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721  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: I lost my job, because of bitcoins! on: December 03, 2012, 11:38:56 PM
Do you have your own car? Did you have regular customers? Bitcoin Mobile imo.
722  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Help Support bitcointip (at reddit) on: December 03, 2012, 11:26:21 PM
I don't see too many people getting annoyed there.  Mostly just people asking questions about it (isn't that a good thing?).

Certainly, having a +tip in every thread on every reddit would be a bit much, but I don't see the problem with giving decent-sized tips sparingly here and there.

Neither do I, I didn't look. I was responding to the argument only. Not all exposure is good. And imo associating with low rent spam tactics is worse than being know as the Currency of Evil TM
723  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Help Support bitcointip (at reddit) on: December 03, 2012, 11:08:35 PM
Emails are free!! Write to everyone and someone will be interested for sure!

It doesn't matter that one guy in 4900 will click a link before not caring anymore, the other 4899 subtly think bitcoin = adult diapers = viagra = free credit repoting

If you care, don't be annoying.
724  Economy / Gambling / Re: The Biggest Fish - cooperative gambling game! on: December 03, 2012, 09:25:20 PM
Usually when you do a bet on satoshidice, you have to type, then click submit,
then click sumbit for fee. Like three steps.

Yes, it would be almost impossible for someone to accidentally make a bet on SatoshiDice wouldn't it...

What! Um, Either I am super lucky, or I don't know what.

I was going to cash out my remaining balance to Canadian bitcoin exchange.
I copied and paste in the address pressing ctrl+c and so on the site.
And I rushed to clicking sent, and submit.

But I realized that in my paste history, it had 50% Satoshidice,
OMFG?! Is this the second time I messed up? It appears
the ctrl+c function failed, or I didn't click it properly.
It happened in the past, only a few times though in the following year.
Perhaps a glitch, error, i don't know what.

Lesson learned, don't make bitcoin transactions when its 4 am in the morning,
and your 1/2 asleep.

But Ironically. I won.
And now I have 46 BTC, + have bought the graphic card of 7970.

rofl, SD should require photo ID and a notarized intent-to-bet form mailed in.
725  Other / Off-topic / Re: Post your area of residence? on: December 03, 2012, 09:45:14 AM
localbitcoins.com better than a thread.

Also there is the meet up sub-forum.

Good call on the voluntary aspect. You'd have hella enforcement costs otherwise ;-)
726  Economy / Gambling / Re: mem's BITCOIN GAMBLING LIST on: December 03, 2012, 09:30:35 AM
added thanks for filling in the template Smiley
Is your game provably fair ?

One of the next updates the developers are working on is pre-selecting the winning values for the lotteries and publishing a hash of those values, which will make the lottery games provably fair.  As I stated before, we unfortunately can't do this for the raffles as we don't know before the game closes how many raffle tickets are sold, which determines the selection process.

One other thing, per our FAQ, we use a neutral third party for our RNG which provides true random numbers to our game.

I might misunderstand, but if you are pre-selecting the winning value doesn't that mean you know it and could play it?
727  Economy / Digital goods / Re: BitShop - digital bitcoin shop script [PHP/MYSQL] on: December 03, 2012, 09:27:16 AM
Looks cool.

Given that $10 is kind of arbitrary and you don't have any marginal costs to speak of it seems like a good time to denominate in BTC directly. The payer won't need to wonder or ask which exchange's rate to look at and you won't have to examine the timestamp and look up exchange data to see if they are short or over.

You could adjust the price if it moves too far from where you want in terms of value, but I'd say that when there is more total value held in coins (high price) the shop code is worth more and less when less. So you might even just pick one BTC price for all time.

Anyway, hope it sells a bunch for you.
728  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: [ANN] Get The Humble THQ Bundle with Bitcoin on: December 03, 2012, 09:14:13 AM

I was actually wondering about a 'pass-through' type bitcoin donation system like this ... it seems like there are quite a few organisations out there that could benefit from such a pass-thru donation service like this, i.e. someone wants to donate to EFF, Wikileaks, Humble Bundle, etc who do not as yet accept bitcoins then you pass along btc donations to the orgs ... and all those people who prefer to use (only have access to) btc but not paypal, bank acct., credit card can use the pass-thru.


BitPay is doing this for wikipedia. At first I was a little annoyed partly for Vit's reason, but now I like the idea. Each extra thing you can makes the coins more useful to people and thus more valuable. Sure it would be a better PR boost if they took it directly, but that wasn't really about to happen anyway.

And later, when there are even more uses for coins these places that are only getting old money from pass-throughs will have need for coins and want to get them directly instead of hassling to buy them.
729  Economy / Web Wallets / Re: Blockchain.info - Bitcoin Block explorer & Currency Statistics on: December 03, 2012, 07:43:55 AM
It came through. It must auto-re-broadcast.
730  Economy / Web Wallets / Re: Blockchain.info - Bitcoin Block explorer & Currency Statistics on: December 03, 2012, 06:55:30 AM
This transaction was sent via blockchain wallet and seems to have been poorly broadcast.

http://blockchain.info/tx/ed8d5df4272aaaff31847a2e50f408ba9759b7c5c1a075020377180a4a9a20f5

Does that happen sometimes? Will it automatically be re-broadcast at some point?

