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2421  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Wired: Suspects Arrested in Online Drug Market Sting on: April 17, 2012, 03:30:13 AM
woah woah. Are we going to stop using Western Union, PayPal, iGolder, Pecunix and cash (maybe make them illegal??!). People are using it for drugs, and I bet terrorism too.
2422  Economy / Gambling / Re: Which bitcoin poker website? on: April 17, 2012, 02:39:47 AM
Thats funny. I googled bitcoin poker and I checked 4 out of the top 5. I skipped you because, well at the time i probably just saw seals not bitcoin. Hmm.

Ah, the downside of not jamming bitcoin into the name. But surely you must have been curious, "Seals! Seals?! They don't have anything to do with bitcoin or poker!"
2423  Economy / Gambling / Re: Which bitcoin poker website? on: April 17, 2012, 02:32:42 AM
Good good. I am surprised you weren't on the first few I looked at

We come up second for googling "bitcoin poker" now.

If you like tournaments, don't miss the 60BTC guarantee on Sundays, 2BTC to enter.
2424  Economy / Gambling / Re: Which bitcoin poker website? on: April 17, 2012, 02:29:11 AM
Seals is your best bet.

We sure are. 5 tables running right now, various stakes. Instant deposits.
2425  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: New, simple online wallet: www.instawallet.org - no signup required on: April 17, 2012, 02:24:28 AM
I see...well I got them but man something crazy is going on over there. My account all of a sudden showed 80 coins, exactly DOUBLE what I had in there. Is that crazy or what? I wasn't sure what to do. Then the site shut down again. 40, the original amount came back and I sent it out. I still timed out and there was still no confirmation however it seemed to work.

I never knew bitcoins could be manipulated like this, is it just instawallet? I am jst wondering what exactly causes all this. I LOVE instawallet its the best invention ever but not sure what is going on.

Bitcoins aren't being manipulated. You can write whatever you want on a site you control. They are, certainly accidentally, displaying the wrong thing.

I'm irritated because installet is a great idea, but it does require trust and it's being destroyed. How can I show people the simplicity of sending coin on a site that is down or slow 75% of the time?

I knew davout was lazy on bitcoin-central, but I assumed acquiring this meant he was active again. :-(
2426  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Is mandatory transaction inclusion possible? on: April 16, 2012, 08:49:26 PM
The proposal will use floating point to store value (makes sense in context), so percentile fees are no problem.

To achieve percentile fees, you need to use a balance sheet or account ledger or whatever you want to call it. This can be done in a bitcoin-derived protocol. It will just require a bit more than changing a value here and there.

I described in light detail most of what you are looking to achieve in this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=64637.0

Instead of requiring txes to be included, block selection is done based on blocks that have the most weight, and weight would come from a mechanic similar to bitcoin days destroyed.

I would suggest, however, instead of trying to reinvent the wheel to start contributing to the Encoin project. This: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=76750.0 is the latest thread to help flesh out some details as MoneyIsDebt has agreed to help program this project.

You have one address containing 10 coins. you send 4 coins. What is the fee? Instead you send 6 coins. What is the fee?
2427  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: 700 transactions/second now! on: April 16, 2012, 08:21:22 PM
You can edit thread titles, you don't need to make new.
2428  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin + TEM = BitTem? on: April 16, 2012, 08:19:51 PM
It's nothing new. Either it is just the EUR with a mask on because they keep the EUR to cash people out or they don't keep it all and it's a bank in disguise.
2429  Economy / Speculation / Re: How many bitcoins do you hold? on: April 16, 2012, 04:40:45 PM
looking at this poll wants me to increase my bitcoin holding even after being leverage at 10:1 on bitcoinica Smiley, this is not greed I still think we are in the early adopters stage or maybe coming close to early marjoirty.

How could we possibly be early majority? You expect less than 1M users ever?
2430  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: [ANN] Bypass the exchanges w/ BitInstant Pay-to-Email feature on: April 16, 2012, 03:30:52 PM
This is actually awesome news since it removes the need to ID yourself in order to convert your fiat to BTC.

Two thumbs up from me!  Cool

Yes, but don't forget we monitor fraud and AML 24/7

We have per-day and per-transaction limits in place for that reason, and any attempt to defraud our system will be taken seriously.

Thanks  Grin

What does this mean?

I sell bad powders, get cash, take cash to bank, put in your account, get coins.

Isn't that money laundering? How can you possibly do anything about that?
2431  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcash - Bitcoin's partner in world domination on: April 16, 2012, 02:13:47 PM
b. For the block to be accepted by the network it would have to contain at least 1/2 of all known transactions by the network (they would include more to be safe). It would have to have a certain % of free ones and and a certain % of paid tx's. Giving preference to the paid ones.

