If you want to donate to OpenSSL or Tor, we'll be happy to match! Part of the issue is that they refused to get us a persistent donation address, so they only address we could get would technically only be valid for 15 min. If someone wants to donate to them, we can schedule a 15 minute window to execute the simulfunding process  FSF, EFF and Bitcoin Foundation should be fairly well-known within this community. CCN (college cryptocurrency network) is a group that is trying to get college students involved in Bitcoin, which may very well pave the next generation of Bitcoin innovations and Bitcoin services. After seeing what's going on at MIT, we wanted to help get as many young minds into Bitcoin as possible. Chamber of Digital Commerce is very new, though it is headed by Perianne Boring which has been active in the community. She is a former ... correspondent? staffer? lobbyist? on Capital Hill, and has a tremendous amount of experience with public policy and lobbying. Her organzation is trying to be a lobbyist on behalf of Bitcoin (in general), to make sure the intelligence/sanity is present in lawmaking and public policy related to Bitcoin. You did choose wise on those, I can see that! :-) Also, I messed up my quotations: Also, once all slots are taken, this is a good opportunity for media coverage. We are talking about a cool $24k donations here. Let's get this, with Armory and multisig onto some frontpages! :-)
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Simulfunding drive is moving, but slowly. Gonna have to do some more marketing! We're at 5.0 BTC in donations matched. That's a total of 10 BTC donated! (0.5 is in transit, so only 4.5 is represented on the webpage). So we're at about 1/4 our goal. I rarely ask for money or donations explicitly, but I am asking now. Double the value of a donation to an org/charity that supports Bitcoin, OSS and/or digital freedom! https://bitcoinarmory.com/donation-match-list/As mentioned before: there's only 5 organizations listed there, but also only 17.5 BTC worth of notes which leaves us with 2.5 for "other". If you have different organization to which you want to donate, let me know! I'm especially open to OpenSSL and wikipedia. Though both of them will require a little coordination: we will have to get a 15-minute payment address and do the simulfunding process within that 15 minutes. Easy -- it only takes like 2 min -- but it will requires scheduling it. Also, once all slots are taken, this is a good opportunity for media coverage. We are talking about a cool $24k donations here. Let'##s get this, with Armory and multisig onto some frontpages! :-) edit: messed up quotation tags Ente |
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Simulfunding drive is moving, but slowly. Gonna have to do some more marketing! We're at 5.0 BTC in donations matched. That's a total of 10 BTC donated! (0.5 is in transit, so only 4.5 is represented on the webpage). So we're at about 1/4 our goal. I rarely ask for money or donations explicitly, but I am asking now. Double the value of a donation to an org/charity that supports Bitcoin, OSS and/or digital freedom! https://bitcoinarmory.com/donation-match-list/As mentioned before: there's only 5 organizations listed there, but also only 17.5 BTC worth of notes which leaves us with 2.5 for "other". If you have different organization to which you want to donate, let me know! I'm especially open to OpenSSL and wikipedia. Though both of them will require a little coordination: we will have to get a 15-minute payment address and do the simulfunding process within that 15 minutes. Easy -- it only takes like 2 min -- but it will requires scheduling it. I'm missing Tor on that list :-) Honestly, I never (consciously) heard of FSF nor CCN.. Nor "Chamber of Digital Commerce", but that's a Bitcoin-thingie anyway, so thumbs up. Hmm.. OpenSSL is an important piece of Bitcoin. "Standing on the shoulders of giants". Wikipedia Wikimedia? I dunno, after they took so long, with so many offers and pleas, I'm a bit recalcitrant ;-) Ente |
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Also, I love the idea of a DIY Bitmessage-Mail-gateway on my own hardware. Is there anything out there already? All the pieces exist if you know how to put them together. If you're running your own mail server, then you can run Bitmessage in daemon mode and use bmwrapper to add a POP/SMTP interface that your stack can interface with. Thanks for the pointer, noted down! Offline System (Armory only if I recall right...)
