on the evening of Thursday, February 7 at the HUB San Francisco for Disruption Ahead! Banking, Technology, and Low-Income Consumers you will have the opportunity to "test drive" several promising technologies, including KivaZip, IndiGoGo, Lendup, Bernal Bucks, Ripple, and GivKwik - http://disruptiveinnovation.eventbrite.com/7-10pm, February 7, 2013 the HUB San Francisco 925 Mission San Francisco, CA 94103 The reception is free but space is extremely limited. Register now if you plan to attend. |
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I allready mention it, at this time Paypal ist only solution for me.
You can use PayPal to purchase Second Life Lindens (SLLs) at VirWoX. Then you can trade those SLLs for BTCs on their exchange. - http://www.VirWoX.com |
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Implicitly, this increases the value of all the others because now there are BTC that can never be spent
You must see that as being a problem. Please explain. |
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Rent and Utilities.... but we're a long way off for that  Spend Bitcoins acts as an intermediary with an Australian bill payment network allowing certain utilities to be paid using bitcoins. |
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But the fact remains there are some who can and will do it. The rich are always looking for tax loopholes.
[Edited] A tax loophole is a legal method of paying less taxes by eploitating tax law. This is usually because some "loophole" was either specifically written into the law to cause some behavior or was somehow overlooked, allowing the filer to pay a lower amount of taxes than others who aren't eligible to use the loophole or omit to do so. Not reporting capital gains is not a "loophole". What makes you think only the rich consider tax implications when making decisions? |
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are there any lists or directories of all types of online merchants who accept btc?
BitPay only publishes a tiny sample (i.e., dozens) of the two thousand plus merchants it serves. The Trade page on Bitcoin.it is probably the most complete: - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/TradeBitcoin.travel has bricks and mortar businesses: - http://bitcoin.travel |
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Problems with OTC to be aware off.
The #bitcoin-otc is worthless without the #bitcoin-otc Web of Trust (WoT). Summary statistics on web of trust
3364 users in database
18078 positive ratings sent
1175 negative ratings sent
- http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratings.phpSo negative ratings reflect 6.1% of all ratings. These don't reflect dollar amounts. When people are smart and only do trades of higher amounts with trusted counterparties, the ratio of actual losses through #bitcoin-otc should be much less than that number -- perhaps 2% overall, or even less for those who are more risk averse. Compare that to commercially available exchange methods where PayPal, Dwolla, Moneybookers, MoneyPak, Amazon, etc are instruments used and you'll find they charge much more than 2%. The difference with -otc is if your 50th trade (assuming of all equal amounts) is the first one you get screwed on then you are at the 2% loss rate. If it instead happens with your first trade then you are at a 100% loss. But when you use -otc with the Web of Trust (WoT) and are smart, you'll likely complete trades and not suffer losses. Other info: - http://wiki.bitcoin-otc.com/wiki/Using_bitcoin-otc#Risk_of_fraud - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Secure_Trading#Use_Bitcoin-OTC |
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there might be a long period of downtime while I get it working.
Is this now completed, or will there be further adjustments [edit: affecting site availability] made? |
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people who will not be able to signed up for re billing. Is there any way around this concern currently?
Subscription payments are used with pull-based payment methods (e.g., ACH, credit card, etc.) At the protocol level Bitcoin is a push-based payment technology. There are no payment processors yet today that support subscription billing. Eventually some provider will provide this. It will probably involve the subscriber having to keep funds in a wallet with the payment processor in which the processor draws from at the subscription renewal time. |
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user can simply donate to the website by clicking on it (which will launch bitcoin client with pre-filled address).
See URI scheme, BIP 21: - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0021Example: Creating and parsing "bitcoin:" URI Strings: This is the easiest part, which is fully-documented in BIP 21: URI Scheme. Here a simple example of how you would include it (using my donation address, of course!) <a href="bitcoin:1ArmoryXcfq7TnCSuZa9fQjRYwJ4bkRKfv?amount=1.0&label=Armory%20Donation%20Address&message=Donation%20to%20Armory">Donate 1.0 BTC to the Armory Project!</a> ...which looks like: Donate 1.0 BTC to the Armory Project! |
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I am new to bitcoins and would like to signup with an address
You can get a bitcoin address from BitAddress.org, and then print it: - http://BitAddress.orgOr from Instawallet or EasyWallet (but don't forget to bookmark, and/or print the URL as a backup): - http://www.InstaWallet.org - http://www.EasyWallet.org so I can send people bitcoins. That's a little harder as it requires either mining or getting coins sent to you, like after purchasing them from an exchange or a local trade: - http://www.LocalBitcoins.com |
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I see a way to login but not a way to register a new account. Is this exchange only available by invite? |
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Can someone explain how the coins have not even moved from the address? If they are "running away with the coins," how are the coins still in the wallet and have not moved?
