I've lowered the price on my barwen.ch shell accounts to 0.025 BTC per month (they used to be 0.5 BTC per month, when the rate was lower).

The accounts are small, but enough to run eggdrop, irssi, simple CGI scripts or for pinging and tracerouting places.

You need to make a first payment by verified paypal (for USD 0.50) so I can get some vague ID of who you are, and after that you can pay by BTC for subsequent months.

more specs here: http://s0.barwen.ch/~benc/drupal/specs
and the signup form: http://s0.barwen.ch/~benc/drupal/signup

did britcoin just drop off the net? I was using it this morning but its just turned into a parking page in the last few minutes...!

I thought about doing that with barwen.ch - then I decided that if I was going to the trouble of authenticating users with eg paypal, I might as well leave the accounts active the whole time and limit resources such as bandwidth, disk usage, etc rather than time that your account is enabled.

Seems an interesting idea to pursue though

I'm offering (fairly constrained) ssh on barwen.ch:
http://www.barwen.ch/bitcoin.html
in exchange for bitcoin (with a verified paypal payment required for the first month)

Put that inside your public_html folder rather than root - look at how ~nmapme/ is set up.

Then that's the right URL you have.

set up.

please let me know what you think (good or bad)

yeah IRC bot is fine. the limits are on resident memory (so as long as your bot is not written in Java, you're probably OK) and bandwidth use and not abusing, rather than specific kinds of programs.

@grondilu: yeah there's CGI. But you aren't going to be able to host "large" things there - Nefario's service is much more appropriate for that.

I haven't found anyone interested in my 0.50 BTC shells either...

Nevertheless, you can make a police report. Even if you don't expect the police to actually help you. (for example, when your passport or wallet is stolen in a random country when you're on holiday, and you want to get a new passport or claim on insurance).

Its in the very least a sign of sincerity: reluctance to even approach police about the issue is a fairly serious warning sign to me.

right.

does that happen in practice? (Maybe transactions originating in an exchange?)

if people want a fairly low bandwidth tunnel then I can support users on my box, barwen.ch - like I said above, I'd want a payment via verified paypal first to confirm ID, then subsequent months can be in bitcoin - 1USD=1bitcoin, 50 cents (half a bitcoin) per month. Usage limited to 500mb per month, though - that's a fairly big restriction. If you want something bigger, then Nefario's 3 bitcoin suggestion might be more appropriate.

Access is via SSH, which you can tunnel over http (eg using netcat) - once you have that, you can use ssh's -D option to proxy out over SOCKS to wherever.

PM if you're interested.

if it really is 45000 USD involved, surely this is worth getting the police involved rather than complaining about on a forum? surely without a police report for allegedly stolen 45000 its hard to take you seriously.

can't you refund them to the address they came from?

are you doing anything to identify the people you sell the accounts to? I have a machine that I'd give very limited capacity accounts to for half-a-bitcoin per month (500 mBTC?) but I would like to have at least the same rough identity as eg paypal verified payment would give me... I'm interested to know what your take on that is.

out of interest what did you want this for?

You can put a receiving paypal account into micropayment mode (google paypal micropayment) - then you're charged 5% and 5c per transaction instead of 30c + a smaller percentage.

if you expect your market to be small transactions rather than large transactions maybe that makes sense

doesn't really seem to be a security flaw, but I get:

"Fatal error: Uncaught BitcoinClientException:

• : Didn't receive 200 OK from remote server. (HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error) thrown in on line 0"

when I fill in 1 in the bitcoin field and 1 in the bitcoin address (rather than putting in a real bitcoin address)

I have a VPS that I run as a hobby semi-public access system. I'd be interested in trading services on that VPS in exchange for bitcoin.
An example might be secondary DNS for 0.10 bitcoin per month. I'm open to ideas...