So if someone opens a candy store that charges in grams of seashells for the gram of candy they sell, if you go there and eat some candy they would be forced to accept USD from you eventhough they have signs all over the store saying they only accept payment in seashells? (in the US of course)

You should have written the poll in terms of birth year instead of age, so it will remain accurate as time goes by

Can't you send a piece of text with every transaction? Just write "I sent this" and PGP sign it.

I don't think even undersea cables are really safe

I imagine it would work kinda like public key encryption like with PGP encrypted emailing

Either Sat's got a sense of humor, ot that isn't him

Btw, regarding WiFi ranges; google "super wifi"

If i'm not mistaken, except for mining, you could network two machines and have them exchange transfers data, then pull one of them and connect it alone to the Internet, then connect it back to the other lone one and things would work just as if  they have all been connected to the Internet, except for the huge lag in transaction confirmations etc, and this would still work no matter how many steps you place between one machine and the Internet as long as it gets connected to the Internet no matter how indirectly in a way both things sent and to be received eventually reach their destination.



Mining can't be trusted in such a scattered network 'cause the Internet probably found the solution before one of the sneakernet nodes did and the coins from the sneaker node will be considered invalid and wiped.

I think what could hurt it most, besides the loss of people using Bitcoin that died in the disaster, would be if the Internet got split into two or more significant non-interconnected groups for a prolonged period of time; any coin mined during the period is under the risk of eventually being wiped from existence when the Internet becomes one once again.



I wonder what would happen to Bitcoin if Earth went in the bullseye of a severe solar storm of the type that not only fries satelites but also lights on fire electrical, telephone etc wires closer to ground (some time ago telegraph wires went aflame under such an event)

Has anyone compiled a table, with a list of ATI cards sorted by their mining power, with NVIDIA cards aligned with their closest equivalent ATI ones in the table by their mining power,  with the electricity consumption of each also included? (i would expect NVIDIA cards would be aligned with much weaker and cheaper ATI cards, it's my understanding that ATI's are optmized for the type of processing used in mining, while NVIDIA's are optmized for somthing else)

Could you make a .deb for installing this please (optfication and all) ?

Would it be possible to host a whole VM in such a way that the hosting service even though having physical access can't access anything inside the VM without the user's private key?

Why not have your thing read the secret from a file, so you can release all the code, but leave the secret key to your machines still hidden?

Are there any python clients out there that are fully functional though?

Most attempts to solve a block will lead to failure, so would that mean that to increase the odds of you finding the solution before others you should discard the first N attempts before wasting time trying them ?

I don't think Bitcoin can stop inflation, it does have a tendency of being deflacionary, but under the right conditions it could be led into inflation as well AFAIK...

Did he run away with people's money?

Perhaps it would be a good idea to try to predict the future rate of "sips" from the faucet and donations to it, and automaticly preemptvelly reduce the amount each sip gets untill the funds and income get back to a more sustainable rate?

Hm, betting on the devaluation of the currency sounds like a sure way to make money, if you loose the rest of our money is worth more, and if you win you gain more money; though it would be important to evaluate if the wins and losses on both ends do balance out positivelly....

Perhaps you could try inputting the data into Eureqa and see if it finds any usefull patterns?