Their code have been so buggy in the past, I would much rather wait until all the holes are wrinkled out. I am not a early adopter of any new software. I have enough complexity in real life and time is money. Let the beta testers do their work and I will follow in their footsteps. ^smile^

The early bird, do not always catch the first worm in most of these upgrades.

Bitcoin was not designed to be fully anonymous and to circumvent measures to track criminal activities. Liberty Reserve on the other hand, was designed for that purpose and it moved it's operation, when things started to heat up. They were doomed to failure from the start. <Centralization>

Bitcoin still has some anonymity, just as cash have a certain degree of anonymity too. You could still track a lot of movement, if services were targeted with a subpoena to reveal the data. 

This is just a conspiracy theory, but I think Gavin wants to force a hard fork, to see if the Core team can handle this
scenario. They themselves said, "We do not want to hard-fork, because of a lack of experience" Is this a test, to discredit the Core developers? The Core team avoided a hard fork by all means, and Gavin knows this.

It would definitely test their resolve, if a forced hard-fork are engineered by the Gavinoids.    

I am very happy about this move and were advocating for bitcoin prizes in commercial tournaments for a while now. This might just be the one thing that could launch Bitcoin into the mainstream gaming environment. A lot of players might not have even heard of Bitcoin and could investigate further, if it was offered as a prize.

A big kudos goes out to these guys for doing this. I hope this gets supported by other Bitcoin companies like Coinbase and BitPay and a lot more ^cough^

The AV will not stop a hacker, if he has remote access to your computer or server via a backdoor. They will exploit that and just encrypt your data. We used to do that in a class room environment at school <many years ago> and we used a simply encryption in Pkzip. <Just backup and password protect the zip file and delete the data>

It was mostly for fun to get some extra food for lunch. The data was usually homework that was done by the students. We got caught and we got a massive hiding, which ended our hacking extortion scheme and cut off our extra food.   

The revolution is over, the capitalists have hijacked the revolution with their greed and bags of money. You looking for stuff like this, http://dubwreckerz.com/blog/2014/02/08/max-keiser-bitcoin-revolution-dubstep/ We should shake the stigma attached to the revolutionary vision of the Libertarians and the Anarchists associated with Bitcoin.

We should now focus on educating the people on the bigger problem. Bitcoin or Blockchain technology being used for financial gain by banks and developers. 

This is just a adoption issue and a lot of negative press. You should suggest to them to use a payment processor like Bitpay, if they want fiat in return. Most people are simply lazy and/or scared of the unknown. <Learning something new> Why not just accept the fiat and buy your own bitcoins?

If you want to do it anonymously with BTC, you are barking up the wrong tree. Bitcoin in the hands of newbies are not anonymous. 

Ethereum is more geared towards smart contracts and I think Ripple will be the replacement for fiat in the banking sector in the future. These institutions will want to move forward with a technology they are comfortable with and people they have built a relationship with.

Bitcoin have too much uncertainties and it will stay the currency for the people. We are going to see some nasty competition coming from ETH and Ripple on both fronts.

He will respond in 3 months, after he has been interrogated by die police and secret services and the IRS and then all the mainstream media, who will finish him off, after the authorities are done with him. The banks will also send him some hate mail and the lawyers from Western Union and MoneyGram will want to have a word with him.

Let us just hope he was not kidnapped before that, by some crazy Bitcoin fanatic with a lust for his 1 000 000 coins. 

How about adding a interactive chat option, where the people can motivate each other to make more donations. Some encouragement is needed for some people to get quicker results. There will always be the hero account guy, who will splash a lot of dough to get some attention. ^smile^

You might also consider some sort of off-chain service provider with instant transaction confirmation for the people who simply cannot wait. You cannot in this day and age expect people to wait for 6 confirmations before they get satisfaction and value for their money.

The people using these services will be the premium users and they will be in the express queue. You could use these service to validate the contributors, because most of these services have their own validation requirements. 

How do you manage to fund the referral network? Your cut must be good for you to do that. I just took a peak out of curiosity and it's pretty good in comparison to other sites. I saw one girl on another site, got a 8 BTC tip in one session. That must be one huge whale dumping that amount of money on webcam girls.

