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You have a public/private key pair with X bitcoins. When you transfer ownership to me, you need my public key. To transfer ownership, you'll publish a transaction to the network saying ("Move coin in this public/private key pair to that public/private key pair"). The network checks to make...

Mining requires a trivial amount of computational power. Mining is the creation of a block. A block is a group of transactions. All the blocks from the genesis block (block 1) onward are referred to as the blockchain. The short version is; at any point in time, all the miners are running...

Women being the gate keepers of sex? What the fuck -- is this friendzone logic? The only men I know who say this shit are guys in bad shape with bad grooming habits who think they're way more attractive than they actually are and are perplexed that women don't agree so its somehow their fault.

This was my thought process when I reasoned out how much to spend on my wife's ring. It makes me shake my head a little when I see a guy buy a $500 ring when his gaming equipment is 2x (or more) expensive. What message does this send? I realize other relationships have far more depth than...

My interest in checking out the D3 patch is minimal because I know I'll jump ship to this on March 5th. Rabble rabble, why couldn't it have been Friday. On a side note, if anyone here is playing Standard, I can log on a character and give you all my shit. A substantial portion was donated...

But Kreugen, I play these games to relax!!! /sarcasm

I agree regarding the regulation -- I highly doubt the know your customer laws will change anytime soon. Quick google check shows Paypal at 4% + "a fixed fee" for international transactions. I'm assuming they do the currency exchange themselves at unfavorable rates. Ouch.

No no, I get that point (well, by get I mean, I'll take other peoples' word for it). What I meant is, the deflationary nature of BTC makes people that treat it as a commodity inclined to hold it. There will be many people for whom BTC isn't a commodity they care or choose to hold -- the value...

What would be the problem with some people holding it as an investment vehicle akin to gold or any other commodity and some people buying it in batches whenever they need to transact in it. People who use W.U don't usually keep a balance with them, they buy/send what they need when they need to.

People who are smarter about this than me have convinced me how deflation is bad... that being said, holy shit that was a terrible way to try to communicate that. I can't believe none of the proofreaders didn't write a (?) next to that phrase.

I have a few questions for the people skeptical of cryptocurrencies (CC). Full disclosure, I hold some CC but they're a minute part of my portfolio and its classified as 'irrational speculation' in my head. A) I see a lot of talk about how regulation is mandatory, then people cite sources...

If I send you my wallet, then you and I both can transact with any of the btc within. If I send you bitcoin, it will attached to a private key with which only you can transact. In the scenario you quoted, MtGox has EXCLUSIVE access to the private keys, as opposed to sharing access (which is...

This isn't accurate -- MTGOX users didn't give their wallet (a collection of public/private key pairs) to Gox. They gave their BITCOINS to Gox. They were utilizing Gox as a bank/wallet out of convenience. Compare to the thousands of people who have used Gox but didn't get burnt by this; these...

Everything else you said was great, but this is a misleading statement. The difficulty is high right now because the high rate of BTC minting (25 per block) combined with its value in USD makes it profitable for this extreme electrical burn. Block rewards will diminish, hardware will become...

I didn't expect the March 5th mini-expansion to really matter too much, but the little tidbits Chris keeps throwing out are actually getting me really stoked.

My limited following of this is that the people running Gox designed their own back-end for handling transactions without really understanding what they were doing. This lead to them bleeding out BTC to people who caught on and exploited it. Then they ran some smokeshow bullshit about how its...

AA, have you tried PoE? I know I highly preferred PoE to D3; new leagues begin March 5th and a lot of people are super excited for it. Fresh HC economy, nom nom nom.

I think it'd be fine for a MOBA to launch with substantially less heroes than LOL/DOTA... makes the learning curve much more forgiving. People will play if the gameplay is fun and something new; there are a lot of guys in the MOBA community who have played thousands and thousands of pretty much...

Its been March 5th for the last few weeks.

I'm super excited for the new leagues as well. A fresh HC economy is so fun; I saved two great reddit threads for anyone interested on what to stash for trading. Please help a newbie establish a baseline for what is and isn't worth stashing. : pathofexile It's Worth Keeping If... ...

Anyone have a key, pretty please?

