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SmokeCartel.com Online Headshop / Smoke Shop - Now Accepting Bitcoin
by
blackswan
on 28/03/2014, 15:41:50 UTC
Smokecartel.com is an online headshop specializing in high quality scientific glass water pipes.  We've got USA made glass bubblers, water pipes, bongs, recyclers, vapor sets, concentrate accessories such as titanium nails, oil rigs, heady glass, and much much more.

How did we start?
Looking online for a headshop is both difficult and frustrating.  We weren't pleased with the selection.  We didn't like that products from popular online headshops usually took weeks to get delivered from other countries.  We wanted to work with US based and local artists.  If we found good deals on glass, it usually meant they weren't USA based and it would take over 20 days to get your order delivered.  No way!

We set forth to offer the same deals you would get from foreign online headshops, but shipped to you from right here in the US.


How do we do it?
By working directly with wholesalers and glass blower and artists, we negotiate excellent prices for you.  You're welcome Wink

We also don't keep a physical retail store where we'd have to pay dozens of employees just to man the store.  This, and everything else we do to try and efficiently cut costs means cheaper prices for high quality glass.


Best of all, we accept BTC
Check us out at http://smokecartel.com
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Re: Buying Bongs with Bitcoins?
by
blackswan
on 24/03/2014, 14:05:31 UTC
Your domain appears to be down.  I was on this search myself, and settled on buying a bong from http://smokecartel.com
They accept Bitcoin, Litecoin, etc.  Very nice prices.
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Re: Starting a new FPGA mining farm/contract! Cognitive Resurrected on[Havelock]
by
blackswan
on 22/03/2014, 22:19:24 UTC
Esp if you are the one counting the votes.

I will publicly post hashes and vote counts, so there is no way to fake motions/votes. Do you agree?

No I do not agree. There is no way running away is going to save you from your past actions. All it will do is make it so more people, the newer inverters, can also sue your ass. You should really lawyer up.
Fairly large shareholder who bought in a while ago here.  I'm definitely up for a vote.  This company needs to be taken out of the hands of Garrett.  I've lost plenty of BTC watching this company tank, and if there's a lawsuit I'd like to get in.
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Re: [ANN][BEE]BeeCoin - Launched/5 EXCHANGES
by
blackswan
on 17/03/2014, 23:09:37 UTC
Yes and good to see the community starting to make a bit of a come back.

Soon we'll start a new thread and a new marketing campaign also.


+1
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Re: [ANN][BEE]BeeCoin - Launched/3 EXCHANGE - Please upgrade your wallet
by
blackswan
on 28/02/2014, 00:31:02 UTC
Consider voting by paying to the BTC address on Mintpal.  1000 votes = 0.05 btc
If it gets on Mintpal = Higher value overall.
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Re: [ANN][BEE]BeeCoin - Launched/3 EXCHANGE - Please upgrade your wallet
by
blackswan
on 26/02/2014, 20:24:49 UTC
Any idea when the Mac OS X Wallet will be released?
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Re: [ANN][BEE]BeeCoin - Launched/3 EXCHANGE - Please upgrade your wallet
by
blackswan
on 25/02/2014, 20:46:43 UTC
I'm curious as to how else you will combat issues of dead weight investors, i.e. investors who claim to be enthusiastic and dedicated, up until the point that they vanish with their stake and let everyone else do the leg work while they sit and watch.

these are everywhere sadly.... however i am sticking with BEE and hopefully the dev will become more active.

we can do some fund raisers for projects

and basically get the word out that anyone even now can mine BEE as easily as minutes after launch.

There is really no downside to BEECOIN in terms of fairness.
If the dev is no longer working on this project, maybe we should try to find a new dev to take over?  Paid them with BEE fundraised?
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Re: [ANN][MINT]Mintcoin, Energy Saving Coin With a Fast Distribution *6 Exchanges
by
blackswan
on 21/02/2014, 06:00:40 UTC
I'm running MintcoinQT on Mac OS X and I'm getting a message:  Info:  Minting suspended due to locked wallet.
Because I encrypted my wallet.  What should I do to enable minting?
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Re: [HAVELOCK] Mintspare (MS) Bitcoin Electronic Trade-in Service - Official Thread
by
blackswan
on 08/01/2014, 04:08:02 UTC
Hey guys!

