Well Rassah is the winner. We're announcing early. We only got a few submissions. I think he set the bar too high with his initial entry. I'll be contacting him offline. In the interim, we're revising the contest. Be the first person to name each one of the references and we'll give you the 51% off your ticket price. Please don't enter unless you intend on purchasing a ticket. If you wish to purchase multiple ticket you can guess on multiple references. Enter your selection in the list below with your guess and (your username). We'll contact you with direct message with the discount code. To help you, the reference numbers are outlined in this chart http://bitcoinconsumerfair.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/BitcoinConsumerFair_Outline.jpg 

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Glen, did you submit your answers? Rassah added some to his total, btw. 

So far Rassah is in the lead with 38 correct references.  Can you beat him?  Enter today.

Maybe the title of this post is misleading. This is not a contest to find Satoshi, this is a contest to name the references in the scene on the website. See the image here http://bitcoinconsumerfair.com/identify-the-bitcoin-references/

To DigiX, submit your entry because 1/2 may be just enough to win the contest.

This is the last day to take advantage of the early registration discount (25% off the normal price). Register now!!

http://bitcoinconsumerfair.com/registration/

Not all are people. The first one, as given on the website, is "Bitcoin Miners". Some are references to events or things or concepts. You don't have to get all 51, you just have to get more than everybody else.

If you'd rather just buy a ticket, today is the last day to take advantage of the early registration discount. Register at http://bitcoinconsumerfair.com/registration/

The Atlanta Bitcoin Consumer Fair is proud to announce the "Where's Satoshi? The Ultimate Bitcoin Insider Reference Contest"  The person who names the most insider references in the scene (http://bitcoinconsumerfair.com/identify-the-bitcoin-references/) will win a free ticket to the Atlanta Bitcoin Consumer Fair April 17th and 18th along with 2 nights hotel stay. In addition, the winner can purchase as many companion tickets as they want for a 51% discount. Note, there are 51 insider references in the scene. You need not name all of them to win, just name more than anybody else.   For more about the contest check out the link above.

  If you don't think you'll win, now is a good time to get your ticket. Purchase before March 1st and enjoy early registration pricing. Get an additional 10% off when you pay with BTC. http://bitcoinconsumerfair.com/registration/

Our website has been updated with additional information about the upcoming Fair. See http://www.bitcoinconsumerfair.com In addition, we'll be at #btcmiami at the Microdesic booth. Be sure to come by and say hello. We're still looking for dynamic speakers and small vendors selling things for Bitcoin. Contact questions@bitcoinconsumerfair.com for more info.

Ideally, I'd like to find speakers on the topics of
recognizing Bitcoin scams
earning Bitcoin as a freelancer
Bitcoin security
Bitcoin economics

Feel free to pitch a speech idea. Also, our super early registration discount runs through the end of this month. Be sure to get your tickets today. Group discounts available.

Awesome. Thank you for the quick response.

Can someone explain how this happens?

335275 (Main Chain)    2014-12-21 19:16:35    00000000000000000f4656f29e1e4a25d93ff9f8c7f87fe352979d707255d615
335276 (Main Chain)    2014-12-21 19:16:28    000000000000000009b568b45be21664352b90e1bc587f324009abcf9b51d11e

https://blockchain.info/blocks/1419167263187

It appears that block 335276 confirmed 7 seconds before the previous block. Is this just a matter of miner's clocks being out of sync?

I'm co-organizing the first Atlanta Bitcoin Consumer Fair to be held in April, 2015 in Atlanta, GA. The Fair's focus will be on consumers and merchants and in particular, in-person payments at physical retailers. We plan on having a Vendors alley with over 100 vendors selling things for bitcoin (think arts and crafts fair). We will also have exhibitors, bitcoin kioks, and speaking tracks for those in the payment and technology space. We are looking for speakers, vendors, exhibitors, sponsors and of course, attendees. We will really be marketing and pushing this Fair to Bitcoin newbies, consumers just getting their feet wet and wanting to learn more about this exciting technology.

Speakers: Some of the speakers will be announced in the next week but we're looking for high quality dynamic speakers on the business and technical sides of Bitcoin.

Vendors: If you sell things for bitcoin, you need to be here. We expect to have 1000 participants with bitcoin wallets loaded on their phones. We want this to be the largest collection of people buying and selling things for bitcoin in the world today.

Exhibitors: If you sell services to consumers or merchants or payment processors, this will be the place to be.

