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poik007
Aug 16, 2006
Thinks Mother 3 is the best game ever
*mumbles mumbles* and even the winkelvos twinks!

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trucutru
Jul 9, 2003

by Fluffdaddy

hellocruelworld posted:

Is there really any feasible way that the bitcoin network could function on a scale similar to visa?

sure! it is actually pretty easy: you just need to centralize it completely and have a single actor (preferably Visa) in charge of the transactions.

Wild EEPROM
Jul 29, 2011


oh, my, god. Becky, look at her bitrate.
you see this is good for bitcoin because

Robawesome
Jul 22, 2005

quote:

As time goes on in trusting my ability to find/decrypt my locally stored bitcoins. If I move them to circle, is there a fee? (self.Bitcoin)

submitted 3 minutes ago by com33

I don't own many and at this point the risk of keeping them on a old PC or encrypted somewhere and forgetting how to get to them, or fire/theft, outweigh the risks of storing it in a online wallet. Simple question how much does it cost to move coins to a hosted wallet?

Robawesome
Jul 22, 2005

quote:

quote:

Bitcoin electrical socket (self.Bitcoin)

submitted 5 hours ago * by ddepra

Hi guys,

Not so long ago, I came here asking some advice on how to build a prepaid electrical socket with an Arduino:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2xcn19/ideas_needed_bitcoin_electrical_plug/

And today, here I come: a prototype / proof of concept has been built !

The electrical socket - BitPlug - is testable LIVE on http://www.bitfluid.net via a Youtube LIVE event [just send some dust on the address and watch it move !]

This is being done in the context of an innovation contest of a big energetic group (Gd* uez ~ Enie). We want to bring awareness on Bitcoin because we think there are a lot of disruption possible in the energy sector thanks to the Magic Internet Money.

This will be reviewed by a bunch of top managers during next week. There are 40 teams and the 10 best will be selected for a final presentation.

Imagine: you're somewhere in the world and you can activate an electrical socket in my home (Belgium) in real time (sorry for the 30 sec. delay of Youtube). Isn't it magic ? :)

The charges connected to the socket in the demo are:

a toy (~ 10 W)
a lamp (~ 5 W)
a heater (~ 2000 W)

Material for the project:

Arduino Uno
Arduino Wifi shield
Arduino LCD
1 Wattmeter
1 electrical relay

Any feedback ?

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

AlbieQuirky posted:

not if you are a law enforcement official

just like selling drugs :can:

Robawesome
Jul 22, 2005

^send bitcoins to power the desk fan

I Greyhound
Apr 22, 2008

MusicKrew Dawn Patrol

i'm the $24/kWh electrical rate

EL BROMANCE
Jun 10, 2006

COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬




0.1 BTC/kWh so that's about $25? an absolute bargain compared to the 30c/kWh my electricity company charges. what will Bitcoin charge me 100x for the privilege of next I wonder.

Bobby Digital
Sep 4, 2009
magic internet money

NakedWithCandy
Sep 22, 2014
anyone said buttplug yet?

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.
someone figured out a way to turn bitcoins back into electricity :eyepop:

shadok
Dec 12, 2004

You tried to destroy it once before, Commodore.
The result was a wrecked ship and a dead crew.
Fun Shoe

Elysiume posted:

is there still going to be another trial for the murder-for-hire charges?

the charges in baltimore have not been dropped or dismissed so in theory, there will be a second dpr trial. whether or not the baltimore prosecutors go through with it at this point is anybody's guess.

Elysiume posted:

sidenote: is it a crime to accept a murder-for-hire contract if you have no intention of following through? if so, what crime? in any other circumstances I'd say fraud or something but I don't know how it works if the thing you agreed to is illegal

in canada, the uk and the us it is attempted murder the moment you accept a murder-for-hire contract, whether you get off your rear end and kill the guy or not.

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
BITCOIN DISRUPTION LEVELS IN THE POWER SECTOR ARE WAY DOWN

trucutru
Jul 9, 2003

by Fluffdaddy

quote:

ROSS ULBRICHT IS INNOCENT (self.law)

submitted 10 hours ago * by egidioagricola

Ross Ulbricht is Innocent. All he did was program computers. By submitting this text post, I have programmed a computer.

Ross Ulbricht was convicted for being a political dissident in the drug war. His subjective beliefs and expressions are not an element of racketeering or trafficking. He had no means or opportunity to sell or buy drugs, he contributed to a computer program. What happens when these programs become independent of human intervention? Silk Road was an interface, not an operation or business. Ross Ulbricht is not the Dread Pirate Roberts. The DRP is a cartoon character in a childrens story.

