Hm, that should not be the case. You should be able to click buy and make a lightning payment on the site. I just tested myself and I believe it's working.

I'd like to share a side project that I've been working on for a bit: https://www.overblock.dev

https://i.imgur.com/WcJxvQ3.png

This website lets you buy fake items using the Lightning network on testnet. You could do this to test your Lightning wallet, or to give yourself some inbound liquidity on the testnet Lightning network while developing.

These were some of my goals for the project:
- Gain familiarity setting up Bitcoin and Lightning nodes
- Write a ground-up project using microservices and containers
- Build a Lightning reference app for myself, so that if/when I want to make something real, I'll have an existing project to use as a guide
- Successfully deploy such a project to a cloud environment (in this case, Google Cloud)
- Open source the project with guides so that others can use it as a resource, too

To interact with the site you need a testnet Lightning wallet. Acinq has Eclair Mobile Testnet available in the Play store on Android. You can use a testnet faucet to get some coins in this wallet, and then play with the site.

You can find the source code here: https://github.com/cilphex/overblock

Made this site that tracks Bitcoin's "never look back" price. You can use it to follow the trend and see what it predicts for years into the future.

http://bitcoin.craighammell.com

I agree with everything you said.  But that doesn't mean we shouldn't let them know that we'd be willing to subscribe for a lower price, or that it's "greedy" to do so.

This is a meaningless statement.  How do we know donations have not, for example, exceeded $1 million?  They probably haven't, but maybe at some point they will.  And there's no way to tell since the "donation" address is not pooled.

It's not "greedy" to say what you're willing to pay for something.  If it's all donations anyway, isn't a donation of any amount necessarily the opposite of greedy?  That's basically the definition of donation: giving something away at a loss to yourself.

Maybe Bitcoinwisdom are the "greedy idiots."  They are not transparent about how many "donations" they've received, potentially leading many people do donate more than they otherwise would.  I suspect this will not be changed; the obfuscation is intentional for this reason precisely.

Not sure if you read what I wrote, but I wasn't asking you to disable free accounts.

I haven't read the rest of the thread, but I think you should reduce your subscription price to 1/10th of what it is.

I am willing to subscribe, but $10/month to remove one ad from the side of the website is definitely not worth it, and I'll just use adblock instead.  $1/month to remove one ad is actually reasonable.

Please reconsider your prices.  Thanks.

I don't like the new color changes.

Good point.  It's kinda hard to determine which term length is the right one though.  Should all history necessarily be considered?  If not, what part of it is relevant?  I'm not completely sure.

Undervalued is also a possibility, yeah.

http://i.imgur.com/oFPH0vV.png

We have fallen below regular logarithmic growth.  What do you think?

E.g., if you have a public address that is XYZ, do you have the QR code data read as "XYZ" or something like "bitcoin:XYZ"?

I've seen it done both ways and I don't know if there is an actual standard for this or what.  I guess I want to know which kind is more widespread so I can make something more universally compatible.

I'm writing a bitcoin app and would like to validate addresses somehow.  I found this regex for public addresses:

/^[13n][1-9A-Za-z][^OIl]{20,40}/

But I'm looking for one for base 58 private keys as well.  (Base 58 is the import format right?)

I don't know a lot about the rules for these keys/addresses.  If I did I'd just write the regexes myself.  Any help is much appreciated.

How do you tell if a sudden rise is a single large buy or a coincidence of smaller buys all being executed consecutively?

This is the chart I've been waiting to see. To me, new highs aren't really that important, I mostly have been waiting to see the new bottom.  It's provided us with this third critical data point for growth rate, which gives us a better idea of bitcoin's trajectory.  I like what it shows.

Sorry everyone, I'm late to the party.  Is there a theory on why the price has been so stable?

So who wants to play?  I'd love to create a private game with maybe 5 players or so.  If you post here saying you're in, I'll invite you.

If you have reservations, you don't have to bet, the game will just expire.  That would however leave the people who did bet kind of hanging until they get their payment refunded.

Hey everyone.  I'm not well known on the forums here but I've got a new service to announce, and I hope you'll all lend me your ears.  Or eyes.  Or sensing instrument of choice.

I am very happy to announce the launch of a new, fun Bitcoin game called BitChicken.  You can check it out here:

https://www.bitchicken.com

The Game

http://i.imgur.com/NHLsfIl.png

There is a very fun game you can play right now with people immediately around you.  We call it Chicken.  Everyone picks a number, and the person who wins is the person whose number is closest to 1.25 times the average of everyone's number.

