Watching the endless inflow of new alt-coins on the """ list of all cryptocoins""" and seeing how even coins I never heard of were discussed for over 3k posts without making it on the list makes me wonder who are these people that pump just about any alt coin, trying to get legitimacy by being listed on whatever list of important whatevers? Could somebody please parse all the respective announcement threads and get some intelligence on the topic? I would be interested in: How many posters are there per topic(how small is the group of supporters)? How many of them discuss on more than one/two/three alt coins(get rich quick with whatevers)? How many posters in the alt-coins only do post in alt coins(prime sock puppet suspects)? I'm sure whoever parsed all these threads would get some interesting insights. |
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If the only payment method is BTC, why would it be priced in something else?
Because I want to be sure it's $x per GB when I take a decision to use the service without having to check what it is today. I mean you can take gold or Euro or Argentinian Pesos. All these are stable units of account but bitcoin is just too volatile, which already forced the service to change its price how many times? |
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Feature Request: NOT MtGox prices as reference price.
I made a wallet for my parents so they can watch what their current holding is worth, but there's no way they'd ever get that price if they wanted to sell it. Can we change to something more realistic, like Bitstamp prices or so?
https://blockchain.info/address/[address] uses Stamp. Where is it using Gox? looks stampy everywhere to me but I don't see any reference to which exchange actually is used. that should be visible in every page that makes any claims about $$ values. |
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Awesome service, but you might want to consider adjusting the price again, make it update automatically with bitcoinaverage.com API or similar. Many businesses use bitcoin as a currency where they should use it as a protocol only. Almost all change to $$ at some point. If you have liabilities to return unused credits, you will not want to have received a bitcoin but rather the $16 it was worth last year. And yeah, the more users you have to convert from one policy to the other, the harder it is. Also magic money that multiplies itself by the service having to lower the price is bad as the old users will not have any incentive to send more money there. 1.6TB of porn he said? Maybe soon it's 1.6PB. Then he can publicly share his link and nobody will ever pay for the service again cause they all live off his balance. As people pay, can you really forbid to share the link? Deposits are instantly converted to GB, the site doesn't store BTC, it only stores the amount of GB you have purchased. If you "deposit" 1 BTC to your account now, you'll have 2,000 GB to use, 10 years from now you'll still have 2,000 GB to use (if you don't download anything of course). Yeah, right. Still it's priced in Bitcoin as if Bitcoin was a currency. Lol. |
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Awesome service, but you might want to consider adjusting the price again, make it update automatically with bitcoinaverage.com API or similar. Many businesses use bitcoin as a currency where they should use it as a protocol only. Almost all change to $$ at some point. If you have liabilities to return unused credits, you will not want to have received a bitcoin but rather the $16 it was worth last year. And yeah, the more users you have to convert from one policy to the other, the harder it is. Also magic money that multiplies itself by the service having to lower the price is bad as the old users will not have any incentive to send more money there. 1.6TB of porn he said? Maybe soon it's 1.6PB. Then he can publicly share his link and nobody will ever pay for the service again cause they all live off his balance. As people pay, can you really forbid to share the link? |
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The latest status of this work is that the soon to be released bitcoinj 0.11 has a ton of major improvements and fixes in the micropayment channel implementation. In the last 6 months we took the code for major test drives and were able to find and fix a lot of the obscure issues that crop up in real apps. PayFile is nearly ready for release, though I'm not working on it at the moment. I'm hoping Simon will finish off the last remaining issues though at the moment he seems to be thinking about alt coins for Africa, so maybe I'll have to do it at some point. Anyone else who knows Java and is interested in micropayments/agents/StorJ type concepts is welcome to contact me and I'll show you what needs to be done.
I should help. I definitely should as I am a Java developer and want to learn more about bitcoin and transaction channels. At the moment the massive runup in value combined with the lack of floating fees means the min payment you can make on a micropayment channel is now quite large, at about 8 cents. That's kind of ridiculous and can't be justified by the technology, so we might have to wait until floating fees are implemented and we're able to push fees down again before micropayment channels go back to being interesting.
This comment sounds like 8ct. per channel is bad for this technology? I read that Gavin(?) assumes the fees to go up, not down if they turn floating and long term I definitely expect them to go up. I see this as the biggest justification to add efforts on turning these channels a reality, not to put them on hold. If you and I have channels to MtGox, we can funnel payments through MtGox without having to trust MtGox (which I wouldn't at this point). The channel could have a timeout of one year so all the fees we would have to pay for maybe thousands of transactions would be 8ct + whatever MtGox charges, which could be as low as 0.0001ct. |
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No. I'm not employed by circle, just to clear that up. I've joined their advisory board. The reasons they asked me are in their press release.
Yeah, well, I read the press release. It was short. So "joined their advisory board" means you don't get compensation for your advise? Compensation or not, I was interested if they were interested in transaction channels in particular which you said, "no" to. Hmm, wonder who will come out first with a working mesh-capable server (2-hop peer to peer payment just like email) or a maybe closed source centralized solution … |
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I'll make the transcript available to everyone - so that blockgenesis' team can translate it easily - once it's done, as well as a french translation (and maybe a french subbed version of the 8 episodes, if my friend accepts my 0.25BTC offer to sub the videos in french  ) Any chance you could organize a Spanish version, too? I found the talk very inspiring to the point to ask if I could use it to actually hold a speech along its lines to an audience here in Chile if there was a transcript. My Spanish is … 2 years of living here so I would have to heavily rely on preparing and training a script to get all the terms right. |
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Was Circle interested in this in particular?
