A Firefox plugin would be a great product if it worked without the Bitcoin server serving the JSON requests in the background. That would require some way to make it communicate with the Bitcoin network, but I don't know if Firefox plugins can do that. Maybe if Bitcoin nodes could communicate via XML- or JSON-RPC?

A good Firefox plugin would make Bitcoin a lot more attractive for the less-tech-savvy folks and perhaps more practical for everyone who handles small btc amounts.

Payment links could be done without a browser plugin, using a specific URI as proposed in this thread.

Irc statistics would be interesting indeed. Lately there's been around 100 users online at any time. A few months ago it was like 30.

Awesome! I'll add a "Trade" page on the bitcoin.org main site, where we can list btc-accepting services.

Which one would you use for buying or selling BTC internationally? Do you have experience using some of these? Any other good suggestions? PayPal etc. would be great, but they can't be used for a bigger scale exchange because of their usage policies.

I'd like to hear about Link2Voip's payment method distribution if possible

Do you think we should have more forum sections here, such as trading / economy, development or something else? Or is it fine with the current division?

I'm sorry Link2Voip, but I think I'll be dropping Pecunix off the list. It's way safer, easier and less expensive to store my assets in the bank. I'll send you another PM so we can sort out your transaction.

Changed.


Simple, lightweight, took less than a minute to install, pages saved as .txt files. Do you think MediaWiki or something else would be better?

Here's a pic that hopefully helps to explain the calculation of my exchange rate. The €-value of a Bitcoin transaction is the area under the exchange rate curve between points P1 and P2 on the x-axis, where P1 is my BTC reserves before the transaction, and P2 after the transaction. When you sell 10000 BTC and buy them back before someone else does, the spread (my profit margin) is always about 2%.

Oh, my exchange service got publicity. Maybe I should have posted here myself before I talked about it in the IRC, to let people know what it's about.


Sorry, I wasn't prepared for Pecunix transactions yet (as it reads on the page also). I'll need to get some Pecunix currency first. I'll send you a PM about your transaction.

However, automated SMS purchases of Bitcoin work already. You should get your coins in a few seconds after the payment. Go ahead and try it

I'll tell more about my service later, need to go now.

Sirius delivers: http://bitcoin.org/wiki/

I'll add a link onto the main page when we have some content.

If the network grows very large and that makes it difficult to get your transaction into a block for free, you can make it happen faster by paying a small transaction fee to the node that puts your transaction into the block chain. Bitcoin supports this functionality.

That's great to hear! I'm in the process of getting my exchange service up, so maybe we can co-operate in the future.

A question to Satoshi: have you tested the program with thousands of own addresses in the wallet? If I make a new address for each automated transaction, it's going to be a big amount. Or maybe I could reuse the addresses, given a big enough pool.

Well, you could just install python-json-rpc (http://json-rpc.org/wiki/python-json-rpc) and do:


Returns a python dict. It's that easy

It's not related to our project. Apparently it's some company called Bitcoin Ltd. The page has been saying "alpha test coming soon" since the last summer at least.

Can you make a another version of that with the new Bitcoin logo? I'll pay you in BC of course.

Lately I've had a lot of other things I need to work on, so it's been a delay with this project. I hope to get this done soon anyway.

I decided to take the second option, I'll be working on it.

The 64bit version memory leak is fixed now, so you can notice the successful Bitcoin integration on the statistics page.

I don't think using a private currency is illegal anywhere outside some banana republics. Liberty Dollar users haven't been prosecuted. As I've understood, Liberty Dollar was shut down because it could be allegedly mistaken for the US Dollar.

With the current model I need to take received orders into account when calculating the price, because otherwise the customer would have an incentive to make ten orders of 1,000 btc instead of one order of 10,000btc. For example, with my pricing 1,000 btc might cost 1€ but 10,000 btc would cost 11€ which is more than 10 * 1€.


That would be like the second option but without the choice to set a min/max price. It's true that I need to emphasize that only the current spot price is shown.