I'm the lead developer on the MintSpare project.  I've worked on various projects in the Bitcoin space before in the past, some of you might remember my exchange live trading tracker Kryptotrader.

To give you all a status of the site so far, I've been working with the team over the last couple months and I'm very happy with the progress we've made.

- Products and their offer prices have been uploaded to our database
- Device selection is complete (Being able to narrow down your device similar to how Gazelle does it)
- 2FA and SSL encryption has been incorporated
- All sensitive user data is encrypted in our database
- User accounts and user dashboard is complete
- Employee backend is nearly complete (we recently completed the ability to scan in received items, among other things)
- Shipping label generation is complete
- Most of the UI is complete, but this will be one of the last things to finish (functionality first!)
- Referral program is receiving finishing touches
- Email system is complete

Overall, the current development of the site is looking good, and as I've said, we've been working and planning this for a few months now.  Our hard deadline of February 1st for our Beta launch is looking very obtainable.

Feel free to ask me about any questions relating to the development.   Smiley
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Re: Starting a new FPGA mining farm/contract! Cognitive Resurrected on[Havelock]
by
blackswan
on 30/11/2013, 00:17:41 UTC
Okay as far as I can find our current hashrate is 750GH/s someone please correct me if I am wrong. Also as far as I know the last div before this one was Oct 7.

At the current difficulty this hashrate would produce about
 0.53318557 BTC Per Day
 3.73229898 BTC Per Week
 16.20884127 BTC Per Month

At the last difficulty which started on Nov 17 it would produce about
 0.61885251 BTC Per Day
 4.33196758 BTC Per Week
 18.81311635 BTC Per Month

At the difficulty that started on Nov 05 it would produce about
 0.73822262 BTC   Per Day
 5.16755831 BTC Per Week
 22.44196750 BTC Per Month

At the difficulty that started on Oct 26 it would produce about
 0.96483017 BTC Per Day
 6.75381116 BTC Per Week
 29.33083704 BTC Per Month

At the difficulty that started on Oct 16 it would produce about
 1.40880039 BTC Per Day
 9.86160271 BTC Per Week
 42.82753178 BTC Per Month
 
At the difficulty that started on Oct 06 it would produce about
 1.99269547 BTC Per Day
 13.94886829 BTC Per Week
 60.57794227 BTC Per Month

From Oct 7 to the 16 using 1.98 Per day we would of made about 17.82 Bitcoin
From Oct 16 to the 26 using 1.40 per day we would of made about 12.6 Bitcoin giving us about 30.42 Bitcoins
From Oct 26 to Nov 5 using 0.96 per day we would of made about 9.6 Bitcoin giving us about 40.02 Bitcoins
From Nov 5 to Nov 17 using 0.73 Per day we would of made about 8.76 Bitcoin giving us about 48.78 Bitcoins
From Nov 17 to Nov 28 using 0.62 per day we would of made about 6.82 Bitcoin giving us about 55.6

DO YOU SEE MY PROBLEM!! My best guess is Garr Fucked up the decimal maybe?


Garr can you address these calculations?
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Re: Starting a new FPGA mining farm/contract! Cognitive Resurrected on[Havelock]
by
blackswan
on 29/11/2013, 14:14:35 UTC
Agree, let's get more hardware.
I also agree. Any ideas on who we might want to order from? I think a great choice right now would be to set up some LTC rigs actually.

The Bitcoin mining is too competitive. It would be a smart move to invest in Litecoin mining :
- low competition
- instant delivery of the hardware
- faster growing than Bitcoin

+1
I agree with this.  My litecoin stocks have far outperformed any of my bitcoin ones so far, and it's a great time to enter Litecoin mining because of this low competition.   But it's also very important to get your miners as soon as possible in this game.
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Re: The People VS. Ukyo (AKA WeExchange 2nd Stage Scam)! Currently ~$500,000
by
blackswan
on 21/11/2013, 21:51:28 UTC
Code:
Date 2013-11-04 21:43:46
Transaction ID 20oRAGQ8pR0ZBTYTCeqT6HQYTzA0egvC
Type Withdraw
Debit 9.07473721 BTC
Credit
Fee 0.00000000 BTC
BTC Transaction
Status Processing

