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321  Economy / Securities / Re: Question about creating a new fund in Glbse on: September 20, 2012, 12:26:26 PM
Any connection to serverius?
322  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Securing your savings wallet on: September 20, 2012, 12:15:52 PM
Great, thanks for your help. Mind answering a few more questions?
1) is that firewall enough to protect me even if I'm connected and happen to visit a compromised site? Can a script drive by still install something on my system without me knowing and having to allow it?
2) should I update to 12.04 (I don't mind the work if it's somehow better for my bottom line - security)
3) do you happen to know how I can check how much free space is left on the USB, I'm a linux noob and I couldn't find that anywhere?
4) is there a way to trim down Ubuntu and uninstall some tools if I should notice I'm running out of space (I bought two 4Gb sticks specifically for this purpose)?

1)
If you want it to be secure, probably a not good idea not to use this system running just a usb to go to websites that you don't trust 100%.
It's holding your backup/savings wallet, if you want it for dual purposes, use another usb or HD that matters less if it gets comprises. Saying that most such sites infect windows based machines and have no effect on linux ones. That is what the anti-virus is there for, incase you do something stupid, since that is how most virii get on peoples computers.

2)
Yes, I would make sure you install 12.04.

3)
Unless you made your usb partitioned for specific folders, easiest way is to open up any folder, click on it's properties and you can see it's free space just like in windows.

4)
Software Center will allow you to install/uninstall anything you want to. There is plenty of things you don't need, but 4Gb sticks might be too small, unless you get a specifically trimmed down version of 12.04 ubuntu. Personally I would of gone with 8-16Gb sticks, not much can be done now. Btw don't bother with setting any swap space, realistically you system shouldn't have a need to use it, so that will save some space. Think Xubuntu uses up less space than vanilla ubuntu.
323  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Securing your savings wallet on: September 20, 2012, 11:52:59 AM
So I now have a USB stick with ubuntu on it following this guide: http://squarethought.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/bitcoin-on-a-stick-usb/

Would someone be so kind to explain to me how secure this is with a network connection enabled after I exactly followed that guide? Also what are the risks of using either multibit or electrum clients for my savings wallet?

The article is telling how to install and configure a firewall and antivirus for ubuntu so really I'd say it's done a okay job of making sure it's secure atleast from the outside. It's abit outdate since most would install 12.04 now, but it's easy to adapt to that.
Of course the client like electrum you still need to make sure you follow sensible precautions and secure it, lock it, which I kinda remember it bugging me to do.

I prefer Electrum over multibit. I don't know enough about the later to be honest. Thin clients are ideal for those who want to install to a usb, where you don't have the room (or want a lot of writes) for the blockchain, but your private key isn't shared, so no risk there.

http://electrum-desktop.com/
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=100502.0 (electrum thread here)
324  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: BOINC / F@H + FPGAs on: September 20, 2012, 10:34:17 AM
Your biggest hurdle is that most alternative uses that potentially any FPGA can be re-purposed for, often requires a decent amount of fast on board memory to be of much use. None of the ones built for bitcoin needed this fast on-board memory, so were not built with any significant amount of them. So you have to consider that when you look into what it's going to be reused for.

I could be wrong, but projects suggested so far, are kind of memory hogs, how much that hurts it's ability to do it's job I don't know.

My FPGA's will be held onto till these are unaffordable to operate, which should take a while. Even then I will just store them for the day when they might be needed for bitcoin mining again. After all if the hashing algorithm ever changes, these FPGA's can be changed, ASIC's can not. I don't expect it to change any time soon if ever all, after all it would be pretty significant event and cripple all ASIC's in the process, more of a just incase scenario. It will take GPU's a while to get to the same level of energy-efficiency and we all know how quickly bitcoin has advance in 3 years.
325  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Quad XC6SLX150 Board - Initial Price £400/$640/520€ on: September 20, 2012, 10:18:30 AM
@salty @makomk
Code:
cgminer -S "/dev/ttyUSB0" -S "/dev/ttyUSB1" -S "/dev/ttyUSB2" -S "/dev/ttyUSB3" -S "/dev/ttyUSB4" -S "/dev/ttyUSB5" 2>mining.log
Already tried this but didn't work. Even when the list seems properly:

I've never used any " " to reference the usbports, so I assume that would be the problem.
So it's more like:
Code:
cgminer -S /dev/ttyUSB0 -S /dev/ttyUSB1 -S /dev/ttyUSB2 -S /dev/ttyUSB3 -S /dev/ttyUSB4 -S /dev/ttyUSB5
Also it depends on which bitstream you are using to what ports to reference.

