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finance | 2,011 | Is commodity-backing key to Bitcoin's success? | 10 |
finance | 2,011 | How many BTC do you currently hold/own?
Just curious what everyone's balances are now, if you'd like to share.
550, unless BTC is not individual bitcoins. Did a bunch of mining when the getting was good about a year ago.
Oh yea, I suppose I should share too if I'm asking - I clock in at a whopping 0.07 BTC
I'm at 2... | 585 |
finance | 2,011 | The Power of Bitcoins
Hehe, I sent the guy a few additional bitcoins. And I will continue to donate to anyone who does a good job promoting them :) | 33 |
finance | 2,011 | More than 12,000$ worth of bitcoins exchanged today on Mt Gox! | 17 |
finance | 2,011 | CoinPal - Buy Bitcoins with PayPal
Many have tried this before and shut down due to problems with chargebacks. Are you doing anything different than what they did to avoid this?
The creator of the service has a [thread on the forums](https://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=2555.0) about it where this is discussed... | 115 |
finance | 2,011 | Bitcoin Central: Trade LRUSD, LREUR and EUR | 12 |
finance | 2,011 | Russia Today TV talks about Bitcoin as alternative currency | 9 |
finance | 2,011 | YouTipIt -- Bitcoin based Flattr like
Reddit with money?
You could call it "Creddit":
http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=2029.msg35130#msg35130
I wouldn't mind that at all. On the other hand I'd like youtipit it grow slowly and let it stabilize properly. There are still so many seemingly small ,but neces... | 297 |
finance | 2,011 | The Bitcoin Show with Bruce Wagner, every Friday at 10am EST. I missed the first episode - did anyone else catch it?
Bruce Wagner runs bitcoinme.com. As far as I can tell from [this](http://ia700302.us.archive.org/24/items/TheNewDigitalMoney-BitcoinWithBruceWagner-12-02-10/12.02.10_wagner_bruce_bitcoin.mp3) episode of... | 105 |
finance | 2,011 | Bitcoinwatch - a snapshot of the current status of our favourite crypto-currency. | 16 |
finance | 2,011 | bitcoind.com - a startup to build and manage a mining cluster
It looks to me like a startup that wants to sell shares to build a GPU-based supercomputer cluster that will mine bitcoins and sell cluster computing time. Interesting idea.
*Disclaimer: I am not part of this initiative.* | 59 |
finance | 2,011 | Operation Fabulous - where advertisers and website owners find each other | 11 |
finance | 2,011 | Bitcoin Jobs: a job marketplace in bitcoin | 8 |
finance | 2,011 | bitcoinmania.com - charts that show the number of transactions, BTC spent, coins mined, and difficulty history | 21 |
finance | 2,011 | Bitcoin Economics: A discussion
I've been reading some of the Bitcoin forum [discussion](http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=57.20) on Bitcoin Economics and I wanted bring up some of the points made for a more interactive discussion (I'm only an armchair economist with limited knowledge but am *really* interest... | 441 |
finance | 2,011 | How to get started using your GPU to mine for Bitcoins on Windows
m0mchil's miner is dead simple and works well.
If you're hardcore, you can struggle with getting the right python packages installed locally so you can run it from source, which will allow you to tweak the source and try stuff (like bigger vectors in ... | 138 |
finance | 2,011 | BitPenny: A mining pool that pays a fixed price per share | 14 |
finance | 2,011 | I made a bitcoin rate plasmoid for KDE!
For those who don't use KDE, a plasmoid is a small widget, similar to windows 7 gadgets. This plasmoid gives the exchange rate on Mt. Gox over the last hours, weighted by trade amount and a gaussian for time.
Enjoy! (I hope I'm not the only one to use KDE and Bitcoin :) )
Dona... | 105 |
finance | 2,011 | South Carolina Lawmaker Proposes Own Currency | 8 |
finance | 2,011 | I installed Bitcoin... now what?
Well, I stumbled onto this subreddit, and the idea interested me enough to read all about Bitcoin, download the client, and start generating money. The only problem is, according to the calculators I've found, it's going to take my computer ~4 years before I ever get anything from it..... | 1,330 |
finance | 2,011 | Game over scenario for Bitcoin?
This [scenario](http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=3695.0) worries me too. It may not be Google that attempts this, but someone out there could be jealous of Bitcoin and try to launch a similar currency.
