It's bad for business, but it's not surprising. Magical Tux runs KalyHost and Mtgox. He's been busy.

He should really get someone to answer email even if it has to say "We'll get back to you asap" on questions a new guy can't answer.

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You are doing it wrong. You should try to buy coins from them. Then they'll be like "wtf, I need to get some of these coins asap."

I admit I had some bids below $9.

Someone was caught off guard, but it wasn't the 'elders'.


Yeah, leaving tens of coins in an unencrypted wallet would be fucking stupid.

I have a desire.

Smallish Bitcoin logo and the words "unauthorized dealer". I'm thinking dark grey shirt, lighter grey letters.

Once you guys figure this out let me know if calculus and number theory are compatible with morality too.

Only their donations are tied (with proper caution) to them and how could you get donations without tying in your rep?

It's every 5 minutes right now, I don't know why he couldn't speed that up if there was demand. You just use the mail for deposits iiuc.

A lot of us are 0% at MtGox for a month now, pretty much every active trader there would be I assume. Miners who just place sells wouldn't be I guess.

Not going for me either. Maybe he took a break because he didn't think MtGox was actually coming back, lol.

Cool idea. I'm about 4k, we should play a game some time. Maybe play no handicap and bet a few cents to punish me for not studying Joseki.

 
Thanks!


Our site makes it easy, and it's the only one right now, but our site is not required. The rule we follow is simple and the only database you need is the block chain. It could be bad if we were compromised and people didn't realize and were tricked into sending incorrectly, but when discovered people can switch to a copycat, I hope there will be many using the exact same rule to avoid confusion.


This is a good idea. We're not going to do it yet though, working on other things and like you say, resource considerations. If anyone wants to put it together themselves they can use our api to test and then maybe we can help make sure you get the exact same rule implemented easily.

 
I'm thinking on this. Will probably go with a warning that there has recently been a split. The simple fact that your address is recent shouldn't cause alarm and so the warning will be ignored.


Yep, not going to clutter it up. Feel free to test out our firstbits.

A wallet makes new keys, but never gets rid of old ones. If you don't see the address the coin was sent to in your address book then you have the wrong wallet file. If you moved the old wallet file when you backed it up a new one was created in it's place and you need to put the original back.

Did you put the address into blockexplorer.com to see if the transaction actually happened?

There is room for 1.8 billion that have 6 chars after the '1' and 63.6 billion that have 7 chars. I think a mix of letters and numbers is not much harder than a phone number and people used to store dozens of those in their heads.

Like others said. The beauty of this is the the first will always be first so you don't have to worry about other matching later, they will have the longer firstbits.

Ah, sorry, that should have been said. Ties in a block are by tx ID.

Uh huh, it was all a big scheme to sell gold coins for a dollar. 

Thanks! Glad you like it.

Making addresses shorter online is cool, but has anyone had a chance to use it in the real world? I've memorized a few of mine and now I'm just waiting for someone to offer me bitcoins on the street 

What's interesting to me is that a receiver can add a fee by making a tx that is dependent on the unconfirmed one that has a fee. Any miner who wants it has to include the dependent tx.