Posting for a friend who's looking to start selling his farm fresh meats for Bitcoin:

100% farm fresh organic beef for sale for Bitcoin. No hormones used, grass fed and grass finished. Can meet orders of almost any size and ships in a few days. Currently only shipping in the USA since this is a test of how popular this might be and looking to expand to other countries (if the law and practicality allow).

If interested, you can email me here and I'll forward the message to him or (for quicker service or questions) you can contact him directly at abeefyguy [at] cajuntechie [dot] org

I've just downloaded and installed the latest version of Electrum from source on Ubuntu 15.10. During the steps to get things setup, I got no errors at all and everything seems to have gone well. Electrum was installed in /usr/local/bin

When I start Electrum from the terminal, I get the following errors and Electrum does not start.

anthony@Third-Earth:~/.electrum$ /usr/local/bin/electrum
Error: Cannot read config file. /home/anthony/.electrum
Error: Could not import icons_rc.py, please generate it with: 'pyrcc4 icons.qrc -o gui/qt/icons_rc.py'
Exception in thread Thread-9 (most likely raised during interpreter shutdown):Exception in thread Thread-3 (most likely raised during interpreter shutdown):
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 810, in __bootstrap_inner
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Electrum-2.5.2-py2.7.egg/electrum/interface.py", line 201, in run
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Electrum-2.5.2-py2.7.egg/electrum/interface.py", line 115, in get_socket
Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Electrum-2.5.2-py2.7.egg/electrum/interface.py", line 102, in get_simple_socket  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 810, in __bootstrap_inner

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 228, in meth
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Electrum-2.5.2-py2.7.egg/electrum/interface.py", line 201, in run: 'NoneType' object is not callable

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Electrum-2.5.2-py2.7.egg/electrum/interface.py", line 115, in get_socket
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Electrum-2.5.2-py2.7.egg/electrum/interface.py", line 102, in get_simple_socket
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 228, in meth
: 'NoneType' object is not callable


Can anyone give me a clue as to what I'm missing or what might not be working?

Thanks!

As someone who strongly supports a Socially Democratic form of government, I've been trying to figure out how Bitcoin would fit in with that political and economic model.  Is there anyone who lives in a country that has a Social Democrat type of system here who might give me some insight? I know I'm being pretty vague but I guess I'm asking "could/does Bitcoin still have the freeing power in a social democracy as it does in the current US system?"

Hello Everyone,

I have all my bitcoins in a single wallet. I need to send someone bitcoins each week but I don't want them to know it's the same person sending them. Without literally shuffling bitcoins to other places, is there a way I can change what address each send comes from? Specifically, I'm using  Electrum but I'm open to change if it can't be done there.

Thanks!

All very excellent ideas! I especially like the rounded corners. I'm going to play with all of those now.

Thanks!!

Hey Everyone,

I've decided to start working on the BitVendor Mobile Vendor Point of Sale system again after over  year of letting it languish. I'm in the process of redesigning the user interface and would like your opinions and input. Basically, I'm trying to design the UI so that it is as close to a traditional POS system as possible so users who are used to operating regular cash registers won't have to relearn a whole new system.

This http://imgur.com/UyeBk6l is what I have so far. Anyone have any feedback on how to make it better or more usable?

I'm a professional software developer with over 20 years experience in both the general IT market (server setup and management, network planning and management, troubleshooting, etc) and software development in languages like C#, Python, Java, C++, PHP, etc).  I'm in the process of a lifestyle change and have decided I want to take a shot at offering my services to the Bitcoin community. My rates are very affordable and I can work remotely or in-house (if you require that).

No project is too large or too small.

If you're interested, please feel free to get in touch here on the forum.

Thanks!

Good points. I guess the ultimate answer really is just don't store large amounts of money on your mobile for long periods of time. Plan your spending and only transfer the amounts you need right now to your mobile wallet. It makes sense plus it has the added benefit of teaching people to plan their purchasing.

I totally agree but this doesn't seem possible for the cheaper devices since some of them don't support USB2GO. For example, a friend of mine has a rooted Galaxy Tab 3 and, while the firmware supports USB2GO, the hardware apparantly doesn't. It's absolutely the most secure but is it really feasible to ask people to either buy fairly more expensive tablets plus a Trezor just to store some Bitcoin? I suppose the answer to that depends on how many Bitcoin we're talking about, but it just seems like a bit much.

There's no doubt about it, people want to use Bitcoin on their mobile devices and, in such a connected world, there's no particular reason that mobile woudn't be the next frontier for Bitcoin. But mobile security is a pretty scary place.  So my question is pretty simple:

In your opinion, what is the safest way to run a Bitcoin wallet on a mobile device? I don't mean a watch-only wallet, I mean a fully functional wallet.  Let's assume for this discussion that "don't" and "convince the OS makers to make security better" aren't valid answers since those don't address the need right now.

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- Secure and reliable Web hosting
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- Cross platform desktop and mobile software development

My rates are affordable and I'm completely focused on customer satisfaction. I'm located in Oklahoma.

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MANY thanks! This is exactly what I was looking for!

I'm developing some software around the ShapeShift.io service and would like to be able to programatically convert coins from one type to another. I don't see a way to get a deposit address from your API. Any chance of this being implemented?

Hello Everyone,

I am trying to import my Multibit private key into Electrum. I've gone through the process but am being told by Electrum that it is an invalid key. Is there a way (other than the recommended way) to import a key?

Hi Everyone,

I want to purchase SIP trunking with Bitcoin. Does anyone know of a service that provides that?

Right, but that's because Armory has a way to validate it: it can try to decrypt your wallet. Since you're not sending the Armory developers your wallet or your private key, they don't have the ability to test to see if this is the right password and this tool would likely never actually work since they would/could just send you the first password they came up with and if it works it works, if it doesn't it doesn't.  Their answer seem to indicate that, given a weak enough password and you remembering enough of it for them to work from, they can send you a password that has a very reasonable chance of working and they might (they haven't said this so I don't know) have the ability to know when the recreation process succeeded or failed.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to be a dick here at all and I certainly understand how brute force works. But what bothers me most is that they can have some certainty that the generation process worked. Unless I am completely misunderstanding how things work (and I may be, so feel free to correct me if I am) they shouldn't be able to do that without testing the password against a private key (which they don't and should not have).

OK, I understand what you're saying. But, here's another question: how, without the private key, do you validate that tool has recreated the correct password? Is this documented anywhere?

Ok, so it seems like the tool just brute forces the rest of the password from the point you remember on. So, how much of my password do I need to remember for this to work? And, if I remember a good portion of my password, then it's likely a password I've used before and, thus, I'd remember the rest of it probably. So let's say I have a 40 character password. How much of that do I need to remember for this to work?

Umm..wait...what? How is this possible on a secure wallet? We definitely need more explanation as to how this works. If YOU GUYS can do it ANYBODY can do it if they figure out how. Can you explain HOW you can do this?

Thank you for the simple explanation. That is what I kind of suspected but I thought that there might be some kind of standard where the different mnemonics came out to the same thing. Glad I didn't try it! Thanks again.