Most people who buy these are greedy and will go to LBC or elsewhere and get at least 10% off. Wrong section. Should be in digital goods, where you would find more interested  Didn't see that section on the main page. Anyway, moved, thanks. Yea I mean I'm not going to take a big loss like that. Ill just stick them on my own account if push comes to shove. |
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A person can only explain so many times why an idea is not true- eventually to keep the page reasonable some have to be blocked. When I went on and on for hours repeating some nonsense as a kid my mother would finally have enough of it and slap me silly. Unfortunately we can't do the same for people on web sites so the next best thing is to block them
What if you tell your mom over and over to stop smocking crack? Would she be right to slap you silly? The banning on reddit lacked the same perspective. Sierra Club in Senate committee meeting CANNOT EVEN ANSWER QUESTIONS on global warming. This is rather amazing as public testimony. https://youtu.be/Sl9-tY1oZNwI would particularly like to hear comments from people that do believe Earth is heating up and we are the evil villians on this testimony. On the surface, it simply appears to make NO SENSE. Mr. Mair are you familiar with the concept of a "turing test". Because Mr. Mair, at this time, you appear to be failing it. Let me preface my comment below by noting that I AM NOT in favor of racial segregation, nor of having marihuana illegal, nor of criminalizing sexual behavior if consensual. However I have heard, reasoned, rational arguments for each of these points of view. Mair does not seem to even have an argument. Anyone on this forum could out argue him. Now I would make one analogy. Haven't we seen similar behavior on this thread, where Warmer afficionados would make an assertion, make it again, make it again, then vanish, never really addressing the issues? Very strange. Just because everyones in it doesn't mean it isn't a cult.  |
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You can buy them from gyft.com for 97% of face value and gyft cards really can't be any more legit....
Thanks. Ill lower the price. Maybe I can get face * 0.98 because someone doesn't want to deal with points. You have to buy more than one gift card inorder to claim that 3% savings. |
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A person can only explain so many times why an idea is not true- eventually to keep the page reasonable some have to be blocked. When I went on and on for hours repeating some nonsense as a kid my mother would finally have enough of it and slap me silly. Unfortunately we can't do the same for people on web sites so the next best thing is to block them
What if you tell your mom over and over to stop smocking crack? Would she be right to slap you silly? The banning on reddit lacked the same perspective. Sierra Club in Senate committee meeting CANNOT EVEN ANSWER QUESTIONS on global warming. This is rather amazing as public testimony. https://youtu.be/Sl9-tY1oZNwI would particularly like to hear comments from people that do believe Earth is heating up and we are the evil villians on this testimony. On the surface, it simply appears to make NO SENSE. Mr. Mair are you familiar with the concept of a "turing test". Because Mr. Mair, at this time, you appear to be failing it. |
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Just so you guys know, I'm from the xmr community and I have icebreaker on ignore too. |
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So basically India just mandated that they operate in the stone age. Good job. Does this mean that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are basically illegal there now? If they ever ask for a copy, print it out on physical paper using a dot matrix printer and then hand it to them. |
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Funded already, great work guys and thanks to everyone who donated! I love this. Pick anything useful, anything at all, that you can do for the community and you can get paid. Such a cool community. |
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Ok, let me take a break and re-read this thread and see if I can make more sense of what you are saying.
It's completely wrong. There is no nodes, there is no even time (transactions don't have timestamps), there is only work measured in hashes and conflicts are resolved by prioritizing variants having more PoW. There have to be nodes. There have to be people listening for and forwarding transactions. Maintaining an internal model of the state of the network and forwarding its observations to those who request it. |
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Just right now many of the people are distracted with football and other crap our society considers "important".
If you gamble, you hardly need society to tell you that football's important  But yeah, most people don't care until the problem is right in front of them--so count yourself lucky that you got the foresight gene. I don't think its a foresight gene. Normal people have a bias towards believing things that are convenient and disbelieving things that are inconvenient. People like us have some sort of resistance towards that particular bias. If anything, that is what our gene is I think. I my self have never been more or less inclined to believe something just because it was convenient or inconvenient. I credit that more than anything with getting to where I am today. |
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I doubt its worth it on a 1/10th ounce gold coin unless you have particular extenuating circumstances. Let me give example. Say your gold coin is worth 100 dollars, and shipping in a box with insurance is 10 dollars instead of the 49 cents it would have been standard post. In this situation you would need to have > ~9.5% chance for the letter to be lost inorder to make insurance an net positive expected ROI. Those are just rough numbers, but I think it illustrates the principal which makes it the case that it will be highly unlikely that insurance will have a net positive expected ROI.
