Technically? Yes. Any computer can deal with a wide, arbitrary range of numerical values.
Actually, no computer can, not even one with infinite memory, since an infinite amount of memory can only represent a countably infinite range of values, while the range of real numbers (not integers) is uncountably infinite. Fortunately, it is possible to infinitely divide an infinite range of integers without using non-integers for infinite future expansion (see Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel for details), so this isn't an issue for Bitcoin. Though it's a moot point anyway since no computer in a finite universe can possibly have an infinite amount of memory in the first place, so bitcoins won't really be "infinitely" divisible until we extend the protocol beyond the physical limitations of our universe (this will require a hard fork). A countably infinite amount of memory can represent any member of a continuum, which real numbers, complex numbers, etc. are. In fact, a countably infinite amount of memory can represent a countably infinite number of members of a continuum. |
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Uh-oh. I'm not going to make any transactions, so that the chain rollback (if it happens) will be less painful. Hopefully the nosedive doesn't occur this time.
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And if bitcoin crash "oh back then i could buy a pizza for 0.5 btc. Now i must spend 10.000btc
"That person who sold a pizza at 0.5 BTC was a dumbass!" |
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Uh no retard, I am an investor in real life, so I know what I'm talking about.
If you had stocks of Microsoft when it started selling its stocks on the first day(let's say a million shares), does it make sense for you to sell it for a pizza? or the equivalent of a pizza? Of course back then it was just penny stocks, but now it would be worth billions.
Bitcoins is just like stocks, you're suppose to take risks and make the right calls then and again.
He failed to make the right call. He failed to predict the market correctly. That does not mean he is a dumbass. |
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why does this:
4-8 ignores
appear and disappear ?
That's the range of possible ignores you have. It appears when you have 4+ ignores. I guess people keep adding and removing you from their ignore lists. The link does not appear. I don't have a link in the first place, and I am clearly using the default theme (I get advertisements). That's the only thing missing, and it prevents me from seeing my own colour. |
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Clear
And mine? (I am kind of an asshole)
Clear. |
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Can't you log out and then have a look?
No. Because guests cannot ignore members. Can't you log out and then have a look?
Clear. but...this is more fun.  Yours is clear as well. Clear. Mine? |
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Okay
I am not running off designing a website and all kinds of stuff till I hear whether there is some interest in this or not.
My basic plan is to take in a pgn file analyse the game recommend things you can do to improve your chess and so on, and take some bitcoins (perhaps cents in the start), and send a new pgn back to you with the analysis in, for a little extra I will even produce a movie.
If this works out I might even hire people to do the same thing.
That's is if there is no interest I will just find something else to do.
- bgminer
What is your FIDE rating?
This, and, what notable awards/titles have you achieved? (IM, etc.) |
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I don't buy that that is all the people under 16 on these forums (0.7% is far too low). Maybe younger people tend to be more anonymous?
You don't have to buy it because that is not what you're measuring. You're specifically measuring the age of people who found this thread and participated in the poll. And then there is no certainty about truthfullness of answers. It is not a balanced representation of the people visiting this forum. Edit: fixed some quoting confusion  I acknowledged this, but I was not referring to people I was measuring. I was referring to theymos's forum dump, which did not seem accurate. |
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I don't buy that that is all the people under 16 on these forums (0.7% is far too low). Maybe younger people tend to be more anonymous?
There is 64k of members and only 2.7% of them filled out the info in their profiles. The list is too small (not to mention we don't how many of them submit false info to gain credibility). I guess it might have something to do with the scams on these forums. Minors, which are prevalent scammers, register and claim to be 20+ for credibility. |
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For users with more than 4 posts who filled out this info in their profiles:
1,660 Male
65 Female
Birth years:
| 4 | 1996 | | 4 | 1997 | | 2 | 1998 | | 1 | 2001 | | 1 | 2003 | I don't buy that that is all the people under 16 on these forums (0.7% is far too low). Maybe younger people tend to be more anonymous? |
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It occurred to me that with all the exchange "hacks" at some point (already for Gox) someone will probably try robbing the exchanges the old fashioned way: Ski masks and guns.
What is to stop criminals from physically stealing money from the accounts: show up at the back office with guns and force the admins to transfer funds to their own accounts?
Considering the lack of encrypted wallets (and when there, passwords stored in plaintext), the hot wallet can easily be stolen by barging into the server room. If it's hosted, it can be stolen by some disgruntled employee of the networking team just as easily. This "physical theft" is dangerous stuff, and will guarantee the loss of at least the hot wallet (multisig will still fail once all the servers are physically stolen). |
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So I just discovered Alternative Crypto Currencies such as litecoin, PPCoin, etc... Is there a front runner in that race? I'm extremely intrigued by the idea of running a cpu miner for one of those on my btc mining rigs so I'm interested in hearing any good/bad experiences people have had with the alt currencies.
All-time, I would say the most successful experiment was Namecoin, followed by Solidcoin and Litecoin. Unfortunately, Solidcoin is dead due to a moron being the lead developer, Namecoin is dead due to merged mining, and Litecoin is dying due to lack of infrastructure. |
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I miss-read the top post - that's the list of people _I_ have on ignore. (and quite pleased with it) Hmm... I thought I disabled that list. I don't really want people to know who's ignoring them.
Ah, good, it is hidden. For admins there is a list of people ignoring you on that same page. Because admins can't be ignored anyways, isn't this feature absolutely useless? It does do this unless it was just changed in the last couple of days.
Where your ignore button would be, if you don't have many ignores it's just blank. But if you have more it'll be like
"4-8 ignores"
and that links to the post by theymos that explains how it works.
I would take a screenshot to show you but it seems like mine disappeared. So people took me off ignore or theymos changed it since yesterday.
This is indeed how it works. The counts only include users considered "very established", though. I can't find my "Ignore" button. In fact, that seems to be the only thing missing. I can even report my own posts! |
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Oppose sticky. It's tailored to recent events and not general enough, poorly-written, and the notice at the top does just as well with an order of magnitude more brevity.
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I dont think there is confirmation that this address is owned by anyone.....
I am absolutely certain it's owned by someone. No need for you to be certain: someone definitely has the private key (else, there would be no way to send coins from it). |
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I say yes. This is nearly impossible. There are only 26 days until Thanksgiving, and we are still at block 198497 (11503 blocks remaining). To succeed, the average time per block needs to be less than 196 s, or slightly more than three minutes! If this were true, the difficulty would be 269 times what it is now by Thanksgiving. That is equivalent to almost 5.4 PHz·h (where h denotes one SHA256(SHA256(...)) hash) of network power. The four people who voted "yes" are insane! |
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who is this Atlas fella, care to give some background for us noobs?
His spirit was trapped in this forum and he continues to annoy us from beyond the grave.
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