The reason I closed it down was because Gavin works for the CIA, and I wanted to shut down all the dissenters. The BIP process is so that we can scheme together, make it BIP law then force everyone to comply.
Occam's razor.
great, finally someone to tell the truth Yeah, what's the CIA's agenda with Bitcoin? Let me guess: "no need to know". I really don't like the discussion about some "Commitees" or letting some small group of ppl decide about this over here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=61922.0;all. I think major changes should be tested thoroughly and not rushed. +1  meh this will clear out in the end and every one will know better it's place, developers write programs, miners make them work, so users can use them without hassle |
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This is clearly getting out hand. Bureaucracy is not the solution and i think more agree on this. The thing is we will not get anything better than what we already have regarding the "voting" system. The present one is quite perfect and natural so please take a little of your precious time and think before saying or doing things just to leave a mark of your passing through the community.
Pool owners have the biggest incentives to keep the network running smoothly. Why every one of them got to represent a bunch of miners ? Because we need to adapt slowly from centralized to de-centralized so the people, by natural means, pooled their resources together with a constant coin revenue in mind. Pool owners have a great responsibility in the process and some of them really understood this, some of them didn't. So miners will try informing themselves and migrate to the pool that represent best their interests.
Before bashing pool owners or miners you should try putting yourself in their place, spending precious time, money and brain cells keeping the system in place. Try spending more time in the miner threads and less in the speculation ones. I'm happy with the system we have and how it protects itself naturally. This keeps us protected even from inside in case some respected community member loses contact with reality.
I really think we should move usability of the main client, implementing "bells and whistles", before securing the hell out of the protocol. If bitcoin protocol wasn't secure it wouldn't have resisted for more than 3 years. We could have implemented the multiple key transaction at the cryptography level, like some other have already stated, multiplying ECDSA keys.
Sorry for the rant ppl but when someone pushes big changes with only security in mind it raises all my alarms. The ones that handle bitcoins will get reeducated or not use them. Point. It's a powerful tool and i saw lots of bad things happen if you have stupid people handle them.
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I think that both BIPs should be open until either one is accepted, or something else comes along and beats them both.
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RE: multisignature transaction dangers: I'm completely convinced the (large, practical) benefits far outweigh the (small, theoretical) risks that it'll be abused by some repressive government(s).
Wait, so OP's scenario is plausible?? I thought the multisig transaction idea was suppose to have a backup wallet where you didn't need anything else to have access to your Bitcoins? Multisig is like requiring two people to know only half of a password each, instead of both of them knowing the full password. I understand that but I thought when this idea was first presented it was said that the user would keep both key's a in a backup wallet so you couldn't be held hostage with your service provider. This crossed my mind a while ago, happy i'm on the same page with others. So we would have a great benefit with increased wallet protection and easier escrow but any government could adopt bitcoin as legal tender and force everyone use the multisig too. Crippling the Bitcoin client to generate only multisig with a predefined gov key would be easy given that the project is open-source. |
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I wonder if there is a Sofa Net for vagabonds looking for a place to crash?
couchsurfing.orgNow it only needs a smartphone app and bitcoin payment and I'll pack my knapsack and sleeping bag. i wanna do that, see the world  |
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lol sometimes you think too much Phinnaeus, think we are one but we don't know it yet, probably we come from a few "experiments" seeded over the globe, meh. They say people like you and me that have blue eyes are a genetic error too. You are my favorite in this part of the web anyways.
I was wondering how I became pregnant. (just call me Mr. Twunk-too-Much)heh  i just remembered, do you still have some bitcoin leather wallets around ? need to renew mine and thinking doing something custom for my android phone too. Basically, they're all custom orders. Martin is ready to do one for Chicago Cabbie, of which I've paid for out of my own pocket. At the moment, he has one kit left before reordering more. I thinks he's been doing some custom phone covers lately. I will have to double check, but even if he hasn't, I'll can honestly state that he can do it. He's tooled several custom Laptop cases. ~Bruno~ nice touch the custom laptop cases any chance you know what the shipping to spain could cost ? i'm used to paying the weight of the package as if it where made of gold already. Small example, a Casascius coin cost 7-8$, add shipping 25-30$ and you're golden. |
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i guess you could contact him if you want to know more |
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 More like this. My suggestion was the "B" in "Bit" and not "Bitcoin", but this is a hell of lot better. Damn that looks good. I'm going to put it on the site now to see how it looks. Remember, it's not written in stone, and we can always change things in the future. Thank you, again, CBH. Great work! ~Bruno~ @CornedBeefHash I made a mistake and now need a minor correction. "Where" should be "When", then we're golden. ~Bruno~ and maybe scrap the dollar sign... if we're at it |
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A paper bill is fine, but has one small problem. Unless you know exactly how much your purchase will be, there will be a balance left over on your paper bill. You can't just throw it away after an amount is swept off. You will need to move the balance to a secure address somehow. It would be great to have an automated way to make your bill expire after a predetermined set period of time and the balance is then moved to the next address in a series.
or just have a keyring or card with a qr where the merchant could return the change https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=57303.0I'm not sure I understand the difference between sweeping and importing a private key. sweep = import + send amount to really private and secure key |
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A paper bill is fine, but has one small problem. Unless you know exactly how much your purchase will be, there will be a balance left over on your paper bill. You can't just throw it away after an amount is swept off. You will need to move the balance to a secure address somehow. It would be great to have an automated way to make your bill expire after a predetermined set period of time and the balance is then moved to the next address in a series.
or just have a keyring or card with a qr where the merchant could return the change https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=57303.0 |
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This will be a typical mafia-type prosecution under RICO. When they are eventually extradited, they will pound the smallest fish to give testimony against the other 3 to put the final nail in the coffin. Not that they need it really. The evidence is pretty substancial inclusive of in-house emails between management basically allowing, suggesting, and advocating piracy, intentional mechanisms to keep pirated content while masking their deletion by multiple file identifiers going to the same files which were specifically designed to make content owners think they were being deleted when they were not, and a complex financial system for ill-gotten gain from it all.
For being so smart, these individuals were very stupid and lacked any common sense. They knew what they were doing was illegal and to remain in any country that had extradition treaties was simply idiotic.
They deserve the decades of prison time they will get and the loss of eveything they hold dear for their stupidity.
You seem to be confused. Do you drive a Rolls Phantom? Please explain. I have no idea what you mean. Confused about what ? I am saying that you are some broke chump criticizing a fucking baller who rose to the top by providing a service that people want and stealing nothing. Let me pose a question for you: If I take a Montsanto sunflower seed, grow it, harvest the seeds and plant ten of them the next year, am I stealing from Montsanto? meh, patents on seeds, this is going overboard |
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nicee, i really liked what they did edit: stitched into one pic |
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Get verified.
read the thread |
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I use https://www.bitaddress.org to print me some bills. Then i cut them and fund with whatever small amounts i need. I write the value they carry by hand after funding with an android phone. Yep, I know about them. I ignored online services on purpose (trust issues). Bitaddress.org was meant for you to save and run offline. It is a single self-contained html file with inline javascript and no external references or links. Save to your hard disk, notice it still is completely functional when run without an internet connection. +1 i obviously edited my post to late saying the same thing |
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I use https://www.bitaddress.org to print me some bills. Then i cut them and fund with whatever small amounts i need. I write the value they carry by hand after funding with an android phone. The page script is clients side so the priv keys are in your possession at all times so you can even save the page as html and it will work. I'm not affiliated in any way just using the service. |
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I think you did a great service to our community with your effort that you put into your article, so thank you very much!
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