I can provide several choices:

1.  Plain & crumpled.
2.  With almost useful math and/or chemistry doodling on them in #2 pencil.  Slightly smudged.  Guaranteed to have been thrown across the room and into a trash can in 1 attempt.  Occasional coffee watermark included at no extra charge.
3.  A variety of fluorescent colors, shipped in a nice acrylic container from the Container Store.
4.  Acid free cotton rag heirloom version.

Those are fairly important things to know.

1.  I am selling a total of 10 shares in a multiple-winner auction.  Thus far, 3 of those shares have been declared as final winners, 1 share is coming up to end now, and 6 shares are still open with no end block specified.

2.  The workings of the auction are these:  bidders make bids.  The high bids win.  There are multiple winning bidders, and multiple ending times.  I refund bids that don't win.

3.  You bid by making one or more payments from your address to the bid address, 17DCms43Vu2yusDjmpjHJuZihSSWkNzgSH  The total of your payments is your bid.  Some people find it difficult to use bitcoin-qt for this auction, and have more success using a wallet at bitchain.info.

4.  The price changes with each successful bid.  I think it is difficult to keep track and make swoop bids at the end.  At the moment, BTC 1.21000001 is the winning bid.

Yes, I need to have some real time software that digests the payments and gives a summary.
At the moment, bidder 1LktD4cXPmcJ75Sd2WgRs69rBZqNQd5L4P is in the lead.  The total of bids from that address are 1.210 000 01
Another bid has been submitted without miner's fees.  I don't usually see zero fee transactions included in a block at this time of day.

This is the final standing effective with block 237,601

It is indeed way too complicated.

This morning, I am closing out 1 share (1% of production) for the Batch #2 Avalon that has been purchased.
Bids must be included in the block-chain by block 237600, with a 10 block extension for each new winning bidder.  Payments go to address 17DCms43Vu2yusDjmpjHJuZihSSWkNzgSH
For the life of me, I can't figure out what "TL;DR" means.


edited:
ROTFL
Too long; didn't read.
"omg you postwench. i can only say one thing in response - tl;dr"

Getting a short answer from a professor is like getting a thimble-full of water from a fire-hydrant.

Looks like block creation is fairly fast. We are at block 237520 and it is only Thursday morning.
Don't forget to include miner's fees for last minute bids.

Will you continue mining?

Since I wrote this, I have run across this following link.  I may decide I want to keep very good records in this process.  http://www.pillsburylaw.com/siteFiles/Media/files/Alert%20-%202013-05-16-%20Consumer%20and%20Retail%20-%20FinCEN%20Issues%20Guidance%20on%20Virtual%20Currency.pdf

Yes, I think pegging the exchange rate that way is mutually fair and transparent.  I can't find my URL for the Bytecoin difficulty levels, so if you can quote a URL for an agreed on reference that would be great.  I am assuming that we can use sipa or blockchain.info to document the bitcoin difficulty.

Do you have a minimum purchase?  (Are other people interested in joining in, to help keep the block generation rate faster than a few a day?)

I have about 10% interest in an Avalon that will mine Bitcoin, so this deal might run for a while once it is delivered and producing.   

Rather than buying old coin at the new rate, I might make a 1 time purchase.  Is your 0.0005 exchange rate above in BTC/BTE?  So...perhaps 3,000 BTE for 1.5 BTC?  How many old coin do you have to sell?

Guys in bars ask me how to get women to like them.  I tell them to get a kitten, and learn how to treat it so that it comes to them when they get home, instead of running under the couch.

They all curse and go away.  Then all the women listening in smile and come talk with me.

8cQsaB3VHBoZ9EFBq5r9MfJ8HmgGMuZz9y

ProfMac; 1 unit; paid in Bitcoin on Feb 18; walletbit confirmed; no tracking; order number 21xx; email confirmation from both.

block-chain
Thanks.  I think using the block-chain for auction is a very natural thing to do with Bitcoin.  If I had not done it, someone else would have.  There is even a web based auction site doing it now that I just learned about.  That is where I got the idea of using a certain block number to end the auction.

