Concordo.
Ma questo implica che finchè non converto i bitcoin in altra valuta non sono tenuto a dichiarare nulla?

Ciao Enky,
come hai fatto questi calcoli?

I would prefer a single server too, but having two with a failover mode like deepbit would be cool.

BTW: It's almost two days I get no rewards from the pool, and I see no new blocks found, is it normal?

I suppose that's due to the fact that the total hash rate of the network is so huge, and still rising very fast!?

Thanks for the reply, mcfe.
I've problems on the server side, not client side, I know the request is being made with curl.

Anyway I think I'm understanding how to do it, I just need to access the request body, in java there is the method ServletRequest.getInputStream() and that should do it (still testing).

I'm sorry to ask something just only vaguely related but I'm unable to find any documentation about it and I need to understand better.

The miner programs connects to the pool server using an HTTP request but I'm unable to understand which kind of request it is. Is it a standard http web request?
If yes, how are the json parameters passed?

In other words, how to decode the request using for example PHP, JSP or a similar scripting language?

Thanks in advance for any help on the subject.

Awesome idea, and with the upcoming webcl, even better!

I finally managed to understand the bit I was missing!

Thank you very much, BitterTea.

Very nice idea Jeremy, hat off!

Could someone be kind enough to explain me (or point me at some page) to what is composed a share by, exactly?

Thanks, and sorry for still being a n00b...

That pool had a lot of problems and downtime but I find it the best anyway, I just switched to the EU server and everything worked fine today, thanks Luke for your work!

On the technical side I would like to understand what happens when the various services stop working: what goes wrong that get fixed on restarting them?

EDIT: Err... as soon as I posted the pool went down! AAaaargh :-D Luuuukeeee!

Not only that, but sound money (and low taxations and regulations) bring goods and services to being always better and cheaper.
That, in turn, makes a better welfare, not because of "redistribution" or charity, but because almost everybody can afford them.

@unp:
So who decides when to restart the official chain?
Just having this power in the hand of someone defeats the very purpose of having a decentralised currency with no central authority.
If someone could decide to restart the official chain then for example he could dump all his btcs of the old chain and rebuy them on the new chain, and this reminds me very much of central banking...

Of course you are free to start your very own chain, and then hope other people will jump in and give value to it.

I think you should read Mises Regression Theorem to understand better the argument and nonsense you are proposing.

What you say is right, but if bitcoin gains acceptance even the dumbest guy is able to understand that BTCs value continuosly gain value over traditional currencies.
That is unavoidable since after a few years bitcoin inflation is minimal compared to inflation of, e.g., dollar: in just a couple of years QE and QE2 more than doubled the monetary base of dollar...

I agree with Gavin, very balanced view of the facts.

Dollar and Euro are on the way to failing for a lot of reasons that who understands inner economics knows, anyway for that event to foster Bitcoin usage it's necessary that Bitcoin would be much, much more widespread.

Thank you, I was looking for something similar like http://www.kitconet.com/, and possibly of the same size: do you plan to work to charts too?
Also, it would be very, very nice to have a chart comparing BTCs to gold and silver.

As for those panels you created, I would recommend to add the unit ($, or USD) and to use antialiased fonts.

Also, I would be delighted to have a ticker using € (Euros) as a reference

Thank you for excellent explaination, I translated it in Italian and put it online on my website, now mainly orientated toward Bitcoin, and being the biggest source of information in Italian language:
http://ilporticodipinto.it/faq/bitcoin-%C3%A8-uno-schema-di-ponzi-o-uno-schema-di-marketing-piramidale

I tell you this in case you want to link the italian version to your index page.

Please tell me if you want me to credit you for the original text, if you want a link to this page or whatever.

I plan to translate other faq as well in the feature.

Thanks!

Additionally, and perhaps even more importantly, it will only get more unlikely over time (as difficulty increases).[/quote]
You are completely right, of course.

But think of how many people helped the SETI@home project installing a fat application on their computer.... And the chance to detect something there are much lower than finding a block.
It's practically zero for SETI, while we discover around 144 blocks every day ;-)

In my opinion is just a matter of comunication: just clarify that this options is not likely to generate coins but will help secure the network, and leave the people the choice on how to employ his idle cpu time.
Also, in the very near future energy will be almost free, just dig the news about Rossi's "e-cat" on google, already validated by 2 universities (Italy and Sweden) and in commerce at the end of the year.

Anyway, if I'm understanding the thing right, even with very low hashing power, having millions of users could help secure the network and distributing more evenly the power of the pools.

Of course this could be done much better if the installer of the client had a simple option to download and run a hashing program using the GPU, but until this procedure is not made simple for the end user I think that the option to enable generation should be given, just renamed and better explained.

Thank you gat3way for the explainations, I need some clarifications, though:
How can this be possible...?
And anyway why there is difference between processed and submitted?

What is "abnormally high"?
It would be very useful to know the number of "real" stale shares and the invalid ones to diagnose hw problems.
For example, I've an efficiency of around only 90%: is this an "abnormally low" number?
(I suspect it should be near 100%)

Thanks in advance!

I'm sorry if it has been asked before, but I can't understand the meaning of "cur%" and why the difference from processed and submitted blocks.

Someone cares to explain me?

Thanks!

For what I understand, that's exactly how it's working now: since every client has a different block to solve, everybody is working on a different set of hashes and so everybody has the same chance to solve a block.

Even if a single client has very low mining power, a million of those clients are something very powerful anyway, and would help both securing the network and in the intent to not give a few small big pools too much power.

Isn't?