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I do not have a design but an idea for a base concept of a Bitcoin flag.
A lot of people have a lot of political opinions from one end to the other end in the bitcoin community. A lot people speak different languages all around the world. All of them (and all of us) wants to use bitcoin. I am far from anti gun or anti military, but some would find any type of gun representations or military visual implications not compatible with their views for example and that would be perfectly fine. Latin quotes are nice and all. But the Roman empire died when again? And Latin would have zero historical values for (maybe) Asian civilizations for example.
The bitcoin logo in itself is not the definitive answer as it is still in many way representing the past, reminding us the dollar and the euro. A "design genie" could re invent it 3 months from now and everyone could love it. We need to define a common platform all of us agree then, the designers would focus better.
What if we could simply use the universal language of Math as a symbol for the flag, the core of bitcoin itself? I have no idea what the bitcoin code is, but what if all the coders agreed on an equation that symbolizes bitcoin and the network in a few lines as powerful (like E=MC2) first.
Then that equation could be represented with colors (color coded) and something that is like an abstract QR code.
As long as the fundamental bitcoin equation is represented in one shape or another (based on the creative minds) it would then be easier to create a "flag" everyone would get withing a half of second.
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Can't wait for the Bitcoin follow up. Thank you.  |
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I do not like to be judgmental on the internet but your flag is not a flag. I suggested opening your site to talented people would be a great idea as sometime the one who had the vision and the original spark may not be the one carrying his team to victory. A 5 year old should be able to draw the bitcoin flag with a couple of crayons. It needs to inspire like when I was 5 and was making money by drawing $ signs on a peace of paper. If only I knew I WAS doing it just like the FEDS back then :-)
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What if taxes were based loosely on the bitcoin distribution model?
First of all no one cares for taxes, no one loves taxes, but even the most anarchist creature is still socially wired to behave. So we need something to take care of "stuff": road, military, transport etc, etc.
The thing is we need to reinvent taxes so it creates a "positive flaw" instead of a negative one. the analogy with bitcoin would be a crypto open book were you can follow your contribution from end to end. No one has to know who you are but "investing" in your community would make sense as everyone would have access to a "blockchain of general needs" with different levels based on the size of your commune. A NASDAQ like entity would show to everyone were money is lacking and how you would want to help the tribe (local level). It would show where obvious waste are and a need for that "tribe" to move of join a better/bigger tribe if they have what you are. As soon as a "level" is reached, a new tribe has to be created.
250 years ago this kind of concept was a dream, but now the information highway is old news and big data will move faster and faster so a powerful centralized system would become unnecessary. The same way currency is moving toward decentralization with bitcoin (or something even better) that's is the way government should be and so is taxing.
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[/quote] Needs a flag: I made this today: http://bitflag.orgLet me know if there any other designs out there [/quote] The most amazing thing is not the flag (no, it is definitely not), but that bitflag.org exists. Maybe you should erase that flag and instead put up an email address or an online vote system where the most talented bitcoin designers would submit to you the flag of the day. Maybe only people from bitcointalk.org would be able to post to bitflag.org to make sure things get a little bit tunneled? |
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Why should we be concerned one way or another about people "manipulating the market"? What is bitcoin? Let will Smith tell you (Well... actually every time you hear a certain name, just switch it in your head with the word BITCOIN or NAKAMOTO (loud). It will go up. It will go down. It cannot be destroyed even if it is. http://youtu.be/ysoTtAon43Q   |
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I am just a powerless simpleton on the internet being amazed by what is going on right now and not directly concerned by this news. The very wide net approach is beyond troubling, thus concerns everyone, and not only in the USA. Once the machine is on, no matter who comes next it is very tempting not turn it off and keep it running "just in case". Anyone alive and in touch with what is really going on in the past 15 years saw what happened when things "changed" to be the same, or worse.
This is a long con on the citizen and we need to keep our eyes open 24/7 to be on top of their game.
