A fire?   Or does having just smoke count?  :-)



[btw, this is not mine]

Related thread:
  http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=8282.0

Friday, May 13th, 2011

• Please accept our apologies, the news editor was AFK on Friday.
  Due to time constraints (and completely unrelated to any superstition), no entries were made for the day.  You can catch up on what was missed by reading Saturday’s post.

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

• Article / Blog post:
  Bitcoin security by Alaric Snell-Pym
  “Bitcoin will be as anonymous as cash - for people who are not the subject of a major, expensive, law enforcement investigation, it’s perfect. It’ll be a lot harder to do the kind of routine mass surveillance that is currently done with card payment records.”
  - http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2011/05/12/bitcoin-security
• Bitcoin Economy Snapshot:
  1 BTC = $5.73 USD, Size: 6.18M BTC, Last 24h: 0.21M BTC in 3.2K trx, Difficulty: 157.4K, Forum posts/day: 1,600 Nodes: 1.4K
  - http://twitter.com/bitcoineconomy
• s3052’s Bitcoin Market Technical Analysis
  Long term: “RALLY”
  Short term: “We likely see another triangle with breakout to the upside to higher levels.” [Update:  RALLY call has materialized.]
  - http://bit.ly/kKQnD2
• Article / Blog post:
  The P2P Evolution by Semil Shah in TechCrunch
  [This post was from earlier this month, but it is very relevant to bitcoin.]
  “We are already into the next peer-to-peer evolution: P2P 2.0”
  Though Bitcoin wasn’t mentioned in this article, an organization such as Zaarly will likely find some of its user base more interested in receiving payments using bitcoins than through Square or the other P2P payment service.
  - http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/01/p2p-evolution

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The term "market cap" is generally used when referring to equities.  With bitcoin the number of bitcoins issued is the "money stock" so multiplying the money stock times the current BTC/USD market exchange rate gives a number but I'm not sure what is the correct term for that number.  Is it "currency valuation"?  Weath?  Purchasing Power?

It definitely isn't "economy".  If 100% of bitcoins were acquired and never traded, there could be a high valuation (BTCs issued X exchange rate) but a zero economy.

Perhaps "Purchasing Power equivalent" is the correct term.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power
   In other words, at the BTC/USD market exchange rate of $8.50 can we say the purchasing power of 1 BTC is equivalent to that of $8.50 USD.  So the money stock of 6.2 million BTCs times $8.50 gives bitcoin the purchasing power of $52.7 million

Of course the purchasing power is only valid for a specific point in time.    The reason I'm not sure that referring to it as purchasing power would be best is because there needn't be any bitcoins to change hands for the purchasing power to rise or fall.

Maybe "Current Purchasing Power" is the best way to describe this $52.7 million number?

[Edit: It was suggested in another thread that TDV (Total Dollar Valuation) is the best way to describe what is sometimes referred to as Bitcoin's "market cap".]

In addition to the list from the Bitcoin wiki is the list of charities in which donations through Witcoin can be made.
 - http://witcoin.com/charities

Any charity can register to be included.  Those who post, vote or reply on witcoin can configure their Witcoin user account such that a certain percent of the proceeds they earn after post, reply or voting can be donated to one or more charities of their choosing.

Why use the confusing term credits?  Facebook uses that term already, as do many others.  Satoshis aren't used anywhere else.

I could see that term becoming more widely used.

The equivalent to a $9.75 USD online purchase of a movie ticket would be 114.7 mSats  (megasatoshis)  (at today's  BTC/USD exchange rate of $8.50)

To send a micropayment to a blogger using YouTipIt, for instance, 3 msats (worth just about $0.25 USD)

After some more bitcoin deflation, micropayments will be priced in terms of hundreds of kSats (kilosatoshis) while more significant amounts still can use mSats.

That could work!

We may find out soon enough:



With price changes occurring at a greater frequency, consumers might become accustomed to not even knowing the price level at which an item should cost.  For instance, some have become desensitized to the always-changing price at the gas pump.