Make sure you have issued the modprobe command as well before hand.
Code:
sudo modprobe ftdi-sio product=0x8350 vendor=0x0403

Mak's only uses 2, hashvoodoo uses all 4.
If you need a simple guide on flashing new bitstreams;
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=78239.msg1110647#msg1110647

If you search through this thread, there is a ton of information, just a matter of searching for it.
326  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Create a default contract for share and bond assets on GLBSE on: September 19, 2012, 04:43:28 PM
I don't have much of a legalese background, so I won't try, but I do my best to give my input.
Nearly all assets are quiet simple, they have a price they start at, they say they'll pay a certain % or static dividend.
Most should have some clause for a payback price if something goes wrong.

Two thing I suggest;

1)
I think it will help if all contracts are tied to a system which tracks if the basics are occurring, like dividends being paid out for a set amount or a % of, or customised based on various api figures, at the set interval, daily, weekly, monthly, twice a week etc.

More details need to be given surrounding basis for late payments, non-payments and in the event of stopping the share/bond, the buy back price due to this breach in contract, with time frames and penalties for any/all of them.

Securities can be both fixed dividend amounts and ranges and we have to consider moving to an automated method. Those with a dividend which could vary from 1-2% for example, would either have to make sure it's value is set to something that is valid in the contract before each pay out.

This would make it so GLBSE itself can trigger dividend payouts, instead of it having to be manual trigger. I don't run a security, so to me it has always appeared to be operated manually, rather than on auto. So aslong as their is bitcoins there, it pays out exactly as the contract states it should.

If dividends fail to be paid out, due to lack of funds, it's an automatic flag for notification something is wrong. Then it's upto GLBSE to warn him/her about a potential failure in their contract agreement. No action needs to be taken if it is fixed quickly and is within their terms to allow for penalties to be paid and is. But once outside the timeframe, then action to roll down, moved to the black market should occur, if the owner of the asset doesn't cooperate. What to do after that, I don't have any hard line advice for.

2)
Also it might be a good idea to add something that, if a stock usually pays out dividends out every 168 hours days (7 days), if you bought it less than 42 hours before it pays out dividends, you don't get included in dividend payouts (1/4 of the dividend period). Likewise a daily dividend would require you bought it 6 hours before dividend payout.
This helps the owner of the assets and prevents unnecessary payouts on investments that haven't really had time to be invested.
It would slow down people from doing quick buys and sells just for the dividends. As far as I'm aware this is not in place on GLBSE, but they do use such a system in places like the NYSE for exactly that reason.

I can offer my insight on some of these by my personal experience running an Asset, But the others can also chime in.

Some of the contracts say the do not do timed payouts, I know of one the withholds that right and payouts out ~6 days due to market selling of Assets to pay dividends.

The method your describing on Dividend percentage reminds me of a Ponzi payout. The Divdend on normal assets are Profit of that time period. My profit Depends on my Pool Luck,Mining Costs, and uptime rate(percent of time my rigs are running correctly). Due to pool luck and what pool i use and difficulity, payout method PPS,Pro my dividend will change every week and never been the same.

Share Buyback or Bond Buyback is part of the contract and can not be forced on contracts that do not allow them. But a Asset Default where the asset is sold off and then the share holders are paid a final payment is very common.

The Dividend payout is always manually paid because unless your asset is running with a reserve to help pay out a min payout, the dividend amount will change every week.

What I do is have a public dividend address where the dividend sits for a week before payout. You could have a Dividend Payout Only Address where BTC could be sent for automated Payout as a dividend.

One of the problems is that is Lumps all coins for Sold assets into the Asset Account, and any Dividends are paid into this account.
I transfer all sales of assets payments to an Asset Sales Public Address to allow the public to see how much BTC are coming into the company, in the current setup this is hidden to the share holder.
This helps a little bit in accountability to allow people to follow the bitcoins.

It all depends on how the contract is written in what event does a default happen and what is the procedure to follow.

As for the holding time required before dividend payment, I think my contract says if you hold a share at payment point you will get a dividend. If people want to Dividend trade my asset buying before and selling after that is fine by me.
I think it effects assets more than pay monthly vs weekly.

An asset wouldn't have to pay out fixed, it could have a range and still be valid, that would just have to be stated very clearly in the template contract. I'm sure some of what I suggest won't apply to all assets, it's just ideas, a different view point that what has been said so far.

