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Random Discussion / Accessing forum over TOR increasingly harder

« on: March 18, 2015, 03:04:00 pm »

As a privacy-aware netizen, I do most of my browsing through the Tor network. Browsing this site is no exception,

Since the beginning, I've met with "This request has been denied for security reasons. If you believe this was in error, please contact support." at least a few times every day.

It could be my imagination but lately, this is happening more and more frequently.

Please keep access to the forum through Tor possible, there are some here who're 100% legit and access via tor 100% of the time.

Technical Support / Unable to sync blockchain ....

« on: March 14, 2015, 10:59:13 am »

It's been three days and I am very frustrated..

This is 0.6.1 on Linux. Due to incorrect balance report, I reset the database which translated to "sync the whole blockchain", which, the program informed, would only "take a few minutes".

Fast forward to now, and it is still not done. It is segfaulting now and then (every day about 5 times) and does not appear ot make any actual progress. It has been stuck on a certain block for hours now. Again.

I have 7 accounts configured. Seem to recall having read somewhere that this might be a problem.

By now I have considerable funds in bitshares and can't just drop the accts and start over.

Any hints?

General Discussion / Prices make no sense

« on: March 09, 2015, 10:02:54 am »

BTC/BTS is now at 0.00003428

The fair BTS/BitBTC price should be around 29172 per btc (0.00003428*29172 = ~1)

In the BitBTC built-in market, the sells instead look like:

29630 (already overpriced)
31250 ("" "" "" "")
31499 ..
...
40511 (ridiculously overpriced)
...
55000
...
65000

No way someone is going to buy like this. The market doesn't move.

I've observed the same in GOLD and SILVER (ridiculously overpriced compared to the official markets).

This seems to be a big issue?

Technical Support / "inactivity tax" question

« on: March 08, 2015, 04:45:50 pm »

During my research I read that there's some sort of inactivity tax, where 5% gets taken from bitassets that have not moved address for a year.

Is this info still current? And if so, does the official client proactively warn about the impending 5% cut in any way?

Technical Support / Question regarding transaction privacy

« on: February 27, 2015, 05:10:24 pm »

If TITAN obfuscates sender/receiver, how can my client see the originating account name of incoming funds?

Who else could get that information?

Random Discussion / Haha

« on: February 27, 2015, 08:04:52 am »

Loved it how the option to pay the funding of a new reg'd account from the faucet disappeared the moment I had some unwilling BTS in another account.

"Pay for your own shit, son!"

Stakeholder Proposals / Proposal: add the bitDRK market-pegged asset

« on: February 25, 2015, 08:57:57 pm »

For privacy-conscious people it has been obvious for quite some time that using bitcoin is suboptimal. Darkcoin is meant to be the digital equivalent of cash (anonymous, untraceable).

Their DarkSend (http://wiki.darkcoin.eu/wiki/DarkSend) technology enables this, essentially by acting as a built-in mixer. No longer does the user need to trust her funds to a potentially dishonest third party mixing service.

Support for instant transactions was recently commited and appears, in my experience, to work as advertised (http://cointelegraph.com/news/113480/darkcoin-introduces-trustless-instant-payment-confirmations).

This coin has been gathering more and more momentum, and the price has reflected that fact, with a jump from $1.7 to $3.0 about a week and a half ago. It's hovering around $2.6 right now, presumably because of the bitcoin turmoil.

Personally I believe that we NEED such a coin with strong built-in privacy features. Most naive crypto users do not seem to understand how to use bitcoin securely (do they realize they are broadcasting their financial life online for all to see?).

I see a good future for this altcoin and considering it's rise in volume, community members(*), price, and continually evolving technical features, I would like to propose that it be added as a MPE.

* reddit: moderately active | forums: active | bitcointalk thread: very active | irc: active

Stakeholder Proposals / Proposal: add the bitDOGE market-pegged asset

« on: February 25, 2015, 08:48:58 pm »

I hereby propose that bitDOGE be added:

- DOGE is one of the oldest altcoins, has a vibrant and resourceful community (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jxmdny8AlI .. who else!)

- Is usually right below bitshares in terms of market cap: https://coinmarketcap.com/

- Is frequently traded as seen in https://bitinfocharts.com/ (eclipses even litecoin, by far)

- Has over 80K reddit subscribers and a very active subreddit, second only to bitcoin.

Given how viral the doge community tends to be, I believe this would be a win-win situation for us and them. It would generate publicity for both communities and teach the big, loyal dogecoin community about bitshares, whom I'm sure will be more than happy to use bitDOGE as well.

DOGE seems to be holding pretty well even amidst bitcoin chaos, the resistance is strong on price drops.

As it lacks staking, it is also useful, in my view, to allow doge holders to hold bitDOGE instead and put their hard earned Ð to work.

