Just to note: it did say there was no sound in Safari, but it was silently edited after the comment edit/delete window on parent ended. Odd you can't even delete comments that no longer apply after the edit window.
Beautiful :) I didn't know people were moving around such large sums. I saw a 3400 bc bubble, and a 2000+ bc bubble floating out there.
I wish I was able to distinguish what was going on directly from the sounds. Those huge bubbles sounded exactly like the small ones, and when I saw 50 bubbles appear at once, that also did not sound any different than a single bubble. The amount of simultaneous sounds seems to be limited to a very low number.
Bitcoin clients usually try to diffuse coin ownership by always sending two amounts with one transaction, one (normally smaller) amount is to the receiver, the second amount is to a new address of the sender. So your coins diffuse out over tons of addresses this way, and the true number of coins transferred between individuals is much less than it appears.
It can also be extremely unhelpful, for example to this chap today on reddit:
Who didn't seem to know about return transactions and seems to have lost 90 BTC on that. (Because he/she used a "secure" live environment that would work with a temporary wallet and just one extra address with his/her money.)
He only got into that situation because he was using the software in a non-standard way, and he inadvertently deleted the "change-wallet" that had automatically been created for him.
As long as you use the software in a relatively standard way and don't ever delete your wallet files, you'll be fine.
This. If you save all wallet.dat files on any bitcoin clients that you use for transactions, you'll be fine. Don't be scared off by someone using the bitcoin client in a non-standard, unapproved way (and as long as you use the GUI and not the command line interface, you'll not have to worry about that).
Just make sure you understand the software you are using. This mechanism isn't good for the user since you negate the efficiency of backups if your coins constantly move from older addresses to freshly created (unprotected until next backup) addresses.
Some bitcoin clients fix this by using a deterministic generation of new addresses for the wallet.
And this mistake of trying to be ultra-secure, without understanding change addresses, is a classic way to destroy BTC. It also bit someone for 7208 BTC way back in June 2011:
What feed/API are you pulling from to track these changes. I've been looking for a solid way to chart bitcoin transactions and haven't been able to find one.
Wow, this is great! I got to see a block completed and see a 3392.80 BTC transaction go by - both got me excited enough to be amusing to those around me!
after some digging around the JS, I noticed the sound is completely random except the volume which is based on the quantity of bitcoins
var maxBitcoins=1000;var minVolume=0.3;var maxVolume=0.5;var volume=bitcoins/(maxBitcoins/(maxVolume-minVolume))+minVolume;if(volume>maxVolume)volume=maxVolume;Sound.playRandomAtVolume(volume100);
Original creator here, it plots all the transactions it receives from Blockchain.info. It's more or less pulling from the same recent transaction feed that you get if you go to Blockchain.info's homepage. I'd like to think this includes all transactions on the network :)
I know you were really trying to be snarky about Bitcoin, but in case you hadn't heard, you can actually do things with them. Also notable are https://wrapbootstrap.com/ and Reddit
Does this mean that a huge transaction for the right amount will hit the perfect low note, and cause everyone within earshot of listentobitcoin.com to simultaneously crap themselves?
Big Ben, presumably. This is oddly soothing in an "ew, economics" kinda way. I wouldn't mind letting this run in the background for when there's no wind for my windchime.
Seems to be going fine now. I imagine the transactions are just pretty sporadic. Either that, or it momentarily lost the connection with Mt. Gox and blockchain.info.
Deposits and withdraws of Bitcoin will show, but all trades within MtGox are not recorded in the blockchain. It's just Gox moving balances between accounts.
He means Gox moving balances between internal Gox accounts, like hot/cold wallets. Not trades. The trades you and I make on Gox don't show on the blockchain until they're withdrawn.
Change from outgoing MtGox payments does show up in the blockchain, though, and it tends to be relatively large compared to the actual size of the payments. By design there's no reliable way to tell the difference between change and the actual payment either.
Care to explain why not? What stops someone who mined 10k bitcoins in 2007/8 from cashing out. If I remember correctly, there was a guy recently on #startups freenode who showed everyone a screenshot of his wallet at $800k[1] (one sec let me find it in my history) and claimed he mined them all really early.
They are definitely a handful of people who have over 10k bitcoins, but they're not storing it on an online blockchain.info wallet (which is where that screenshot is from). They're also not showing it on IRC.
That kind of screenshot can easily be produced by changing a little HTML on a 0 balance account.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 156 ms ] threadhttp://www.listentobitcoin.com/sounds/swells/swell1.ogg
http://www.listentobitcoin.com/sounds/swells/swell2.ogg
http://www.listentobitcoin.com/sounds/swells/swell3.ogg
You could write a script to play these randomly!
edit: obviously forgot my compliment, very clever idea and cool implementation this digital art right here ladies and gentleman
also this gave me an idea: how about a Bitcoin ECG?
It can also be extremely unhelpful, for example to this chap today on reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1bd1d1/i_think_i_ju...
Who didn't seem to know about return transactions and seems to have lost 90 BTC on that. (Because he/she used a "secure" live environment that would work with a temporary wallet and just one extra address with his/her money.)
As long as you use the software in a relatively standard way and don't ever delete your wallet files, you'll be fine.
Some bitcoin clients fix this by using a deterministic generation of new addresses for the wallet.
Brain wallets are always a terrible idea, either the pass phrase is too simple and easily cracked, or too complicated and easily forgotten.
Paper wallets are only useful for savings, if you want to spend the coins you should move the full amount.
As said elsewhere, if you use the stock client as designed, and don't use brain or paper wallets, then you should never lose coins.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=11104.0;all
That 7208 BTC would be worth about $680,000 today.
There will be a lot fewer than 21 million BTC in actual usable existence after all these errors are tallied!
What feed/API are you pulling from to track these changes. I've been looking for a solid way to chart bitcoin transactions and haven't been able to find one.
var maxBitcoins=1000;var minVolume=0.3;var maxVolume=0.5;var volume=bitcoins/(maxBitcoins/(maxVolume-minVolume))+minVolume;if(volume>maxVolume)volume=maxVolume;Sound.playRandomAtVolume(volume100);
I know you were really trying to be snarky about Bitcoin, but in case you hadn't heard, you can actually do things with them. Also notable are https://wrapbootstrap.com/ and Reddit
It gets highlighted and is really easy to spot
Looking at the source, you are, however, correct, that the pitches are selected at random.
[1]http://i.imgur.com/bfhtnuF.png
That kind of screenshot can easily be produced by changing a little HTML on a 0 balance account.