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Justus,
I agree with you in spirit, but you should be a bit more up-front about the fact that Conformal's bitcoind implementation is written in the "Go" language.
There's nothing wrong with that, but there also isn't much demand outside of Conformal for a bitcoin client written in Go. If one of their major motivations was to contribute to the bitcoin community they would have chosen a language that more bitcoiners know and therefore can contribute in. In other words, their contribution is primarily to the Go community here, not the bitcoin community. That's okay.
FWIW, I write my "serious" code in Coq, which is a hell of a lot more obscure than Go… glass houses, stones, etc.
This is nonsense, I mean by the same token you've not written this message to the Bitcoin community, since it's written in English. As long as it's written it's written, let they who don't know the language learn it. Well fuck-o-rolan, how many times is ~vess going to 'step down'? IIRC he 'stepped down' a year ago during the Coinlab/Mt.Gox fiasco. Down from 'executive director' to 'chairman of the board.' Looks to me like ~vess IS the Bitcoin Foundation. He was there from day one and I expect he'll be there until the end. I also don't expect him to cough up the $5M in Gox funds that Coinlab appropriated so Mt. Gox creditors will probably be eating that to. And I certainly don't expect that he/tBF is going to give Mt Gox back the 5000 BTC they put in to get the Bitcoin Foundation started. OTOH, it would be good PR so if tBF has got money coming out their ears, or if ~vess stands to lose the $5M to the Feds anyway, maybe the Gox victims will see a little of it. Not holding my breath for that one though. I find it funny how that Ver sockpuppet (aptly named, btw, he IS a two bit idiot) keeps trying to piggyback the discussion/spindoctor the whole thing. And by funny I mean disgusting to the point of disbelief. |
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You have a strange way of linking assumptions together. But if you are seriously interested in getting to know me (I'm not anonymous), give me a call.
Yeah dude, you're so rare and valuable that I'm going to be giving you calls. I rarely get to meet any geeky boys in college otherwise. They must be putting something in your water, seriously now. |
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You want protocol development, go work on it yourself, you selfish bastard. This is an open source project, contribute yourself. I've have been for nearly a year now, or rather I've been directly supporting someone who is working on it. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=93606.msg2325555#msg2325555Why do you think you get to dictate what sort of work the Almighty Bitcoin Foundation does. Provide a direct quote where I did that or GTFO. I never demanded that anyone do anything. All I've done is ask for the people defending the foundation by saying "the foundation pays Gavin so he can work on protocol development" provide some evidence to back up their claims. All I've received in return to these queries is diversions and verbal abuse. I think he was ironically recounting the "discussion" forum fucktards presented the last time the topic of bitcoin devs being retarded came up. You know, the same forum fucktards that are the reason why Bitcoin finance makes baby steps. Well...same. Different bodies, same brain. Lol...you must be new. I wrote an iPhone app called mybitcoin...and I'm in my final year of residency  It's not as much that "I'm new", shillyboy. It's that you're stupid. Now re-read my post with your reading comprehension hat on. Then perhaps go exchange notes with the legion of other numerous shills that thought it a good idea to herp at me, historically. Hint: it didn't work out for them. Stay in school. The more we band together (be it here or elsewhere) the stronger we can make Bitcoin
The more your ilk bands together, the shittier anything around you becomes. Ideally you'll soon find some altcoin or something like all other idiots. |
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All bonds are essentially loans, of course, which require collateral. My collateral is both personally owned and highly liquid, in the form of blue-chip stocks. In short, you have NOTHING to worry about.
I thought it was your guitar. For any noobs reading: the OP is a mentally unstable, well known lolcow/scammer. He's been running the gamut of pure dementia to sheer insanity for three years or so. Throwing a few cents his way to enjoy the comedy show is highly encouraged. Anything else is lunacy. Check this out, ognasty, Dr. Forehead, the entire derp brigade is here already. How's "investments" these days, kids? |
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Can anyone offer up a plausible reason for his behaviour?
Yes. You've been enabling an incompetent fuckwit for nearly a year, and he'd have no reason to believe you're worth any more time or effort than he'd care to piss away at any given moment. Stop ending up in positions where you find yourself asking what's going on and why you're getting fucked. If you can't put in the work to perform due diligence and if you can't muster the discipline to refuse to fund incompetence, it means investing is not for you. |
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derp
You probably should spend more time reading MP. You basically just sound like a less clever/less well read/more copy-pasta version of him. |
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I think its time for action i had enough, enough is enough. The foundation must be destroyed.
