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Title: keep seeing 'thought experiment' in reference to bitcoins Post by: beeph on July 04, 2011, 09:11:01 AM please.. its NOT a thought experiment, its becoming en vogue to overuse this term... a thought experiment is like schroedingers cat, where nothing is actually done, just all in their head.
there are two ways i see this term overused one is 'thought'.. bitcoins isnt just a thought, there are thousands of people using it today and the other is 'experiment'.. an experiment isnt just an idea or a hypothesis, it's a scientific procedure whose purpose is to MEASURE results. With a thought experiment you play out the experiment mentally with the purpose of getting at RESULTS - not to pontificate or muse with stupid theories. so if u have an idea or a HYPOTHESIS call it that.. dont call it a thought experiment, it cheapens einstein, schroedinger, etc.. when you overuse this term and yer too retarded to even know what it means. Title: Re: keep seeing 'thought experiment' in reference to bitcoins Post by: asdf on July 04, 2011, 09:31:32 AM true. it's more of a "proof of concept" than a thought experiment.
Title: Re: keep seeing 'thought experiment' in reference to bitcoins Post by: Stephen Gornick on July 04, 2011, 11:05:24 PM true. it's more of a "proof of concept" than a thought experiment. In the past 24 hours: There have been at least 25,000 nodes participating: - http://smsz.net/btcStats/accepting There has been over 10,000 transactions that occurred: - http://bitcoinwatch.com There have been two new currency exchanges launched (and at least one more coming this week): - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/VirtEx - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/GetBitcoin There have been over a dozen additions to the Trade page: - http://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Trade&action=history etc. A proof of concept's purpose is to verify that some concept or theory that has the potential of being used. Bitcoin left that stage months and months ago. This is no longer a proof of concept. Bitcoin is the real deal. As a distributed computing project its computing power is bigger than the combined power of the top 500 supercomputers out there (all 500 combined) If Bitcoin were a "startup" it would be labeled as the fastest growing startup in 2011. There are people working aggressively to improve Bitcoin's core, to build entensions and serve niches. That doesn't happen with a proof of concept, nonetheless with an experiment. Title: Re: keep seeing 'thought experiment' in reference to bitcoins Post by: Jaime Frontero on July 04, 2011, 11:06:58 PM i haven't noticed that myself.
who refers to Bitcoin as a thought experiment? Title: Re: keep seeing 'thought experiment' in reference to bitcoins Post by: foggyb on July 04, 2011, 11:22:16 PM There have been two new currency exchanges launched (and at least one more coming this week): - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/VirtEx - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/GetBitcoin Friendly correction: Virtex has launched out of beta. (Its been live for a several weeks.) |