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Re: Is there a Clarkmoody for Bitstamp?
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BladeMcCool
on 18/07/2013, 01:28:38 UTC

No, more like exactly bitcoin.clarkmoody.com ... so, live candlesticks with moving averages shown on various periods with the click-to-scroller thing and the hover lines and the orderbook showing all entries or grouped on $5 blocks etc, and live display of changes to the candlesticks in realtime.
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Re: Limiting upload bandwidth in Satoshi bitcoin client
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BladeMcCool
on 05/04/2013, 16:06:32 UTC
Hate to necro a thread but as this is only a couple months old I'd like to bring it back up as a concern. I'm having this issue now, my flatmates are complaining about the internet being slow and shutting off bitcoin-qt fixes it.

What spot in the code should I look in to rate-limit the upload and then can someone hold my hand through building bitcoin QT with this new feature?
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Change addresses and wallet backups
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BladeMcCool
on 04/04/2013, 01:49:04 UTC
I am wondering how to know if the keys for the addresses that are used to receive the "change" from the transactions are included in my backups? I am concerned that even though I may never create "new" addresses by clicking "new address" in the "receive coins" window, that I may end up sending a transaction and having the change go to an address that is not in my backups, and then suffer hardware failure and lost funds as a result.

I am trying to put my mind at ease without having to make new backups after every single transaction, or sweep funds to an address that I know is in the backups after every single transaction. Any information on the matter would be appreciated.
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Re: The MAX_BLOCK_SIZE fork
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BladeMcCool
on 02/02/2013, 06:47:09 UTC
could maybe future-date a larger block size allowance by doing something like at block 250000 2MB blocks become allowed .. or something like that. Why not anyway. And for tx fees in blocks, more tx with lower fees vs less tx with higher fees = same amount of fees in a block that took essentially the same resources to compute, so it seems pretty moot. Am I missing something?
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WTB BTC with USD $344.50 paypal
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BladeMcCool
on 21/01/2013, 00:32:17 UTC
I've participated in these forums some for a while and have commented all around the web in support of Bitcoin. I'm willing to pay a small premium of course as well. I was thinking of giving the virwox thing a try but seems like with limits it will take a while to get $344 worth. (so, like 20 BTC @ USD$17.22)
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Re: The ITU members decided to adopt the Y.2770 standard for DPI
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BladeMcCool
on 08/12/2012, 07:29:56 UTC
No I am sure on that.

Death&Taxes,

next step will be stopping every packet that cannot be deeply inspected ...

spiccioli



Next will come steganographic streaming algorithms that look like mpeg but carry unidentifiable encrypted data.

casascius,

I'm not sure this would be feasible, how much data do you need to hide current blockchain inside it?

spiccioli


of course it's feasible. the point is that governments cannot stop the free flow of information no matter how hard they try. we will always find ways to route around the damage they try to cause.
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Re: Wiki Captcha required - 60% new user creation
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BladeMcCool
on 06/12/2012, 04:49:46 UTC
In my experience with Wiki's most captcha based additional verification before account creation doesn't slow it down much.
They guess those rather two well.
What slows it down the most is simple but random question of your own choice.
Having something non standard, means the bot just won't be able to guess it, but a human will know the answer.
The donation method is also great, just take a bit more to implement. It would once done before more likely to beat the bots and spammers.

Correct captcha relay is about $1.60 for a thousand solutions. Doesnt slow down spammers. What will stop spammer dead in its tracks is subject-matter related question on signup. Like "How many bitcoins will there ever be?" ... answer 21000000 ... or fill in the blank "Satoshi ______" answer Nakamoto ... etc.

A clever spammer could create a website that relays any sort of captcha challenge to users who are willing to solve them for .01BTC each. It has been done before, but using porn for a reward instead of bitcoins. Same principal.

typers in kazakhstan or indonesia are happy to do it for USD$0.80 per 1000 solutions = 0.061 Bitcoins for 1000 solutions = thats like 0.00061 bitcoins per solution. Thats the supply side for the typing workers. The demand side of companies that sell the bulk solutions  (imagetypers, deathbycaptcha, decaptcher, etc. etc.) can charge $1.6 per 1000 .. i tihnk there is also a middleman in there somewhere. anyway captcha solving is a perfect business to disintermediate with bitcoins if workers would accept them and buyers would pay with them lol.
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Re: Bitcoin and the Bible Code
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BladeMcCool
on 05/12/2012, 16:41:36 UTC
ok. so i have been having trouble sleeping lately.

