What the heck?

I can hit the api with a browser get request but...

php:
file_get_contents('http://api.bitcoincharts.com/v1/weighted_prices.json');

or

terminal:
curl http://bitcoincharts.com/t/weighted_prices.json

are not able to connect.

What am I missing?

I'm just thinking out loud about this. I would guess that there would be large demand for purchasing BTC online with a credit card if you could either arrange with a credit card vendor or set a legal president for creating the transfer.

I would frame the transaction not as a purchase of BTC (we have been over that before on the matter of charge backs) but as a service contract for the provider to make a payment to an address specified in a receipt/contract.

The customer would make a request for a contract to send x number of BTC to an address of their choice and the payment is for the service of the provider to make a transaction to that address. It is a private contract for services rendered. The services can easily be verified against the block chain. This in theory should mean that a customer can't call the CC company and say they made a payment and never received a product because there is no product and the service can be verified publicly.

The contract should also specify that the terms of fulfillment are met by a transaction of X amount appearing on the block chain.

From what I hear there are periods of high demand, a low friction way to buy BTC may be just the thing....



 

OH SHIT!

My order is now processing!

Haha. Oh my. That will do.

@Littleshop

The order was not a trade in, it was purchased through PayPal. I do have a single SC running that was a trade in. It is a great machine quality wise and performs perfectly.


@Lancelot19

I did file a dispute with PayPal after five weeks of no response after contacting BFL. They closed it right away because it has to be within forty five days of purchase and I'm now thirteen months. I felt guilty about it because I thought for a long time that they were just busy and they have been so helpful in the past. I also called my credit card company and they said there is nothing they can do after eighty days.

Yesterday I did file a complaint with the BBB but don't expect anything. I really just wanted to let people know you can pay for an order and may not get any product.

Jon

Thanks for your feedback guys.

I did ask for a refund on the fifth week of no response but my primary desire is for any response. I didn't know that other people also have the same problem.

My gut instinct is that someone called their credit card company and charged back their purchase and BFL accidentally marked my account by accident....

Hey

If anyone here knows someone at BFL or any method of getting in contact with them i'm trying to get an update on my order (10193).

It was for a Single SC placed in oct 2012 and I noticed that orders after my purchase have already shipped. One day my order status changed to 'On Hold' and I have come to understand that means they aren't shipping it.

I have sent emails and left voice messages from Sept 18, when I realized my order was missed but haven't been able to get through or a response. The phone line message box was actually full. Last week I posted on their support forum a couple of times but it looks like they block any new posts. I private messaged a person on the forum answering other people with similar issues but so far no response.

I did not charge back the order but I have no clue on what is the issue with my account.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Jon

Here is a picture inside the cabinet before the fans were installed.

http://subjectreality.com/miner/cabinet2.png

I built a cabinet to reduce the sound of my BFL 60GH/s miner. It has three chambers insulated with foam. There are four 120mm intake fans pulling cool air in from the floor and another four pushing out the back at the top. I built a little power supply for the fans that draw 15 W. I had hoped to sit the miner vertically pushing air upwards but it won't run that way.

The temperature is about 2-3 deg C higher which I will work on. 59 on the floor is now 63 C in the cabinet. It is significantly quieter and I expect to be able to sleep now.

 http://subjectreality.com/miner/cabinet.png

Yeah, It's a gamble. I'm curious what people who mine are running right now. It seems like any large drop in hash per dollar will quickly make current, even new, hardware useless...

I have changed the price to $4500 from 6K.

And I received mine a week ago. I feel bad for everyone who ordered after me. That was 14 months ago. 

I am offering my BFL 60 GH/s miner (SGL600G) for sale. It is marked number 000656 received it Aug 22, 2013 and as of today Aug 28 has earned me 2.5 BTC. It generates about .5 BTC every 26 hours. I ordered it on June 29 2012 and as far as I know they have shipped units ordered up to July 15, 2012.

I'm asking $6000.00 CAD bank or wire transfer, local pickup or 10% discount using BTC. I am accepting offers but am torn between selling it and keeping it. It's a great unit and I have another coming shortly. It is loud (i.e. hair dryer on low).