The offline system is completely uncritical. It doesn't need bitcoind nor the Armory blockchain, so 100mb free HDD space is enough. CPU and memory wise, a Raspberry Pi is already sufficient. This means that *any* computer you are able to install a recent OS on will be fine with offline Armory. I highly suggest Linux for this. It got much, much better with the online system too. Before, you needed around 8 gig memory. Now a "normal computer" is fine. Others will chime in what this means in detail (more than 50gb HDD for example). Ente Ty for that, I know shit about linux aside from my limited experience with my cloud VPS. So that said, it would be I guess as you said, at least for offline, any old laptop I can get my hands on with at least one USB port running XP, Vista or I guess 7. However XP is the only OS I have a copy of. Yep, anything with USB should do. I'd really suggest you to give Linux a try. Use a Ubuntu Live-CD for example, if you don't like it, remove the CD and use windows as before (well, backup your wallet, right? heh) You will only be using Armory anyway. Armory (and firefox and openoffice and thunderbird etc) look all the same, no matter if on windows or Linux. Linux will be more robust, and runs better on slower hardware than comparably new windows versions. You'll get plenty of help should you get stuck. Ente |
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I now have nearly 50 loans running. People with higher USD amounts might get fragmented even more
I have a somewhat large position open for half a year now. Replacing loans who run out or are overly expensive every day. You don't want to know how many individual loan-fragments I have in my list.. It's so much of a hassle, I spent a day googling for a working keyboard-macro-software, which does nothing but push "tab blank tab blank" a dozen times for selecting loan-fragments. I couldn't find any working solution. So I 'happily' hack away every day and mark, move, close loan-fragments. Producing even more fragments every day. For me, this is the single most annoying thing about Bitfinex at the moment. Ente |
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Hey, you turn out to be a good guy, after all! :-P Ente |
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I second that! Also, I love the idea of a DIY Bitmessage-Mail-gateway on my own hardware. Is there anything out there already? Any progress on internationalization (i.e. support for localization)? I don't mean to bug anyone about this, but I believe i18n will help spreading one of the most secure Bitcoin wallets to regions of the world where English is not a language that is mastered fluently by everyone, especially on a technical level. Perhaps it will even help to ease the general notion (?) that Armory is hard to master (to which I disagree, btw.). For a desktop app, Armory does have a lot of text (which is good for an app of this kind, IMO), and I for one would like to see that more accessible throughout the world. I'd be volunteering to translate Armory into my language without hesitation. I'm in for translating! Would it make sense to have localisation via addons? Any news on addons, by the way? Ente |
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Offline System (Armory only if I recall right...)
The offline system is completely uncritical. It doesn't need bitcoind nor the Armory blockchain, so 100mb free HDD space is enough. CPU and memory wise, a Raspberry Pi is already sufficient. This means that *any* computer you are able to install a recent OS on will be fine with offline Armory. I highly suggest Linux for this. It got much, much better with the online system too. Before, you needed around 8 gig memory. Now a "normal computer" is fine. Others will chime in what this means in detail (more than 50gb HDD for example). Ente |
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I do not have a problem with allowing the person to cancel, especially if they are cancelling a loosing trade. Since the swap provider does not have a similar cancellation ability, I think there should be a cancellation fee for the unused remaining time. That way, the swap taker will be more careful about how many days they take.
+1 I do not understand why any lender would provide more than 2 days given they are giving away free options to borrowers who can refinance without any advantage. There was one before as some borrowers were too lazy to do the smart refinancing themselves, but this new bot would do it for them, so lenders have NO reason to provide more than 2 days anymore. The bot isn't here yet, noone knows the details of its inner workings. I, for example, will continue to pay a premium for 30 day loans. If the bot can't do that, I will deactivate it. Ente |
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I'm still curious 1) is this still connected to bitstamp? 2) if say I decide to keep my balance on bitfinex and lend out, what are the chances these guys disappear with my money?
