QFT

What is wrong is that if someone is to blame for not securing ones asset, the society or community ought in any way insure someones stupidity.
Bitcoin is a huge gamble and a project where one should not put in a value higher than he can afford to lose and not care about.
If someone with 500.000 $ worth of bitcoins can not afford to lose them as playmoney in the high stakes internet gambling thing that bitcoin is right now, he should have a) secured them b) traded them for dollars.
From my understanding he was even trading and speculating with bitcoins, if you dont cover your game you will fall.
He wanted to be "wealthy through bitcoin" and did not hedge or secure his investment, its his fault. Noone forced him to a) get involved into BTC b) prevented him from cashing out

I think this is a great step forward for bitcoin, thanks for your effort and put on the "Silkroad fanboi attacks incoming" Flakjacket.

Given the current exchange rate, the fee is barely 1 dollar cent. That is alot lower than any micropayment service out there. Even if the BTC Value shoots up to 100$, we would still be at a fee of only 5 cents, which is still very competetive to commercial micropayment providers. I am sure that if the BTC Value goes into 3 digit dollars, we will see a further reduction of the fee in the next iterations of the client.
No need for huge setback etc drama.

just now in irc: <jgarzik> SCAM WARNING -- bitcoin7

Holding Bitcoins on a previously infected computer, allright, its a facepalm thing.

I previously ran RC1 of .23, when trying to update to this version my Antivir, ESED NOD32, complains that bitcoind.exe is a potential Win32/Genetik Trojan. One might wonder what was changed from RC1 to this Version to trigger that or if someone had actually compiled the .exe with a trojan. Please clarify.

an update of the signatures of ESET has removed the warning, so a false positive.

Hey there,

i am looking for someone who will gift me some items on steam for btc, using the current mtgox last price.
Please reply or send me a dm.
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+1 für den Shop, hatten heute ein prima Geschäft, alles reibungslos, tip top

Deine Anforderungsmatrix kann nur ein Kompromiss sein.

Es gibt DREI variablen, du kannst aber immer nur maximal ZWEI erfüllen und teilweise nur eine:

1. MH/EURO

2. MH/WATT

3. LEISE


Du kannst wirklich leicht 1+2 bekommen als LAUT, auch 2+3 geht leicht für TEUER. 3 und 1 schliessen sich aus, 1+2+3 sind unmöglich.

Mach dir halt deinen eigenen Kompromiss, wo der liegt kann niemand abnehmen.

Hier wird viel von Spekulantenheinis und ähnlichem gesprochen, das die alle aussteigen etc.
Ich halte das für eine absolut falsche und naive Sichtweise, wesentlich realistischer ist es vom Gegenteil auszugehen. Bitcoins werden vielfach von finanziell unerfahrenen und "get rich quick" Kindern und jugendlichen gehalten, einfach weil da häufig die Hardware vorhanden war und "nerd-istan" gesehen hat es könnte ein paar Dollar verdienen. Dazu kommen einige naive möchtegernspekulanten und schon hast du einen Markt indem sich, vorallem bei der dünnen Marktdecke, eine große Anzahl äußerst nervöser Händler tummelt. Das der Markt Boom+Bust+Boom+Bust für einige Zeit gehen MUSS war doch klar.

I think there should be an attempt to curb the whole issue of people "signing up to predict doom" and generally causing mischief.
I am convinced there will be a rather forceful "attack" on the people of the forum by people or entities who want BTC to fail or even just manipulate the BTC rate to profit from trading.
Given the rapidly increasing popularity of btc and this being a very very exposed public place to yap about btc, i am convinced that some harsher steps are necessary to alleviate the issues.

