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Re: Websites for Bitcoin Speculators
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battani
on 14/04/2015, 19:18:57 UTC
Whaleclub.co missing from the list - it's the largest bitcoin trading community
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Re: Can Someone Explain "Off-Blockchain Transactions" ?
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battani
on 15/05/2014, 02:43:13 UTC
Bitcoin services implement off-blockchain transactions because of the high miner fees and long confirmation times. Most developers really wish they could decentralize — it's more secure and they don't have to hold the raw private keys. Unfortunately, decentralization kills the user experience.
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Re: Can Someone Explain "Off-Blockchain Transactions" ?
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battani
on 14/05/2014, 18:28:18 UTC
all transactions are to be included in the blockchain..there cannot be any transaction outside..

off blockchain transaction simply means that a ledger is maintained outside the blockchain and then injected into the official blockchain after some time, typically what happens in coinbase and in some altcoin exchanges..

speed is one reason i believe reason for off blockchain tranaction.

How would they inject transactions into the official blockchain, after-the-fact?
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Re: I built a bitcoin app you may find useful
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battani
on 13/03/2014, 22:21:44 UTC
A few weeks ago, a friend and I had the idea to build an app to send and receive bitcoin over social networks. There have been many times in the past where we wanted to send bitcoin to people on Facebook or Twitter (to tip, or as a gift, or to pay back friends), but could never do it easily. The recipient has to set up a wallet, understand how it all works, and send me their address, among other things.
 
The entire bitcoin experience seemed to be a real pain for average users. We thought they would be more at ease transacting on platforms they’re familiar with, with people they can identify and trust, as opposed to anonymous addresses.

So we built Coingram: https://coingram.co

It’s quite straightforward: you can send bitcoin to anyone on Facebook or Twitter. You can also receive bitcoin from anyone by sharing a link: coingram.co/[your-username]. And you can send very tiny amounts (as little as 1 micro-bitcoin). Everything is free.

We have many features planned (mobile app, embeddable buttons, attaching media to your transaction) but we think it's reached a point where we want to see if anyone's actually going to use the darn thing.

We think it has some potential. What do you guys think?

See here. This is the place to establish your competence, not to obfuscate yourself and your idea while appealing to "ease".

"Ease" is exactly what bitcoin needs right now. Your post is antiquated. I think you're right though in that this forum is most probably not the target market.
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Re: I built a bitcoin app you may find useful
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battani
on 13/03/2014, 22:19:43 UTC
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Store your bitcoin in an ultra-secure, easy-to-use wallet.

How secure are we talking?  After the rash of hacks lately I am going to need a little more info.

Storage is handled by Blockchain and Coinbase.
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I built a bitcoin app you may find useful
by
battani
on 12/03/2014, 18:11:41 UTC
A few weeks ago, a friend and I had the idea to build an app to send and receive bitcoin over social networks. There have been many times in the past where we wanted to send bitcoin to people on Facebook or Twitter (to tip, or as a gift, or to pay back friends), but could never do it easily. The recipient has to set up a wallet, understand how it all works, and send me their address, among other things.
 
The entire bitcoin experience seemed to be a real pain for average users. We thought they would be more at ease transacting on platforms they’re familiar with, with people they can identify and trust, as opposed to anonymous addresses.

So we built Coingram: https://coingram.co

It’s quite straightforward: you can send bitcoin to anyone on Facebook or Twitter. You can also receive bitcoin from anyone by sharing a link: coingram.co/[your-username]. And you can send very tiny amounts (as little as 1 micro-bitcoin). Everything is free.

We have many features planned (mobile app, embeddable buttons, attaching media to your transaction) but we think it's reached a point where we want to see if anyone's actually going to use the darn thing.

We think it has some potential. What do you guys think?
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Re: Place LIMIT orders on Coinbase - online app
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battani
on 15/01/2014, 17:25:05 UTC
Right now we have about 22 users.

