Just WOW! How did you get that started? I'm in Chile and people politely ask about bitcoin when I mention it but then I try to slow down as I barely see real interest and don't want to annoy people with my toy. I would love to do the same here but wouldn't know how to approach it.

Actually this kind of features of bitcoin scares me a bit. Some here see it as a mean for tax evasion but with monitoring committees it can lead to only monitored funds to count as bitcoin.

How does a politician proof he is not accepting illegal donations? You showed it. Watching only wallet at the authorities.
How does a company proof it is paying its taxes? Just the same way. Watching only wallet at the authorities.
How is a private person proofing to pay taxes? Just the same way. Watching only wallet at the authorities.
Next step would be to accept donations to the US politicians only from wallets registered with the US authorities because only these are clean coins?
…

Yes I like it for the political campaigns but you see what I'm scared of.

I lost track of B100 status. Was any money paid out yet?
Anyway, I came across a very nice organisation to consider for this: http://watsi.org

Today I wrote them a general inquiry about how the non-fees work and only briefly mentioned bitcoin as the only service to my knowledge that would allow to operate without fees. His very quick reply did not mention bitcoin but asked for ways to further reduce fees. I sent another mail with more bitcoin introduction and also sent him a bitcoin via a charged instawallet address asking to either send it back to me or on to a wallet out of my reach.

Oh, if you want to introduce Bitcoin in Greez, it could even work. I see you could easily snap some 250k cheap coins right now at MtGox for a pocket money, then announce this step and watch the price settle. After a year and hopefully some other countries taking this step, you could invest one of your bitcoins to print some paper money backed by bitcoin. Greece would be a huge test balloon for such a move but the first mover would have a massive advantage.[/dreaming]

Urgs. BUYBUYBUY-blabla?

Hm … I know that in games where no money is involved, nobody ever cheated but do you think that would be the same when there was real money involved? I still have doubts but try it out. It would be a cool experiment on the honesty of people.

cool, thanx for the info. 36,000,000,000 / today's difficulty * today's hash rate would be 274,630TH/s or 275PH/s.

Yes, I know it wouldn't even mean SHA256 was broken if the smallest hash found was actually 0 as shit happens but it might reassure some of those less literate in mathematics that despite the effort of running a several TH/s operation for a serious amount of time, never ever there was a hash found to be smaller than

These people should just try to imagine how incredible big this number is and how far we are from 0. If the number were representing our distance to the center of the universe in nanometers, we would still be outside this universe. Far outside.

(If this smallest number found would be 0, it would be an indicator that somebody actually broke the algorithm as one might be lucky but chances this happens by pure luck are just not high enough that the algorithm could be considered save if this ever happens. The one who was lucky might know it was luck but all the cryptographers would assume it wasn't luck. It would be fun though )
 As mentioned above, even if we had touched the 0 once, this would raise concerns ans serious doubts in it being just luck

lol

Hi,

again and again and again people ask if the bitocin network could crack sha256 and people reply how we are far from that. The nature of the bitcoin network though is, that we should have a record of how close we ever got. What was the lowest hash ever created by the bitcoin network? Which difficulty would that equal to? Which network speed would it require to run at that difficulty?

I know somebody here has the tools to answer this

I have mint but still for reference: Mint-Menu -> System -> Preferences -> Startup Aplications -> Bitcoin -> Edit

But … : Funny bitcoin-qt is funny. When I open the settings and close them using the "ok" button, everything I changed via the last step is reverted. UGLY!

Should I bother providing a patch or is the pull request process so elite that it's not worth it? (My goal for the patch would be to have the checkbox "Start Bitcoin on window system startup" also toggle visible a line for additional commandline options that would be added when saving the options. Should be quite trivial.)

I found I can start bitcoin qt with the -datadir= option but when I tell it to automatically start, it happily fills my home folder disk again.
(I tried ln -s ~/.bitcoin /mnt/other/disk/bitcoinFolderCopy but it did not work.)

Thanx for advice.

