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121  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: -- The Riddle of the Twin Brothers - Who Were, Are and Will Rule the World! on: April 16, 2014, 12:13:10 AM
CNBC pumping BTC:  http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000267349
122  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: -- The Riddle of the Twin Brothers - Who Were, Are and Will Rule the World! on: April 14, 2014, 05:43:08 AM
This in response to your latest idea, Life Shares.

I'd thought of something similar a couple months ago. I can definitely see something like this happening. You could tie college funds, health insurance, etc into it as well. Hell, with the debt based fiat monetary system we already have a rough outline of the Life Shares plan, the bankers just don't have micro control over people's lives. Tie this in with Agenda 21 (poopulation control and climate change) and it isn't any stretch to see that this idea could easily happen. I reckon it will first start with famous media and sports personalities...who wouldn't like to be able to invest in say, a young Jay Z or Peyton Manning. Obamacoins would've been an awesome bubble. The price would have been overinflated from the start and blind devotion by his followers would have ensured they stayed that way, lmao. With regards to VeriChip, there are other technologies you might want to keep an eye on: one is a pill that you take which is activated and powered by stomach acid the purpose of which is to act as authentication for devices such as phones, etc the pill sends out an encrypted signal ( think NFC ) that  is used to automatically log you in to your devices. There are also a couple different electronic tattoos being developed (one by Google that is located on the throat and will be used , in part, as a microphone. I think that it is just a matter of time before they figure a way to use DNA as ID on a mass scale.
123  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: -- The Riddle of the Twin Brothers - Who Were, Are and Will Rule the World! on: April 12, 2014, 07:00:35 AM
This is huge: http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-core-developers-bitcoin-side-chains/
124  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: -- The Riddle of the Twin Brothers - Who Were, Are and Will Rule the World! on: April 12, 2014, 06:57:37 AM
Gee, this ain't obvious:  John Betts, a former Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs executive who would serve as the new Mt. Gox CEO.... http://www.coindesk.com/investor-group-offers-buy-mt-gox-one-bitcoin/
125  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Qt Bitcoin Trader [Open Source secure trading client for Mac/Windows/Linux] on: April 10, 2014, 06:41:16 AM
I don't use bitfinex.  I use bitstamp.  And I checked all the options.  But I cant change them after I make the api.  

Sorry, mistyped, I mean bitstamp. Please wait a little, I'll release update. If issut will still persist, than contact me again.

I downloaded the new version, recreated new keys.  Still have the same error.
it must be a bitstamp issue.  In the upper left corner it says login: offline.  I'm logged in thru the site.



I had to make new API key for Bitstamp after they went offline the other day. The first time I tried I forgot to activate the keys after generating them. Double check your key to make sure it has been activated.
126  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: -- The Riddle of the Twin Brothers - Who Were, Are and Will Rule the World! on: April 10, 2014, 06:24:24 AM
I think everyone here knows how this story ends.

Cryptocurrencies are going to get mass adoption quick

http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/24409233-piperjaff/2807053-we-are-on-the-verge-of-bitcoin-mass-adoption
http://gigaom.com/2014/04/04/this-week-in-bitcoin-the-push-to-get-the-currency-in-the-hands-of-the-consumer/
127  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: -- The Riddle of the Twin Brothers - Who Were, Are and Will Rule the World! on: April 10, 2014, 06:08:38 AM
This is getting out of control: http://www.coindesk.com/the-europas-digital-currency-category-2014-tech-awards/  Seriously? What's next, an Oscar for best altcoin? And the nominees for best new scrypt based shitcoin are.....By 2016 they will be trying to award Satoshi a Nobel.


Hmmmm, bitcoin uses too much energy for POW....Solution? Changing the bitcoin code http://www.coindesk.com/greener-bitcoin-reduce-carbon-emissions/

This is huge: http://www.coindesk.com/french-retail-chain-monoprix-accept-bitcoin-payments-year/  Monoprix sounds like a smaller French version of Walmart. With 300 stores and an internet presence it will be interesting to see what other similar type companies jump on btc and when.

