What is the difference if they split?

Either uninformed or one of the most excellent trollings I've seen in a long time.
http://www.coindesk.com/tim-draper-revealed-silk-road-bitcoin-auction-winner/

This have been posted in the politics forum and I think here too.


For me this is just some crazyness that will never happens. US gov is operating in negative, and it will increase the government expenses.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/15/california-billionaire-claims-juice-to-put-scheme-to-carve-out-six-states-on/


I wonder, what are the chances of getting this Draper dude into Bitcoin? Do you thing he'll make a good fit and all? Then again, a person of his stature probably wouldn't want any heat from the FBI, et al, thus don't spend too much time trying to convince him about the merits of Bitcoin. The last thing we want is to have such a dude thinking that bitcoins are mainly used for illegal activities on the internet, i.e. purchasing drugs, and we surely don't want them to think that.

I use to listen to the Peter Schiff show all the time. I bought gold because I believed in his theories. Gold hasn't done much. But he was dead wrong about bitcoin. In 2011, I learned about bitcoin from callers on his show. I looked into it and thought is was interesting didn't buy any at the time because he said it was a bubble and wouldn't last. If only I would have bought bitcoins in 2011 instead of gold I would be rich, rich, rich. A couple months ago I sold the gold and bought bitcoins. We'll see what the future brings. I don't listen to Peter Schiff anymore.

Oooh I do like this idea.

The fortress Mamula nowadays represents on of the biggest and best preserved Austrian fortifications on the Adriatic, characterised by monumentality, prominent building precision and perfect functionality of form.

You're making fun of my grammar skills while writing a never-ending sentence? LOL Irony is a mother-fucker.
You determined that i have no money by reading one sentence? LOL. You sir, are a full retard!

It was a pun, meant in a humorous way. With a hidden message that the whole thing should be taken lightly, there is nothing to fear but fear itself.

How safe it travel in and around Tel Aviv these days? I planned a trip there in 2012 and had to cancel because a bomb exploded on a public bus in downtown Tel Aviv, causing several injuries and long-range rockets launched from Gaza reached as far north as Tel Aviv and southern Jerusalem. Israel has been on my bucket list for a long time and this would give me an excuse to go. Well this and Baha’i Gardens in Haifa, the mountain fortress of Masada etc.

Journey to the center of the earth!

I like how OP lives in the worst place ever.

Get a job? Nope, not in this village!
Rent our his room? Nope, not in this dangerous area!
Go outside? Nope, unexploded bombs everywhere!

We need to think of something for him to crowdfund.

Timothy Draper, a venture capitalist founder of a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that has invested in such tech companies as Twitter, HotMail, Skype and Tesla, told Reuters he has the 808,000 signatures needed on a petition to force the measure onto a public referendum in November 2016. Under the far-fetched plan, one state would be called "Silicon Valley" and would include the tech mecca, as well as San Francisco.

"California needs a reboot," Draper, who has spent $4.9 million of his own money on the effort, said in a press release. "Six Californias is our opportunity to solve the many problems we face today. ... Six states that are more representative and accountable. Six states that embrace innovation and strive to improve the lives of residents."

I don't really see the resemblance myself  From just the two pics, Mike looks like he has a rounder, plumper head. But he could have lost weight  There isn't enough to go on here.

again if we were still in the GPU arena, the network difficulty would keep on rising, because miners would always compete to gett a nice slice of the reward pie, more gpu's would be racked and stacked, like i said for 1kw a GPU unit (4gpu's) would produce maybe 4 or 5 ghash each. so even if the difficulty possibly lower over the 2 years of 2012-2014 due to maybe a 10%-20% rise instead of a 20%-40% rise. the amount of physical units would increase. like i said ASICs are a 25 fold electric saving but the amount of new GPU units would not be 25x less.. infact there would be more.

as you can see here https://blockchain.info/charts/hash-rate the hashrate of july 2013 - august 2013 webt from 200thash to 280thash(roughly) which shows a 40% jump a month. so lets use a conservative 15% jump a month if left on GPU mining and lets work out the kw for just 1 year (july 2013-2014)

so
july 2013 200 thash (40,000kw) gpu unit 5ghash (200units per thash x 200 thash=40,000)
august 2013 230 thash (55,200kw)
sept  264.5 thash (63,480kw)
octo 304 thash (73,002kw)
nove 349 thash (83,952kw) dece 402 thash (96,545kw) janu 462 thash (111,026kw) febr 532 thash (127,680kw) marc 611 thash (146,833kw) apri 703 thash (168,858kw) may 809 thash (194,186kw) june 930 thash (223,314kw)
july 1070 thash (256,812kw)

if you havnt worked out from other posts i like to grey out less neded-to-know info

so this month GPU would show only just above 1petash hashrate but a 256mw electric bill.
now lets go back to that chart the peak of this month is 145 petahash = 145mw electric bill

so asics bring 145x more hash power for 60% of the power.. hmm well thats more efficient then i first thought up.. so its all good, bitcoins use 145megawatts (to answer OP's question) compared to a GPU prediction of 256megawatts if the mining industry stuck with GPU's

now to google some stats about cities and other stuff
http://ask.metafilter.com/145849/Which-uses-more-power-Disney-or-Las-Vegas

so the entire world of bitcoin uses only 2.6% of what las vegas does

i hate maths.. but there you have it

There is no need to be an asshole about it. Let him have his fun and dont be a douchebag.

If Sunlot Holdings seriously intends to pay you back, then why are they planning to pay a person/company who charges $900 per hour?

In the filing, the group listed Freeh Group International Solutions, a firm established by former FBI director Louis Freeh that has carried out a series of investigations into high-profile scandals, among a team of advisers it planned to tap for Mt. Gox.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/04/11/bitcoin-mtgox-investorgroup-idINDEEA390FJ20140411

Mr. Freeh's hourly rate is $900.
[Suspicious link removed]j.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323420604578652451181350238

Freeh already asked for nearly $2 million in fees, but agreed to a slight reduction after the Department of Justice criticized him and his law firm for vague time records.

Spell it out for us dummies  

You think Josh Zeidner is James Bryant?

Not bad, but a I think that it needs more about how mining works and the like. It is fairly good, but there all always be stuff that has to be improved.

And wallets/wallet providers should also be listed, or linked to, so that it helps people along better than just some instructions. Linking to the list of wallets on the bitcoin website would be a good idea.

Other than that, it looks like a pretty decent site. Now, then again, I'm not one to judge websites, so take my opinion with a gain of salt. I still have yet to learn that skill.

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I'm going to make a coin too, and to be 100% fair to people without mining hardware, I will 100% pre-mine. That way people with fancy equipment won't have an advantage.

I'll sell the pre-mined coins for a high price only, but don't worry - I'm not greedy, I won't keep any of them for myself! and the high price will help keep the value up until they are all distributed. And then after that, free market! but selling them at a high price will give momentum.

And I'll give a few away for free too, to people who come into my thread and talk about how fair the distribution is, and talk about how green it is, and use the phrase "to the moon".

I'm thinking I'll call it Scrypt Coin Alternative Money [exchange symbol SCAM]

There will be new features of course, but not at release - at release I'll just talk about them but they won't be implemented yet.

Karma? http://www.buzzfeed.com/ellievhall/found-the-elusive-man-at-the-heart-of-the-hollywood-sex-abus You're not going to believe what you're about to read. Fair warning, it's a tad long.