Mind which school of textual criticism you buy your ideology from. Jesus  existence is widely considered the scholarly position, identifying certain non-existence claimants as agenda driven. The historicity and veracity of the biblical texts is the benchmark by which all others are measured, being orders of magnitude more widely published and accurately preserved.

Think about it.. at the time of Jesus birth, death, burial and resurrection, the most unique events of his life and their meanings had been prophesied, written, authenticated (by being bundled with prophecies which had previously been fulfilled), canonized, massively distributed, and memorized by Israelite students for generations. Many did recognize him for who he was. Many did not. Nicodemus nearly missed the boat, he had much to lose if he chose to believe, but came through in the end.

Faith in the Jesus as the long-prophesied Messiah is often a test of character in and of itself. In some countries it's a death sentence. At the very least, it requires the humility to recognize that you're not God, you're not perfect, you're not even "good" compared to him, but he gave everything to bridge the gap, if only you would open the door.

But please, don't argue "why not me," if you don't even want to give Him a chance to change your mind. He'll have to change your heart first.

Anyways, since I only came to dish my two cents on the OP's main topic: As far as bitcoin's role in the Revelations narrative, it clearly doesn't appear to fit the bill for a centralized antichrist system. I'll refrain from sharing my thoughts on how that could change, lest any of you get any big ideas, but for now I would implore Christians not to worry about bitcoin. Not that they should ever worry... There are some real characters out there that just love trying to get Christians to be afraid, as it brings out the worst in them. In contrast, a little faith brings out the best.

...which are derived from the Code of Ur-Nammu, which includes such enlightened items as "25. If a man’s slave-woman, comparing herself to her mistress, speaks insolently to her, her mouth shall be scoured with 1 quart of salt. (22)"

Perhaps the Law as Moses recorded it was more Godly in what it did not include.

You're arguing against OT inerrancy, based on your suspicions. I'm arguing existence, based on personal experience. Such a discussion will not be resolved in this thread.

Define the empirical evidence that would satisfy you, and it will be beyond my ability. Jesus said it best, some would not believe even if someone were raised from the dead (which He proceeded to do). Need to be convinced? Ask Him yourself. If you have enough faith to do so, He won't let you down. Just don't say I didn't warn you.

You respond to documentary videos with forums full of ad-hominem back-slapping? Good enough for some. Let's try again:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=saqqara+egypt+joseph+grain

EDIT: Also, the logical failures of the biblicalnonsense article astound me. How can one argue logically against God based on the massive presumption that he cannot and does not interact? "From what we’ve learned about this god’s true lack of interaction with the people on earth, such unsubstantiated circumstances were highly unlikely to have ever taken place." It contains far more opinions than references, but again, that's good enough for some.

Before you parrot the lie that "there is zero evidence," look for the evidence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artifacts_significant_to_the_Bible

Just for fun: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=red+sea+chariot+wheels

Agh, didn't see above. Didn't see the date either. Any of these still available?

btcpot for 0.04

Hey why not. Addy in sig. Thanks

The safest way to manually mass send to 50 or less is just to keep adding recipients and then hit send. If you're keen to, you can script something for the debug window, but if you have to ask, you probably shouldn't.

Doubt you'll find a seller without escrow. This seems to be your most direct route: https://www.bitcoinary.com/en/trades/public

If it's all the same, would you consider fractional shares for those with mere pocket change to throw in?

You can explore the options at bitinstant.com, including cash drops. Paypal is a bit of a dead-end, you might have to cash out.


That said, keep googling. http://www.quora.com/Bitcoin/Where-can-I-buy-bitcoin-from-paypal

Your best bet is btc-e.com exchange. See the big Add Funds button with Paypal on it.

Scratch that. Looks like it's not actually listed as a payment method.

Wiki: "It is not recommended to use PayPal for Bitcoin transfers. In many cases the buyer issued a charge-back-fraud. The case is automatically closed by PayPal if he states that his account was compromised. "

This decentralization is where capitalism excels: Turning fiat into crypto is a profitable a business model and there are a dozen unexploited ways to do it at the local level, through as many separate business entities as desire to do it. It's simple buying and selling, the only snag being that reversible payment methods don't suit it.

If credit cards are out, what's left? Paying in-store for the aforementioned bitcoin cards, using 900 numbers, texting services, even adoption by existing IRL currency exchanges, to name a few.

You'll need to master the command-line flags.

will display the flags for each, you just need to fill them out, something like:


Put the patterns last. Tricks of the trade:

1. Put the command line in a .bat file, as it beats trying to type or paste in the split key

2. Search for as many patterns as you can at a time, in the case of pool mining, that means all of the patterns using the same private key part. it vastly improves the odds of finding any of them.

You can also list patterns in a file, but you'll see that in the help screen.

If and when it finds a pattern (in this case writing it to found.txt), you can manually submit it to the pool to claim the bounty. Instructions for that are on the site.

Also, if oclvanitygen makes your computer so incredibly sluggish that you can't even kill the program, you can let it run, but when you need to use it, click in the cmd window and hit your Pause/Break key, press Enter to resume.

Good luck

Maybe a submission rate limit would be helpful

As interesting as all these ideas are, the dUSD "counterfeit" issue is pretty unavoidable.

Really all you need is a big-name, trusted vendor to distribute and sell bitcoin cards in stores, much the same way as you would buy Vanilla MasterCard or any gift card or calling card. Scratch off to see private key and/or qrcode, and you can claim it with almost any old wallet. Adding an intermediate step would allow said company to perform the exchange at the time of redemption, selling the cards based on USD value alone. There are really a hundred ways to do this. EDIT: As an added bonus, gov gets their sales taxes, makes them happier.

One little issue is that most bigger vendors have built-in response forms, and no public email addresses. That's where the crowdsourcing needs to happen, we need folks to bring in the startups they know of, the quirkier mom & pop shops, anyone doing anything unique.

That does sound time-consuming.. Also, uniquely printed business cards are much more pricey than the usual ones. I do like the idea of taking them offline, but you'll likely get people cashing them in themselves. Better to directly offer targets a code redeemable for a couple dollars of BTC, with a simple graphic explaining how to use an online wallet, maybe listing some of the places it can be used, and showing that it's fiat-inflation-proof. I could do such a graphic if I had the time.

I don't think this would be a great way to reach retailers, but consumers do drive retailers. Gyft seems to have made huge strides in this area, even just in that you can buy Amazon and other gift cards for BTC.

Would be cool though, to hand out something like a card with a qr-code on one side and maybe

THIS CARD
IS DIGITAL
C   A   S   H

on the other

Well done! I like it. I guess all that's left is to smear it across the Newbie forum, on account of so many fresh users looking for honest bitcoins, but only finding worthless advertising schemes and scams. I think they'd love it.