Is there a market for a DVD of the blockchain to bootstrap people with challenging circumstances?  Today, I have fiber optic to the wall of the house, it terminates within 3' of where I am typing.  My mother has a parcel of land next to her farm and it might be good for me to live close to her as she is getting old and lives alone, it is on a dialup.  I don't think I become less savvy or less important if I want to think about her safety and welfare.

The way I read Gavin's comment, it is completely trivial to do as you want, just put another line in bitcoin.conf.

Is there a web page that gives some statistics on fees in a block?

The most interesting thing, I think, would be a plot of fee size and the delay before the transaction was included.

I guess not much is stopping them

The hashrate has been quite unstable for a while, but recently it seems to be rising, which hopefully means that there will soon be enough full-time miners to prevent this type of thing having much effect on the network.
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Looks like things are loosening up. Difficulity almost halved earlier today and quite a few more blocks being generated.

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Here we go again, Lower difficulty lasted about 3 days. ASIC or server farm is back raising the rate by a factor of 4.
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I have a machine that is not suitable for bitcoin mining, as it has an nvidia video card.  I did mine using the diablo miner pointed to limitedloot.

"C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\DiabloMiner\DiabloMiner-Windows.exe"  --url http://8WbwCdcspsJ7ejoLSPjQP9uAuAjkWGv3DW:1@limitedloot.org:6327

I cannot connect to this mining pool any more.  Perhaps I changed something too subtle for me to notice, perhaps they are decommissioned.

Is there a pool that will work with DiabloMiner, or is there a miner that will work with an Nvidia card?

Thanks.  This is a strong concern that almost everyone will have at some time.  I myself am certain that bitcoin alone cannot carry the transaction load of a world economy.

However, I don't think that bitcoin auctions are limited to micro-transactions.  No matter what dollar amount you believe constitutes a micro-transaction, there is an auction that deals with larger bids.  The actual auction that I have run has bids of BTC 1.2, or over USD 100.  The Avalon ASIC wafer sells for BTC 780, and there were auctions for shares in that, again not a micro-payment scenario.  Used automobile auctions would not be micro-transactions.

As is perhaps fitting in a thread on auctions, I view the miners fee as a bid to be included in a block.  If the fee is low, miners don't sell their service to that transaction.  In time, the miner's fees alone will have to pay the cost of building a block.  The bidder will have to pay a high enough fee to attract a miner.  I think there is no choice but to ignore transactions that do not pay an attractive fee.

The item in my Rule Packet that addresses this issue is the the use of a certain block as the documentation of when an auction ends.  I expect, at least initially, that people who like to swoop at the end of auctions will find that they have to pay significantly higher miner's fees to be included by the deadline.  We saw some activity similar to this on the transactions included in block 210,000.

This would work on top of bitcoin and use the existing block-chain.  The auction linked off my signature shows a real address with activity over a multi-week period to sell shares in a Batch #2 Avalon.

It would almost certainly talk to bitcoind via RPC calls to delivery summary information, construct bids or refunds, and the like.

I am not affiliated with bitmit in any way.

I have attended real life auctions for decades, and I was working on an online auction environment in the early 90s, and gave it up to concentrate on my degree.  I felt frustrated when eBay exploded and I was on the sideline.

I have now run an auction in the bitcoin environment.  I have interacted with real people, real concerns, and real deviations from instructions.

There are many flavors of auction, and of course there are different rule packets for each one.  The Rule Packet #1 that i have drafted covers 1 one these scenarios.

Please feel free to comment on this.  I have the view that it is preliminary guidance to make an auction-client.

During an auction, I strive to keep the rules stable.  Before the next auction, I try to revise the rules.  

I hope to have a pretty good set of rules developed, and to cause some software to be developed that implements these rules.

You guys have been helpful in making me think carefully.  Thank you.

The set of rules for this auction does not translate very well to the auction of 10,000 ASIC chips from Avalon's latest sale.  It is clear that there will need to be several sets of rules, for different auction environments.

