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Quote from: S3052 on December 05, 2010, 07:48:53 PM

I also think a deadsite switch system is deperately needed to enable bitcoin communicty growth.

I know a couple of people personally who would like to buy bitcoins but are afraid that they lose all in case of a shutdown.

I'll pledge 50 BTC for someone who could enable a working deadsite switch system for mayor excchanges including MtGox, etc..

Time to start a bounty thread, S3052.

bober182: If you're still here and you're still doing "that thing". I suggest you turn around and tell the wikileaks folk that wikileak should stop considering bitcoin for the moment in case that Satoshi's message didn't get through.

Quote from: ribuck on December 05, 2010, 07:13:56 PM

Not a bitcoin bank. You have to trust your bank.

Anybody who the balance on behalf of others, really.

But, you won't be able to authorized withdrawal until the grace period is over.

For example, some kind of server check each site if it is down. If the grace over is period and the site is not backup, a person can then go to the server and authorize release.

Quote from: ribuck on December 05, 2010, 07:03:49 PM

Far out, I just generated twice in the last 24 hours!

So I will increase my pledge to 100 Bitcoins.

Thank you, ribuck.

Quote from: ribuck on December 05, 2010, 06:59:54 PM

You mean a site like MyBitcoin or MtGox?

Hourly backups, encrypted. One half of the decryption key is encrypted with Satoshi's public key, one half with Theymos' public key. Hope that Theymos and Satoshi don't go bad.

We shouldn't rely on trust to do this.

Latest report:

Begun 10 days ago.
Total expense: 4.95 USD
Total pageviews: 93,770
Total clicks: 39
CPM: 0.05 USD
CPC: 0.13 USD
CTR: 0.05%

A "Deadsite Kill Switch" system is frankly a way of refunding balances to owners after a total, complete irreversible shutdown of a website.

All the balance hold by that website operator are automatically refunded. It doesn't matter if the site operator went to jail. There would be no way for anybody to stop the refund of balance.

Anybody want to brainstorm on how to implement this idea?

1. I think a grace period is needed. Let say 15 days. This is so if the site went back up, it would still keep the balance.

----EDIT-----
Uh oh, it should be moved to the Discussion forum.

Quote from: RHorning on December 05, 2010, 06:35:33 PM

There are counter measures, but if you get involved in some of these exchanges, you should be aware of the potential risks. If you have a claim to those coins through the Bitcoin network, this isn't a risk at all at least along those lines and the coins are as safe as the network as a whole.

I incoprorated your excellent countermeasure suggestion.

Alright, we're on a roll!

Bounty rose to 60 BTC.

Keep the pledge coming.

Thank you for the continued baconage. All that bacons are really nice.

I raised 1.4(0.10 which was by me....since I can't download my own artwork for free).

That mean, I get to take home 1.26 BTC, while bencoder have the rest. That mean, I made .20 USD this week at the current exchange value.

Quote from: brucewagner on December 05, 2010, 02:39:23 PM

Wow. Satoshi gets more than "just one vote".... in my opinion.

When he went to all this trouble to create this wonderful project, he deserves a lot of recognition.
Let's not let this issue divide us.

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I propose a win-win solution to this.

Let's form a Wikileaks Support Task Force.... where we brainstorm about ways to help Wikileaks ..... without bringing Bitcoin into the battle (or "war").

You do realize that time spent on helping wikileaks is not time spent on growing bitcoin. I think growing and making bitcoin better is a good use of our time. There are already ton of people helping wikileaks. When the time is right, bitcoin is going to change the world, just as it had changed how bitcoiners view money....forever.

Quote from: Anonymous on December 05, 2010, 12:36:58 PM

I say we prove everyone wrong and do our own thing. Centralisation is a big steaming bag of FAIL.

Yes, yes. This is why I offered a bounty. I encourage everyone to pledge some bitcoins if they aren't capable of doing this project.

Why it is only 40 BTC at this stage is beyond me.

I speeeeeend way too much time on this project.

Anyway, here's what I done.

1. I run everything through the ink pen, which make everything a bit more clear and sharp. Then, I turn up on the brightness and contrast to clean out the grey lines. Not everything is rendered painstakely, but that can easily be arranged when I get around to color and then further cleanup.

2. I finally figured out the multiply mode of the layer. Started coloring the hair with the base color.

3. I redrew the left eyes, digitally. These eyes are now 100% more awesome than the sketch version.

Here's the download...

http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/18 Price: 0.10 BTC.

Quote from: farmer_boy on December 05, 2010, 08:23:15 AM

bober182 doesn't need to have anybody's permission to do anything.

This isn't about a permission issue.

I just want bober182 to be a responsible member of the community. He's going in there, contacting the organization, when it is clear that members of the community don't think it is the best idea. He didn't address any of our concerns. He didn't give us any details what he is planning to do, except putting additional "pressure" which could mean anything from "being pushy" or selling "snake oil".

This is akin to somebody just go in there, with no plans and guns blazing, costing half of his squads and then costing us a war in the long run.

Quote from: bober182 on December 05, 2010, 08:14:50 AM

Its seems all you want is your business to not be taxed that we will be free if we have competition and all that.
This is not an issue of rightwing vs leftwing.
Its an issue of freedom of press and the fact they need a anonymous network of donations.
I bet you don't ever see the oppression around society and decide to go out and do some direct action. Like in the case of the ashvi11e eleven or oscar grant. Instead you want to have more money and create the perfect economy. For revolution we need social change before economic. Wikileaks can be the first step to achieving this against the government. That's why I'm deciding to contact and explain to them the benefits of bitcoin.

This is god awful reasoning that didn't address any of my concerns, or jgarzik, or any others.

We also have no ideas what the heck you're saying to these people.

Quote from: bober182 on December 05, 2010, 07:58:37 AM

With paypal down I'm increasing my pressure upon their board of directors to get a bitcoin address up.

So you decide to ignore the long discussion and just do it?

Listen to people's argument, make a decision, give a reasoned case for what you're going to do, and then do it.

Also, it would be nice if you explain what kind of "pressure" you're doing. You represent the rest of the bitcoiners here, so it's nice to know how bob182 is acting on our behalf.

Quote from: Anonymous on December 05, 2010, 05:23:50 AM

I added bitdns to the ideas page here
http://dot-p2p.org/index.php?title=Ideas#BITDNS

The likelyhood of the idea getting implemented is likely slim to none.

Quote from: Anonymous on December 05, 2010, 05:12:07 AM

As far as I know the argument against using bitcoin is that if you lost your keys to access the domain you would not be able to recover them.

How does bitdns get around that?

A domain name key should be so important that people will backing it up, automatically.

Bold the heading, incorporated one of RHorning's suggestion.