Now try to make a hat out of Bitcoins

I have mentioned this personally, as others before and after: We need to be able to import private keys into the running bitcoin process. This way you have your own bitcoin process, your wallet already there. You import the keys and the coins are yours. This does nothing to prevent double spending, of course, but make it really simple to transfer coins physically using usb keys or emails or whatever.

To prevent double spending, the import method would automatically transfer the coins in that key to a new bitcoin address from your pool. If it confirms, good, if not someone scammed someone, and you'll be playing the role of the latter

Well, yeah, the way society is wired now... but you should be able to not follow law, assuming you don't break it, so here it should be unlawful to entice minors to gamble, but if they do, well, tough.
But we don't put responsability in people, which is why we have laws and courts. We just don't trust people's good will or common sense. Yeah, some are crooks, but why do we all live under the assumption we are crooks?

while we're on politics, why not touch religion? Do god fearing people really need a priest saying they should not steal? C'mon! isn't that just common sense? No, because if they do steal there's a punishment. So stealing is not something one shouldn't do, but rather something you pay for if you do... as most good things are.

It's the fact that it is law, and that people thing that's just what it is "in everyone's best interest" that puzzles me. I don't want to break the law, I don't have an issue with having the notice, it's the fact that people feel the notice is needed that shows the current state of afairs

Yes please! But I can't wait... cannot hold it any longer...

What do warnings do for the user? Absolutely nothing! "No, officer, I didn't see the NO STEALING sign, or I wouldn't have gone for the cash register".
What do warnings do anyway? They serve as 'insurance' for those who don't want to take responsibility, like parents. Yes, I caught my son watching porn and the damn site didn't have a 18 year + warning, or I'm sure he wouldn't have clicked on it... ?

It's very late, I might have failed to express my feelings on this, but any kind of censorship is bad, disguise it as you wish. And I know, terrorists, child porn, you name your excuse for controlling everything and everyone, but I just feel that the flip side of the current censorship and control situation is much worse than what they say they want to avoid And you fill in the 'they' placeholders with whatever form of government you have where you live, it's pretty much all the same everywhere.

There, I said it, now off to bed.

Yeah, I'm already running multiple processes, but not one per client, rather one per service. It's not practical at all, keeping the ports under control, had to create bitcoind wrappers for each one of these or it was total hell.

I just don't see this scaling to one process per client, even if you don't have a huge number of clients.

I can translate. Just post or PM and I'll have it in English for all.

I have decided long ago against automatic transfer, as a simple software bug could get me in a tight corner, and this system allows me to have a buffer of control. Still, if enough interest exists in this, I can add the option.

What humans are you talking about? We have had to struggle throughout the generations, sure, for survival, yes. But don't confuse that with being 'evil'. Societies have always struggled to keep their keens safe, and while the concept of 'society' is a little too wide, and may mean the world, a country, a town or a home, the basic thing here is that all the 'evil doing' that is hardwired on our DNAs is actually just survival instinct.

We have, however, learned to be self conscious of our belongings to a point we not only have no desire to share them, but we actually want to take everyone elses. But this is a new thing, a taught thing, not hardwired in any way, in my opinion. I hold no degree in evolutionary theories, and I pride myself of being very much unaware of all that goes around in the world as a whole, but I do know that if it wasn't for the 'bottom line' people would do their best to have their surroundings prosper, as that would make them prosper too, and it has been that way for a long time, but somehow, with democracy as a form of control, laws that are not chosen nor vetoed by the people, currencies that serve no purpose but to control wealth and monitor habits, it just got lost along the way.

Now, having said all that I must add that I don't have a viable alternative, hence I don't 'struggle the system'. I live in my own system as much as I possibly can, and feel very good about it. Bitcoins were a wonderful addition to said personal system, along with all the new knowledge I've been acquiring on the fora.

No, no. Please disregard bitcoinex completely. I have done it and I can assure you it works! There is, however, a small change that you need to do there, and I'm available to share that with you for 100k coins or it's dollar counterpart. It's a great deal, if you think about it, as you will not have to pay electricity again, and you can even mine for the coins and get your money back in no time!

Just send me the coins/$ and I'll be sure to fedex you all the diagrams to help you on this endeavor!

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I can try and help, but I need more details.

PM me your bcin, at least, and tell me if you mean the lottery or some bitpick

Just a quick note to say that The pick6 has been awarded to whomever had a bet on b1be69 with a total pot of 2250 BTC.

That's US$216 on mtgox, but who cares about non p2p currencies, anyway?

Just a quick note to say that The pick6 has been awarded to whomever had a bet on b1be69 with a total pot of 2250 BTC.

That's US$216 on mtgox, but who cares about non p2p currencies, anyway?

Transaction done, if anyone's interested. I used personal transfer and got charged 1% from paypal. jgarzik received the amout as described on my send page.

It's been a while since I last worked on this, but I have compiled on OSX, against revision 156 and the osx makefile changes are on the patch a few messages above. You will probably need to change the paths to the libs, but should be fairly simple to do so.

Not personally interested, but that is a great idea! Maybe mtgox could get a small fee for the escrow service? He would assert the one sending USD out that he had received USDs from the other party, so it was safe for actual US$ to change hands. Just a thought...

If that was true, then everyone was free to do as they felt would most benefit them, be happy about it and it would be incredibly hard to control them. I mean, we would have to come up with religions and governments and, if all that failed, we would even need a way to control what they could own or trade, so as to force them to comply to a set of rules made up by some institution we would have to create just to make up those rules...

oh... wait...

Yes, you are right, I've used an up to date exchange rate now and ended up with .098 USD. Pardon my nitpicking

Want to try a smallish amount, say 100 coins so we can assert that doing this using PP balance doesn't charge fees? I'm assuming yours is a personal account. PM me your PP address and I'll ship the € and respond with a BC address.

I may take you up on that, but if this is an experiment you have interest on, maybe the price should be somewhat lower than the USD counterparts there?

Although it is US only, afaict, if someone is willing to accept PP from us not US based but with good rep (or wire, but I'm assuming 0% fee personal PP transfer from PP balance) and convert to this with a fee, or the other way around, I'm certainly interested in seeing it supported.