1. False -- how can you say BTC have no value if someone else will give me things I want for them? This is nearly the same degree of utility as USD (except I can't pay my taxes or settle debts with BTC). 2. Bittertroll? Explain this more thoroughly if you're willing; I"m genuinely interested...

True -- and unless a store passes on their savings to you (3 percent cash back, for example) then they definitely aren't competitive with a credit card. But this is a scenario where you typically do not need digital cash. You just need digital wealth.

That isn't how it works -- the exchange can keep a backup copy of the public/private key that were HOLDING your bitcoin. Once the transaction moves that BTC to a different public/private key pair, only the person(s) with the private key can use that coin.

Two major contributors to volatility: 1) Bitcoin is SMALL. The BTC market cap is nothing compared to what you typically think of as a commodity. 2) Primarily held by speculators and traders who want to be on the favorable end of market velocity. Any hint of price fluctuation and more...

Eh, I see both sides of this argument. Desync is real but there are many ways to mitigate it so much that its a non-issue for most people. I do hope they eventually unfuck their netcode because it's bullshit when you compare it to D3. That being said, PoE has held my attention 100x longer...

This happens more frequently than you'd think, except it doesn't happen on an exchange. People looking to work with these sums handle their trades off an exchange. Forgot the name of it, but there is a company to facilitate large buyer/sellers. Regardless, 1mil is 1500 coins... I'm pretty...

If what you're trying to do is sneak up on people PVEing, then may I suggest using a stealth bomber to hunt people doing nullsec exploration? I lost my first cheetah to an SB. I'm risk adverse (especially with a 500+mil cargo), so I stopped running sites with people in local. However, a...

My R9 280x and 7950 make about .02 BTC a day. It was definitely faster when I started back in April, about .07 a day as I recall. However, that was back when they were $100 a piece instead of $700. I suspect mining profit will continue to decrease as more rigs come online and people stop...

I've got a handful of friends that send me every tiny anti-bitcoin article or news item they can find, along with some "prob should get out now" reminder. They're ALL bitter that they didn't listen to me a year ago when I said they should get some. They're bitter, jealous, and just want to...

If anyone here is running a scrypt miner, MAXCOIN is 2-3x more profitable to mine right now. It requires KECCAK instead of scrypt but it wasn't that hard to find a cgminer version that supported it.

Anyone play this? Looks like its in beta still but keys are apparently quite easy to get. Steam release on February 12th. Looks like they're trying to make a next-gen game. I know a lot of people have a love/hate relationship with Hearthstone because of its simplicity... maybe the more...

Yea I'm pretty pleased with the ASUS R9 280X -- runs cool and quiet. I could push this thing to 800KH/s if I wanted to, but I'm running both cards inside a closed conventional case so the heat dissipation just isn't going to happen. Inside the closed case, they're running at 73c and 75c which...

Had a 7950 fan die. Got a refund via Amazon (it was under warranty from sapphire still) and picked up an R9 280x. This thing is a beast. Hashes at 750 kh/s with a massive undervolt. Did a few more tweaks and got my Gigabyte 7950 running at 675kh/s which is pretty damn good for a 7950...

To be fair, anything locked away behind 3+ months of training is not something a new player will have the game knowledge or background to do. You make it sound like (to use WoW terms), Player 1 wants to change zones to exp just to try something new. It isn't that simple. A newb can pick up...

Started playing again with my brother on Dominion -- we've never made it to maps and want to practice in SC before the new HC league comes out. Anyone have any free loots for us? I'm playing a EK Scion and hes playing a GS Marauder. IGN: Kotlrab

Massively indecisive on what to play -- friends are doing healer/SM/warrior. Was thinking of Shaman since a dif friend will likely do Skald. How are Shamans overall in this patch?

You guys playing standalone or arma 2 version?

Yea, I rolled Midgard on DAOC release but no one really new how imba anything was. Healers are one of the most powerful classes I've ever seen in a pvp game. Massive CC, heals, run speed, clarity, buffs? You can build a group so easily with a good healer.

This sounds fucking retarded -- why would a dev team pick this patch to release on? Also, another sign of massive Midgard pop imbalance is how many more bug reports Midgard's forum has on their site.