Hmm, might be cool. Can’t register though: Fatal error: Uncaught [42S02] - SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 Table 'mav_bc.users' doesn't exist thrown in /home/mav/public_html/bc.x14.eu/inc/rb.php on line 759

Also, why do you require my email if no activation mail will be sent?

1. Your wallet contains your private keys to all the addresses you generate. Every address contains a certain amount of BTC. If you lose the private key to addresses (old wallet), you will lose the BTC associated with them. There is a standard keypool out of 100, meaning that there are 100 addresses generated already, you just don’t see them in the UI. To be 100% sure, just make encrypted backups and update them everytime you do a transaction.

2. When you make a transaction, it is immediately sent to other nodes and it is validated every block generation, so I don’t see a possibility for this. Either the transaction is sent or it is not.

3. Bitcoins have no serial address or anything like this, they aren’t units. They are just stored in addresses in the system.

4. You mean automatic backups by the client? Not at this point.

Have a look at blockexplorer to understand the system a bit further. Each block contains the history of all transactions since the last block.

The difficulty is determined by the network by analyzing how long it took to generate 2016 blocks. The ideal is 14 days, so if it takes shorter than this, and it usually does, the difficulty will rise accordingly.

Well, actually you don’t even need to ever backup if you only use a single address in your bank, but that would make it less anonymous. As I said, the wallet stores your private keys to the addresses. The keypool has 100 addresses, so that means that if you use 100 addresses, you will have to backup. I would just backup after each transaction to make sure, I guess.

It takes one block to be produced (approximately 10 minutes, but that can vary a lot) and after that, you should be able to see the transaction in your client.

1) You don’t have to use wallet B if you just want to send it to B if you have B’s address. Check out blockexplorer if you want to see transactions without your client. Don’t forget to backup your wallet every time a transaction is done.

2) Right, all transactions are stored in the blocks, so you never have to be online.

3) You can update it however often you want, it doesn’t matter. If you load your wallet and all the blocks, you’ll have what you have been sent.

5) Yes, excactly. The private keys to your public key addresses are stored in the wallet. Once you lose it, you have no chance to get back your bitcoins.

Uhm, what kind of rendering issues? I’m using 0.3.20 on Windows for a while now and haven’t noticed any problems at all.

Is it possible to add German to the Wiki? I’d like to contribute by translating and think that there is demand for it.

Check http://bitcoin.sipa.be/speed-lin.png.

Hahaha. Somehow, I like this idea. ☺

Klar hat man die Möglichkeit, an Bitcoins zu kommen:

1. Durch Umtausch von anderen Währungen (also z.B. BTC für EUR)
2. Durchs Angebot von Dienstleistungen für Bitcoins
3. GPU-Mining

Wenn du am Mining interessiert bist, sieh dich im Mining-Forum um bzw. lies dich im Wiki ein. Natürlich musst du keinen Pool nutzen, sondern kannst auch allein dein Glück versuchen. Würde vorschlagen, du informierst dich erst, wie Mining überhaupt funktioniert.

I’d love to invest in this. Please keep me updated.

Well, the sole reason I wasn’t suspicious is simple: As this thread already had some posts I thought, it would’ve come out if the "application" is malicious. I was wrong to put my trust in this, obviously.

Use any arbitrary combination. It’s just for the miner to communicate with your bitcoin client, so it doesn’t matter as long as they are identical at both places.

I got this error:
19/02/2011 18:10:44, verification failed, check hardware!

What does this mean? Did i find a block and it couldn’t be verified or was it just an attempt? It happened once in almost two hours, and for the first time now.

I made him a proposal. According to his PM, he’ll accept, but the question is when I will get it. The longer he waits, the more attention this will get, I guess.

Still, I always accept donations, see my signature for that.

I’ve learnt my lesson from it, I guess.

The awesome thing is how everyone worked together to get me back my BTCs and make this possible. Thanks to all of you.

What happened here is very interesting because it shows that, even without official instititions, the community itself can possibly identify and punish wrongdoers and refund victims, although it was Tolsi’s stupidity which made this easy.

If you ever want to establish yourself SOME trust in this community, send the 30 BTC back to me, to this particular address: 12EWfVucUxuf2m7tWyoit5UMSVhQZ68yBC

If I happen to get the payment, I will announce that and shut up about it, and people will either forget about it or choose to forgive you.

Do NOT download this. It deletes your wallet and sends it to the developer’s email so he can steal all your BTC.

Seriously, you should be banned forever.

If that’s the case, i apologize for accusing you. Thought it was a bad joke.
Yeah, your calculation shows what difference investing in BTC, as long as it’s not an established currency, will make.
Basically, INVESTING in BTC (mining or gaining BTC any way) is a bonus pyramid scheme added to the value of the currency itself. When the pyramid scheme becomes unprofitable, BTC should be a widely accepted currency. If this is true, failure seems very unlikely to me.

Thanks to ribuck for at least some value. 300 times BTC per year is a lot, actually, but it’s doable if popularity and especially offered services continue to grow.

I hope this "idea" will somehow strengthen our belief in BTC’s value and help to get more people in.

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It’d be like 26,6 according to 146.4m/5.5m at least. I’m confused now because of the 300 times, too.

Your sarcasm is quite inappropriate, I think. It’s not like I haven’t said it’s merely a hint at how much 1 BTC could be worth if Bitcoin is successful.

Measuring it by internet values would be interesting, but I don't know the internet supply rate (best would be USD, of course) at a given time. Maybe someone can help out on that one and find it though.

Maybe it is. Maybe not. The probability of this doesn’t need to be high, as you can easily invest a small amount like a single dollar to profit a lot.

Also, this calculation was just meant as a kind of orientation for Bitcoin’s potential buying power. If Bitcoin succeeds, you’ll be rich, and that’s the idea of investment in my opinion.

You got that wrong. That may be the price, but the buying power would be as high as the factor of said calculation woud be, and that’s what I’m aiming at. I care for what you could BUY with it.

So buying Power simply would be 95k higher if the price is 1:1. Although it’s assumed that the price is 1:0 afterwards, degrading the dollar worthless. I hope people will understand this …