I can't speak to the reddit threads, but several of the notes for the ZIGGAP loans used to start the business have come up for sale on the note trading boards. They're priced to move, but the payments come due today. If he's still making payments on the (very large) loan, I'd say that's a good sign of sanity.

If he throws up his hands and skips his debts, well, that'd be a good sign he goes off the deep end.

Next payment is due within the next 20ish hours.

https://btcjam.com/listings/584

I've tried most of these services, and quite a few not on the list because they've gone under. They all share one serious problem - liquidity to USD. I know the reasons behind not accepting reversible transactions, but as someone who wants to trade in and out of BTC regularly, I hate that I have limits through BitInstant, and time delays through services like Dwolla.

The first to solve this problem will gain serious, fast traction.

 'I want to link my Bitcointalk name with BTCJam's. Verification code: 1d1f2625-1669-43b4-9baf-06452e186e66'

On my netbook, so I don't have my normal screenshot capabilities. Will send screenshots in the morning.

Here's a C+P of the BTC address.


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I'll have it shipped by Monday

Son of a crap.

If this guy is a scammer, I'm out 45 BTC as well, now. I sent him the BTC this weekend. He said he'd send a tracking code on Monday, but I haven't heard from him since I sent him the coin.

That was my "play around on MTgox money" that I devoted to buying my wife an anniversary present.

Fscking fantastic. Someone put a fscking scam tag on this guy.

I'm guessing this didn't work out?

Bumping for the new free-invite option.

Question: Is this a self install service or a centralized service (i.e., wordpress.com or wordpress.org)?

If it's .org, I wholly support. If it's .com, not in the least bit interested in another centralized service.

And now I'm back in. This is getting tiresome.

FWIW, took me only 10 hours to come out of the DDoS "penalty box" this time.

Code that was working fine last night and earlier today started behaving wonky. Is the API super slow for anyone else? MTGOX is suddenly taking 21 seconds to respond to my server, and not returning data that my script can interpret as valid.

Of course, hitting the API directly doesn't seem to cause an error, of course.

I'm doing an error check on the script, which tells me that whatever's coming back from mtgox isn't an Array. Printing a data dump and the supposed Array file comes back empty, so can I assume that I got caught in the DDoS protection again, and I need to wait another 36 hours to come out of the penalty box?

Yeah. The only thing that will kill it (and it's been said here a few times) is easy-in/easy-out of money. BTC is already difficult enough for the mainstream to understand. If it's too expensive and difficult to get your money in and out, then it's going to have major difficulty growing.

Look at any other exchange in the BTC world where their ins and outs are messed up (BTC7 springs to mind). Prices stagnate.

Thanks guys. Very helpful.

Hey guys. I'm not stupid, I swear.

I've been coding some trading tools (for mtgox and several of the other trading sites), and I'm getting tripped up on mtgox's new API thing. I've been doing all this in about two or three hours a night after the family goes to sleep, so I really don't have time for super-deep-dives, and the scant documentation on the mtgox website is really tripping me up.

I guess what I'm looking for is some sample code on the trading section of the API (not the ticker or depth charts) in PHP, preferrably.

What's tripping me up in particular:
* I understand the concept of a nonce code and how to make one. What I don't understand is where or how it wants me to pass it in.
* How and where am I passing in the API keys?
* I'm pretty sure I've got a handle on the POST stuff, but I wouldn't hate it if the sample code included that, too.

Also... bots don't sleep, they don't get bored and bots have much quicker reaction times.

Yeah. Spam, trash, watched it all like a hawk. Even tried again disabling all my mail filters for an hour. No luck. Problem's not with my inbox.

Thanks for the clarification. I guess I was asking for medium term, since I'm bullish on the long term prospects.

Don't get me wrong, I'm in it for the long haul. I keep about 10 bitcoins in "savings" around for spending on stuff within the BTC world. I usually spend about 15 a week, mostly purchases for work equipment and whatnot.

I have about a grand I have devoted to investing and buying. I've been playing around with the market and come out probably 5% ahead,but I generally don't leave all of that in BTC if I walk away from the computer.

In other words, I have faith in the long term viability of BTC, and am a practitioner, so to speak. Short to medium term, though, I don't want to keep buying and holding as value drops. I'd rather buy closer to the bottom. Problem is I'm a relative newbie and I don't have an instinctual feel for what the bottom should be, nor do I have a good enough picture on the whole of the BTC economy yet to gauge factors like "is more money entering rather than exiting" BTC (other than using the markets as an indicator, which would say no).

Seems like it's about 36 hours, if you're talking about the API blocking you. Their DDoS protection is a bit overzealous with new IPs, in my experience.

Yes, genius. There's also a couple hundred other music services out there. I like Spotify and many others do, too. This offer is for them.