It's all in this thread. Although 200+ pages get a bit long.. Maybe have a FAQ in the OP? - not connected to bitstamp, as bitfinex has the largest volume now anyway. It's said that in emergencies, like in a flash crash, they would use bitstamp volume to cover things. No idea if/how much funds they have on bitstamp on hold though - that question doesn't depend on what kind of funds you send them, neither what you do with the funds, nor what exchange you use. "What are the chances btc-e disappear with my bitcoins?". Noone can answer you that. Ente We are working on this right now. We are grabbing all the great questions, as well as our answers, and trying to put them all into one aggregated FAQ, which will hopefully be the definitive resource to clarify any confusing issues (this includes any questions about swaps). Please keep an eye out, as it IS a lot of information to sift through. Any suggestions are, of course, welcome. -Josh P.S. I haven't forgotten about your suggestions regarding the "fragmented" swap positions, and I hope to have something to report soon. That's good to hear! Yes, you have a lot to catch up - Bitcoiners are impatient folks, so prepare for daily questions "are we there yet?" ;-) Ente |
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I contacted Dave to buy a set of ruby. It was a pleasure to talk to him. You can tell he really loves beautiful stones. After he figured out what I have in mind, he went to scan the local markets, to find a matching set of what I had in mind. Really putting effort into it and in contact with me, he found really great ones! I got them lab-graded too, shipping was quick and secure. These are completely untreated stones. Locally, I would pay several times of Daves price. Not to say that I saw ruby of that quality in any local showcase, ever. What can I say, Dave offers awesome quality, provides outstanding service, and with an affordable pricetag!  I am a recreational, hobby goldsmith, don't blame Dave for the ring - he provided the stone only. ;-) Also, in nature the stone has a much deeper, richer color. Those are difficult to photograph. Ente |
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I'm still curious 1) is this still connected to bitstamp? 2) if say I decide to keep my balance on bitfinex and lend out, what are the chances these guys disappear with my money?
It's all in this thread. Although 200+ pages get a bit long.. Maybe have a FAQ in the OP? - not connected to bitstamp, as bitfinex has the largest volume now anyway. It's said that in emergencies, like in a flash crash, they would use bitstamp volume to cover things. No idea if/how much funds they have on bitstamp on hold though - that question doesn't depend on what kind of funds you send them, neither what you do with the funds, nor what exchange you use. "What are the chances btc-e disappear with my bitcoins?". Noone can answer you that. Ente |
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You only need to worry about the USB side of the signing machine. On reflection, that Wired article may have over-hyped the dangers. USB devices can't just arbitrarily read/write any system memory can they? I think a malicious USB device has to be more sneaky.
I'm not worried at the moment. - USB has no evelated rights per se. Whatever you stick in, runs with user rights. No matter if legit or fake keyboard or cam or flash. Only with holes in the USB stack itself this isn't true any more, but then that's a whole different problem. - Firewire, pcmcia-cards, pci* and the like have *real* access. Like, a firewire device can read and manipulate all content in RAM without asking the OS or the CPU or them even noticing. I deactivated Firewire years ago in bios. - Every USB device needs a custom evil firmware. There never will be malware which can just infect all USB devices it can get hold of. Many devices will be "immune" because their firmware can't be rewritten reasonably, or because the firmware flash memory is already full with the original firmware, no space for evil enhancements. At worst, malware might know and try to re-flash a few of the most common devices. All "sandisk" drives for example. This probably will kill more devices than turn them evil. - We are, hopefully, not connecting random USB devices to our airgapped system. My initial plan was one USB stick, going back and forth from online to offline system. So *exactly this* device would have to be reflashed, and then this evil device must somehow gain control of the offline system. - There are "USB switcher" thingies. Connect two computers and one device, and you can switch that device back and forth between those computers. Via button or software. I don't think someone could reflash a USB stick which isn't connected to my (infected online) computer when there is that "USB switcher" in between. Not 100% sure of course. The bottom line is that we need to get data back and forth between the online and offline system. So it's not *offline* in the strict sense. Because of how Bitcoin, Armory and transactions work, we can't predict how much data there will need to be transferred, and that data isn't human-readable to check directly. So, no matter how clever the setup, in the end the user can only tell that, and how much data there is transmitted, and in what direction. And that's why now, scrapping my initial USB and "USB-switcher" plan, I like that "red and green blinking serial cable" idea. Ente |
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I'm late to the party, but really like where this concept is heading to! If it were me, I would implement this as RS232 serial comms, and then try to go about seeing if someone wanted to write a generic audio-to-serial device driver that emulated a serial port at the kernel level. Then the separation of duties in the code is appropriate, and the audio overhead is totally optional.
