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Thanks, I have seen the character you're all talking about, and I really like it. It's different to any other currency symbol I've seen. I like this image: The double-vertical-line B, like in your avatar BW actually reminds me too much of the cartoon "Richie Rich". |
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 I thought the box was a running joke until I realised the joke was on me  I really gotta do something about my Windows fonts. |
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 Well, that makes perfect sense to me! |
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However, I think the whole "In xxx we trust" is a bad idea from a PR perspective
Agreed. It also makes it seem too American. bytepimp, since everyone else is making requests, can I make one more: Simply replace the motto with 'Bitcoin' in exactly the same size and font as where it says Bitcoin on the top half. |
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a.) you don't know who the owner of each address is
b.) you don't know how many of those addresses a single owner might hold
c) You don't know how many individual people have claim over each single address. eg. It could be an address which stores the funds of hundreds of clients. |
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One problem is that the value of a bitcoin changes so much. So for example a Big Mac costing 3 bitcoins today may cost 1 bitcoin next month, and 0.1 bitcoins in three months. So for practical purposes having a currency directly pegged to the BTC is perhaps only feasible when/if the value of a bitcoin stabilizes.
That's only if you're comparing the currency to USD. If so, you could say the same thing about the price of a bigmac in AUD, EUR, JPY... and yet in those countries, the price of bigmacs stays the same. Why? Because an aussie in australia using AUD to purchase bigmacs, doesn't care about the USD exchange rate. Same would be for BTC if the price were set in BTC and it was the official currency of a whole country. |
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That's a big case for a few private keys.
Maybe he printed them. Or had them etched into stone tablets. |
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Oh, man there's much easier way to think about it.
You stick your penis into a woman - nine months later out comes a baby. You say to a woman - come on, have some mercy, take this evil creature and give me back my semen. But the woman says NO!
Same way with computers. You stick a string into a GPU/CPU and out comes a hash. You please and beg - Oh, merciful and all powerful GPU/CPU, take this hash and give me my data back, but GPU/CPU says NO!
So be careful when you stick things into other things
Awesome explanation. |
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Im adding "The" to bitcoins with http://thebicoin.us so that non college students will pick up on it. Try adding another t  Edit: Oh you spotted it. |
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The easiest way to switch between "accounts" is to use the -datadir switch. Just point bitcoin at an empty directory with this switch and you can use that as your savings account.
Although, that method will require multiple copies of the block chain. I think along with a -datadir switch, it'd be handy if bitcoin had a -walletfile switch. |
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Do you ever plan to implement proof that your games are fair?
Sure if there is demand. You're only the 2nd person that's ever asked me. I put my time so far into getting it just to work. |
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 Previously some people have mentioned to me that 'Bitcoin Toss' isn't suitable for people who want to play over-and-over again because you have to wait for the payout before you can deposit again, which ends up taking too long. So instead of modifying that site, I just made a new one: http://bitcoindouble.comWith this new site, instead of depositing for each play, you just deposit once, play as much as you want, and then withdraw. Along with the idea of having a login-based doubler game, I thought it would be good to have a universal balance that could instantly be used at many sites; hence I came up with 'Bitcoin Balance' (which I'll start a different thread for). So BitcoinBalance.com will handle all the login/registration/deposits/withdrawals for BitcoinDouble.com, plus more sites in future. This will mean that you will be able to see use your balance instantly across all participating sites. (eg. If you win 10 BTC in Bitcoin Double, then not only will that be immediately available for withdrawal through BitcoinBalance.com, but it would also be immediately available for use on any other participating sites, without waiting going through the hassle of withdrawing and depositing and waiting for confirmations again). Anyway enough typing for now http://bitcoindouble.comp.s. Thanks again to my HTML/CSS guy for the work in cutting up my graphics, etc. |
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Your english is awful this leads me to believe your a SCAMMER
Were you being intentionally ironic, Charlie? Need someone to make a website and pay for it by Bitcoins? Good look. Fast work. Good price. Work individually. Samples available.
Cw, give us some links to examples of your work... I'd love to take a look. |
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You could make a batch file containing:
@echo off
bitcoin -datadir=./data
That way, the wallet.dat and other files will be written to your thumbdrive.
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simple: ddos the site, and then offer to buy it.
There's nothing there to ddos anyway. |
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Rofl if it happens will this be the first second-hand buy of a bitcoin domain in its history? Anyone flipped one of their regs yet?
Actually, I bought coinbalance.com for $7 not long ago because it seemed bitcoin-related, but just sold it yesterday for $250 to someone who doesn't seem to be part of bitcoin community at all... he'll be using it for a completely unrelated site. That's some namepros shite right there man, gg ... Um, thanks? I'd never heard of namepros til you just mentioned it... checking it out now  |
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Rofl if it happens will this be the first second-hand buy of a bitcoin domain in its history? Anyone flipped one of their regs yet?
Actually, I bought coinbalance.com for $7 not long ago because it seemed bitcoin-related, but just sold it yesterday for $250 to someone who doesn't seem to be part of bitcoin community at all... he'll be using it for a completely unrelated site. Where did you sell it for that much at? Someone just happened to contact me privately on the catch-all I had set up. |
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Rofl if it happens will this be the first second-hand buy of a bitcoin domain in its history? Anyone flipped one of their regs yet?
Actually, I bought coinbalance.com for $7 not long ago because it seemed bitcoin-related, but just sold it yesterday for $250 to someone who doesn't seem to be part of bitcoin community at all... he'll be using it for a completely unrelated site. |
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/18335/bitcoin_miners_busted_police_confuse_bitcoin_power_usage_for_pot_farm?source=rss_blogsBlogger Mike Esspe captured an IRC chat that supports the rumor floating around that at least one bitcoin miner has been arrested.
In regards to if being a miner will bring the cops to your doorstep, according to the Bitcoin Miner, the power consumption will be somewhat like the electric usage for "marijuana grow-op." An example was "The Canadian town of Mission, BC has a bylaw that allows the town's Public Safety Inspection Team to search people's homes for grow ops if they are using more than 93 kWh of electricity per day." There have allegedly been reports floating in IRC of two different cases of police showing up at a bitcoin miner's residence with a search warrant.
Will it become more common to confuse bitcoin miners with weed-growing operations? It is somewhat common for police to monitor unusually high power consumption if a person is a "suspect." For example, in a NetworkWorld report, Ohio police and the DEA file at least 60 subpoenas each month for energy-use records of people suspected of running an indoor pot growing operation. If a stakeout does not uncover anything illegal or point to a "grow house," then utility consumption records can be sought. DEA Agent Anthony Marotta said high electricity usage does not always mean the residence is an indoor pot farm and has surprised federal agents. "We thought it was a major grow operation ... but this guy had some kind of business involving computers. I don't know how many computer servers we found in his home."
It is unclear at this point if more bitcoin miners will have police show up with a warrant on their doorstep after more false positives, mistaking the power consumption to create virtual P2P currency as electricity usage needed to grow weed. Can anyone confirm these crazy rumours?
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I agree it'd be good to have. I just had a look on Twitter and saw this: @mgmcevoy M Gonzalez McEvoy #Bitcoin is a peer to peer currency. A fascinating concept. Check it out at www.bitcoin.com21 May via web from Newton, MA |
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