Please excuse the poor photos, my camera is so old it brags about being digital.

I am selling a silver bar. It is 10 troy oz(311 grams) of 99.9%+ pure silver A-MARK bar. This is a well known brand of silver bar and is recognizable by bullion dealers.

At current prices I am selling it for 25BTC with free shipping.

Please contact me if you would like to see my trade history.

Like I said, all of the technology problems are solved. It is simply a matter of the time of an intermediate developer to build such a site.

My point is that peer-to-peer drug dealing does not rely on the silk road, it relies on tor, gpg and bitcoin which any website can employ.

"Downtime" on S3 does not manifest as an outright outage due to how they distribute the servers. It means that the sum of all servers currently being pointed toos downtime adds up to .05%. Once the network realizes a server is unresponsive it is removed from their load balancers and the downtime is remedied. A fresh server is booted up to replace it and added to the load balancer.

The net result is that if you hit the refresh button you are very unlikely to be sent to the malfunctioning server again. So 99.95% over the time your page will just load, the other .05% of the time you need to re-roll the  dice by hitting refresh.

Much better than traditional static hosting where someone has to go fix the server that is supposed to be serving the file, even if said server had the same uptime.

Perhaps you are confusing the router with the modem.

There is no address negotation when static setups are used. Your router will send packets out on an IP that it is not assigned to if you set it up to do so, address negotiation is bypassed. You can hook your computer directly to your modem without a router and assume any IP, the router is just a hardware specific computer.

The modem on the other hand or the ISP gateway further down the line will filter these out.

You are of course correct that even if the ISP failed to filter the packets you sent out that your response would never make it back.

When ISPs were young and they did not filter so well you used to be able to spoof an IP and send a PING packet out to a thousand computers and they would all PING back to the IP you are spoofing. It was a way to hide your DOS attack, this of course does not work on the modern internet.

EC2 offers multi-GPU instances too.

Ok back on topic. If your game is 100% static which is appears to be then s3 would provide free hosting for a year and super cheap(like 5 cents a month) after that. Very good uptime etc.

Downside is that you need a credit card and a phone number to sign up. VOIP phone numbers and pre-paid credit cards work though. This is important if you don't have a credit card or if you want to be anonymous.

Amazon web services are amazing. And now that they have control panels the barrier to entry is much lower. It can of course all be controlled via APIs.

I use it for small projects. Or when I need a big vanity address I can call up a 16 core 64 bit super beast for a few dollars an hour. Now if only they allowed bitcoin(hint, you could offer a passthrough and make a lot of coin)...

Well I installed several, but on my android and they mostly sucked and I settled on the blockchain app. Apparently iphones don't have such a wide variety. This leaves web based sites... I don't know of a safer/safe alternative to the blockchain.info wallet.

Instawallet on the web browser is fine enough for a day to day wallet with limited funds. He could keep the majority on paper or on his home computer.

If this happened your computer would stop being able to use the internet. The ISP would reject your packets due to not owning the IP. This is the basis behind a DHCP based internet gateway.

The router will obey you but the ISP will not obey the router.

ISPs are very ununiform when it comes to how they handle IP assignments.

You can expect one day that they will assign that IP to someone else and it will stop working for you. You are likely marked as the IPs "last owner" and thus are allowed to take it. That could stop working.

Call your ISP and ask about static IPs.

You are not doing anything unethical, it is the ISPs responsibility to manage IPs. You might even look directly at the DHCP response and see the expiry time of your IP lease. It may be that their DHCP server grants weeks, months or years to you. That may explain why it is working.

Just watching that invoked a primitive fear response. Creepy.

If your game is entirely javascript and everything served is just a static file look and Amazon's S3(simple storage solution). It will even give you a free bitcointurtle.s3.amazonaws.com domain to host your stuff, or you can set up your own domain if you have one.

Serving a small static page with low usage would literally cost less than 5 cents a month. S3 offers SUPER uptime(your data is always stored and available from 3 or more contenents/regions auto failover 99.9999+ uptime etc) and high performance with a complete pay-per use pricing system and no minimums. Static content only, you control things like root document and http headers etc.

If you need to have a server running your own code then look at Amazon's elastic computer cloud. They rent computers by the hour.

Yes, modern computers would not really help much. The mechanical computers they made could keep up with the cryptographers guess lists. A team of very smart people pouring over information about the time/place with acccess to reams of prior code data will get just a few of these codes regardless of computer power.

I doubt this will ever be broken because even if the key can be found/derived via cribs the work involved would be too much. With a provably unbreakable code system you can only do side channel attacks or attack flaws in the implementation.

The common form was a small book with the pages glued together at the sizes made of nitro paper. It burns completely and quickly. You take pages off the take when you used up your keys.

Some of these were broken despite the fact the one time pad systems cannot be "broken" persay.

The combination of re-using keys, stolen code books and using the same prefix at the start of certain daily messages(like weather) they did manage to crack several messages using primitive purpose build computers.

If you can get access to all of the stolen/derived code data then you could run it all through and see if any decodes it. Otherwise forget about cracking it, you will get quotes from the bible before getting the real data.

All of this assumed a one-time pad. This does not look like a one time pad due to the uneven character distribution. Then again with such a small sampling such unevenness can happen in truly random data.

The uneven distribution could also be related to the fact the the "random" one time pads were often generated by mashing a keyboard. People tend to bias towards the middle of a keyboard, if the message had repeating characters then this bias would show through.

Ever seen Indecent Proposal? Offer 100,000BTC.

I can see banks re-using the public/private key system to move money around in a ledger. The difference would be that the public key would need to one issued/signed by a bank after identity checking you and they would back it directly with fiat currencies.

They would far rather have a system where they could create an arbitrary amount of money, the world economy as it is sort of relies on it. They would certainly never support a currency that they could not inflate.

Not only is it hard to remember, it has enough bits to be a private key itself. I was making a little joke, not very good at jokes. 

I am aware of this argument, it has been brought up many times. The same could be said if you want to upgrade your local client to the new version. The answer to both is to detect change and re-authenticate when change is detected.

The fundemental difference I was talking about is that you have access to your own private keys and can move your money out even if blockchain vanishes. Blockchain wallets can be imported into any client.

You use easywallet's wallet when you use easywallet and if they vanish you cannot recover your money.

A clever spammer could create a website that relays any sort of captcha challenge to users who are willing to solve them for .01BTC each. It has been done before, but using porn for a reward instead of bitcoins. Same principal.