Well here's a crazy idea that even I wouldn't like... bitbills.com could somehow backup the wallets they put onto the cards.
Put an expiration date on the card, say 10 years into the future.
If the card hasn't been imported by that date, bitbills.com can spend those coins.
What's wrong with that?
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That's one way of looking at it. Another way would be to think "Wow if people are willing to give away hundreds of BTC then imagine how much they would be willing to spend!"
And another: "Everyone is giving me bitcoins for nothing, therefore they aren't worth anything and I'm not any closer to a brand new handle of Seagram's."
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To use Bitcoin-OTC, after registering, I just have to authenticate myself by hashing a string with my private key and sending back the output. Bitcoin-OTC will then recognize me because only someone with my unique private key could have created such an output from the initial string. Couldn't other web services do the same, like say, Mt. Gox? Do they not do so because of technical reasons, or is GPG just too hard for some people?
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Sentry, will you open source the code?
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I can understand bitcoin in the Wiktionary, but not Bitcoin.
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And then see Americans celebrate like Palestinians who just killed a Jew... to some point it looks like the West is as much civilized as the Middle East. Celebrate death, even of that "creature", is a synonym of barbarity (Doesn't mean you need to mourn him either).
Is it so wrong to want to be a Klingon?
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I think Osama bin Laden tries to resist. It didn't go well.
I think his bodyguards executed him per his instruction to prevent capture.
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Same here...I was always (initially by default) not entirely opposed to IP, especially since I had worked as a musician/programmer/engineer/teacher/researcher (all industries that currently rely on IP), until I actually worked at an unnamed computer engineering corporation where I was exposed to the reality of the patent system (since I had to review all the gory details of a bunch of patents related to my work), at which point I started to question the whole concept. Naturally I searched google to help understand, and it really only took a couple pages of reading Against Intellectual Property (pdf: mises.org/books/against.pdf which is an argument based primarily on libertarian ethics) and Against Intellectual Monopoly (pdf: micheleboldrin.com/research/aim/anew.all.pdf which is a utilitarian argument so you don't have to be a libertarian in order to follow) for me to become consistently anti-IP. On a side note, Stephan Kinsella's writings also exposed me to the whole Mises and Rothbardian tradition, which led me to fully-embrace anarcho-capitalism. I went the other way. I began to see politicians, landlords, employers, and the like taking advantage of honest workers just like how I previously only saw IP rights-holders doing. And so I so I abandoned (American) libertarianism for anarchism.
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Can you make a BitSphere?
That made me think of an EcoSphere.
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Very cool. I'd be interested.
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Hey man, I was just born here.
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But seriously, if the US government was genuinely interested in having people believe the veracity of their claim, then think of how easy it would have been for the US to have invited reporters from all major news outlets (US and international agencies such as guardian, rt, al jazerra, xinhua, pakistan times, etc.) to the burial to see the dead body. Trust but verify.
Geraldo did something like that once. It didn't work out so good.
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I may be totally wrong but isn't the "property is theft" idea central to left anarchists? If so then why would they even need the tool of money if everyone is obligated to share what they produce? Some anarchists, like communist anarchists, oppose money while mutualist and individualist anarchists do not, at least, not necessarily. In fact, Proudhon, who coined the phrase, advocated the use of mutual banks to strengthen the working class and to help bring about anarchy.
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So the site would have to only show the pool size and not the actual bets. Very interesting, conceptually, of course, and also because I'm in the middle of a game of assassin with a few friends.
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How does the hit-man accept the award without implicating himself or tipping off the target?
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If you give jarly your email address he can "send" the game there---meaning you'll get an email with a code you can use to accept the game on Steam. Since you can send even to non-Steam users, the email will have redemption instructions included. Until you actually accept the gift there is a chance he could "double spend," so to speak, so you'd want to do so as soon as possible. (This is a "feature not a bug" in that if you give a gift to someone who doesn't want it, at least you can take it back and give it to someone else.)
Or, if you become jarly's friend on Steam, he can send you the game directly and it will appear in the list of games you own.
Note that reselling Steam games may be against the ToS. So it's probably a good idea to keep your discussion to PM and email instead of, say, Steam chat.
Thanks for the explanation, SunAvatar.
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where's the "who cares" option? I read somewhere that an agree or disagree answer registers as "I don't care". I think you have to strongly agree or disagree to affect your score.
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