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Economy / Service Announcements / Re: [ANN] BitTarget - send SMS using our REST API, pay in BTC
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on: December 11, 2013, 11:38:36 PM
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Thanks a lot, I fixed the gist on Github!
There are a few Bitcoin-related services out there that are using our services for two-factor authentication and BTC/USD price alerts already. We'll ask them about adding their names to our web page soon. One of them was Bitmit, which unfortunately shut down recently.
We're already providing dedicated numbers and incoming SMS service but didn't announce it publicly since it's beta-ish and requires manual setup. If you are interested let me know what your needs are and we may be able to help depending on where in the world the number should be. The way it works currently is that we'll ping a remote HTTP service when there is an incoming message, like a reverse version of our API.
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Economy / Service Announcements / Re: [ANN] BitTarget - send SMS using our REST API, pay in BTC
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on: December 11, 2013, 11:52:34 AM
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Hello, yes, the service is functional. We've had issues with Coinbase in the last few hours and had several payments show up in a weird state as though they were unpaid. It took us some time to sort things through and fix things manually. Things should be back to normal now. We sent out several emails and all accounts should be fixed now. If somehow we missed you please get in touch through support@bittarget.com or via PM with your account email so we can check. Sorry for the inconvenience, and we're sorry it took this long to handle this.
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Economy / Service Announcements / RemoteFS - geo-distributed online storage starting at 0.0005/month (beta)
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on: October 31, 2013, 01:33:24 AM
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Hello, RemoteFS is a geo-distributed online storage solution meant for private, reliable remote storage of permanent and semi-permanent data. All data is replicated to at least three different datacenters and can survive the death of any two of them. We're ready to accept some beta users. https://remotefs.com/Data will be charged at ~0.5 mBTC USD (or 0.10 USD) per GB/month for 3x replication in datacenters in the US, Canada and Europe. You only pay for what you use, rounded up to the next gigabyte. Unused credits roll over to the next month. But since we're in beta we won't charge people who join now and for three months after the release and your account will get a free 5GB forever. Your storage space can be accessed with any SFTP client (such as WinSCP, Filezilla, sftp, etc.). More protocols coming later. Protect your machine with safe, encrypted backups right now -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Download the open source Duplicati tool ( http://www.duplicati.com/) 2) Create a RemoteFS account ( https://remotefs.com/) 3) Fire up Duplicati, create a new backup job and select your folders 4) Protect your backup with AES encryption and a password 5) Select "SSH based backups" 6) Enter "endpoint.remotefs.com" as the server, your email as the username and your RemoteFS password. Leave the folder empty for the default (root) folder. 7) Check [X] Run backup now and Finish! Keep Duplicati running and it will update your backups according to its schedule. (Read https://remotefs.com/examples for instructions on how to use RemoteFS with rdiff-backup.) Feel free to contact support@remotefs.com. https://remotefs.com/
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Economy / Services / Re: (Beta) Vanity address generation - own a "1YourName" BTC address
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on: September 16, 2013, 08:33:38 PM
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Great questions actually, it is only a guess that the above prices are compatible with the current state of the art. In my research I couldn't find anyone offering a lower price, but things move fast and I could be wrong.
As far as I know you can reasonably create keys of more than 10 characters if you are extremely non-picky about them, e.g. if you don't expect a particular capitalization. I am offering exact, case-sensitive generation as a baseline.
My Macbook should generate a case-sensitive 8-character "hard" address (second character outside [0-9A-P]) or 9-character "easy" address in up to 4 years (depends on luck). A GPU should cut that to about 140 days.
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Economy / Services / (Beta) Vanity address generation - own a "1YourName" BTC address
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on: September 16, 2013, 12:57:20 AM
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We are offering cheap custom vanity addresses. Bitcoin addresses are addresses that start with a readable part, e.g. Satoshi Dice has addresses such as 1 dice1Qf4Br5EYjj9rnHWqgMVYnQWehYG. These addresses are generated using brute-force generation of addresses. We can offer the following prices for custom vanity addresses: 1-4 characters (hard) = 0.01 BTC 5 characters (hard) = 0.05 BTC 7 characters (hard) = 0.17 BTC 8 characters (hard) = 10 BTC The numbers above include the leading 1 (e.g. "1dice" is 5 characters). If the first character after the initial 1 is a number or uppercase letters A through P, you have an "easy" address and can deduct one character from the table above. All other characters are "hard".. A few other exceptions apply but we'll let you know if that is the case. In order to generate your address, you have to provide a "step 1 public key" as generated by the vanity wallet feature of https://www.bitaddress.org/ or the keygen feature of vanitygen. You should back up and keep your step 1 private key safe. Once we're done mining your address we'll send you our pool key, which can be combined with your private key to create a wallet. This procedure ensures that we won't be able to control your wallet. For 8 character vanity names, we may be able to reduce your costs if you provide a few alternative versions of your desired address: e.g. with slight differences in capitalization. Please contact us here, in a PM or at support@bittarget.com if you have any doubts or if you would like to try the service. Addresses up to 7 characters should take one or two days to generate. Please verify our availability for 8-character names. Do notice that this is an experimental service at this point.
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Economy / Services / Re: Market Research: e-mail services
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on: September 11, 2013, 12:37:58 AM
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How do we know you are not the NSA?
James Clapper gave his word that I am not the NSA. So you should believe him! Anyway, I did not promise anti-NSA levels of privacy or anything. This is just a decently run email that is friendly towards developers and power users.
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Economy / Services / Market Research: e-mail services
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on: September 08, 2013, 11:12:30 AM
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I own several properties and pet projects and setting up e-mail is something that has always annoyed me. So I built a little infrastructure to deal with this and I am thinking of releasing it into the world.
It is meant to be particularly useful for people who own several websites and those websites have a varying number of human and service accounts across several domains.
What I would be willing to provide:
- Email hosting with very few arbitrary limits (create as many domains / mailboxes / e-mail forwards / domain maps as you want) - All of the appropriate "modern" security requirements for emails taken care of: strict (user-configurable though) SPF records, DomainKeys, enforced TLS for clients (to avoid plaintext password leaks), opportunistic STARTTLS between servers with ECDHE, etc. - Both POP3 and IMAP. - A simple REST-ful API and browser-based UI to handle provisioning domains/forwards/mailboxes - Optional DNS server. Plenty of stuff that makes e-mail safer these days is in DNS so it would make sense to let us handle that for you. - Encrypted backups. - Hosting in Europe in two different countries with failover. - You get to use as much or as little of the system as you want. Only need forwards? Great. Wanna edit your SPF records and add your own server? Awesome. Want to add quotas to some accounts? Feel free to. No quotas for yourself? That's awesome as well. Want us to relay for you? Sure thing. Dedicated IP address for you and bring your own certificate? Can do (at a little extra cost for the IP address).
It would cost about $7 equivalent in Bitcoin for every 20GB of stored data and, of course, it can't be used for spam.
So I ask:
- Would people be interested in paying for this? - Are there any missing features?
Most of the work is already done on my side but offering this for third parties involves some overhead, so I would appreciate if the community could chime in.
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