MtGox could/should also implement Facebook/Google logins.
Good idea. OpenID, in other words. Google even offers two-factor authentication to some of its users (password plus mobile phone confirmation). |
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Some things in life are worth worrying about, but internal numeric representation is not one of them.
LOOOL Grondilu, taken in context it's clear that I'm referring to the psychological aspects of the internal representation, not the technical aspects. |
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I understand it's only an internal representation of the same thing, but there can be subtle but long term psychological effect, especially to those who deal with the APIs.
Many financial libraries deal with whole cents instead of decimal dollars and cents, but there has been no long term psychological effect. Some things in life are worth worrying about, but internal numeric representation is not one of them. |
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...In case sth materially changes...
Heh, while you were composing that, it materially changed! |
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I've been watching the "Asks" coming back, trickling in and gradually bringing the lowest offer back down from 0.95 to 0.64 and still dropping. I guess it will end up close to 0.50 again. I wonder if most of these are automatically or manually generated.
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Or is there a cut-off below which bids aren't displayed?
Yes, there is a cutoff, somewhere around two-thirds of the last trade price. |
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There weren't many coins on offer between 0.51 and 0.95, so I think it's a bit early to break out the parity champagne quite yet.
[edit: if someone buys 691 coins now, it will take the MtGox price up to $1.25]
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MtGox price just shot up to 95 cents (due to a very small volume of coins on offer and, I presume, a determined buyer). We live in interesting times.
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I guess they haven't done any trades yet, because their decimal point is in the wrong place. But if anyone did manage to buy 1000 BTC for $5, do let us know. |
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he may not present ideas and creativity generated by another individual as his own That's an ambitious principle, and I presume you will be true to it in your own work. How will you be crediting all those phrases that were first generated by someone else? For starters, if you use any of the following phrases you'll need to credit William Shakespeare for originally generating them: fool's paradise, foregone conclusion, tower of strength, eye-sore, bated breath, breathe one's last, budge an inch, cold comfort, come full circle, come what may, done to death, elbow room, for goodness sake, good riddance, not slept one wink, into thin air, knock knock ... who's there, laughing-stock, love is blind, my own flesh and blood, neither a borrower nor a lender be, brave new world, one fell swoop, play fast and loose, sorry sight, something in the wind, spotless reputation, be-all and end-all, kill all the lawyers, the game is up, the naked truth, this be madness, throw cold water on it, neither here nor there, too much of a good thing, unkindest cut of all, such stuff as dreams are made on, have seen better days, what's done is done, what's in a name, etc |
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Is there a place where I can see what are the legal boundaries in the UK? Can a policeman detain me and make me miss my flight if I refuse to give my details at the airport? I don't like these growing restrictions.
For sure the police can cause you to miss your flight. The media often report cases where people missed flights due to questioning by the police. I don't know the full details of the situation in the UK, but it's roughly like this: The police can stop you at any time if they "reasonably suspect" that you are carrying a weapon, or are in possession of a controlled substance. If they want to stop you without "reasonable suspicion", they can do so under the Terrorism Act. According to the following link, between 2000 and 2008 the UK police stopped and searched 108,714 people under the Terrorism Act. Of those, the number who were subsequently convicted of a terrorism offence was ... zero. "Student Human Rights Network - Stop and search under the Terrorism Act 2000 http://www.justice.org.uk/jshrn/newyear2010.htm#briefingsstop |
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There is no such thing as "illegal tender" because bartering is legal.
Bartering isn't legal if you're paying with prohibited vegetation. |
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OK, I've finished reading this book. Although it was a struggle, I'm glad I finished it.
The writing style is easy to read, but the content is repetitive and dilute, which meant that my mind kept wandering onto other things while I was reading it. Nevertheless, it was worthwhile.
The best chapter, in my opinion, was the one about the environment and property rights. The author addresses a lot of concepts that are glossed over by other many authors. He analyses who has property interests in clean air, clean water, etc, and how those people interact. Very nicely covered.
Thanks for recommending this book.
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Not mathematicians! Mathematics.
Sure, I did read your description correctly. But for the layperson, the interpretation is likely to be "if something is controlled by mathematics, it's controlled by mathematicians". Not mathematicians! Mathematics.
Bitcoin is a Internet-based currency, controlled by the rules of mathematics instead of greedy bankers.
I still think the layperson is only interested in currency that is controlled by themselves. |
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They've been crossed for a few hours at least.
Sorry, I was only looking at the Euro orders. |
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ribuck makes a valid point why double-precision floating point does not work. To make my own example, if the exact value 3000000.00000001 (about 3M) is stored in a double-precision floating point number, it will be stored as approximately as 3000000.0000000098. Therefore doing any math on this number risks amplifying the rounding error (eg. calculating compounded interest, etc).
Sure that's true, but it's trivially worked around by storing it within the double-precision as 300000000000001 and inserting the decimal when displaying the number. Cute quote, but the embedded world has true integers to work with; JSON-RPC does not. |
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Why has there not been any trading since Jan 23?
Because no-one has been willing to cross the bid-offer spread. |
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Am I missing something here or what ? All I see is a childish drawing. What's going on here ?
Hint: try an XOR with the block chain. |
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...there is no reason to use floating-point rather than a simple int64...
JSON-RPC doesn't support an Integer type. So it's floating-point or string. |
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