The seals arrived in the mail today, so I've now finished my first batch of BTC1 notes:   I printed them on 100% cotton paper, so they should be nice and durable. Time to try putting some of them into circulation... |
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Also regarding this post... I don't have a Tax Identification number? Am I supposed to go get one for 30 shares and a few BTC in dividends? Or if I am willing to give you my info can I leave that blank?
Those are primarily for businesses (though I think they're also issued to resident aliens so they can get jobs). Individuals would normally use their Social Security number when asked for this. (IANAL, this post assumes you're in the U.S., yada yada yada...) |
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Your link goes to a login page...a screen capture might be appropriate here. |
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My enhanced html file (it's basis is the bitaddress.org html file as downloaded from their website on 2 Dec 2012) can be downloaded here, and you can run it offline in standalone-mode on any suitable browser (for sure Firefox works fine while Opera runs faster as long as I keep working on the PC/browser, but Opera fails rendering correctly for the actual printouts. Other browsers not tested.). When developing my note generator, I considered using HTML and CSS to overlay text on SVG artwork. One snag I ran across was that the printed output from Chrome looked like it was rasterized at 72 dpi or thereabouts before it was sent to the printer. Printed output from Firefox was as good as the printer could manage; the output from Chrome was clearly inferior. Rendering to PDF from both browsers exhibited the same behavior. I suspect you might run into the same print-quality issues with your generator running under Chrome, but I haven't had a chance to test it. If my hypothesis holds, it'd be a bit of a shame...Chrome is so much faster at running JavaScript. (As an aside, these issues are part of what led me to shift from HTML & CSS to PostScript for layout...that, and that I'm a little bit more proficient at bending PostScript to my will. It takes browser print-quality issues out of the equation.) |
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Suggestion: After waiting 6 months or so, any leftover BTC could be split proportionally among the unpaid people on Nefario's list. Then people who won't/can't submit the documents can still get something.
There'll still be people who for some reason didn't get to that list Nefario sent to issuers. I wasn't included in the shareholder list for some reason (paid him back the double payment he made in error long time ago). Nefario is not responding to e-mails, calls, nothing. I suspect he's not responding to the email address in his profile. I resent my request to support@glbse.com and james@glbse.com on 29 November. He replied this morning with a request for the email address and Bitcoin address I had used for the refund. I passed those along; he replied with an address to which to send back the second payment. I sent that in; he acknowledged receipt and said the next update sent to gigavps should have my information in it. |
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Make that v0.4.1 now, which uses shred instead of rm to get rid of temporary files more securely. |
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...and now v0.4 is up: https://github.com/salfter/btcnotesThe unannounced v0.3 added BTC0.1, BTC0.2, BTC20, BTC50, and BTC100 denominations. v0.4 shrinks the notes a little bit so six of them will print on a page. Given the roughly order-of-magnitude difference in value between the dollar and the bitcoin right now, that's like having $1 to $1000 denominations available. The BTC0.1 note is mostly gray with some spot color, to make it a little more economical to print. QR codes are printed in the same size as before; a 1-1/8" tamper-evident sticker (such as these, from the same supplier PrintCoins uses) is still needed to cover the private key. Examples: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/57535575/0.1-0.2-0.5-1-2-5.pdfhttps://dl.dropbox.com/u/57535575/2-5-10-20-50-100.pdf |
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Nice job. If you reduce a little the images you can print 6 on a page, that's even better Hmm...I hadn't considered that. About the only size consideration I made was to make them about the same height as a dollar bill so they'd fit in most wallets. Actually in Europe € bills are of different size for every value and in most case smaller: €10 are 12.7x6.7cm, €5 are 12x6cm, €20 are 13.2x7.1cm If you take the €10 size they're small enough to fit almost all wallets size, plus you can put a grid of 3x2bills on both A4 (21x29.7cm) with enough space for the small stamps, and letter (21.6x27.9) with still a small margin. Even better if you print in the €5 size. Sounds like usage of different sizes would be a major annoyance both to produce (if you're allowing for a mixed batch, as my script does) and to use. That said, having just compared a dollar bill, one of my notes, and some boxes I printed in the dimensions you gave, it looks like I missed the mark a bit and made my bills a bit taller than intended. The €10 bill looks to be just a smidge taller (maybe 1/16") than a dollar bill, while my notes look to be about 3/16" taller. I was just about to post a new version, too...it's already up on GitHub, but I think I might hold off announcing it until I get the 3x2 layout sorted. Getting 50% more notes out of a box of paper would be nice, especially given what 100% cotton paper costs. |
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My question is why would anyone want paper bitcoins?
