But the question is, can bitcoin really substitute dollar or other currency sometime soon?
No. And if it does it won't be in our lifetime.
Not until the confirmation issue is resolved. I wouldn't want to buy a chocolate bar and have to wait 10-30 minutes until my payment was confirmed. I want to pay and go instantly.
I am sure you can buy vouchers with BTC, and for quick snacks I am sure that pretty soon a BTC Visa will pop up (if it didn't already).
I dont know, but ask yourself this, would you want a world where everyone is scamming everyone and there is no recourse?
So far, thats what this community has proven unquestionably w/ btc =P
Sure, scams happen now in fiatland but nowhere near the ratio they happen in btcland =P
True and false at the same time. The scams with BTC are constantly increasing but.... --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFDe5kUUyT0Apart from that, in fiat land there is things we don't know because transacting in fiat is TRULY anonymous. Nobody knows if you got $10Mil in your basement. |
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 $10 a price boom huh? It's ok, I understand that you are trying to raise your activity/posts..... |
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The journal: http://www.wired.com/2015/01/heres-secret-silk-road-journal-laptop-ross-ulbricht/Now it looks like Ross really sold the site to VJ who took over his invented DPR moniker and made the interview. At this time the DEA was already close to Ross Ulbricht: They had his name one month later. I am pretty sure we could find proof for this in the 1400 chat log pages. The story could lead to Variety Jones taking over SR from Ross until it was closed by the feds and Ross arrested and later he organised the restart as SilkRoad2 as DPR again. He sucked out as much of BTC as he could get and then sold the site to Defcon who has been arrested short time later. Pure coincidence some would say.... That would actually make sense if VJ was an agent.... Sorry but after reading some (not all) of DPRs/cimons logs that is the impression I get. Apart from that I cannot still understand WHY would anyone keep a "journal" of their illegal activities.Too much confidence? If he was hi-tech then he would know that NOTHING is safe. So I doubt confidence was the reason. It's just too convienient.... EDIT: Where's my manners?... Thanks for the link  Will check out his journal when I get some time. Bolded for emphasis. Exsmactly, sounds like it was an attempted frame-up or just plain stupid. But if Ross was such a bad-ass drug dealer, again, it doesn't make a lick of sense to keep a journal UNLESS he was afraid of a bigger badder wolf, in this case Carl Mark Force and Shaun Bridges. If he didn't keep the journal, who knows, maybe they would have gotten away with it. Maybe it was a last ditch effort to take them down with him. He gets somekind of justice after all. I say horseshit.... That journal is NOT Ross's. First of all from what I have read from the link given to me the journal starts at 03/20/2013. AFAIK SR started from 2012 2011, so where's the rest of it? Apart from that, there's MANY things in the journal that do not make sense so when I have some time I will break it down. Once again this is horseshit! |
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 You know why? Someone doesn't know how to properly format their posts.... It gave me a headache.... |
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LOL! There's a debate? Let's see.... I send millions of dollars in BTC, I pay something close to nothing for transaction fees. I use Apple Pay : https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204274In all do fairness I did not go through the above link/document because I don't need too...  But I could be wrong, maybe Apple Pay is cheaper than transacting with Bitcoin  |
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The journal: http://www.wired.com/2015/01/heres-secret-silk-road-journal-laptop-ross-ulbricht/Now it looks like Ross really sold the site to VJ who took over his invented DPR moniker and made the interview. At this time the DEA was already close to Ross Ulbricht: They had his name one month later. I am pretty sure we could find proof for this in the 1400 chat log pages. The story could lead to Variety Jones taking over SR from Ross until it was closed by the feds and Ross arrested and later he organised the restart as SilkRoad2 as DPR again. He sucked out as much of BTC as he could get and then sold the site to Defcon who has been arrested short time later. Pure coincidence some would say.... That would actually make sense if VJ was an agent.... Sorry but after reading some (not all) of DPRs/cimons logs that is the impression I get. Apart from that I cannot still understand WHY would anyone keep a "journal" of their illegal activities. Too much confidence? If he was tech-savvy then he would know that NOTHING is safe. So I doubt confidence was the reason. It's just too convienient.... EDIT: Where's my manners?... Thanks for the link Will check out his journal when I get some time. |
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I found something, that didn't really surprise me, but it's still very interesting: The interview, that was made with "DPR" by Alan Greenberg was not made with Ross Ulbricht, but with Variety Jones: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/an-interview-with-a-digital-drug-lord-the-silk-roads-dread-pirate-roberts-qa/Q: Can you tell me anything about the original creator of the Silk Road? How did you meet? And did you acquire the Silk Road from him in a financial deal of some kind, or simply take over the project?
A: He was well compensated and happy with our arrangement. It was his idea to pass the torch in fact. We met through the site. I had discovered a big vulnerability in the way he had configured the main Bitcoin wallet that was being used to process all of the deposits and withdrawals on the site. At first he ignored me, but I persisted and gained his trust by helping him secure the wallet. From there we became close friends working on Silk Road together. In Ross' journal it says exactly that, how Ross met VJ: "Around this time, Variety Jones showed up. This was the biggest and strongest willed character I had met through the site thus far. He quickly proved to me that he had value by pointing out a major security hole in the site I was unaware of. It was an attack on bitcoind." Yeap, I made the same observation here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=935434.msg11102748#msg11102748But I do not have DPRs journals to go through and confirm. (Where can I get them btw? Is it here: http://antilop.cc/sr/#timeline - Sorry still going through the timeline  ) The question(s) is: Why was VJ in an interview on behalf of DPR? Did he/she convince him to do it? Also, I have read (can't remember where) that VJ aka cimon was not on DPRs payroll but the recent discoveries by elasticband clearly shows that VJ aka cimon did receive money from DPR on several occassions. Other than that, as I have mentioned before, DPR was VERY careless and I am surprised it took the feds so long to get him.... EDIT: BTW, did anyone notice that SR was busted shortly after that interview? |
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There is no such thing as "Bitcoin 2.0".