As long as payments to suppliers are made in a base currency (e.g., USD) then, the prices for goods and services sold for bitcoins will likely need to change at nearly the same frequency.  But in a hyperinflationary period frequently changing prices will not be an attribute known only to those buying and selling using bitcoins.

I could see bitcoin being useful in hyperinflationary times in a number of ways though.

Hyperinflation elevates the significance of one bitcoin property.  Payments sent using bitcoin clear faster than when sent using banking networks.  When accepting credit card for payment, a merchant loses about 3% to the payment card network fee.  If hyperinflation is occurring, the merchant could lose more yet if the merchant's buying power from the funds end up much less by the time those funds actually clear for spending a few days later.  In this regard, in hyperinflationary times Bitcoin is supreme.


Maybe one day BTC will be used for price listings for the same reason that the URV once was.  :-)
  - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-fake-money-saved-brazil


A lot of things could happen.  It all depends on where and when bitcoin spreads.  If those in investment finance start offering bitcoin as an investment vehicle and sell it on margin and that practice sees any uptake then that would cause huge bitcoin exchange rate volatility.

If the government's response to hyperinflation is price controls then an undergound economy would likely build.  A pseudonymous digital currency would likely find greater adoption in such an economy.

The following blog post and the comments made in response are some good reading:
  http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/09/apocalypse-and-bubbles.html
  specifically, the "Even in the midst of Apocalypse, things will get better" reply:
  http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/09/apocalypse-and-bubbles.html#comment-75257930

[edited]

This was from November:

  - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1833.msg22646#msg22646

Here's a related thread.
  - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2484.0

And following is a copy of my response:
  - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2484.msg33597#msg33597

 - http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=130524,00.html

What I'ld like to know is if holdings of Bitcoin count as a "foreign account" and thus when "aggregate value of these [foreign] accounts exceeds $10,000 at any time during the calendar year" then filing the FBAR report is required:
  - http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=210244,00.html

Perhaps this open source project provides a base?
  - http://catarse.me/en
  - http://github.com/danielweinmann/catarse#readme


Or, Akvo
  - http://akvo.org
  - http://github.com/akvo

Or,
  - http://www.sarapisfoundation.org
  - http://www.beex.org
  - http://github.com/beexsvn/Beex.org

This article provided some good info.:

"open-loop cards are virtually nonexistent in China,"
  http://www.sellingprepaid.com/emagazine.php?story_id=287
  http://www.mercatoradvisorygroup.com/index.php?doc=news&action=view_item&type=2&id=721

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

• Article / Blog post:
  With The Napster of Banking Round The Corner, Bring Out Your Popcorn by Rick Falkvings
  “The governments of the world are on the brink of losing the ability to look into the economy of their citizens. They stand to lose the ability to seize assets, they stand to lose the ability to collect debts.”
  - http://bit.ly/lyNksE
• Earn Second Life Lindens by Mining Bitcoins
  Mining 4 Lindens is the third “common interest” community to launch a mining pool such that bitcoins mined generate income for the community’s participants.
  Previous endeavors include the XKCD pool and the Reddit Bitcoin Mining Team.
  - http://www.bitcoinminer.com/post/5396637364
• Improvements at #Bitcoin-OTC marketplace and OTC Web of Trust (WoT)
  To add or manage listings on the #bitcoin-otc order book authentication with the OTC WoT is necessary.  Another method for registering and authenticating to the OTC WoT is now available.  The one-time-password (OTP) makes the process easier to automate and for those authenticating manually, the OTP method involves fewer steps.
  The marketplace regularly has over 400 IRC users simultaneously and the order book now shows over 200 open buy and sell orders.
  - http://wiki.bitcoin-otc.com/wiki/GPG_authentication#One_time_password
  - http://www.bitcoin-otc.com/vieworderbook.php
• Article / Blog post (and book review): in the Mises Daily
  The Triumph of Technology over Government Planning by Edward Wayne Younkins
  “Cyberspace permits limitless opportunities and empowers the individual. The Internet is making existing forms of commerce more efficient and is fostering the emergence of self-organizing supranational communities. These new virtual communities are bound by common interests rather than by physical borders.”
  - http://mises.org/daily/5249/The-Triumph-of-Technology-over-Government-Planning
• Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox adjusts defenses following new DDoS attacks
  The exchange was offline for over an hour before modifications to the network defenses were sufficient to repel continued distributed denial-of-service attacks against the service.  Trading resumed without further incident.
• Article / Blog post: in Bitcoin Weekly
  The Global Bitcoin Stock Exchange and Why It Matters by Vitalik Buterin
  “The intent of [GLBSE] is to allow people to “issue shares to raise capital, pay dividends to shareholders, put resolutions to shareholders and get their vote […]”
  “[There are] no minimum income or market capitalization requirements [to become listed.]“
  “Anyone can trade stocks and bonds, and it is as anonymous as you want it to be.”
  “GLBSE will operate 24/7”. ”The internet never sleeps.”
  “GLBSE is not confined by outdated 20th century norms.”
  - http://bit.ly/j9KYIw
  - http://glbse.com