Posting my stuck withdrawal in here as well.
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Re: [GUIDE] How to buy shares on Bitfunder
by
blackswan
on 14/10/2013, 20:06:40 UTC
How will you buy shares without moving bitcoins to your bitfunder account? Thats only possible through weexchange.
You can still direct deposit BTC to your weexchange account and transfer it over to bitfunder with no problems.
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[GUIDE] How to buy shares on Bitfunder
by
blackswan
on 14/10/2013, 16:54:21 UTC
Since I keep seeing posts asking about how to buy shares on Bitfunder as a US user, I'm posting a guide.

This guide does not require you to have a verified Weexchange account.

We will be using a VPN tunnel to mask our IP to make it seem like we're connecting from another country.

For this guide I will be using IPVanish, my preferred VPN service (they are a paid option, about $10 for a month, 7-day money back guarantee).

Feel free to seek out your own VPN service, there are some free VPN options available.
(Please be careful with free VPNs, they are compromised often and are not secure)



Before:


Step 1.  Connect to a server from another country.  
On IPVanish, I find Dusseldorf, Germany works best for me.

(It doesn't matter too much which protocol you use, I like OpenVPN and L2TP)

Step 2.  Clear your browser cache/cookies.

Step 3. Go to www.bitfunder.com
Login to your account.

Step 4.  You can now buy!




I've found that not all foreign servers work, some do, some don't for me.  Keep trying them until you find one that works.

Obviously this is not a permanent solution as on Nov 1, US users will be forced to sell their shares (or something like that).  You can always buy shares in which you believe the asset holder has a transfer plan in place.

Good luck.
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Re: Starting a new FPGA mining farm/contract! Cognitive Resurrected on [BTC-TC]
by
blackswan
on 01/10/2013, 16:13:03 UTC
Have you decided on an exchange to migrate to?
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Re: [KRYPTOTRADER] Live Exchange Feeds and Other Tools
by
blackswan
on 21/09/2013, 16:05:31 UTC
Kryptotrader is down.
BTW: when I want to display graph of particular security I have to switch to it's exchange - it's not available from the "all exchanges" view (but it could be, I think).
Site should be back online.

And you're absolutely right, I'll get right on that.
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Re: [KRYPTOTRADER] Live Exchange Feeds and Other Tools
by
blackswan
on 12/09/2013, 17:51:13 UTC
Hey Black!

I'm noticing the digits are cut off from an asset I'm watching for certain trades, can you look into this?
I'm pulling the feed straight from the irc bot at #bitcoin-assets

So if it's not outputting the digits, there's nothing I can do unfortunately...

Also, I didn't realize the chat got broken from the switch, but it's fixed now Smiley
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Re: Starting a new FPGA mining farm/contract! Cognitive Resurrected on [BTC-TC]
by
blackswan
on 09/09/2013, 15:57:05 UTC
The 7 Singles are suppose to arrive today correct?
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Re: [KRYPTOTRADER] Live Exchange Feeds and Other Tools
by
blackswan
on 06/09/2013, 16:31:50 UTC
I've moved the site to a different provider.  Installed Cloudflare, APC, and optimized some backend stuff.

Should be running a lot more smoothly now!
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Re: [KRYPTOTRADER] Live Exchange Feeds and Other Tools
by
blackswan
on 03/09/2013, 20:13:16 UTC
I should probably start looking for a different VPS as a dedicated host for this project.  Anyone have suggestions of a good provider?

I've been happy with DigitalOcean (referral) recently... Be sure to look up a "promo code"/coupon for a free month or two. [1] [2]
I have cgminer running 100% on 2 vCPUs and it doesn't seem to affect it from performing it's other tasks (SSH/vim/Nginx/PHP/MySQL/etc).
Also, if you are at the scaling point, really consider op-code caching (APC on PHP 5.4, Zend on PHP 5.5) as you will half your response times.
Thanks!  I've looked into DigitalOcean.  They look really good, and the pricing is awesome.

Site is back online now!