The problem with that is... how would it operate differently? I mean, let... | 671 |
finance | 2,011 | Update for the Bitcoin widget for KDE: now displaying more info such as current trade volume, with an improved refresh rate. | 24 |
finance | 2,011 | Although it's not as polished as I would like, it's come to the point where I need testers for Bitmarket.ca in order to get some feedback on what to work on. It's a little BTC auction site I threw together last week. Thanks in advance!
Alright, photo-tiles are working. :)
Now, if only there were auctions to be dispute... | 153 |
finance | 2,011 | I just discovered Bitcoinwatch.com and it put the whole bitcoin economy in perspective; Impressive!
I was aware of bitcoin, followed the price on other sites, but it wasn't until I just came across it all in one place on bitcoinwatch.com that the scope of this project really hit me. This is big!
$470,000 in transact... | 374 |
finance | 2,011 | A very interesting thread on the security of bitcoin, and its future. | 14 |
finance | 2,011 | A real-life example of using Bitcoins at the crops exchange market (translated from Russian) | 17 |
finance | 2,011 | Bitcoin featured on CBC's Spark | 6 |
finance | 2,011 | Bitcoin: The Digital Currency of the Future | 8 |
finance | 2,011 | Any redditors wanna play some poker? Betco.in hosts free no rake bitcoin poker rooms. | 19 |
finance | 2,011 | The Bitcoin market seems easy to "game" with GPU mining...why not adopt a better way to introduce currency?
It seems that the "rich" in this economy are the early adopters who become Bit Lords...It seems that there is not enough of a fudge-factor to help the economy get kick-started more "evenly."
From lurking arou... | 340 |
finance | 2,011 | BitCoin is Fatally Flawed (because it is a deflationary system). An opinion piece I found during my research; I'm curious about /r/bitcoin's thoughts?
>I don't see where I say that anywhere in this response above, perhaps you are responding to the wrong comment. Inflation does cause an increase in prices, I'm just... | 1,976 |
finance | 2,011 | HTG Explains: What Is Bitcoin, the Virtual Digital Currency? | 14 |
finance | 2,011 | Singularity Institute now accepts donations via Bitcoin
If Bitcoin's cryptography can be broken, most likely so can every other public-private key cryptography system in use today. | 34 |
finance | 2,011 | Solid Design Group (web design & branding) now accepts payment via Bitcoin
Was inspired by someone posting in /r/economics to look into Bitcoin, and I really like the idea of a decentralized currency to counter this inflationary USD nonsense.
I just went ahead and slapped one of the Bitcoin icons onto our footer.... | 79 |
finance | 2,011 | shouldn't bitcoin be using a DNS system?
I'm learning about this technology and I've noticed that for receiving money you're supposed to generate an address which looks pretty ugly, don't you think there should be a DNS there for readability? so instead of sending that ugly string you could direct people to bitcoin://... | 526 |
finance | 2,011 | Generating BitCoins now financially impractical due to power cost? - calculator...
The BitCoin client reports how many khash/sec it is performing.
You can enter that figure into [This Calculator](http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator.php) to find out how long it should take to generate a block.
Using one core ... | 275 |
finance | 2,011 | Bit Coin Speculative jumps
Hey. I like bitcoin. I was thinking of using it for commerce. I can see the market grow easily. But the one thing stopping that at the moment, for me personally, and I imagine for many early adopters is the moves in the conversion rate.
Looking for some opinions on where all this is going.... | 1,048 |
finance | 2,011 | Deepbit.Net :: proportional and pay-per-share pool :: 3rd public pool | 16 |
finance | 2,011 | Google is pleased to announce the release of BitCoinJ, an implementation of the BitCoin system in Java.
I'm thinking about buying some bitcoin now. Or is there any other viable way of getting some? My 1.2gz laptop sure won't.
You're not going to mine any without some really good hardware like GPUs in series.
I recom... | 401 |
finance | 2,011 | Introducing WingCash: An e-currency with all the downsides of cash and credit but none of the advantages
https://wingcash.com/
As another e-currency, it's technically a competitor to Bitcoin, but:
* Every note shows the current owner's name
* ... and the names of *at least* the previous seven owners.
