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I remember being interested in the Internet in the early days. I remember being told stories from my grandfather who in turn remembers the early days of radio.
Now I look at Bitcoin and I see a similar thing.
We've been fortunate that the free internet in particular, as travel before it has catalysed these developments such that we have seen a lot more developments in recent years.
These are interesting projects all involving technology.
- can you think of other things that have come along to change society that aren't electronic?
- what is the language of these groups... is there a pattern? Are there words we see in these things that we don't see elsewhere?
I find being in these areas interesting and I tend to gravitate toward them. Never have I had a central role but it's great to say "I was there" later on. For example, what was the hippy movement like when it first started for example? What about steampunk or burning man?
And what do you see that is like this with a potential... but small now in those early stages?
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They have been the best source for Bitcoin forecasts so far.
while i respect S3052, you can't say this since you haven't been subscribed to my newsletter ever. haha, yes sorry about that! I prepared this post before I actually noticed yours! open for a free sample anytime ;-) |
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Just wondering if anyone used to do this before getting blocked by the bookies. Maybe you still have a subscription to a surebet service.
I'd like to snap up all the free offers,
but I don't want to spend time wading through spreadsheets and so on or risk money on services informing of surebets.
If you can advise me or help me with access to subscription service at a sensible rate
send me a PM with an email address and how your fees.
Commission only technical analysis services sometimes charge 15% of profits so that could be a suggestion as to what you want to charge minus freebies.
-j
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Technical analysis from Bitcoinbullbear predicts gold,silver,palladium as down for 2013.
I would expect a vested interest there.
However I do value the forecasts that have been made there. They have been the best source for Bitcoin forecasts so far.
Given this view, it would seem like a good idea to move savings from precious metals into Bitcoin. But I'm still not that bullish. I prefer to use Bitcoin as a utility with a small amount saved by just in case, and instead have savings in precious metals. But what can one invest in if those main markets are all predicted as down?
I don't want to make a lot of money this way - I just want to avoid taking more than minor losses.
I have some alternative ideas for investment but they seem so much more risky than holding gold (for example).
What to do...?
At this point I would say if you own property, invest in things like solar panels, methane generation, micro farming. But I'm mobile...
Perhaps there's a way to invest in online assets that isn't centralized?
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Smpake, the forwarding service to improve MtGox deposits have decided to shut down just in case until clearer. No alternative implementation AFAIK
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This is a shame. I expected to hear of some scams but not as many as this.
Mirrored to .onion or other hidden service it could be a very useful thing to have to maintain trading should restrictions bite and easier than #OTC
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Thanks for the help folks.
I was thinking,
maybe it should be easier to password and backup the wallet. I know that's really an aspect that should be handled by the O/S but it would encourage backing up this way. I really like the way blockchain.info emails a passworded backup after every transaction. Could something like that be duplicated? Should something like that be duplicated?
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by the way, over the past 5-7 days, the Euro gained 3-4 % vs. the USD. Did you consider this as potential reason?
Yes, and it should have the opposite effect. People should hold their EUR knowing it will buy more BTC (from the USD order book) the next day. Perhaps even sell for EUR and hope to buy back cheaper because USD is the dominant currency in BTC trading. Unless they think BTC will be cost at least 0.5% more in USD the next day. Which means the EUR, GBP and AUD buyers must have very strong belief in price increase. And I assume the opposite is true for the USD users who are selling, because they are not selling for EUR, GBP or AUD. I thought I am the only one taking advantage of this. Yesterday for example, hours long the first few asks where exactly the same as the asks on USD but 2.5% higher. That was in the 10.50€ area = more than 13.80$.  Imagine you could send MTG/EUR via Bitinstant to Bitstamp or BTC-e... I'd say EUR above 1.30$ is good...  I noticed the differential between MtGox and Bitstamp so I transferred coins to Gox, traded to $ and then tried to go back to Bitstamp via Bitinstant. At that point Bitinstant didn't have the float to do it. When they then found some it put the price up. In the end I only lost out for about $4... but as I expected; too good to be true! |
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Thanks folks. I should have spotted it was v1!
Time to upgrade. Big shame I'm on Gentoo though. It seems to have gone to the dogs since they started dropping packages that aren't updated anymore:
no yaourt,
no pip
no python-pip...
and it's been the same for the last 10 packages I've wanted to test... hard work these days... just moved from Ubuntu as it was going away from GNU and the sharing caring thing too much imho.. enough to cause problems down the line I think... modern but lazy
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I hope we can have the proxy support working sometimes soon, especially in the portable build.