Steps could be:

- Allow creation of new threads in the "bitcoin discussion" forum only after 25 postings
- Be quick on the thread deletion when people post factually wrong information
- make all new threads in the marketplace premoderated to be able to filter out the most obvious scam'ish things

I agree with the two statements, there should be heavy moderation on the forums.

try powerfolder, you can sync across devices over the lan and internet, fully encrypted, no cloud storage involved if the user choses so.
they also accept btc payment https://www.powerfolder.com/shop/?setCurrencyId=6

All you trolls who "register to post that bitcoin is about to die" please gtfo.

Sadly, this simple and elegant solution to the biggest issue bitcoin in practical use has is being ignored so far

I think Bitcoin is great and the system is, as far as one can see now, sound. However, we are seeing an increasing Trend where Bitcoin is being attributed with alot of aspects and concepts that are totally absend in the factual situation and a mere child of their imagination.

Lets summarize some of these concepts:
- Bitcoin will allow "fair" trade since it is not "manipulated" against "the small guy".

This seems to be one of the most prevalent ideas, that all of a sudden someone who is not making ends meet will become a gazillionaire with bitcoin since the only thing that stopped him so far was the plot of banks and governments against him.
Whilst the underlaying payment system in Bitcoin can not be centrally regulated or adjusted, the result is to an extend quite the contrary. Bitcoin is already showing that it will be an open and unregulated object of speculation, whilst this is good for the valueation, this will not benefit people who "cant make it now" to all of a sudden "make it" just due to bitcoin.
Totally open and unregulated systems are strictly "survival of the fittest" in its context and favour the fittest exactly because they treat everyone equally.

- Bitcoin will allow "us" to overthrow the government

The smallest common denominator with the "Bitcoin community" is that people have interest in Bitcoin. Not more, not less. Not everyone shares specific political ideologies or follows a certain economic agenda. The bitcoin community is, or will be soon, as diverse as a globalized society. Assuming that the Bitcoin community is a vehicle for a "New World Order" based on rather localized ideological movements such as the U.S. Libertarians is an absurd fallacy.
You can be sure that for every advocate of a certain ideology, you will find at least two people who oppose that specific ideology, so dont politicize Bitcoin.
The Bitcoin concept itself is a political statement, just allow it to have its effect and sit back, relax and enjoy the buzz.

- Bitcoin is great because it suddenly allows X Y Z

Whilst i agree that legislation in many places of the world goes over the top in punishing consumption of certain substances, there is valid reason for alot of things "not being allowed" by social consent, i.e. child pornography or other things. Bitcoin is like cash, and it should be treated like it. Buying drugs and snorting coke or buying child pornography anonymously isnt the greatest aspect about cash, so stop acting like its the greatest thing Bitcoin has to offer.

Trading Drugs isnt brave, its profiting of the misery of a third party.
I am sick and tired of this nonsensical yapping on how bitcoin is great because some idiots can get their reality escaping enablers from criminals easier.
Bitcoin is a great concept on the geopolitical stage, it is the monetary shift into the p2p centric digital age. There are many great things about it, getting drugs easier online certainly isnt a great sellingpoint.
Note: i am not for punishing drugusers, they are poor souls as it is. I am for punishing drugtraders, who are the only ones benefiting from SRM anyway, since there is no longer a physical cash trail to them.

Es ist eine Risikostreuung für den der die Miner vermietet und eine Spekulation für den Käufer. Der eine Wettet das es für ihn ein gutes Geschäft ist, der andere wettet das gleiche, jeder mit anderer Kursvermutung als Basis.
Vor 3 Tagen gab es noch 5850 und BTC kosteten keine 20e, aktuell ist die situation wieder eine ganz andere und plötzlich ist das Angebot gar nicht mehr so absurd für einen möglichen interessenten, schliesslich minen 1gh über die gesamten 30 Tage knapp 40-50 BTC je nach Diff-Entwicklung. Bei einem Kurs von 30$ wären das immerhin 1350$ oder knapp 1000e.

10% is also the Ballpark i have seen with my 3gh total miners, it was certainly alot higher than anything i have seen in other pools, i think i have enough experience in BTC mining to rule out that the error is on my side.