Thanks for telling me what I already know.
Check out this list to get an idea what it means to be google or some #2.
The play market has massive numbers compared to any ouya infant toy gadget. If your bitcoin-only-market gets 30% of the sales … well, here is my assumptions for two years of operations:
Ouya will sell 20 million devices.
200 developers will produce 250 apps (mostly adoptions of existing apps).
The official ouya market will sell these apps. It will sell a total of 50 million apps.
An unofficial market that provides many more features to the developer and the user will feature 50 developers and their apps and achieve 2 million sales.
A bitcoin only market will get 5 developers on board and sell 2000 apps.

But tell me what have you been talking about? Ah yeah, the 30% will make them rich. Sorry, but if my crystal ball is not broken, it suggests I better don't put money and time on such a venture.

If the 3rd party market is vastly superior, devs would in fact support it. To achieve this, you would really have to put work into this and to start that you would have to get a better picture what the OUYA team plans to do with respect to a sales platform.

+1

I see no point in making an android market based on bitcoin that competes with the play market but as ouya default store is weak (aka non-existent), you could be ready at the start with a feature rich market that supports credit card, paypal and bitcoin with a nice in app payment api and subscriptions and developers might embrace it. Don't scare them off with bitcoin as the most prominent feature.

Please don't be foolish to build a bitcoin only market. Developers will not use it.

It's Android-based. So what? I highly doubt they will have the Google play market on them as they target for other games and already announce early access for devs. Most likely these devices will not even be allowed to be sold with the play market on board and they aim to build a completely new android based market.
Actually there are literally hundreds of Android markets all at a low low low turn over. Such a device might yield for a greater than average-looser share, so maybe 0.01%?
I think they should definitely embrace bitcoin. Google takes ages to allow global payment. There are still many countries where you simply can't buy via the play market and many more countries where you can't sell. Devs from these countries pay a high fee to get their apps published in some other countries.

How long have we been "lucky"? Depending on how many blocks you look at, you might come to different speeds and different volatility of the speed measured.

http://bitcoincharts.com says 23.762 Thash/s
http://bitcoinwatch.com/ says 16.99 Thash/s
http://bitcoin.sipa.be/ says 20 Thash/s
The last retarget sets the difficulty according to about 16Ghash/s.

I can't see anything in the charts that would get me excited (and this thread almost got me to spam my poor Facebook friends about bitcoin again. +10TH in one day after pirate announcing to pay back his dept just sounded too juicy.)

You are neither "all in" nor in the right forum. If you are all in, tell me how you pay your bills. If you speculate, you arbitrage other people's panic and lend your coins to panic buyers to buy them back from panic sellers.
Seams to me you two are pussies

I'm not too afraid of people steeling my ideas. At least not for some of my ideas.
Most of my ideas have a working prototype, so one-man-shows trying to hit the market before me would have a hard time doing so and big companies might code faster but take longer to get started, too. The most promising in this category would involve 2 partners with a quite successful game on the market, so in this case it would not even be a one man show (in case they want to share with you guys ).
One of my projects would be a server part to my FluxCards. The details might be worth copying for some but my experience with FluxCards would put me ahead of the wave. This project would actually be the one I see most potential on the long run.

Interesting.
Good to know many people are skeptical about the outcome of the bitcoin experiment

FluxCards is my most successful app in terms of downloads and rating right now. It is run under my current developer account which also lists Flux Forest that would deserve some love in my eyes but that failed for now. Flux Forest would be one of the more unlikely options to put on GLBSE. I'm sure its unique game physics makes it much more fun to play on the long run than galcon fusion but for now nobody understands this physics and the graphics is only dummy and therefore it lacks a lot of polish before it may gain traction.

My older account lists my very first 8h-idea-to-market hello world game Stress which has some potential, given shitty implementations like this reached 500k installs. Maybe working 2 weeks on "Stress" would be some nice starter to show off my capabilities as this should be really easy with some potential.

The other app is just a fork of an open source project that basically got some clean-up and landscape mode. Nothing spectacular but open source if you are interested in seeing commits.

Apart from Android, I have a long public record of activity in Globulation 2.