Is it counting DOWN or is it counting UP. The seconds appear to be going up
No they don't, they're going down.
The Pirate Bay is counting down
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Re: The Pirate Bay is counting down
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wish the myth that people donate to BTC addresses would hurry up and die. There are few examples of projects that receive significant donations, as far as I know. I'd love to be proven wrong about that, but when I looked at a bunch of donation addresses 6-12 months ago, no website or project got more than spare change from it. There have been some high-profile donations made using BTC, but that's not the same thing…
Very few people have actual BTC to donate -- this is the big one. Some of those may be holding BTC as an "investment" and may be unwilling to part with it. Depending on how they hold their BTC, there may be significant friction involved in spending it, ie. in almost all cases I expect it's more difficult than entering PayPal or credit card details. And as you note, it's not like people are super eager to donate using…
It's very frictionless to spend it, effectively it acts digitally analogous to cash.
> in almost all cases I expect it's more difficult than entering PayPal or credit card details.
Best way to find out is to try! Generate and post an address here in the next 15-20 and I'd be happy to prove this wrong. (at least from the senders end)
Re: The Pirate Bay is counting down
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are much better alternatives actually, all the torrent sites that already existed before the Pirate Bay went down and don't try to surf on the "Pirate Bay" brand to serve old, static content.
Any that you recommend?
I normally use the torrentz.com meta search engine and go with the torrent with the most seeds. It then shows me all the sites that have that torrent, and I pick one whose name I recognize. Works like a charm.
Re: The Pirate Bay is counting down
#54What is actually "JyO7wNzc8xht47QKWohfDVj6Sc2qH+X5tBCT+uetocIJcjQnp/2f1ViEBR+tyOCz"?
In the html source the file it is named aes.png
Is it an aes key for something? Does anybody know?
Re: The Pirate Bay is counting down
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are much better alternatives actually, all the torrent sites that already existed before the Pirate Bay went down and don't try to surf on the "Pirate Bay" brand to serve old, static content.
Any that you recommend?
https://kickass.so is an ok one
Re: The Pirate Bay is counting down
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very few people have actual BTC to donate -- this is the big one. Some of those may be holding BTC as an "investment" and may be unwilling to part with it. Depending on how they hold their BTC, there may be significant friction involved in spending it, ie. in almost all cases I expect it's more difficult than entering PayPal or credit card details. And as you note, it's not like people are super eager to donate using…
It's very frictionless to spend it, effectively it acts digitally analogous to cash. > in almost all cases I expect it's more difficult than entering PayPal or credit card details. Best way to find out is to try! Generate and post an address here in the next 15-20 and I'd be happy to prove this wrong. (at least from the senders end)
There's lots of friction on spending if it's in an offline wallet.
Re: The Pirate Bay is counting down
#57What is actually "JyO7wNzc8xht47QKWohfDVj6Sc2qH+X5tBCT+uetocIJcjQnp/2f1ViEBR+tyOCz"? In the html source the file it is named aes.png Is it an aes key for something? Does anybody know?
It's the key to add in BitTorrent Sync. In this software, click settings, "enter a key" and then you will have some torrents that people share, but to my experience it was sh*t and not organized in folders etc. Maybe now it's better.
Re: The Pirate Bay is counting down
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
It has to be an image, how else would they ensure that it shows up in Comic Sans in all browsers?
Not sure if that was a joke or not, but this problem has already been solved in CSS (@font-face). Though the downside to that would be that they'd then have the issue of hosting copyrighted content (ie the typeface).
Why on earth was that voted down? It wasn't rude, spam, nor factually inaccurate.
I'm getting quite fed up with people who abuse their negative karma privileges. I mean, at least justify your peer moderation with a follow up comment when the reason for the penalty is as ambiguous as it is in this instance.
I excepect I'll just get down voted again though, for daring to have a rant about people who do "hit and run" down voting...
Re: The Pirate Bay is counting down
#59My only hope is that they have recoded their not so powerfull search engine and maybe a new design? meeh