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Additional factors:

- Mt. Gox exchange had, days earlier, difficulties due to DDoS attack.  
  - There might have been pent-up buying pressure that was put to work once defenses to repel the DDoS proved relatively effective.
  - The exchange has stopped accepting wire transfer / ACH from the U.S. .  Not sure on the timing, but maybe there was a "last call" rush to add funds before that method got halted.
  - New "easy" funding method made available (for those in the U.S.): Dwolla ($0.25 per trx)

- Viral growth continues:
  - http://www.google.com/trends?q=bitcoin&ctab=0&geo=all&date=ytd&sort=0

- Forbes readers finally pulling the trigger?

- Network is protected even more from an attack using "massive computing power" now that there is over 1 Thash/s of hashing.

- The technical analysis indicating that further upside still kept the exchange rate within the trading channel.

- panic buyers realizing that if there is panic buying, it is better to be one of the first panic buyers.  :-)

- the crap on wall street, D.C. and elsewhere continuing, providing plenty of motivation for alternatives.
   (see: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-people-vs-goldman-sachs-20110511 )

Related:

Loosely Managed Digital Currency Could Be Avenue for Crime That's Hard to Block
April 15, 2011
By Colby Adams [Alert Global Media, publishers of MoneyLaundering.com]
 - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5907.0

see: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5879.msg86472#msg86472

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

• Update on Plato’s #BitcoinRoadTrip.
  Plato’s bitcoins are lasting longer, thanks to the BTC/USD exchange rate favoring him for most of his travels since the cross-country trip began several weeks ago.  His latest disatch reads: “The pancakes I just ordered at this diner cost me 1 bitcoin”.  Plato uses as payment a bitcoin scratch-off card which contains a code that may be redeemed for bitcoins.
  - https://i.imgur.com/d61XK.jpg (scratch-off)
  - http://twitter.com/#!/therealplato
• BTC/USD market exchange rate spikes a second day in a row, to $6.065.
  The exchange rate on Mt. Gox climbed nearly 20% on Tuesday with some bouncing late in the day.
  - http://bit.ly/lWh5Aw
• Press / media:
  Interview on This Week in Startups, @TWiStartups was Bitcoin lead developer Gavin Andresen and Britcoin’s Amir Taaki.  Host of the show was @Jason Calicanis.
  - http://youtube.com/watch?v=TwNfBgwbqng
• In the video you’ll see that Gavin was stylin’ the I Use Coins T-Shirt. The shirts may be purchased using only bitcoins.  The online store uses the Ubercart ecommerce software and, presumably, the uc_bitcoin currency module.
  - http://www.iusecoins.com
  - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Uc_bitcoin
• Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox adds automated withdrawal to Dwolla
  The exchange now supports automated withdrawal of USD funds to Dwolla accounts.  Added earlier was the ability to add funds to the exchange from Dwolla.
  The exchange also has stopped temporarily accepting U.S. bank wire and ACH  transactions (either deposit or withdrawal).
  - http://www.bitcoinmoney.com/post/5385683214
• s3052’s Bitcoin Market Technical Analysis
  Long term: “BTC/USD seem to have completed a 5th Elliott Wave up, which is typically the end of an impulsive wave.”
  Short term: “A strong breakout above $5 would make a continuation of the rally possible. Given the overbought condition of the market, watch out for a bull trap above $5.”
  - http://bit.ly/lVNArP