What kind of turn over do you see from girls coming in and out of your service? Do they stay once they joined up or do they move a lot?

Free Porn is everywhere these days, and I think most people are getting onto this kind of business model for these type of sites. The advertisement income would also be huge, if the site gets enough hits. ^smile^

Not to worry, Gavin the knight on the white horse has just introduced his latest Bip proposal for a 2MB block size hard fork and will most probably be the savior of Bitcoin. He also has his eye on the throne and cannot wait for the King to die.

He will surround himself with his fellow knights, Sir Mike Hearn and Sir Long and they will live happily ever after. How does that sound? All our scalability issues will be a thing of the past. ^ffs^

After Gavin's latest Bip proposal for a 2MB block size upgrade, I would bet a lot of people will jump in that direction because it is the popular choice and we will see a block size increase before the halving. This little patch can have dire consequences in the future for the political shift it might develop.

You cannot put Band-aid on a gunshot wound and tell people the patient will survive. The doctor will get paid, but the patient might just die. I guess it is all about the power.

I think Satoshi is hitting himself with a hammer at this moment. You have huge banks fighting over his intellectual property rights and they are using the Blockchain to their advantage now. I think he predicted some of this, when Gavin ran to the CIA and he saw what direction this was going towards.

Now Gavin are trying another approach to get control by spamming the community with Bip proposals that adds little value other than increasing the block size to 2MB. How much work did that take?

Another power grab from a desperate developer that might just work, if he play the fiddle in the right manner. The trolls with the limited knowledge will jump onto this proposal without considering the possible consequences. We are driving around with a bus that are 50% to capacity and we are already calling for a double decker replacement.

The Core developers have put a lot of thought into SegWit and scaling for the future and loads of other advantages and we just want to take the first proposal, because we were told the 2 MB Block size increase would be the Nirvana.  

If one person owns a mining farm, they have a definite advantage over the person who runs a small operation from his basement. This will be a very difficult thing to implement, because people will just use Virtual machines to bump their votes, like the Bitcoin XT guys did to influence the node statistics.

The Blockchain could help to identify individual identities and then we could possibly have a more fair voting system. 

Tell me what other commodity or currency are not being manipulated in some way, and I will feel guilty about the manipulation that takes place in Bitcoin. You have whales in most sectors of the economy and they will shift their weight and manipulate the commodities in a way that suite their investment portfolio.

I know of maize farmers who keep maize back from the markets to influence the price, until they are ready to sell. No matter if there are droughts or food shortages, they still do it.  

I invested a lot of time into building a good referral network for about 3 good faucets. I seldom use it myself, but if I am watching television and I remember to use it, I will solve a Captha or two. I get about 30k Satoshi per day from the referrals, but I have seen a significant decline over the holiday seasons. < I guess people do other things >

I accumulate all these earnings into a separate address from my main accounts to prevent dust and higher fees. It is fun to watch the passive income total grow, without me having to lift a finger. ^smile^

Once this has grown into something with some value, I would run it through some mixers and use it for something with a higher profit potential or just gamble it for fun. ^smile^   

I have gone through the whole thread and what I picked up was that Sports betting seems to be the most profitable and enjoyed game being played by the users. If I had to take a guess, I would say it has something to do with the gambling operators not having much control over the outcome of these bets.

The other options can be electronically manipulated in favor of the gambling operator, but the sport betting is more in favor of the gambler. If you know your sport, you might actually have a chance at beating the house. 

The Core team have made huge strides in improving the communication with all role-players. They created a platform to provide detailed information to the uninformed / non-technical people in the easiest possible form and they also created a platform for the more technical users and developers.

The Twitter feeds gives updated feedback to both groups in the social media and they can concentrate on the development. These guys are not attention whores, like some of the other developers we have had before, who just want media exposure.

They get into the engine room and they spend their time developing the best solution for the technology. That is what we expect of them, and then once that is done, they report back on the results. Stop attacking them, and let them concentrate on what is more important. <The Code>