If this is the sort of idiot that gets to be a millionaire then I'm adding this to the growing pile of evidence that the world and every system it relies on is bullshit
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« Sent to: Maria on: June 24, 2011, 02:55:08 AM »
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Hi Maria,
Funds would be helpful and appreciated, since to do this right I'll need to purchase dedicated hardware (no more shared/virtual hosting for me!) - what did you have in mind?
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« Sent to: Maria on: June 24, 2011, 03:36:54 AM »
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In all honesty I hadn't really considered investors / partners just yet.
I was planning on purchasing hardware and self-hosting for as long as the traffic was small enough to make this feasible, and of course if traffic merits rack space at a data center it'll be paying for itself at that point.
That said it'll probably take a couple thousand worth of hardware to do this right - I want the database server to be physically separate from the web server to better prevent stuff like what happened with Mt. Gox, unfortunately this also doubles cost.
At the very beginning I could probably get by on slightly older used hardware, maybe one HP Proliant DL380 G3 for the web server and another for the database? That'd come to around $600 to $800 (total for two) with decent RAM and storage for a project this size.
I already have the power, network and internet considerations taken care of since I'm already running a somewhat sizable mining operation from my home. I'd need to call my ISP to have my ports un-blocked to host from my connection and I'd probably want to get a backup connection of some sort.
As for your role in things, did you have any technical skills you wanted to contribute or are you interested in simply investing? If you had some skills to bring to the table and could help share the (considerable) work I'd have no problem with something more like an actual partnership. If you're just wanting to invest, I'd say paying you a percentage of total profit up to a certain total payout (your investment + interest, basically) would be pretty fair.
Of course everything in life is negotiable so let me know what thoughts you had too Smiley
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« Sent to: Maria on: June 24, 2011, 03:51:13 AM »
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I am based in the U.S. (Las Vegas, NV specifically)
In the future that might actually be a problem, but I've heard that Panama's finance laws are very friendly to what we're doing. We'll see where the legislation takes bitcoin in the next few years.
I've got a lot of programming experience and a pretty hefty amount of accounting experience (I'm a database programmer for the casino industry - we KNOW accounting lol) but not a lot of trading/stock/FOREX experience until recently. I learn quick though Grin
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« Sent to: Maria on: June 24, 2011, 03:58:28 AM »
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Oh and it's probably more likely that we're starting the next TradeHill, but I'll join you in dreaming big Grin
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Out of all people on this forum... why would you say something like that? You call me an idiot? really?
I offered you a chance to get out of your mothers basement... This is how I get repaid?
Maria.