Well, I can't access the site at all, and it said right before I refreshed the page (while I could still access it) that there had been changes to the server.

Methinks someone doth play with IPtables too much... but yeah, it could be DDoS too

EDIT: My miner has switched back and the website is up again.

Sorry to bother you, but the website and pool are down, at least for me.

http://isitup.org/www.btcguild.com says:

Sending a PM.

I think I have noticed a bug, either in the BCCAPI or in BitcoinSpinner.

Yesterday, I saw my balance take a ~.60 BTC hike. I looked at my balance on blockexplorer which -should- be accurate since BitcoinSpinner doesn't do the "send random change" thing.

Well, I looked at it and it confirmed my suspicions; my balance was indeed lower on the blockchain than in the wallet. So I tried an experiment... I put BitcoinSpinner on a friend's phone, and sent most of my entire balance to that address. (About 2 BTC).

Approximately 40 minutes later and there is still no mention of the transaction; neither blockexplorer nor unconfirmed transactions shows anything with my address or my friend's. BitcoinSpinner shows the transaction as still "unconfirmed" which i believe means that it has not even received one confirmation.

Now, I know for a fact since it seems the transaction hasn't even been broadcast, that the bitcoins still technically belong to the private key and I could pull out the private key, but I'm looking a bit deeper than 2 BTC here. There has to be something wrong with either the client or the API... or at the very least, something obvious is just not plainly showing itself in this client.

Could the transaction history of BitcoinSpinner be amended to show a number of confirmations? It would be greatly useful in my diagnostics here.

Of course you do. Basics in C++ will cost, for you, only 0.4 BTC. Please PM me; you'll need to provide your e-mail address (it can be a throw-away, but I need it for the escrow service). We can get started as soon as you like.

A good question, and I'll reply with what I think is a good answer.

The reason there is an advantage is the same reason we still have universities; and the advantage is the same that a private tutor has over a collegiate level course. Bear with me.

We have universities because there is a level of personality and interaction to the learning process. If I'm having trouble in a class at the Institute, I can ask the professor what I'm doing wrong.

The Internet has become okay-ish at crowdsourcing the answers to people's questions, via sites such as Stack Overflow, Yahoo Answers, ChaCha (for whom I am a Guide), et cetera. What the Internet still cannot do, however, is interact one-on-one with a student, tailoring the program to her own personal needs, answering her questions real-time and having enough data over time to pinpoint the areas of general misunderstanding, rather than handing her an answer for every specific question. Why have a student memorise the known MD5 hashes for an 8-bit integer, exempli gratia, when you can teach her the algorithm?

Some folks just don't learn as well from written tutorials. I am one, so I know they're out there. Thanks for your input

Thanks for the offer; unfortunately I could never afford such a thing. I only have 2 BTC to my name at this point. It's such a grand opportunity but unfortunately I really can't afford it right now.

Anyhow, isn't my ad a bit too big for a "classifieds" section? Perhaps I could just put a little note in there. But BTC 0.50 per word is up there, at least for me.

I have added a new course to the lineup, Esoteric Explorations. Even if you already know how to code in every useful language, what's life without a little fun? If you enroll, you and I will take an introductory look at some of the wackiest languages ever designed by man. If I were an accredited university, this would be my answer to "Beers of the World". It's just a silly little thing, so let's put the price at .5 BTC.

The exchanges are on their way down, it seems, so there's never been a better time to spend your Bitcoins for what they really are! My prices haven't changed!

Remember, it's never too late to learn something new!

good day sir .pl ease check PMB we can have htis done in tow (2) day s

... oh wait, wrong website 

I replied to your PM earlier today. I don't know if you just didn't get it yet, or you tried my e-mail and it didn't work, but let me know what's up

Appy-polly-logies, but thou have placed no address in your siggy-wig, O my brother....

So close, but yet so far...


I want a quote from Alex DeLarge!

Oh hell, a tip's on your way anyway, but whoever gives me a quote from him will get another!

Well, that's who he's talking about... but I'm looking for one of my favourite quotes from the movie that line is from.

Here's another.... "One thing I could never stand was to see a filthy, dirty old drunkie, howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going,  "blurp blurp" in between, as it might be a filthy old orchestra in his stinking, rotten guts. I could never stand to see anyone like that, whatever his age might be, but more especially when he was real old like this one was."

