Maybe slightly off topic, but I've been thinking about what would involve buying / selling bitcoins from my business. Selling is pretty straightforward, as long as I declare all income I can call bitcoins a "service"

But buying, trading or otherwise producing is slightly more awkward. Paying an individual in exchange for something not physical is not easily justifiable tax wise, and even more so if I wanted to keep the individual 'anonymous' to some extent.

I am not in the US, and as far as I can tell, it would be much easier for me here, but frankly my accountant isn't very helpful in that he does not understand these things all that well, and I suck at explaining them.

Swfuoa? (*)


(*) - Should We Fight Using Only Acronyms?

I don't think so... it will get harder and more spaced, but I'm sure others have experienced the odd block found by the 2MHs machine, just like I do.

Corrupt the blockchain? Is that possible at all? Or you mean extend it in their own branch?

As long as we are using the default client, I don't see how that could hurt any bitcoin user (unless they exploit some bug, of course). If they use massive power and create the longer hash using the last block hard referenced in the default client and growing from there... why don't they just generate the coins to start with?

To control bitcoins, you don't just need to control the hash, you need to control the client as the rules are coded there and it is distributed in a way each client can say 'aye' or 'ney' to any block. If, however, these entities use some social engineering trick to force upon all of us the use of their client (better, cleaner, not so open sourced) and then change the rules under our noses... that's a different story.

New motherboard? Where were you planning on connecting the second ati-card to start with?

Oops, I read it backwards... someone sold 100k bitcoins, thus lowering the price... I guess my point was completely wrong, then, this was just a simple 'cashing out my profits' scenario, though 100k coins is a hefty amount.

looking at mtgox trade data there was one particular trade for exactly 100k coins that brought prices down to .20, and I'm betting that same amount will broken in multiple asks, which will, in the end, serve as a buffer against huge price increases. These radical changes are probably just the market adapting to all new comers than finally feel comfortable enough to put $ in mtgox, knowing they'll be able to cash out the profits.

I'm quite busy right now but this is one thing I actually want to see done sooner than later, so if you pass some good pointers my way, I'll have a look at it as soon as I have a little spare time.

I didn't know I lived in the great republic of "Other"... nice flag though.

McDonalds, probably. It's the one place anyone can get a job, yeah, even if they are *gasp* lawyers.

Do you even go to the grocery store? Because they make money from inflating the price of food, you know. And do you even know what a ponzi sheme is? Hint: it's not buying low and selling high

Well, this has been discussed many times... we need to be able to export / import one specific address key (or key pair? whatever is needed in the wallet).

Having that, printing or typing back or qrcode scanning is a simple issue easily solved.

The problem is actually twofold. We need to be able to import/export but also to move coins to one specific address, and not have them scattered in multiple addresses, at least for this use case.

So much for the innocent child approach

I know we shouldn't feed trolls but I just can't help myself... Macho, do you have any idea how much you sound like some priest preaching to those which are poor in spirit? Next step is to start burning everyone that doesn't agree with you... ouch. Even worse, you sound like a government mandated agent, with your own morale that stands above everyone else's because, well, it serves you "and everyone else" better.

I'm usually on the side of the mild tempered, but I have to side with kiba on this one.

She's ET's youngest offspring, you insensitive clod!

So, Macho, do your statements actually apply here? You talk about rice, which is bought with money to then sell for more money. Controlling the distribution channels by all means possible (probably by owning the production, or at least holding exclusive rights to it) seems like the only way to achieve that.

Now, bitcoins... you can't control production, anyone can produce. You can't hold exclusive rights to distribution, it's p2p. And, frankly, it's not some basic necessity that you can control people with/for. I have bitcoins because I like many of their aspects, and because I'm a geek. I know that there's much more to bitcoins than that, and the speculation is actually making these bitcoins attractive to at least one niche... the speculators, giving me a good leverage on my holdings.

Of course they can make the coins loose all value, or just make them way to expensive for the average joe but... wait a minute, I can put my computer to work and generate these, or I can trade with the people that, like yourself, do not get fooled by speculators and all round "scumbags" that make a profit out of trading bitcoins, pretty much making these more valuable for everyone else, by the way...

Yes, scammers and copycats will come and hurt everyone. Yes, not so honest hyip schemes will appear and steal people out of their coins. That's just a sign that bitcoins are now interesting enough for that to happen and that's positive I guess. And, frankly, where else do you get someone to ask people to invest in their ponzi scheme by calling the thread "just another stupid pyramid scheme"? Honesty to the extreme!

So, in the spirit of disclosure, I developed the lottery site, out of the need to have some excuse to try the bitcoin client in a service environment. I'm not a die hard gambler, I'm more the type that loves to gamble because I'm always thinking about a way to beat the house, and I know I consistently fail. Heck, even when I'm the house I end up loosing money

I think you are crying wolf too soon in the game. This is a small community that actually plays very well with each other. Yes, everyone has their own opinion about pretty much everything and we all have a lot to learn from each other. Your questions are not without a reason, I'm sure, but it sounds like you are being judgmental and, frankly, that usually just backfires.

I'm lucky enough to not have to tinker with windows anymore, but assuming hardware is functioning correctly my first actions would be to check if windows didn't switch users or something. Do a full disk search for files called wallet.dat as you might find more than one

I have no real knowledge on either gift cards or credit card fraud (thankfully ) but I'd assume that you could also ask for the gift card to be bought a few days in advance of the trade (they are dated, right?). Maybe 7 days would be safe to assume a stolen credit card transaction would be disputed...

There is already, rpc method 'backupwallet'.

PM and coins sent.

Unless, of course, you have lots of computing power at your disposal and are planning to use it to overpower the network... that being the case you would try to argue as best you could that the "feature" is really needed, and not really a vulnerability.

... oh, wait ...