How are OSX users finding it? Stable?

All,

Please take a moment to choose a video in the poll above as well. I'm trying to see something.

Alright guys, the submissions are all in. I think every video kicks ass. We've got about 15 or so in total. Very creative stuff.

Here are all the submissions (in *no particular order*). Please give it a few mins and check each one out and vote and/or comment on your favorite one. There is 2.2 BTC up for grabs for the "winner".. but I've got some plans for all the videos. This has been fun, and everyone who submitted a video, donated, and now votes has my gratitude. I hope I did this issue some justice.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1xi1hp/think_different_about_bitcoin_apple_ad_reedit/


Take a look and give an upvote to your favorite.

FYI.. for those interested in the Apple video re-edit contest that rotalumis was gracious enough to refer to in his OP.. we're up to 2.14232475 BTC in the bounty/prize now.

Video submissions end Sunday night, so if you're good with video and have a clever idea, give the contest a shot this weekend.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1x6cpd/think_different_about_bitcoin_contest_to_reedit/

Damn, we're up to 1.30889475 BTC in the prize pot for the best video.

https://blockchain.info/address/1MUjMagjPKb9oHn3jsKv1KWPtApHF6ESBG

Hey guys, so after the Google/Bitcoin debacle.. I'm working on a more profound project. I'm holding a public contest and asking people to re-edit Apple's iconic "Think Different" ad to reflect how they need to follow their own advice and think different about bitcoin.

You can read the details on reddit, but several people have already pledged to donate to the winner, and Nic Cary (CEO of Blockchain) pledging .5BTC out of his own pocket so far.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1x6cpd/think_different_about_bitcoin_contest_to_reedit/

There's also a "Think Different About Bitcoin" video re-edit contest I'm holding on Reddit. We've already had several people pledge to donate to the winner, with Nic Cary (CEO of Blockchain.info) pledging .5 BTC himself!

Here's the link: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1x6cpd/think_different_about_bitcoin_contest_to_reedit/

Of course, I'd be more then happy to do that - right now. How would I post the result so it's all above board? Or, if you could walk me through it via PM?
Either way, excellent idea.

Not new, registered almost a year ago. I just lurk. There's some really intelligent discussion on these forums.. but also some serious trollage.

Regardless, maybe Forbes and Wired and Vice and all of them are foolish enough to fall for my evil genius hoax(?!).. and you in your infinite wisdom are smarter. 

Excuse me.. busted? Busted doing what exactly? I think vindicated is a more appropriate word. Are you suggesting the emails were fake and Sridhar didn't say what I attribute?

It's not fake guys. For Gods sakes.. that's a really silly accusation. I even challenged TheNextWeb.com, which took it upon itself to say the emails "were too good to be true".. insinuating they are bullshit. I challenged that if they can get Google to deny Sridhar said those words to me in an email I would give TheNextWeb 10 btc and the "journalist" who wrote that 10 BTC, and use Seans Outpost founder Jason as a trusted escrow party. They haven't responded to my challenge.

The emails are not fake, and Sridhar said what he said. Same with Vic and Ariel Bardin.

What you can take away from Sridhars words are a matter of personal choice, but he said what he said.

Google can say "we have no current plans regarding bitcoin", just like I have no current plans to use the bathroom to relieve myself.. but I'm sure I will inevitably have to at some point during the day.

Forbes, Vice, Business Insider, The Daily Dot, Coindesk etc etc all authenticated the email exchanges and even more I had with Ariel that I did not publicly post.

Take away what you want to take away. Believe or not. Tinfoil hat or reality. Your choice.

Laters!

“We are working in the payments team to figure out how to incorporate bitcoin into our plans" - that was exactly, word for word what Google Senior VP of Ads and Commerce Sridhar Ramaswamy said to me. Since then Forbes, Coindesk, Vice, The Daily Dot, etc etc have all authenticated and verified the emails in various ways. Read what you will into that.

The final stats I had were: 5,935 people have submitted 1,396 suggestions and cast 52,963 votes.
Ariel @ Google told me that was enough to get a gauge on the top suggestions. Although I wish there was less of the dogecoin nonsense.

“We are working in the payments team to figure out how to incorporate bitcoin into our plans,” wrote Google Senior VP of Ads and Commerce Sridhar Ramaswamy at one point in the email exchange.."

That's more the "exploring".

From an article in Amongtech.com: http://www.amongtech.com/google-wallet-could-get-bitcoin-support-soon/

I tend to agree.. a man in Vic Gundotra's shoes would not even bother responding, let alone CC the head of Google Wallet to an email from Joe Blow RE: Bitcoin if
Google was positioning itself to rollout a product/service that would rival bitcoin. Legal reasons, PR reasons.. whatever. Guys at the top of the food chain in these sorts of companies rarely respond to emails, and when they do they probably don't say or do anything that could potentially hinder future plans. (They assume anything they say to a consumer could be plastered allover the Internet and archived for eternity).

Gundotra was clearly not responding in a personal capacity, rather in his official position @ Google.

Very interesting.

Guys.. just a little re-assurance. Im a long time QT user thinking to switch to Electrum.. been researching for a while now. So it seems I don't have to make scheduled backups of my wallet with Electrum (as I currently do with QT) at all. As long as I remember the generated seed to memory perfectly, thats all I will EVER need to rebuild my wallet and use spend my BTC in any scenario (other someone stealing my seed), correct?

With QT now, the syncing with the blockchain, plus issues since I'm on OSX (random crashes and having to rebuild the block database or re-sync etc) has made me very paranoid and I've started backing up my encrypted wallet to external storage. It seems like Electrum would be an elegant alternative, with no need to download the entire blockchain and in the event I have to access my wallet on a new computer (or alternative machine of my own), I wont have to wait a day.. it's download Electrum, re-create from Seed, and boom. Is this correct?

For added security, it allows the current wallet to be encrypted as well (but if I'm understanding correctly, once you recreate a wallet from a seed, the 'encrypted' part of it goes out the window and you must now re-encrypt otherwise the wallet is wide open to spend with, yes?)

And in the unlikely event the Electrum servers all go down forever.. I would still be able to re-create my wallet from my seed? Where? And more importantly, where would my private keys be if that has to be the case?

A little help from fellow Electrum OSX'rs would be awesome.. especially since it's a big switch and one always gets paranoid when trusting a new "place" with your money 

FYI - Im on OSX Mavericks, and would be installing Electrum 1.9.4 (NOT 1.9.5 since I understand there are some issues with OSX and that version still being hammered out), and I'm also not too keen on offline paper wallet super cold storage either since I'm pretty secure (firewall, filevault, encrypted volumes etc).

So.. yes? Send my BTC from QT over to Electrum in 1 swoop and never look back? Or nay?

Thanks guys!

Got it! Thanks guys

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