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I saw from comments in 3bitcoin-otc that there was a batch processed (a few hours ago). 

Did your transaction get processed?

Sunday, May 15th, 2011

• Bitcoin wiki recent additions:
  In-store Transactions
  How Bitcoins can be used for in-person transactions, like at a supermarket.
  - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/In-store_Transactions
  Donation-accepting organizations and projects
  This is the table of organizations that previously existed on the Trade / Merchants page.
  - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Donation-accepting_organizations_and_projects
  Alternative Chains
  Sharing miners with multiple block chains.
  - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Alternative_Chains
  Bitcoin Transport Layer API
  API connecting to the bitcoin client to other transport layers / data back-ends
  - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Transport_Layer_API
• Article / Blog post:
  Bitcoin P2P Currency: The Most Dangerous Project We’ve Ever Seen by Jason Calacanis and the LAUNCH team
  “Bitcoin may be the most dangerous technological project since the internet itself.”
  “Bitcoins will change the world unless governments ban them with harsh penalties.”
  Predictions: “Sites like 99designs, eLance and oDesk will start accepting bitcoins for payment. If they don’t, they will face competition from folks who do.”
  - http://launch.is/blog/l019-bitcoin-p2p-currency-the-most-dangerous-project-weve-ev.html
  - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2550877 (comments on HackerNews)
  - http://bit.ly/k8S23G (comments on Reddit)
  - http://bit.ly/kpEoHV (comments on Slashdot)
• New Blog / Newspaper: The Bitcoin Sun
  First issue:
  Unfairness and Pizza: The Key of Bitcoin’s Success? by Ploum
  “Why am I a poor jealous person today? I simply did not have the guts to believe in bitcoin six months ago.”
  From Alice to Bob: A not so simple introduction to bitcoin’s inner workings by G. Burgward
  “How Bitcoin works from the perspective of Alice and Bob.”
  - http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/866 (click reload page after visiting to get download)
  - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Sun

Saturday, May 14th, 2011

• Update on @TheRealPlato’s #BitcoinRoadTrip: Austin, TX
  This leg of the trip brought Plato to a tech hub and he’s making the most of it.  On Friday Plato met CEO of Tabbedout, a company that builds an app for Android and iPhone mobiles that is used at participating restaurants and bars. With the app you can open, view and pay for your tab. Will “pay using bitcoins” be added as one of the payment options?  Let’s hope so!
  Following that was a visit to the McCombs School of business at UT Austin. Plato met with @LizWinks of the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce (CREC). The CREC’s director, Andrew B. Whinston was interviewed in February as part of CBC’s SPARK 139 episode on Bitcoin.
  - http://tabbedout.com/sections/13/how-it-works/consumers/pay-your-tab
  - http://www.bitcoinmoney.com/post/3554485526
  - http://twitter.com/#!/therealplato
• New blog: Bitcoin Trading Signals trading blog
  The author of the blog follows the Btc/Usd cross ratio and lists the trading signals detected.  The blog reports on trades that are made and lists a profit summary.
  - http://btctrading.wordpress.com
• Article / Blog post:
  Can BitCoin be used for mobile payments? question on Quora
  The short answer is: Today, technically yes, though it isn’t pretty.  Additional and better options are forthcoming, but Bitcoin’s decentralized architecture adds a significant hurdle.
  - http://www.quora.com/Can-BitCoin-be-used-for-mobile-payments
• Bitcoin Economy Snapshot: 1 BTC = $8.10 USD, Size: 6.20M BTC, Last 24h: 1.69M BTC in 4.3K trx, Difficulty: 157.4K, Forum posts/day: 1,781 Nodes: 1.3K
  - http://twitter.com/bitcoineconomy

Friday, May 13th, 2011

• Please accept our apologies, the news editor was AFK on Friday.
  Due to time constraints (and completely unrelated to any superstition), no entries were made for the day.  You can catch up on what was missed by reading Saturday’s post.

