Are you saying a developer can implement this or that a user can do this to their own client?  If the former, that's the nature of open source software and by that logic the features of all currencies are thus obsolete, and so it's pointless to even bring up.

If you mean the latter, then you are assuming way more technical knowledge than most people have, and you're also ignoring that Tor only works well if it's used 100% consistently, and used entirely within a Tor network, which wouldn't happen if you expect individuals to set it up and run it themselves.

So there is an actual distinction between Tor being built in and always-on, vs a client merely being capable of using it.

There is a difference between the capability of running a client while connecting via TOR and having it built into the client so it *only* connects via TOR.

Accidentally opened the Bitinum wallet instead of Bitcoin earlier today; I mined it on iSpace months ago and forgot about it. Network still seems to be working.

I don't think there's any need to push for it to be on AltMarket - it's Bryce's coin and his exchange, so I think it's safe to assume it will be added sometime after the beta.

Dude, think that one through a little more.

Kelly deals with multi-million dollar clients. What kind of investor in that category is he going to find on BTC? None. And he has always known that because it's obvious.

He came here to do R&D.

He got what he needed, plus plenty of extra FUD and other tedium, and he moved on.  Bitcoin is *just* mature enough for certain types of Wall St. style investors to dip their toes into it and altcoins are not really there yet, and I'm sure he's well aware of this and had no intention of marketing NAUT to his clientele this soon even if POS had turned out to be easier to implement. 

In time his clients will be asking him about what crypto they should invest in and by that point he'll have the bugs ironed out of Nautilus and he'll hand it do them.  Much easier to sell to a market that comes to you because they see all the big players (from his clients' perspective), rather than try selling it to a market who doesn't even really understand what the hell cryptocurrency even is yet. 

Make sense?

This thread is amusing. 

I can't blame Brian Kelly for deciding to avoid BCT.  This thread and the moderated one are perfect examples of why.

Guys gotta keep in mind we are not the intended market for NAUT - it's his wealthy investment clients and CNBC viewers. He'll do what he feels best on his schedule and I'm sure he doesn't care one satoshi what people here think about him... which is the correct decision from a business standpoint.

Ah. I was wondering what was going on.

Checking with a CPA is always a good idea (although the general level of unfamiliarity most people have with cryptocurrency means they may not really know the answer).  But the last I heard, the IRS hasn't changed their position from what they said last year:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-03-25/bitcoin-is-property-not-currency-in-tax-system-irs-says

Basically as others have said, it's taxed with capital gains, and so basically treated like a stock, at least at the federal level.

You don't get taxed for holding it, but do when you convert to fiat.  So if you're a buying and holding for the long term then you should pay a lower percent of your gains.  If you're trading back and forth between fiat it will probably be more complicated. Hodl.  

Since searching still seems to be disabled, I don't know if this has been pointed out yet, but the download links in the OP need to be updated. Not only are they labeled 1.7, the links don't work.

Anyone looking for the latest release clients can find them here, though:

https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin/releases/

I sometimes think the best aspect of the cryptocurrency community is the unbridled impatience.

It's getting a little annoying, is what it is.  I still suspect Cryptsy doesn't have the money to cover the "broken" wallets and that's why they never get fixed.  But there's no way to know since they don't really acknowledge the problem and ignore tickets. 

It's Razor -- slashed the price!







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Go for it.

Read upthread a few posts. Julian is working on an update.

A warning - be careful trading this on Cryptsy (or anything there).  They have at last count 31 broken wallets, including OSC, making it impossible to withdraw. Has been offline for at least 6 weeks now.  I suspect they're trying to cover insolvency since I can't imagine they're actually that incompetent.

Here's how you get to the config file for any (most QT based anyway) cryptocurrencies on a Mac:

1) in the Finder, open the Go menu and hold down the Option key.  This will reveal the hidden Library folder located in your user folder. Click Library about half-way down the menu to go to that folder.

2) in ~/Library/ look for Application Support and open that folder. Inside you will find Dirac (or whichever currency)

3) if you don't already have a dirac.conf (bitcoin.conf, etc.) in the folder, create one in Textedit, making sure it is plain text in the Format menu so no special characters are added.  If the conf file exists, double-clicking it should open it in Textedit. 

4) paste in your addnodes and save


Hope that helps - you may have already figured it out by this point, but I thought I'd post the instructions in case others needed them.

What on earth is going on in this thread? Damn. 

Cool. Thanks, Damelon, and happy New Year.

That's exactly what I thought was going on.  I don't have a problem with the brain wallet, but if I end up teaching my students about NXT and/or doing a giveaway to my newsletter, I might use the QT style client.

A couple of ideas to make the official client easier for new people:

• On the sign-in screen add a 2-sentence message above the passphrase field reminding people they need to type it in exactly, including punctuation and capitalization and that if they enter it incorrectly they may see a zero balance but can just sign back out and try again
• Once they're signed in, if possible, you could have the client do a check for whether the wallet had been "activated" (or whatever the term is) and if not prompt them with a message saying their account needs a one-time activation and then offer a button to open the form you linked me to right inside the client - perhaps w autofill of the account ID and the public key?
• I swear I had a third suggestion, but I don't remember now  

Hope that helps.