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That aside, the devs needs to stop the spam. Lee had a solution three years ago, based in litecoin's experience, so it really shouldn't be all that difficult.
It's not the devs. It's for the miners and nodes to decide. |
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sure, I'm using AirBank ( https://www.airbank.cz/ - http://www.ppf.eu/en/companies/air-bank) and yes, entire tarif is free, all operations are free, basically everything except cashing money from ATM which is not AirBank owned is free. Only exception is SEPA, but I told them that I will not fee for it and they refund it to my acc. (yes, really) I dunno, where are you from, but in Europe is pretty common, that banks had tariffs which are totally for free. I had the acc here for 3 years and I paid fee twice and in both cases it was fully refunded..don't want to defend banks or something, just saying that fees are history and people here massively switching banks to zero free ones.. Yeah, in stable economies with relatively friendly governments, it doesn't seem to be a problem. It all depends on how much you trust the bank you are using, and the government in your country.  In CZ maybe it's ok... in SK I wouldn't trust my bank with $10. They robbed my entire family for millions. "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth" - Mike Tyson |
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to me it is not really a problem yet. when i need to get 3 confirmations when i make a deposit in my exchange account, i do something else and check after 30 minutes how it is. some times it has 3 confirmations within 30 minutes, and other times only 1 or not even 1. you can't do much about it.
It's only a problem for people who insist that every 10 cent or $1 transaction has to be hard-coded into the blockchain. If you want your transactions to confirm faster, pay higher fees and transfer larger amounts. Bitcoin is not for micro-payments, and frankly I'm tired of that buzzword. Using an immutable ledger that solves the Byzantine Generals problem for the first time in history to transfer 10 cents, and then complaining about the confirmation time, is just depressing..  "Yeah it frees me from the tyranny and whim of the banksters, but why can't it be faster!??!" - The ADHD generation Man I bet some people would willingly board a train to Auschwitz because it's faster than walking away. P.S. Help expand the SPV or 0-confirmations infrastructure, or stop using Bitcoin until it's more understandable. Don't tell devs what to do unless you are a dev as well and can express it in code. If you are confused, then Bitcoin is not for you. Leave and leave it alone until it's more accessible to the general public. |
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As a user i dont need to know everything. I need to know that it works. That it.
Please tell me which bank you use that doesn't have fees!!! Also, please convince the people in Greece that they don't need to know everything, or where their money is. (They can't withdraw more than $70 from the ATM per day, and usually they are empty...) And ALL THEIR BANKS ARE CLOSED, ALL BANKS. Even the stock market, even Paypal, even Western Union, etc. Please convince the Australians whose pension accounts were emptied that it works, and that's it: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/canberras-640m-bank-account-raid/story-fn59niix-1226750044335THE government has ripped more than $640 million out of Australians' bank balances and life insurance policies after a budget-boosting policy shift by Labor ruled any account untouched for three years fair game. Please convince merchants that paying 2-10% of their profits (WHICH THEY REFLECT IN THE PRICE THAT YOU PAY) for CC fees is fair. They have to raise the prices to compensate for chargeback fraud and higher fees. Your price for that product, be it Pizza or shoes or whatever... will be up to 50% higher as a result... Also maybe convince Backpage that everything 'works' and they don't need to know anything, after the banking system, VISA and Mastercard cut off all of their payment methods: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/07/09/backpage-free-adult-services-ads-mastercard-visa/29931651/It works for now... but will it work tomorrow... Did you read my post about confirmation times? The bank and credit cards can reverse your payments for up to 6 months. Bitcoin is irreversible. Fact and perception are two separate horses. |
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deliciousowl you are simply right, but point is, that average Joe don't give a shit about this, he don't even know about those 6 months period or about entire industry behind...really.
If every average Joe understood this, and knew about it, there would be riots in the streets worse than anything we've seen before. And the only banks left would be highly competitive online banking companies, who would bend over backwards to kiss our asses and integrate Bitcoin. But yes, it's uncomfortable. But in the end, that's all about psychology and perceived time. For example if you pre-load a website and serve elements individually people will be amazed at how fast its loading... when in fact it takes the same time but is allocated differently. The moral of the day is that people don't mind getting fucked in the ass by the industry, as long as they're nice and lubed up while shutting their eyes to the the skeletons underneath the bed. |
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Sorry i forgot my tinfoil hat today...  When i deposit money in the bank i dont write my name on them and expect to get the same money back. I know they mix up my money with other deposit. When i say i dont pay fee i mean that i never pay anything to send or recive money. How they do it is not my concern. My only concern is to force them to contiue their practice with changing bank whenever they charge me for anything i dont want to pay. Please read my post above, and keep your tinfoil hat off. My guess is that you've never researched how exactly banks work, nor worked in that particular industry. I have close ties with people who owned and managed their own multi-national banks, and trust me, it's not as simple or happy as you think. They don't mix your money with anything. It doesn't EXIST. If everyone tried to withdraw at the same time, most people wouldn't get any. Again.... look at Greece. This is going on right in front of your eyes. Also if I may ask, which bank do you use that doesn't charge any fees at all? |
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My credit card takes less than 5 seconds and have no fee at all. Bank transfer is instant to accounts in the same bank with no fee and less than 1 workday to any account in other banks with no fee.
Dont compare bank with paypal and other obscure metodes that most people dont use.
