I'm having some problems getting phoenix to run under OpenSUSE 11.3. First I got this error: ImportError: cannot import name IBodyProducer
It turns out that the version of twisted in the OpenSUSE repository is only 8.2.  Installing twisted 11.0 fixes that problem. However, now I get: [26/04/2011 12:36:06] FATAL kernel error: Failed to load OpenCL kernel!
I've been running poclbm for months, so I obviously have OpenCL. Do I need a symlink? Here's my command line: ./phoenix.py -u http://user:pass@127.0.0.1:8332 -k poclbm DEVICE=0 VECTORS AGGRESSION=7 FASTLOOP BFI_INT WORKSIZE=64
[EDIT] Solved. I was using the wrong device number. DEVICE=0 refers to the CPU. |
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It is recommended that you provide a new address for each transaction. That way, you will have no problem figuring out what the payment was for. As far as setting exchange rates, I recommend taking an average over 24 or 48 hours so as to smooth out some of the variation. You can see some averages on bitcoinwatch.com. You can use the Ruby script below to compute a 48-hour weighted average, which could be used once per day to update prices on a web site. #!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'open-uri'
require 'json'
total_vol = 0.0
price_vol_product = 0.0
last = 0.0
quote_str = open('http://mtgox.com/code/data/getTrades.php').read
quotes = JSON.parse(quote_str)
#puts quotes
quotes.each do |q|
price_vol_product += q["price"] * q["amount"]
total_vol += q["amount"]
last = q["price"]
end
usd_per_btc = price_vol_product/total_vol
printf("Exchange rate:%7.4f\n", usd_per_btc) |
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Let's clear something up. People hurt people. It's downright silly to demonize a tool. Pencils don't make spelling errors. Guns don't shoot people. And money doesn't sell drugs. People do all of these things. If you take the tools away from the bad, you take the tools away from the good as well. Shall we destroy the internet because some use it for child pornography? Ban hard drives because such files can be stored there? No, absolutely not. It would be ridiculous.
It's absurd seeing people blaming tools for the actions of people. I promise you this, take away the tool that you pose as evil, and the evil person will find another way to commit his atrocities.
Bravo. Well put. It's clear that powerful, decentralized, technological tools that nobody can control are going to be a fact of life in our future. We need to learn to deal with it as a society. |
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I'm in favor of banning discussion on this site of trade in things which are illegal in the majority of industrialized countries, if for no reason other than protecting the site itself. In addition, someone could create a really flashy consumer and merchant oriented site that new users could be steered towards, leaving this site for development and philosophical discussions.
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Personally, I'm not into cigars, but I think this is a great idea, and I wish you the best of luck.
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I visited the Mises institute last December and even talked with Doug French about Bitcoin. It's on their radar, but they weren't interested in accepting Bitcoin donations at the time. Doug seemed to think it would be an accounting headache. They are also big time gold bugs. It might be worth bringing it up with them again now that Bitcoin has received more press. They have a real nice facility which lends itself to events and guest lectures.
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I think you just found a inescapable vulnerability, what if someone sets up two accounts and they just send bitcoin back and forth. It would crash the system. I can see no fix.
This has been discussed. The fix is transaction fees. |
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I have a pessimistic outlook on legislation that some refer to as law. Law is the real deal. Earth pulls things down, people who are kind and peaceful with others are happy, etc. You can't make laws by writing shit down.
Some years ago, I was considering what to do for an advanced degree. I briefly considered law but then decided against it because you never really prove anything, just make hopefully-convincing arguments based on statutes and case history. I ended up getting a science Ph.D. and am glad I chose that path as I now work with "real" laws. |
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You have to be online to continually receive new transactions. If you generate a block with missing transactions, it will be rejected by the network.
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I think the best way to go about this is for the poker site owner/administrator to remain fully anonymous. We already have Bitcoin merchants who will register domains and host sites taking Bitcoin as payment. Make sure that the site is in a jurisdiction not easily interfered with by the US government, and also make sure that the site databases are continually backed up to multiple other locations. The wagering should be done directly in Bitcoin, with deposits and withdrawals directly to/from the user's local wallet. Then the only real issue is how to buy Bitcoins with national currency. I think this need is ideally met by having thousands of local exchangers. In fact, anyone who holds Bitcoins should offer to do exchanges. Then everything is decentralized and there is nobody to shut down.
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A developer has contacted me and is willing to write the module for 150 BTC. Is there anyone else who would like to contribute to this bounty?
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I decided to do this the slow way, by using your screenshots and my own eyes...
It turns out that is actually the fastest way in this case.  |
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I tried using tesseract OCR to convert the images into text, but it failed miserably.
wouldn't "bitcoind listtransactions" help? Ah, yes! Dishwara, can you run bitcoind instead and capture the transactions to a text file? ./bitcoind listtransactions > transactions.txt |
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It's Google doing trial runs of Bitcoin mining. They do it for a while and then shut it down, refine their setup and start it back up again.
Are you serious? |
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I tried using tesseract OCR to convert the images into text, but it failed miserably.
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3) My folder is called "BITCOIN-0.3.19" is it this one we're talking about ?
4) Wich is the file I shouldn't never ever ever loose.. the one that contains all info on my transactions?
The file which you don't ever want to lose is called wallet.dat and is usually stored in a different directory than the program files. On linux the directory's default location is ~/.bitcoin. Not sure about Mac and Windows. |
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Welcome, and thanks for the great article!
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