Are there any left of them?
I've never used Paxum but I believe Intersango allows Paxum interchange.
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Is he referring to HOW MANY MINING RIGS are out there or is 739,000 the number of wallets? ? IP Addresses, I believe. So if you had multiple rigs or additional bitcoin clients behind a router, you'ld only register once. At the same time, as described in another reply, a laptop user that connects at multiple locations for instance, or a connection that gets a new address periodically will get counted multiple times. The actual count isn't the metric to follow. It is the rate at which this 3-month count of uniques grows or shrinks over time that is a more telling indicator. The data reported here: http://bitcoinstatus.rowit.co.uk shows usage level out at about 30K uniques per-day. The accompanying data specifically says hosts. I'm not sure how it would detect total hosts versus just IP Addresses from which one or more hosts resides. [edited - clarified ambiguity]
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imagine I'm a subcontractor employed by a company i own
Well, seems pretty simple. Your own company converts your USD wages to bitcoins and sends them to you. Or did you mean to ask how to get paid by the work agency in bitcoins?
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In the U.S. a crowdfunding bill passed in the House of Representatives and is currently making its way (slowly) through the Senate. Some who are familiar with the bill's backers are hoping to see it passed and enacted into law in March of this year. Similar to how GLBSE works, a crowdfunding bill will allow for the first time in generations the ability for a company to offer equity to the general public. Current restrictions limit the field of investors (other than friends and family) to only those that qualify as "accredited".
Unfortunately for most solo entrepreneurs and for small startups that are not already generating revenues the crowdfunding law will not help much. The law, as has been proposed, will still require an expensive intermediary that would likely not even consider the types of micro startups that GLBSE can accommodate.
As a result, those in the U.S. that list under GLBSE by themselves (as U.S. entities) would likely still be violating securities laws by raising capital from the general public through GLBSE.
Perhaps at some point (once specific listing and investing requirements are known after the law is passed) there would be the possibility of an intermediary listing with GLBSE companies from its portfolio to a set of investors that it has authorized -- for the purpose of enabling trade between members of the set of investors. That doesn't do anything to help the would-be entrepreneurs left unserved by the crowdfunding bill though.
It is great to see the competition though. Just like how Kickstarter and IndigGoGo found a workaround to the rigid securities law hopefully some smart cookies will figure out how to legally use GLBSE for crowdfunding in the U.S. This exchange will probably be used from the U.S.regardless for the reasons including it serving a great need currently left unmet, by being small enough to fly under the regulators' radar and by operating in a manner that enforcement probably isn't motivated nor prepared to aggressively pursue.
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I do believe PirateMyFilm, Max Keiser's little pet project is attempting to do this.
How does piratemyfilm work? What does it do exactly? Is it a solution to my issue? PirateMyFilm projects are under the Creative Commons model. So if you get funds pledged from your fans and the PirateMyFilm community you then produce and release the film to the public. The funds pledged are not sent as bitcoins though. PirateMyFilm's terms specificially read: "The project owner links a paypal email address to the project. This will be the address that all payments will go to." If you have digital content that you would like to sell on your site, consider using StrongCoin's micropayments offering. Here are examples: - http://strongdemo.herokuapp.com/
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However the mistake made was that we (at GLBSE) thought the issue was to provide an anonymous asset(stock) market/exchange, so thats what our time effort and money went into. What we should have been doing was building a market for people to raise capital for their business or idea in bitcoin, and make it as easy as possible for people to do that while trying to keep investors safe.
In the future if GLBSE takes off after this attempt, and we're profitable we'll put money into furthering privacy technologies, but we have to get profitable to do that, and it wasn't going to happen with the JavaScript client.
What will happen to GLBSE (v1) companies and shares for the move to v2? [edited to fix unclosed quote]
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Are there already any usage scenarios for implementing local currencies on top of or side by side with a bitcoin exchange system ?
nestor
Are you referring to having a complementary currency (e.g., along the lines of a BerkShares) that uses Bitcoin technology? Or are you asking if there are any exchanges between these alternative currencies and bitcoin? There was a related discussion here: - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=58420.0
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I see the ticker is case sensitive (e.g., test is a different company from Test). Should that be case insensitive?
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If I had time I would build it, not that hard.
Funny, I was thinking of the same words, but in a different order: - I'ld build that if it would not result in hard time i.e., Building the technology to offer this is the easy part. There are securities regulations that apply to futures trading. To offer this by passing-through trades from your own account with a broker would likely be violating the use agreement with your broker. To offer this legitimately, if possible at all, would likely include capital requirements, licensing, etc.