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It is for our own good. http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/us-plan-calls-more-scanning-private-web-traffic-email-1C9001922The U.S. government is expanding a cybersecurity program that scans Internet traffic headed into and out of defense contractors to include far more of the country's private, civilian-run infrastructure. As a result, more private sector employees than ever before, including those at big banks, utilities and key transportation companies, will have their emails and Web surfing scanned as a precaution against cyber attacks. Under last month's White House executive order on cybersecurity, the scans will be driven by classified information provided by U.S. intelligence agencies — including data from the National Security Agency (NSA) — on new or especially serious espionage threats and other hacking attempts. U.S. spy chiefs said on March 12 that cyber attacks have supplanted terrorism as the top threat to the country. The Department of Homeland Security will gather the secret data and pass it to a small group of telecommunication companies and cyber security providers that have employees holding security clearances, government and industry officials said. Those companies will then offer to process email and other Internet transmissions for critical infrastructure customers that choose to participate in the program. DHS as the middleman By using DHS as the middleman, the Obama administration hopes to bring the formidable overseas intelligence-gathering of the NSA closer to ordinary U.S. residents without triggering an outcry from privacy advocates who have long been leery of the spy agency's eavesdropping. The telecom companies will not report back to the government on what they see, except in aggregate statistics, a senior DHS official said in an interview granted on condition he not be identified. "That allows us to provide more sensitive information," the official said. "We will provide the information to the security service providers that they need to perform this function." Procedures are to be established within six months of the order. |
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Pretty soon the E.P.A. will ask US bitcoin miners to have a coal license or be shutdown.
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Nice poster. Was it build in part with Daz 3D? |
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 I am very glad my little "delirium question" does create some conversation. Keep in mind that every time we (humans) believe something is impossible, Nature reminds us who's really in charge. I am not a HAM radio amateur but yes, if there is something that keeps us from paying our internet connection I believe a true backup (maybe slow and using "old" tech) should be available, as long as some can still have access to power one way or the other and maintain it. There was this whole discussion about opening some of the frequencies back to the public (because TV stations here in the US switched to digital TV) a while back. Not really sure what happened but all of the big US telecom wanted a bite of it because of high speed internet. If you have a powerful enough amp you can pick up and/or send messages from and to anywhere in the world and we are not talking about sending Hi Def youtube videos.
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"Freedom is free, until you lose it." (translated in Latin)
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Hello! i am a newb regarding bitcoin and I guess, like everything else in life, your first time should be something to remember. Or not, in the case of a transaction as things should be smooth and unremarkable, without any surprises. I got my email from them with the keys. I haven't touched it yet, but plan to transfer them to my blockchain address.
Right now I don't know if I have to do this or just keep them as is, printed out, as I do not have the need to spend them right away.
Anyway, still learning. Will use their service again.
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hmm.. It would be easier with a Cap'n Crunch whistle maybe? |
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Found it. http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/08/experiments-in-airborne-basic-buzzing-computer-code-over-fm-radio/Seinäjoki, Finland was a tough place to be a budding geek back in 1985. Just ask Eero Tunkelo, a grade school student with a doctor for a father, a mother who taught sewing and textile design, and a newfound love for computers and programming. "Computers were new, so anything you did, it was—wow!" he told me during a recent phone call. Such was Tunkelo's passion for the technology that he spent an entire summer working so that he could purchase his own Commodore VIC-20—an early home-oriented machine that ran Commodore BASIC 2.0 and predated the more advanced Commodore 64. With his VIC-20, Tunkelo taught himself BASIC, then studied assembly language. He wrote programs that ran "straight to the metal," as he put it, but also came from the heart. One included graphics that celebrated his sister's high school graduation. But the young innovator felt isolated. "Computers were not as popular as they are now," Tunkelo said, and few schools had one. Then came a remarkable radio show that changed the landscape for him and a generation of Finnish technology lovers—a show that literally broadcast code over the airwaves. |
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Back in the days, in some country in Europe, some would use a radio station to send small apps in BASIC language. You would tape the high pitched noise then play it back to your machine (Amstrad CPC most likely).
The point: from a paper wallet, to a radio signal, to a recorder, then back to paper wallet/online wallet at the other end. The signal would be coded, then decoded.
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Nothing to worry about then.
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Ok good to know. The little I know about this system was the fact it was using so many GPUs. That is why I was having a little fun with a "what if" scenario. Yes ASIC is King now. Here is the monster's website: Titan will be the first major supercomputing system to utilize a hybrid architecture, or one that utilizes both conventional 16-core AMD Opteron CPUs and NVIDIA Tesla K20 GPU Accelerators http://www.olcf.ornl.gov/titan/ |
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