Giving this a monthly bump.

Quality hosting, folks. Another thing to remember: If you ever have an issue with your service you will have the pleasure of dealing with cryptographically verifiable humans, versus the obfuscated bundle of ?? that most of the other hosting companies provide.

Hey, thanks for helping spread the word!

Cheers

Bumping for those out there in need of a reliable, powerful, affordable shared hosting solution. Pizarro is just starting out, but we'd love to prove our worth.

Reminder that Pizarro requires no credit cards or other personal info, only a gpg key. Give us a try! At 0.001 btc , what have you, dear reader of this bump, got to lose?

Okay, I've got an answer for you on the backup question:

Pizarro does not currently offer a backup service, and all users are responsible for backing up their own files.

That being said, the shared hosting server does live on a RAID 10 array.

Please let me know if you have any other questions or concerns and I will be happy to assist.

Since the UY1 server came online on March 23, 2018 it has only been offline once in April, and that was a downtime of ~ 2 hours iirc.

So, to answer your question more exactly: we have roughly a 99.89% uptime rate (or 1918 hours uptime / 1920 total hours running since March 23rd)


Absolutely. http://danielpbarron.com/ and http://thewhet.net/ are both examples of sites running on our UY1 server


I will check on this and get back to you right away.


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Updated log link for the thread shinohai refers to: http://logs.minigame.bz/2016-09-22.log.html#t115521

The key point here that knunickis/creepland illustrates is that this is a real in-game economy (read: the in-game currency is tied to bitcoin, and is never 'printed'  by the powers that be like in many other 'economy' games). This creates an environment where trade for goods and services between players is the ONLY way to extract value.

Also, because of the well-thought-out and mysterious mechanics of the game, n00bs have an intrinsic demand (they can produce much-sought-after lower quality raw materials that higher-skilled players cannot), hence the 0.01 btc bounty for newbies.

Eulora now in Beta. Version 0.1.0 released

http://trilema.com/2015/minigame-smg-april-may-2015-combined-statement/

The problem here is that the burden of proof isn't on 'the community' to prove you aren't a scammer. The burden is on you to prove that you are somebody. Right now, you have nothing. Re: meatspace credentials - they do not matter in bitcoin, really. All the 'scanned documents' and 'proofs' in the world shouldn't convince people to invest in you (but, sadly, many will invest anyway). This is especially true in a forum where the scams/fails far outnumber anything that remotely turns a profit.

I know this is a colored coin offering, but let's take a sample of offerings (albeit outdated) from Havelock: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=666993.0 During that time, out of 23 listed securities, only *1* turned any kind of profit. Regardless of scam or not, this is still only a 0.04% chance of ROI. It has been said before, but you'd be better off just putting BTC on a dice-throw somewhere (added bonus of instant results!).

So what can OP do if they are serious? I shall refer to an ancient, but still valid post: So you think you're going to start a Bitcoin business, right?

Lol, there are people that take the 'trust system' on this forum seriously?

Idk dude. Nubbins brings up some good points in that post you referenced. What's wrong with skepticism anyway? If you're the real deal then why be so butt-hurt?

Nice pieces, though. Very cool.

So, you are looking for an investment because investors will not invest in you?


 

Why bother funding inventory in bitcoin? You are a fiat business, right?

If you are an established, real-world business with a good track record, why not go and get a fiat-based investment? Find some wealthy dude and woo him over with your 30% margins.

"Because Bitcoin Activism" seems like an odd business move.

The 'rating' and 'authenticating' is done via IRC, yes. The trust system works almost anywhere that would require trust.

The trust system in this forum is not the same, no. Anybody can create an account, and there is no 'authentication,' so the same guy could, in theory, create 50 accounts to give his main account 50 positive reviews. He could buy 'aged' accounts from others (a common practice) to make this look legitimate.

The beauty of WoT is the fact that you can, through PGP, be sure that the person you dealing with is actually the person they are claiming to be. Now, you only know that they hold the private key to their registration within the WoT, that is it. The rest is up to you in terms of trusting them, just like if you were talking to someone in real life. You know that the person is who they are because they are standing in front of you. The trust flows from your, and your trusted peer's interactions with this person, not the system itself.

To quote from one of my earlier links:

Web of Trust (for bitcoin-otc)

For the official explanation: http://wiki.bitcoin-otc.com/wiki/OTC_Rating_System

A nice 'high-level' overview by everyone's favorite guy, Mircea Popescu (opinions aside, the guy makes a lot of sense about a lot of things Bitcoin): http://trilema.com/2014/what-the-wot-is-for-how-it-works-and-how-to-use-it/

This is why the WoT is such a powerful tool, and why you really can't trust any of these
'offerings'

Even with 'proof' of validation, you still don't know the OP from Adam. We've seen this so many times in this forum; the OP may look credible, but it is still an 'Over-the-counter' interaction, with no regulation. The counter-party risk is huge here and, as history tells us, rarely works out for the best.

At least if you could look in the WoT, and see that, "Hey, Jimbo has dealt with this guy, and I trust Jimbo's opinion," then you would have a fighting chance.

The plain fact is, you won't know if any of these offerings are a scam until it is too late. If you're newbie that is reading this, and don't believe me, just hang around for a few months and watch. You'll see that you are swimming in a sea of scams.

Sunrise, sunset...

Update made to the front page:

Customer	Status	Order Reference
Magzy	2nd Refund check arrived - awaiting clearance at bank
metalchain	Still waiting	WNJRGEIAX
cryptoconomist	Still waiting
meccaflare0	Waiting since Jan 2014	SXWTSYTQH
greek_hephaestus	Unknown
lenart_o	Waiting since Mar 2014	VOAEWDKKJ
coindesk.com	Still waiting; two checks sent with misspellings; one unsigned
danielbrogren	Waiting since Feb 2014	JWXKFWTOW
btcricon	Still waiting
qukkM	Waiting since Jan 2014
jasonring	Waiting since Jan 2014
HardwareReviewer	Refunded
slavix	Waiting since March 2014	IHHOAKLGE

The scope of this 'claim' is about how most Havelock securities are a bad investment. Not listing the other 'exchanges' does not invalidate the facts presented.

Maybe I'm one of the stupid ones, but isn't an asset's value determined by what people would pay for it on the open market (among other things)?



Buy gold and silver? How would buying a BTC-denominated security hedge against BTC?