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Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Promoting bitcoin - "Pay Less with Bitcoin"
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on: October 18, 2012, 04:26:15 PM
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I was thinking maybe there could be a project where we encourage web stores to take Bitcoin as payment and offer a discount (like 3%, about paypal's fees) for those who purchase with bitcoin. In addition, the official 'Pay Less with bitcoin' site will showcase stores and give out free advertising, and could develop easy to use and integrate plugins and APIs to make accepting bitcoins be something that takes around a hour to set up and get working.
Just make sure you explain to them all the fees the exchanges will charge them to exchange BTC to USD or EUR and to withdraw fiat to their bank. And don't forget to tell them that they should go sell the bitcoins in a hurry, preferably as soon as they get them(which is impossible because of the network confirmations needed before they can spend them and before any exchange let's them sell the BTC) or else they risk to lose 20%. You still think they should give a 3% discount for paying with Bitcoin? Think again. |
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Other / Archival / Re: Looking lines of credit.
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on: October 18, 2012, 03:59:29 PM
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How do you know what I'm doing and what my cost are lol? If you do not like the idea fine do not use the service and go away already, if anyone is actually interested I will be happy to talk with you in private about profit margins and things of that nature. Everything has a first just cause it has not been done yet does not mean it can not.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but it has indeed been done before. BitcoinNordic did it. But they don't do it anymore. Wanna guess why?  What's next? You found the perfect method to sell BTC for paypal? lol |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Adi Shamir's paper on bitcoin
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on: October 18, 2012, 03:53:19 PM
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But I wonder how they managed to determine the exact number of unique address owners:
Read the gist link (above). Their paper includes assumptions about addresses that are obviously wrong: A very important feature of the Bitcoin network is that a transaction involving multiple sending addresses can only be carried out by the common owner of all those addresses, as it is demanded by the Bitcoin system that "Whoever sent this transaction owns all of these addresses". This legal requirement is also technically ensured by the fact that each received amount must have a cryptographic digital signature that unlocks it from the prior transaction.
Nonetheless, clients that have an automatic mixing that is enabled by default would be very desirable. If the vast majority of clients operate in the standard way, the small amount that don't is negligible for the purpose of reverse engineering someone's economic activity. It would be hard to imagine a company finding it acceptable that their competitors can get a fairly good picture of their activity so easily.You mean, like when their payment processor sends out a press-release and makes countless forum posts saying how much money was processed for a given merchant? It didn't seem to be a problem when Bitpay did it. lol |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Adi Shamir's paper on bitcoin
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on: October 18, 2012, 02:08:00 PM
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The biggest flaw on the paper is the webscraping of blockchain data.
Right there they destroyed any assurance they could have of working with validated data.
How do they know they were fed the correct data by blockchain.info or blockexplorer.com?
The only way to be sure you have the correct blockchain data is to let your bitcoin client download it from the network and verify it. You may also download a blockchain snapshot, but you still need to let the client verify it to be sure what you have is real data and not some decoy.
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Economy / Goods / Re: Anonymous PLN Mastercard cards
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on: October 18, 2012, 01:58:11 PM
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Quick Q for dean or anyone else who has bought / used these cards.
How long does it take for a SEPA withdrawal from MtGox to Pekao? Thought it was a 24 hour job, but I'm beginning to suspect otherwise...
It takes 24hrs maximum AFTER MtGox effectively does the transfer. They may let it sit for days before doing it, ofcourse. |
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Other / Off-topic / Re: Wordpress (with Poll)
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on: October 18, 2012, 05:06:16 AM
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Pair Wordpress with a CDN, and it's even faster.
Interesting! In addition, CDNs provide the content provider a degree of protection from DoS attacks by using their large distributed server infrastructure to absorb the attack traffic. Cost? (compared to conventional hosting) Free if you use the cloudflare honeypot. Pair it with a caching plugin and it's almost a plain HTML website lol |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Transferfing balance from Satoshi Client to Blockchain.info/wallet questions
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on: October 18, 2012, 04:52:01 AM
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How did you know which packages to install?
