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The user experience for pasting to the bitcoin address input field in a web form varies widely across Bitcoin's growing presence on exchanges, merchant sites, blogs, etc.
Is it appropriate to massage the value that was input? e.g., to strip out leading blank space character, or a trailing linefeed, etc?
Or are there any other tips regarding the UX for this field?
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why would my receiving BTC addresses from my client be getting an "invalid bitcoin address" error over at MtGox for under $1K? BTC client is actively generating BTC's so i know its connected to the network. owners of MtGox aren't responding via email.
That is the message that I've seen on other sites when the bitcoin daemon had not been responding. I just tested BTC withdrawal and was successful. Does your problem persist? Though it appears Mt. Gox site does a good job of sanitizing input to ignore spaces or other extraneous characters, I've seen a similar problem when copying a bitcoin address from a browser page that when pasted included characters that were not visitble nor were they part of the bitcoin address but as a result the "invalid address message" was shown. To resolve that situation, I pasted the address in notepad and then did copy once again of the bitcoin address from notepad which was then "clean". |
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Sunday, Apr 24th, 2011- Article / Blog post:
Is the bitconomy the frontier of economic innovation? by Duane Jonson, @CanadaDuane
“One could say that while we live in a political democracy, we live in an economic aristocracy.”
“One of the central questions of the French Revolution and earlier the American Revolution was, “Can a society exist, or even thrive without a king?”
- http://bit.ly/eKHNk3 - New software: Moneychanger, a reference implementation (experimental only) of a currency accounting application that accesses the Open Transactions API. Plans for the app include Bitcoin integration to support Bitcoin as one of the currencies used as backing in a currency trading system or payment network.
- http://github.com/FellowTraveler/Moneychanger
- http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Moneychanger - New Bitcoin-specific Job board and Freelancer listings: Bitcoiners
Listings include jobs that pay using Bitcoins and a directory of freelancers showing their availability and qualifications.
- http://www.bitcoiners.org
- http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoiners - Bay area finally warms up to Bitcoin?
Silicon Valley Bitcoin Users meetup group in Sunnyvale schedules first meeting, and the San Francisco group is forming. Meetup.com shows six groups now, including NYC, D.C., Chicago, L.A., Tokyo
- http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6389.0
- http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin:Community_portal#Events - s3052’s Bitcoin Market Technical Analysis (updates)
“Both [linear and log scale] charts show how bitcoin perfectly follows textbook like chart patterns.”
“The likelihood is high that we see continued rises (after pausing a couple of days [sideways]).”
- http://bit.ly/gc0YvF
Short term: “Another bullish triangle has formed over the last 2 days. Another test [of the $1.95 record level] or breakout above 2 $ possible.”
- http://bit.ly/fd8o7M
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[...] I just want to give bitcoin a try, even if it might be risky. I just don't want to hoard any national currency any more.
Someone wrote somewhere something like : "Current financial system is completely messed up. Give geeks a chance."
That's along the same lines as the message from this article by Duane Johnson: This also happens to explain why the the left is correct to want regulation, while at the same time the right is correct to want deregulation--when the system itself is flawed, it seems that we need both more and less regulation.
Is the bitconomy the frontier of economic innovation? #bitcoin http://canadaduane.posterous.com/is-the-bitconomy-the-frontier-of-economic-inn |
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So, what I think will happen, is after the US government has cleared it with all the lobbyists and other people of importance, they'll do a domain name seizure of mtgox.com, as well as some other sites, probably 3 to 6 months from now. Then, all the commercial vendors that accept bitcoin will start to dry up, rather then be targeted.
What do you guys think?
Worked for poker, right? http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/86247.html |
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From the Bitcoin Myths page: Myth: Bitcoin mining is a waste of energy and harmful for ecology
No more so than the the wastefulness of mining gold out of the ground, melting it down and shaping it into bars, and then putting it back underground again. Not to mention the building of big fancy buildings, the waste of energy printing and minting all the various fiat currencies, the transportation thereof in armored cars by no less than two security guards for each who could probably be doing something more productive, etc.