That's not a real thing. If there was a deterministic way to tell how many transactions were out there and what they were then we wouldn't need the block chain.

a. Block reward was always 25 BTC - no set max amount in circulation.


A big part of the reason a little piece of secret data can hold so much value is it's scarcity. I'd take a small chance on a currency like this if it was all that was available, but I put my life into Bitcoin.
2432  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: [ANN] Bypass the exchanges w/ BitInstant Pay-to-Email feature on: April 16, 2012, 01:55:05 PM
Nice.
2433  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: On Bitcoin donations on: April 16, 2012, 01:24:34 AM
Agree.

I donate sometimes, but not to spread coins.
2434  Economy / Speculation / Re: A year from now (2013/04/15) on: April 15, 2012, 11:12:19 PM
Positive brings Positive.

Hell yeah.

Stop thinking what bitcoin can do for you, instead think what you can do for bitcion.  Cheesy

That's kind of a false dichotomy. If you figure out how Bitcoin can help you then you will do much better and have much more to offer. If you pour yourself into 'the good of Bitcoin" you'll run out eventually even if you are totally self-sacrificing. Profit is sustainable, loss is not.
2435  Economy / Gambling / Re: SealsWithClubs.eu - Active Bitcoin Poker Site, Open To All Players on: April 15, 2012, 11:04:24 PM
Five tables running simultaneously for the Black Friday freeroll event (i.e., in addition to the other freerolls).

That breaks the site's record participation to-date right?

We've gotten 5 ring games going on several occasions recently.

I think the Table Starter Bonus has helped. That money will drop for the current week pretty soon.
2436  Economy / Economics / Re: Suppose you wanted to start a geographically localised bitcoin economy on: April 15, 2012, 09:13:50 PM
If the coins are worth more other places they'll just flow to those other places. But if there are a bunch of merchants who really want coin and make it easy and/or give discounts then coins will flow in to your area.
2437  Economy / Speculation / Re: A year from now (2013/04/15) on: April 15, 2012, 06:00:43 PM
I predict that a year from now the bitcoin price will be in the single digits.  I just want to enshrine this prediction in its own thread.  I hope somebody remembers to dig this up a year from now.  In the meantime I hope to take advantage of the next bitcoin bubble.  My the odds be ever in my favor.

I hope someone digs it up too.
2438  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Mint Chip Technical Details on: April 15, 2012, 04:24:17 PM
If I can get a physical MintChip from someone else, I could get cash too... Huh

One could carry 2 chips: 1 to pay, 1 for transferring excess money to. Anyways I guess except for some people who like fancy NFC applications, physical exchange of fiat value is not one of the strongest points of anything but cash money (100% no transaction fees, hard enough to fake for the average person, no limits, quite anonymous).

I personally don't even care that much about anonymity in digital currencies - I have bitcoin for that. My biggest and foremost concern is the chance to end up with less digital money than you paid in fiat money for whatever reason (reversed transaction, double spend reversal after the "Reset" by the bank/mint, horrendous fees, chips being invalidated and me unable to cash back out...). Who assures me that the Canadian Mint won't "do a Dwolla" and suddenly after some time start to reverse transactions or claim they were illegal/invalid after they happened? If this is somehow part of an e-money system I would even buy it if every coin has my face on it - as soon as I buy Bitcoins with it subsequently, it won't matter anyways any more.

You get it from someone one time and now you have anonymous money that you can use to pay anyone anywhere right? That's way different than cash.

I'm just saying if the chips don't require ID to use there isn't any way for anyone to be sure who is using it now.
2439  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: [ANNOUNCE] BitcoinNordic: Instant Bitcoins with Scandinavian credit cards on: April 15, 2012, 02:11:34 PM
This thread doesn't describe it but I see that Bitcoin Nordic will also cash out to PayPal or to a bank account (with withdrawal being free or inexpensive in a few countries, and international transfer to other countries as well):
 - https://bitcoinnordic.com/sell


I see 10% fee. Though they use a 24hr average so you could pick up some value on a spike I guess, though usually not 10%.
2440  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Mint Chip Technical Details on: April 15, 2012, 01:57:54 PM
Thus I am not sure the claim of even even psuedo-anonymity can be made. 

Quote from: caveden
If they really intended to make something as anonymous as cash...

I don't see any evidence that they ever intended it to be anonymous or even pseudo-anonymous. The official docs say that "no personal data is exchanged in the transaction", but that means the transaction between the buyer and the merchant. The block diagrams show that the chip's value is loaded from and redeemed to a linked bank account.

So the merchant may not know who you are, but the "trusted agent" surely does, and by extension you are not anonymous to the Mint and the Govt.

But you can use any mint chip you get right? The merchant doesn't get any info from the device so he can't know if it is 'yours'. I guess they could make selling, giving, and losing chips illegal.
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