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pirateat40

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"Yes I am a pirate, 200 years too late."

Quote from: terrytibbs on December 19, 2011, 05:37:25 PM

Quote from: pirateat40 on December 19, 2011, 05:04:47 PM

Quote from: BTCurious on December 19, 2011, 05:02:40 PM

Quote from: pirateat40 on December 19, 2011, 04:32:49 PM

Quote from: BTCurious on December 19, 2011, 04:29:43 PM

Sounds good

You're gonna be rich, man!

The better news is that the market seems to be moving in the BTC direction. While I know we don't all support the underground markets, word is spreading of the benefits of our wonderful currency.

Nice! And now that you're well-known and reliable to them, they won't by-pass you either even though they could borrow bitcoins without your help, probably.

I don't really know what business you run exactly. Can you trust this new client of yours to be as reliable as you've been so far?

My clients deal in cash only and I don't move a single coin until the cash is in hand and i'm out of harms way (just in case

). So risk is almost 0.

And then you buy coins to top up the balance, right? What about price fluctuations?

The prices for picking up coins from my clients selling coins is set prior to the purchases most of the time. Anything not covered is hedged or I take the risk personally.

terrytibbs

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Quote from: pirateat40 on December 19, 2011, 05:04:47 PM

Quote from: BTCurious on December 19, 2011, 05:02:40 PM

Quote from: pirateat40 on December 19, 2011, 04:32:49 PM

Quote from: BTCurious on December 19, 2011, 04:29:43 PM

Sounds good

You're gonna be rich, man!

The better news is that the market seems to be moving in the BTC direction. While I know we don't all support the underground markets, word is spreading of the benefits of our wonderful currency.

Nice! And now that you're well-known and reliable to them, they won't by-pass you either even though they could borrow bitcoins without your help, probably.

I don't really know what business you run exactly. Can you trust this new client of yours to be as reliable as you've been so far?

My clients deal in cash only and I don't move a single coin until the cash is in hand and i'm out of harms way (just in case

). So risk is almost 0.

And then you buy coins to top up the balance, right? What about price fluctuations?

pirateat40

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Activity: 378

Merit: 250

"Yes I am a pirate, 200 years too late."

Quote from: BTCurious on December 19, 2011, 05:02:40 PM

Quote from: pirateat40 on December 19, 2011, 04:32:49 PM

Quote from: BTCurious on December 19, 2011, 04:29:43 PM

Sounds good

You're gonna be rich, man!

The better news is that the market seems to be moving in the BTC direction. While I know we don't all support the underground markets, word is spreading of the benefits of our wonderful currency.

Nice! And now that you're well-known and reliable to them, they won't by-pass you either even though they could borrow bitcoins without your help, probably.

I don't really know what business you run exactly. Can you trust this new client of yours to be as reliable as you've been so far?

My clients deal in cash only and I don't move a single coin until the cash is in hand and i'm out of harms way (just in case

). So risk is almost 0.

BTCurious

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Activity: 714

Merit: 504

^SEM img of Si wafer edge, scanned 2012-3-12.

Quote from: pirateat40 on December 19, 2011, 04:32:49 PM

Quote from: BTCurious on December 19, 2011, 04:29:43 PM

Sounds good

You're gonna be rich, man!

The better news is that the market seems to be moving in the BTC direction. While I know we don't all support the underground markets, word is spreading of the benefits of our wonderful currency.

Nice! And now that you're well-known and reliable to them, they won't by-pass you either even though they could borrow bitcoins without your help, probably.

I don't really know what business you run exactly. Can you trust this new client of yours to be as reliable as you've been so far?

pirateat40

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Activity: 378

Merit: 250

"Yes I am a pirate, 200 years too late."

Quote from: BTCurious on December 19, 2011, 04:29:43 PM

Sounds good

You're gonna be rich, man!

The better news is that the market seems to be moving in the BTC direction. While I know we don't all support the underground markets, word is spreading of the benefits of our wonderful currency.

mcorlett

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Looks like you've got a nice little business going here. Keep it up!

BTCurious

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^SEM img of Si wafer edge, scanned 2012-3-12.

Sounds good

You're gonna be rich, man!

pirateat40

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Activity: 378

Merit: 250

"Yes I am a pirate, 200 years too late."

