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Bitcoin Project will be making a major announcement in September  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=101011.0)

Will that make the current bitcoins worthless?
Is that why Pirate is shutting down, because he knows?

thats a leap  :D

Yes, and yes...

Oh I love this stuff  :D

Keep going!

Bitcoin 2 ???

They haven't even released Bitcoin 1.0 yet !!!   :D

Not only will bitcoin 2 be faster, with better access to the internet, it will also play blu-ray movies and prevent prostate cancer.

Actually it is Bitcoin3, 50% better than the non-existent Bitcoin2.  Seriously where do people get this nonsense from?

My friend heard it from a tech guy at his school and texted it to me

Secure multi-sig  and escrow

Yeah, Bitcoin 2 will present the most wanted features. Namely bigger icons, transparent window background and nice sounds played when the wallet is being emptied.

that tells you how much truth you learn at school

Bitcoin 2 proactively addresses forthcoming criticism via a built-in anti-scam filter.  Wallet users are required to give a reason prior to sending funds, and receive an electric shock if certain keywords (such as "loan" or "7%") are detected.

bitcoin 2 will come with a retina display.

Bitcoin 2 will include a USB ATM Bitcoin vending machine. A fully decentralized exchange will work with all international currencies and print them on a CIA designed 3D printer.

I heard bitcoin 2 was made of diamonds and came with a hovercraft. And strippers.

I don't know if that's true though.

Bitcoin 2 is the most efficient cryptocurrency ever.  The lower your hashing power the faster you solve blocks. 

+1s all around.  Most hilarious thread ever.

Did I miss Bitcoin 1.0 somehow?

Can we get 6.3 Billion premined coins and trust nodes too? I really wish people would listen to me when I say that it's for the good of all bitcoiners to have decentralized currencies be centralized...

must be legit then.

I heard they were opening the Bitcoin headquarters, which for a tax of 5% per transaction will protect against 51% attacks

I thought the same thing, but then, I missed Windows 1 through 6, so I suppose anything  is possible.

after v 3.1 it changed to 95, 98, 2000, XP... however they still used version numbers.
Heres windows v 5.1 (top right)
http://www.softsea.com/screenshot/image/Windows-XP-Service-Pack-3.jpg

I'd heard there was going to be a Bitcoin 1.0, but then it took an arrow to the knee.

Thanks, but I was just kidding. The one time I forget to add the smiley face  ;).

This was meant for the speculation forum, where speculation, by all...of any kind, is welcomed.

It's not Bitcoin 2.0..................the real name of the new coin is.....................BFLcoin  8) ;D

Is bitcoin 2 coming out next month?

No.

Everybody knows eleven is my favorite number, so if there was going to be a major release of bitcoin it would be "Bitcoin 11".  But it ain't gonna happen.

Gavin you're killing us :D

Who said *you* were coding it? What do you think Satoshi has been doing all this time?  ;)

Only 11 kinds of people in the world, those who can count in binary and those who can't  :D

We all know the term "web 2.0" is a favorite of all the marketers who missed the boat on the web altogether and run after the lost time.
It's also the hope of many who would like to impose censorship on the web.
Unfortunately for them, there is no such thing as the web 2.0, there is the web period.


Expect again many "marketers" to promote the idea of a bitcoin 2 because so many of them are missing on bitcoin when the time is now.

Bazinga!

I'll start my own fork of Bitcoin, with blackjack and hookers. In fact, forget about the Bitcoin.

I got a pre-release of Bitcoin 2 over the weekend.

Man that thing is fast! And the graphics...WOW!!!

It is well worth at least $600 each. Stand by for my review on my Bitcoin release blog...

Is Bitcoin II protected from the 7% attack?

LOL nice

I'm mining Bitcoin 2 at 1.3 x 10^-31 hash/s and loving it.

Silly thread is silly. OP, have you ever heard of Occam's razor ?

I can create hashes slower than that using pencil and paper. And a calculator. So come Bitcoin 2 I'll be rich!  ;D

The major news of Bitcoin 2 is that they will replace the proof of work with proof of laziness.

What? We have to prove our laziness now? But I'm too lazy to bother proving my laziness!

^
Genesis block.

No I haven't ...

http://www.scribd.com/doc/155504772/Bitcoin-2-Freedom-of-Transaction

almost a year after...

bitcoin 2 uses bacon grease and windmills to find blocks.

Ah I forgot the awesome that was this thread.  The good "ole" days.  Historical note: anything in 2012 is the old timey Bitcoin with steam powered mining rigs, nodes hooked up by telegraph, and a rush to build the transcontinental blockchain.