And more importantly, what the heck do I do now? I have no idea how to use pywallet.
I use Ubuntu on my laptop but all my webservers run CentOS, which also uses yum. Not the first time I had to search for yum packages using the debian names.  First you'll need to prepare a couple things. On your home user dir make 1 folder named pywallet and 1 folder named bitcoin Inside the folder named bitcoin, insert a copy of your wallet.dat Download pywallet from Github. Extract the pywallet.py file to the pywallet folder you created previously. Check that you have the pywallet.py inside the folder and not on a sub-folder. Now on a terminal do next python pywallet.py --datadir=~/bitcoin --dumpwallet >> wallet.json.txt It should output a json with all your private keys, labels, etc. You just need to import it on blockchain.info. It's a text file, you can open it and copy the contents to import. Not sure how the import procedure on blockchain.info works. Tell me if you get any problem. Wrote this from memory. Maybe I forgot something. Just remember to always work with a wallet.dat copy, not with the original one. |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Transferfing balance from Satoshi Client to Blockchain.info/wallet questions
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on: October 18, 2012, 04:28:34 AM
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there should be equivalent packages for fedora as the ones it lists for debian
seth@LockBox:~$ sudo yum install build-essential Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit No package build-essential available. Error: Nothing to do seth@LockBox:~$ Starting to have second thoughts about Fedora.  It's too bad too because I like Fedora more than Ubuntu. But Ubuntu is definitely more popular, so it gets the devs' attention. I edited my post above. Check it and try |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Transferfing balance from Satoshi Client to Blockchain.info/wallet questions
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on: October 18, 2012, 12:45:01 AM
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Need writable directory, but '/var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2012-10-17-20:30:25-4079' is not writable. Move it to '/home/seth/.cache/abrt/spool' and operate on the moved data?
After following the directions and attempting to open the GUI this is the error I get.
Did you click Yes on that error prompt? You should. It still doesn't open after you click Yes? You may need to start Bitcoin-Qt again after clicking yes. That's the error reporting tool if I'm not mistaken. Also, there's no reason you couldn't install bitcoin wallet on Fedora. Not everything has to be in a RPM
That's what many people have claimed. But not by actual Fedora users. I'd like to see an actual Fedora user explain how they got the Satoshi Client working. As a Slackware user, make config;make;make install usually works for most stuff for me  I believe the project is open source so it should be possible to compile from scratch if nothing else. Alien might be the answer for Fedora I've only used it once though and that was about 8 years ago and was going rpm->deb. If he tries to compile it, it will not be easy. Bitcoin needs OpenSSL binaries that are a little different than the ones that ship with Fedora/CentOS. |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Transferfing balance from Satoshi Client to Blockchain.info/wallet questions
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on: October 18, 2012, 12:25:11 AM
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What's this? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=102650.0 And yes, you can move your wallet.dat to another computer with some other OS and it will work. YOu'll just need to Detach databases at shutdown(mark it on the Options screen), replace the wallet.dat(if you had another wallet.dat in there) and run Bitcoin with the -rescan flag so it can fetch all the transactions for the addresses on your wallet. Did you finished the thread? You'll see how I'm F'ed and not able to install Bitcoin Satoshi Client on Fedora. I re-read it again and don't see where you say you tried to use the rpm at the thread I linked you and the install failed. All I see is that you use Fedora and there is no rpm, which isn't true.  You can't install Bitcoin-Qt 0.7 but 0.6.3 is there. Ofcourse if you're using 0.7 already on Ubuntu I'm not sure if the wallet.dat file will be compatible with 0.6.3 |
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Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Has anyone used this BitCoin debit card?
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on: October 17, 2012, 11:42:09 PM
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Sorry. The administrator has banned your IP address. To contact the administrator click here Gotta love dumbass forum admins who ban IP addresses The funny part is that the dude banned like the whole range lol If there was a zillion facepalm meme I would post it. |
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