They're such a wonderful community who's done such amazing things in the history of crypto so far. Please consider!

General Discussion / Integrating bitassets payments on websites

« on: February 25, 2015, 07:38:25 pm »

Just wondering, is/has anyone worked on this? Do we have a solution to easily integrate "Pay with bitBLABLA" with websites (a la bitpay, I suppose)

If the answer is negative, is there a demand?

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General Discussion / BullionVault and the logical case for a bitSILVER / bitGOLD gateway

« on: February 25, 2015, 07:28:52 pm »

What do you think? In my mind it's a perfect marriage, and it could bring bitshares bigtime publicity if done/coordinated properly.

Am I missing something obvious here? We have bitSILVER and bitGOLD. They buy and sell silver and gold.

Why not buy and sell silver and gold with the respective bitassets, directly?

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Technical Support / What are the difference(s) between "normal" assets and user assets?

« on: February 25, 2015, 07:06:03 pm »

And how can more "normal" assets be added -- am I right to assume that bitDOGE or bitDRK belong to 'normal assets' next to bitBTC, and not to user created assets?

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General Discussion / bitEUR volume

« on: February 25, 2015, 06:23:15 pm »

Not wanting to derail https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=14525.0;topicseen ..

Howcome bitEUR sees so little action? Are there almost no Europeans in on BTS?

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Technical Support / If 1 BitUSD should always be worth around 1 USD, then 1 BitGLD should be worth..

« on: February 25, 2015, 06:18:44 pm »

.... what?

$:-\$

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Technical Support / On becoming a delegate - a few simple questions

« on: February 25, 2015, 06:53:38 am »

Undoubtfully, delegates are a crucial part of BitShares. Being a security-focused IT person, it is only natural to marry that with my growing interest in bitshares.

Even after searching, a few things are still not clear. Hopefully some of you could help.

First of all, it is my understanding that all clients will detect certain easy-to-spot misbehaving by delegates -- automatically, and downvote them accordingly. Is the opposite also true? Will longstanding well-behaving delegates be automatically upvoted?

What constellation of conditions is necessary for a delegate to reach the top 101? Does that list tend to stay the same, or it's always rotating, possibly enforced by the system?

Is there some 'delegate explorer' website out there?

Lastly, pertaining payouts, it is my understanding that delegates get paid in bitshares, correct?
How many bitshares will that be -- does it depend exclusively on the burn rate, or also something else?

I read somewhere that at (that) the moment, a delegate is expected to get about $2500 equivalent in BTS, presumably for a month of service. Is this more or less right?

If so, as an extremely well versed systems administrator who's fully comfortable with securing unix systems to high grade, what prevents me from setting up 100 delegates (I realize many/most would not make it to the top 101), wait for them to become stable and accepted in the network, and sit back & watch the money coming?

Surely it cannot be that straightforward?

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Technical Support / New to bitshares, some questions

« on: February 21, 2015, 07:55:25 pm »

So, after setting up a linux vm for running the client (which, by the way, works just fine on ubuntu 11.04 for me) and playing around with the system a bit, I decided to register here and ask several questions that have been on my mind.

Being a newbie, I have read a lot of the documentation, youtube bitshares.tv, and have been lurking the forum for a week now.

Without any further ado, here's the question list:

1. What would happen to the network if due to a large-scale disaster/government censorship/etc, large parts of the network became isolated from each other?

2. Is it possible to create new pegs to cryptocurrency as an user? Say I decided having BitDRK (for darkcoin) was an excellent idea. How to go about it?

3. Why is it (seemlingly) not possible to delete accounts from the client? I can think of several use cases where having a registered account is not desirable. And it is unintuitive that sending funds to an account means they can't be traced very well, as I believe I've seen claimed -- say I use shapeshift.io and input my account name, what guarantees they do not save the account name and see where the transaction ends up? Either I'm misunderstanding something or this could over time be used to compromise privacy.

4. Regarding backups, is it necessary to re-backup once a new account is added?

5. NXT/nubits seem to be getting a lot of traction in terms of media, the superNET, etc. Does this concern you, and if not, why not? Why BitShares instead?

6. Are there plans to implement proxy support in the client? I have tried tsocks/usewithtor, neither worked. Didn't get to play with redirecting packets at the firewall level yet.

7. On what grounds is the interest rate of a bitAsset calculated? And when is it credited in the account? After how long?

8. Supposedly 1 USD will always be worth 1 bitUSD. Would you then trust this system to deposit your life savings? As an added bonus, it would appear you'd get more interest from this than from a regular savings account... too good to be true?

9.The system appears to depend on matching people who are betting the price will go up vs people who are betting that the price will go down. What if this dynamic is not in place? What if everyone goes bull, what are the consequences?

10.In your opinion, what are the killer features of this system?

That's all I can think of for now.. beware, if the replies are good quality, endless more questions will soon follow...