I have posted my current thinking of the rules on Google Documents.  Please feel free to read them, and to post comments and questions.

I posted this discussion in it's own thread also.

Is there a bytecoin pool that works with diablominer?

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I think ipv6 bytecoin addresses could end in ::2013:0401 and bitcoin addresses in ::2009:0103, the dates of their genesis block respectively.
See 2001:470:c019::2013:401

Thank you. 

I'm really a nerd, and doing things that work with people is all a deep mystery to me.  So when I ask all these questions, they are genuine.

CoinHoarder and I keep cross posting in each other's Avalon threads. 

I have a multi winner auction for shares in an Avalon Batch #2.  A link to the auction is in my signature today.  Please feel free to bid.

I apologize if you had wanted the funds for the 11th place bid returned to you.  I actually have the option of increasing the number of winners, and you have made many bids to win in this auction for many shares, so it was not immediately clear to me that you wanted the 11th bid to be considered as non-winning and the funds returned.

Now that you have called for them, I have initiated the return of the 11th bid.

I don't agree with your perspective.  I believe the winning bids are mine to dispense.  I think this is true in any auction, but it is particularly true in this auction where I did procure and pay for an Avalon purchase order where many others tried and failed.

As part of the back story on this, I walked in -20°F winds of 50 MPH in blowing and drifting snow on a day the banks were closed, and the Batch #1 Avalons were not delivered and many were calling Avalon itself a scam.  I risked frostbite to take my gloves off and operate the ATM machine, and I trusted yufi to deliver.  I have spent time and funds to purchase a TP-Link 703n router, and I have flashed it with the OpenWRT firmware from Avalon and explored it.  I have even made that router available over the net to Luke-jr so that he could test some software without putting someone else's Avalon out of production.

I have announced the closing of 3 slots in the auction in an attempt to generate additional bids from TheJuice and others.  This should make you no longer a winning bidder, and thereby accommodate your desire to cash out without any need for exotic actions.  I invite you to think through how this might work if there were zero funds at the address today.

Closing the auction frustrates some of my plans, but I recognize that people need to cash out of ventures for any number of reasons.

I have had a call to return some bids.  I have chosen to view this as something concrete.

I have puzzled on how to best handle this, without adding or changing rules.  I have decided to announce that a portion of the auction will end.  Conveniently, my birthday is Friday, May 10, and I have chosen a block with a pleasing number that may fall on that day as the closing block for the auction.

I should be clear on how a portion of an auction ends.  The highest 3 winning bids will become permanent winners, and that portion of the auction is closed.

To be considered, your bid must be included in or before block 235,532.  If you find that time is short, you may pray a higher mining fee for any last minute transactions.

I apologize that I am ending the auction before I finished the software to summarize the bid status.  

Just in case Pistachio has winning bids after block 235,532, well, help Pistachio be a loser.

I don't follow your reasoning on this. 

The block-chain is visible to the world.  I think that makes it transparent.
The delivery discussion of the Avalon is in this forum, you know as much as I do about that, so it is also transparent.
The Avalon has been purchased and paid for.

To review what the auction is about, I am selling a portion of any future risk & earnings of my Batch #2 Avalon for certainty & use of coin now. 
By making a bid, you are declaring your calculation of the risk/reward for that deal.

Even if I brought the balance of the address to BTC 0.0, I don't see how this is unexpected or improper. 

Please think about this.

The auction is not over.
I moved those 4 BTC to another account. 

I did join.  I can't remember my password.  I don't find a password recover option.

Mt. Gox sent me a Yubikey.  They paid the entire cost, and it was about 3 days from the time I submitted my street address until the package was at the front door.

The guy who lost 60 BTC last week had a rooted android.

Linux, Mac, Windows XP, ...

Or, just start a thread in newbie.

I think I bought at 250 then sold at 51.
I'm pretty sure that's not a good plan.