So if a asset contract thinks it can do between 0.01 and 0.05 a share and pays out between 6 and 8 days, it's still valid as long as it's states that in the system and the asset operator does that.  Also for my 2nd idea it would always go off the 8 days in that example. For ranges, they would have to be pre-set before dividends are paid out or done manually.

For a more complex example, Specifically for mining bonds, I'm sure mathematically you could write one based on difficulty (or price if needed), which is useful for these bonds and shares as it's not unusual will not pay dividends at a flat rate over time, so if your IPO start at 1 and you said you do between 0.91 to 0.02 a week * {diff equation} per share, difficulty rises massively above what you started at, say enough for it to be half the returns, you perfectly within your rights to pay out 0.05 to 0.1 until the price raises.

The point is not to penalise asset operators, it's to ensure dividends are actually clear and could be automated. Some might not choose to do automate it, but it would allow a reportable system in place to work. Nefario and other investors often do not always know something is wrong until it hits the forums.
327  Other / Meta / Re: New administrator: Stefan Thomas on: September 19, 2012, 08:58:09 AM
In another thread you said that database dumps can be downloaded by other admins, but only you, Gavin, Satoshi and Sirius can decrypt them.
What does "direct database access" refer to? Any admin can query the db directly and e.g. dump it and/or read PMs?

It's not about ST being an admin now; it's just a general question which popped up in my mind when I read this announcement.

Global moderators can download the encrypted database backups. Admins and past admins (Gavin, Satoshi, Sirius, me, and now justmoon) can decrypt them -- they therefore have complete access to the database and can read PMs, etc. Justmoon and I can also query the live database.

How many admins do we have on bitcointalk now?

Two. Gavin recently decided to stop being an admin.

Firstly welcome Stefan,
Also does the donate page require an update now? Due to their being a change in the admins.
328  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Create a default contract for share and bond assets on GLBSE on: September 19, 2012, 08:49:46 AM
I don't have much of a legalese background, so I won't try, but I do my best to give my input.
Nearly all assets are quiet simple, they have a price they start at, they say they'll pay a certain % or static dividend.
Most should have some clause for a payback price if something goes wrong.

Two thing I suggest;

1)
I think it will help if all contracts are tied to a system which tracks if the basics are occurring, like dividends being paid out for a set amount or a % of, or customised based on various api figures, at the set interval, daily, weekly, monthly, twice a week etc.

More details need to be given surrounding basis for late payments, non-payments and in the event of stopping the share/bond, the buy back price due to this breach in contract, with time frames and penalties for any/all of them.

Securities can be both fixed dividend amounts and ranges and we have to consider moving to an automated method. Those with a dividend which could vary from 1-2% for example, would either have to make sure it's value is set to something that is valid in the contract before each pay out.

This would make it so GLBSE itself can trigger dividend payouts, instead of it having to be manual trigger. I don't run a security, so to me it has always appeared to be operated manually, rather than on auto. So aslong as their is bitcoins there, it pays out exactly as the contract states it should.

If dividends fail to be paid out, due to lack of funds, it's an automatic flag for notification something is wrong. Then it's upto GLBSE to warn him/her about a potential failure in their contract agreement. No action needs to be taken if it is fixed quickly and is within their terms to allow for penalties to be paid and is. But once outside the timeframe, then action to roll down, moved to the black market should occur, if the owner of the asset doesn't cooperate. What to do after that, I don't have any hard line advice for.

2)
Also it might be a good idea to add something that, if a stock usually pays out dividends out every 168 hours days (7 days), if you bought it less than 42 hours before it pays out dividends, you don't get included in dividend payouts (1/4 of the dividend period). Likewise a daily dividend would require you bought it 6 hours before dividend payout.
This helps the owner of the assets and prevents unnecessary payouts on investments that haven't really had time to be invested.
It would slow down people from doing quick buys and sells just for the dividends. As far as I'm aware this is not in place on GLBSE, but they do use such a system in places like the NYSE for exactly that reason.
329  Economy / Securities / Re: [GLBSE] ASICMINER: Entering the Future of ASIC Mining by Inventing It on: September 19, 2012, 07:57:10 AM
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There are some practical limits. E.g. one target spec is about 1200W-1500W per device, because that's what most US households can deliver per breaker (10A) (probably 1200W to allow for some buffer). Other countries may allow more or less. Dependent on the target customer base (US might not be the majority Wink) that number may have to be scaled.
Above 1.5kW you're looking at custom power supply installations, where usually an expert has to be involved.

