I setup up a how-to to add some new Doge options here , Git here. This my first raspi attempt. Results seem so far so good. You can swap out the by simply changing the background image in the home/pi/Printer/Images folder.

http://i.imgur.com/4RUzs8U.jpg

The Banksters definitely need to be held accountable. Perhaps as dpb suggests a privately run or sponsored citizens/investors coalition could be formed that we could all trust to do the basic vetting for us.

dpb I did not mean to suggest that a simple criminal background check was all that was required for due diligence. My example was meant to point out that it would be crazy to expect 1000's of investors for a fund to have to each carry out the same process of vetting the funds. If you think of securities in general there are probably thousands if not millions of funds, and thousands if not hundreds of thousands of investors in each one. Without a central place, either public or private, where vetting can occur it would make it very wasteful for all these people to individually exercise due diligence on each one.

A simple credit rating check is often a better indicator of character than a criminal check, but even then there is no simple answer as a good man can become bad.

Of course there is crap in traditional investments, but not to nearly the same percentage that there is in BTC Securities. I have dealt with plenty of both types of investments to know that most of the crap is in BTC Securities.

Perhaps we need to start getting all those that want to introduce a security to have to put up insurance that will protect investors. If we all were omniscient then we could exercise due diligence. We need some sort of system of trust that can be relied on. Regulations do prevent scams as we would have much more scams if we did not have the threat of sanctions. I am not certain what the perfect system would be, but letting it simply be a free-for-all is not the solution.

Considering an average monetary mass of 7mn BTC for the interval, the aggregate of theft, fraud and stupidity registers as about 18%. Considering fiat monetary mass is somewhere on the order of magnitude of 5 trillion USD, proportionally the same levels of loss would come to about 900 billion total or roughly 50 billion a month. Shockingly enough, this figure is not quite that far off the mark (provided we discount government actions from the “stupidity” label).

Personal attacks aside, you have just proven my point. Investors will not each want to spend large amounts of time in order to personally vet each of the funds they are considering. This is when a trusted commission that carries out some basic vetting functions comes into play. Nobody is claiming investment is a right. What it comes down to though, is that people with the money or BTC to invest will stop doing so if they personally need to spend hours checking out the backgrounds of all that are involved in a new investment. A simple investor does not even have the power to get the required information to do so.

Even if you consider a running a simple criminal background check, your method implies that each investor should have to do this on their own. This is very inefficient as compared to having a central trusted commission do this vetting. You would have to be a f*cking moron to think otherwise. In the Libertarian world we would spend ALL our time doing trust checks on everyone else and nothing real would get done because everyone would be too busy with due diligence. This is when the big stick of the law comes in handy with a good smack across the arse of the scammers and anarchists!!

Actually in seeing how Libertarians operate I am beginning to think more and more that these anarchists simply want the ability to set up scams and go unpunished because they think there should be no law and that everyone should exercise due diligence on their own. From what has happened more and more in the Bitcoin world it is becoming apparent that:

LIBERTARIAN = SCAMMER!
ANARCHIST = SCAMMER!

As a C++ programmer, I still think that Bitcoin and the Blockchain are some of the greatest inventions in programming. I really hope that Bitcoin survives the filth that has been attracted to it from unsavory groups!!

I do not blame you one bit. Those suggesting that NEO-BEE was an obvious scam either are insiders that are in on it, or they are just spouting off rubbish. This does however highlight a problem with Bitcoin Securities in that there is little recourse once these come to light. All the due diligence in the world cannot protect you from a clever liar. This is why we need the heavy hand of government to start regulating these Bitcoin securities.

Libertarians are deluding themselves if they think a world with minimal government would function. Such a world would be very inefficient for investors and we all would be spending large amounts of time on due diligence for each of our funds only to find out we have been lied to anyway. Investors would soon all become leery due to high amounts of fraud and losses, and investment capital would dry up. Investors would retreat and progress would suffer.

Even with overseers fraud still occurs (Madoff), but on a much smaller percentage overall scale than with Bitcoin securities. I too will not be putting any further BTC into Bitcoin Securities until there is some better and proven vetting process in place. No process is 100% effective, but until Bitcoin Securities approach an acceptable level of trust through vetting by a commission it seems too risky to consider investing in them.

I ordered it a week ago together with an additional roll of paper.
Let's look how time it takes to be delivered to me in Italy...

Thank you for the clarification. So the functions it provides is to be the only p2p currency that can be traded in 2 transactions instead of 3 with other assets.
2 transactions is too much, it is possible to do the trade with one transaction if your chain explicitly validates the asset issuance rules.

