You'd see the following things:
1) Trojans/viruses/exploits getting to the wallet file. If I understand correctly, this file is unencrypted, so anyone who takes this file can take control of your wallet.
2) People may lose their wallet. Their computer crashes, they accidentally delete it, etc... Bye bye Bitcoins forever.
3) People will encrypt stuff, but forget the password and screw themselves.
Anything else that you would expect a casual user to screw up?
If Alice owes Bob 100 btc and her wallet contains exactly 100 btc, she may just email him her wallet.dat. Now it's stored unencrypted in both parties email accounts... Plus Bob possibly now gets any future money intended for Alice as he has those old keys. |
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Well your query does a cartesian join then filters out some rows using a WHERE and is less efficient than JOIN ... ON ...  So how could I tell whether reqid='133' is from either Bitcoin, international_requests or uk_requests in a single query? I know I could do SELECT 1 FROM uk_requests WHERE reqid='133'; to see whether it exists in uk_requests, but how about for all 3 in one go? Is an extra field in requests the way to go? Well, I'm sure the following is probably non-working utter crap, but it might give you ideas none-the-less... SELECT bitcoin_requests.reqid='133' AS is_bitcoin, international_requests.reqid='133' AS is_international, uk_requests.reqid='133' AS is_uk
FROM bitcoin_requests,international_requests,uk_requests
WHERE (bitcoin_requests.reqid='133')OR(international_requests.reqid='133')OR(uk_requests.reqid='133');
Sorry can't be any help. |
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Your schema looks fine; Probably how I would have set it up, but I'm not sure what you want to query from it. Can you write in plain English what you want to retrieve from the db and I can translate it to sql for you? Here's an example of grabbing some particular UK request: SELECT * FROM requests,uk_requests WHERE (requests.reqid=uk_requests.reqid) AND (uk_requests.acc_num='3');
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What is it exactly that makes it difficult for you to read the site main page?
For me, the light-grey text is too light. |
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Except I've seen him use it in that unusual way on the blog too
Unfortunately that incorrect usage isn't that unusual. |
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What's stopping me from using double priced labels and put a ridiculously large amount in euros on them ?
Exemple for a candy bar:
"
delicious candy bar
Price:
1 BTC
100 000 EUR
"
Candy might be okay, but that falls apart (at least in Australia) if you try to do that with basic items like milk and bread. The market police will come and tell you you're charging too much. |
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Whatever is in the longest chain is the truth. Network clients won't (and can't) reject blocks that double-spend a transaction in one of the conflicting blocks.
But the longest chain still has to be a valid chain correct (meaning, no double spends in that chain)? I don't think what you're suggesting can even happen. A double-spend in 1 chain wouldn't occur because the transaction would get rejected immediately. |
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Wow, even the lowest bid on Mt Gox depth table is above $1 now.
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So how do you define an irrational offer?
One that a common man is likely to refuse.
I think the 'common man' is a moron. They'll sign their name without reading the fine print. They'll post details of their assets, their street address and holidays plans to Facebook. And if they're getting a raw deal on something, they'd rather everyone else did too. |
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He's a moron in not acting in his own rational self-interest. He denied himself the prize money by making an irrational offer. The optimal solution would be giving me an actual incentive to say yes. You know, by me actually gaining $100 or so.
You've just plucked out another arbitrary figure. So by your standards if I offer $99.99 I'm a moron, but if I offer $100.01 I'm a nice guy. |
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Thanks Kozi you are right.
My mistake was accidentally using the same receiving address twice, so when I saw the 0.75 come in, I thought it was from a different source.
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Yes, there is a way to see complete history, it's all stored in the database. I just need to make a script that does that (will do).
As for payments, I just checked the payment log and every single payment has been successfully sent out so far... Maybe you could provide some additional info, what did the advertisement say, which receive address did you enter?
I don't know which receive address, because i have some in my wallet which aren't labeled... but it was approximately #1200 or so I think. I think I paid 0.1 btc per bubble for about 10 of them. |
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Is there some way we can see the complete history, including burst bubbles?
My first few must have burst as I can't see them in the list, however I haven't seen any payments come in to my wallet for them yet.
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Lets say a man gets a job digging ditches, he digs 1 ditch an hour and makes $10 USD an hour. This mans work is turned into a hole in the ground. Let's say a second man gets a job filling in holes. He fills in 1 hole an hour and makes $10 an hour. This man's work nullifies the previous man's work, yet $20 worth of 'work' has been paid for. (Sorry that little rant is probably off-topic with respect to your question) |
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Tom, I gotta say a big thank you.
I've read the entire thread now and you've pretty much typed out and submitted my views accurately.
The only other thing I can see influencing my decision is what effort would be involved in actually getting the money (eg. If I were offered $0.10, would I have to take that as a little metal coin and go deposit it into my bank?).
If it was purely electronic with no inconvenience caused to me, I'd take any offer.
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I'd like to have someone confirm that I can run multiple instances in separate folders... I don't see why I wouldn't be able to, but haven't been able to find any specific documentation on it.
eg. I'd like to run:
bitcoin.exe -datadir=c:\abc
bitcoin.exe -datadir=e:\xyz
Then make transactions between the two instances on the same PC.
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Could someone answer a quick question... what is the 'database' directory exactly? And are files such as log.0000000002 necessary?
There's 257mb of files in there which has made my thumb drive so full that bitcoin isn't even able to download the full block chain.
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Thanks everyone, I'm finally getting around to setting up my savings account.
When using Truecrypt you could just have the data directory encrypted and not the program files...
eg.
launcher.bat says:
bitcoin.exe -datadir=x:\data
Truecrypt container : data.tc
Contains the bitcoin data directory which you always make sure to mount as x:\ (or whatever drive letter you've chosen in launcher.bat).
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And due to the infrequency of difficulty updates, this is entirely possible and would result in all transactions backing up during the day and being processed at night. Goodbye short transaction times.
This must be "globe of US syndrome"  Did you know that while in US it is daytime there are places on this planet where it is night? It's quite funny when you think about it, because it means most transactions will be processed by a foreign miner; Each country around the globe is taking turns processing other countries transactions, and not processing much of their own (during daylight hours). |
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