Is bitmit alive? I can't get registered... "Sorry, registration is currently disabled. Please try again later"
Things like this get me slightly mad at bitmit. I really hope to see some competition as it really sux to have only one auction platform and knowing this auction platform might stop business or "get hacked" any minute cause nobody even knows who is operating it. I'm advertising stuff to forum members in my sig and getting the impression that they can't buy my stuff even if they wanted to, just because bitmit stopped creating new accounts, sux. @gizmo, @arsenische Registration is open for almost all users. We have about 50-70 new users per day and as you can imagine it is not our goal to keep users out of Bitmit. You may only be blocked if you have been banned from Bitmit before or when you try to sign up with trash email addresses or when your connection is routed through the tor network. So please ensure that you do not violate these rules, clear your browser cache/cookies and try again. I would assume 10% of your users will try to access Bitmit via a proxy given the average Bitcoin user being privacy aware. It should not be a bad thing to do so, neither. In the end you will never be able to distinguish a proxy from an actual user's computer. I like the trust by reputation and bitmit should closely analyze if there are clusters of people giving each other great ratings or if the ratings are genuine. Apart from that I would assume you don't need to really know the user's IP address. A junk mail hoster is slightly easier to get an account with than gmail and co. For security reasons it makes little sense to not allow these although I see how it can be assumed these accounts will make more trouble later. I would support this policy. Please at least tell the user why registration fails. |
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Is bitmit alive? I can't get registered... "Sorry, registration is currently disabled. Please try again later"
Things like this get me slightly mad at bitmit. I really hope to see some competition as it really sux to have only one auction platform and knowing this auction platform might stop business or "get hacked" any minute cause nobody even knows who is operating it. I'm advertising stuff to forum members in my sig and getting the impression that they can't buy my stuff even if they wanted to, just because bitmit stopped creating new accounts, sux. |
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Adam, you feeling better about your bet?
its still a few days away, but ya i think my chances just got a whole lot better What was the bet about? I don't feel like digging through 12000 posts. |
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Can haz working link pleaz? |
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Oh this really looks like a big problem. I could advertise instawallet.org and claim there was some sort of referral program. You get 0.01Ƀ if you use my referral link: <a href=instawallet.org/w/myAddressBook43>instawallet.org/referrer/Giszmo</a>. The problem is the attacker could even use some new addresses here but generate them himself and send the "referrer reward" only seconds later. I think instawallet.org should definitely distinguish between deep link and generated url. I really feel sad for all the noobs that were and will get scammed  This attack works with all the users that take help to get started no matter what wallet but with instawallet it is easier. I sold many people bitcoins that had no clue about bitcoin and could have easily installed them my wallet for their use without them noticing that now I will have access. I think the minimum instawallet should do is to show a creation time stamp of that wallet with some advice that if the user feels like he might have started using it later, he better should move on to a new wallet. Moving on to new wallets is actually a good advice to just about every user. |
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I thought your Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10" was expensive but it's actually cheap compared to amazon. Did I really pay that much??? I bought one some months ago and thought I had paid like 30% less. I clicked on the image of the galaxy tab and there is no link there. only on the text. that is weird. Else I hope to read some reports of people vetting your service soon and hope to see some more stuff and affordable shipping to chile  |
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Making block size a scarce resource helps seeing the limits' effect.
Of course if 7 billion people do one transaction per day, that is 7 * 10^9 * 10^3 bytes per day = 7 * 10^12 bytes / day = 7TB/day which might become an issue at some point regardless of the block size limit being 7TB/24/6=50GB/block. At such a point you will need a cluster to keep track and you will need some very good internet connection … or we keep it at 1GB/block so an averyge laptop with an average internet connection will be able to keep up by 5 years from now standards. I will watch no matter what you decide. I'm not passionate about the one side or the other.
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Taking that view, it's all about who will be holding the big 'ol paper money bag in the end. Avoiding being that guy is as simple as BUY AND HOLD.
Maybe you want the paper cause you are into recycling? As much as we were looking forward to the USD/BTC and XAG/BTC parity, we are now looking forward to the XAU/BTC parity and will chear in joy when the $100 bill reaches parity with the paper value  |
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so where's these damn asic's?
