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You guys are kidding, right?  They weren't hacked, this experience will make them change and improve their security procedures for DBAs, and they've been hard at work since the event happened to improve security and bring everything back up for everyone.  What would you have preferred they do?  In my opinion, they've demonstrated professionalism, and I look forward to the improvements which the problem will engender.  We can't expect them to identify security holes on a contractor's computer, and its unrealistic to think they'd be invulnerable to attack, especially considering the massive amount of money that flows through there each day.  They're not prophets or fortune tellers, they're regular people, and they've reacted to this situation as well as any person could. 


I'm getting emails from the operator of TradeHill trying to exploit the situation...glhf faring any better in security when all eyes are on you.

I was referring to GPUs, as that appears to be the majority technology for hashing at the moment.  The FPGA idea is fantastic, but I don't have the capital to purchase one at the moment.

Has anyone done a comparison of recent revisions of the various miners on the same hardware?  Implementation efficiency is a big deal when it comes to squeezing execution iterations out of a program, and I can't help but suspect that I could squeeze a few more hashes out of my machine by using the most skillfully-written miner...

Thanks!  The next issue seems to be wxWidgets.  The revision calls for 2.9.0, but I can only find 2.9.1 now, which doesn't appear to work.  Anyone know where I can get 2.9.0?  Or, does 2.9.1 indeed work, and I'm just doing something wrong?  Sorry for the dearth of questions...

Great to know that it will work on my card.  I've gotten PyOpenCL installed, but I've hit an impasse patching Satoshi's mainline client.  I'm running Linux, and the standard "patch" command responds that the input is garbage, while copying the patch files on top of the mainline ones won't compile by a long shot.  Could someone clue me in to what I'm supposed to be doing here?

I see all kinds of discussion regarding AMD/ATI drivers here...does this work on nVidia cards which support OpenCL?  Mine is on the list at the beginning of the thread, but I think I may be missing/skipping something, or misinterpreting whether my card is supported by this fork at all.  Thanks to everyone in advance.

It looks as if the two main markets, bitcoinmarket and mtgox, are stabilizing around 5.5-6.5 USC/BTC.  The outliers and quartiles have been tightening for days now, and now the values are centering in that range.  Thoughts?  Could it be that we've established a market value?  That would be a major step toward currency confidence and widespread public use.

Are we creating a new currency or competing with PayPal and the like as a payment service?  The two are very, very different...and we're back here again...

I've seen two recent releases, .36 and .38, mention faster hashing.  Why is this advantageous?  Won't faster hashing simply cause the difficulty to increase, and place us precisely back where we were before the "speed" increase, only with a higher difficulty number?

I noticed that 0.3.7 is released on the website, but after searching the forums I can't find any information on what the changes are.  Never mind that the changes from version to version should be packaged with the download....

anyone care to clue me in on this one?

Just want to voice my approval for any potential option of supporting Kiva.  I know that the idea was abstract, but that charity is phenomenal in my opinion.

Hmm.  You're quite correct...then is my (partial) explanation for the Euro situation in Greece wrong?  If so, then by what means?  I think that the "variation in cost of living" approach can only stretch so far, perhaps  Ie, there's FAR more difference in the COL between New York and the outskirts of Bangalore than New York and Oklahoma.  The COL approach works in the NY/OK case, but not with a cost of living variation as extreme as the first scenario.  Then again...I'm not exactly sure.

I agree that physically disparate but quantum-entangled processing units would mimic a single, spatially-local block of logic gates...but I still fail to see what Moore's Law has to do with the distance over which data may be transmitted by quantum entanglement.

I really question how many btc users are going to be selling more than $600 of goods in btc....  Besides, this new requirement doesn't trouble gold dealers because of goods transferred *in gold* (though perhaps it should).  The problem is that any Joe or Shirley who sells gold probably sells more than $600 (About .52 troy oz at current rates).  Thus, if they do business with ten people a day, thats 3,650 forms to fill out.  (Neglecting deductions for weekends and holidays).  Yay, bureaucratic paperwork!

I don't understand the hideous threat in this new requirement.  If a business purchases $600 or more in product from a supplier, it must fill out a form to verify that the supplier is reporting these sales (which they should be reporting anyway) to be taxed.

I'm very much in disapproval of the current American administration and its policies, and very much a free-market libertarian.  However, this does not impose any new tax or tax requirement - they're just double-checking to make sure that all goods *already* taxed are reported.  Said taxes might need to be eliminated, but at least this only imposes a reporting requirement, not a new tax.  Pain in the rear?  Yes.  Huge change of policy?  No.

I'm sure everybody is fairly familiar with what is going on in Greece.  For those who don't know, a (very) simplified description is the following.

Greece, like the rest of the EU bloc, is under the Euro.  The Euro is a unified currency which spans over twenty nations.  Some of these nations are more economically prosperous than others.  Germany, for instance, can produce more value into the global economy than Greece.  In a multi-currency situation, this would lead to a devaluation of the Greek currency so that its goods could be purchased cheaply by the Germans and others with more economic power.  While the situation is not as good for the Greeks as if they were able to compete evenly, they can't compete evenly anyway, so at least this way they can sell something at some price.  However, the country is locked into the Euro.  Therefore, it is locked into a 1:1 exchange rate with all Euro countries (France, Germany, etc.)  Thus, it cannot offset its economic weakness with a devalued currency, so it must compete on even footing with other Euro countries, which it cannot do, as it is less economically and technologically developed.  Thus, we have a crash.

On the another stage, the US buys things from India because the RUP is devalued relative to the USD.  This works out well for both countries, as it enables the US to get cheap goods, and India to sell goods which couldn't compete with the goods of more prosperous and developed nations on even footing.  (Opportunity cost is at the root of this).  However, if the US and India were locked into an identical currency, the economic weakness of India today would look like a paradise relative to what we would see then.

The parallels between the Bitcoin and the Euro are obvious.    Say the BTC becomes a global currency.  How do we deal with the issue of necessary currency value differentials to accommodate the differing capabilities of disparate geographical locations?  Obviously, if we can't, then the BTC is worthless in all but the economic top-tier countries, because it cannot be used save on an equal footing with such countries.

Moore's Law: The number of transistors on a microprocessor doubles every eighteen months.

What does this have to do with this?  Transistors on a chip != quantum entanglement distance.

Please explain.

I'm quite aware that "coins" are not coins, but validations for a magnitude of transaction.

So wallet==keyfile, and nothing else?  Good, that's appropriate.