Have you tried doing some physical exertion right before you lie down? Lately i've been doing some pushups until i cannot pushup no-more right before bed (being fairly unfit, i get to about 15 lol but its faster than getting tired out on the exercise bike) and then i stick the 60-minutes-white-noise mp3 on a loop and doze off pretty well. Seems to work better than cannabis (I am on a T-break) for me and without exposing the mind to mind-altering television programming.
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Re: 2012-11-28 bbc.co.uk - Rewards set to halve for digital money miners
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BladeMcCool
on 28/11/2012, 03:20:30 UTC
I'm also getting a 404 (EDIT: I'm on Telus in BC/Canada). why dont you go ahead and post the full article copy here for us. (pretty please).
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Re: Bill Gates on digital currency becoming big in Kenya and India -but not bitcoin?
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BladeMcCool
on 25/11/2012, 17:50:36 UTC
Until mobile customers in these places gain access to a real internet connection they'll be locked into whatever their mobile providers allow. The moment they can do an SSL protected request to a website with their phones (or even better, send arbitrary protocol data to arbitrary IP addresses) that will all change. For now, they could theoretically use a dial-in telephone banking style interface like BitcoinIVR or something similar but that may be cumbersome and burn precious minutes to use it while also requiring them to trust the IVR operator.

They need internet access to really be able to use bitcoin. I dont think thats really possible on the <$20 phones these people can currently afford.
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Re: A newbie asks - how many % of your disposable money have you in BTC?
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BladeMcCool
on 20/11/2012, 02:14:11 UTC
for me its about 70% gold, 25% silver, 5% bitcoin

Sounds about right, if you don't mind me asking do you have the money for metals in bullion or futures?

I have the metals as physical bullion. IMO if you don't hold it, you don't own it Wink
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Re: A newbie asks - how many % of your disposable money have you in BTC?
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BladeMcCool
on 19/11/2012, 16:20:51 UTC
for me its about 70% gold, 25% silver, 5% bitcoin
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Re: Sending BTCs to Gaza?
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BladeMcCool
on 19/11/2012, 03:43:52 UTC
gaza people are using shitty $1000 rockets to try and fight israel. they need some more serious equipment. maybe with bitcoin they could fund the development of something with a guidance system.
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Re: 2012-11-15 bloomberg.com - Hard Power Rising Means Less for U.S. or China: Cutti
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BladeMcCool
on 16/11/2012, 16:57:11 UTC
Hrm I forget who it was that said it but it was someone important and the thing they said was that bitcoin didnt matter unless bloomberg was reporting on it. Perhaps it was some forex market or something. Well that sounds like, in a small way, from that article you linked, that bloomberg is reporting on Bitcoin.
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2010-10-31 - Bitcoin and Forex Trading (video)
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BladeMcCool
on 01/11/2012, 16:55:11 UTC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8ibOGAebW8

This is promoting a forex site called First National Innovation Brokers (https://www.firstnationalib.com) that I've never heard of that claims to offer standard forex services and also the only forex to accept bitcoin. Thought it was interesting b/c I hadn't seen this before.
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Re: 12-10-31: Jon Matonis on Bitcoin CryptoCurrency−Is “Digital Gold” The Future Of
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BladeMcCool
on 31/10/2012, 19:53:23 UTC
i heard something about a bootleg? where is this bootleg at? I want to hear the interview. thanks.

EDIT: oooh I found the link BCB posted

http://downloads.payloadz.com/217507/fsn2012-1031-1-matonis.mp3?AWSAccessKeyId=012NFZM3D44FSG20CP82&Expires=1353426926&Signature=6%2BbqHxlKBDW9T9OReXOi4SnDLzc%3D

But I heard it will expire so I made a magnet Smiley

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4F25D235CEA026351210D32AAFC8056AA609D044&dn=fsn2012-1031-1-matonis.mp3
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Re: My friend's friend's dad owns a Bitcoin ONLY bar
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BladeMcCool
on 30/10/2012, 22:25:52 UTC
He must mean that it accepts cash and Bitcoin only, or he's full of shit. No way is there a bar that only accepts Bitcoin thats surviving, especially one the community doesn't even know about.

Apart from the fact that he'd likely go broke accepting Bitcoin only, I wonder whether it would even be legal for him to refuse to accept cash.

Legal tender laws only apply to settling debts. So if he refuses to server the beer until he is paid, does not allow tabs or serving before paying, then yes he can refuse customers that do not offer him the type of payment he wants. Now on the other hand if he had served some beer and then asked to be paid his customer is only obliged to pay the debt in legal tender.
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Re: 2012-10-27/[TV]ten-The Project/Silk Road
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BladeMcCool
on 28/10/2012, 20:36:22 UTC
This is actually from April 27 2012 (2012-04-27). Original vimeo link from Monica Barratt's own vimeo: http://vimeo.com/41180856
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Re: Increase the availability of BTC
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BladeMcCool
on 25/10/2012, 20:07:12 UTC
Are you running such a contest? Also do you personally accept BTC from people for payment for your goods/services? I accept it myself. I also give customers discount for buying my services in bitcoin. I would sell bitcoins for cash to locals here in Victoria BC as well. I sometimes randomly ask merchants at checkout "Oh can I pay with bitcoin?". Most of them respond "What is a bitcoin?" although one of them said "Not yet, still waiting to see if it really becomes soemthing".
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Re: Can facebook adapt bitcoin?
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BladeMcCool
on 23/10/2012, 19:05:24 UTC
you can post a facebook status like

"Hai friends I need some money pls send fundz to [bitcoin address]"

no facebook support required.