IF we for example setup a new bitcoin superfund, MP can possibly head this fund which will result in the creation of a new foundation with core values such as :
- rapid and ongoing bitcoin software development
- Focus on marketing and promotion of bitcoin
- Lobbying Governments
- Providing educational services for the public & business
- Transparency (financial accounts must be audited)
Would the community support such an idea/ would MP like to head such an initiative? (atleast until we can vote in a learship board ?)
i think it's time for action and would love to come together as a community.
The only worthwhile goal at the present time is specifying the bloody protocol already. Something that's been on the table for a long, long time, something the intellectually inept "Power Rangers" carefully avoided, under a plethora of excuses which all boil down to "we're too stupid to do it". Which is true, they are. Time for some people with actual brains to get involved. |
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Aiming high is one of the greatest things in life.
If you see this post, please quote a line or section (from the OP) so we can discuss why you think something is not possible.
The discussion is not whether something is possible or not. You are misusing terms which enjoy specific meaning as part of well-established fields --fields which have not and will not ever bow to your preference for affirmations and positive thinking over data and sense. Aim high, sure. On your time, on your dime, with your equipment. |
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The entire thing is aspirational bs. Silk Road, for the record, was mostly a joke. It never acquired any significant economic power, either in USD or BTC, and generally didn't count for much in any practical sense. |
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derp
Yes, the forum is full of MPOE-PR wanna-bes. So what of it? Old news anyway, MP said this was going to happen cca 2012. |
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PMT dear?
Just approximate quoting. http://centraltexasgunworks.com/latest-news/bitcoinA week after this press release went out, Central Texas Gun Works got dropped by BitPay and had to fight to get even the money they were owed released. Their are now up and running on CoinVoice. http://techzette.com/businesses-accepting-bitcoin-in-austin-texas/La Canasta Market started to have problems not getting paid for some of their sales. Apparently a customer was using a Coinbase wallet and the transaction was not being broadcast before the 15 minute timer expired. BitPay has some kind of procedure for the merchant to manually accept those payments, but it wasn't working and they weren't able to help him, blaming a snowstorm on the support delay. A member of the local Meetup group, the one who first convinced the owner to accept Bitcoin in the first place, reimbursed him out of pocket. They'll be running on CoinVoice shortly as well. Good to know. snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
God I love that expression. Am I mistaken or you the person who private messaged me in Spring of 2013 and tried to get me involved in some action? Aren't/weren't you running some kind Bitcoin options pool business? I had a warning from rpietila about you? Or am I confusing you with someone else? Apologies in advance if my vague memory is incorrect.
If you're the sort of guy getting warnings from the uppity tortilla, I would suspect anything could have happened. Well..."happened". |
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Fortunately, they're about done with that so now they can focus on their Coinvoice service. I say fortunately because that means they've had time to help out two local merchants in Austin that got burned by BitPay. (Do you know how embarrassing it is to go around to local merchants convincing them to start accepting Bitcoin and pointing them at the most well-known Bitcoin payment processor just to have them run into existential problems like "not getting paid?")
A lot more documentation is needed re this. Please share. So you've just argued TBF has no effective power, so then why give a fuck what they do?
I think you've just argued that no one can control Bitcoin right now and thus there is no way to make any more hard forks.
I have to say, i'm with you on that one. I couldn't give a flying fork what the bitcoin foundation do, they don't speak for me, nor will any members club who evolve in the future democratically elected, or not. Good riddance if they fade into obscurity, and if they don't, it makes not a blind bit of difference to me. A fraud is a fraud is a fraud. You may be new here, don't know who I am, what I do, how Bitcoin works etc. This doesn't mean anything changes, it just means you need to stfu. That whole article is a childish and petulant rant.
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Watching*
(*) which I feel at liberty to do being one of the VERY early people to call the Bitcoin Foundation out when fuckin near everyone else was all ga-ga over it...
