vendredi 31 janvier 2014
How rich are you compared to other r/Bitcoin readers? (Survey)
I often find myself wondering how I compare to others my age in r/Bitcoin.
I've created a short survey on Google docs. Please only fill out the survey once, and be honest with your responses. You know, for science.
I will post the results in graph form to r/Bitcoin on 2/5/2014.
For privacy and security purposes, please do not post the amount of Bitcoin you own in this thread, unless you create a disposable or just don't care.
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Coincove - Mexican Bitcoin exchange
Hey guys, I am with the coincove team.
Just wanted to drop by and announce that after a few months of trying many different things we realized that exclusively relying on local Bitcoin communities was seriously going to limit the impact and rate of adoption we wanted to achieve. We were getting ahead of ourselves (bitcoiners, such an ambitious bunch) and after very much appreciated advice from our mentors and members from boost.vc’s founding team, we have decided to take a step back and modify our plan of attack. We are setting up a robust and reliable exchange to serve Mexico and then we will go after Western Union.
If all goes well, hopefully by the next time you visit Cabo or Playa you will be able to pay for your beach micheladas using Bitcoins.
Anyways, site is in Spanish - for obvious reasons – but if you happen to know some Mexicans please point them in our direction. We will soon have an English version too.
Cheers, The Coincove team
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We wanted /r/bitcoin to be the first to know that our Sci-Fi Indie MMO has begun accepting Bitcoins as a payment option!
Hey reddit! My name is Marty and I’m the community manager over at Star Sonata 2, an indie massively multiplayer online science fiction game that is fast approaching it's TEN year anniversary this year!
We’re happy to announce that Star Sonata 2 is now accepting bitcoin as a payment option! Bitcoin is ideal for us because we have a very international player-base, with the majority of our players living outside the US. We often get requests for different payment options or currencies but are unable to accommodate everyone. Star Sonata is an MMO with one server, which means everyone around the world plays together. As a truly international currency, we hope that Bitcoin will allow Star Sonata to reach even more people from around the world and really enrich our global community!
Our game is free for the first 80% or so of the game with only the end game and building permanent assets requiring the subscription.
If you'd like to show your support for us, but don't want to give us your precious bitcoins just yet, we could really use your vote on steam greenlight! You can find out more about the features of the game there. I have a feeling you guys will like the game because the in game economy isn't touched by admins and is completely player controlled. The game is also developed by a bunch of people who don’t like regulated currencies. :)
And finally here’s a review done about the game a few months ago to give you an idea of the game! http://ift.tt/1a7hXVv Our current trailer is a bit outdated, but you can catch it on our steam greenlight page. :P
I reddit way too much for my own good, so I’ll be around all day if anyone has any questions about the game or our bitcoin support.
P.S: Congratulations on 100,000 subscribers! :D
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I wrote an academic paper on Bitcoin for a sociology journal
Long time lurker, first time poster in this subreddit. I have written a paper on some of the more sociologically interesting aspects of Bitcoin, and would be interested to hear if the community had any opinions on it.
If you happen to have institutional access to the small Danish sociology journal Distinktion you can read a nicely formatted and proofread version here, if not you can read my ass-ugly Word version at my personal web page.
The TL:DR for the paper - which I realise is probably a bit heavy on the sociological theory, sorry about that - is that I consider Bitcoin to be an exciting and novel technological innovation that will have consequences in the way electronic transactions are handled in the future, but also that I don't think Bitcoin is a revolutionary new way of doing monetary policy, like a lot of people seem to assume. As a sociologist, I see markets as something more than a technical-economic question. They are also tied to a lot of institutions and ways of doing things which are far stickier than they seem. For example, I don't think people will be ready to accept a world where they are themselves personally responsible for keeping their money safe from theft or tampering. There are lots of "old" economic institutions that will get involved to make Bitcoin look a lot more like traditional currencies as it becomes more popular - and that includes types of regulation that does not appeal so much to the libertarians that originally designed it. Phew, that's a long TL:DR...
Oh, and if you see something in here that isn't correct, you're probably right. A couple of points in my defence:
1) The way academic publishing works, getting a paper out takes a long time. Given that things in Bitcoinland are developing extremely fast, a lot of the information in here is already outdated.
2) This is written for an audience that don't necessarily know anything about Bitcoin. Also, I'm neither an economist nor a computer scientist, so I'm sure there are mistakes in the technical descriptions here - I already see there are things I would have worded differently if I could rewrite it. I'm posting it here so you guys can understand something about what a sociologist sees when looking at something like Bitcoin.
That being said, feel free to criticize me!