Is it possible to take your coins away if you have not heard of this masterpiece? (I jest, I jest!)

Hello! I'm a lifelong student of the science of computing, though I consider it more of an art than a science.

I am lovestruck by Bitcoin and its ingenious decentralised nature. I hope to keep as much BTC as I can flowing through the network, although I do need to put food on the table (desk? I can't afford a table, nor food worthy of one).

I grew up coding in various toy languages like BASIC and whatnot, then moved on to C++. That is my area of expertise, though I have in recent years learned other things.


Freelance Coding

I can understand most languages inherently and can teach myself any language or library you throw at me. Estimates will vary based on difficulty, but we're probably looking at about 1.5 BTC for the equivalent of one hour of work. It won't actually be per hour for obvious reasons (I could take longer on purpose, you could accuse me of taking longer on purpose... bleh!). There will be variance: the difficulty of the work, how many new things I'll have to learn, etc.

If you agree that I may retain copyright and license the software as GPL or other qualifying copyleft, I will work for 50% of the normal price.
If I must turn over the copyright, but you agree that I may include a copy of the work in my portfolio, I will work for 80% of the normal price.

Tutoring

I will also offer tutoring to beginners on the topics below, one-on-one via online tools such as PiratePad, and/or the IM protocol of your choice. Tutoring for the statically-priced courses will continue until you understand the topics or until you're obviously prolonging the process (the escrow will have to make that decision). I am a damn good Explainer of Things, however, so this will not be necessary. Payment will be via BTCrow, therefore, logs of the chat will be kept in the event of a dispute. I will pay all escrow fees.

Though I refer to the following offerings as "courses," they do not carry credit at any accredited institution. No tests are given and the only grade is success.

• BASIC Discoveries: I'll teach you basic output and control structures in a toy language, BASIC. Cool if you just want to say to friends, "Look, I made a computer program!".
  • Course Fee: 0.25 BTC
• Basics in C++/Java : You've never coded before in your life. Accelerated learning using guided immersion. We will set up the build environment(s) and get you writing your first program right away. You can expect to be able to write interactive "toy" command-line applications within one to two hours.
  • Course Fee (C++ or Java): 2 BTC
  • Course Fee (C++ and Java): 2.75 BTC
• C++ for the Mildly Initiated: Okay, so you've coded a few things before. In BASIC, Java.... something other than C++. An explanation of the constructs of C++ and how it is different from other languages. A Q/A session follows.
  • Course Fee: 1.5 BTC
• C++: Classes, Pointers, and Polymorphism; An introduction to object oriented programming and what you can do with it. This is for someone who already knows most or all of the material taught in Basics.
  • Course Fee: 2 BTC
  • Prerequisites: you must understand the concepts outlined in "Basics": control structures such as loops, conditionals, and functions are a must.
• Data Structures in C++: We'll take a serious look at the way computers store data and the tradeoffs between processing and memory requirements. This course may persist over a few sessions.
  • Course Fee: 3 BTC
  • Prerequisites: strong knowledge of control structures and classes. Provided by "C++:CP+P" above.
• C++: The Journey: I will take you on as my personal student, teaching you everything I know at your pace. When you've learned enough, or I have no more to teach, we are done.
  • Initial Fee: 5 BTC. Includes first two one-hour sessions.
  • 2 BTC per one-hour session afterward
• Esoteric Explorations: What's life without a little fun? We'll take an introductory look at some of the wackiest languages ever designed by man. If I were an accredited university, this would be my answer to "Beers of the World".
  • Course Fee: 0.5 BTC

PM me for details on the cirricula. I can provide you with a list of things you'll be able to do, guaranteed, no matter how long it takes me (save for the "Journey" model, which continues indefinitely).
If you're not sure which course you'd like or would like one formed to your specific needs, we can work something out, I'm sure.
Prices and course listings are subject to change.

All payments are final, unless I or the escrow service deem otherwise.

I intend on using the escrow service provided by BTCrow.

Please post in this thread, or PM, if you are interested. You may also post small programming questions in this thread; I will have a fair crack at them on my time. If I solve something worthwhile for you, perhaps you'll consider sending a couple BTC to my address below.