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

• Article / Blog post:
  Bitcoin security by Alaric Snell-Pym
  “Bitcoin will be as anonymous as cash - for people who are not the subject of a major, expensive, law enforcement investigation, it’s perfect. It’ll be a lot harder to do the kind of routine mass surveillance that is currently done with card payment records.”
  - http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2011/05/12/bitcoin-security
• Bitcoin Economy Snapshot:
  1 BTC = $5.73 USD, Size: 6.18M BTC, Last 24h: 0.21M BTC in 3.2K trx, Difficulty: 157.4K, Forum posts/day: 1,600 Nodes: 1.4K
  - http://twitter.com/bitcoineconomy
• s3052’s Bitcoin Market Technical Analysis
  Long term: “RALLY”
  Short term: “We likely see another triangle with breakout to the upside to higher levels.” [Update:  RALLY call has materialized.]
  - http://bit.ly/kKQnD2
• Article / Blog post:
  The P2P Evolution by Semil Shah in TechCrunch
  [This post was from earlier this month, but it is very relevant to bitcoin.]
  “We are already into the next peer-to-peer evolution: P2P 2.0”
  Though Bitcoin wasn’t mentioned in this article, an organization such as Zaarly will likely find some of its user base more interested in receiving payments using bitcoins than through Square or the other P2P payment service.
  - http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/01/p2p-evolution

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

• Article / Blog post:
  With The Napster of Banking Round The Corner, Bring Out Your Popcorn by Rick Falkvings
  “The governments of the world are on the brink of losing the ability to look into the economy of their citizens. They stand to lose the ability to seize assets, they stand to lose the ability to collect debts.”
  - http://bit.ly/lyNksE
• Earn Second Life Lindens by Mining Bitcoins
  Mining 4 Lindens is the third “common interest” community to launch a mining pool such that bitcoins mined generate income for the community’s participants.
  Previous endeavors include the XKCD pool and the Reddit Bitcoin Mining Team.
  - http://www.bitcoinminer.com/post/5396637364
• Improvements at #Bitcoin-OTC marketplace and OTC Web of Trust (WoT)
  To add or manage listings on the #bitcoin-otc order book authentication with the OTC WoT is necessary.  Another method for registering and authenticating to the OTC WoT is now available.  The one-time-password (OTP) makes the process easier to automate and for those authenticating manually, the OTP method involves fewer steps.
  The marketplace regularly has over 400 IRC users simultaneously and the order book now shows over 200 open buy and sell orders.
  - http://wiki.bitcoin-otc.com/wiki/GPG_authentication#One_time_password
  - http://www.bitcoin-otc.com/vieworderbook.php
• Article / Blog post (and book review): in the Mises Daily
  The Triumph of Technology over Government Planning by Edward Wayne Younkins
  “Cyberspace permits limitless opportunities and empowers the individual. The Internet is making existing forms of commerce more efficient and is fostering the emergence of self-organizing supranational communities. These new virtual communities are bound by common interests rather than by physical borders.”
  - http://mises.org/daily/5249/The-Triumph-of-Technology-over-Government-Planning
• Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox adjusts defenses following new DDoS attacks
  The exchange was offline for over an hour before modifications to the network defenses were sufficient to repel continued distributed denial-of-service attacks against the service.  Trading resumed without further incident.
• Article / Blog post: in Bitcoin Weekly
  The Global Bitcoin Stock Exchange and Why It Matters by Vitalik Buterin
  “The intent of [GLBSE] is to allow people to “issue shares to raise capital, pay dividends to shareholders, put resolutions to shareholders and get their vote […]”
  “[There are] no minimum income or market capitalization requirements [to become listed.]“
  “Anyone can trade stocks and bonds, and it is as anonymous as you want it to be.”
  “GLBSE will operate 24/7”. ”The internet never sleeps.”
  “GLBSE is not confined by outdated 20th century norms.”
  - http://bit.ly/j9KYIw
  - http://glbse.com

