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1  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Crypto capital withdrawal on: March 16, 2018, 07:05:08 PM
Did you get an update finally, I am in the same situation with a whole lot more money involved.

Thanks
2  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: cryptocapital.co SCAM ? on: March 16, 2018, 06:45:15 PM
Did you ever get an answer from them? I am in the same situation, only with a lot more money involved. Transfer from CC has been demanded 14 days ago and I have no updates.
3  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][XCP] Counterparty Protocol, Client and Coin (built on Bitcoin) - Official on: April 03, 2014, 02:55:16 PM
I came across some problem  when I install couterparty client .

2014-04-03 20:33:46,125|ERROR: Command failed: 'C:\counterpartyd_build\env\Scripts\pip.exe install -r C:\counterpartyd_build\dist\reqs.txt

Who knows how to solve it?

The error means that PIP, which is the python packages installer has failed to install the dependencies listed in the reqs.txt file. Do you have a more complete error log? One thing you can try is removing python if an old version is installed.
4  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Broadcasting the Blockchain on: March 26, 2014, 04:51:26 AM
Looks like someone is going to attempt this:

https://www.outernet.is/

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By leveraging datacasting technology over a low-cost satellite constellation, Outernet is able to bypass censorship, ensure privacy, and offer a universally-accessible information service at no cost to global citizens. It's the modern version of shortwave radio, or BitTorrent from space.

Unfortunately, I can see some very real technical and legal issues with trying to do this as described.

First off, Wifi is possible in only two bands.  Since the higher N band is very new, and many smartphones still don't support it, I'm going to assume that the older B,G band is what they plan to use.  But there was a technical reason that this band was chosen at the time of development; namely that the B,G band was license free worldwide.  But why was that, since such license free technologies didn't really exist before Wifi itself?  Because the B,G band is the resonate frequency of hydrogen.  Thus, energy transmitted in this band is heavily attenuated by any water or hydrocarbons found in it's path, and was considered useless for distance communications.  This is still true, and has much to do with why Wifi is so poor at clear range.  It's also why this band is shared by every retail microwave that I know of, since food is pretty much all hydrocarbons and water.  While there wouldn't likely be much risk of hydrocarbons in the line of sight from low earth orbit, there would be much water.  On average, the Earth's atmosphere has enough water from space to sea level to equate to a 32 foot deep dive under the ocean's surface.  The amount of power that would be required to push through this and be receivable by common wifi hardware on the Earth's surface would be rediculous.

Second, there are also sound techincal reasons as to why wifi multicasting is not commonly used.  Mostly because wifi is a time-sharing technology that (generally) permits more than one unrelated connection to coexist on the same channel.  This is permitted because normal mode wifi requires that the hotspot 'listen' to it's own channel several times per second for other broadcasters trying to share the channel space.  This doesn't always work well, but it does work more often than most people realize.  However, a hotspot in space couldn't coordinate timesharing of all the hotspots in it's radio shadow even if it were possible for it to hear them.  In this case, the sat based signal would effectively 'jam' the chosen channel across the whole of it's radio shadow, and also be a violation of international communications treaties as a result.

Third, the licesne free broadcasting nature of the B,G band is limited to 'terrestrial' transmitters, and therefore doesn't apply to satillites at all.  A new treaty would be required to even permit such a license, since every country has max transmitter powers in the B,G band that would be WAY  what a sat would require.

While using the new N band would reduce the power requirements considerablely, the other two issues would still apply.  Perhaps a lower frequency license free band would work with modified FM band recievers, but I can't see a way around the international communications treaties regarding this.  Perhaps a broadcast stream that can switch around frequencies in the higher frequency shortwave bands would work, but the sat would have to be able to respond to the reflectivity of the ionosphere and changes in the critical frequency.  Most Shortwave broadcasters have to stay  the critical frequency so that their Earth bound transmitters can reflect their signal off of the F layer of the ionosphere, but what about a broadcaster in teh shortwave bands that deliberately stays above the critical frequency so that his signal is not reflected back into space?  Regardless, the data throughput woudl be low due to a narrow usable bandwidth and a particularly 'noisey' radio environment in those bands.


Wow, where to begin. First of all, B, G and N are protocols in the 802.11 family, There are two bands of frequency used by wifi 2.4 Ghz and 5.8Ghz, the latter being 802.11n only. Wifi technology relies on having two-way communication, it is not a broadcast type of comm. Satellite are sending a lot of power on microwave bands (6Ghz to 10Ghz) but your cellphone won't ever be able to rech the satellite. Second, the signal coming down is picked up by a dish, which is essentially focusing the RF energy. Your cellphone work because it is pushing it's signal to nearby towers, not a sat in space.

I suggest reading up on material from the American Radio Relay League, which has amazing content out there that explains all radiofrequency communications.

Enjoy

nirom
5  Economy / Economics / Re: nearly $700,000,000.00 USD moved in 24 hours on: March 26, 2014, 03:58:27 AM
It's Satoshi moving his stash around! lol  Grin

If it was satoshi, He would be moving the first block....
6  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Flexcoin Hacked! on: March 06, 2014, 04:08:07 AM
I really hope this is not the first of many many attacks on bitcoin exchanges, sites, etc.
7  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Can't connect my two PC's for testnet mining on: March 01, 2014, 12:50:29 AM
If you are inside the same subnet (192.168.x.x or similar) you should have to port-forward anything as the traffic won't cross the router. You might have a firewall issue in ubuntu though. Try to temporarely disable the ubuntu firewall to see if they connect.