Bitcoin is at 0.10.0 and still in beta version.
Apart from that @OP -> Stellar and Ripple as Bitcoin 2.0?
Seriously?
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Just to make sure I get this right, Cointent lets you posted (unsollicited) ads/posts in exchange for money?
As in, it's not a way to monetize content as a content creator (in the form of using the script as a paywall of sorts)?
It only posts the content if you send an equivalent of $1 to Cointent In the sites current form, this is correct. But the thing is that I am able to do it the other direction. It's really the trigger that is the innovation, so basically pay a micro fee to allow another action to happen. In this case it is to submit content, but I could easily change it to allow content to be displayed, or to upvote content, or in a social media style website, allow a connection between two people. Thanks to others for the feedback Wait, let me get this straight.... You are asking for your website visitors to pay you $1 for something you want to advertise (for someone else of which you probably got paid for already)? If that is the case: Here's an advice: Use your OWN original material and charge for that. Tutorials or whatever man. But charging me for something I can get for free? Seriously? EDIT: I like the name btw, it's really cool |
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Hmm. Strong dollar and now this. Maybe my next vacation should be a trip back to España?
Bro, you can go to Cyprus and start ANY Bitcoin related business there. No Tax, No regulations. They are still trying to figure out a way how to handle Danny's rip off with Neo-Bee. Btw, did you change your avatar? |
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I know that it is possible to modify bitcoin and add chargeback functionality
How? That is indeed an excellent question. AFAIK, once a transaction is registered in the blockchain that is that. So I will repeat what jl2012 asked.... HOW? |
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In Soviet Russia, bitcoin ban you.
 ^^^^ LOL, that made me laugh too.... Apart from that, wasn't Bitcoin already banned in Russia? And China? And God knows where else? And how do they ban Bitcoin? |
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How was the bot confiscated?
It doesn't make sense.
They mean the computer that was hosting it?
And they had no backups of the bot/code anywhere else?
It really doesn't make sense.....
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But this idea that all Bitcoin 2.0 projects are fraudulent
Please, stop. There's no such thing as a “Bitcoin 2.0” project. Bitcoin is at version 0.10, and any project that works on top of Bitcoin but is not Bitcoin, should not be called Bitcoin. I will agree with the above statement. Bitcoin did NOT reach version 1.0 yet and it's still in beta. How are some people creating "Bitcoin 2.0" projects really makes me wonder.... |
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OK, reading DPRs and VJs logs I can most certainly say that VJ was an agent....
Still reading so this claim might change....
EDIT: Who the f*ck is PatHenry?
This thing is giving me a headache to the point of where I do not wanna bother anymore...
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@elasticband, very interesting finds. Where can I get those files? The SR accounts I mean. BTW did you guys notice the last entry on the last image? It says payroll ( sr2.0) .... Apart from that, this goes to show that VJ aka cimon was getting paid by Ross. Also, who is the hacker he kept paying? And what for? You can connect some, if not most of the payments with the timeline at http://antilop.cc/sr/#timelineFor example this "op greenville" is dated while the "murder" of Curtis Green took place: 21/02/2013 - Undercover Agent tells DPR that The employee (Curtis Green) "died of asphyxiation/heart rupture" while being tortured and sends DPR a fake pic. That day he spent 162000$ for "op greenville" (op like operation, like if he moved his ass somehow to make part of the op. lol . He sat on a couch at his home or at a library and tipped some stuff on his keyboard. Thats all) -snip- ^^^ that makes sense SR2 is refering to a big site update and not to the SR2 where Defcon got arrested. Most of the files you'll find on http://antilop.cc/sr/ (scroll down) Still trying to wrap my head around this..... Observations: 1) DPR was stupid, actually a complete moron. 2) DPR fell under a thing called entrapment, as from what I have noticed most of his crew was agents. Even the "kill" calls was enforced to him by the agents. Seriously, if someone (actually more than one) told you that your life is in danger an not just yours, all your co-workers too by a "thug", and all you have to do is give ME the green light to make it "disappear" what would you do? Now, enough with that, I have much more reading to do but.... WHO IS DA? http://antilop.cc/sr/exhibits/253456466-Silk-Road-exhibits-GX-222.pdf |
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@elasticband, very interesting finds. Where can I get those files? The SR accounts I mean. BTW did you guys notice the last entry on the last image? It says payroll ( sr2.0) .... Apart from that, this goes to show that VJ aka cimon was getting paid by Ross. Also, who is the hacker he kept paying? And what for? You can connect some, if not most of the payments with the timeline at http://antilop.cc/sr/#timelineFor example this "op greenville" is dated while the "murder" of Curtis Green took place: 21/02/2013 - Undercover Agent tells DPR that The employee (Curtis Green) "died of asphyxiation/heart rupture" while being tortured and sends DPR a fake pic. That day he spent 162000$ for "op greenville" (op like operation, like if he moved his ass somehow to make part of the op. lol . He sat on a couch at his home or at a library and tipped some stuff on his keyboard. Thats all) -snip- ^^^ that makes sense |
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