This case is an example of how technology outstrips the human capacity to grasp ideas. Saying he ran a drug business is like saying I work for Uber or Lyft. Uber and Lyft are phone apps, not companies (I know there are also companies by those name)

I saw a youtube video where a cop in Pittsburgh asked a driver , "are you a taxi?" I felt like saying "No officer, I'm an 18 wheeler but tomorrow I'll be a chair"

Confusing people with things is endemic.

Alliterate Addict
Jul 10, 2012

dreaming of that face again

it's bright and blue and shimmering

grinning wide and comforting me with it's three warm and wild eyes

FrozenVent posted:

someone figured out a way to turn bitcoins back into electricity :eyepop:

now just plug the miner into itself and you’ll have infinite electricity and money

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

trucutru posted:

Uber and Lyft are phone apps, not companies (I know there are also companies by those name)

i do not work for uber i simply use the ::UBER::of_the::PHONE/apps/uber:: application, they are separate unrelated entities

Alliterate Addict
Jul 10, 2012

dreaming of that face again

it's bright and blue and shimmering

grinning wide and comforting me with it's three warm and wild eyes

quote:

Ross Ulbricht is Innocent. All he did was program computers. By submitting this text post, I have programmed a computer.

i killed someone with a gun, people shoot guns at firing ranges, ergo;

quote:

He had no means or opportunity to sell or buy drugs, he contributed to a computer program.

i know it's stunning to think about bitcoiners not reading, but the fact that they're all ignoring the whole mushroom thing is pretty funny

quote:

Ross Ulbricht is not the Dread Pirate Roberts. The DRP is a cartoon character in a childrens story.

i sign all my manifestos as bugs bunny before leaving them at crime scenes, it's a surefire legal defense :smug:

quote:

This case is an example of how technology outstrips the human capacity to grasp ideas. Saying he ran a drug business is like saying I work for Uber or Lyft. Uber and Lyft are phone apps, not companies (I know there are also companies by those name)

something something berth boat freeman something

e: ^ yeah that

Buttcoin purse
Apr 24, 2014

ayn rand hand job posted:

rhythmic slapping

:stare:

but kinda lol that google's results for that phrase explained exactly to me wtf you were talking about

atomicthumbs posted:

what the gently caress was I doing last night

having fun

as in ~everybody have fun tonight, photoshop wang chung tonight~

NakedWithCandy
Sep 22, 2014
Saying he ran a drug business is like saying I work for Uber or Lyft. Uber and Lyft are phone apps, not companies (I know there are also companies by those name)

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
princess bride isn't a cartoon :bahgawd:

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Boxturret posted:

i do not work for uber i simply use the ::UBER::of_the::PHONE/apps/uber:: application, they are separate unrelated entities
Ceci n'est pas une Uber.

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

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Heresiarch posted:

your error here is assuming that vc money is ever spent sensibly

the entire idea of modern vc is to throw money at everything in case one of these crazy ideas succeeds, and "success" can mean "bought out by a larger company" so literally nothing ever has to be delivered to a end-user or customer

this is modern finance. it is not about making anything or doing anything useful

this, and even if the underlying tech is scrapped the conventional wisdom is that you're vc'ing in for the brand and customer base

not sure how that'd work out with bitcoin though, bitcoin 2.0 would probably be shunned by the true believers

Alliterate Addict
Jul 10, 2012

dreaming of that face again

it's bright and blue and shimmering

grinning wide and comforting me with it's three warm and wild eyes

surebet posted:

not sure how that'd work out with bitcoin though, bitcoin 2.0 would probably be shunned by the true believers

today's true believers are either yesterday's bag-holders or tomorrow's scammer tags

theflyingorc
Jun 28, 2008

ANY GOOD OPINIONS THIS POSTER CLAIMS TO HAVE ARE JUST PROOF THAT BULLYING WORKS
Young Orc

when talking about things, their definition shifts to whichever one is most convenient to my point, and you are wrong if you think otherwise

Jerry Bindle
May 16, 2003

trucutru posted:

Ross Ulbricht is Innocent. All he did was program computers. By submitting this text post, I have programmed a computer.

Fanged Lawn Wormy
Jan 4, 2008

SQUEAK! SQUEAK! SQUEAK!

