OK, I hold so.
Thanks ElectricMucus.  

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22026961
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/03/bitcoin-currency-bubble-crash-not-rocking-financial-markets

This reminds me of 18+ years ago, when the public disregarded internet geeks by labelling them "hackers" or perverts of some sort anyway.

Why so much hatred? What do you think?

UPDATE: more negative press coming today

http://buzz.money.cnn.com/2013/04/05/bitcoin-bubble/?section=money_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_topstories+%28Top+Stories%29
http://news.discovery.com/tech/bitcoin-currency-attacked-130405.htm
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-04/sorry-libertarians-history-shows-bitcoin-isn-t-the-future.html

the last one being the most informed article.

Whatever. I'll die of a heart attack soon enough and my private keys will be lost. 

 Just saying.

Not even sure this is the right forum... in case sorry for OT.

Which means that someone paid for your bitcoins.

"The pump & dump Gox robots war"

+1. Dead cat bounce in progress. Please wait...

Doesn't look resolved to me.
The limit is still there.

OK you can configure 0.8 to reject troublesome blocks to make it same as 0.7.

But the limit is still there.
So I guess the devs will have to wait till 0.7 miners are, say, 1% of the network before releasing  a v0.8.1 without the limit. But then the 0.8 miners are being limited by configuration right now. So again the 0.8.1 miners will need to have some sort of logic that makes them wait till they are a large majority, before accepting larger blocks.

(Almost) catch 22? Or where did I get it wrong?

This is witch hunting. And unfair to SD. Which provided and provides a great service to this community.

I'm bothering with a way for the people I care the most to be able to recover the bitcoins in case of my demise.

Let's say there are two people I trust the most in my life and let's call them A and B.

What I have come up with at first was to create an offline paper wallet and give the details of it to them.

But that approach is not enough to give me peace of mind because empowering them with full access to my investments still has risks.

E.g. person A's partner might try to convert my BTCs to fiat and buy me real estate with them because he/she worries about my future and holds the belief that this "internet money thing" is too dangerous for me.

Or e.g. person B's partner is not trustworthy enough to me.

It is unlikely that person A and person B or their respective partners will ever join forces, unless in case of my demise.

So I am thinking: what if I split the private key in two, and I give half of it to each person?

To my understanding, with BTC we use 256bit encryption but in reality we only are 128bit secure. So if I split the private key in 2 each party would have to guess 64bit to recover the full key.

Your thoughts?

He is saying: every time the lag goes up to the roof, it's popcorn time. Or heart attack time. In both cases having an alarm about it sounds like a good idea to me. At least until Gox replaces their cardboard-quality-but-working systems with something more solid.

Seriously, MagicalTux, you there?

It looks like your active-passive cluster can't really handle the spikes. Where is the bottleneck? CPU? I/OF transactions?
Wouldn't it be time to replace that active-passive cluster with something more distributed?
Transactional integrity is a problem in such systems. Maybe Galera Cluster?

The battle of the titans. On Gox live tonight.

Third day in a row I can't sleep for more than two hours.

I miss the time I could sleep without having the urge to check the ticker every 5 minutes.

Can't this market slow down a bit? Otherwise I'll have a heart failure soon and my coins will be lost.

It is just a matter of a few hours.
The 20$ wall will soon be eroded.
It is happening.
It is epic.
And we're here ready for the party.
Oh it feels good. Damn good.

Seriously. 10 days with no update and no tracking numbers. And you still believe they have shipped on the 20th.

Of course they have. After all, they are "Avalon". A respectable company with a proven success record aren't they?

But wait. They are shipping from China! Ah sure that must be the reason for the delay. And the lack of updates. And the missing tracking numbers.

 

And yet http://bitcoin.sipa.be says that the growth rate is negative. Uhmmmm...

I have some experience with receiving shipments from Chinese marketplaces and have had shipments often stopped at customs.

The fact is that a tracking number is always there when the seller has, at the very least, reserved one with the courier. Even the cheapest and dead slow couriers (China Post, HongKong post, EMS) have tracking numbers.

if it the tracking number is not there, the seller has not shipped. Plain and simple. Now of course he will try to reassure you. He will lie to you. Say he has already shipped. This is quite common. He is only trying to keep you quiet while he keeps trying to source the item in that big  mafia of no-name factories and dodgy distributors which is Shenzen. That's why reputable Chinese marketplace sellers generally don't have the very latest unobtainium in their catalogs till production is good enough to guarantee some reasonable supply without having to bribe someone too much.

IMO:
One thing you can rest assured of is that, if there is no tracking number yet, nothing has been shipped yet. And these Avalon guys, assumed they aren't scammers, better know how to get things going in China because if their devices draw too much attention (as they probably do) they will "disappear" from the factories well before their contact can ship them.

As one would expect since Avalon DHL shipment officially happened almost a week ago.

Instead I see a slight decrease in both hashrate and difficulty.
As if no ASICs were actually mining, and as if  some GPU rigs were getting retired without replacement.

Just sayin'.