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Thomas confirms he has got nothing to do with that domain. Site looks exactly like electrum.org.
The download links go to a dropbox account.
Jus sayin'.
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... please secure your location! In short: we have made a lot of headlines beyond the Bitcoin community in the early days for accepting bitcoins at our bar / restaurant as the first bricks and mortar business anywhere. Three years ago we installed a Bitcoin atm which we took away again as the German central bank was not too happy about that. The atm also made it into the media. Still today people ask for the machine almost every day. On the other hand for the last years we suffer a series of strange burglaries: the intruders invest a lot of time and force (for example to dismantle a heavy steel door in our basement) and risk jail time and then they literally take nothing with them (not even expensive whiskey or a laptop we use to play music) and do not even bother to search through anything (like shelves and drawers) which any burglar in their right mind would do to find our wallet or money. So they obviously are in search for something specific that would be in plain sight and cannot be hidden anywhere (police is of that opinion too). Now connect the dots, secure your location in case you have an atm and please tell everybody we don't have one anymore!  |
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Nope.
Somebody paying fiat into a retirement plan promising to pay back in 30 years is absolutely delusional.
In case that fiat currency (be it Euro or Dollar or whatever) still exists in 30 years inflation and bank fees will have eaten all its buying power.
Of course it makes sense to diversify. Gold and silver, land, a mortgage-free house, a business of your own or even investing in aquiring more capabilities (learning how to make chairs or grow food or even learning foreign languages) are much better investments than a retirement plan in fiat and they will compliment your Bitcoin savings wallet in the times to come.
If you have the bitcoins now to pay for these kind of things then you should!
Joe
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You seem pretty confident that no investment is being deterred by 3 TPS. I would argue that much of what is invested into bitcoin is on the basis of "what it can be", not necessarily "what it is today". 3 TPS being permanent would certainly dissuade me from future investment.
You seem to be pretty confident that Bitcoin was built to attract investment and deliver fast ROI (aka "make money fast"!). I believe it was not. It was built as a decentralised alternative financial and economic system and we are only at the beginning of that. It was not built to give up decentralisation by lifting the sky on blocksize to let facebook users exchange pocket money for 'likes' or something. There's something more serious behind Bitcoin than that. That's the grand experiment. And it is successfull and nobody will stop it anymore. If you think different then just invest your money in Mastercard shares or something. Thankfully, even the Core devs seem to be coalescing towards a modest increase in capacity to allow time for alternative scaling solutions to move from theory to reality.
Of course they are. And don't worry, scalability will adapt without handing the blockchain over to governments. Joe |
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Bitcoin's network effect does not operate solely as a function of its transactional capacity.
It is impossible for Bitcoin to differentiate itself through its transaction throughput. Only its censorship resistance and decentralized nature makes it unique.
Seeing as a large majority of Bitcoin users are only interested in holding for the near future we have to assume this will be through of prospective adopters and therefore it is wrong to propose that Bitcoin's TPS put a glass ceiling on Bitcoin's network effect.
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Just about to write a press release on this on behalf of the Bundesverband Bitcoin, kinda the German equivalent to a Bitcoin foundation. In order to fullfill my journalist duties I need to ask Satoshi for a comment on this, which I herewith am trying to do here. NRE!  Joe |
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I find it crazy that someone from the land of the free is wondering if they will be jailed by the prince of peace for buying and selling digital tokens.
Juat sayin'.
Joe
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Hell probably Maidsafe, I can't believe it's going down still, I saw it at less than 5000 satoshis, that's just incredibly insane. I wonder who's crashing the price.
Masterexchange is closing down and I believe that many people who bought MAID at the crowdsale to stay long on them just left them there. Now they have to move them anyway and I guess many just cash out then. It looks more and more like all functionalities these ("2.0"-)coins offer will eventually be integrated into / onto the Bitcoin blockchain so people tend to move out of these tokens. Joe |
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So, if you had to select only 1 single BTC related investment to put 5 BTC into it, what would that be?
I know a lot of people re going to say there are no safe and sustainable BTC investments but I strongly disagree. Once you exclude HYIPs and ponzies, you can do well in the crypto world.
What would you choose and why?