Just curious, how many of those users have connected their Coinbase account? Great site, although I personally don't use Coinbase to trade because of their high 1% fee.
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Re: Qt Bitcoin Trader - Dedicated rule configuration thread
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battani
on 13/12/2013, 23:15:34 UTC
Still doesn't seem to be working for me, even with the latest update... Placed the below rule as a stop loss, it executed the rule, but did not make the trade.

http://i.imgur.com/OMmkbr1.png
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Re: Qt Bitcoin Trader - Dedicated rule configuration thread
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battani
on 13/12/2013, 17:21:52 UTC
I don't know if anyone else is having trouble here, but when I set rules on BTCChina, the rules get executed correctly (it says "done" and is highlighted in green) but the orders attached to the rules don't go through. For example, as a test, I set this rule as a stop loss for a sell I made:

http://i.imgur.com/3NhjZLP.png

This rule is executed, but the consequent order is not placed, and I'm left with the same BTC balance. Would be great if someone could comment on this.

Or perhaps there's a simpler way to set stop losses and profit targets?

Otherwise, I absolutely love QT. Great job Ighor!
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Re: [FEEDBACK REQUEST] Bitcoin cloud services
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battani
on 12/09/2013, 15:45:10 UTC
I love your idea and it's one that I've had for a while.

Currently, the market for bitcoin developers may be small, but it will only keep growing in the future. As you said, the market may be small because there are high barriers to entry, e.g. there is demand but developers are waiting for an easy and simple way to configure and deploy their bitcoin app. Abstracting bitcoind calls with a REST API could be one way to go. You could have bits of code for the most popular web and mobile frameworks that developers add to their app to bring up and connect to an instance of bitcoind.

Obviously the big question here is security, but if you provide enough value to developers and military-grade security, they will come to trust you. Coinbase has 300K users, and all their bitcoins are stored on servers customers don't own.

It's a big undertaking, but I can tell you there's definitely (gonna be) a market for this, as long as you focus on great service and security.
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Re: Get list of all addresses with a balance over x?
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battani
on 07/08/2013, 15:41:08 UTC
Over a year ago I actually started importing the blockchain and doing just that, but it requires the full blockchain imported into MySQL or your preferred database.

Interested in doing this too. Found this to import blockchain into MongoDB: https://github.com/thelinuxkid/bitcoinquery
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Re: Listing balance and transaction info of other addresses
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battani
on 07/08/2013, 15:30:58 UTC
Blockchain.info and others basically read the blocks and makes a database following the inputs/outputs.You need a block explorer for what you want.

Is there a way to read blocks that way? I'm curious as to how blockchain.info went about doing this from a technical perspective. I know I have the blocks stored in my bitcoin folder, but I don't know of an easy way to read them.
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Listing balance and transaction info of other addresses
by
battani
on 07/08/2013, 06:19:53 UTC
I'm trying to retrieve info about transactions and balances of addresses on the network.

Code:
./bitcoind listtransactions '*'

Code:
./bitcoind getbalance '1127YKBDm8d2ZEvFwGz3e6NaWUr4LNQSBE'

(see http://blockexplorer.com/address/1127YKBDm8d2ZEvFwGz3e6NaWUr4LNQSBE)

But both commands above return empty. How can I get a list of transactions, say, of the last ten minutes? How can I get the balance of a specific address using its public key? Are these operations possible with bitcoin client? How do blockchain and others do it?
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Re: Why won't BTC drop in Value when Mainstream?
by
battani
on 06/08/2013, 15:59:49 UTC

The proprietor is trying his best to make as much cocoa as he can but even hiring a couple of people to help he can't make more than a hundred cups of cocoa because the cocoa machine only makes one cup at a time.

The end.

This is great and I think it's applicable to the bitcoin economy. We're currently in the process of paving that path, but we still don't know how many people will venture across it and whether or not there'll be an oversupply of cocoa.

Supply is fixed!

Yes, oversupply = little demand relatively to supply.
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Re: Why won't BTC drop in Value when Mainstream?
by
battani
on 06/08/2013, 05:46:13 UTC
I think what OP is getting at is that there will be a perceived decrease in scarcity when there are more readily-available outlets for people to trade in Bitcoin. Now you sort of have to know someone who knows someone or know the secret handshake. The amount of work or knowledge necessary to obtain Bitcoin will in fact decrease. The cost to obtain Bitcoin (separate from its trading value) will go down.

A good analogy for why this doesn't match up with reality is this:

Imagine a store that sells only one thing. Lets say it is hot cocoa. This store is at the top of a big hill which is surrounded by trees and covered in snow. Everyone in the town near the hill is shivering and cold, because they have never heard of hot cocoa. One person climbs to the top of the hill, which is very difficult because the snow is deep and the hill is treacherously steep. That person gets to the top and the proprietor of the store has four steaming hot cups of cocoa, which the proprietor offers him at a dollar per cup.

