for gold to resume its role as a currency Armageddon would have to result with obliteration of electricity and of the internet. absent that, Bitcoin will win. i'm not so dour on our future prospects.
In that scenario - bullets and bottles of strong liquor make a better currency than gold. Gold - I don't know why anyone really cares about it, I honestly think the majority of its value comes from the old folk and their old thinking My generation will refuse to inherit all the problems of the current worlds financial systems (fiat, etc) and will easily recognize the value of something like bitcoin and brainwallets over gold. Silver is still cheap enough and has enough industrial purpose to keep my interest at the moment. In an armageddon-like scenario with internet-breakdown cigarettes beat both gold and bitcoin. Unless the world somehow turns into a prison, I'm guessing that local food stuffs will be better than cigarettes, but yeah point taken. |
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Yeah not bad, but if i had to guess next big one adopter i would pick Kim Dotcom and his new Mega.
That would be arguably larger than wordpress |
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No one wants to snap up my leftover btc on gox at 12.25. Hurry up bulls.
No. I can get it for less on Virtex Virtex been hacked a few times yet? It aint a real exchange until it has been owned a few times. Pfft. Amateur. ;-) They are truly a success story so far. Based on volume and their fees they are doing about 6k month. Not sure how much it costs to run a site like that but I hope they are doing ok. With the API coming they should see more volume and spreads should tighten as bot arbing between Gox becomes a possibility. Fees are a bit exorbitant unfortunately. |
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For those of you who hold bitcoin as a currency investment, what is your strategy... or at what price will you cash out? ...or, what year
They're all waiting for the price to go over $3000 FTFY |
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Why is everyone so surprised at legalization of weed? This has been coming for a long time. Even my mother-in-law in Washington voted for legalization. The real question is "why was it ever illegal?"
The point is that the rest of the world thinks our politics are so hilariously terrible that they find it shocking we are able to be rational about anything (I myself am shocked). |
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When did this thread devolve into a red scare circle jerk   |
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Topsy data doesnt look terribly impressive thus far actually.  This is twitter only as well |
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There is a significant delay on this data (24-48 hours is my guess)whereas topsy appears to be much lowered lag time... trying to get access to a free trial there now... |
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that doesn't look like a secret to me. and what's with the *.1 ?  There are some secrets left, from what i read on forums. More announcements soon (hopefully).  Which forums? I'm guessing reddit... |
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I call bullshit on that commercial. Killing old people is totally irrelavent to sustainable development. Despite what some nuts might think, the population is fine. It's just how we use our resources which is at issue.
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It was just one indicator out of 4 that said there could be a huge upside coming. I don't blindly follow anyone, but definitely utilize sentiment when making my decisions.
I sincerely hope you did not make that up. You have to have at least the majority of hard data to make decisions and never trust a chart unless you made it yourself.  Nope, I didnt make it up and I dont make the charts myself. I am somewhat glad I dont have the technical expertise to do it either. Just pay people that want to spend the time to do it for me. That's bad. Subscription services fail during key events, on purpose. You know lemmings and all that. I know I probably won't convince you of that you'd have to learn it yourself. If I'm wrong: Be glad. It's bad if you blindly follow one, yes you are right. But using multiple is a bit of a safeguard against such a situation and can provide nice opportunities that you dont see yourself (like right now). |
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Consensus is difficult enough to get working within the context of people who live together in cohousing/ intentional community. Within the scope of a society, its lunacy. Maybe you are searching for another term?
I can start with simple example - there is a need to patch the road shared by 10 families in the neighborhood, nobody else uses that road (so they don't really care) and there is no central authority to call for. How would those families achieve consensus of who does what and who pays what. It could be that one good guy just goes ahead and fixes it for everybody to benefit from it, but if that doesn't happen there needs to be a reliable mechanism to achieve consensus. The only reliable mechanism for consensus is training and alot of dedicated work. A casual mechanism that you speak of is frankly impossible. In reality in order to make a decision, someone's opinion will always be overridden... (often for good reason...) Yes, as I've already pointed out people have a choice to accept the result of the vote even if they disagree and stay within the community if benefits of staying out-weight the downsides of the vote or leave and search for better life. Spending a lot of time to achieve consensus is also an option but it might end up in an infinite loop with circular arguments and nothing will ever get done. Ok - well thats not consensus then. I dont know what your system is, but definitions are important. |
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It was just one indicator out of 4 that said there could be a huge upside coming. I don't blindly follow anyone, but definitely utilize sentiment when making my decisions.
I sincerely hope you did not make that up. You have to have at least the majority of hard data to make decisions and never trust a chart unless you made it yourself. Nope, I didnt make it up and I dont make the charts myself. I am somewhat glad I dont have the technical expertise to do it either. Just pay people that want to spend the time to do it for me. |
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You guys are being brutal to Ken for offering some (albeit nebulous) quite helpful advice. Don't hate him because you didn't follow it.
Not really, I don't hate him but I think he's a jerk because his prediction was just for bragging. Maybe for you it was Well if I have learned anything from speculating it is that you don't act on what others are saying because sooner or later you will get trolled. I had to learn this the hard way, and at some point if you don't develop your own technique you gonna learn your lesson too. Sooner or later. It was just one indicator out of 4 that said there could be a huge upside coming. I don't blindly follow anyone, but definitely utilize sentiment when making my decisions. |
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You guys are being brutal to Ken for offering some (albeit nebulous) quite helpful advice. Don't hate him because you didn't follow it.
Not really, I don't hate him but I think he's a jerk because his prediction was just for bragging. Maybe for you it was |
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Consensus is difficult enough to get working within the context of people who live together in cohousing/ intentional community. Within the scope of a society, its lunacy. Maybe you are searching for another term?
I can start with simple example - there is a need to patch the road shared by 10 families in the neighborhood, nobody else uses that road (so they don't really care) and there is no central authority to call for. How would those families achieve consensus of who does what and who pays what. It could be that one good guy just goes ahead and fixes it for everybody to benefit from it, but if that doesn't happen there needs to be a reliable mechanism to achieve consensus. The only reliable mechanism for consensus is training and alot of dedicated work. A casual mechanism that you speak of is frankly impossible. In reality in order to make a decision, someone's opinion will always be overridden... (often for good reason...) |
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You guys are being brutal to Ken for offering some (albeit nebulous) quite helpful advice. Don't hate him because you didn't follow it.
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damn it feels good to have been all in under 11.
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Consensus is difficult enough to get working within the context of people who live together in cohousing/ intentional community. Within the scope of a society, its lunacy. Maybe you are searching for another term?
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