are particularly pleasant.
Consider the following scenario: at some point in the future,
it may very well become a good idea to augment the precision
of the BTC (that is, allow for more than 8 digit after the decimal
dot).
How will approval for such a change get "voted" ? If by voted you mean that the community would choose which client to use, then thats how you "vote". |
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http://mises.org/ click on the Mises University 2011 Tab and you can watch the conferences live.
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What is "very low mining speeds"? Depending on how many miners I launched, I believe its because its the cpu that is the limiting factor. Whith only one miner the speed were swining between 60-40%. With four miners it was between 30-10% speed. |
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because maybe 23 hours 40 minutes ago a 2 hour block was solved, then 20 minutes go by and that block is no longer included in the calculation, so the avg goes up. It is a rolling average. I guess this is posible depending on how the 24h luck is calculated. |
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Eleuthria, the 24 hour luck indicator is going up but the last block awarded keeps stuck in the same block count. What is going on? Have we found a block but the count is stuck and not reseting? There is something wrong with the 24 hour luck indicator?
If you notice now it has gone down. I without looking at it closely I would guess it is cause there was a long block that dropped off from the rolling 24 hour stats. It doesn't factor in the luck involved in the current block, once that was solved the 24 hour luck percentage went down. Yes, I understand that, but the problem is that the luck was at 9'X and without solving any block it went to 10'X. Thats what cought my attention. If there is no block solved how is the luck going up? |
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Eleuthria, the 24 hour luck indicator is going up but the last block awarded keeps stuck in the same block count. What is going on? Have we found a block but the count is stuck and not reseting? There is something wrong with the 24 hour luck indicator?
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Gracias Hugo! Si algun dia visito la madre patria tenemos que sentarnos a tomar un cafe o algo. Cuidate mucho y muchisimo EXITO!
Cuando quieras. Un saludo. |
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Yo tengo billetes españoles de 50 y 100 pesetas de 1925 hasta 1950. Perfectamente conservados. Te podría cambiar algunos por bitcoins.
El de 50 no llego a recordarlo, probablemente dejó de circular antes de que yo naciera, pero... no tendrás el de 100 de Manuel de Falla...  ¿y el de 200 de Clarín? ¿y el de 500 de Rosalía de Castro?  Tengo dos tipos de billetes de 100 pesetas. Uno de 1925 donde sale Felipe II y el otro de 1928 donde sale Cervantes. Luego tengo otro de 50 pesetas de 1928 donde sale Velazquez. Luego ya tengo otro más moderno de 1951 de 5 pesetas donde sale Jaime Balmes (que no se quien es). Me los dio un familiar y tengo lo que tengo, no los colecciono yo. Ya me dirás si te interesa alguno. |
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Because Dwolla is much bigger than TradeHill and have focuses other than Bitcoin itself? Actually no. Between MtGox and TradeHill they are the 90+% of the Dwolla bussiness. And in the rest there are other Bitcoin exchanges. Dwolla does not like to talk about it, but Dwolla is tied to Bitcoin. Without Bitcoin Dwolla would be nothing. |
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This graph is about network speed... weren't we talking about network luck? or am i just ignorant... As far as I know (and please someone correct me if wrong), that graph aproximates the speed of the network from time it takes to the network to find the blocks. So it is influenced by people adding and removing workers, but the temporal swings are also influenced by the luck of the network. Its imposible for anyone to know the real speed of each miner, not even the pools can know the real speed of the miners connected to them and approximate by the number of shares that each miner contributes. Same with that page and the blocks the whole network produces. |
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Im using Ubuntu 11.04 amd64 with 5870 cards and with the new Catalyst 11.7 driver I get 100% cpu and very low mining speeds (probably because the CPU can not keep up).
I had the 11.6 drivers installed but since there was a kernel update and had to reintall the drivers for the new kernel I though I would install the new version, 11.7. But I get the problems described above. I have tried to uninstall the drivers, get Ubuntu working with the open source drivers, and then install again the 11.7. Same results. CPU goes to 100% and miners become very slow.
So my advice would be to not install 11.7 under linux, but if anyone tries I would love to know their experience.
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I think instead of playing the "which is worse" game of republican versus democrat, how about we all agree that politicians are beholden to the lobbyists and not us their constituents, such that both sides tend to screw us and not care how much they put this country into debt?
Something like this?  |
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and let's visualize some of the spending that got us there  The Obama side has no credibility, they are projections. Its based on some projections on what will do on the future, and they assume their stimulus plan works and the crisis is over so he will start reducing the size of government in the future. It wont happen. Obama is going to be as bad as Bush, if not worse. |
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I guess you could use extenders and put any kind of card. For mining, you can use pci-e 1x to 16x extenders without any decrease in bitcoin mining speed.
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Video is great. If I ever go to New York Ill sure visit Meze Grill.
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the facts are un-deniable Dwolla f'up'd and is making it worst by doing nothing about it ? To be fair, Bruce has said the CEO from Dwolla will be on his program: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=5952.msg403956#msg403956Im waiting for the episode to be aired to get their side of the story, but, honestly, it does not look very good for them. |
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if debt ceiling dont get increased btc can go up way up
Its the other way around. When the debt ceiling gets increased (because it will, all they are doing now is a theater, everybody knows that they will increase the debt ceiling) it will allow for the government to keep spending and the Fed to monetize the debt. Its inflationary, bad for the dollar, bullish for competition for the dollar. If the USA government cut spending (by not raising the debt ceiling f.e.) or even if it defaulted, then it would be another issue and the dollar could strengthen, hurting bitcoins. But no worries. After all the theater they will raise the debt ceiling. But you get to watch the political theater. Enjoy it, you are paying for it. |
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