Hi all, I have 0.06 BTC to give away, to make it fair, I'll use the result of the 200,000th bet of https://everydice.com/ , if anyone is gonna try this website, please use my referral link so I can host more giveaways in the future: https://everydice.com/?r=196

1, Giveaway amount is 0.01+0.05 BTC;

2, People enter this giveaway by replying;

3, When someone makes the bet on Everydice and get the lucky number, take the
number before the decimal is number1, after the decimal is number2;

4, The one whose reply serial number equals to number1 get the
0.01BTC(1% Chance) and the one whose reply serial number equals to
number2 get 0.05BTC.


For example, it the 200,000th bet's result is 09.3759, the reply with #9 will win 0.01 btc and #3759 will win 0.05 btc.

Note: if the number1 or number2 turn to be 0 or 1, which means the post was made by me, I'll host another round.

To join, simply reply this thread with your wallet address, if you don't put one, I will send you a preload invitation link on everydice.

You can welcome to reply with your referral link so other people can play through it too.


edit: only one reply from each account allowed.

http://www.dailydot.com/business/coinbase-api-hack-email-address-full-name/

Saw this on Twitter when I was flipping through. How do you guys feel about this? Coinbase claims that they don't actually require users to use their real names when signing up. However though, I'm pretty damn sure I had to use my real name…. because I had to verify my bank account. Hmm. To me it seems like this "hacker" is just looking to squeeze some money out of Coinbase, who claims it wasn't even really a hack. 

This is not April Fools by the way.

So your solution is for everyone to use a webwallet?
And for those who don't want to use a webwallet they should just deal with it?

You like "counterparty on bitcoin" but why is that? What possible benefit does it have other than security?
You are forcing a trade of security for insecurity by running counterparty on bitcoin (security) but requiring everyone to use a webwallet (insecurity). You want to work with the bitcoin devs but what is the point in working with them on a solution and doing all this extra work to play nice with bitcoin if we are just going to be leaving them in the future?

We are all bitcoin supporters or were at one time. But blind loyalty is not helping. You can't just say "I want to stay on the bitcoin network because... BITCOIN 4 LIFE!!".
If you argue that moving CP off of bitcoin is the right move, but right now "would be premature"; Then you agree that it is the right thing to do in the future. If we should move it off bitcoin in the future, why aren't we moving it off now if it is strangling the spread of adoption?

If people could actually download and use the software we would have had such wider adoption and usage.
And "just wait for the webwallet" is not a proper remedy, but more of a band-aid.

On day 1 of a new coin release you are not supposed to have to:

• setup bitcoin daemon
• download a 13gb blockchain
• reindex it
• export keys
• import keys
• rescan
• reimport those keys again when it doesn't work properly
• rescan again
• etc etc

(For those who aren't aware, this is a two-day process unless you torrent the blockchain, in which case maybe a 6 hour process if you are lucky)

The idea that we will be forever paying a tax to our bitcoin overlords in the future for the backbreaking labor of carrying our financial transactions is sickening.
For what, security? Really is that the only way we can secure our network? I think not.
Why do I have to buy BTC to use my XCP?
Does no one else see that as a major design flaw?

With BTC taking hit with bad news lately and free falling in price, I wanted to see people's opinion on which coin is going to take off in 2014.  I need your advise to diversify my portfolio.  Thanks in advance for your help!

if I were the government

This "feature" is going to cause some serious concerns quickly if it isn't removed.  Just came across this on Twitter today (partial list of Coinbase users and email addresses) http://pastebin.com/RzWipJFb

why couldn't you use bitcoins directly given that you're already on
the same chain?

That's a good point, but I'm not aware of any wallet software that would re-use an imported key as a change address. I understand this is a strong theoretical concern, but do wallets actually work this way - especially a wallet that a novice would use? Would you suggest another way for people to claim their tips, or is this risk just inherent to this project?

(It should go without saying, but I'm not interested in doing anything nefarious with stealing anyone's tips. I actually can't steal anyone's tips - the private keys are unrecoverable once a post is made. It's in my best interest to incentivize people to make more posts by ensuring they're able to get their tips any not stealing anything.)

In any case, I appreciate the scrutiny from a security standpoint, so thanks for bringing this up.

Hi All - last week I launched http://bitcoinmegaphone.com and I'd love to get everyone's feedback.

The basic idea is that you can pay by the character and post as much as you'd like. Then, people can tip each post to boost its presence on the "Most Tipped" page.

Any thoughts / suggestions?

When you want to collect your tips, just import your private key into whichever Bitcoin wallet you use. For instructons just Google "import private key into (you wallet service here)."

Hi All - last week I launched http://bitcoinmegaphone.com and I'd love to get everyone's feedback.

The basic idea is that you can pay by the character and post as much as you'd like. Then, people can tip each post to boost its presence on the "Most Tipped" page.

Any thoughts / suggestions?