EDIT: A word.
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PSA: Do NOT store a wallet backup in your Dropbox. It is NOT SECURE.
At least once a week I see someone with 2FA turned on who somehow loses coins from whatever service, and one of the common threads that comes up is storing backups (even encrypted (though weakly)) in Dropbox. This is not secure and your coins will be stolen.
Don't do it. If you have already done it, start a new wallet and transfer your coins to it asap, then delete all traces of the old one.
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L'Etat de New-York en route vers une réglementation de Bitcoin
... Lire L'Etat de New-York en route vers une réglementation de Bitcoin
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January 31st, 2014 - The day in bitcoin history nothing happend
Well, I know, it's not over yet. But it's nearly over in China and no crash or price explosion yet. I guess this day will be remembered as the day everyone was waiting for something to happen and nothing happend.
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I've just had 0.11125306 BTC stolen (Blockchain.info) - can anyone help?
I woke up to two messages on my phone saying that two transactions had been made from my Blockchain account.
It's so strange, esspecially as I've got 2FA on my BlockChain account, which is sent as an SMS message to my phone. I can't think of any way that someone would have been able to compromise my account, or a computer that I was using to access my Blockchain account. If anyone has any suggestions on where I can go next (Not that I'm holding up much hope of getting them back), then I'd be extremely grateful.
EDIT - My bitcoin address on BlockChain is 15944V31kxR2mPfdwCdaQNjrzaUQh4qNFp.
EDIT2 - Looks like they logged in through the Blockchain website, checking the access logs:
Today 07:19:41 viewed login page 108.62.64.30 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0 Today 07:19:40 viewed login page 108.62.64.30 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0
But that still doesn't explain how they managed to get through the 2FA.
EDIT3 - I did receive an authentication code from Blockchain a few minutes before the transfer occurred, this code is needed to gain access to the account.
EDIT4 - Problem solved, the hacker gained access to my Dropbox, which has the backup of my wallet (stupid, I know). Then they used this to gain access to my account. Thanks for everyone's help with finding the problem.
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NEW: bitc: a new thin SPV bitcoin client for linux/mac
bitc is a thin SPV bitcoin client.
- 100% C code,
- support for linux and mac platforms,
- console based: uses ncurses,
- home grown async network i/o stack,
- home grown poll loop,
- home grown bitcoin engine,
- supports encrypted wallet,
- multi-threaded,
- valgrind clean.
You'll need basic dev skills to install it: check-out the code, install dependencies then build. It's all in the README file. I'm interested in all kinds of feedback you may have: feature requests, bugs, etc. Thanks!
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Andreas Antonopoulos TED nomination
Forgive me for re-posting a hot topic on the very same subject but I want to make a more clear attempt to try and entice people to nominate Andreas for a TED conference on Bitcoin. This will greately benifit the proliferation of Bitcoin and thus make society a better place.
The link to nominate a speaker is http://ift.tt/mRyOTB
It will ask for several bits of information of the speaker you are nominating which might be off putting if you are on time constraints but please take the time to fill these in as a small effort can have a big effect!
I will put here serveral bits of information that you will require to make it easier!
Contact telephone: 1 888-998-2918 Email: media@antonopoulos.com
The section on TED that asks you about the speaker credentials can be found on Andreas website: http://ift.tt/1f5w9gP which is a simple copy and paste job.
For example, 'Andreas is a passionate technologist, who is well-versed in many technical subjects. He is a serial tech-entrepreneur, having launched businesses in London, New York, and California. He has earned degrees in Computer Science and Data Communications and Distributed Systems from UCL. With experience ranging from hardware and electronics to high level business and financial systems technology consulting and years as CTO/CIO/CSO in many companies — he combines authority and deep knowledge with an ability to make complex subjects easy to understand. He often brings a fresh perspective to a topic with surprising insights and his ability to identify underlying principles and connections between different topics. More than 200 of his articles on security, cloud computing and data centers have been published in print and syndicated worldwide. His expertise includes Bitcoin, crypto-currencies, Information Security, Cryptography, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Linux, Open Source and robotics software development. He also has been CISSP certified for 12 years'.
TED will also ask for video of the speaker, a high profile one of him on RT news is here
http://ift.tt/1kjjCIu
and also a very inspirational one of him in Argentina
again more videos can be found on his website http://antonopoulos.com
Let's get him on TED!!
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How long before the police raid bitcoin miners looking for weed farms?
Just a thought that popped into my mind. Police look for properties using unusually high amounts of electricity. How long before they bust into someone's house looking for a weed factory, only to find a few mining rigs?