Yes, I totally agree, a generic, modular solution would be sweet. Both devices use a (virtual or physical) RS232 port, where users can decide what they put in between the two systems. I would then not use an audio layer on top of that, but an optical: - a green LED for sending data from online to offline, shining onto a phototransistor connected to the offline system - a red LED for sending data from offline to online, shining onto a phototransistor connected to the online system They flicker happily away, should be pretty fast too, and I immediately see when and how long they transmit data, and in what direction too! Other users might prefer the audio link. Or a plain direct RS232 cable. What do you guys think? Ente This sounds very interesting! I think that given two sound cards with optical input/output (such as http://www.dx.com/p/external-5-1-channel-usb-2-0-sound-card-optical-audio-adapter-black-41289), it may be possible to use the digital audio interface as a uni-directional data stream... The single problem is the additional cost (if existing sound card has no such interfaces), and maybe potential security implication (if USB sound card is used). Actually I had a much simpler way in mind: a serial cable coming from both the online and offline computer, meeting in a transparent box. There, they have LEDs and phototransistors hooked up. Much like an optocoppler. Now the two computers can effectively speak to each other over RS-232. The difference is that I can visually see there is data communication, how much, how long, and in what direction (via different colored LEDs in both directions). How Armory speaks to the onboard RS-232 port, or to a USB-to-RS232 adapter is just software. And exactly this dynamic, modular software layer I was proposing! :-) Ente |
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wohl der einzige kostenlose zahlungsanbieter überhaupt.
BIPS hat auch 0% Gebühren. Und sie werben damit, daß man sie sofort benutzen kann ohne umständlichen Papierkram. Kannst sie ja mal testen. aber ob das vertrauenswürdig ist, ohne papierkram? Wenn ich selbst bitcoins kaufen/verkaufen will auf ner Börse, okay, kann man verstheen wenn manche da keine verifizierung wollen, weil sie anonym bleiben wollen. Aber wenn man durch kundenkontakt oderso bitcoins akzeptieren will, sollte Verifizierung und CO eigentlich an oberster stelle stehen, oder nicht? aber naja, jeder wie er möchte  Sehe ich genauso. Ich werde dann je nach Business BitPay oder BiPS empfehlen ;-) Zur Steuer:
natürlich muss steuer gezahlt werden, sofern haltefrist kleiner als ein Jahr. Wäre ansonsten ja der perfekte Weg steuern zu umgehen, wenn man legal einfach die bitcoins ausgeben könnte und sich dann die steuern auf die kursgewinne spart. Das geht natürlich nicht legal, folglich muss man wohl oder übel alles dokumentieren.
(find ich natürlich auch schwachsinn und bei kleineren ausgaben wie für einen kaffee oderso würde ichs vermutlich auch nicht machen, aber wenns sich häuft dann muss das wohl sein)
Puh. Tolle Sache. Naja, dann bleiben wir also lieber mal unter der 600 Euro Grenze.. Ente |
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Will you honor your bids, offers and boughts in the future?
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Yes  You are doing solid business in your Casascius thread. I am not resentful and removed my reference. See you later! :-) Ente |
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..I have no clue who you are talking to.
The Armory devs?
The "Armory API integration" dev? (What API? "Addons"?)
All Armory users?
All Bitcoin users?
Nor do I understand what exactly you propose?
Using an Armory addon to trade stocks?
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No need for negotiations.
I admit I was wrong and ok I will apologize for the bad business. I would not want that on myself.
As for paying a fine, I'll pass on that. Let's be a little more reasonable and not cross that borderline extortionist path that you are on.
Will you honor your bids, offers and boughts in the future? Ente |
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I would always consider every single aspect of the online system to be compromised.
So the offline part better be good! :-)
As we inherently trust the offline system, we don't need silicon there. As we don't trust the online system, we couldn't trust the silicon there, as someone might have found a way to make it behave differently than expected.
For me, the border between "trusted" and "untrusted" is in the middle of the link (audio, cable, qr-code, LEDs), so I'm not sure any silicon would be worth it.
If the silicon is flashable, it's insecure.
If the silicon is "hard wired", it's custom and very expensive.
..I think.
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Please make the search function work with partial keys too:
1A8TY7dxUR
1A8TY7dxURcsRtPBs7fP6bDVzAgpgP4962
..and please make the column sortable:
"sort by name of address"
As it is now, one *has* to enter the full address into the search, and has no other way to find it.
At least you can't search for the private key, so it possibly is not a private key stealing project ;-)
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