The idea of a multiple winner auction is also not my idea.  In the early years eBay had something they called a Dutch auction.  This was a multiple winner auction with slightly different rules.  A change that I made was to let the auctioneer change the number of winning bids.  This was to solve a practical problem.  If I announced a bid for 70 shares, but only had 50 serious bidders, I could end up selling shares in my Avalon for very small bids.  However, if I limited the auction to a small number of winning bids, I should be able to avoid the tiny bid problem, but I might have to turn away people who wanted to buy, at a time that I wanted to sell at their price.  That's where the rule came from where the auctioneer can change (typically expand) the number of winning bids.

partial ending
People were asking for the auction to end but I was not ready to end the whole auction.  I happened to notice that changing the number of winning bids moves the boundary at the bottom of the list.  However, the list has a top as well as a bottom.  So I thought, I'll just shorten the list at the top, and the people at the very top are now final winners, they are no longer active bidders in the auction, and they can't lose their place.  So I suddenly have this idea of partially ending an auction.  I have never heard of this idea before, and I would be grateful for any reference to it that anyone knows about.  I think this gives certainty to those people who want it.

Rules grow in an organic fashion no matter how much logic people try to use.  Laws grow from problems.  I had a specific problem that one bidder wanted to retract his bids, and I do not want to change any rule during an auction.  I don't mind introducing a new rule, however.  The partial ending rule would solve two problems for me at once.  It let the auction end for some people, and it would generate some new high bids and make the remorseful bidder lose his winning status, and I could return his funds while keeping a firm "no retractions" policy.

end and re-start to issue more shares
There is a side conversation going on.  Someone put another Batch #2 Avalon for sale yesterday with bids starting at BTC 100, and I wanted to raise another BTC 50 or so to bid on it.  I thought a new auction in a pristine thread might have some vigor.  So I opened another auction.  It really is a separate auction from this one, and the rules for it are tuned a little differently.  Dchou and I have been having a discussion about both auctions, and I thought some of our discussion should be public in this thread. 

One of the things that I changed in the new auction is to speak of a facility (or mining farm) and that the shares are for the entire facility, not one specific Avalon.  Since I have a useful number of shares for this Avalon that have not been sold, I am comfortable putting those shares into the facility before discussing it with current shareholders here. 

That auction is entirely separate from this one.

A partially ended auction does mean that some of the status is not visible in the block-chain.  I don't like that.  However, I think it would be very peculiar to send serious bids back to the bidders, and ask them to turn around and re-bid at a different address.  So, for now, there are 3 bids that are final winners, 7 bids that are winning but not final, a new block number to make an additional bidder into a final winner, and some of that information is here in the discussion and not in the block-chain itself. 

Will you sell partial quantities?
Which is more important, fast, or price?
Is there a reason you don't sell on an exchange?
I have a BoA account.  What do you mean by "some?"

You did not lose them.  You never had them.

As ProfMac, I could insert the obligatory Robert Burns quote here.

I continue to receive feedback that it is important to end the auction.  I keep thinking the bidding will become active again when the units are being shipped, but I will make the following announcement.

SECOND PARTIAL END TO AUCTION
This announces another partial end for the auction.  Remember that the three bids above are permanent winners.  The highest remaining bid will be declared a permanent winner on or near this coming Friday, May 24.

The bidding will remain open with the possibility of extension until block number 237600.
If a bid is included in a block after 237590 and that address becomes the high bid and the auction is open, 10 is added to that block number to give the extended closing block.  That is, the auction is extended while bidding is active.
(The back end programmer, me, hates this complexity.)

The '1 hour' extension may keep some people up in the middle of the night.  That is not my intent.  I am completely comfortable making the extension for 25, 50, 100, 240, or another number of blocks.  Please feel free to ask for an alternate extension time. 

If I wanted to be a money transmitter and had some funds, I think I would go to bitcoin2013, meet some West Coast VC people, meet with some banks, and enter into some agreements.  Might especially look for a small bank or exchange that wants to shelter my technology.

My tweets might look a lot like Roman's.  I certainly would not disclose names and meeting times.

The network hash rate is pretty slow, and needs to be more stable.  Are you in a position to mine?

I am willing to discuss an exchange rate for newly mined coins that gives you the same BTC income you would have mining them directly.


 

I have some rudimentary Eagle skill.

I wonder if I can get a copy of the Eagle files for this?

People mining alt coins?

Yeah.  I meant josh_nc.  I'm more interested in why he made his choices, vis-a-vie interpreting such random things as "the hockey stick" than I am a high finess resolution of which model is best.

Is there any reason you chose the most extreme values in the red graph, when you also had the choice of some more moderate values in the green graph, when you were trying to understand what was happening?