* You can only ... | 494 |
finance | 2,011 | How to order a pizza with Bitcoin | 7 |
finance | 2,011 | Bitcoin now accepted at my browser-based MMO, Minethings.com. Exchange your BTC for in-game capital and inventory space. | 26 |
finance | 2,011 | Why Do You Use Bitcoin? (poll on Bitcoin Forums)
IAMA student at a top law school writing a legal essay about bitcoins. To get some insight on the bitcoin community, I created [a poll over at the Bitcoin Forums](http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=4465.0).
Please consider voting in the poll, contributing to th... | 675 |
finance | 2,011 | Visa to offer person-to-person payments | 7 |
finance | 2,011 | witcoin -- New social news/networking site (kind of like reddit) that uses BitCoins in an interesting way. | 24 |
finance | 2,011 | How do you set up a Bitcoin pool?
Hello thur Reddit :3
As said in the title, how do you set up a Bitcoin mining pool? I am looking to set up one on a low-powered netbook (Linux) for me and some friends to use. This is particularly important to me as I have been considering using it to raise money for a friend in a ba... | 657 |
finance | 2,011 | Bitcoin featured on talk radio program, "Free Talk Live" (30 min segment starts at 0:40) | 23 |
finance | 2,011 | Google engineer releases open source Bitcoin client | 7 |
finance | 2,011 | I'm a woman of Bitcoin!
I'm a Hungarian girl who runs a small website selling dog collars and leashes (that I make myself). I find Bitcoin absolutely fascinating and I've made my first small steps in accepting payments so that I can help support the economy in my own little way.
I *love* living in the future :)
If y... | 175 |
finance | 2,011 | What's the best pool to join with a sub-par GPU?
So I just got Bitcoin set up today on my rig. I have an 8800GT, and I'm currently getting around 25Mhash/sec. I'm not even going to bother with trying to use my CPU as apparently it's just not worth it electricity wise. Anyway, I was wondering which pool would be the be... | 412 |
finance | 2,011 | Free Bitcoins... for posting? | 6 |
finance | 2,011 | Help a newbie get started...
Hi there.
This sounds very interesting and I'd like to get started.
I have two computers I can immediately start using for "mining."
How would I get started?
One is my professional computer: Macbook Pro (last year).
Second is my gaming computer: Recently built Sandy Bridge 2500k OC'd ... | 153 |
finance | 2,011 | Announcing PLATO's Bitcoin Road Trip! | 9 |
finance | 2,011 | Bitcoin seems amazing, but I fail at understanding it :(
I've read tons of stuff about Bitcoin, and it seems pretty rad, but to be honest, even though I "get" the general idea, I fail to understand how it works (addresses, generation, supply....) and it seems very very complicated.
Problem is I just can't trust such ... | 1,891 |
finance | 2,011 | What stops people with capable of massive amounts of cpu power (tech companies like IBM, billionaires, bankers, etc.) from mining all of the remaining bitcoins?
Given how easy it is to configure a server to mine Bitcoins, I don't see how a situation could possibly emerge in which the products of the mining are much la... | 554 |
finance | 2,011 | Open source identity: Bitcoin technical lead Gavin Andresen | 10 |
finance | 2,011 | Addicted to bitcoin? How would you like having nice, current information about bitcoins right on your Windows Desktop? (windows gadget for sale, 1btc) | 32 |
finance | 2,011 | How To Set Up Pooled Bitcoin Mining In Windows
The official distributed version of bitcoin comes with that dll, it resides in the base directory of the zip archive:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.3.20/bitcoin-0.3.20.2-win32.zip/download
I posted another guide for this a few months ba... | 114 |
finance | 2,011 | The Bitcoin Weekly | 3 |
finance | 2,011 | BiddingPond.com The Bitcoin Auction site releases new version with integrated payment, new look, and new features. | 23 |
finance | 2,011 | Unofficial Bitcoin Wiki Project
Eh... There is already a wiki at http://wiki.bitcoin.it/ What does this one do differently?
The [non-transparentness](http://imgur.com/IxGpB) of the logo annoys me. | 52 |
finance | 2,011 | Some thoughts on information security risk and the Bitcoin market.
I've just read the [Bitcoin paper](http://www.bitcoin.org/sites/default/files/bitcoin.pdf). Can anyone give me some more hard facts on these kinds of concepts, or competing concepts that refute my concerns? Thanks.
