I heard about it once, last week in berlin during some SONM talk.
I guess it is only known in Russia.

 

Some Japanese exchanges have a much very larger volume than the US or EU exchanges .
Coul you please add ¥  too , and exchanges like Bitflyer ?

Thanks.

lol.
if people start using something else then there is no scaling problem.
it would solve itself.

There is just no way this can be legal.

They try to IVA (Individual Voluntary Arrangement) without approval from a court
"..the debtor can choose IVA. IVA is a formal procedure under the Bankruptcy Ordinance to provide an alternative to bankruptcy. A debtor makes a repayment proposal to the court and the creditors. If it is approved, it will legally bind all creditors. "


 
The only way for them could be to sell shares and hope to get some money from that. Then customers can choose if they want to participate in that or not.
But since it is a company in huge trouble there is little change they'd get any substantial money for their shares.

So they're left with liquidation.

As a creditor (customer), write them a few letters to pay, which they probably refuse.
Then, start bankruptcy proceedings.
http://www.oro.gov.hk/eng/publications/bankguide.htm

"inflating at ~10% a year, as it is doing now" ....
you are not very good at math, are you?

After upgrade it might get processed anyway. So, wait a while before sending again

mine looks the same.

hacked user account (news@coinbase.com) is an option.
Still the question of how they got my emailaddress.

Check the email headers.
I don't know how DNS spoofing/hacking works, so I cant tell the details, But from here it it looks like this actually comes from coinbase servers.

got it too.
Never registered at coinbase.
The only btc related stuff I registered to with that email address is Bitcointalk, Localbitcoins and Kraken (and havent used these in more than a year).  
[edit: perhaps Gox. not sure...]
So it is probably one of these that had their memberslist leaked/hacked.
(Or.. one of these fuckers sold their data)

made a quick demo here
http://lxer.eu/qr/#/app/qr
 


As you can see a small change in the address creates a totally different set of colours and makes it easy to visually compare addresses (and QRcodes). A small typo would easily be noticed.

The algorithm for the colours is very simple, these are basically 4 2x1 blocks , the direction of each pair is either horizontal or vertical, based on the last digits of an bitcoin address. The are always 5 different colours (more is also possible, but with just 5 it is easier to see patterns). Each colour is based simply on a part of the btc address. 

Every shape is possible in theory, however I'm now using a 4x4 image to keep it really small (and fast to generate). Curves means (much) higher resolution.

I see that the same topic came up a few times before (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137406.0 ) but these projects ended and were not executed thoroughly.

I'll try to combine a image with a QRcode today and post it here.


 
 

I want to have some feedback on this idea:
Sometimes it is unavoidable to type in a btc-address (when you can't use a QR or simply copy/paste), this sucks because it is easy to make a mistake. If there was a visualization of the btc-addresses (just a generated .png) it is easy to compare images and check if you made a typo. Would that be useful to have?


The idea is somewhat what you see when generating SSH keys ( http://superuser.com/questions/22535/what-is-randomart-produced-by-ssh-keygen ), but a lot more user-friendly.

The prototype I have now uses a md5 translated into colors, placed in a simple grid. like this  http://ctrlv.in/463889

(I've tried some more complex patterns first, but that actually made it more difficult to compare.)

With some effort this could be created in CSS also, so it can be used on any website.

I know there would need to be some agreement on how to generate the images to make it really useful.

browser plugins that allow to send coins between users on for example facebook and google+ .
Opensource but actively maintain the codebase.

I dont really understand your how that should work. Make a proof-of-concept site and we have something to talk about.

meanwhile, have a look at bitcoin.de , they dont ask for a money deposit, only a BTC deposit from the seller. So in case the buyer doesnt actually pay, nothing is lost and and the BTC can be returned to the seller; on the other side, the BTC from the seller is frozen when a transaction starts, so when a buyer did transfer the money but the seller doesnt confirm, then the exchange-owners can always check and release the frozen amount of BTC.
It is slow (because of banks), but it works.

lol. perhaps you should look up the definition of 'too big too fail' again.  they can quit/stop/fail any time they want.

Stop trusting exchanges. it doesn't make sense.

I like what bitcoin.de is doing much more; they are not storing $$ or €€, its just a marketplace and you pay the other person directly.

paypall will fight against BTC,
because BTC ruins their businessmodel.
But theres not much they can do except ban it from ebay and refuse transactions.

ppl requesting paypall services are just stupid and dont understand what BTC is about.

(ps, paypall steels 2% of every transaction)

bitcoin.de is very simple, since it only uses bankaccounts directly so no need to send money to them. only in europe though.
I dont like that mtgox acts like a bank and 'saves' my money (and sometimes refuses to give it back, so I heard).

if Bitcoin becomes a success, then Paypall might loose a lot of transactions.

This is their way of stopping anything about bitcoin.
Paypall got a lot of negative news also because of their 2% stealing, as often mentioned in articles about bitcoin.


“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.”

that is probably because it has been presented as a currency start-up.

I've been doing some reading up and to me it seems like a payment-system (a la paypall) with some internal currency attached to it, which, compared to current banks/payment-methods,  serves no one except the creators.

But anyway, I think there is a much larger problem: in Europe there already are payment systems that are fast, free and secure. However, it turns out to be very difficult to get one system going throughout Europe: every country has their own system (supported by banks that operate in that country). This is simply because it benefits the nations economy; if other countries accept the German system, then German webshops would benefit from that. So.. Spain/Italy have recently launched their own system (mybank). A few years ago IDEAL and Giropay (dutch / german) started to operate for EU, but other countries (banks) simply refused to accept it. It is too political.

So.... even if it works technically, politically it will fail.
Ripple will be born cripple (at least in Europe).

too bad you only have Visa and PayPal in the US.
In Europe many webshops have some online-banking connection to quickly transfer some money. instantly and free.  
(like IDEAL and Giropay). They solve the same issues as Ripple wants to solve, but with more security and protection (by banks, ironically..

(Paypall and Visa have never been that popular in Europe. personally I refuse to use it.)

... also SEPA (Single European Payment Area) seems to have been designed for all this.