For all of the same reasons you keep cash in your wallet, but with bitcoins instead of dollars (or whatever). |
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Nice job. If you reduce a little the images you can print 6 on a page, that's even better Hmm...I hadn't considered that. About the only size consideration I made was to make them about the same height as a dollar bill so they'd fit in most wallets. |
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How do the Load and Verify QR codes work? What prevents someone from just filching value from the bill?
The intent is that before they enter circulation, you would apply some sort of tamper-evident seal over the private key. This seal would only be removed if you intended to take the note out of circulation. The public key is left uncovered so you can verify that the note contains the indicated value. |
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Kidney theft at gunpoint is a FY,GM action yes. You won't find a high instance of that in a socialism though
Um...how about China, and its habit of harvesting organs from prisoners? (Not just kidneys, either, but other, rather more vital organs.) |
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Sorry to be fueling conversation in this sort of thread, but I'm curious. What law is this? I've worked pretty closely with my local silver dealer, and in the U.S, depending on what state you are in, there is either no tax on Silver/Gold, no tax if you purchase more than $500 worth, or no tax if you purchase more than $1000 worth. It looks like it's an amendment to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (I've never understood why US laws contain clauses that are totally unrelated to the purpose of a particular legislation). Remember when Nancy Pelosi said of the 0bamacare bill "we have to pass it to see what's in it"? That was so it could be larded up with crap like this (as if the insult to the Constitution that is 0bamacare wasn't bad enough on its own).  |
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Is it stupid of me to consider having 2 wallets, one for saving bitcoins which i wont touch and one to use for various spending.
Not stupid at all. I recently swept all of my funds to a freshly-generated paper wallet. Spending from it is a matter of scanning or keying the private key into blockchain.info as needed. (As an aside, if you have lots of small transactions to consolidate into your paper wallet, you might want to look at CheapSweep to keep transaction fees in check: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=128388.0) |
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Here is a better idea. But an ice making machine. It's cheaper than a bitcoin miner. The heat generated will heat your space and the ice made can be sold for $2 a bag at your local convenience store. It's the same idea as you have but probably will lose you less money. (I haven't done the numbers.)
I'd be surprised if ANY place in the US at least will buy a consumption product from an average joe.. wayyy too much liability for lawsuits if some jerk decided to put a chemical/drug/whatever in with the water before freezing it..... wow.. paranoia state. So you'd let your kids eat the apples some stranger gave them while trick-or-treating? Takes all kinds, I guess.  |
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Price goes up, price goes down. You can't explain that!
Markets...how do they work?  |
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I can actually find my way around a linux terminal (a tiny bit), so I put Lubuntu on another computer that I'm getting all setup for ASICs, and tried it there. Actually a little MK802, neat little toy! Bit I digress, I've just come to the conclusion that I'm totally F-ing retarded cuz the end result is that I can't get oclvanitygen64 to work in Windows 7x64 on my 7970 (without the -S flag, which I guess changes the kernel compilation parameters).
I need -S to run oclvanitygen (compiled under Gentoo Linux AMD64) on my 7750. It's not a Windows-vs.-Linux thing; AFAIK it's some slight incompatibility between oclvanitygen and 7-series AMD GPUs that hasn't yet been fixed. |
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The key would to get eBay sellers to start accepting Bitcoins.
Good luck with that. Back when eBay first got off the ground, you could take checks or money orders for payment. Now, their terms of service forbid it...this has apparently been the case for over four years now. They'll only allow PayPal (or some other services whose terms are similar to PayPal's) or credit cards with your own merchant account. As the article notes, eBay makes no vig on cash-equivalent/check/money-order payments, and they wouldn't on Bitcoin payments either. |
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Also, shouldn't the title be "BFL is expecting 100,000 chips..." ? Of course the chips are plural, but BFL is singular, is it not?
It's a Britishism...in their usage, either "is" or "are" is correct. |
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