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Huobi made me a millionaire for one hour
So I transferred a small amount of money to my Huobi account today, only to check several hours later to find that 5,510,367.00 CNY had been credited to my account instead. Instead of buying 1000 bitcoins and transferring them to cold storage for safekeeping, I called customer support immediately and they corrected their mistake, so I ended up only being a CNY multi-millionaire for that one-hour period.
So now I need bitcoin to go way past mars so I can be rich like that again someday :)
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Fuck you, banks
I am an expat from Europe living in Japan. The only ATM's I can use are the ones in 7/11. I am not allowed to get more than a small sum per day from them.
Fuck you, banks and card companies.
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Andreas M. Antonopolous We Salute You
Andreas is the first leader amongst the Bitcoin community who is NOT an introvert.
The previous spokespeople were rank and file introverts who made fools of themselves and made bitcoin an easy target to the many enemies it has. This grossly discouraged many good coders/developers and users. Unfounded lies and negativity have substantial effects on people's minds by decreasing morale. Not to mention the credibility issues it creates.
The powers that be are well aware of this, as they are masters of lies and psychological warfare. That is how they co opt every system.
Bitcoin itself is a sterile asset. It cannot speak for itself. Humans are designed to be social and interact with other humans. Everyone has a role to play, yet that role is also different based on abilities. Contrary to the modern world, in reality differences are real they exist. Deal with it. Since Bitcoin is sterile, speaking the truth about bitcoin defends the very people involved in it. This increases morale.
Every system in nature is hierarchical. Contrary to anarchist / communist/capitalist/ libertarian utopias, hierarchy is the way the universe is programmed to operate under. People need to recognize their own weakness and limitations and be content. Rallying around principled leaders leads to robust and flourishing systems. Bitcoin has lacked this for years. Bitcoin had the technical superiority to be great but lacked the natural human element, or at least a correct expression of it.
Andreas is to be commended not only because he is very articulate and intelligent(understands history) but most important of all Andreas has integrity and ethical values. THIS IS LACKING HUGE IN THE TECH COMMUNITY AT LARGE.
Andreas is also not afraid to go on the offensive against the many enemies of Bitcoin with straight to the point rebuttals. Essentially truth is his motivation. This is a much higher motivator then the typical libertarian "self interest profit motive". Selfishness leads nowhere.
If only a few more people like Andreas emerge, then the sky is the limit for this project. It will soar to heights unimaginable.
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jeudi 30 janvier 2014
We are letting P2POOL die
The hashrate is fluctuating between 130 - 160 TH/s. Few blocks are found, so payments are very irregular. Has the Bitcoin community given up on P2POOL?
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Let's ask blizzard to support bitcoin
Here is a post from blizzard forums regarding bitcoin. Please help bump it up so it gets noticed:
Other posts I found:
Feel free to add any other posts on the forums that support bitcoin integration so we can raise awareness.
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/r/Bitcoin FAQ - Newcomers please read
This posts explains some dos and don'ts about what to post on /r/Bitcoin .
First lets start with...
Messaging mods
Modmail is for:
- Problems with the subreddit (some sidebar links are broken for example)
- Problems with submissions (spam filter sometimes catches too much, we sort things a few times a day. If you have an urgent submission, contact us)
- Requests that need mod support - if you need us to verify your identity for say, AMA, or that you represent an organization, contact us and we'll do our best to help you
Modmail is not for:
- Asking general questions
- Reporting obvious spam submissions (that's what the Report button is for)
- Advertisements on the subreddit (it is handled through Reddit, not us)
- Help with shadowbans (again, that's Reddit, not us. Contact them)
Frequent requests:
- "Can I get a flair?" - No, at the moment we are not giving anyone flair on the subreddit
- "Can you add my subreddit to the sidebar?" - If you are a local Bitcoin subreddit, we can add you to the wiki. If you are not a Bitcoin-related subreddit, 99% chance the answer is no. If you are a Bitcoin-related subreddit, we only add subreddits that are established - if you have less than a few hundred subscribers and less than a post a day, the answer is most likely no. Beyond that, we can talk.
- "Can you link to my website from the sidebar?" - No
Submissions
Please don't post:
- Ask to be stickied - it's like asking for upvotes. People don't like it when you ask for upvotes.
- General questions about how Bitcoin works - go to /r/BitcoinBeginners or search in http://ift.tt/Qnuzv5 .
