VinceSamios

Bitcoin edits

I'm going to go ahead and make some piecemeal changes to the Bitcoin page; feel free to remove those edits you have an issue with. I do understand the need to review larger changes and appreciate feedback, but I would also like to improve the page. I hope that by making incremental edits that can be reverted a la carte I'll be making a happy compromise in this regard. I'll post on the talk page about changes such as the cryptocurrency mention to get consensus prior to making them. Fleetham (talk)

@Fleetham: Smaller edits would be super super helpful. I didn't want to undo everything but I didn't really have a choice, then had to re-add some good edits.VinceSamios (talk) 11:15, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Okay, well I believe I've finished. There's still some unnecessary edits to wade through, like me accidentally reverting your revert and then reverting this :) But feel free to take down the controversial stuff. Fleetham (talk) 11:26, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

@Fleetham: I've readded and cited the image of how a transaction works - also happy to explain it to you if it doesn't make sense to you. I agree its a little dense on the technical side, but its also quite informative to how the protocol actually works. Hope you don't mind. VinceSamios (talk) 12:05, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Okay, well I guess the diagram explains that you need a public and private key to make a Bitcoin transaction. You seem to like it, but I would prefer to place it near a textual description of what it's describing. I'll see if I can't re-position it.

Also, I switched out "physical" for "digital" from the "physical token or notes" thing in the lede. I can easily imagine someone who knows nothing of Bitcoin imagining that they're little digital files or something. I doubt most would think a Bitcoin transaction would include handing over a paper note (but it could). Fleetham (talk) 19:04, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Hello! I just wanted to say thanks for your plethora of edits to the Bitcoin page today. Except for a couple that I'll bring up on the talk page, I thought they were all beneficial to the article. I don't know why the removal of the physical tokens section got reverted, but I'm with you on that one. Cheers, Chris Arnesen 18:35, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

chrisarnesen the physical bitcoins section didn't have good content, hopefully now it does :-) VinceSamios (talk) 11:14, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Questions for Ken

Remember - we are asking questions, not making demands.

Questions:

• Have you had any sample chips? If so, did they work? VinceSamios (talk) 12:30, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
• When are sample chips expected? Sample, low volume and normal productions? VinceSamios (talk) 12:30, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
• How long do you expect board design and production to take? VinceSamios (talk) 12:30, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
• In your progress report of November 30th 2013 you stated "We have this last week shipped our first products to customers." - What product was shipped? VinceSamios (talk) 12:30, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
• What reason caused the change of plans and alteration of schedule? Were your initial timeline commitments too optimistic or was there a catastrophic failure? (if so, what?) (from Forums) VinceSamios (talk) 12:30, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
• If you are still at the design phase now, what have you been doing for the last 6-8 months? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.160.117.196 (talk) 12:18, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
• Are you in a position to be able to refund your customers every penny or have you spent some of the pre-order money? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.160.117.196 (talk) 12:18, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
• Is preorder money converted to BTC or kept as fiat?141.6.11.13 (talk) 12:49, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
• Up until a week or so ago, Ken was telling people if they ordered TODAY they would receive a miner in feb/march - Is this still the case? - neilol on IRC VinceSamios (talk) 13:52, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
• Ken mentioned additional hashrate came online in November, what machines were those? JoTheKhan via bitcointalk VinceSamios (talk) 13:54, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
• When was the new engineering firm engaged? JoTheKhan via bitcointalk VinceSamios (talk) 13:54, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
• Can you give us a rough timeline of the full design and creation process, where we were set back, and what part of the process flow we are looping back over now. Kleeck on IRC VinceSamios (talk) 14:58, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
• Is there a problem with eASIC's 28nm process? VinceSamios (talk) 15:29, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
• Did we face delays because Intellihash is being incorporated or is it because the boards weren't designed properly to begin with? Babybonobo on Bitcointalk VinceSamios (talk) 18:21, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
• Who exactly is the Engineering Firm that was hired, and how long ago did this hiring take place? VinceSamios (talk) 19:32, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Requests

• Pictures of something/anything VinceSamios (talk) 12:31, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
• How was the visit from Bargraphics on the 14th? VinceSamios (talk) 12:31, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

needs tidying

• Please account for every Bitcoin you have recieved and spent. For example
• Bitfunder shares sold xx,xxx BTC sent to addresses 1xxx, 1xxx,...
• BTCT.co shares sold x,xxx BTC sent to addresses ...
• Bitcoin sold on date __/__/__ on exchange Bitstamp xxx BTC for $xxxxx
• Bitcoin dividends paid xxxx total
• Bitcoin payments for pre-orders at addresses 1xxx, 1xxxx, ...
• Remaining Bitcoin: xx, xxx at addresses ....
• Please make a similar accounting of $ spent and summarize the companies current cash position
• Be sure to include a summary of salaries paid to staff including yourself
• Summarize the companies liabilities in terms of customer orders, and accounts payable — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.37.209.131 (talk) 18:35, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

A tip

Hi Vince, you may want to create a sandbox in your userspace here for developing content or whatever that stuff is above (for example User:VinceSamios/sandbox). Your primary Talk page should be for other users to communicate with you, and they will be confused when they see content that's seemingly unrelated to such. If the above is not related to Wikipedia articles, it would be best maintained elsewhere (see WP:NOTWEBHOST). --Laser brain (talk) 18:49, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

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