Nobody else has the private keys for the wallet so there's no need to spend the coins. The time that a wallet has been hacked and the funds are spent by the thief right away is because that is what the thief needs to do to prevent the rightful owner from spending the funds. But in this case, there's no other party with the private keys. |
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v2.3
I can verify that the BitAddress.org website has been updated and returns the same HTML from the commit with the description v2.3 (1d067dc4f3103622ca9de332c3c86fc57d76ec83) in github: - https://github.com/pointbiz/bitaddress.orgTo confirm this I first check the sha1sum hash of the html returned by a request to http://bitaddress.org: $ wget --quiet -O - http://bitaddress.org|sha1sum 1d067dc4f3103622ca9de332c3c86fc57d76ec83 - $ GET -eSd bitaddress.org|grep -i "200 OK" GET https://www.bitaddress.org/bitaddress.org-v2.3-SHA1-1d067dc4f3103622ca9de332c3c86fc57d76ec83.html --> 200 OK Then from my bitaddress.org repo: $ git checkout master $ git pull $ git log --pretty=oneline|grep "v2.3" 54523d36b2680e8ec231c95b776bc2259f6bb328 v2.3 Vanity Wallet now supports compressed keys $ git checkout 54523d36b2680e8ec231c95b776bc2259f6bb328 $ git rev-list --max-count=1 HEAD 54523d36b2680e8ec231c95b776bc2259f6bb328 $ sha1sum bitaddress.org.html 1d067dc4f3103622ca9de332c3c86fc57d76ec83 bitaddress.org.html |
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This one isn't about bitcoin itself, but bitcoin was mentioned as the currency used. Australia court Silk Road January, 2013 Location: Melbourne, Australia Abstract: An Australian court hearing involving a man who admitted dealing drugs that were obtained through Silk Road using bitcoins as payment. Melbourne's County Court heard the black-market Silk Road had been described as a "certifiable one-stop shop" for illicit drugs.
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Prosecutor Morgan Brown told the court the website was accessed by software designed to enable online anonymity and a digital "virtual currency", Bitcoin, was used to buy goods.
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In what could be the first prosecution with Silk Road a major player, Ms Brown told the court that in two months from March last year Howard imported drugs 11 times.
Secret website harboured drugs smorgasbord, court hears - http://www.bordermail.com.au/story/1270129/secret-website-harboured-drugs-smorgasbord-court-hearsFurther discussion: 2013-01-31 bordermail.com.au - Secret website harboured drugs smorgasbord, court - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=140111.0 |
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By a splitting service I mean, you send X amount to one address and it gets split to different percentages to W Y and Z.
Like BTCRelay does? - http://btcrelay.com |
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Feature request:
Ability for me to cause a new deposit address to be generated for my account. hm? if I click on "wallet" I can see a box to the right with my past Addresses (there is three of them currently plus the "active" one). I think a new one is generated when you send to the current one... but I'm not sure. Wow, either that's new or I'm blind. On my wallet page I see a link that reads: "Request new address" Along with the description: "It is recommended to request new address now and then for privacy reasons." - https://localbitcoins.com/accounts/wallet/So, awesome, problem solved! |
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Is anyone able too sell me bitcoins via pay papal? Il give 450 Aud for 21 bitcoins...
About the only method to buy bitcoins using PayPal is through VirWoX. To do that, you first purchase Second Life Lindens (SLLs) and pay using PayPal. Then convert those SLLs to BTCs and withdraw. - http://www.VirWoX.comIn Australia there are many methods to easily purchase bitcoins. The newest is using online bill payment (POLi payments) through ZIGGAP: - http://www.ZIGGAP.comOr if you can deposit cash you have multiple methods: - Bit Innovate (at Commonwealth bank or Westpac) - Spend Bitcoins (several banks) - ZIGGAP (National Australian Bank/NAB) Here's more info on these methods and more: - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Buying_bitcoins |
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