1, Introduction:
"The system is sec... | 1,660 |
finance | 2,011 | Anonymous now accepts Bitcoins.
> Neither of us can control for what it’s used for anyway. That’s the whole point.
I did have a long reply typed out but then I realized most of it was just Internet dickery so:
You're halfway right. Neither of us can prevent someone from using it, but we CAN encourage its use els... | 341 |
finance | 2,011 | Erowid now accepts Bitcoins.
I sent them 20 BTC. This will undoubtedly bring more eyes to bitcoin. I'd urge others to donate so that the activity of the bitcoin community becomes obvious. | 39 |
finance | 2,011 | Bitcoin "Miner Status" - Android Application | 8 |
finance | 2,011 | A nice introduction to Bitcoin for non-Techies | 9 |
finance | 2,011 | An idea: a service that will give a tiny (nanoscale)
donation to a site each time you upvote it
It is similar to [Flattr](http://flattr.com/), [YouTipIt](http://www.youtipit.org/) and [witcoin](http://witcoin.com/) (and maybe some other services), but no, I didn't steal this idea from them. I had an idea of service ... | 1,695 |
finance | 2,011 | Gavin Andersen Talks About BitCoin on EconTalk | 10 |
finance | 2,011 | Using Bitcoin with market stability
Quick one, anyone has a guestimate for when the economy will shape up a little and speculation will not make it veer so wildly?
Changes from .86 to .61 in a few weeks doesn't instil confidence. (mtgox)
Thanks
I'm no expert by any means, but I think more people have been getting i... | 500 |
finance | 2,011 | A world of good, Buy a book with bitcoins.
Was your transaction even confirmed yet? Also, it worked fine for me. I have my copy. | 31 |
finance | 2,011 | Collectable or Currency? Magic Cards, Bitcoins, and John Law
For today I would choose (A) Money, only because I can go out and spend it right now without further effort of conversion.
But to hold $2,000 in a vault for 10 years, it will almost certainly depreciate in value. The other two options have probably equal pr... | 196 |
finance | 2,011 | I Am Crowdfunding a Game in Bitcoin!
Well, it would be great if somebody in the forum pledge some bitcoin for my project.
The faster I got it crowdfunded, the earlier I can start. | 42 |
finance | 2,011 | Bitcoin Darts: a fun little gambling game. | 10 |
finance | 2,011 | Could the Bitcoin network facilitate lending in the future?
It's clear that btc will replace central banks. But with regards to the investment and retail banks they make their money through fees and lending at high interest rates and also using leverage. (creating money out of thin air)
Im not going to go into the pe... | 331 |
finance | 2,011 | Largest bitcoin bounty paid for animation about the system (8500BTC, ~$6000) | 18 |
finance | 2,011 | BitLotto: May 4th draw Est. 100 BTC jackpot with 1/100 chance of winning.
I bought two tickets back when BTC where about a USD. Now at 4 USD/BTC, its kinda a bigger bet but still a good value compared with state run lotteries. | 61 |
finance | 2,011 | The Robots are now able to start using our datacenters to build skynet.
As bitcoin gains popularity some new posibillities become real in the robot world. They can now create (bitcoin) "bank accounts" without identity papers, earn "money" by mining (or automate trading or.. or...), and buy new hosting machines to repl... | 171 |
finance | 2,011 | Setup my Bitcoin Mining with 2x 6950's... some questions
I'm getting ~540 Mhash/s now with 2x 6950's OC'd. That sound right?
Also, does it make more sense to join a pool or just mine solo? What's the recommended pool if I should join one?
I'm looking at http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ vs http://btcmine.com/ vs http://deep... | 297 |
finance | 2,011 | Buying 200k BTC. $2/BTC
This is clearly a market manipulation attempt. You used to see this in Eve all the time []\(/melvin\)
My guess is that he is looking to unload a bunch of bitcoins and wanted to move the market in his favor
Yup, this is a likely explanation. Either that or he isn't good at investing :)
Note... | 351 |
finance | 2,011 | Bitcoin payments in the real world
I was starting to see the advantage of someone selling stuff at a local market. I pictured a case where someone selling hand made ornaments say for example has a little sign with a QR code that has the address and cost in bitcoins next to the ornaments. A customer then scans the code... | 598 |
finance | 2,011 | Bitcoin and Chinese Adoption | 4 |
finance | 2,011 | How to choose a mining pool ?
