I just found this thread, and I was excited about this when I read about it, but now to find out that it is using the "foundation" name to either sound legit or to be a local chapter disappoints me. As a New Yorker who lives near this area and would have loved to spend a couple days a week in their learning, teaching and just working on new bitcoin stuff. I would have also donated my skills, time and money. The foundation is a horrible organization that just wants to hire scammers to lead it's anti-openness of information, so to be allow myself to be affiliated with such corruption, I just can't. This is a real shame, and I am probably more upset about this. I really hope this place would consider not using the foundation name to promote, or even work alongside it.

Before you write this off, as a troll or something of that sort, remember I been here for over a year, been in bitcoins over 2yrs, I know what I am talking about, and I would have loved to help in anyway.

When I try to enable dropbox it spits this out.

Remember the blockchain is always growing, when Znort wrote this a while ago it was like 7 or 8gb now it is 14 or 15gb that is a lot to parse and keep in memory. So you don't need more memory it is just a lot of data.

A) Yes their is a huge reason! To relay transaction thru the network, without full nodes the security and health of the network would be greatly hurt!

B) They can't estimate but they can show you the information about the peers they are connected too. Which is what they are trying to do, is get connected to every peer which is very hard probably impossible.

Yes pools would be invisible you wouldn't know what is a pool node from a regular bitcoin full node.

A) No, cause you don't have to mine if your running the node, plus we have pools so that skews the data.

B) The data their is only from FULL NODES connected to http://getaddr.bitnodes.io/'s node.

Probably certificate issue and heroku is very famous for this. This is for sure not a hack, and I can tell you after watching many videos with coinbase's CEO he takes the toughest security processes from cold wallets storage with m-n scattered throughout the world.

1) Which algorithm bitcoin uses a couple?

2) Exactly that isn't exact science but that is what it is suppose to be happening, sometimes it takes a little longer or sometimes more blocks are produced in a short period of time.

3) https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty

4) We are currently a little more than half way.

5) Cause the code and nodes all have to agree to change that.

6) Cause the code and nodes all agree not to allow more than 21 million.

Yeah they told me for a license they wanted $4000 up front and 10% of my revenue so yeah, building this on my own is so much better.

Some really cool updates and some bad news. Bad news first I really wanted to launch this site for january 1st obviously didn't do that. So for the good news, for the next week or two I will be putting my head down and just finishing this thing. It is pretty much done, just that their are some bugs that cause weird things to happen and the poker server crashes. I did allow some selected people to play on the site (just my dev server, using a service to forward it to the public, so it can't hold a full on beta test) they enjoyed it and really had fun.

Now for some FAQ questions answered that are either pmed or emailed to me.
Q: Is this just poker mavens software packaged again?
A: No diss to the other poker sites, but poker mavens software is great for a small home table game, this will be all custom. I am looking to give people a better experience. Like I wanted but was unable to find. I am on a mac so downloading software was always just for windows, and poker mavens is a horrible interface. I am aiming to make this easy to use and easy to setup for future people using this.

Q: Will this be open sourced?
A: At some point the client will be opened sourced so people can hack on it, make it bigger and better. Then the server, but this is very far down the road.

Q: Can people apply for the license to run their own instance of this software?
A: Yes, and people have already just understand that there's currently no price set and this could take around 6 months to get it to that point.

Q: Can you give us a framework of how the software operates?
A: The client and site use php, with jquery to make it real time of what games are open and tables are running and tournaments that are about to begin. It has a custom written java websocket server that is the middle man for all the games. I view the client as just a portal to the game, it doesn't do any heavy lifting.

Q: Are you working on this to be provably fair?
A: Yes! I want this to be the first poker site to be provably fair, is this going to happen in the first release no, but I already have a design for it.

Q: What will be the rake?
A: Rakes haven't been set yet, but they will be low, this venture isn't really out to make a lot of money. It is just that I can't find good poker software. I do have a time length that I want this site to be breaking even, and pay for it's own servers but that is my job and I know how to do that .

Q: Were you contacted by another poker site in Las Vegas, that was interested in bitcoins? << Not a real question that I was asked. Just news I threw in
A: Yes I was, they saw my post and actually had a meeting with me, and I was able to demo it. I explained bitcoins to them they were interested, we also talked about other players in the space. They unfortunately due to the legal grey area didn't really want to endorse what I am doing, but were interested in bitcoins. I had an amazing talk about how bitcoin can really change the shape of poker and bankrolling.

So that is the end of this bit of news. Remember follow the twitter by going to http://dryaces.com

No issues, 100k addresses are nothing compare to most sites and people. So don't worry.

I got this same email of course I didn't click it.

Yeah I agree NY is hard to get anything done in the regulatory but someone has to have the connections.

For anyone else that was looking for it, here is the FB page https://www.facebook.com/NYCBitcoin

If the NYC Bitcoin Center people find this post some how... Please make a site, I will even donate my skills as a programmer to build for you. I don't use Facebook for obviously reason and your website redirects to it!

Second people get the word out about this! I am up on a lot of current bitcoin news and this slipped past me, also by the pictures it doesn't look like it got out to many people! I am stealing a quote from Charlie Sherm (well paraphrasing his ideas) NYC is on the front lines of banks and wall street, exactly what sectors that leaded to the birth of bitcoins. This Center should be in every bitcoin forum, every bitcoin news outlet, just everywhere. It is over 9 days and I am just finding out about this now!

Also it be nice to see who is involved with this?

P.S.S Please don't be like the foundation, be open embrace everyone and sharing of information!

Sorry for this crazy post but I am just super excited about these things!

Link to this wall street startup? I haven't heard about this.

I knew the banking partners shut them down, but seriously Winklevoss twins don't have pull to get them into a bank? WOW

These rumors their would be no links to back them up I am guessing?

We have a few hosting companies, coinsetter, and now defunct bitinstant. I am really surprised that more and more startups aren't popping up in NY.

I just visited their site and I wanted to see if it had any updates but it is blank...

Kinda sad, I used to use bitinstant a lot to cash out was hoping they come back.

You should keep track of people that ask about bitcoins I be interested in that data just curious.

I would point them to coinbase, which isn't an exchange. But I have a feeling coinsetter which is in private beta will be the USA exchange that will blow the doors off exchanges, they are trying to raise ~$1 million in VC.

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/-coinsetter-files-to-raise-1-5m-ea5bAJABT7G8PZqtkXyGxA.html

Wait so you are jealous cause someone came up with a good idea and sold it for a profit? LMAO glad you don't control many bitcoins cause jealousy is a horrible trait to have. Also Satoshidice has brought much press in the early days. Plus Erik is an amazing entrepreneur, he has a couple great ideas. Coinapult and feedzebirds are doing great things in the bitcoin community.

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