Sponsors: Get your message out to the Bitcoin community. Several sponsorship opportunities available.

If you're interested in any of the above, please contact me via a direct message on here or at bitcoinconsumerfair@use.startmail.com

Interested in attending? Sign up for the mailing list at http://www.bitcoinconsumerfair.com or follow us on Twitter @bitcoinconsumer

We look forward to seeing you there.

I'm using a mobile app on Android (1ncemail) that launches a bitcoin URI to make a payment to acquire more address aliases. It automatically opens my MyCelium wallet but I want to pay from my Blockchain.info wallet. 

Anybody know why Blockchain.info doesn't register it's acceptance of the Bitcoin URI in Android? any workaround?

Jason

As someone mentioned in another post, they need a lot of working capital to cover daily cash out. If a merchant gets paid in bitcoin and wants payment in $, Bitpay doesn't go sell that bitcoin immediately and then pay the merchant, they pay the merchant then have to go sell the bitcoin. That mean working capital to cover the outflow.

Additionally, they have been growing and spending like crazy. They are at every conference, opening up international offices, hiring dozens of people,  buying ads, etc. All that takes additional funding.

Would anybody like to speculate on Circle's business model?  They didn't throw millions of dollars into this to have a completely free service. Is the only money they are making on the spread between exchange rates for buy and sell orders?

I suppose that could be enough to cover the credit card fees, the merchant fees, the miner fees, and their overhead.

They lose money on each transaction but make it up in volume right? 

Can the make a profit on the spread?

Or are they just trying to grow market share and then sell ancillary, yet unannounced, services?

Local police are unlikely to help. If you call your local police about a credit card theft, they will tell you to call your credit card company and report the card stolen. If you are a business and have a million credit cards stolen, you call the secret service.

The police are equipped to handle physical crimes and don't do well in the virtual area (unless your soliciting a cop pretending to be 14 year old girl).

You can still file a police report, for whatever purpose, but don't expect them to actually do anything about it.

Now if you really had $250k stolen and you had some evidence about who might have done it, then perhaps you could get some traction in certain police departments, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

The above does not constitute legal advice.

^  What he said. For your own speculation purposes, no. Doing it for others, yes.

I'm going to make a few assumptions here

1) You're not talking about refunds. Most payment processors, like bitpay, offer some form of refunds.
2) You're not talking about sending someone BTC because you could do that as long as you know their public wallet address. Clearly you can do this from within coinbase.

What it seems you want is to initiate a transaction in BTC and have it delivered to someone is USD. Correct?

The problem is that is not a payment processor but a money transmitter, ala Western Union. Payment processors avoid doing this because they have to register as MSBs, at least in the US. I believe Coinbase has their MSB license and you can certainly send BTC to a user's Coinbase account and they can cash it out in USD.

So this thread brings up an interesting concept. One could create "blanks" so to speak that had the private address concealed behind a hologram and the public address revealed. The purchaser of the blank could then fund the wallet with the face value. Then the produced is only selling a product, the blanks, and not engaged in a money services business. Of course, at every transaction, the recipient should probably validate the funds exist in the wallet to assure that it was originally funded. This is kind of reminiscent of the old days when gold and silver coins needed to be weighed to identify debasement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_coin_debasement).

Anyway, while this is an interesting intellectual exercise and physical coins have become the face of every news article on bitcoin, the actual benefit of physical bitcoin is limited.

There may be some anti-trust issues if a CC processor were to do this, but it's going to be a long hard fight.

One of the major privacy flaws of credit cards is the ability of merchants to link transactions to a single purchaser because of the uniqueness of the credit card. This can also facilitate cross merchant linkability by a data broker who compiles information from multiple merchants.

I know bitcoin supports easy creation of new addresses and you can have a unique address per transaction but I'm wondering about the feasibility of such and how it could be done transparently. You have two costs associated  with having multiple addresses. First is the transaction costs of your time in setting up and managing multiple addresses and secondly the fee paid to miners when funding your address with the appropriate transaction amount. Also, while having individual addresses for each transaction might obfuscate the consumer at the transaction level from merchants linking accounts, a merchant could certainly dig just under the surface and see that if A sent .53BTC to X1 and X1 paid the merchant .53BTC for one transaction and then in another A sent .21BTC to X2 and X2 paid the merchant .21BTC in a second transaction, both transactions are most likely the same person.

I have an idea for one way around it but it requires a 3rd party. Any other ideas?