How about locking satoshi's account too ?
We already have, but for unrelated reasons. Are you afraid someone manages to hack into his account (0day exploit in SMF, gueesses pwd, whatevah) and impersonate him? That much should be obvious. If he comes back, he could use his GPG key to sign a message asking for his account to be unlocked. |
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The owner of the .xxx top level domain is planning his own micropayment system Next year, ICM plans to introduce a proprietary micropayment system. This service, Lawley promises, will help blue-chip pornographers fight back against the proliferation of free and pirated smut online. “We’re going to do for adult what Apple (AAPL) did for the music business with the iTunes store,” he predicts. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-21/the-new-republic-of-pornI noticed that too. It's a shame he isn't considering Bitcoin (at least not that we know of). |
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Any news on DGM? I just noticed again today that my payouts sometimes vary between 0.14 BTC (34 min) and 0.01 BTC per round (4 min) with the same hashrate.
This is quite extreme.
Just goes to show some people are NEVER satisfied / content with what they have been given for FREE ... Good job slush. +1 Ahem. 2% or so, not free. May I ask what DGM is?
DGM stands for Double Geometric Mean, and it is a payout scoring method. Other pools that use it already include Ozcoin.net and Eclipsemc.com. It is considered a "fair" payout method in that it cannot be cheated like other methods can be. |
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Some of the Rev3 came with fans on the bottom, too. The difference between the two is that the Rev3 has the heatpipe system.
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P.S. Private security will be present so no fishy business.  Bringing your dog?  |
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Proud owner of 250 mBTC. Saving up for a Casascius Bitcoin
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I hereby grant you one free 1BTC Casascius Coin, shipping included. Simply place an order, confirm it without paying, and then PM me the order number from your forum account so I know I am sending it to you. Welll.. that was easy!  |
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So how do they prevent insurance fraud? Seems simple, cash out, claim hax, and collect insurance. What am I missing?
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+1
Get your own thread, troll. bulanula is allowed to +1, but he isn't? Don't mind them, they are butt-buddies on IRC. |
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Paid a hooker in bitcoin, no longer a virgin... Really and actually? Because if so, that needs to go on the list of firsts.... And I hope you mean an actual hooker, not a cam session. Ahhhh... that was funny, I was just joking around..  Thought that was obvious by the "No longer a virgin" part On these forums, you never can tell who is the virgin and who is bluffing. |
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Thanks for the pointer. I personally wouldn't use that system due to security concerns. The only reason I am okay with entering my ATM PIN into arbitrary POS terminals is that transactions in the traditional banking system are all reversible. Obviously not the case with Bitcoin, so I wouldn't go around giving merchant equipment the ability to sign Bitcoin transactions on my behalf. The transaction needs to be signed by my own device, with no possibility for skimming. A smart card could only meet that requirement if it could be programmed to understand the Bitcoin transaction format and if it had some way of asking the user directly to verify the transaction destination and amount. That would require a pretty advanced smart card, and in turn that would cripple the adoption rate of the technology, probably fatally so. I'm pretty certain that the path forward must be intercompatible with the path forged to date. It must be possible for customers to pay merchants by scanning a QR code using a Bitcoin wallet app on their smartphones or by using an SMS-based wallet service. That means the payment slip from the merchant must include a QR code, or (in the near future) the merchant's NFC-enabled POS terminal must support transmitting a Bitcoin address over NFC. Well, I also have reservations about that other system, but if it can be done properly then I would use it. I think your idea and that could coexist, though. It just has a more limited market share. |
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Paid a hooker in bitcoin, no longer a virgin... Really and actually? Because if so, that needs to go on the list of firsts.... And I hope you mean an actual hooker, not a cam session. |
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There is someone that works in CC processing that might have an inroad, although that would be with any and all machines that take credit cards, not just one manufacturer (from what I understand, it is system-agnostic).
Search around, there's a thread somewhere.
I have seen photos of a mockup/prototype VeriFone POS terminal running software that allows Bitcoin transactions. That's exciting, but, in my opinion, the fact that it is not integrated into the hospitality software will make it too onerous for staff to use in the real world. I believe our best shot of breaking into the mainstream marketplace will be to reduce operational friction to essentially zero for both the merchant and the customer. Sorry, this is the one I was referring to: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88226.0 There are a lot of complex hurdles with that implementation, but isis seems to be confident that what he is developing will be robust enough for POS use almost anywhere. |
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Yeah on the way to elimination is integration. Otherwise it will never leave the cradle due to infant mortality because of small market share and lack of adoption.
There is someone that works in CC processing that might have an inroad, although that would be with any and all machines that take credit cards, not just one manufacturer (from what I understand, it is system-agnostic).
Search around, there's a thread somewhere.
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Mining does not use floating point operations, so that number is unfortunately useless to us. However..... check this out: http://bitcoinma.appspot.com/That calculator will do a past analysis as well as a future analysis. I don't know how accurate it is for that, but it should help immensely. |
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^ Always gives me all his BTC!
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Have you guys forgotten about this?: http://www.ecogex.com/bitcoin/Building a new brand identity requires starting from the ground up, and I think getting rid of the BTC is the first thing to do. (No offense to theymos, who created the nice little forum button for that symbol.) I think the alternate 'Ƀ' is far more desirable because it is less obvious and less likely to confuse with (for instance) the thai baht, and others. |
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^ Eats goat shit and loves it!
I can totally dig this.
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Interesting, they are using ECC crypto for the DNS encryption - similar to what Bitcoin uses for its addresses. Specifically, they mention Curve25519, although I'm not sure how similar the implementations are. |
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WTH... leet?  I figure that's what happens when theymos messes with the templating engine while drunk lol It's always been there, and only shows when someone has 1337 posts. |
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