As far as mediums of exchange go, bitcoin is actually quite economical of resources, compared to others.
http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Myths#Bitcoin_mining_is_a_waste_of_energy_and_harmful_for_ecologyWould you be able to suggest an alternative computational task such that cheating would have no bearing on performance? Without that, mining activity would neglect the tasks that don't provide the highest return. [edited] |
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Interesting: A NY Appellate Court significantly weakened the “structure” and “hierarchy” required for an enterprise under the OCCA.
In the case of People v. Western Express, Judge David Saxe, writing for a divided court in the First Department (the Appellate Court in NY that handles cases from Manhattan and the Bronx) found that an internet forum that handled transactions for identity thieves was a criminal enterprise even though there was no connection between the thieves and the forum.
While Western Express offered a variety of legitimate services, such as check-cashing, mail receiving, money orders, digital currency exchange, and Russian/English translation services, it also acted as an intermediary, or “money mover,” providing credit and facilitating transactions for buyers and sellers of stolen credit card data, while earning a commission for each such transaction. What Vassilenko did, the court said was to shape his previously legitimate business “into a hub for criminal activity geared toward maximizing its own and its participants’ profits from the theft and use of stolen credit card information and its protection from law enforcement.” This case could have far-reaching implications if it is not reversed by the Court of Appeals. The idea of the Penal Law is to let people know what is illegal and what ramifications you will face if you engage in certain conduct. It is clear that courts are willing to be flexible and creative as they try and use pre-internet laws to deal with internet related activity. - http://www.courtroomstrategy.com/2011/04/ny-court-finds-loose-affilitiation-of-cybercriminals-to-be-enterprise-under-organized-crime-act |
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Fairness/reciprocity: if you're an early adopter geek, start circulating your coins-- send them to MyBitcoin or MtGox and then back to yourself if you want to keep them, but make it hard to tell if there ARE any early adopter geeks holding lots of coins.
It is kind of odd to see a post discussing morals include a recommendation to hide evidence.  That recommendation is good for another reason as well: Having those coins mixed back in increases our ability to remain anonymous when transacting with Bitcoin. - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Anonymity#Help_other_people_stay_anonymousAs far as how many individuals you're talking about ... its difficult to know. For reference here's the most recent "Bitcoin top 100 'Rich List' 20th March 2011": - http://bitcoinreport.blogspot.com/2011/03/bitcoin-top-100-rich-list-20th-march_20.html |
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Friday, Apr 22nd, 2011- Article / Blog post in The Bitcoin Weekly:
Expanding the Bitcoin Economy - Legitimate Businesses and Food by Vitalik Buterin
“It is [having those who both earn and use bitcoin in significant quantities] that gives Bitcoin intrinsic value”
- http://bit.ly/eQSQ6f - Video: Don’t Buy Bitcoins
There might be worse ways to spend the next eight and a half minutes of your life. Or not.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoK8HXMSsNg
- http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6311 - Article / Blog post:
Peer-2-Peer Digital Currency: The Long Road Ahead for FinCEN by Mark Herpel, editor of DGC
“PayPal is an extension of the bank account it is not a digital currency”.
“Software designers have now created, built and operate systems that do not generate any of the traditional markers needed for proper regulation”.
“There about a half dozen of these systems operating across the Internet which are known to the public.”
- http://bit.ly/eIl8D7 - Article / Blog post:
On monetary restandardization on the Unqualified Reservations blog
“I would like to see the gold books of all governments, exchanges, and banks. Who is naked? Who is transforming maturities? It won’t happen.”
“But Bitcoin is not centralized, so there is no way the development team can prevent exchanges from operating. These exchanges are obvious targets for numerous predatory authorities. When they are destroyed, the currency dies.”
[Please take the time necessary this weekend to read the article in full. - editor]
- http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2011/04/on-monetary-restandardization.html - Article / Blog post:
Bitcoin is a thing by Tate Watkins on his blog Short Sentences
“this [Wikileaks] example and this example alone is enough to make Bitcoin novel, interesting, and relevant, and demonstrate its use as a store of value”.
- http://shortsentences.org/2011/04/bitcoin-is-a-thing - Article / Blog post: LewRockwell.com
Poker Freedom post shows a letter by a friend of Lew’s
“It’s taken me less than a week to set up a virtual private network (vpn) that makes it look like I’m playing from another country, acquire a foreign PO Box, …”
- http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/86247.html
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Not heard of that yet.
Yes, would like to know more about that. Were you accessing it too often with a bot or something? |
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