It seems like 5 seconds and no fee, but credit cards can be charged-back for months. Merchants have huge troubles with this, and there is an entire industry profiting from trying to help them prevent this. Here's a quote from Wikipedia: Chargeback fraud, also known as friendly fraud, occurs when a consumer makes an online shopping purchase with their own credit card, and then requests a chargeback from the issuing bank after receiving the purchased goods or service. In 2013, LexisNexis reported that merchants pay up to US$2.79 for every $1 lost in fraudulent transactions. 1. The reason it seems like 5 seconds is because you don't realize that the money is only sent, but not confirmed. That's like a Bitcoin transaction 1 second after you send it. Sure, it was sent. But that doesn't mean it's there permanently... Make sense? It's still in limbo and can be reversed. 2. The reason it seems like no fee at all, is because the MERCHANT pays the fee (1 - 10%) and because the BANK pays the fee and transfers the costs onto you in other ways. Are you in the U.S.? Or where? In Europe it takes up to 5 work days to transfer from one country to another, even if they are only 30 miles apart. And as you said, only on work days... These are also not 100% confirmed (in the sense of Bitcoin) because the bank can freeze, or reverse the payment for a week or more. Bank transfers can also take anywhere up to months to fully confirm. They deal entirely in IOU's, and banks and CCs are not a push-only system. It's a push-pull system of legal obligations, IOUs, and arbitrary data. Meanwhile they are investing and playing with your money, making money off it while you wait. Look at what happened to Greece... There is nothing that confirms as quickly as Bitcoin, nor is there anything else that has such immutable certainty. There are only things that send faster... But in that case SPV and 0-conf is enough! It may seem conveniently 'instant', but really, it's not. Such arguments really make me furious. It reminds me of the Louis CK bit: Imitating a moaning passenger the comedian whines, “‘And then, we get on the plane and they made us sit there on the runway, for 40 minutes. We had to sit there.’ Oh? Really? What happened next? Did you fly through the air, incredibly, like a bird? Did you partake in the miracle of human flight, you non-contributing zero?” He continues, “People, like, they say there’s delays on flights. Delays? Really? New York to California in five hours. That used to take 30 years. Plus, you would die on the way there.” |
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Still better than like 3-6 months for credit cards, and 1-5 days for banks. Grow up.
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In Africa countries sometimes people have the same. In Greece - what will be with rich people bank accounts, if currently they can take only 60 EUR per day ?  Converted to Drachma, and devalued. Could lose 50 to 99%+ of their value. |
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This probably is one of the drivers of Bitcoin's price rally.
People who had 5 million euros buried under their pillow, would still have 5 million euros today. It is a problem with the banks, not the currency. If you have bitcoin banks set up tomorrow, you will still face these problems (capital control, government intervention, etc).
People who have 5 million Euros under their pillow don't sleep very well. And especially not if it's denominated in the Argentine peso. This probably is one of the drivers of Bitcoin's price rally.
People who had 5 million euros buried under their pillow, would still have 5 million euros today. It is a problem with the banks, not the currency. If you have bitcoin banks set up tomorrow, you will still face these problems (capital control, government intervention, etc).
What the hell is a "Bitcoin bank" ? |
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An improvement from 3 days to 1 hour isn't enough for you guys? spoiled... . And besides, off-chain transactions and Ripple gateway usage gives you real-time transactions. Therefore, 10 minute block times are a feature, not an issue. And besides, as far as I know, what Counterparty is especially useful for are high-volume transactions ($100,000 and up) rather than micropayments to angry birds or whatever. |
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How will Counterparty handle the tx volume in markets Symbiont is aiming at (settlement infrastructure?)? Isn't Counterparty limited to Bitcoin's 7 tx per second?
I'm guessing they'll use this: With the Ripple Gateway implementation, Counterparty users will now be able to transfer their funds in real-time with minimal transaction fees.
The gateway allows users to send Counterparty assets through the Ripple network, and to transfer those assets back into the Counterparty network. Further, both on the Ripple and Counterparty networks, assets may be stored in offline wallets, to ensure maximum security. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/symbiont-creates-ripple-gateway-for-counterparty-xcp-300058719.html |
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I argue that Cryptocurrencies function as distinct religious beliefs, which affect ego permeability by playing into our natural tendencies to perceive attributes of money and value as inherently magic and spiritual. Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/bitcoin-religion-filip-martinka-Do you think that cryptocurrencies are religions? |
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Ein gateway verbindet Ripple und XCP, daher wird es moeglich sein INSTANT-TRANSACTIONS mit XCP assets durchzufuehren: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/symbiont-creates-ripple-gateway-for-counterparty-xcp-300058719.htmlCounterparty firma "Symbiont", welche das XCP development fortsetzen wird, hat gerade $1,25 Millionen bekommen (nur als seed funding, series A ist im Q3) vom ex-CEO der New York Stock exchange, und dem zweit groessten Hedgefundmanager der Welt! Brutal.  https://bitcoinmagazine.com/20797/symbiont-raises-1-25m-seed-funding-former-nyse-ceo-smart-securities-blockchain/Da sind mehr finanzielle "Giganten" im spiel als jegliche andere kryptowaehrungen. Sonnst kann nur Bitcoin mithalten. Ich meine, die haben am team: - Mark Smith - Erfinder von MathMoney f(x) Trading
- Leute aus Coinbase, IBM, Lockheed, usw.
- Das gesamte Counterparty dev team
Und die Firma "Symbiont" basiert auf XCP, und der Counterparty platform! Und es dachten leute Overstock sei was besonderes... |
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Most people seem to think that their favorite coin is undervalued, but it's usually not. If anything, it's usually overvalued.
Most people haven't picked a coin that has investments from an ex-NYSE CEO and the second largest hedgefund manager in the world. Or a team from Coinbase and Lockheed. Or a cooperation with the banking industry. Or the support of the founder of MathMoney f(x). XCP is clearly undervalued. |
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