731  Economy / Speculation / Re: Stable Bitcoin Values = Good For Bitcoin. Value Increases / Decreases = bad on: December 02, 2012, 11:06:20 AM
People place single wagers for more than all the bitcoins is existence were worth in 2010. Up is the only way for growth and for there to be millions of successful bitcoin businesses.

Stable is better than down though. And a smooth ride up is better than bumpy.
732  Economy / Gambling / Re: The Biggest Fish - cooperative gambling game! on: December 02, 2012, 10:43:00 AM
It is kind of a 'sloppy' interface, but it is appropriate for this game imo. You were trying to get away but you bumped into a fish, whoops. The money you have in a fish is always at risk anyway. If you hover, the tooltip will come up and if you click then I think it means you are safe.

True, But I was going to cash out immediately, I wanted to take out 0.214, but I didn't want to click it.
Its like I am going to press cash out on the slot machine, and there is a small green circle for cash out,
and  big red buttons circle around the green button. I have to be very careful to not press a red button.
And if I do opps I lose everything. Far as I know slot machines, and many other sites, make sure this
is extremely easy process.


The odds of my fish happen to be decided to be eaten upon within 5 secs of wanting to withdrawal we are taking millions to one?


Wait, I'm confused. I was thinking cashout was on the octopus, but it's actually a link down at the bottom.
733  Economy / Gambling / Re: The Biggest Fish - cooperative gambling game! on: December 02, 2012, 08:45:15 AM
It is kind of a 'sloppy' interface, but it is appropriate for this game imo. You were trying to get away but you bumped into a fish, whoops. The money you have in a fish is always at risk anyway. If you hover, the tooltip will come up and if you click then I think it means you are safe.
734  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How do we deal with an internet blackout? on: December 02, 2012, 06:35:34 AM
My bitcoin? What would I do with my day and my life? Walk around and look for berries I guess, maybe fashion a slingshot and take out the fattest squirrels.

735  Economy / Gambling / Re: SealsWithClubs.eu | Largest Bitcoin Poker Site | No Banking | Fast Cashouts on: December 02, 2012, 12:24:19 AM
We had 60 players even in the Saturday 5BTC Guarantee.

November is over, GUILTY tops the chart again. The top 50 krillers are registered for their freeroll(s), all you've got to do is show up tomorrow at 4pm ET (and 9pm ET for the top 10).
736  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Should We Have A Crash Test Day On The Testnet? on: December 01, 2012, 10:41:56 AM
I think if we purposefully try to crash / break the bitcoin testnet network via as much attacks as we can, and see how the network reacts, we could learn a lot of valuable information on how to secure the bitcoin network against attacks.

Seems like doing a bunch of stuff at once would not be the way to learn what broke it. If you have any ideas give it a try.
737  Economy / Economics / Re: USD is backed by the fact that IRS only accepts it for taxes... on: December 01, 2012, 10:40:42 AM
Another aspect not mentioned so far is that one of the purposes of taxation is to reduce the purchasing power of producers so as to leave some real goods for the government sector to claim.

In Economics 101 there is often a baker who produces 100 loaves of bread every day. If the baker exchanges those 100 loaves for other goods or money and pays no taxes all the benefit of their labour goes to them. There are no 'spare' loaves to be claimed by the government sector.

By imposing, say, a 10% 'loaf tax' the baker can only consume/ exchange 90 loaves of value every day. The other 10 real loaves are then a surplus that the Loaf Tax Collector can pick up every morning and redistribute as they like. Whether the loaves are handed over directly or a fiat amount corresponding to their value is taken does not matter.

Government does not actually need tax revenue (it could burn all taxes collected and simply print more) but it needs to prevent producers consuming 100% of the fruits of their labour or there are no spare real goods for them to claim.

They don't need to tax to do that. If they get people using a money they can make then they can just buy what they want, stopping others from consuming it. Taxing takes the pressure off of the currency.
738  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Transaction volume vs exchange volume on: December 01, 2012, 06:31:31 AM
I don't even know where to begin.

Change as mentioned is a huge factor. It would be like calling my buying gun with a twenty dollar bill 20 dollars worth of activity.

Also some large unknown amount of those transactions are from a person to themselves. It would be like counting me putting money in my wallet (and returning it to my safe later) as double the amount of money that I DIDN'T spend.

Some of those transactions are actually currency exchanges that you don't see because they happened in a local coffee shop.

In order for that many coins to be sold there would have to be an equal number of buyers and you can't tell what the price would do. Probably in order to get a tiny fraction of that many coins away from their owners (who have either recently acquired them or have declined selling them for a long time) you would need to offer some higher price than is currently on offer, who knows how high.

The fact that tons of coins are being used shows that people have plenty of stuff to do with them and aren't going to try to divest en mass.

739  Bitcoin / Mining speculation / Re: 25BTC reward but.. no drop in hash rate! on: December 01, 2012, 03:55:30 AM
I think the hashrate will be below 20 Thash within a week. Where will we be within 3 weeks?

I bet it will dip below 20 but be above that in 3 weeks. A slight price increase and a slight difficulty drop will go a long way imo.
740  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Will Satoshi achieve the immortality of Shakespeare? on: December 01, 2012, 02:36:13 AM
Bigger than Jesus.

Jesus has the whole world in his hands so by definition, no.
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