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2221  Other / Off-topic / Re: Useless intellectual work on: November 01, 2010, 02:13:38 AM
Mi ne povas imagi kaŭzon kiu estas pli bonega ol tiu. Sciencistoj estas grava bezono por la estonta mundo. Sen scienco ni havus nenion.
2222  Local / Other languages/locations / Re: Esperanto ! on: November 01, 2010, 02:07:57 AM
Ĉu ankaŭ vi komprenas tiun lingvon? Ho, ni devos babili per IRCo. Wink Pacon.
2223  Other / Off-topic / Re: Useless intellectual work on: October 29, 2010, 09:50:35 PM
"useless intellectual work" is what takes us to the moon. Intellectuals need a thinking environment. It's philistine to believe otherwise.
2224  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: How have you earned your Bitcoins? on: October 29, 2010, 09:40:28 PM
Poker Smiley
2225  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: btcex.com looking for partners on: October 29, 2010, 09:39:28 PM
Emailed you
2226  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / 1 fixed unchangeable bitcoin address per username on a site? on: October 23, 2010, 12:17:40 PM
Hey,

If on a site you enforce that each user is only allowed one bitcoin address that isn't publicly visible, could there be any unforeseen issues? AFAIK it should be OK- if someone discovers their bitcoin address then they just make a new one and get a new username. And if someone DID get their bitcoin address, all they could do is view their transactions using that address.

Am I correct?

Thanks Wink
2227  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Message Free Software projects to add Bitcoin Donate buttons on: October 22, 2010, 06:35:22 AM
Hey,

Right now I'm working full time on a Bitcoin app and haven't got the time to do this. But it just occured to me that if you message a lot of free software projects then they would likely add one. Especially if you gave them a bitcoin icon or premade button.

Then someone could make a topic here of a list of projects accepting donations. Good way to promote bitcoin.
2228  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: [RFC] Best method for initial block download? on: October 18, 2010, 06:36:27 AM
not that bad. i downloaded it and had them all in a few hours
2229  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Poker and the shared pot at the table in a decentralised network on: October 18, 2010, 06:23:50 AM
In an escrow:

1. A offers to sell laptop for 2000 coins, and escrows X coins as security.
2. B offers to buy and escrows X coins as security.
3. B pays 2000 coins to A.
4. If A refuses to send the laptop, both A and B have lost X coins. Therefore, A has an
     incentive to send the laptop, and B can't use this system to put A out of business.
5. A sends the laptop to B.
6. If B refuses to acknowledge receipt of the laptop, both A and B have lost X coins.
     Therefore, B has an incentive to acknowledge receipt of the laptop.

where X > 2000 (e.g X = 2500)

In Poker here, the transaction confirmation is when the hands are revealed and the escrow confirms the winner. I'm asking about a distributed escrow in essence.
2230  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Poker and the shared pot at the table in a decentralised network on: October 18, 2010, 03:53:15 AM
Hey,

Over the past days having discovered bitcoin has driven my mind wild. All this year I've been reading a lot about distributed networks. I was a programmer and I'm hugely interested in maths.

When we play Poker online, we are using a centralised network. You deposit your cash online, sit down at a game and play. You place your trust in the site to be secure; no other players can see your hands and no money is being secretly stolen from you. Even big name sites have been known to cheat and smaller sites just shut down and steal your money.

There are two well known sites- PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. By being secure, they charge you excessive amounts to use their service. The market is monopolised by them since small sites are untrustworthy. This year I played on PokerStars and made $3k profit and payed $4.5k in rake- so I had to win $7.5k in total and hand over more than half my winnings to PokerStars. Many players hate this.

A decentralised Poker network (using bitcoin). Here's the advantages:
+ Government heavily taxes Poker sites. Decentralised networks are outside the law.
+ No rake.
+ Don't need to place your trust in a company
+ Customise your client since you own the source!
+ No tracker sites gathering statistics on your play against the rules of Poker

How could such a thing be implemented?

Mental poker is a scheme for neutrally verifying cards among players but is slow. Yet I imagine there's ways to speed it up by relying on trust/probabilistic methods.

The real problem is money put into the pot. For those unfamiliar with Poker I'll explain: People bet on the strength of hands, and put money in a pot. After so many betting rounds, both players show their hands. The strongest hand wins the money put in the middle. How can this be decentralised?

The best scheme I imagined was if the pot was stored by a third party. We want to protect against collaboration so using the other players not involved in the hand at the table is not possible (5 of the 6 players on the table could be collaborating together and just steal your money). Each player could nominate a few escrows each that hold fractional amounts of the money. Since people disconnect (bad internet .etc), the escrows would need to be dedicated services.

6 players sit down at a table. Each nominates 2 escrow services that hold the money (12 in total). Player A and B start betting and putting money in the pot. $200 goes into 12 escrows or $17 each. After they show the hand everyone agrees player A won. But one escrow refuses to award their share of the $7 to A... Everyone at the table blacklists that escrow to never trust them again and alerts everyone else in the network. If the majority of the players at the table >50% agree that an escrow is bad, then everyone blacklists them.

This would be a great boost for bitcoin. My scheme is full of holes though. Looking for ideas.
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