I'm not going to believe it till it's been retweeted on Twitter.

EDIT: Nevermind!

After reading the changes they want to make I would be inclined to call it Failcoin 2.

Bitcoin 2 will quantum teleport gold atoms.

Bitcoin 2 works with ATM networks- withdrawals from a Bitcoin ATM on any major debit card (Visa, Mastercard) are treated like withdrawals of foreign currency.

^^ this!

Bitcoin 2 is a funny name for an alt coin.

From my limited understanding the new code wont work well and will add bloat. 

There are reasons why this stuff was rejected from both btc and ltc.

Let me know when they have it working on testnet. Hopefully before block 420000.

We are getting BitcoinS

After bitcoin 6.9 comes out, I vote they should call it bytecoin instead.

Matthew:out

7 minute abs...

So what's the third type of people?  (you said there were 11)

Note to self: MineForeman.com can't!

11=2 in binary

LIES!!! http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/courses/CSCI1200-96/binary.html :P


[edit] 11 in binary IS 3, even if it is bi-endianness

Really?  Not in any binary I know.
What is 1, 2, 3 in binary?
1 =
2 =
3 =

I'm disappointed in you Phinnaeus.

01 = 1
10 = 2
11 = 3

He actually meant "nary" which in old english is defined as "not one." The "bi" prefix is naturally a sexual orientation conjugation he chose to append.

He meant: Only 11 10 kinds of people in the world, those who can count in binary and those who can't

I assume that makes me one of those that can again :P .

Neil

01 = 1
10 = 2
11 = 3

If 01 + 10 = 11 = 3,
Then why doesn't 01 + 11 = 12 = 4?

Are you joking?  It is hard to tell.

Because math is rigorous, regardless of base.

To answer the question (serious or not, some may not understand), we normally use base 10 because there are 10 symbols in our integer counting system, 0-9
Base2 has 2 - 0 and 1
Base16 (hex) has 16 - 0-F

so

Base10	Base2	hex
0	0	0
1	1	1
2	10	2
3	11	3
4	100	4
5	101	5
6	110	6
7	111	7
8	1000	8
9	1001	9
10	1010	A
11	1011	B
12	1100	C
13	1101	D
14	1110	E
15	1111	F
16	10000	10
17	10001	11
18	10010	12
19	10011	13
20	10100	14
21	10101	15
22	10110	16
23	10111	17
24	11000	18
25	11001	19
26	11010	1A
27	11011	1B
28	11100	1C
29	11101	1D
30	11110	1E
31	11111	1F
32	100000	20
33	100001	21

As a modern byte has 8 bits (historically not always the case) there are 256 different values a byte can have - sqrt(256) = 16 so we can describe a byte with two hex numbers - which is why you see hex used so often when talking about the value of a byte (essentially it is base256 with 00-FF as the possible values)

I love threads like this :P

Funny how some people get angry about "Bitcoin 2" proposal (not in this thread, I guess, but somewhere on reddit).

http://cdn.memegenerator.co/instances/600x/40130477.jpg

The truth is, Bitcoin is 100% voluntary. I like my current Bitcoin and don't need to care much about Bitcoin 2. If, however, there begins a noticeable market with Bitcoin 2 guys (will never happen, but let's imagine that), I can decide to voluntarily join this market. Or not. Either way I have choice and everyone's happy.

I have always thought that humanity would have done much better with base-12 counting system than base-10. The Babylonians had the right idea with 60 as the most useful number, because of its divisibility, where 10 is very much inferior. The metric system would be much better in base-12 too. Too late now though!

Also there's base 58 as used in all our BTC addresses :)
It's also a bastardisation of base 58 to avoid having 0, I, O and l

0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuv
becomes
123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz

in unary (like binary, but only one), it's 2.

1 = 1
11 = 2
111 = 3
1111 = 4
....

... I presume everyone does know the original joke right?
There Are 3 Types Of People In The World, Those Who Are Good At Math And Those Who Aren't ... :P

base58 usually leaves out two of 0, O and o plus I and l.
Point of base58 is base 62 but w/o characters that are too similar.

I've not seen a lot of implementations but most I have seen keep 0 so that the first 10 are the same. bitcoin doesn't.
Also most I've seen have lower case letters before upper.

But there is no standard for base58 as far as I know.

All number systems are base 10 if you think about it.  The word "base 10" is horribly ambiguous for meaning base-ten.  :)

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/1_to_10.png

http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/4185/base10z.png

Of course, a more obvious correction would have been:

Only 11 kinds of people in the world, those who can count in binary DEC Radix-50 and those who can't.

+1 Can't wait for this