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

surebet posted:

i consent to this name change and wish to create a joinder with moooooooods

You have been sentenced to life in prison in a maritime court for being an illegal boat

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

demonicon posted:

r/bitcoin: I lost all my money to infinite fees.

that's why you join a buttponzi that pays unyielding interest to pay off your infinite fees

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
bitcoin: crisis of infinite fees

trucutru
Jul 9, 2003

by Fluffdaddy

NakedWithCandy posted:

Saying he ran a drug business is like saying I work for Uber or Lyft. Uber and Lyft are phone apps, not companies (I know there are also companies by those name)

in a bizarre coincidence those companies own the phone apps of the same name!

Robawesome
Jul 22, 2005

Bitcoin only has value to me as a decentralized system. I will fight with computing power to keep it that way. (self.Bitcoin)

submitted 3 minutes ago by ozme

20 megabyte blocks will do nothing to solve the fundamental problem of scaling a decentralized system, and you fools in favor risk destroying the network with your ignorance. And all for what, because you've lost money on your investments and think that somehow increasing the block size limit is going to magically make you wealthier when everyone and their mother starts using Bitcoin? This type of ignorant greed will do nothing for the value of your holdings, and you risk destroying everything in the process.

To me, security and decentralization are the core value propositions of the Bitcoin system at present given the current technical limitations. To me, the Bitcoin network excels at processing extremely high value transactions with immutable security, and as a store of value. It is Digital Gold, and yet you all seem to want to reduce it to a clearing system for your frappucinos. Cryptographic proof, stored for eternity on thousands of computers around the world, for micro payments? And at the risk of breaking everything and causing a cataclysmic network divide!

Well let me be clear, if there is a network fork, it will be a digital battlefield. And as with any battle, there will be spoils when the dust clears. To those of you gushing at Gavin, to those that view him as the CEO to lead the Bitcoin shareholders to prosperity, I ask you to proceed with extreme caution and consider the possibility that he is far gone from his element. This is a $3 billion dollar system that is working perfectly fine, as-is, and you all want to turn it into Visa, which serves absolutely no benefit to anyone. In your greedy pursuits of recouping your investment, you will render Bitcoin worthless.

There is nothing but speculation of the next incoming wave of adoption, and the next bubble. Well where will that bubble come from, oh mystics with your crystal balls? Take off your rose colored goggles and you'll realize that the network, net of fake chains of thousands of transactions designed solely to inflate the transaction counts, has grown at a single digit pace this year.

If you want to trade your Bitcoins for GavinHearnCoins, no on will stop you. However, if you think you as "the community" have reached consensus on a hardfork, you should know that the node count of the network as it stands pales in comparison to how large it will grow when we, backed into a corner, retaliate and deploy thousands of 1mb nodes around the world. The echo chamber of Reddit might have deluded itself into a populist majority, but in this battle ultimately the economic majority will win.

Tayter Swift
Nov 18, 2002

Pillbug
Ross did nothing wrong, the drugs didn't really exist all he did was program a computer

the program didn't really exist, he just manipulated some ones and zeroes

ones and zeroes don't really exist, they're human-invented abstract concepts

but those don't exist either, they were represented by a bunch of electrons

and electrons... Heisenberg says you can never know where an electron is and you're going to tell me those things exist?!? come on.

ross did nothing wrong... because ross did nothing.

Robawesome
Jul 22, 2005

Public Service Announcement: large amount of transactions bug (self.Bitcoin)

submitted 2 minutes ago by purpleping2

I was taking part in the stress test and my wallet got corrupted somehow. I thankfully had a backup but I just want to warn those of you that are thinking of sending a large amount of transactions (even if you aren't stress testing you should have a back up in general) to make a backup first there seems to be some sort of bug.

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

Kreeblah posted:

okcoin - too big to fail

Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

Please leave the room if you think this might offend you.
Grimey Drawer

wait

wait

i know this

birdhouse in your soul?

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.

trucutru posted:

This case is an example of how technology outstrips the human capacity to grasp ideas. Saying he ran a drug business is like saying I work for Uber or Lyft. Uber and Lyft are phone apps, not companies (I know there are also companies by those name)

this is some freeman on the land poo poo

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

Trig Discipline posted:

wait

wait

i know this

birdhouse in your soul?

Antlerhill
Nov 6, 2012

Smellrose
ross all bricked in

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VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE
Aug 1, 2004

whoa, what just happened here?







College Slice

Tayter Swift posted:

ross did nothing wrong... because ross did nothing.

We observed Ross and the waveform collapsed into a libertarian drug kingpin serving life

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