I'm interested in mining, mostly to make use of those lost CPU cycles and my CPU power is modest (no compatible GPU, so running off my Core2 Quad 4 x 2.3GHz).
I've seen some pools will ban you if your performance is too poor, and I'd like to know how does one choose his pool ? What are t... | 298 |
finance | 2,011 | How has the FBI seizures of poker site domains effected the BTC market?
I don't know about you guys, but my net worth has risen yet again due to the ridiculous 37% increase in value of the BTC. This rapid increase in the last few days made me wonder... What in the world caused this massive increase?
Today I noticed o... | 511 |
finance | 2,011 | I predict that the U.S. Government will attempt to shutdown BitCoin by bringing cases against BitCoin miners for money laundering.
This seems like the next logical step. See my cross post from: [How has the FBI seizures of poker site domains effected the BTC market?](http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/grir2/how... | 1,329 |
finance | 2,011 | If I loose my Bitcoin is it gone forever like a dollar dropped on the street?
So I finally have one bitcoin. I consider myself a bit of a student of currency and have spent quite a bit of time studying currency and the various ways its made, used, destroyed, etc. One question has not been answered though with all the... | 430 |
finance | 2,011 | Building a Bitcoin mining PC, any thoughts on my selection of hardware?
http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=15912065
So far my biggest concern is that quad 5850's will produce too much heat for the case I've selected, but I'm not really sure as I've never built a system with more th... | 341 |
finance | 2,011 | BTC are trading at US$1.20 — a 20% jump from a couple days ago. Is there any obvious reason?
I believe it popped about the same time as S&P's US outlook [downgrade](http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/18/us-ratings-usa-sp-idUSTRE73H2JT20110418).
I just hope the adoption by the online poker community happens sl... | 491 |
finance | 2,011 | Good and Services, China's Path Forward | 7 |
finance | 2,011 | Bitcoin’s Collusion Problem | Bottom-up
A couple of counter points...
Part of his argument is that *users* have an incentive to change the rules as well, though I disagree. I certainly don't want my coins taxed via indefinite/controlled inflation.
It's much easier for difficulty to increase than decrease. When compu... | 559 |
finance | 2,011 | Using conky and part of the BTCMine pool ? Here's how to get your statistics straight on your desktop ! | 22 |
finance | 2,011 | Generation and Assimilation of Bitcoin Knowledge | 7 |
finance | 2,011 | Namecoin - a distributed naming system based on Bitcoin | 10 |
finance | 2,011 | I'm the 666th person to frontpage /r/Bitcoin muhahaahahaaaa, but seriously...
guys we can do this. We need to evangelise in a friendly manner. Getting other redditors onboard can only help, we are a fairly open-minded lot, and I think this discussion format is much better than the (IMHO) terrible forum software that t... | 843 |
finance | 2,011 | Anonymous Money needs an Anonymous Exchange
You are welcome to write a rebuttal and a proposal on how to do anonymous exchange. I am willing to pay 5 BTC for a good article.
An anonymous exchange might be nice, but this is a terrible way to do it. Anything involving secretly running around making deposits into bank a... | 99 |
finance | 2,011 | Expanding the Bitcoin Economy - Legitimate Businesses and Food | 11 |
finance | 2,011 | Bitcoin Poker
> You still have to deposit money onto the site to play.
But currency exchange is fully decoupled from poker site: poker site will do transactions with players directly in a reasonably anonymous fashion.
At same time exchanger choice is not limited. You can buy bitcoins for cash, for example. It... | 514 |
finance | 2,011 | Preliminary Draft of Legal Paper on Bitcoin | 8 |
finance | 2,011 | I don't know if any of you saw, but yesterday, the Bitcoin jumped up 40% in comparison with the dollar. Any explanation why?
Anyone have an idea of whether or not we should expect it to go down or should we just buy at the current price and accept we either invested too little, too late, or both.
Me, I'm on the gravy... | 956 |
finance | 2,011 | How Bitcoin Security Works by Analogy | 7 |
finance | 2,011 | Bitcoin Comic: Whack a Mole | 7 |
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