Erm... um... i don't know what to... oh hell.

As an experiment, I will send .01 BTC to the first person to quote one of my favourite lines from this character.... (I have lots).

"It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van."

Computers interest me. Money interests me. I try to save as much as I can while living as simply as I can. I am convinced that the economic crisis is due to so many people expecting that they will all own things like, a car, a large house, every game console, etc. and go on vacations twice a year.

What really gets me though is said people, even those who have all these things, will say they're poor! It's like the sickeningly thin women (<100 lbs) who say, "I'm fat! I'm fat! I need to lose more weight!". People in Western civilisations will always keep going, "I'm poor! I'm poor! I need a newer car! The newest gaming console! The newest clothes!"

Ugh! I think that before you buy a new car to replace another functioning car, you should have to pass through a room full of starving children looking at you, asking with sad eyes for you to forgo your power locks and windows so that they all can eat for the next week.

The study of the attitudes of the human race en masse is interesting too. Really, there's a whole list of things that interest me, mostly depressing ones. Do you really want them all?

I was big into HYIPs and e-gold a little while back. The outcome of that adventure... well, what do you think? HYIPs are scams. I was a sucker.

But the concept was intriguing. I was making money (or i thought i was) starting from just a few cents by clicking ads. It felt great to see this happening.

E-gold had one weakness however; it was vulnerable to attack by a hostile government. Sure enough, Babylon didn't like the "money laundering" side of it. This is also known as, Uncle Sam wasn't getting his cut.

A few years back, there was a warrant, a court case, an audit and a ruling. E-gold was to be liquidated by order of the government.

I was pissed. I only had something like 14 cents in my account, but I told myself I would discover a new way to move money around; a way with plausible deniability for everyone involved. You're damn right, I want the crooks to get away with it. There is so much unnecessary violent crime in the world simply because there is such a thing as victimless crime. If nobody had to be silenced because they knew about the meth lab, that would be one less murder. I do not do drugs or engage in any illegal activity. It is a matter of principle. The government is too large and too powerful, and unless Ron Paul is elected and lives long enough to do what he has to do, it will only get worse.

I kept searching for an alternative currency. I don't remember how or when, but I found Bitcoin. Thought it was weird at first, "How could this ever work?", that sort of thing. Watched it for a while, downloaded the wallet, used the Bitcoin faucet... and forgot about it for a year or so. Missed the big bubble-- probably a good thing; that would have solidified my skepticism. I built myself a gaming rig, long overdue, and started running F@H with the wasted cycles at night. It was interesting of course, but I didn't see anything come from it.

Then I remembered that Bitcoin thing. And that if GPU's were superior at crunching numbers one way.... well... I could be rich!

...  Not rich yet. But I am making about 1.20 BTC a week!

You've gotta be kidding me! A few clicks on Vidalia, and I could have avoided having to create a whole new identity for myself. Oh well; my registration is forever tied to a point on Big Brother's graph of IP vs time.

Shou ga nai. I only offer legitimate services anyway. I'm just a wannabe crypto/privacy buff. ChocolateSoda's got a nice ring to it. I just tried some yesterday (the bottle was on my desk earlier) and it's probably the best thing.

I am a university student posting to offer my services. Once I am no longer under newbie restriction I plan to acquire various coding work on the marketplace.

I know, in order from most (quite!) to least (ehh...) fluent, C++, C, Java, Python, and I'm getting started on the web languages like PHP, JavaScript, HTML, etc.

Bitcoin is important to me because after a year or so of skepticism (including the great crash last year), I see the true value of Bitcoin. Bitcoins are a reward we get for securing the Bitcoin network-- it is not just a fiat currency; the gold standard is to currency as proof-of-work is to Bitcoin.

I currently mine approximately 1.12 BTC per week with what used to be my gaming rig before I took an arrow in th way too many classes. My pool of choice is BTCguild, simply due to my interests in the dot-BIT alternative, government-proof DNS network. I hope that my first pure-BTC purchase will be a Casascius physical Bitcoin.

I am disturbed that these forums do not allow Tor. Geez, a complaint in my first post! Sorry. 

That's about it for now. Gonna go check out the rest of the newbie prison