The climber, however, has left his wallet at home. He fishes through his pockets and finds a dime. He says, "sorry, that's all I've got." The proprietor looks around, sees he has no other customers and is unlikely to sell any of his cocoa, and says, "what the heck, no one wants this stuff anyhow" and sells the cocoa for a dime.

The next day, the climber brings three friends, and they've all brought their wallets. It's a tough climb to the top but everyone gets to the cocoa store and spends a dollar on the hot cocoa. Everyone feels so much better after a lifetime deprived of hot cocoa that on the way down they start shoveling a trail through the snow to make it easier to get to the top of the hill.

The following day, there are eight people. The trail made climbing the hill much easier. They all get to the top, but there are only four new cups of cocoa. The first four people get their cocoa, and when it comes to the fifth, they ran out. So one person without cocoa offers one of the people with cocoa a dollar for half of their cup of cocoa. The first people in line dole out half their cocoa, make their dollar back, and think, awesome! I just got my cocoa for free!

A few months later, there is a road going to the top of the hill and regular bus service. Everyone wants cocoa and it's not hard to get to the store anymore. The proprietor is trying his best to make as much cocoa as he can but even hiring a couple of people to help he can't make more than a hundred cups of cocoa because the cocoa machine only makes one cup at a time. But four hundred people are visiting every day because everyone knows where the cocoa shop is and how much better it feels to shiver in your wintry fairytale existence with a belly full of cocoa, and no one has to work hard at it, just hop on the bus.

Um. Then the writer realized he'd spent a half hour of his life on a stupid fable about cocoa. A half hour he'll never get back.

The moral of the story is: some people, like me, ought not be allowed on the Internet.

The end.

This is great and I think it's applicable to the bitcoin economy. We're currently in the process of paving that path, but we still don't know how many people will venture across it and whether or not there'll be an oversupply of cocoa.
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Re: Why won't BTC drop in Value when Mainstream?
by
battani
on 06/08/2013, 04:44:24 UTC
It is indeed basic supply and demand. Bitcoin is intrinsically a deflationary currency since its supply is fixed at 21 million. Does that mean its price will go up in the future? Only if demand continues to grow to outpace supply, and that's not a given.

Bitcoin has been around for a few years and it hasn't yet proven itself valuable enough for consumers. Merchants are incentivized to adopt it due to the low fees and no chargebacks, but what does the "average Joe" benefit from, as compared to traditional fiat money? Not much.

In fact, since its existence, bitcoin has been used extensively for speculation, gambling, drugs, and pornography because it provides much added value in those fields: instant and anonymous transactions, low fees, etc. But the value of a currency is only as good as its usability in trade/commerce, and instant and anonymous transactions don't add much value in the world of (traditional) e-commerce.

A more creative model must be found for bitcoins in e-commerce, and until then, bitcoin's value will be based on pure speculation and will keep the "average Joe"s out. Indeed, why would the "average Joe" go through the trouble of adopting a currency that's based on Cryptographic Hash Functions (??), Proof of Work (??), and Public/Private Keys (??)? These terms are not very accessible to the non-analytical mind.
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Re: Avalon getting $200m investment for 20nm ASICs!?
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battani
on 05/08/2013, 18:30:44 UTC
This is incorrect information. In fact, the article's title is now "Correction":

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323997004578644491403250124.html
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Re: Famed Trader Joe Lewis Backs Bitcoin
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battani
on 05/08/2013, 07:21:08 UTC
You can Google an article title to go through the paywall on WSJ. E.g.

1. Search for "Famed Trader Joe Lewis Backs Bitcoin"
2. Click on the WSJ link (should be the first link)

It should display the full article.
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Re: "Any news is good news."
by
battani
on 04/08/2013, 05:49:37 UTC
It's all about gaining credibility now. The more people talk about bitcoin, the more seriously it'll be taken, the more people will research it, the more they'll end up investing in it.
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Re: August is coming! Vote the price trend of BTC.
by
battani
on 04/08/2013, 05:35:32 UTC
There will probably be downward pressure on bitcoin in August as the global economy continues to show signs of strength and recovery, fiat currencies stabilize and an influx of miners enter the network. A selloff wouldn't be surprising. Target price point: 70USD.