Bitcoin Project will be making a major announcement in September - page 15.

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Let's talk governance, lipstick, and pigs.

Quote from: Spekulatius on August 19, 2012, 02:49:26 PM

Quote from: galambo on August 19, 2012, 01:37:18 PM

Quote from: ?? on ??

Google allows it's staff to spend 20 percent of their work time on personal projects? Who do I have to suck off to get a job at Google?

Signed,

Puckered up and waiting for response.

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-12-19/

20% they work
20% they do google stuff and
60% they spend on ~~youtube~~ FaceBook

FTFY

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I hope the block reward will keep the same, so that BTC will provide continuous incentive for new adopters, and reduce the deflation nature in BTC economy

The continuously reducing supply in protocol make it a perfect place for speculation, and the wild price swing will discourage business users

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Quote from: galambo on August 19, 2012, 01:37:18 PM

Quote from: ?? on ??

Google allows it's staff to spend 20 percent of their work time on personal projects? Who do I have to suck off to get a job at Google?

Signed,

Puckered up and waiting for response.

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-12-19/

20% they work
20% they do google stuff and
60% they spend on youtube

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Quote from: ?? on ??

Google allows it's staff to spend 20 percent of their work time on personal projects? Who do I have to suck off to get a job at Google?

Signed,

Puckered up and waiting for response.

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-12-19/

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Quote from: BitLucky on August 19, 2012, 07:03:24 AM

Maybe Google will get involved with Bitcoin?

They already have:

http://www.developer.com/daily_news/google-releases-bitcoin-java-client.html

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Maybe Google will get involved with Bitcoin?

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I am the one who knocks

Quote from: Coinoisseur on August 18, 2012, 03:21:12 PM

Hmm, my gut reaction is cautious to having scripting within the core bitcoin exchange network especially as the default behavior. Just a bit uneasy at adding such an attack vector.

No offense, but please learn what you are talking about.

Scripting is not what you think it is. Here is some information: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script

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Wow, interesting looking deeper under the hood. This note is comforting though " Some of the more complicated opcodes are disabled out of concern that the client might have a bug in their implementation"

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Quote from: Coinoisseur on August 18, 2012, 03:21:12 PM

Hmm, my gut reaction is cautious to having scripting within the core bitcoin exchange network especially as the default behavior. Just a bit uneasy at adding such an attack vector.

Um.... it has always had scripting. The changes for multisig actually reduced what was valid.

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Hmm, my gut reaction is cautious to having scripting within the core bitcoin exchange network especially as the default behavior. Just a bit uneasy at adding such an attack vector.

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Quote from: notme on August 18, 2012, 11:58:32 AM

Quote from: ralree on August 18, 2012, 11:17:49 AM

Quote from: notme on August 18, 2012, 11:07:34 AM

Multisig addresses require m-of-n signatures to spend from. There are n total keys that can sign, and you need m <= n of them to successfully spend. For example, with m = 2 and n = 3 you can do a trade of physical goods with built-in escrow. The escrow holds one key, and each of the sender and receiver of the good hold the other keys. The buyer sends his bitcoin to the 2-of-3 address and the seller ships out the goods. The seller than creates and signs a transaction that spends the coins from the 2-of-3 address to his personal address. When the buyer receives the goods, he also signs the transaction and the coins are moved. If there is a dispute, the escrow can either sign the transaction, awarding the coins to the seller, or can ask the buyer to create and sign a transaction that returns the coins to him, and then sign that one. This can all be done without including the escrow except when necessary as all you need to know is the escrow's public address. They can have an outstanding offer to settle any disputes provided that if arbitration is necessary they get X BTC (or a %) as a fee.

Thank you for this - it makes a lot more sense now. It would be nice if there was a short little video on youtube explaining this to the common bitcoin user.

There is no UI yet, and the code with the command line support still hasn't been in a release yet. Give it some time.

Or a major announcement Grin

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Quote from: ralree on August 18, 2012, 11:17:49 AM

Quote from: notme on August 18, 2012, 11:07:34 AM

Multisig addresses require m-of-n signatures to spend from. There are n total keys that can sign, and you need m <= n of them to successfully spend. For example, with m = 2 and n = 3 you can do a trade of physical goods with built-in escrow. The escrow holds one key, and each of the sender and receiver of the good hold the other keys. The buyer sends his bitcoin to the 2-of-3 address and the seller ships out the goods. The seller than creates and signs a transaction that spends the coins from the 2-of-3 address to his personal address. When the buyer receives the goods, he also signs the transaction and the coins are moved. If there is a dispute, the escrow can either sign the transaction, awarding the coins to the seller, or can ask the buyer to create and sign a transaction that returns the coins to him, and then sign that one. This can all be done without including the escrow except when necessary as all you need to know is the escrow's public address. They can have an outstanding offer to settle any disputes provided that if arbitration is necessary they get X BTC (or a %) as a fee.

Thank you for this - it makes a lot more sense now. It would be nice if there was a short little video on youtube explaining this to the common bitcoin user.

There is no UI yet, and the code with the command line support still hasn't been in a release yet. Give it some time.

