Think about Genjix's conference in front of banksters in Amsterdam.  To me it was a huge mistake.   It is just as if some french officier had spent a few times in Germany in 1938, talking about his military job to german soldiers.

Although this is an extreme example, to me it's the archetype of what should not be done.

Make knowledge available, but don't try to push it in people's head.

You're wrong.  I pay my rent, my food and pretty much everything I buy with gold.  And yet gold is not the primary currency in my country.   As long as there are efficient market exchange places, you can use pretty much any currency you want.

Write it in an encyclopedia such as Wikipedia, where people are free to get those informations, if they are interested.

But don't just show off your knowledge at random places.  People don't just lecture other people by talking with a megaphone on the streets.  Don't do that on internet either.

Not just bitcoin.  Gold and silver too.  And yet people are still bashing goldbugs.


Bitcoin doesn't have to be widely adopted to be efficient.  I've said it several times and I repeat it.

If you rely on the smartness of the majority of people, you are screwed.

Not to your friends.  To general public.  Basically to anyone you don't know.

Because they have never tried to know about it.

How hard is it to google "digital money", to follow a few links and to come up with a wikipedia page that mentions bitcoin, Ripple and stuffs like that?

How hard is it to wonder if there exist a decentralised currency? 

To me, we don't have to spend energy to teach bitcoin to someone who has never even tried to do such a basic research.

Since Jerry Britto's article came out on TIME, I've seen quite a few articles about bitcoin from smart asses blogs.

Some are bashing bitcoin, some are just expressing their skepticism.  But most of what I read pisses me off, and that's why I think we should stop promoting bitcoin.

People should learn about bitcoin by themselves.  After all, there is a wikipedia page, and the bitcoin.org website is explanatory enough.

Random morons should not be taught about bitcoins.  They don't deserve it if they never made any personnal research about digital money.  Why would anyone spend energy trying to convince someone about something, if this person has never manifest any interest in the subject?

Improve the bitcoin website.  Expand the FAQ, the wiki, make it resilient to government shutdown.  But please, stop promoting bitcoin to people who don't deserve it.

I'm afraid we are doomed to see always the same newbies who try to appear smart by bringing always the same arguments against bitcoin.

We very much need to have a good FAQ in order to answer to these guys with a simple link.

I like also the spirit of the guy who post here his first message, and asks if bitcoin is a scam.

WTF do you expect?  If it IS a scam, do you think anyone will tell you:  "yes, it is a scam.  Go away." ??

Just read the doc and make up your own mind.  Jeez.

We don't need to bring "regular folks" to the network.  Screw them.

Bitcoin can be a perfectly valid currency without being accepted by the average Joe.   As long as we have efficient market exchanges, we don't need everyone to even know about bitcoins.

Bitcoin is not a religion nor a political movement.  We don't have to care if people don't like it.

Well yeah, or a smartcard.  That would be nice, but AFAIK, noone has ever compiled bitcoind for such a device.

It should be.  There is a euro coin already in the source code.  But I failed in compiling even the original version.

I uses the following png to draw the coin:



PS.  Oh yeah I managed to compile finally.  I just add to add "-lX11" for some reason.

This story is just outrageous.   This guy has nothing to do in jail.

And yet I'm sure some rapists or murderers will go out of jail before he does.

RTFM

There is no way you can prevent the counterfeiting of a physical stuff.  Unless it is based on a rare physical element.


Also, what do you mean exactly by "backing"?  Who would guarantee that your paper can be turned into bitcoins?  Banks?  States?

I have nothing against a private corporation guarantiing such a backing, based on its reputation.  But it would be fiat money.  I might use some but I'd prefer use a precious metal based money.

If bitcoin take off, gold won't worth that much as it will be less nessary as currency.

Moreover, it's not so difficult to mint coins with very little gold on it.  A thin layer of gold on some other material will do.

PS.  Oh, and I forgot to mention that silver exists too, for small change.

For physical exchanges, just use gold.

Hive45, singularity podcast:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o0LTTnHZJc



The guy on your left, Tristan Grace, is almost as much of a bitcoin enthoustiast as I am.

I thought of this when I saw a screenshot of this open-source game:




I think it might be cool to fork this game and have him use a bitcoin sign instead of $.


Here is the game website:


http://neverball.org

PS.  It should be pretty easy.  Basically you just have to edit the file data/item/coin/coin.png.  I'll try.

PS#2.  Damn it I get a :

dpkg-source: error: cannot represent change to neverball-1.5.4/data/item/coin/coin.png: binary file contents changed

Pff...  of course the file has changed:  I've just edited it!


Any debian expert around?

Gosh I HATE thos blogs where you can't comment without registering to some crappy website.


http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2011/04/if-you-dont-trust-the-dollar-you-have-lots-of-good-options-besides-bitcoin/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+matthewyglesias+%28Matthew+Yglesias%29



Anyone can tell this guy that bitcoinbugs don't trust ANY national currencies, not just USD?