Aside from protecting you legally in the event a package goes missing, insurance is also something you can advertise and it will boost sales. Some people will decide not to use your service if packages are uninsured. It will be $16 for priority shipping + $5000 of insurance ($12 for $100 of insurance + priority), including both legs of the journey, and this cost goes entirely to the participants in a trade. It doesn't matter who pays it. Its all just moving numbers around. If acquiring 1/10th of an ounce of gold costs 12 dollars more than it otherwise would have, than there is the potential that people wont want to use the service for that reason also. They dont care if they have to pay that money to the post office or to me in the form of bitcoin. Its all just a cost. In order to justify 12 dollars on insurance you have to have >12% chance that a gold coin worth 100 dollars will be lost. Else its a losing proposition. Now once you get into bigger orders definitely. At like 1/2 ounce im sure it becomes worth it. But i dont have to enforce that. If a senders gold gets lost on the way to me he doesnt get bitcoins because i have no way of knowing he really sent it. So he is incentivized to make the right choice for him. And similarly the buyer can pay for any kind of shipping he wants by just sending me the bitcoins that it costs. I have no problem with that at all. |
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How is this better than a straight up escrow? You take 2x the chances of a shipping issue. Why not use an escrow to hold coins while the other party ships. Also it requires 2x the trust of the escrow here.
what pilot said as far as increased shipping risk. yea that's pretty unfortunate. hopefully the service is still useful to some people despite this. Insurance is absolutely essential on both legs of the journey for liability mitigation. It is quite cheap so I think you should make it mandatory https://about.usps.com/publications/pub370/pub370_010.htmInsurance claims are an arduous process, so you need to have some protocol in place for what happens if there is a claim and require both parties to agree to the rules before initiating a trade. I doubt its worth it on a 1/10th ounce gold coin unless you have particular extenuating circumstances. Let me give example. Say your gold coin is worth 100 dollars, and shipping in a box with insurance is 10 dollars instead of the 49 cents it would have been standard post. In this situation you would need to have > ~9.5% chance for the letter to be lost inorder to make insurance an net positive expected ROI. Those are just rough numbers, but I think it illustrates the principal which makes it the case that it will be highly unlikely that insurance will have a net positive expected ROI. |
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LOL, it is not about innovation, nor features. In the long term you need the masses. Monero had a great team and well that's it. Newcomers can do much better.
So much time passed but no broad acceptance... just think..
Current price is a great price to sell, which I did.
No hate intented, just being honest.
Mass acceptance would be nice, but if the devs wanted that they would have released an official gui. Obviously they dont want this. Until they do its fair to think of this project as being in beta. Its a little unfair to call it on not achieving mass acceptance before anyone has even tried to push for that. Some other amazing crypto currency that hasn't been invented yet but will be in the future also hasnt achieved mass acceptance yet, should we call it dead too? |
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How is this better than a straight up escrow? You take 2x the chances of a shipping issue. Why not use an escrow to hold coins while the other party ships. Also it requires 2x the trust of the escrow here.
what pilot said as far as increased shipping risk. yea that's pretty unfortunate. hopefully the service is still useful to some people despite this. |
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I will do some research on which purity test is the most accurate and affordable and post it here later. I am very interested in seeing this market succeed and I plan on doing alot of business through it, this will be huge as long as proper precautions are taken.
Yes both will be sending to me and and I will be forwarding along after performing quality control. Yes please do let me know what you find. I have been wanting to buy an ultrasonic thickness gauge which is pretty foolproof and works great with thick bars. I'm not sure how well it would work with 1/10th ounce. Also as far as conductivity is concerned, im not sure, but i dont think you would get a different reading in terms of conductivity with thick gold plate tungsten core vs solid gold. I think the current would simply take the path of least resistance around the core. *edit* can you find any examples of fake 1/10th ounce gold coins on the internet. like a video with someone showing one or some good pictures and a convincing story. im having a hard time finding evidence that such a thing even exists. And if there are, as a bonus, can you find any example of one that would have conformed properly to all specifications? (besides gold content ) |
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How does a technology like MaidSAFE play into some of these decentralized mesh-networking ideas? It sounds like they a pretty killer technology? Full disclosure I own a few MaidSafe coins (tho not anywhere near as much as I have invested in BTC or XMR)
Last time I checked, one big problem with maidsafe is that it treats data transmission and storage as a homogeneous service when this is simply not the case. Transmitting across the north korean boarder for example is a very very different service than transmitting from one apartment to the next in new york city. Additionally storing data in Timbuktu is not as useful to most people as storing it in los angales. So an efficient market would have different prices that accounted for all of the nuances of these different scenarios. Maidsafe treats these all the same. Its decentralized in some ways but weirdly centralized in others, in terms of a single centrally developed algorythm that routes traffic and assigns storage locations. Very different from a network of freely associated node entrepreneurs responding to price signals sent by the demands of consumers. But take all that with a grain of salt. I am NOT a maidsafe expert. I would love to hear that they have solved all this since the last time i dug in which was pretty early in the project. *edit* though maidsafe seems like it might be a great thing to layer ontop of a meshnet inorder to get many of the benefits they claim i.e. privacy and data redundancy and decentralized storage fault tolerance. |
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