This would be true. He easily does. Same thing with Sunny King and proof of stake. Since not even the developer himself really seems to understand how proof of stake works, and all the secondary or unintended consequences of each variable, few people have the authority to create a consensus to stop something if he wants it to happen. Bitcoin is the same way. It's easier to understand the general concepts of PoW, but there's still secondary or unintended consequences that make the "authority figures" divisible by a handful, or maybe even 1, especially when each change has to conform to future plans that aren't even known by all parties.
Listen nooblet, stop positing that if you've eaten cereal in the morning three times this past week this is "what's done in the morning". Some people fuck in the morning. For instance, your parents, which is how a cereal eating snotty brat like you even exists in the first place. So more Bitcoin companies should be involved in development? It's funny that Conformal Systems did exactly that, and gets no recognition from Gavin or any of the other core developers for their contributions.
This. Gavin used to be respectable. Not so much anymore. Back when Gavin used to be respectable, Gavin used to wield a lot of power re the -qt client, and people used to like...even download the newer versions. That time is well past. The overall impact on the Bitcoin network of a new delivery of bitcoin-qt code is roughly nil. You gotta understand that Bitcoin = the Bitcoins, if you get a lot of adoption from people who have together half a Bitcoin you've really got no adoption worth the mention. |
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Nice try, sidestepping the actual issues (such as you know, accounting fraud, tortious misrepresentation and quite possibly false pretenses, quite definitely embezzlement and a myriad other civil and criminal violations) by failful personal attacks (nobody heard of you, I'm easily on any list of respectable voices on this forum, buzz off) and a laundry list of...nonsense. Conferences don't count, and there's literally nothing else on that list. Now go tell your puppet masters that a) you failed miserably and b) they'll need much much better damage control. Ideally, they'll need some lawyers. Preferably someone with an actual clue (which excludes Murck, he's the ninny that got them in their present muck). Oh, and since two can play that game, "Dr." Brian Goss (a freshly failed medical student in Chicago interviewing for residency training in radiology): here's your old page, from back when you were pushing the mywallet scam. Quite respectable indeed, imbecile. |
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Yea, that's a great idea, leave block size as it is so you can cap out at 7 TPS and go nowhere. A limit like that could be reached within 1 year with people like Ebay, Amazon, etc signing on.
I don’t think it’s either practical nor feasible nor even desirable to use Bitcoin in the day to day dabble of pizzas, phone credits, hairspray and sneakers. People try to, because of the misguided belief that Bitcoin value is somehow related to or deriving from its crossection in the retail market. This happens to be completely untrue : you can’t buy any pizza with SDRs, and yet that doesn’t somehow make SDRs worthless. The belief itself may be a case of “everything appears a nail to the man holding a hammer”, in the sense that people who have never interracted with any other aspect of economy besides the supermarket counter may genuinely imagine that’s what economy is. Still, that makes no difference.
On a third hand, from a technical perspective Bitcoin is neither designed to nor capable to support retail level transactions. The credit card processors (Visa, Mastercard, AmEx etc) cleared something to the tune of one billion transactions in 2010. At an average size of a very conservative 600 bytes per transaction that would have added 600 Gb to the blockchain. At roughly 1% of that for its entire 4 year history Bitcoin is already too heavy, causing serious problems for people trying to start a new client. Moreover the year of 2010 contained about 50k blocks, which at most may carry 1 Mb each : even if each block was full Bitcoin could have at most carried 10% of that sort of volume.
For the reasons noted and for many other reasons I am pretty much satisfied that Bitcoin is not nor will it ever be a direct means of payment for retail anything. You may end up paying for a month’s worth of coffee vouchers at your favourite coffee shop via Bitcoin (so shop scrip built on top of Bitcoin), you may end up settling your accounts monthly at the restaurant in Bitcoin (so store credit built on top of Bitcoin), you will probably cash into whatever local currency from Bitcoin (be it Unified Standard Dubaloos or Universally Simplified Dosidoes or whatever else) but all that is entirely different a story.
via Bitcoin prices, Bitcoin inflexibility. The most offensive part about this isn't that they STILL list stuff like GBBG, but the despicably silent way they go about removing the scams. Is BFL there anymore? No. The statement about how they pushed a scam and are sorry? Published the same place the reports were published. Gox is not there anymore? Whoa, the silence about it is deafening. Sort-of like bit scammers a la usagi or goat going through the forum and deleting their old posts pushing whatever random scam. Never happened, right? |
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