And finally: Congressman "Stockman’s proposal recognizes bitcoin and other digital currencies as legal tender." If this bill passes....holey doodoo. http://www.coindesk.com/us-congressman-submit-bitcoin-tax-bill/
128  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: -- The Riddle of the Twin Brothers - Who Were, Are and Will Rule the World! on: April 10, 2014, 05:44:13 AM
I don't think Gavin is stepping down from anything. It is my understanding that way back in the early days of bitcoin when Satoshi was still involved, Gavin arranged a meeting with the CIA about bitcoin, allegedly to explain to them what it was so that they didn't get all freaked out about it. It was immediately after Gavin told Satoshi about the meeting that Satoshi disappeared. This may not be true, it is simply what I recall reading somewhere (insert link here if anyone has a source for this). If this is in fact true, then it seems to me that what is really happening is Gavin is being positioned for something bigger, i.e. as a full time govt controlled spokesman and ambassador. Undoubtedly the new lead dev is a govt man - or will be soon. Meetings with the CFR? He is absolutely in their pocket. Mark my words: you have not seen the last of Gavin.   "Andresen, who was responsible for maintaining the core code that underpins the bitcoin ecosystem, said he was taking a step back to focus on broader bitcoin issues as Chief Scientist of the Bitcoin Foundation, the body that standardizes, protects and promotes the use of bitcoin across the globe." Gavin will emerge as the lead govt voice for bitcoin now that he is free from the mundane duties of coding. What happened in that first meeting with the CIA? They offered him a drink and when he awoke they were fixing to waterboard his ass. Or something. It wouldn't surprise me if they did a Manchurian Candidate type of thing to him.

129  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: -- The Riddle of the Twin Brothers - Who Were, Are and Will Rule the World! on: April 08, 2014, 08:21:01 PM

They didn't  send you a voting ballot to fill out? Did you forget to fill out voter registration? hahaha
130  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: -- The Riddle of the Twin Brothers - Who Were, Are and Will Rule the World! on: April 08, 2014, 06:46:45 PM
What are your thoughts about this?
http://www.coindesk.com/gavin-andresen-steps-bitcoins-lead-developer/
131  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: -- The Riddle of the Twin Brothers - Who Were, Are and Will Rule the World! on: April 08, 2014, 07:07:54 AM

Well, now much longer before the voting closes?

And does anyone have any idea who is behind this? 

I'm the conspiracy guy around here but I really don't know who this is.  I would guess it's the stealth hedge fund who has been accumulating iXcoin for the past year but there's zero proof of that.


Follow the money.
132  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: -- The Riddle of the Twin Brothers - Who Were, Are and Will Rule the World! on: April 08, 2014, 06:30:43 AM
About 2.89105 BTC for votes

If I am looking at this right, one address voted four times for a total of about 1.44XBT. That same address sent XBT to another address that also voted for a total of 1.11925XBT.

It appears that someone is seriously trying to get it listed.
133  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: -- The Riddle of the Twin Brothers - Who Were, Are and Will Rule the World! on: April 05, 2014, 05:14:10 AM
"...a trio of lawyers, and two entrepreneurs have banded together — very similar to the Justice League — to be advocates for cryptocurrency users across the world. The name of this group is the Digital Asset Transfer Authority (DATA)..." http://bitcoinmagazine.com/11971/data-series-interview-edan-yago-ceo-epiphyte/


Interesting. 

There's no money in being advocates so I wonder who's behind them [paying the bills and pulling their strings].

Either way, I guess this is a good thing for cryptos.  For now at least.

The name of the group sounds governmental: Digital Asset Transfer Authority. I have a severe allergy to that word authority...
134  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: -- The Riddle of the Twin Brothers - Who Were, Are and Will Rule the World! on: April 05, 2014, 05:09:23 AM
"A Kremlin aide was quoted on Tuesday as saying that if the United States were to impose sanctions on Russia over Ukraine, Moscow might be forced to drop the dollar as a reserve currency and refuse to pay off any loans to U.S. banks." http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/03/04/ukraine-crisis-russia-us-idINDEEA2305J20140304

Gee, I wonder what the effect of THAT would be....
I said last year that I expected the dollar to be dead [and swapped out for a Crypto] by the end of next year [9/2015] but I still can't figure out the catalysts which they will use as an excuse to kill the already dead dollar.

Here is an idea...
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/11337/hold-bitcoins-april-8-2014-might-defining-moment-bitcoin-history/

Doesn't matter. Bitcoin is considered property now, not currency

It is considered property by the I.R.S.

