I agree. People usually want to enjoy life and spend their money before they die.

I like economics. You can always prove by either buying or short selling that your predictions are not just trolling.

Sounds like a quality service. I hope you'll find Bitcoin useful.

If you want to make the wait shorter, you could enable the account without confirmations and disable it later in case it's a double spending attempt.

My views on speculation:

1. It's based on voluntary trade, hence not immoral. Banning speculation means to make a threat of violence against voluntary traders. That's also hypocrisy; you need to make an economical speculation yourself if you are to condemn someone as a speculator.

2. Speculation is economically beneficial, as pointed out by others. When speculators see a shortage is coming, their action drives up the prices and adds to the incentive to increase production, smoothing or even preventing the forthcoming crisis. Similarly it helps decrease excess production before it starts causing problems. Speculation, along with other phenomena of the free market, is a beautiful organic and emergent process that channels future expectations and information into the structure of production. Doesn't bother me if someone makes a profit out of it. Also greatly improves liquidity.

I think speculation has been entirely positive for the Bitcoin project. It's fascinating how Bitcoin got its initial value when the real economy didn't exist yet, out of the expectation that it would be more valuable later on.

Sounds good. It's easier to get some professional do it when the project definition is clear (script + some kind of a visual idea).


+1

Thai baht symbol has one line, Bitcoin symbol has two.

Welcome to the forum!


It's easy to mass-remove accounts that are older than a few weeks, have 0 posts and mention a website in the user details. Post spammers are more annoying, but usually catch the admin's attention even quicker.

Server rebooted. Any better now?

Cool! Best Bitcoin logos I've seen so far. Did you try the same layout with the official Bitcoin-coin?

All e-mail notifications are disabled so we don't end up on a spammer list.

You could start reselling VPSes, web hotels, file storage and other digital services and accept BTC as one option. Or actually any digital or even non-digital services from providers that have reselling programs, like Rackspace does. You could resell them anonymously, unless the provider really wants customer contact details. There's even profit to be made if this is done professionally. European and Asian people could sell American stuff localized to their native language and target advertisement better.

What think? Too bad I just started in a full-time work lately so I'm only able to add this to the end of my todo queue.

Sorry to disappoint you, but I just removed 100+ spam accounts. Maybe later.

Ok, since there were no heavy objections I put the porn sites behind a fancy show/hide javascript.

I guess talksugar.com has payment instructions somewhere?

Yes, but only the content part and no downloads.


Done

Can we just make different language versions of a deleted page without getting them removed? Let's do it if we can. I can write a version in Finnish.

Is this eligible for a Wikipedia source, or should it be a link to the original publication?

Good incentive to continue developing. But he wasn't the only one generating. I started generating in Spring 2009, and the number of connections was around 2-10 at that time.

Thanks for the French and Esperanto translations!


I don't see a previous French translation of the main page.

Having a porn site accept Bitcoin is definitely good to catch people's interest. Good for advertising on IRC, forums and other social media . I just wonder if there are many sites on the trade list that don't want to be associated with a porn site.

(edit: ok, the material could be of better quality )

This needs to be integrated with social networking to be a breakthrough product. There are existing distributed social networks, but I'm most interested in Diaspora because of its media potential and the funding they've managed to gather, from mr. Zuckerberg among others. Diaspora accounts are based on PGP, so the integration shouldn't be too difficult.

Yes, that's good.