I have taken exceptional care with it running it in a cool place. The unit reports 60 deg C. I can take photos or video of the unit and the performance numbers on screen as verification. I will ship it immediately and send photos and tracking information. I understand that BFL offers a one year warranty even if sold to another person but I can't confirm this. There is a defect with the power supply where a volt 110/220 switch is pushed back into the unit but it still functions.

If you are interested or have questions please email me.

See: http://subjectreality.com/miner/

Edit - now $4500

Tobbe

Your modified extension is Ba Dass!

A couple of thoughts:

You should add a space to line 22 of popup.js for the ticks element.

    document.getElementById("ticks").innerHTML=bp.tickCount+ " samples"


And I added a new Ema s/l % metric to the graph tooltip (You won't want to add it like this, it's just a hack):

function formatEMALongTooltip(sp, options, fields){
    var trend='?';
    if (lastEmaTime==fields.x)
        trend=(fields.yUP':(fields.y>lastEmaShort?'DOWN':'none'));

    //
    // Display EMA S/L %. Helpful for gauging on the graph when trades execute on new trend directions.
    // Round to 3 decimal places.
    //
    var per = ((lastEmaShort-fields.y) / ((lastEmaShort+fields.y)/2)) * 100;
    trend = trend + ' ' + Math.abs(Math.round(per*1000)/1000) + '%';

    return '● EMA'+bp.EmaLongPar+': '+formatChartNumbers(fields.y)+'Trend: '+trend;
}

I wanted to see from the chart when trades would be placed having different thresholds....

Cheers.
Jon

This isn't clear to me at all:

"A person that creates units of this convertible virtual currency and uses it to purchase real or virtual goods and services is a user of the convertible virtual currency and not subject to regulation as a money transmitter. By contrast, a person that creates units of convertible virtual currency and sells those units to another person for real currency or its equivalent is engaged in transmission to another location and is a money transmitter.
In addition, a person is an exchanger and a money transmitter if the person accepts such de-centralized convertible virtual currency from one person and transmits it to another person as part of the acceptance and transfer of currency, funds, or other value that substitutes for currency."

My interpretation:

Our business (an ad network) accepts Bitcoin from users (advertisers) and pays users (publishers) in Bitcoin. From the sounds of this we are a money transmitter and an exchanger because:

1) we accept such de-centralized convertible virtual currency from one person (advertisers)
2) as part of the acceptance and transfer of currency (currency and or virtual currency?) (i.e. paying publishers for displaying ads), ..., or other value that substitutes for currency (i.e. virtual currency?)

It's ambiguous. We are not located in the US also. I will speak with a lawyer....

I like the idea of a distributed exchange, it should aid in price discovery and increase market reliability.

But a distributed exchange is a challenge because it's almost a contradiction in terms. A market place is one location that people come to meet where they can exchange, when that location is distributed how do you trade? Exchanging BTC across a distributed network is easy but how do you exchange USD, or CAD across a network, that is the same problem that BTC solves so well.

Some people have suggested a mechanism for direct person to person payments while avoiding chargebacks (no paypal, rather bank deposits). It would be nice to have the distributed protocol incorporate a reliable method of determining an exchange between two parties, the amount, BTC delivery confirmation and other currency exchange confirmation.

A trusted escrow could reliably ensure safe BTC transfers but any dollar currency escrow would incur double bank transfer fees...

   

Can you run the script on the machine running bitcoind to isolate the allowip setting? Maybe this is not the issue if you can connect from Chrome...

I would add a try catch around the block and check out any details of an exception.

try {
   ...
} catch (Exception $e){
   echo $e;
}

Be careful though this might print your connection details...

I have been following this forum for a while and would like to start participating in the discussion.

I have been buying and mining for almost two years, and generally been following developments and news relating to Bitcoin.

I'm also about two months away from launching a Bitcoin ad network: bitcoinads.com. I'm not here to promote it but rather to share and learn about what others are doing.

I bought my first set of Bitcoins from a website with a credit card. That didn't last long but it was really easy. I placed a wire transfer after the recent dip a couple days ago and waited an hour while the teller filled out the form. I think it will take about 5 days and cost $30 for that too...