Correct, and most likely temporary, but being that we have very thin clarification otherwise, this is the standard I, and many other, are going by right now

It will be interesting to see how it plays out. I don't think taxing it as property will work for very long.
135  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: -- The Riddle of the Twin Brothers - Who Were, Are and Will Rule the World! on: April 05, 2014, 05:05:46 AM
"...if people get tied to their Bitcoin addresses, as might be more easily done ... if they need to do a full reporting on their Bitcoin activities in order to pay their taxes..."  http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/04/04/stuff-venture-capitalists-say-about-bitcoin-libertarians-are-going-to-hate-it/
136  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: -- The Riddle of the Twin Brothers - Who Were, Are and Will Rule the World! on: April 04, 2014, 11:33:49 PM
"...a trio of lawyers, and two entrepreneurs have banded together — very similar to the Justice League — to be advocates for cryptocurrency users across the world. The name of this group is the Digital Asset Transfer Authority (DATA)..." http://bitcoinmagazine.com/11971/data-series-interview-edan-yago-ceo-epiphyte/
137  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: -- The Riddle of the Twin Brothers - Who Were, Are and Will Rule the World! on: April 04, 2014, 11:29:25 PM
"A Kremlin aide was quoted on Tuesday as saying that if the United States were to impose sanctions on Russia over Ukraine, Moscow might be forced to drop the dollar as a reserve currency and refuse to pay off any loans to U.S. banks." http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/03/04/ukraine-crisis-russia-us-idINDEEA2305J20140304

Gee, I wonder what the effect of THAT would be....
I said last year that I expected the dollar to be dead [and swapped out for a Crypto] by the end of next year [9/2015] but I still can't figure out the catalysts which they will use as an excuse to kill the already dead dollar.

Here is an idea...
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/11337/hold-bitcoins-april-8-2014-might-defining-moment-bitcoin-history/

Doesn't matter. Bitcoin is considered property now, not currency

It is considered property by the I.R.S.
138  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Name something you've actually BOUGHT with bitcoin on: April 02, 2014, 07:43:34 AM
Hotel rooms and gasoline.
139  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: -- The Riddle of the Twin Brothers - Who Were, Are and Will Rule the World! on: April 01, 2014, 08:34:00 PM


I suspect as Obama hinted that Russia isn't as strong as they are made out to be. China and The USA are the two biggest players.

Russia is stronger than people think. According to Wikipedia: 'Russia is world's largest natural gas reserves, 8th largest oil reserves, 2nd largest coal reserves, world's leading natural gas exporter and second largest natural gas producer, largest oil exporter and the largest oil producer, 3rd largest electricity producer in the world and the 5th largest renewable energy producer, third largest grain exporter, 8th largest economy in the world by nominal GDP and the 6th largest by purchasing power parity,Russia is considered well ahead of most other resource-rich countries in its economic development, with a long tradition of education, science, and industry,higher proportion of higher education graduates than any other country in Eurasia,second most attractive personal tax system for single managers in the world after the United Arab Emirates, largest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the world,  second largest fleet of ballistic missile submarines and is the only country apart from the United States with a modern strategic bomber force, Russia's tank force is the largest in the world, its surface navy and air force are among the largest ones.' Europe relies to a large degree on Russian energy (russia doesn't need europe's money but europe needs russia's energy), Russia has one of the lowest national foreign debts, and most importantly: they have Putin. This guy just took Crimea without a fight, beat up PussyRiot on intl TV, and has basically told Obama to go screw himself with his sanctions (as in, we will quit using USD as reserve currency AND refuse to pay USD debts). Russia is a monster that is only getting stronger. Combine this with the ineptness of UN armed forces and the continued drawdown of US forces worldwide...Russia is emerging as THE superpower of the 21st century.

China has the potential of a billion people but lacks the military, technological know how, and energy resources to pose any real challenge to the US at this moment in time. This could change incredibly fast and most likely will. The Chinese are shrewd. If they can avoid destroying themselves as they industrialize, China will be a force to be reckoned with.

As far as the US goes...it is infected with a plague of idiots going all the way to the top. America is a Philosophical wasteland (as in, the Philosophy of the nation as a whole and the individual people). 

I do agree with you about where it ultimately leads.


140  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: -- The Riddle of the Twin Brothers - Who Were, Are and Will Rule the World! on: April 01, 2014, 07:42:35 PM
                 


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