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I have had the 0.8.0-qt client crash on me twice in the past couple of weeks with the cryptic message "Failed to write block." I'm on Mac OS X and have plenty of disk space. I'm upgrading to 0.8.1 as we speak, but the OP spoke of this happening with 0.8.1, so I doubt it will fix the problem.

I know, but I deliberately chose the more formal "ONE HUNDREDTH" for that denomination. For even smaller denominations I would probably use something like "ONE MILLI", "ONE TENTH MILLI", and "ONE HUNDREDTH MILLI" and finally "ONE MICRO".

I agree! It would also be cool to give players at my games the option to purchase some of Mike's physical bitcoins with their winnings. The remainder would go straight to their wallet address.

Personally I doubt I'd ever use the BTC10 either, but some people are high-rollers, or may just want them as collectibles.


I thought of that, but I'm reluctant to design quarters between every power of 10, especially with the price of bitcoin still so volatile. If these first chips are sought after and there's demand for quarters in a particular range, then I'll no doubt offer them.


Still determining my manufacturing sources right now, so I'll make an announcement here when I've got that in hand.

The purpose of a poker chip is not to store value as much as it is to make it easy to handle value temporarily in the context of a game. That is why most people don't play poker with physical cash— it's damned inconvenient even though most people show up to a poker game with physical cash in hand. Once the game is over and the chips are put away, they no longer are considered to store value. Thus, I no more worry about my poker chips being stolen, regardless of what's printed on them, than I worry about my Monopoly money being stolen— that is actually a great convenience when dealing with the sums of money that are exchanged in some poker games.

And, the BTC serves the exact same purpose as a $: to help players keep track of what's going on in the game. Unfortunately, poker chips, even ones with no currency symbol on them, don't go down into sub-unit fractions. I suppose you could imagine that every chip has a value that is is actually the reciprocal of what's printed on it, but that poses its own problems.

Personally, I'm looking forward to the day when issuing milli-bitcoin, and eventually micro-bitcoin -denominated poker chips makes sense!

Yes, one of the defining aspects of poker chips is that they aren't normally considered valuable (except perhaps by collectors) outside of a particular venue— people expect them to be "play money" that is nonetheless imbued with redeemability during the game. Hence bitcoin-denominated chips can help get people used to the value of bitcoin.


Thank you!

I own some of your coins, and I think they're wonderful! I've shown them off at conferences I've attended. Yes, actually giving them durable BTC value is a problem— and not one I'm really anxious to try to solve. But as a form of educational outreach, I think they might go over pretty well.

I've been thinking of putting my regular home poker game on the "bitcoin standard", and thought that it might be fun to make a set of real-world, bitcoin-denominated poker chips. Below you see my design for the chips I'm thinking of making. They will be casino-quality, 10g ceramic, 39mmx3mm chips.



The denominations I've chosen are those I think would be most useful for home games. It's interesting to note that, since bitcoin is likely to deflate over time, then chips that will be issued later will be for tinier fractions of the monetary unit.

I was wondering whether anyone else might be interested in purchasing a set of such chips from me for their own games? (I would, of course, accept payment in BTC.)

I have the same configuration as toffoo, and am also experiencing the same issue: Bitcoin-QT 0.6.2 keeps 1 CPU stuck at 100% utilization for no reason.

Did you find out anything at WWDC?

I used the faucet to get my first coins, which were 0.02 if I recall correctly. It was a good demo. I was also the first person to notice the strange pattern on BitcoinMonitor.com that turned out to be the faucet's first major case of abuse.

It's too bad the EFF doesn't want the coins but I can see why they might want to not have any appearance of bias. So given that they don't want the coins I think giving them to the faucet isn't a bad idea, but it isn't that great an idea either because some people will abuse it. I think the best that can be done is make sure that the amount of coins the faucet gives out is enough to ensure a good demo but small enough that it would be prohibitively expensive for even bad actors to bother with another faucet raid.

Any way the faucet can just give out just a tiny multiple of the minimum that can be sent with the current client? Or perhaps just one Satoshi per customer...

Of course, that's what trolls do.

Synaptic goes plonk.

AWS did violate their SLA and did in fact compensate customers like me in the wake of their outage. I expect that Mt. Gox will also do right by their customers, including formalizing some sort of guarantee if necessary, although I wasn't aware that commodity exchanges had SLAs.

Meanwhile, although you're right that AWS and Mt. Gox aren't really comparable in terms of current scale, my point was not about scale, but about adaptability.

And besides, Amazon started out as just an online bookstore. It will be interesting to see where Mt. Gox is 5 or 10 years from now. You think they'll be dead. I'll wait and see.

Early days yet, people. Growing pains are expected.

Well, Synaptic. Speaking as a "fucking retard" I think he's just politely reminding you of the decentralized nature of the Internet, that empowers you to speak your mind unfettered by the oligarchic masters laughing at you from their black helicopters here at the "official" Bitcoin forums. If I felt as disaffected as you clearly do, I might go ahead and do something similar. Starting your own forum is really easy: you just... but I've already said too much; they've probably overheard this conversation. No, wait! I'm loyal! I didn't say that, it was someone else— I was hacked! AAAHHHH! [gun with silencer sound effect, two shots] Uurrrgghhhh!

Sure, I'll engage you in serious conversation. After all I am a "fucking retard."

Right, GBVault is on my "permanent shit list" now.

Whew. Glad that's so apparent now... you can stop saying it.

Then by all means help decentralize the Bitcoin world further and start another forum. As an experiment, you can simply start a Bitcoin thread on 4chan and see how well that goes!

I look forward to seeing a thriving "Synaptic's 'I'm Through With Bitcoin'" forum real soon now!