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If you limit bandwidth there, this would lead to long downloads + frustrated clients who anyways have to wait ~2-3 blocks until they are allowed into the network in the first place!
Most captive portals allow the owner to permit certain ports at will, so whitelisting port 8333 would allow the user to connect to whatever bitcoin client he desired prior to payment, and then tentatively allow access with the receipt of a valid transaction. If the transaction turns out bad (double spent, or whatever) during the next 20 minutes, cut the user off. Bitcoin might be nice for real money transfer, but for small + quick payments (on the airport I want to check mails 5 minutes before the plane leaves, not wait half an hour until my payment is verified!) you would need either a centralized prepay-solution or something else.
Confirmations are not required for small value payments. Take a look at the 'vending machine' threads. Online e-wallets are one solution, but a double-spend is a tough thing to do, and not something a person is likely to attempt for small value gains. |
"The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the systems was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank...sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world."
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May 16, 2011, 07:07:14 PM |
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If you limit bandwidth there, this would lead to long downloads + frustrated clients who anyways have to wait ~2-3 blocks until they are allowed into the network in the first place!
Most captive portals allow the owner to permit certain ports at will, so whitelisting port 8333 would allow the user to connect to whatever bitcoin client he desired prior to payment, and then tentatively allow access with the receipt of a valid transaction. If the transaction turns out bad (double spent, or whatever) during the next 20 minutes, cut the user off. Bitcoin might be nice for real money transfer, but for small + quick payments (on the airport I want to check mails 5 minutes before the plane leaves, not wait half an hour until my payment is verified!) you would need either a centralized prepay-solution or something else.
Confirmations are not required for small value payments. Take a look at the 'vending machine' threads. Online e-wallets are one solution, but a double-spend is a tough thing to do, and not something a person is likely to attempt for small value gains. Until someone can package the exploit and make it trivial to perform such a thing, giving them a skeleton key to all micro payment systems. |
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MoonShadow
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May 16, 2011, 07:11:10 PM |
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If you limit bandwidth there, this would lead to long downloads + frustrated clients who anyways have to wait ~2-3 blocks until they are allowed into the network in the first place!
Most captive portals allow the owner to permit certain ports at will, so whitelisting port 8333 would allow the user to connect to whatever bitcoin client he desired prior to payment, and then tentatively allow access with the receipt of a valid transaction. If the transaction turns out bad (double spent, or whatever) during the next 20 minutes, cut the user off. Bitcoin might be nice for real money transfer, but for small + quick payments (on the airport I want to check mails 5 minutes before the plane leaves, not wait half an hour until my payment is verified!) you would need either a centralized prepay-solution or something else.
Confirmations are not required for small value payments. Take a look at the 'vending machine' threads. Online e-wallets are one solution, but a double-spend is a tough thing to do, and not something a person is likely to attempt for small value gains. Until someone can package the exploit and make it trivial to perform such a thing, giving them a skeleton key to all micro payment systems. Maybe, but then this either becomes a digital 'arms race' as the vendor's programmers come up with new ways of flagging frauds, or simply new ways to identify fraudsters. If the vendors cannot keep ahead of the fraudsters one way or the other, vendors will simply default to requiring confirmations, and online wallets will truely become required for 'instant' transfers. |
"The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the systems was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank...sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world."
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April 22, 2012, 04:30:32 PM |
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I would like have hotspot based on some popular WiFi router, like Linksys or Ubiquiti.
Person pay with BTC and get access to internet.
https://dev.openwrt.org/This is most popular alt firmware. Somebody, pls, create a ticket for developers. My engilish is poor to do it. |
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April 22, 2012, 09:19:19 PM |
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April 22, 2012, 10:19:06 PM |
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this idea will be nice for large Wi-Fi operators,i hate to put my CC # in the airport
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Supporting people with beautiful creative ideas. Bitcoin is because of the developers,exchanges,merchants,miners,investors,users,machines and blockchain technologies work together.