- General newcomer questions, like "which client should I use?", "how do I buy Bitcoin?" - again, /r/BitcoinBeginners
- Questions about mining - go to /r/bitcoinmining
- "Is it profitable to mine?" - punch your numbers into a calculator or go to /r/bitcoinmining
- "Should I buy Bitcoin?" / "Is it still worth investing in Bitcoin?" - You shouldn't take financial advice from the Internet, you need to figure this out for yourself
- "What about altcoin X?" / "Should I buy altcoin X?" / "You should buy altcoin X!" - This is a very big topic in itself. Short answer is no under most circumstances. For a longer explanation, please read my blog entry and the accompanying reddit submission for discussion on the topic.
- Asking for money - unless you are a reputable charity, your post will be treated like spam
- Complaints about not buying Bitcoins when they were $X/BTC - nobody cares
- Referral links - your post will be treated like spam
- "BUYBUYBUY"/"SELLSELLSELL" - you will be treated like a troll
- Submissions or posts with curse words directed at someone - don't insult other people. Your posts will be treated like spam otherwise. Occasional expressions like "holy shit this is awesome!" are tolerated in moderation.
- "Can I buy less than 1 bitcoin?" - The answer is "yes, you can purchase as little as 0.00000001 BTC at a time, you don't have to buy a whole coin, similarly how you can buy a gram of gold, you don't need to buy a whole gold bar"
- "What happens after all 21M BTC are mined?" - Either Bitcoin will be long gone before then (if the system doesn't catch on), or miners will be earning their money from transaction fees instead.
- "What happens to lost coins?" - Lost coins remain lost, unless someone finds a private key for them. This is ONLY viable if quantum computers become strong enough. Otherwise, the numbers used by Bitcoin are too big to be brute forced - heat death of the universe will occur before a colission is found.. As for re-mining old bitcoins, there are many reasons to not return lost coins back to circulation.
Take heed when posting:
- Memes - memes are allowed, but some people may not like you for posting them. Be sure to use /r/Bitcoinmemes as well
- Information about all-time-highs, price spikes, crashes and so forth - 90% of the time, someone has already posted about it. Check /r/bitcoin/new first before posting.
- Questions about help with a particular website or business - /r/Bitcoin is not tech support for any business, you're better off contacting the support of the business in question through their forums or ticket system
What to do if you see...
- Spam - click "report" underneath the submission, vote accordingly. Don't message mods unless the spam is subtle or needs context
- Repost - vote accordingly, click "report"
- A post from the "don't" list above - direct the posted to a proper subreddit if applicable (for questions and newbie posts), vote and report accordingly otherwise
- A post that is allowed on this subreddit but you don't like it being here - vote accordingly, don't report it. If it is allowed, the mods will not remove the post. Your votes shape what submissions get the most exposure - upvote the posts you want to see more of, downvote the ones you want to see less of.
Some good guides you should look into:
- Will I earn money by mining?
- Basic Bitcoin security guide
- The straightforward Bitcoin safety and security guide
Please do
- Read the sidebar for community rules - following them will make everyone's day better.
- Be sceptical of any news without credible sources - a lot of bad people are trying to play on your emotions by fabricating fake stories. Be sceptical of any story without a credible citation, especially when it is related to economic or legal side of things.
Thank you for your attention. Post responsibly, vote on all submissions, live and let live, have fun.
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My new favorite Andreas quote
"Essentially, not only do we believe in this myth of 'de-risking', but it has become the one overriding goal; de-risking above growth, de-risking above innovation, de-risking above everything else. And we've reached the point where the Fed is using $70 Billion a month to 'de-risk' a largely insolvent banking system. And this can only end badly. The idea that you can do capitalism without risk is ridiculous on it's face."
-- Andreas Antonopoulos on the financial industry and Bitcoin ( MadBitcoins Live: New York Bitcoin Hearings )
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London (UK) Pop-up Pub accepting Bitcoin
The Craft Beer Social Club's Pop-up Pub opens from 6th Feb - 8th March (Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays) and you can spend your Bitcoins with us!
So, if you're based in London, UK or planning a trip, then why not pop-in. We're also not just a 'run of the mill' drinking establishment as we only serve British beers. There are over 1000 breweries in the UK producing in the region of 8000 different beers every year (according to figures by CAMRA) - an impossibility to get through the lot - but we're here to help you make a decent dent!
The Pop-up is at 87 Leonard Street, London, EC2A 4QS. Open: Thursdays 4pm-12am Fridays 4pm-12am Saturdays 1pm-12am
DRINKS FOR £2! Until 12pm on Thursday 6th February (and for a limited number), we're offering HUGE discounts to anyone that pre-purchases their drinks online using Bitcoin. Just visit our website for more details at http://ift.tt/1fesEmP
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