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May I quote you on saying that this could be "the most important improvement since Bitcoin itself?" Maybe it would help me line up some resources to be able to work on this.
Usually I mean what I say and only barely post stuff I'd rather not have people quote me with, so yeah, please, go ahead. I deeply mean what I said. |
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I decided that I wanted to store some of my private keys in a safe. Something from Wal-Mart may suffice for certain purposes (paper money…cough…cough), but I wanted something special for my bitcoins: something extremely secure, something easy to get in and out of (my new safe has a finger-print reader), and something that would look great in my office.
Don't loose your fingers  |
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Nice Work.. Was thinking about making one for my galaxy gear... always pulling out the phone to check the price as well  Did you check out the galaxy gear api? Think that can be integrated in this app? I figured Pebble and Sony Smartwatch would be the bigger platforms and I must say I am still not sure if I can suggest any of these. The Pebble is open and yeah, kind of cool but doesn't stand at all a comparison to the same price range Sony SW2. The SW2 on the other hand has weird limitations such as no ScrollView with buttons. You can only have lists that scroll. Totally killed an app I wanted to develop for it. The SW1 using a completely different api doesn't make me hope the SW3 will run my code, so yeah, I might have to buy the SW3, too? Pebble should be easier in this regard. Else the concept in Sony SW is that everything happens in Android and gets pushed to the device, which is kind of cool as it doesn't require to learn something new as an Android developer and I find it remarkable that Sony went for an Android only solution. |
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Today I made a Bitcoin monitor app for the Sony Smartwatch 2. That's probably as niche as it can get with 0.01% having bitcoin and 0.0001% having that Smartwatch but I'd like to share it anyway with you. I bought a Pebble and a Sony Smartwatch 2 for other projects and noticed that since then I'm only pulling out my phone to check the bitcoin price action, so I made that little app and guess it's quite ok for a one day project with market release (at this moment not yet listed in my market apps. Might take some hours.), video and bitbucket repo. Yes, it's open source, so if you don't like it, send me a pull request and I will happily improve it. Also if you happen to have a Smartwatch 1 (how many people do at all?) or some of the other Sony gadgets, maybe it would fit in there, too. |
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AWARE SCAMMERS
order 57973 - I ordered processor FX-8320
received opened box (damaged licence sticker) with only cooler
processor is missing in parcel
BE AWARE
Any idea who you are calling out as a scammer? Your postman? Your neighbor? Your customs officer? |
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Hello comboy! First of all, thanks for the great work.
Am i the only person seeing the depth chart from huobi all messed up like this?
What do you think is messed up about it? Unfortunately they don't provide (to my knowledge) a full depth, so that's all the data I have. Ohh! my apologies, i didn't know they wouldn't provide a full depth. It would make sense to communicate the lack of data as it really looks broken. Also you could auto-zoom in to the available data. |
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to all the "the list is a joke" folks: yeah, people have financial interests to have their pump and dump schemecoin high up in this list and therefore advocate for the one or the other way of handling stuff and OP surely is not neutral as you simply can't be neutral about something like alt coins but another project that also managed to provide decent information honoring everybody's pet project in a way was Prism Break. This was a short list first, containing bitcoin by the way, so yeah, it was kind of exploiting a sentiment to push an agenda but anyway, now it is an extensive list of all kind of stuff in many languages, managed via GitHub with 100 contributors and thousands of commits. One man alone can not maintain this list but he can manage pull requests and keep trolls under control. I suggest to throw the OP into a GitHub repo and then people can suggest changes in all kinds of ways. |
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@giszmo it not about what coin is listed where for me, i just think we have to be carefull and investigate a coin properly before making claims about it,especially when its not by a poll
"We" have to be careful to what extent we trust the OP. Nothing more. He can do whatever he wants. He could claim that LTC is backed by french cheese. So what. Make up your own list. As there is a lot of money involved, it is hard to have some neutral wiki pages about this, especially with the laissez fair attitude of the wiki admins but I would love to have this organized in the wiki. You could use categories * and have some formalized template of how to organize the information and that would allow people to get up to speed about this jungle of cryptos much faster than it is possible now but the bitcoin wiki will not work. * oh my god how embarrassing … the pirate party in Germany used what I am referring to but that got sort of out of hands and now there is really everything in the tree of "Users by whatever".
To see how it makes sense, please look at https://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Kategorie:Benutzer_kann_Filmen which is the category for "users who know video production". Each of these users have other categories down to kind of stupid ones. |
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who exactly decides where a coin comes in this list, i mean how does a coin end up in THE PURGATORY?? by a poll? by a vote, or merely 1 guys opinion?
the person responsible please answer this
By one guy's opinion. But I guess the list is under a free license, so go ahead and copy it with your improvements but be aware that you will not receive much love by 99% of all alt-coin fans as you also will end up putting 99% of all coins below the top of the list. |
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