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Herbert
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April 23, 2012, 02:44:30 PM |
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Seems we have to do it on our own then  |
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April 24, 2012, 10:09:48 PM |
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Seems we have to do it on our own then You cannot just throw some random buzzword laden idea in the tracker hoping the devs will jump on it and guess what you mean and how it should be implemented. And they are right. Start a discussion on their forums, with details of how it would work and how it would be implemented. A bug tracker is for bugs, not features. Also, bitcoin is a buzzword.  |
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teflone
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April 27, 2012, 10:20:05 PM |
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I would like to add 10 BTC to the Bounty, providing someone can walk me through making it work without using linux.
I am EXTREMELY interested in seeing this happen...
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MoonShadow
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April 27, 2012, 10:40:13 PM |
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providing someone can walk me through making it work without using linux.
that's a practical impossibility. |
"The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the systems was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank...sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world."
- Carroll Quigley, CFR member, mentor to Bill Clinton, from 'Tragedy And Hope'
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April 27, 2012, 11:53:45 PM |
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providing someone can walk me through making it work without using linux.
that's a practical impossibility. Windows RT router anyone? LOL |
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MoonShadow
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April 27, 2012, 11:56:53 PM |
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providing someone can walk me through making it work without using linux.
that's a practical impossibility. Windows RT router anyone? LOL good luck with that. |
"The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the systems was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank...sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world."
- Carroll Quigley, CFR member, mentor to Bill Clinton, from 'Tragedy And Hope'
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April 28, 2012, 12:37:53 AM |
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Well, I guess no one is willing to sell me a preconfigured router then.. oh well... Ill give someone else my bitcoins...  |
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MoonShadow
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April 28, 2012, 12:39:11 AM |
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Well, I guess no one is willing to sell me a preconfigured router then.. oh well... Ill give someone else my bitcoins... Preconfigured is a different requirement than doesn't require linux. |
"The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the systems was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank...sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world."
- Carroll Quigley, CFR member, mentor to Bill Clinton, from 'Tragedy And Hope'
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April 28, 2012, 12:44:46 AM |
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I think the biggest concern about being able to set up a mobile hotspot is the possibility of that mobile hotspot leaving/going down/shutting off/etc. I mean, I'd be pissed if I paid for 60 minutes of access, and then 2 minutes later, the person running the mobile hotspot jumps on a plane and shuts off their device. So, solve that problem please, then I'm onboard.  |
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teflone
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April 28, 2012, 12:47:08 AM |
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I think the biggest concern about being able to set up a mobile hotspot is the possibility of that mobile hotspot leaving/going down/shutting off/etc. I mean, I'd be pissed if I paid for 60 minutes of access, and then 2 minutes later, the person running the mobile hotspot jumps on a plane and shuts off their device. So, solve that problem please, then I'm onboard. Is that a real worry ? In the last year I think my router has been off for a total of 3 minutes.. I would hazard a guess a lot of people are like me. And on top of that, why not pay in smaller amounts... ? 15 mins.. 30 mins... big whoop, I dont think this would be very expensive for the end user paying for access |
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brendio
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April 28, 2012, 01:28:45 AM |
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Sounds a lot like FON ( http://corp.fon.com/en/this-is-fon). Haven't looked at it for awhile, so I'm not sure what stage it's at or whether could be tweaked to accept bitcoin. |
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April 28, 2012, 02:25:56 AM |
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+1 btc if the software is free
+1 btc for Hotspot or Android firmware/app to profit from.
(while 1 btc < $10 USD)
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April 28, 2012, 04:50:31 AM |
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I think the biggest concern about being able to set up a mobile hotspot is the possibility of that mobile hotspot leaving/going down/shutting off/etc. I mean, I'd be pissed if I paid for 60 minutes of access, and then 2 minutes later, the person running the mobile hotspot jumps on a plane and shuts off their device. So, solve that problem please, then I'm onboard. Is that a real worry ? In the last year I think my router has been off for a total of 3 minutes.. I would hazard a guess a lot of people are like me. And on top of that, why not pay in smaller amounts... ? 15 mins.. 30 mins... big whoop, I dont think this would be very expensive for the end user paying for access Well, someone mentioned "mobile hotspots". If I'm connecting to one, how do I know it's a router, and not someone's mobile hotspot? Or wireless-sharing mobile phone? |
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