Let me draw your attention to the world's first cholesterol backed crypto commodity: the ROOM77 bacon-cheese-coin (trading symbol "ROOMBCC" via your counterwallet). Each coin is backed by our promise to exchange it for a burger (250grams of meat) at our bar / restaurant (in Berlin). Each comes with a huge side order of homemade potato wedges and onion dip. At the moment they trade around 9 Euro so you already make a huge gain when cashing out as a bacon cheese is normally 11,50 at our place. But the real upside is tremendous: only 77 units exist so that means if only 10 percent of the global gold holdings will be moved into bacon-cheese-coins one unit will be worth 12.98 Trillion Euros!. And that's only 10 percent ... Just do the math and thank me later! Greetings! Joe (Full disclosure: I am the issuer of ROOMBCC and yes, it is a fully pre-mined thing) |
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Moving to the new fork does this mean the 21 million coins are raised?
No. And the Lord will not alter any of the ten commandments either. |
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Your prices are crazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzy
Maybe but I don't think so. People in the silver market are paying a few thousand percent premium on silver ounces with a cute panda minted on them in a certain year by some government. People in the Bitcoin market are paying a few hundred percent premium on Bitcoin IOUs in the form of ETFs so they can trade them with the rest of their stocks. The premium I am asking for is the minimum I would sell for, that easy. In case my ask is too much nobody will buy and nobody will get hurt. Joe |
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Err, that's more of a premium for the 2012 brass coin than a much rarer silver coin of either colouring. Is there something special about it?
I'm not sure if I understand your question. I did not really find an actual quote for that coin to adjust my offer to other offers. I just thought that a 200% premium is the least I should ask for for that coin. In case my price is unrealistic please let me know. And no, there is nothing special to these coins other maybe than that I got them directly from the vendor. Joe |
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You have any close up pictures of the coins? The condition pretty much sets the prices on them.
Now that you ask that: sorry for not having supplied them in the first place. I will unfortunately not be able to do so before monday evening as they are in a bank safe deposit box which is not accessable over the weekend. I can say that I have probably various conditions to offer. Some have never been unwrapped and are still untouched, others have been carried around so long that they have actually lost the imprint of the public key (yes that bad!). Might sound crazy but back in the days we actually carried them around in our fiat-wallets to hand them out as little presents for people interested in Bitcoin. Yes, stupid idea in hindsight . Anyhow, not before monday I can deliver high res pics. Joe |
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22BTC is the minimum Obviously your ask will be filled first. But maybe a little sooner when people who are undecisive about getting one now see the next ask price. Joe |
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Offering: Casascius 1 BTC in brass, Series 2 of 2012 for 3 BTC.
Series 1 (error) of 2011 for 9 BTCWilling to let go a few of each. Never really traded on this forum but questions about my trustworthiness will be answered to your satisfaction. You're buying from the guy who actually published 'the error' on the first Casascius coins: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=41892.msg594780#msg594780I take the freedom to call this a once-in-a-lifetime-chance! Joe |
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I offer one for 42 XBT.
Not because I wanna be funny but because I honestly believe a 300%+ premium for this coin is not unreasonable at all really and because I'm not in a hurry to sell.
Joe
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Then you sell your gold for fiat, exchange that for Bitcoin and use that.
"Every road leads to Bitcoin" (ancient proverb).
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You're asking when it stopped being an "experiment",
No, I asked if and if so: when. but perhaps you should consider when you decided to stop calling it an experiment, and why you made that decision.
I did not decide. I just realised that I stopped calling it that a while ago and that I hardly hear anyone else using the term these days anymore ("experiment"). So, considering the fact that everything we do and plan for our future naturally is an experiment (but that's not what we're talking about): is Bitcoin still to be considered an experiment or can one now confidentally say that it obviously is a force in our global economy that cannot be ignored anymore? One can ignore an experiment but can one still ignore Bitcoin? I personally believe that the principles we learnt from Bitcoin and the technological innovations we got given by Bitcoin do shape a new paradigm. So my question is really: _Is Bitcoin still an experiment or is it already the new paradigm?_ |
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Just realised:
having talked about Bitcoin for years now to individuals, media, politics, financial industry and whoever else was interested, I always made sure to make clear that this is an experiment. A very successful experiment (most of the imes) but still an experiment. I did so just like many other early birds to Bitcoin because back then we agreed that this would be a reasonable approach when trying to explain that new technology to people who think we want to sell them a ponzi.
I only just realised that neither have I used the term "experiment" in any presentation or interview in the last at least six months or so anymore nor have I heard anyone else do so.
So: is it not an experiment anymore?
And: when was the moment it stopped being an experiment? Was there one? And if so: which moment was this?
Honestly, just being impressed by the progress this is making and wondering ...
Joe
edit: the question is:
_Is Bitcoin still an experiment or is it already the new paradigm?_
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