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Manateeeeeeees

Quote from: notme on August 18, 2012, 11:07:34 AM

Multisig addresses require m-of-n signatures to spend from. There are n total keys that can sign, and you need m <= n of them to successfully spend. For example, with m = 2 and n = 3 you can do a trade of physical goods with built-in escrow. The escrow holds one key, and each of the sender and receiver of the good hold the other keys. The buyer sends his bitcoin to the 2-of-3 address and the seller ships out the goods. The seller than creates and signs a transaction that spends the coins from the 2-of-3 address to his personal address. When the buyer receives the goods, he also signs the transaction and the coins are moved. If there is a dispute, the escrow can either sign the transaction, awarding the coins to the seller, or can ask the buyer to create and sign a transaction that returns the coins to him, and then sign that one. This can all be done without including the escrow except when necessary as all you need to know is the escrow's public address. They can have an outstanding offer to settle any disputes provided that if arbitration is necessary they get X BTC (or a %) as a fee.

Thank you for this - it makes a lot more sense now. It would be nice if there was a short little video on youtube explaining this to the common bitcoin user.

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Quote from: Roger_Murdock on August 18, 2012, 10:56:50 AM

Quote from: notme on August 18, 2012, 10:19:39 AM

Quote from: Roger_Murdock on August 18, 2012, 10:17:54 AM

At the risk of being called a newb who's too stupid and/or lazy to use the search function correctly (it's a fair cop

), could someone explain to me what multisig is, how it works, and why it's important (or provide a link)? Thanks!

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=bitcoin+multisig

You know, I assumed that if I just asked the question, I'd probably end up getting a lmgtfy link or some other snarky non-response. But I hoped that maybe if I threw in a little self-deprecating humor acknowledging that yes, I should probably be able to find this information on my own, I might get an actual answer. Obviously that hope was misplaced. Cry

But seriously, I still haven't found a good overview on the subject. If you know of a link to one that's particularly good, I'd love to see it.

Multisig addresses require m-of-n signatures to spend from. There are n total keys that can sign, and you need m <= n of them to successfully spend. For example, with m = 2 and n = 3 you can do a trade of physical goods with built-in escrow. The escrow holds one key, and each of the sender and receiver of the good hold the other keys. The buyer sends his bitcoin to the 2-of-3 address and the seller ships out the goods. The seller than creates and signs a transaction that spends the coins from the 2-of-3 address to his personal address. When the buyer receives the goods, he also signs the transaction and the coins are moved. If there is a dispute, the escrow can either sign the transaction, awarding the coins to the seller, or can ask the buyer to create and sign a transaction that returns the coins to him, and then sign that one. This can all be done without including the escrow except when necessary as all you need to know is the escrow's public address. They can have an outstanding offer to settle any disputes provided that if arbitration is necessary they get X BTC (or a %) as a fee.

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Quote from: notme on August 18, 2012, 10:19:39 AM

Quote from: Roger_Murdock on August 18, 2012, 10:17:54 AM

At the risk of being called a newb who's too stupid and/or lazy to use the search function correctly (it's a fair cop

), could someone explain to me what multisig is, how it works, and why it's important (or provide a link)? Thanks!

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=bitcoin+multisig

You know, I assumed that if I just asked the question, I'd probably end up getting a lmgtfy link or some other snarky non-response. But I hoped that maybe if I threw in a little self-deprecating humor acknowledging that yes, I should probably be able to find this information on my own, I might get an actual answer. Obviously that hope was misplaced. Cry

But seriously, I still haven't found a good overview on the subject. If you know of a link to one that's particularly good, I'd love to see it.

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Quote from: Roger_Murdock on August 18, 2012, 10:17:54 AM

At the risk of being called a newb who's too stupid and/or lazy to use the search function correctly (it's a fair cop

), could someone explain to me what multisig is, how it works, and why it's important (or provide a link)? Thanks!

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=bitcoin+multisig

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At the risk of being called a newb who's too stupid and/or lazy to use the search function correctly (it's a fair cop

), could someone explain to me what multisig is, how it works, and why it's important (or provide a link)? Thanks!

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Bitcoins will be exchanges on the ECN forex network Cheesy

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Quote from: jgarzik on August 17, 2012, 12:06:37 PM

An affirmative law saying "yes, bitcoin is legal" would be wonderful, would it not?

Not necessarily, no.
First of all, bitcoin is already legal. And besides that, this text shows an example of an activity that is better off in the current prohibition scenario than what it'd be in a legalization scenario. The example in question is prostitution houses in Brazil. They're currently forbidden, but if you want to open one, all you have to do is pay the appropriate bribes to the cops. According to the text author, who happens to have some friends in the business, these bribes are already lower than what taxes alone would be had the activity been legalized. Not to mention stupid licenses, labor laws, regulations etc. And if you think that being prohibited forces these business to be "shady" and dangerous, well, take a look at this or this or this. One of them even has bowling lanes inside! Cheesy

"Legalization" is not always a good thing, because often it comes together with taxation, cumbersome or prohibitive regulations, licenses etc etc. I wouldn't like to see bitcoin transfers crippled with the same kind of AML bullshit that affects fiat transfers, for example.

A good read: Air Guitars and Bitcoin Regulation.

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Quote from: koin on August 16, 2012, 04:56:34 AM

jp morgan, the original inventors of "project satoshi" will be taking over the project and acquiring bfl labs (but don't worry, refunding all the funds from pre-sales, .. in dollars though, at the prices quoted when prepayment was sent).

I got scared when I read that first lol

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