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1561  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Could you live off your Bitcoins? on: August 07, 2012, 08:39:06 PM
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Re: Could you live off your Bitcoins?

So if pirate does not default until I die, maybe Wink

No, I have no money with that guy but you get the idea: If the value of my assets keeps getting more at a rate of 20% per month and I'm happy with 500$ per month (there are places in this world where that is a lot of money), I could live on as little as 2500$ worth of bitcoin (which is only 5 block rewards) for the rest of my life. If you are skeptical about bitcoins security, you might answer "no" even with Satoshi's 2,000,000BTC.
1562  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I just made my first Bitcoin ATM withdrawal... 3BTC from my printer. on: August 07, 2012, 08:29:50 PM
If you are concerned about the private key, just take your receipt to your table/car and scan it with your phone and move to your own address.

So the waiter has plausible deniability if he is faster than you. Anybody in the room could have taken a picture of the receipt while falling out of the printer, spied on the electromagnetic waves the printer produced etc.

(Yes I'm one of those skeptics who think it is a bad idea to print private keys in the first place. Bitcoin are digital money. Printing them is a nice gadget but of no practical relevance in any future I can imagine.)
1563  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Bitcoinary.com - The new smart way to buy and sell Bitcoins. on: August 07, 2012, 04:25:37 PM
Sad sendgrid.com? Really? What do you need them for? To monitor if the messages reached me? I get a scam alert for presenting me a <a href=A>B</a> kind of link.

sendgrid.com is a developer friendly, trusted, third party, transactional email service provider.  They've send over 50 Billion email for some major web providers.  With their library and about 4 lines of code your web application is set up to send emails and they handle all the spam filtering, deliverability issues, isp, and ip monitoring, and bounce processing.  Check them out. http://sendgrid.com/.

That href is probably the default unsubscribe link.

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Some Name Has sent you a message regarding trade http://bitcoinary.com/trades/43

This was all there was in the email. Sorry but by common sense this is scam.
It shows me bitcoinary.com but hrefs u283207.sendgrid.org. This alone triggers my mail client's scam detection and yes, I think it should.
The typo (Has instead of has) triggers the human scam detection as by convention, scam always contains typos while legit mail doesn't.
The mail is brief and has no legit link that would help me find out if it's scam or not. I would at least add some real bitcoinary links in it and explain the user what's going on.

Bitcoin is too scam heavy to tell me I'm paranoid. Bitcoin users have to be that paranoid. Get this straight or you will lose many users.
1564  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Bets of Bitcoin - Bitcoin betting on real world events on: August 06, 2012, 12:54:28 AM
Or, maybe just clone some popular statements from Intrade ?

… and do arbitrage between these platforms if people bet differently here than there. Save way to win Wink
1565  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: [ANN] BitcoinSpinner on: August 05, 2012, 04:52:19 AM
BTW, there is a 'Donate' option you can access if you click the option button on your phone on the main screen of BitcoinSpinner. It hasn't been tested much  Roll Eyes

Thanks for the reply. What about increasing the fee a tad and make some of it go towards your reward ?

There could still be the option for the cheapskates to compile it themselves and remove that extra fee.

Not sure how the user base would respond to that. Your time and resources ain't free, so..

As much as I believe he deserves some acknowledgement for this cool app I'm pretty sure all that did great stuff like this will get their fair share when the big players search for people to get them started in bitcoin.

Rolling my own spinner is high on my todo list and probably I would put it to the market under my account for my friends that might trust me more than some guy they don't know/takes money with every transaction.

I have a cool non-bitcoin app, too and really would love to make it open source but to be honest I don't see how to make money with it. One approach I was thinking about was to make the core app open source and the shiny frontend only wraps this. I would have to provide a non-shiny front-end to provide a full app others would consider worth working with, so my base framework would be there to establish a standard within this area and my nice front-end would stand out and be worth paying for.

Similarly would I not be mad if further development on the spinner-UI would be non-open-source and only available for a fee but I would find it sad if bug-fixes to the core functionality would not find its way into a lib-spinner.
1566  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: [Ann] CoinDL - Buy downloads with Bitcoin: Now with Pay What You Want + YouTube on: August 03, 2012, 05:31:20 AM
CoinDL could do way more to promote the material. Where can I rate articles? Where can I filter or sort for just in, PayWhatYouWant, rating, popularity, etc. What is stuff sorted by anyway? Where are pictures of the artists in the overview? And why does playing one title not pause the others?

When I click "buy" for several articles, I get several check-outs? Seriously?

I hope you still believe in CoinDL and work behind the scenes cause without some polish I'm afraid this will not attract the masses.
1567  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: btccharts.com on: July 31, 2012, 12:07:13 AM
Bring the light color theme back please! I really dislike the dark one, it's very uncomfortable for my eyes to look at it!
Wow really? The light one is horrible! I'll take green on black any day.

Smiley Oh how I love this kind of feedback. It sounds so familiar Smiley
Never take away a feature. Users will hate you for that. I actually also prefer the light theme and so far can't appreciate the new version at all. What really counts though might be the impression on people that don't know the other version. In the end this site still is by far the best we have and I see how it is getting better very soon Smiley
1568  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Julian Assange Show: Cypherpunks Discuss Bitcoin on: July 30, 2012, 09:02:16 PM
bitcoins don't get lost, they just become inaccessible (which can be the same for all practical purposes). However, inaccessible bitcoins are like gold treasures on the bottom of the sea. Sometime in the future the incentives to find "lost accounts" will be big enough for people to develop "bitcoin treasure hunting" solutions. The cool thing about lost accounts is that it's kind of a static problem because the funds don't move anymore  Wink

This will only happen after ECDSA is broken and we move to a new addressing system.  Until then, if "bitcoin treasure hunting" is possible, it will be possible to steal bitcoins.