Also, you should try to add each nodes addresses in the debug console using the following command in the two clients.

addnode <ip of other node> add

Also disabling the Map ports using UPnP might help.

Hope it helps you.

8  Other / Off-topic / Re: How far are we from the technological singularity on: February 28, 2014, 08:12:32 PM
I can now imagine the point when the virtual coporation that i created will fire me.  Shocked
9  Other / Off-topic / How far are we from the technological singularity on: February 26, 2014, 04:18:13 AM
Scientist predict that somewhere between 2017 to 2040, artificial intelligence will reach what is called the technological singularity, a point where it will surpass human intelligence. From there, anything is possible. We are closing the launch of Mastercoin, ethereum and other Distributed Autonomous Organization. How far can it be until someone program a DAO that will think and preserve itself. I can easily imagine programming a "Virtual Autonomous Corporation" capable of making it's own strategic and economic decisions for its own survival.

What do you guys think?
10  Economy / Economics / Re: Best Forex BTC Trading Platform on: February 25, 2014, 06:12:03 AM
BTC-e also has Metatrader 4 software support. It gives you indicators, bots, technical analysis... All for free.
11  Economy / Economics / Re: [ECONOMICS 101] The "You Have Two Cows" Case study on: February 25, 2014, 06:09:45 AM
GOX

You gave your two cows to a rancher
Someone comes in to steal 1, 2, or none of the cows (you don't know)
The rancher blames the thief for stealing his cows, but says you still have two cows
You go retrieve your cows, and find an empty field. The rancher also moved.
You call the rancher, who says your cows are still there
Someone is standing outside selling his cow for two of your "cows".

The rancher blames the thief for stealing his cows and then says the cows were the problem.
12  Economy / Speculation / Re: I'm about to capitulate - WTF is going on? on: February 25, 2014, 06:00:10 AM
No doubt it will got much lower in the next fews days if Gox is to completely dissapear. I think it's a nice time for a bargain.  Tongue
13  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / SETI Coin? on: February 25, 2014, 04:44:24 AM
How hard would it be to make a coin that would reward SETI calculations (like the SETI@Home program) with units of this coin. It seems the calculation wouldn't be wasted and could serve a useful purpose. Same idea can be applied to any kind of scientific calculation.
14  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Distributed lending and borrowing on: February 25, 2014, 04:22:02 AM
Hi All,

I'm trying to figure out if there are solutions to the security problems with lending Bitcoins. Basically, since no real warranty can be had online, the lending is very risky. Are there tools yet for distributing the risk of lending across a whole network of nodes? Many people lending and borrowing all pooled together?

Can the Metacoins achieve this?
15  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin & PoW is a waste of energy & destroys nature on: February 25, 2014, 03:52:23 AM
Let's not forget that in Canada, I use my rig to heat up the house in winter. Cheesy
16  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: is there any way to check that how much GHS your computer? on: February 23, 2014, 05:49:04 PM
i have dell optiplex gx620 with 2.2ghz processor

Your best best is probably using it to mine a CPU-friendly altcoin like Quark, Molecule, Atoms, Protoshares, etc...

As they are still relatively ok protocol to be mined on CPU only, it could be worth it. Also factor the power use in the equation as it could really offset the profit.

17  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Investment Bitcoin | Instant WITHDRAWAL, 5% INTEREST DAILY on: February 23, 2014, 05:10:39 PM
Basic rule of everything in life:

"If it seems too good to be true, it probably is"

Thanks, I think I'll pass. The 5% per day interest seems highly unsustainable for any kind of company, whether they are investing in startups or anything else.
18  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Scammers at bitcoin-otc channels on freenode. on: February 23, 2014, 04:58:12 PM
How about modifying the bot so that it publish a list of authenticated and non-authenticated users currently in the channel once in a while? That owuld at least help to get an quick look of how to trade with.
19  Economy / Economics / Re: Killer app for bitcoin on: February 15, 2014, 03:27:20 PM
AN ALTERNATE WWW, ORGANIZED MORE LIKE FACEBOOK, BUT WITH ALL OF THE PAGES, PM's, GROUPS, POSTS, FILES, EBAY/CRAIGSLIST POSTS, ENCRYPTED USING SHA256.

THE BLOCKCHAIN WOULD BE HUNDREDS OF GIGS OF ENCRYPTED, CONTINUOUSLY UPDATED NEWS, INFO, FILES, ETC, AND YOUR WALLET BROWSER WOULD BE A REAL BLOCKCHAIN BROWSER.

Didn't usenet used to do that?

Nobody would run a full client if it men having 100+ gigabytes of data at the moment...
20  Economy / Economics / Re: BFL ASIC REFUNDS - Why? NOT FCC APPROVED! Class action? on: January 30, 2014, 04:16:19 AM
So, basically george, you are trying to sue a company on a technicality because you forgot to read the big warnings that said "there is no garantee on the shipment time". Nice going.

If you do succeded with suing them, don't you think all orders would be stopped only for the USA market? These products would probably end up being sent to any other country without an FCC regulation....

So go ahead with it. I'll get mine faster  Grin
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