Quote from: pirateat40 on December 19, 2011, 12:47:05 PM

I'm meeting with a new client today to work out a deal like my other guys. Word is he's a Big Dawg, so hopefully we can get some more volume from him.

I'll update you when I have more information.

Update: Well just got done talking with my new client. He will be the highest volume buyer I have thus far, but won't be ready till after the holidays. Good times to come.

pirateat40

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"Yes I am a pirate, 200 years too late."

Quote from: ineededausername on December 19, 2011, 11:01:59 AM

pirate: I'd be willing to help out with your site if you need any help.
We should get an API up and running for this Tongue

Thanks, I have my main coder working on the site this week but I'll let you know if I need any additional help.

pirateat40

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Activity: 378

Merit: 250

"Yes I am a pirate, 200 years too late."

I'm meeting with a new client today to work out a deal like my other guys. Word is he's a Big Dawg, so hopefully we can get some more volume from him.

I'll update you when I have more information.

pirateat40

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Activity: 378

Merit: 250

"Yes I am a pirate, 200 years too late."

Quote from: coin_toss on December 18, 2011, 07:04:58 PM

Hi pirate,
Please reinvest my interest payments instead of sending them to me.
Thank you

Done

ineededausername

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bitcoin hundred-aire

pirate: I'd be willing to help out with your site if you need any help.
We should get an API up and running for this Tongue

BTCurious

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^SEM img of Si wafer edge, scanned 2012-3-12.

What you did was actually the best thing you can do with your current options, but the current options just aren't very good. The worst thing is that your options force you to do a regex against a forum post that's manually updated, this is a bit of a weak point.
If pirateat40 is consistent, it might still work fine though.

mcorlett

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Quote from: BTCurious on December 19, 2011, 04:02:42 AM

This is clearly the best and cleanest way to write such a script Tongue

(j/k, but yeah, can't do much else if you're not pirateat40)

Well, I used the wap page to discard formatting, used a textfile instead of a database for better compatibility. I could've used some self-contained database like SQLite, but that's a lot of work for something this small.

If there's anything else I missed, please let me know. I'm here to learn.

BTCurious

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Activity: 714

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^SEM img of Si wafer edge, scanned 2012-3-12.

This is clearly the best and cleanest way to write such a script Tongue

(j/k, but yeah, can't do much else if you're not pirateat40)

mcorlett

donator

Activity: 308

Merit: 250

I used my basic knowledge of PHP to create a script which will poll the mobile version of this thread for the current balance, and uses PHP's fopen functionality to save it to a text file (available.txt). If it goes from 0 to something above 0, it can alert you.

Perhaps it isn't in my competitive best interest to release this, but maybe this'll get that email notification functionality we've all been waiting for here sooner.

Code:

preg_match("/Current available space for the storage plan is: ([0-9]+) BTC/i", file_get_contents("https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50822.0;wap2"), $available);

if (!file_exists('available.txt')) {
echo 'file doesn\'t exist, creating...';
$handle = fopen('available.txt', 'w') or die("can't create file, make sure php has the necessary permissions to write in the current directory");
fclose($handle);

// used for testing
// chmod('available.txt', 0777);
}

$fh = fopen('available.txt', 'r') or die("can't open file");
$saved = fread($fh, 255);
fclose($fh);

if ($saved != $available[1]) {
if ($saved == '0' && $available[1] > 0) {
// alert, email, etc.
echo 'opportunity!';
}

$fh = fopen('available.txt', 'w') or die("can't open file");
fwrite($fh, $available[1]);
fclose($fh);
} else {
// nothing has changed
// you may add your own stuff here, or remove the entire condition
}
?>

coin_toss

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Hi pirate,
Please reinvest my interest payments instead of sending them to me.
Thank you

PatrickHarnett

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Activity: 518

Merit: 500

I was browsing while waiting for something to update - a dull Monday morning, but I had the coins waiting for the space.

ineededausername

hero member

Activity: 784

Merit: 1000

bitcoin hundred-aire

Wow... whenever it's >0, someone deposits within 6 hours...

PatrickHarnett

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Activity: 518

Merit: 500

yes it has - very quickly too

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