Smiley From a treasure hunter's point of view there will be big and small loots. The biggest unspent address will be the first target no matter if it is "lost" or the cold storage of Gox. As people will know about ECDS being weak when it actually happens (I doubt there will be a zero day exploit), all non-lost funds will get moved. Either split up to decrease the loot/increase the effort per BTC or if it already exists to a more secure key.

My worries is that mining hardware will essentially be the tool to loot those addresses so greedy pools might throw their computing power on where there is the highest profit and therefore maybe big fractions of mining (aka double spend protection) will be lost to looting (aka mining).
1569  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: btccharts.com on: July 30, 2012, 08:44:14 PM
broken to me Sad
on btccharts without beta I now see no data. just the axis.
1570  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Julian Assange Show: Cypherpunks Discuss Bitcoin on: July 30, 2012, 07:35:05 PM
People losing bitcoins will simply be good for everyone else. The value of all other bitcoins go up. This is not a flaw of any sort because bitcoins are very divisible.

So raw eggs would be a perfect currency or at least there would be no problem with them breaking all the time as it makes the raw eggs of others just even more valuable.

Oh come on. Being easy to loose in fact is a problem of bitcoin right now. Reminds me I should refresh my wallet backup Smiley
1571  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: [Announce] YouTube Video Links on your Items on: July 30, 2012, 07:30:57 PM
click the pencil to edit an item and put in the ID of the YouTube video (not the entire URL)

I'm sure you will figure out the right regexp to extract the ID so you don't have to rely on the user to extract it Wink
1572  Economy / Marketplace / Re: Want to buy - the world's first 25 BTC block on: July 27, 2012, 06:17:48 PM
hmm, so to raise interest and not have the "special coins" destroyed an hour after creation, you should auction it before you have it. Wonder which auction platform allows auctioning items with an unknown seller Smiley
1573  Economy / Marketplace / Re: [Beta Testing] BitcoinWireless.com-Buy wireless time from over 300 carriers on: July 26, 2012, 08:02:44 PM
Once you see it, it can't be unseen. Maybe I drink too much coffee but seeing the tab of bitcoinwireless somehow doesn't remind me of a telephony business Wink




1574  Economy / Marketplace / Re: [Beta Testing] BitcoinWireless.com-Buy wireless time from over 300 carriers on: July 26, 2012, 07:47:05 PM
404?
I want this to take off. What's the silence about? Why 404? Who joins me to do this? Can't be that hard. At least in Chile it should be quite easy.

Something is wrong with LaunchRock, I'll look into it now.

We are only weeks away from launching this, even sooner!

I'm glad to hear that! Man this will be a game changer if it worked in Chile and as easy as I hope it to be. I at least meet one person per week making a face over having to search some place to recharge their prepaid card. If I can help every single one of them in a matter of seconds for cash, I'm sure I would get people interested not only in your service but also in bitcoin in general.
Entel, Claro, Movistar please  Grin
1575  Local / Deutsch (German) / Re: Zwölftes Münchner Bitcoin Treffen on: July 26, 2012, 06:00:17 PM
Wäre gerne dabei aber sooooo kurzfristig leider nicht Sad
Trotzdem vielen dank fürs bescheid geben !

Ging leider nur so kurzfristig. Na ja, nächstes Mal …

Gibt's ein Video? Bin auf Berichte gespannt Smiley
1576  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Can I want my money back from SatoshiDICE? on: July 26, 2012, 05:56:11 PM
You should not have sent a 50btc bet to a site that you didn't understand the mechanics of.
It sounds like it was a cut-'n-paste error, but yes - always double and triple check the address and the amount.

If only SatoshiDICE had some sort of vanity prefix for their addresses...   Cheesy

+1 Cheesy
1577  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Can I want my money back from SatoshiDICE? on: July 26, 2012, 02:57:35 PM
I LOLd Smiley)

Idea: A DB of addresses that pooled funds such as MtGox can contact so they don't send to them. Lottery and SD addresses come to mind.
Actually, while I am opposed to "blacklists" and such, it would make sense for mtgox to give warning when paying to known satoshidice addresses to prevent issues like this.
If anything, MtGox and others should prevent sending to 1dice/… from addresses that can't be used as return addresses as this is 99.9% unintentional but on the other hand: I would go with the stupid tax comment and not burden business with any effort like that.

Anyway, thanx for the laugh Smiley
1578  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Bitcoinary.com - The new smart way to buy and sell Bitcoins. on: July 25, 2012, 03:13:59 PM
Sad sendgrid.com? Really? What do you need them for? To monitor if the messages reached me? I get a scam alert for presenting me a <a href=A>B</a> kind of link.
1579  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Who is Maria Korolov (Trombly), and why she spreads FUD? on: July 25, 2012, 04:43:16 AM
Outside of this forum bitcoin is not known yet, so "bad news" are first of all "news". Revealing the bad propaganda was all by guns for hire might be the best good news we can get. How much would Maria charge us for an article about people buying articles against Bitcoin? Wink
1580  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: This is HUGE: WIKISPEED, first car-maker in the world to accept Bitcoin on: July 24, 2012, 10:01:33 PM
I somehow also have the feeling their project is running out of money and they desperately hope for some early adopter willing to chip in some of his coins really fast or else Wikiwikispeed is history.
Maybe I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong but somehow if Bitcoin and wikiwikispeed is such a perfect match, why so late?
Lets see.


Can't wait to see this on the news...when the first person to take this on the road gets crushed like a paper cup by a truck. Sounds like a piece of shit.

Let me guess, you drive a big truck and like to text while you put on your makeup. 

I lolld Smiley
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