Topic: ★★DigiByte|极特币★★[DGB]✔ Core v6.16.5.1 - DigiShield, DigiSpeed, Segwit - page 912. (Read 3059047 times)

What is your cheapest way of buying Bitcoin or DGB from FIAT in the UK?

You can now buy a sub and a drink for only 45000 DGB, perhaps   

https://twitter.com/Alttrade/status/586225652661104640

Care to elaborate?   

It's not a question of if, but when. Sooner or later there will be programs that turn the blockchain upside down and inside out.  

Good point. I agree.

Now I wasn't trying to put anyone off DigiByte, it's solid and I'm 100% invested in it because it is such an outstanding example of this technology. I know a few people get a little rubbed when we talk about the price and to be honest I don't blame them but it is the price that is going to eventually increase the size of the network so that it remains secure, IMO. Of course, I believe in Digibyte and the farther the price falls the more I can afford. It is good that we can spend it but I'm not spending any of my DigiByte yet, like many others, so it isn't really surprising that merchants are not falling over themselves to accept it, if they have heard about it at all. That is set to change soon because merchants and consumers really do want better ways of transacting with each other even if most of them don't know what that entails yet. The worst thing I've heard anyone (That wasn't a troll or an idiot or a combination of those.) say about DigiByte is that Digiman is bit childish, it is certainly not the preferred currency of criminals.

http://www.coindesk.com/cardinalcommerce-bitcoin-mass-adoption/

agreed, now let's imagine you have the use of a super computer on top of that.

It doesn't matter if all of the SHA256 algorithm is taken by one entity. That's only 20% of the total DGB network.

Something like that would probably be a 'one stop shop' for many of the questions I have. I'm sure there are community members capable of producing such a tool, shame I'm not one of them.

What I'm looking for, just isn't that sophisticated and is easy to find for most crypto currencies. I've noticed that the network speed for SHA roughly sits around 90TH/s but sometimes doubles for short periods. My assumption is that, somewhere something indicates that DGB is profitable to mine during these periods but for the life of me, I can't work out what! One of the things that concerns me a little is the fact that the DGB SHA network is way to small to withstand a 51% attack. My gut feeling is that a 'super computer' or two would have a much easier time achieving this despite the 5 algorithms used by DGB so I suspect that the DGB SHA and scrypt networks will have to be much bigger than they currently are to give DGB the kind of security that Bitcoin enjoys today.     

Expanding a little more on my previous post:

One feature of a cryptocurrency is having all transactions in a blockchain so that any address/transaction can be traced and verified.

But, how does a normal user do this?

The blockchain is a large database of transactions and other data related to the blocks. If the blockchain is indeed some sort of database, there should be a way to query it.

Many times I've searched for some sort of program that can be easily set up to be a 'local' blockchain explorer for someone who has the blockchain fully downloaded. I've not found anything except applications on github which require linux and some sort of web server to access it.

We have to assume that when DGB (or any crypto) becomes mainstream-adopted that the average person will have no idea what the data in an online blockchain explorer means. They will not know how to look at the blockchain to search for previous transactions to see if people have paid, or if their payments have gone through.

I've mentioned before that it would be a good idea to have a blockchain explorer integrated with the core wallet, but it would also be nice as a standalone program that had more features. Something that could list all of the available fields for each block and let you view and/or export this data. Something like this will be definitely be needed for accounting purposes.

As it stands now, this lack of ability to easily search a blockchain is really a limiting factor to most cryptocurrencies. How can people use them if they don't know how to see if their payments have come or gone?

Things like this are why I wish there was a block explorer you could easily customize to show only the values you want.

For example algorithm, difficulty, network speed. I know all these values are available because they are listed in the network monitor in the Android version of the wallet (each block found gives this information).

If there was a quick/easy way to get that list of values, creating a graph would be simple.

Can anyone direct me to a DGB Network speed/Difficulty chart for SHA256d please?
I can find instantaneous values but I'm looking for a graph. 

Thanks 24, just tried that and it seems ok but doesn't appear to like hotmail email addresses.
So people, use giftoff not eGifter!

https://giftoff.com/  accepts Digibyte

Just quickly looking through these and not all of them appear to accept DGB directly. I think we should give preference and support mainly to those that do.

I like this idea very much but I'm wondering if we asking a little too much just yet, because firstly it appears that you have to convert your DGB to BTC using some other third party before you can buy a gift card. I am a little concerned that this would put people off,  too much effort involved and people may think it would just be easier to deal directly with bitcoin or even easier to use fiat via paypal.

List of DigiByte merchants 2014/2015


http://sanfranciscoseoagency.com/ 

http://www.bluejeansonline.nl/

http://bitstickers.net/

http://www.residencialcastor.com.br/

http://glivet.com/

http://intrawebstudio.com/contact/

https://www.oemconcept.com/

http://www.psychodog.eu/

https://www.nodex.co.uk/

This is a wonderful idea. Can you talk a bit more about the specifics regarding how easy it is (or isn't) to buy an Amazon card right on LinkedIn and how you can go about getting a Shapeshift redemption? I'm sure that would be useful information for everyone thinking about doing this

Thanks all for offering the help