I ordered about 8 hours ago now, but the order is still stuck on processing, how long should this take?

http://steamgamesbtc.com/?page=status&tid=64d69b50890cef2ba955cebab07205a1

Quickly resolved.

A reasonable man.

*REVOKED* Problem resolved. This was perhaps just a misunderstanding from an overzealous moderator.

*REVOKED* All fine.

Coming up on 72 hours now.. no payout and no response, something up?

Got it, just for the record http://www.continuumpool.com/balance.php?worker=1LLdCXQohpJcZpKrwGc9ebgfKrDanYuwKC this has been this way for about 24 hours now.

Cheers

How long after ticking over to 1 btc is the transfer made?

Hi All,

Was considering a method for exchanges to get more rapid transmission of exchange between fiat and btc, the obvious solution seems to be that clients on a given exchange have the option of acting as a conversion agent for a fee, has any exchange implemented this yet?

This would work in this way;

User A is registered as a member of a given bank
User B is registered as a member of that same bank

B wants to buy BTC
A wants to sell BTC

The exchange facilitates the transaction by having B transfer funds directly to A via bank transfer and crediting B's account with the BTC for the transaction from A's account.

A gets instant local fiat and B gets instant BTC.

Briefcase Thin Carbon Black (Large)
options:
- size: Large
63 BTC

http://www.saddlebackleather.com/categories/87-Laptop-Bags/products/2171-Leather-Briefcase-Thin-Carbon-Black

Briefcase Chestnut (Extra Large)
options:
- Size: Extra Large
70 BTC

http://www.saddlebackleather.com/categories/79-Briefcases/products/1655-Leather-Briefcase-Chestnut

or 113 BTC for the lot

Purchased January this year, mint condition. I won't go into detail on the quality of the product, the website does a pretty good job of that, offloading them purely from a desire for minimalism and an experiment with this whole bitcoin deal.

I am located in Sydney, Australia, happy to do local pickup or arrange postage of your choice at cost to wherever.

All good with balance updates now too, thanks very much for your help Martok, best of luck with your pool.

I can now see a hashrate being reported for 1LLdCXQohpJcZpKrwGc9ebgfKrDanYuwKC, that's good enough for me, I assume the balance probably won't show till > 1btc?

Hey there martok,


./poclbm.py -v -w 128 -d 0 --user=1LLdCXQohpJcZpKrwGc9ebgfKrDanYuwKC\;pps --pass=any --host continuumpool.com --port 8332


Is the current invocation I'm using, I can't see a hashrate or balance for either the previous address or this one however.

Since you seem to be willing to just rollover my pool into the one we finally end up identifying I'll just leave this thing mining till we figure it out

Tried an escaped ; as the separator, also tried a different address, still the same output from the pool side monitors..

Any other ideas? I was under the impression that if it wasn't registering the correct address, it wouldn't accept my hashes?

I've been mining for a while now with this poclbm invocation;

./poclbm.py -v -w 128 -d 0 --user 12DbPbfp2twBTfjSBW9QhVQ5PrGb2puisV0pps --pass any --host continuumpool.com --port 8332

The hashes are going through;

01/06/2011 14:30:01, 7869656a, accepted                     
01/06/2011 14:30:36, long poll: new block 00000648a0f3b516 
01/06/2011 14:31:49, b7c004ce, accepted                     
01/06/2011 14:31:53, e9698573, accepted                     
01/06/2011 14:32:09, bc9158e3, accepted                     
01/06/2011 14:32:20, 3988c4da, accepted                     
01/06/2011 14:32:40, e4c0a789, accepted                     
01/06/2011 14:32:49, 77ff441b, accepted                     
01/06/2011 14:33:19, bf329670, accepted                     
01/06/2011 14:34:56, b450a6a0, accepted                     
01/06/2011 14:35:07, 73f1a043, accepted       

However on the continuumpool page I am getting 0 for my hash rate and ?> for confirmed payouts at 12DbPbfp2twBTfjSBW9QhVQ5PrGb2puisV

Any idea what's going on here?

http://pingfaster.com/

This is a single real world example of course, where in this application the idea is to do it on an ad hoc basis to any given destination as required, but the concept is well known and already used in practice.

The plan has nothing to do with routing through bitcoin, I was only thinking of using bitcoins as tokens for routing traffic on the network itself, for example if you provide a link for n time with latency below x for endpoint y they pay you in bitcoins for the usage of that link, and in turn when you want to get access to another endpoint you can use those earned bitcoins to pay for the link to do so.

Make sense?

I have heard of source routing and usually in the context of it being disabled in a given stack for security reasons, this is less a routing thing though and more a latency reduction thing, for services for which low latency would be an enabler, think voip or video conferencing or any kind of real time service. Think of it like Guerilla QoS.

Assuming it does work as intended, is there any catch to using bitcoin as an incentive / payment method for proxying traffic on the network? The reason I originally asked Kiba this is that I had seen him talking about bc but I don't fully understand the inner workings of it myself.

I have not seen this actually used for IP networks ever, the only time I've seen it used is back in the UUCP days for routing mail along a specific path.

Does anyone know if this is actually used anymore, or indeed can actually be used anymore? I suspect it is entirely defunct.

I'm not sure what you mean by bang path, I haven't heard that since UUCP days, how does it relate to ad hoc routing? What prevents people from using a faster available path is a few different issues;

A) They do not know such a path is available
B) Even if they did know such a path was available, they would be unable to setup an ad hoc route using said path
C) Even then if they knew such a path was available and had the capacity to use such a path, incentives for the potential providers of said paths would make them more numerous and thus contribute to reducing cases of A & B all things being equal

Hi there, this is the originally quoted person.

If you're familiar with gaming you might be familiar with this idea in practice already for certain game server endpoints such as world of warcraft, I believe they have a service called fasterping there and a few competitors, but generally the idea is based around a circumvention of the inefficient midpoints in a route between two endpoints via proxying to a host with a more efficient route to the endpoint in question.

As an example; you're in Sydney and you want to contact a server in Melbourne but your ISP has no routes for that particular ISP and it gets caught by its default routes and passed out to the San Francisco endpoint adding a large whack of latency to the run, you circumvent this by using this peer to peer network to find a low latency endpoint like so;

You: (broadcast) I need to contact server @ melbourne, I have latency of 900ms to this endpoint, anyone have better?
Response point A: I have this destination in 80ms (your ping to me is 80ms)
Response point B: I have this destination in 400ms (your ping to me is 100ms)
Response point C: I have this destination in 320ms (your ping to me is 50ms)

The software automatically proxies packets bound for endpoint in melbourne via response point A cutting your latency from 900ms to 160ms.

The trick is I don't expect people would do this out of the goodness of their hearts, leaving a passive unloaded link open for public traffic proxying requires incentives for the owners of said links. If for example by routing packets through point A you paid X bitcoins to the proxy, and in turn they were able to use these bitcoins to pay for their own routing in future, this would add incentive to be good nodes in the network, thus increasing the value of said network.