It's fun because you're not placing a random bet against an algorithm, you're trying to guess what everybody else will do.  At the same time, they're estimating what you will do.  So the reverb is endless; you're estimating them estimating you estimating them estimating you...  And on top of that, your own guess affects the average.

We love to play this game as a fun psychological exercise.  We thought it would be even more fun to turn it into a real game that anyone can play using bitcoins.

In our version, your guess is placed with a bitcoin transaction.  The person whose amount is closest to 1.25 times the average of all the wagers, collects all of them as a prize.  The chicken takes 1.9%, and the losers receive receipts in the form of a fraction of the remaining 0.1%.

Anonymous and Instant

1) You can play BitChicken without creating an account, just like SatoshiDice

2) It's not like a lottery where you have to wait until the end of the month or end of the day for everything to go through.  The game executes as soon as 5 players enter guesses.  (If you enter a game that doesn't get enough guesses, your coins will be sent back when the game expires.)

Play with strangers or with friends

BitChicken is a public game you play with strangers, but you can also create private games that follow your own unique rules.  In my opinion, private games are the most fun part of the site, because you can play with people you know.

When you create a private game, you can:

1) Choose the number of players (up to 1000)
2) Select a higher minimum bid
3) Set the target (e.g. 1.5 times the average instead of 1.25)

After you create a private game, you share the game url with your friends so they can place bets.  Go check it out, you'll see how it works.  You can anonymously create a private game right now without repercussion; if you don't get people to play, it'll just expire and close.

Chat with other players, pseudonymously

As you'll see in the bottom-right of the site, there is an expandable chat window.  When you open it, you're automatically assigned a randomly generated pseudonym.  This pseudonym will stick with you as you use the site from that same computer.  This way you can maintain a presence to have fun and chat with other users, while still remaining unknown.

Private games have their own chat rooms embedded in them, so you can taunt, tease, psych-out, or otherwise influence other players.  Or say whatever.

At any time, you can hit the refresh button to generate a new random screen name.

Fun

If you don't want to take a 50% chance against an algorithm at SatoshiDice, but would get a real kick out of a high-stakes game directly with another person you know, BitChicken is for you.  Or if you just think you're smarter than everyone else and can best predict what they'll, you'll have a blast.

I'm in

Me and my teammates have played the first few games, but to help jumpstart the service, I will continuously be placing bets in the regular BitChicken game as well as creating private games and inviting players here from the forum to them.  I'd really love to play with you guys, and I'd like to donate a few hundred dollars through these initial games to have that happen.

I may have forgotten some interesting or key information, but if you have any questions, please ask here!  You can find additional helpful information in the FAQ on the BitChicken website.  I may update this post later to include more information.

Quick note #1: Just like SatoshiDice, if the Bitcoin service you're using doesn't provide information necessary for sending back funds, your guess could be lost to the void.  It works perfectly fine with blockchain.info and coinbase, however a guess sent from MtGox was lost while testing.  This seems to be the same as SatoshiDice.

Quick note #2: The site was tested in the most recent versions of Chrome and Firefox (v20), so it should work perfectly well in those.  Anything else might be a little messy, I don't know.

The site: https://www.bitchicken.com

Follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/TheBitChicken

And finally, please have fun and ask questions / leave comments!

Thanks,

C

Like somebody mentioned earlier, the selloff was caused by greed.  Short-term speculation and the desire to make a quick buck.  It doesn't just go one way - greed isn't something that only exists when the price is going up, and it isn't gone when the price is stable.

The fact that bitcoin has not completely disintegrated and seems to have landed somewhere between $70 and $90 is a clear sign that it's not going anywhere.  Investing at this point is simply an acknowledgment of that.  The bust scared a lot of speculators; what remains is a growing number of people who believe in bitcoin's long-term potential.

If there were any exchange matching all 3 of these properties, it would be my first pick:

1) It has decoupled its trading platform from its web platform, so that a DDOS only brings down the public-facing website, and doesn't majorly lag all trading

2) It is smart enough to pause trading when they're unable to process the orders they already have

3) It can prevent bots that place 100 micro trades/minute from swamping their system, if it's something they cannot handle

I don't think MtGox has any of these.  Not sure if any others do.