Here in Finland it is not unusual to have 16A breakers in ordinary homes to supply simple wall sockets. That, and our higher voltage (230V) makes it possible to use electric appliances up to 2000-2500W without any special arrangements. I don't know about rest of the Europe though.

20amp (230v) breakers are not unusual here in the UK. Unless you have really old electrics, then maybe it's 10-15.
330  Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: Laptop for headless miners??? on: September 19, 2012, 07:40:05 AM
I have an Intel D525 system that I use as a DSL gateway and Wifi access point. It has a small SSD for the OS. It only takes 26watts. So, since someone said that they run FPGAs on them then that would probably make a very good 'head node' for the miners attached to it.

Although I'm not mining via that system, they certainly very good little computers. (MiniITX is so cute)

I also use my atom D525 (ION) as a HTPC with XBMC on ubuntu. So yes it's a good little mini-pc.
When mining it's CPU happy hovers at around 1%, it's barely noticeable that it's needing any processing power.
I use cgminer 2.7.5 if it makes any difference.
331  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: GLBSE 2.0 open for testing on: September 19, 2012, 07:34:46 AM
Black market was a listing I suggested for stocks that clearly broke their contract and are now winding down their operations or have already stopped operating. It's suppose to signify a market no one should be trading these stocks anymore, unless of course to buy-out, or sell them off to the risk takers.

It doesn't list anything that is against their TOS from it's start of operation, but sometimes a ponzi or scam will end up there due the above mentioned reason for this market existing.
332  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Nefario scammed me out of 8BTC on: September 19, 2012, 07:28:54 AM
You've basically admitted the reason behind why legitimately he rejected it.
It wasn't so much your IPO asset he reject, it was you. You refused to fully verify yourself; when creating an asset that is needed.
Stop with the butthurt and realise you don't get special exception just because you talked to the owner first.
You were aware of the rules, he shouldn't need to remind you of something you already know. You can't turn around and blame him for not double double checking and reminding you, knowing he'll reject it based on something you already know is a reason to reject it.
333  Other / Archival / Re: Get FACEBOOK LIKES -- ONLY 0,10 BTC on: September 18, 2012, 03:49:39 PM
Also, for the 2 first to order they only pay 0,05 BTC



I'll bite. Same page as before. PM me the details.
334  Other / Archival / Re: Get FACEBOOK LIKE -- starting at 0,10 BTC on: September 18, 2012, 12:27:23 PM
These prices are pretty pricey..

Think it as seeding your page.
Sometimes just having alot of likes/fans to a page, can encourage more to join.

Bit of a difference in first impressions between 5 likes and 500.
After that yeah I agree it probably won't make a huge difference, unless you want to diversify your reach, which is not guarnteed.
335  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Notice of fee change on GLBSE on: September 18, 2012, 11:32:51 AM
Can't blame you for making this change. It's reasonable without making it unrealistic.
If it stops just a few junk assets from ending up there I'll see it as a good thing.
336  Other / Archival / Re: Get FACEBOOK LIKE -- starting at 0,10 BTC on: September 18, 2012, 11:19:22 AM
New client free offer : Lethos.
The service has just started for you lethos Smiley

One last free slot.

Now upto 736 Fans. They definitely look like all new fans, since of course as the lead developer, I've recognise my beta testers quiet well now.

Thanks n00dle.
337  Bitcoin / Hardware / Re: Bounty[PAID OUT] : a bitstream for better utilizing the Cairnsmore1 157-294.5btc on: September 18, 2012, 09:05:28 AM
Will this bitstream also work with the "classic" Icarus Boards ?

From what I can tell, they used the bitstream which was originally used for them as a base and modified it for the specific needs of this board.
So no it wouldn't work any more.
338  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [1900 GH/s] EMC: 0 Fee/PPS/DGM/Merged Mining/Dwolla Payout/SMS/Yubikey/More on: September 18, 2012, 07:23:54 AM
That is easy to explain: Variance.

It was the same answer, last time it was asked.
339  Other / Meta / Re: Forgot my hush mail password on: September 17, 2012, 09:05:48 PM
Depending on your browser you use the password manager for might let you view saved passwords. It be somewhere in the settings - advance or settings - security.

Most people reuse their passwords, so it might help remind you of what it could be even if you didn't save you password for that particular site.
340  Other / Archival / Re: Get FACEBOOK LIKE -- starting at 0,10 BTC on: September 17, 2012, 08:06:38 PM


If you want to send some free likes my way, I won't say no to abit more to my FB beta game.
https://www.facebook.com/Battlelords.of.the.23rd.Century
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