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- to supply the read-only URL which points to the list of recipients (in this case it can be changed or even generated upon request).
Awesome! This gives the ability for me to give out a static address yet at any time change the redirect! Though I wouldn't use an external hosting service for storing the CSV for any addresses that I suspect there might be more than a trivial amount of bitcoins ever sent, Pastebin can host this. You need to use a registered account in order to edit a Paste previously created by that account but Pastebin will work: e.g., the url containing the CSV paste: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=xxxxxxxxxx
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Can anyone recommend a company that does Moneypak to webmoney exchange. I’ve looked all over the net and it seems hard to find any companies doing this. I’m also interested in any other moneypak to e-currency exchange services such as liberty reserve or liqpay.
The subject heading asks for Webmoney to Moneypak/LR/Liqpay but then the body of the message goes the other direction. If you are hoping to withdraw Webmoney, and you have Moneypak, then you have a few options: You can usually find somone willing to exchange a MoneyPak for bitcoins through the #bitcoin-otc marketplace. - http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#bitcoin-otc-foyer - http://bitcoin-otc.com/Once you have bitcoins you can then probably trade for Webmoney using Centraw: - http://www.centraw.com/?page=offers-withdraw
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Just messing around with a couple of BTC to start with.. I've created an account and deposited 2BTC.
Essentially I want to bet that BTC goes up vs $
Buying on margin is risky. Buying BTCs on margin using BTCs as collateral is extremely risky. This is because if the price drops, the value of your collateral drops as well. Here's the basics about how Bitcoinica works though. When you deposit 2.0 BTC you can purchase a position of just under 5.0 BTC/USD (assuming the default 2.5:1 leverage). You immediately will show a slight loss as you need the price to move in your favor by at least the amount of the spread to just break even. If indeed the BTC/USD goes up by more than the spread and you sell, you will show a profit. The more you have leveraged, the more you gain or lose versus the amount you've invested. 1:1 (no leverage) is relatively safe but the price needs to move at least as much as the spread (e.g., 1.3%) just in order to break even. The default is 2.5:1 leverage can be adjusted to higher amounts -- up to the insanely risky 10:1.
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I've got a suggestion.You know when charities and people try to raise money for either good causes or for other things like kick starting projects (reminds me of kickstarter.com)? The issues that always seems to get in the way is all the bank details and personal details that seem to be required just for handling transactions.I would like someone to be able to create a version of this where: 1.It's easy to accept bitcoins 2.Feature a fund raiser gauge (to show the target and what is currently raised so far,helps people gauge their efforts) 3.Easy to embed into most websites (HTML as wordpress.com is a pain about certain forms of coding)
If such a solution already exists or if someone is working on it,can it be mentioned here? Thanks.I feel it's high time that BTC are used in more traditional situations like fundraisers (as I think charities and other people will benefit from this).
Bit-Pay specifically provides a service for charities -- with no fees for those in the U.S. which are on the IRS's Pub 78 list: - http://bit-pay.com/forCharities.htmlThere is a service that will convert bitcoin donations to fiat and forward those donations on to the charity, though that is run anonymously apparently which, to some, raises a caution flag: - http://www.bitcoin-charity.comThere are a number of donation-accepting organizations already: - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Donation-accepting_organizations_and_projectsI'm not aware of any embeddable widget that anyone has created yet to assist with this. For those organizations which have a static Bitcoin address such a widget and host service would be fairly easy to create may use the widget here: http://ecdsa.org:8080/widgetsAccepting bitcoin using a static address is not the wisest thing for a charity though. For instance, suppose the person holding the wallet for a charity leaves the organization and the charity wishes to change the address. There could be donations that would continue going to the old address -- especially if the old address appeared on printed material or the address on the updates aren't timely on the various web sites where that address appears. In other words, charities that wish to accept bitcoin should either incorporate it in their ecommerce system or use an intermediary like Bit-Pay.
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Yes I'm running BTCrow.com. I also posted that message on twitter.
I'm confused then. So there was someone else managing it before, but then you took over management and now use the same forum account and Twitter account as the previous manager had? With an escrow service, especially an escrow service operated anonymously, if something happens such as a change in ownership, hopefully that is communicated clearly and timely. From my experience, "under new management" usually also means "change in ownership", so that's why I ask. The site's Terms & Conditions shows: "This Agreement is entered into in the country of Australia." Is that still the case? The http://BTCrow.com site does look great, by the way.
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