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

• Update on Plato’s #BitcoinRoadTrip.
  Plato’s bitcoins are lasting longer, thanks to the BTC/USD exchange rate favoring him for most of his travels since the cross-country trip began several weeks ago.  His latest disatch reads: “The pancakes I just ordered at this diner cost me 1 bitcoin”.  Plato uses as payment a bitcoin scratch-off card which contains a code that may be redeemed for bitcoins.
  - https://i.imgur.com/d61XK.jpg (scratch-off)
  - http://twitter.com/#!/therealplato
• BTC/USD market exchange rate spikes a second day in a row, to $6.065.
  The exchange rate on Mt. Gox climbed nearly 20% on Tuesday with some bouncing late in the day.
  - http://bit.ly/lWh5Aw
• Press / media:
  Interview on This Week in Startups, @TWiStartups was Bitcoin lead developer Gavin Andresen and Britcoin’s Amir Taaki.  Host of the show was @Jason Calicanis.
  - http://youtube.com/watch?v=TwNfBgwbqng
• In the video you’ll see that Gavin was stylin’ the I Use Coins T-Shirt. The shirts may be purchased using only bitcoins.  The online store uses the Ubercart ecommerce software and, presumably, the uc_bitcoin currency module.
  - http://www.iusecoins.com
  - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Uc_bitcoin
• Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox adds automated withdrawal to Dwolla
  The exchange now supports automated withdrawal of USD funds to Dwolla accounts.  Added earlier was the ability to add funds to the exchange from Dwolla.
  The exchange also has stopped temporarily accepting U.S. bank wire and ACH  transactions (either deposit or withdrawal).
  - http://www.bitcoinmoney.com/post/5385683214
• s3052’s Bitcoin Market Technical Analysis
  Long term: “BTC/USD seem to have completed a 5th Elliott Wave up, which is typically the end of an impulsive wave.”
  Short term: “A strong breakout above $5 would make a continuation of the rally possible. Given the overbought condition of the market, watch out for a bull trap above $5.”
  - http://bit.ly/lVNArP

Monday, May 9th, 2011

• Mining difficulty adjustment - 157,426.  A 43% increase in just under 10 days.
• BTC/USD market exchange rate spikes to $4.99
  The exchange rate on Mt. Gox rose 25% in seconds late Monday (Pacific Coast time) on a couple of large buy orders before settling at about the $4.50 range.
  - http://bit.ly/j1x34X
• Article / Blog post:
  BitCoin. Good as Gold? by Adam Curry, co-host of the No Agenda show (along with John C. Dvorak)
  “The idea of having something I can send digitally in it’s original form is interesting and in many ways appealing.”
  - http://blog.curry.com/stories/2011/05/09/bitcoinGoodAsGold.html
• Press: The Hindu (Bangalore, India)
  New currency on the block by Deepa Kurup
  Introduces Bitcoin to its readers.
  “BitCoin is yet to make an impact among Indian users. But considering the thousands of PayPal customers who suffered last year when the firm withdrew services from India, this is one idea that is likely to catch on among freelancers and small businesses.”
  - http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Bangalore/article2001732.ece
• Article / Blog post:
  Why bitcoin will fail by Avery Pennarun
  Here’s a snippet that will help you decide whether or not to read it:
  “If governments can’t control the money supply, then they can’t set interest rates. If they can’t set interest rates, they can’t control the economy, and if nobody is controlling the economy, then the economy will act like any uncontrolled complex system: it’ll go crazy.”
  - http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201105#08

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