I swear I've seen this somewhere else before. I think he ripped it off.

.001 is a millicoin (millie)
.000001 is a microcoin (mike)
.00000001 is a nugget

10^-8
ten to the negative 8th power
ten to the neg eight
neg eight
negate
"Gimme those negates"
hmm, nuggets?
"Eighteen nuggets for a beer? Outrageous"

No. Well, it's less susceptible to be written over from the beginning, but that doesn't matter. Any real attack will work off of a recent block so current power is all that matters.

This is why clones are silly. Unless something way better comes out (and then we'd all rationally port to it) it makes sense (from an individual and group point of view) for everyone to join the strongest network.

http://www.godaddy.com/gift/gift-cards.aspx

I'll pay 7BTC for a $70 card. Offer good for a few hours. PM me to commit and get email.

You send first, payment when I get the card. Need a little rep, no brand newbies please, sorry.

Yes, every 210000 blocks the reward halves (rounding down when needed) until it is literally nothing in 140 years. Imo it is the only way for this tank not to leak value and thus be a worthy place to store value at all.

It is technically okay to have unconfirmed inputs, old versions allowed this from the GUI. The newer ones don't. I can't remember the exact justification.

If you want to get credit you get a new address generated just for you by PMing theymos.

I agree, the fix/workaround for dealing with a Malicious Power would just get worse and worse if they kept the power. And if they ever got it I do think legit mining power would drop as you say.


Obviously a price increase adds strength, but it isn't the only way. Profit motivated individuals will innovate and find more and more efficient ways to get the reward getting us more bang for the buck. Some innovations will be copy-able by Malicious Powers, but some will not, like masses of people in cold climates getting nearly free mining electricity because they would pay for the heat anyway and people putting "owned for other reasons" hardware to work mining when idle. That just means there is some extra (probably growing) multiple of cost for the attacker compared to the costs of honest miners.

We decided to strip case sensitivity because it is much easier to say your firstbits if you don't have to say "one, capital t, lowercase r, seven, capital f, capital z" but only, "one, t, seven, f, z".

We keep the "1" for the same reason complete addresses have the "1". It lets you know what the string is. Also if people started using firstbits for namecoin or some other chain it could get confusing.

It seems to me that time would be better spent making it newsworthy than pestering reporters for attention. Get something interesting going on, get a list of people to notify, notify them.

Lol, yeah, things that no one wants to keep are super valuable.

Lol, I just mean that online it's easy enough to copy paste a full address. IRL you lose that ability, but firstbits comes to the rescue.

It's true, but I got it done anyway. Cents sent.

I'd love to hear about anyone using firstbits in the 'real' world.

Plan:

Get $110,000
Send to MtGox
Place huge buy order
Pray it doesn't get bought

Profit?

Yes! This is great news. I'll finally be able to get them all.

So you expect that people will bring them to the exchange of my preference and sell them to me for exactly $0.00? Or should I budget a few bucks to get my millions? Please inform.

Add the Bitcoin "B"? Dunno how that would look. Are colored names, for moderators and donors, a possibility? Not just in the "who's online", but on the side too?

Easy to run in Ubuntu? If so mark me down.

Oh, I have graphics issues. Eff it, too cheap to pass. PM coming.

I'll give you a coin if you take a video of lighting some things on fire from >10 feet away. It does that, right?

Eight months for you to get it?!?! was it carried by a team of ants?

Why did you want it and now don't?

So 10 gets green now?