At the moment the proxy option is greyed out.
sorry but I am not aware of the problem. what is going on? $ electrum --help
Usage: electrum [options] command
Commands: restore, help, unprioritize, freeze, signmessage, verifymessage, addresses, contacts, create, label, validateaddress, unfreeze, reseed, eval, import, password, sendtx, prioritize, mktx, seed, deseed, balance, payto, history
Options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-g GUI, --gui=GUI gui
-w WALLET_PATH, --wallet=WALLET_PATH
wallet path (default: electrum.dat)
-o, --offline remain offline
-a, --all show all addresses
-b, --balance show the balance at listed addresses
-k, --keys show the private keys of listed addresses
-f TX_FEE, --fee=TX_FEE
set tx fee
-s FROM_ADDR, --fromaddr=FROM_ADDR
set source address for payto/mktx. if it isn't in the
wallet, it will ask for the private key unless
supplied in the format public_key:private_key. It's
not saved in the wallet.
-c CHANGE_ADDR, --changeaddr=CHANGE_ADDR
set the change address for payto/mktx. default is a
spare address, or the source address if it's not in
the wallet
-r REMOTE_URL, --remote=REMOTE_URL
URL of a remote wallet
$ http_proxy="127.0.0.1:8080" electrum
Install zbar package to enable QR scans
Not connected
Poking
Exception in thread Thread-3:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/threading.py", line 551, in __bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/electrum/exchange_rate.py", line 28, in run
self.discovery()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/electrum/exchange_rate.py", line 32, in discovery
connection.request("GET", "/api/ticker.php")
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 958, in request
self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 992, in _send_request
self.endheaders(body)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 954, in endheaders
self._send_output(message_body)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 814, in _send_output
self.send(msg)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 776, in send
self.connect()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1157, in connect
self.timeout, self.source_address)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/socket.py", line 571, in create_connection
raise err
error: [Errno 111] Connection refused
Not connected
Poking
Not connected
Poking
I can't select http. My proxy is ssh -D so should accept the :50001 port. I've also tried a restrictive corporate http proxy too. I'm not sure if electrum is respecting the http_proxy= environment variable? There is no proxy option I can see or commandline switch?  |
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I hope we can have the proxy support working sometimes soon, especially in the portable build.
At the moment the proxy option is greyed out.
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Great to see.
For added bonus, make it for an event you would like to happen. You're basically creating a sigal, something from magick. Perhaps it will come true?! ;-)
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Send coins to an offline savings address - brainwallet or similar in a safe.
But for miners, I think they have to have the blockchain locally for mining, no?
I still think it's a problem though. That blockchain is the distributed part of bitcoin. It needs to be distributed. Light clients are fine and dandy but without the blockchain, to take the RMS attitude, it's not really Bitcoin.
The hardware argument is partially valid but not complete because while capacities are expanding connectivity is a different story. There's been talk on this, especially in mobile internet like 3G in countries like the USA and the UK. Less so for mainland Europe and Asian countries like Korea.
Also, it's just good to be able to run bitcoin truly on many devices.
So I'm looking forward to Bitcoin 0.8 addressing this problem.
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Doesn't seem to be a Elliot Wave tool like on Sharpcharts. Also can't see ZigZag(retrace) ?
Must be somewhere to get these custom studies
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Ah, yes, figured it out. By going for all data sources it was trying to download everything but giving no feedback that it was actually downloading correctly.
I'm on a very slow connection so the ~160mb took half a day
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I only seem to have the one .scid file? .cxoffice\other\drive_c\SierraChart\Data\mtgoxUSD.scid ? Where can I get more feeds ready for if Bitcoin charts or MtGox fails? Had to change the command to: ./wine /home/jjj/Downloads/sierrachartfeed-0.5.exe -s mtgoxUSD -d ~/.cxoffice/other/drive_c/SierraChart/
Data/ giving: Loading data file Y:\.cxoffice\other\drive_c\SierraChart\Data\mtgoxUSD.scid
Downloading historical data It doesn't do any more than this and nothing more is available in Sierracharts itself. Is there a more linux native solution? Grism shows: /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/grism/grism_prefs.rb:87:in `config_dir': uninitialized constant GRISM::PLATFORM (NameError) Only link on this I could find: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/grism/ qtstalker has a lot of deps, not sure if either work with bitcoin. Just looking for something basic for when bitcoincharts goes down |
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I found one I found one! It scrolled off the screen too fast though. Do you need my <African accent>banking details??</African accent> |
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OK folks.
So...
look at what extensions and addons you have installed...
potentially any of those extensions have access to your wallet.
Thanks for the proof of concept. I hope it can be improved.
This has already been a worry of mine. Chrome extensions especially are very low hanging fruit for a carte-blanche rouge code in the same way phone apps are.
As a minimum I will be watching what I install more, going only for open source extensions methinks. Though this is no real protection it's the most practical I can think of for now.
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How does smpake.com do it? Green address?
I could understand if it was from bitcoin address to mt.gox code but it's bitcoin to bitcoin
Great reference DeathandTaxes
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