here |
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Wanna buy some silver? Or just $$? My $36 auction is still at $5 although it contains silver and coins that would be worth $5 for one $1 coin (Eisenhower $). Pushing this to at least $36 minus shipping would be much appreciated Thanx guys I thought I get bashed for this blatant spam You quoted yourself spamming? It appears so. I wanted to say thank you to those 10 new people bidding but didn't want to quote just one and yes I kind of spammed but felt like answering to the request for a donation address but don't like these donation addresses. Posting one would have been just the same kind of spam. My sig has mutually beneficial offers and the urls I post are for free. Also I hope bitmit thrives long after I sold my silver. A little more on topic: Bitmit improved significantly both in sellers and buyers in the recent 2 months. I'm pretty sure tosaki has good insights in bitcoin adoption just like any bitcoin business owner. Sadly only MyWallet makes this data kind of public. "Kind of" because their statistics are basically free to fake. |
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Wanna buy some silver? Or just $$? My $36 auction is still at $5 although it contains silver and coins that would be worth $5 for one $1 coin (Eisenhower $). Pushing this to at least $36 minus shipping would be much appreciated Thanx guys I thought I get bashed for this blatant spam |
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On another note, do you have the address of a page where blockchain transactions and executed Gox transactions are displayed simultaneously in some live charts? I have also seen it long ago.
http://www.bitcoinmonitor.com/Gorgeous, exactly what I was looking for, your donation address please? Wanna buy some silver? Or just $$? My $36 auction is still at $5 although it contains silver and coins that would be worth $5 for one $1 coin (Eisenhower $). Pushing this to at least $36 minus shipping would be much appreciated |
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On another note, do you have the address of a page where blockchain transactions and executed Gox transactions are displayed simultaneously in some live charts? I have also seen it long ago.
http://www.bitcoinmonitor.com/ |
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Liraz as you are such an open source guy, will BBE be open source? Will you also do charts? I would love to code charts if somebody codes some charts to copy from. I studied maths and have tons of ideas of what would be very interesting to measure if I had the blockchain data readily accessible.
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There are also some bears, like Proudhon, preaching the theory that a few people controlling large amount of bitcoins which they bought at very low prices are going to cash out at anytime, in that case I would say let the dump come then, for the general safety of the system, the bitcoins must be distributed as even as possible, so the sooner the dump, the better.
It is happening. After June 2011, this month has had a record day for coins coming out of cold storage onto the market... https://blockchain.info/charts/bitcoin-days-destroyed-min-yearVery good discovery, thanks. But does it have to do with the coins being stored twice as long that the number is so high, yet the amount of coins is not as large as it was in June 2011? Absolutely that would be the case. All this gives is an indication that at least some old coins are changing hands. I think the best way to know how bitcoins are becoming more widely distributed is to extract the top 1000 "richest" addresses every month, and determine the percentage change each time. I am thinking if we can slightly modify the days destroyed metric, e.g. to add weights to coins sitting dormant since before 2011, or using power function of "unspent days" in calculating the metric, on the assumption that bitcoin purchases/mined at later times are more likely to be of small amounts, as the price after the crash was still much higher than it was before the crash even at its lowest point, which limits the possibility of large purchases. Needless to say it excludes the early adopters cashed out at the top and bought back at the bottom, but in that case the volume would be really massive, yet I have not seen such volumes yet. The 7 days average is much more informative here: https://blockchain.info/charts/bitcoin-days-destroyed-min-year?showDataPoints=false&show_header=true&daysAverageString=7×pan=all&scale=0&address=Else there was some chart that's not being continued where you could see from which time frame coin days came that were destroyed but in a very coarse monthly sum up. Don't remember the url … http://statistics.ecdsa.org/ … I had asked Piuk to make something similar and I guess he was intrigued by the idea. Lets see. Hope he does it. |
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 how about other languages? |
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Hey BBE was great. It was the first and is now totally overrun by blockchain.info. I hope that Liraz Siri is genuinely interested in competing with blockchain.info so we don't slide into a monopoly situation.
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that anonymouse.org-proxying intentional? You might be generating quite a bit of traffic for them.
lol -- this is why free proxies are always doomed to snail speeds. And why it's called "tragedy of the commons". Anyway giving our info to one single big entity is certainly smarter than giving it to the various image hosting providers (i'm ironic, this is dumb stupid). To me this looks like an attack against anonymouse.org not like a paranoid attampt to be extra anonymous. put gigantic images (several of them) on the most read thready of some forums with a maximum load to a proxy (I guess if they are aware of this inception, they will shortcut it anyway) to dos the proxy. |
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I'm quite sure the Casascius coins will be collectors items one day, since they're beautiful and coins are already collectors items.
Well, if bitcoin survives, the Casascius coins will outperform the bitcoin, sure. But do you believe the 25Ƀ coin will be traded for millions on top of the millions in pure bitcoin value? I see somebody is trying to sell them already at 220% but find this rather bold given the fact that you never know if the coin went through the hands of somebody with good radio scanning equipment emptying the coin at any future point. Sure Casascius has to sell them above face value due to production costs but in this example people already try to sell this production costs for $300. Sorry that is a joke. The 1 BTC original series one Casacius is selling for about 2 BTC as well. In which the manufacturing plays an important role. A $30 markup is hefty. $300 for the same amount of work is incredible. |
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