Feature requests

• add more(all) currencies to your "request payment" window
• Make the request payment window sendable including the given amount (now, sharing on facebook only shares the address, not the payment request)
• add formulas to your request payment window
• (add live update based on changing exchange rates to your "request payment" window)

The point is, this would turn blockchain.info in a universial tool to accept payments to any wallet. A friend wants to sell me 15.000 CLP? I would use blockchain.info as a one stop solution by typing in 15.000CLP * 0.95 together with his receiving address. If he confirms, I do the payment. A merchant could use the service as well.

Right now when I do an exchange, I check the Bitcoin price in USD and use Google. I wouldn't mind if your service would draw its exchange rates from google, too.

(ente please get your quoting right. you quote me and others but actually I said what others said and the other way round.)

+1

That's good news. Is there no bitpay competitor that will jump in? Are they not willing to use the MtGox features? There you can also have instant exchange on coins received to a certain address. They would only have to trigger the €-withdrawals manually.

I'm German and willing to help if there is any language issue. Else I'm sure there is enough bitcoiners in Berlin to help.

What are YOU talking about? betsofbitcoin is a great service and has to survive somehow. If it reappears somewhere suddenly asking you to provide all kind of identification I want to know who's in control. Also thousands of bitcoins is not much in terms of a company's holdings but in terms of dozens of customers it is a lot to each of these.
On the other hand I don't see how a signed message would help. Maybe he's forced to cooperate in whatever bullshit.
The Bitcoin ecosystem is like a served dinner with the kids still playing with their dollar bills. The betsofbitcoin-soup is getting cold. Mummy will heat it up but if the kids eat out tonight it's not worth the hassle.

My response:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=127895.0

If the FED can happily print 40,000,000,000 USD (40G$) per month, how can we assume our pet project can withstand even one day of these spendings worth of effort? That would be 1.3G$.

The current total value of mining gear is 25TH/s * 72ct. / MH * s = 18M$ (if you use quite expensive BFL equipment). Thus a democracy attack would cost only 25M$ (Far less if combined with other tricks).

Hiring a team of 100 experts for one year to spread fud, play the evil pirate, hack into exchanges and sabotage Bitcoin^{(p. 28)} from within would cost 100*150k$=15M$.

Oh, damn, we still have 1.3G$ - 25M$ - 15M$ = 1.3G$ to spend.

So what would you do with the remaining 1.3G$ if your job were to attack Bitcoin? Launch and fail every thinkable and unthinkable project with seemingly great teams to not get competition even started, only to scam users out of their bitcoins and get more people frustrated? Maybe some child porn exchange with massive referral spam would get people disgusted? Very publicly pay a bitcoin bounty for a dirty bomb somewhere?

The ways to bring Bitcoin down are endless and comparably cheap. All of the above would still not even get close to 10 hours of FED's quantitative easing budget.

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Ok, so why the title "Are the USA scamming the world again?"? Well, my conclusion is that Ƀ might survive because it already has the full faith and credit of an issuing government. The FED could essentially pay freshly printed 1G$ per Ƀ if it knew it will abandon the $ anyway. Oooops did we debase the world's reserves? Sorry, didn't mean to. Hope you also bought some bitcoin. If that's the evil master plan, Satoshi and many of the early miners might all be the same entity painting a nice picture of a democratic open source money of the people for the people. Designing it as a world currency with 80% of all holdings in the USA would put the USA at the same unfair advantage it had since the Nixon Shock.
I think this possibility should at least slow down some evangelists' enthusiasm of advertising Bitcoin as the holy grail of fair and sound money and Satoshi as the mysterious god of the church of Bitcoin.
_{(Disclaimer: This post was written by my paranoid twin.)}

Schreib doch ein paar (20) Läden mit WIFI an und frage, wer von denen gerne den Bitcoin Stammtisch begastwirten will. Wir brauchen Platz für 30 Personen (sei optimistisch ), Internet, Bier, Snacks und Bezahlmöglichkeit per Bitcoin. In München gibt es mehrere hundert Gaststädten und viele haben Wifi. Garantiert findet sich da was, wenn man genug rumfragt.

My biggest fear for bitcoin as a whole, is a 51% attack the day one or two of these ASICS companies declare to start shipping "today". A friendly swat visiting them to have a closer look a their pretty toys.

These damn days on which hardware worth a 51% attack sits in one room ready to be snatched on "legal" grounds could really be the challenging days of bitcoin.

Any system that involves physical credit cards with custom readers is in a way no competitor to bitcoin but there are systems like "Barclays Pingit" in the works (much cooler actually ). I know of one (not sure if there is anything official yet) but I'm sure there are hundreds. It's just natural to take that step.


The Banking System does not work between arbitrary national currencies. You can't send money from USA to IR.

I guess your service will be super successful if you do it right. My ideas of what might go wrong:

• The competition will have a nicer site online faster than you
• You run into legal fun over not paying taxes or child porn on your site

wtf is this guy talking about drone attacks? I have a hard time hitting "like" when it smells like conspiracy theory.

I liked best the end when he talks about whether or not he has Bitcoins and I guess I will adopt this idea by saying:
"If I own bitcoins? I might have above average control over the one or the other address."

You two I wanted to talk to:
CoinUploads: I wanted to try your service but uploading a small gif fails. Tried another which failed the same way. Both result in a promising progress bar that suddenly resets to 0% and then at 60% again it shows an alert about a failed upload.
All the fuzz around Kim.Com should accept bitcoin got this thing started, huh? Wish you all the luck to get it smoother. A lot smoother. I guess it could be a mega big thing

videos4btc: Showing 4 photos with nothing at all to it will not get your clients attention. Allow the girls to upload teaser material, a profile, a guest book, ...
Generally have the first 20s of videos for free or do something else to get your clients hungry. As is, it looks like a cheap scam to get people to send you some coins.

Most likely the martians will force us to buy their currency. Fucking early adopters.

The bitcoin network on mars would work as "clearing station" and could do all a central "clearing station" could provide as it knows no more or less about confirmations than a central one.

Problem persists
Sadsadsad. Spinner is my fav. Hope we soon have bloom filtering so we don't depend on a custom server.

Running into Coinbase's Fractional-Reserve-Didn't-Work-Default is no excuse for not sending on the coin in a timely manner.</trolling>

1h video?? TLDW anybody?

I guess the fact that we might get extinct by some stupid accident some day might be incentive to put a lot of resources in the establishment of a self-sustaining settlement either in Space or another planet/moon.

There are. They are just generations of light-speed travel away. If we survive these damn next 100 years I would feel quite bullish for earth's life and we could prepare for another 1000 years to bridge these gigantic gaps.

(Anybody knows this theory:
If there is a first man (pick any) and a last man (due to irreversible nature of entropy there will be), a random man (you?) is in the second half of all men with … 50% probability. So with 100.000.000 humans having lived before you and the next 100M being born in the next 100 years, the last human might just be around the corner with 50% certainty. With continued exponential growth the 99% probability for extinction would not be 1000 years.

I love this thought experiment )

Delay is no issue. Maybe bandwidth is. Not sure how much bandwidth there ever will be if you have people over there but most likely not more than a hand full of connections (radio signal coming from Paris will not be distinguishable from same frequency coming from New York so you could get distance by relaying signals via the moon or some other spots that you occupy to get bandwidth).

With bloom filtering and a convention to use only addresses of a small address space (vanitygen: 1Mars*), Blockchain traffic would be negligible. Sure, earthlings would love these 1Mars* addresses, too just for the coolness but that would rather add anonymity/denyability to our Martian wallets.

I'm curious to know later on, which witch-hunt we were taking part in here.