Where do you get those numbers?

... and the $30 price would be meaningless, because we'd be the only ones willing to pay that much. As soon as some of us decided to sell our BTC, the price would go back down. See how that works?

ooh, I'd like to have an invite. Thanks! 

Which leak was this? I must have missed one 

Yes!
They have a Jamendo page: http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/Diablo_Swing_Orchestra_%282%29


I have gotten complaints before, for typing too loudly when a good song comes on.

I only wanted to know what the relationship between the website and the bitcoind instance would be. If it's completely automated, chances of you getting any additional "real" security from having them on separate boxes is low, but you could at least avoid someone trivially copying the wallet out of a home directory, say using a privilege escalation attack in combination with some attack that gets them initial access to the web server.

I'm a big fan of Opera, but it's not a panacea for CSRF or whatever. You do have to turn off Javascript and plug-ins for those security benefits, and Firefox and Chrome give you similar functionality (using the add-on NoScript, in the case of Firefox).

The best distro is the one that you are most comfortable with. This is because you'll want to keep it up to date with security patches and turn off services you aren't using.

Aside from that, I tend to prefer Slackware because, while it does have you editing configuration files by hand, it is very straightforward once you get past the initial learning curve (which is, admittedly, sizable). I wouldn't necessarily recommend it to you if you don't want to jump in with both feet. Then again, maybe the correct jumping approach is two-footed, if you're going to store bitcoins there.

Running bitcoind on Linux goes about like this:
1. Unzip
2. Run

You can fiddle bits and make it start automatically too, if you want, but I haven't bothered. I'm probably not the best person to help, but until someone else steps up, what do you have in mind for the website?

Say I had inside knowledge that Apple and Dominoes Pizza were both about to launch advertising campaigns announcing their support of and undying love for Bitcoin. I'd speculate all the money I could get my hands on. Short of that, s'not likely.

Slackware and OS X. Also Windows 7, XP, and FreeBSD, but I don't happen to run any Bitcoin stuff on those. Didn't answer the poll, obviously.

Can seven-year-olds grok abstract concepts yet, or does that come later? My temptation would be to say "Bitcoins are like dollars, except they only exist on computers, and can only be exchanged on the Internet." (Yeah, I know you could have a private key embedded in something hardware; I wouldn't be comfortable with that before I'd sent it to a new address ... and besides, we're talking to a seven-year-old. What do you want from me?)

That's how it works for me, but only with the right kind of music.


I remember one of the Death Note OPs would always make me laugh. I only watched part of the series. Bet you can guess where I stopped

I don't mind! (not that I listen to pop much anyways...)


Male rappers do this often.

I agree about not blaming victims, elitism being inappropriate, and so forth.

There is also the separate, but utterly valid point, that Bitcoin is not for average computer users yet. When I see yet another person claiming to be hacked, besides skepticism, I only feel about 1/3 sympathy. The other 2/3 is along the lines of "sigh. another one who got in too early."

Perhaps we could gently steer new users away from the project, for a while? Maybe get a sticky that says something like "If you don't know what a hash is, it's a thing that has carnivorous money-eating dragons inside."

I'd like Bitcoin to not get any more publicity until we get a very different client and set of services that are (at least nearly) idiot-proof.

"Enjoy the Silence", some remastered cut or other. The video is animated, mostly black and white, office building, guys in suits.

Most music will distract me if I listen to it while trying to program, so I usually go for things without vocals. Just lately, I've been listening to NIN's Ghosts I-IV and Maserati's Inventions for the New Season a lot. They seem to be a good mix of energy and ambience.

I'm still well under 50 posts. I must have gotten whitelisted at some point. Anyway, post counts are a terrible metric to use to try to bring up the quality of a forum. It's just a mechanism to make sock puppet-creation painful.

If we want better, more substantive threads, we need some kind of regulation... stricter rules, subforums with strong enforcement of subject matter, mods carrying bigger hammers, that kind of thing. I don't know if all that effort would be worth it.

I've seen sites like that before. Scamming the mathematically challenged, is what they're doing. The cost of making another bid is always lower than the cost of leaving your tokens and walking away with nothing. There's no way to tell they aren't artificially raising the price on you / extending an auction you would have otherwise won. The winner's crap is paid for many times over by the losers. It's disgusting.

If I had special hashing powers, I'd distribute my blocks around different places, to different accounts, so nobody noticed.