I think your idea is better than an autoresponse because if the person sending you the email (and the bitcoin) is a friend that you want to hear from, then you can refund the bitcoin.  If it is a spammer or a stalker, you've just earned the bitcoin.

Yes, bitcoin adoption is a barrier, but on the other hand this could be the application that spurs mainstream adoption of bitcoin.  It's no longer bitcoin the P2P cryptocurrency, it's now "Bitcoin: spam-free email" (or "Bitcoin! Get paid to read email!").

So should it be an add-on for Outlook, or a standalone bitcoin email client?

I've never been involved with a community before quite like bitcoin.org.  It is fascinating for me to see the bitcoin ecosystem evolve and grow.  Everyday members are bringing up ideas to grow bitcoin, or sites and products are being developed around bitcoin in a very organic way.

But what if you suddenly had the option of doing it differently?  What if you were chosen to head up the development and roll out of the bitcoin 'product' by some venture capitalists who were going to give you $10,000,000 to accomplish the launch?

How would you do it?  What would be the steps you would take to move bitcoin from where it is to being where you want it to go?

Here is the discussion:

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1411.0

And here is the extension:

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/hhbhfoohbnjkdcndbhjlicijccioklea

yes, that would work.

I guess it would be slicker if it acted like a mini-wallet, like the Chrome extension developed by somebody on here, so that the user didn't have to leave the page.

This story at Social Times talks about a firm that has created advanced tools for YouTube video playback:

http://www.socialtimes.com/2010/12/embedplus-youtube-embeds/

They allow you to embed a bunch of features like slow-mo, zoom, chapters etc.  If they would add a bitcoin tip jar feature so that content producers could more easily monetize their videos...

I was thinking about what got me initially excited about bitcoin back when I read the article in Eliott Wave Theorist.

I think it was Bitcoin, the non-inflationary currency!.  And then when I delved deeper into it, I got excited about Bitcoin, the micro-payment solution!

Is this being built off an already available platform like openx or Oasis, or is this a 'from scratch' proposition?

hummmmm, methinks this is one party that guests may want to arrive at early...

In Canada the employment insurance scheme is quite distinct from welfare programs.  Employees and employers pay premiums into a fund which is used to pay for the benefits.  Welfare comes out of general revenues.

If I recall correctly, EI in Canada actually subsidizes general spending because the premiums are too high.


How would you say things are setup in your country?

I think the core of the problem isn't religion at all.  The core of the problem is the west is ruled by a bunch of pansy-assed multi-cult secularists who think every culture is morally equal and so they have no basis in their worldview to criticize Islam (Berlusconi being the exception: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1565664.stm).  

If they had a Christian or Jewish worldview, they would have basis on which to criticize Islam.


Religion that extends only to the 'spiritual' parts of life (whatever that means) isn't religion at all, but a hobby.  For example, St. James says part of 'true religion' to to care for widows and orphans in their distress.

If we start saying 'religious freedom' only extends as far as the walls of the church/synagogue/whatever, that's no freedom at all.

There is this idea floating around that religion has been the cause of most of the wars in history.  While religion has certainly been the pretense for a lot of war, in the 20th century not even that has been true.  By far the bulk of death in human history has been the result of atheistic communism.  Pagan fascism would be up there too.  The clear connection between these two philosophies is their overweening statism.

Even wars that could be reasonably linked to religion generally aren't fought by priests and nuns, they are fought by governments.  Reduce the role of government, reduce the likelihood of war.

Is it just me or does anyone else think that Wikileaks isn't making the U.S. look so bad.

Nothing I've read so far has been earth-shattering news.  In fact everything seems to confirm all the stereotypes the world has been operating under for quite some time:
-Arab countries are afraid of Iran getting the bomb
-Canada has an inferiority complex
-Berlusconi may be lining his own pocket
-Putin is an 'alpha male'
-one of the Royals behaved rudely
-there is a lot of corruption in the Afghan government
-the Pope is Catholic

The most startling thing to me is that the US gov't is acting so consistently in public and in private.  Sure, the private speech isn't so polite but they're basically saying the same thing in private as in public.

The one thing I thought was a revelation is that the Chinese could be willing to live with a united Korea.  And that just shows the Chinese as more benign than we thought they were.

Oh, the other big surprise was that the most powerful country on the planet can't keep track of its filing system.

Someone could message everybody who has posted a comment (currently 3000+) making them aware of bitcoin.
O.k, who wants to risk losing their Facebook account because of spamming? 

Yeah, I really don't see the advantage of bitcoin over cash for in-person transactions.  I think the killer app is somehow micro-payment related.

So Flanagan expressed regret over his remarks (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/ex-harper-adviser-regrets-glib-call-for-retaliatory-wikileaks-assassination/article1820612/comments/), finally.

But now Assange is saying Flanagan should be charged for incitement to commit murder.

So now is Assange against Flanagan exercising free speech?  What is the libertarian doctrine on this question?

Huh?  If by free you mean 'no cost', it is free I just installed it.  If you mean some particular flavour of open source code, I can't help there.

This is very cool.  Just downloaded it.
However noagenda your French is even worse than you thought... that's Italian.

Maybe you could post the invite to the bitcoin forum you created and we can test it out with you.

Try spending the day with a one-year old.  That might change your mind.

How long does it take to restore a backup on another SMF install?  Can't be that big a job, and Bruce Wagner has setup an SMF board over at his site already.

gavin, at least some of the functionality you're looking for is already available for most major forum packages.

For vBulletin there is the vBCredits mod.  I was trying to achieve some of this functionality, using BTC as the in-forum currency, with this bounty:

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1798.0

That is currently on hold though as a new vB mod with much of what I requested above is in the works and due for release in the coming weeks.

I imagine SMF has something, though it may not be as developed as for vB.  This could be the basis of what you want: http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=65, but if you search you'll probably find something even closer.

I'd prefer the mirror approach too, rather than starting from scratch with something like usenet.  Just so that discussions can be picked up where they were left off.

Even a once daily backup wouldn't be too onerous, would it?