I can just go pick them up... there are not far away...
It's near my house the store.

Maybe this week or next....

No, if you not ordering bulk. Too much work for too little money. Sorry.

Is it only one you need? I have small ones, but they are used. Could send you one of those if you want.

Regards

Hi!
I think I have about 5. And unfortunately no, I don't have any pi 2's.... however, I am going to be getting more pizero's but have none atm

Nightowlace, the seller, is still active, so perhaps he, too, has an address.

What does the core build in bandwith monitor show? Does it show a large spike of downloading data at the beginning? This is usually the case for me, once the data is downloaded it takes a bit (not 30 minutes though) until its shown as fully synced. I have at max 32MBit/s downstream, but I never saturate that with core anyway.

If that is indeed the case, the reason would be disk or CPU.

If the data trickles in instead, its probably your connection to other nodes.

Ok so you have my interest, now at the moment I use a web site that I bought my btc with AUD and SGD, if I run my own node will I be able to send and receive BTC without any transaction costs? And with me having a full node will it help propagate mine (and other people) transactions faster?

You are on the right track, but there are several more:

(5) You need to have bank relationships, in order to convert cash into money you can wire to exchange. And it is not more about costs of maintaining account, but rather to get such a bank willing to work with you.
On low volume however you might not report about your activity to bank and just deposit cash to your account, however, on professional volume it doesn't work as 1 machine brings about 20-30K of cash per month. Imagine you have 5 machines, that means you will have to deposit 100-150K of cash per month, banks won't miss it for sure.

(6) Renting a place. Ideally you could find some enthusiast who runs a local business and would like to put your machine at his/her place for free, but to get a good traffic location like in the shopping mall - you will definitely have to pay for this.

(7) Cash logistics costs. You will need to collect cash out of ATM regularly. Of course, at start you could do this yourself, but having several machines - you will need to spend much more time just to visit those + some robbery risk involved. If you assign this to professional - will cost you additional fee do have this task done.

(8 ) It was mentioned already to some extent and it depends on your location - but you might need to get licensed first in order to run such a machine. This is not undoable, and almost always possible, however, it might be very costy, e.g. pay to lawer to consult first and understand do you really need it and what kind of licenses  you need, then applications and costs associated with getting license.

(9) Maintain business costs: you need to have support line, you need to do accounting, normally you need to be KYC/AML compliant, so have the policy written, also somebody take the role of AML officer for your business. I mean you could do all this stuff yourself, but if it grows - you will definitely need to distribute tasks and pay for this.

In general, this is all comes to my mind.

Somebody here mentioned Skyhook - not advised, machines are not supported and many reported, that order paid, but never received machine. So looks like Skyhook and Robocoin are history, although there are several installations still present.

If you look at bitcoin ATM manufacturers, I would advise to look at: lamassu, genesis coin, general bytes, bitaccess, bitxatm.

Here are also some useful links to start from:

Bitcoin ATM ROI calculator
How much bitcoin ATM can earn (real examples)
What to pay attention when you want to operate a bitcoin ATM

There is much more useful info on the site (coinatmradar) as well as in the blog, so hope it will help you. There are all locations currently known with bitcoin ATMs, fees information.
General bitcoin ATM industry statistics is summarized here.

In general bitcoin ATM is a very interesting business opportunity, but this is not something you can earn a bunch of money over night. There is a lot of hard work involved.

I see no other altcoins listed on Bitcoin.org, so it's consistent.

Bitcoin.org devs and owners are long-time supporters of Bitcoin-Core, so it's very expectable for them do so, and they have every right to. But then again they obviously over-reacted, Coinbase says it's for "testing purposes" (even though they wouldn't have gone public with it if it was so, who knows..), but I just hope this doesn't cause the gap between XT and Core to be more noticeable, the blockchain, and the community as a whole would suffer too much.

All PMs will be answered as I sober up, it's 7AM here and for once New Years wasn't a disappointment    

Items should arrive to buyers next week; remember the holiday season... Discs have been sent anyhow.

Next week we'll also expand our stock beyond SSDs. Discounts will be great on the new stuff

Windows 10 completely fucked all my computers. It's unstable as fuck under the gui. I nuked that shit and went back to 7.

The updates are manual. Importing from the servers that the current forum is using is not as easy as it sounds (without downtime).

If people took the time to think about how valuable the service is that well run and trustworthy escrow provides, and then compensated the escrow provider appropriately for the value provided then people like Blazed and myself wouldn't have stopped.

Unfortunately when everything goes smoothly, like it does 99% of the time, nobody even thinks about how much the security and peace of mind were really worth.  They tip nothing at all or less than $2 worth of bitcoins.

When I held escrows, all escrow-ed funds were held on single use paper wallets that were generated on a permanently offline computer and that were stored in a secure location.  I wrote up custom escrow agreements that laid out exactly how the transaction was expected to progress as well as laying out exactly what would happen in a variety of common situations.  If I was going to be unavailable for release at any time, all parties involved were informed ahead of time. I made sure that all parties were provided with multiple ways to contact me if bitcointalk became unavailable (phone number, email address, and frequently a U.S.P.S. mailing address). All of this time and effort for between 0 BTC and 0.01 BTC most of the time.  I could earn more running a lemonade stand on a cold day in the middle of nowhere.

In the beginning I did it because I wanted to make it easier for users of the forum that didn't have any way of trusting each other to be able to engage in transactions.  I was motivated largely because there weren't many merchants or exchanges available, and if bitcoin was going to be useful, then this forum was going to be where that usefulness was proven.  Since then there are several well trusted exchanges and many large public merchants that accept bitcoin as payment.  Additionally there were several new escrow providers that I found to be sloppy and uncommunicative, yet users were flocking to them for some reason.  At that point it just didn't make sense anymore to spend time and effort for a service that clearly wasn't desired.

I'm half considering setting up an automated escrow service for signature campaign managers to use to escrow to safeguard payments to campaign members. But seeing you and Blazed both write about how it's all too much hassle, I'm having second thoughts.

Do you think people would use a service like that if there was a small percentage fee to cover expenses?

1 doesn't "encode to a private key", 1 IS a private key.

An ECDSA private key is simply a number.  For bitcoin, it is ANY number between 1 and 115792089237316195423570985008687907852837564279074904382605163141518161494336
(when represented in base 10)

That number can be represented in any of various forms such as binary, hexadecimal, octal, decimal, base58, or Wallet Import Format (also known as base58check or WIF).

Perhaps you are asking how to represent the decimal value of 1 in WIF?