I know it is the policy, and I know it is that the free market has decided about this forum. I am just saying it does hinder the free market.

Unless he is waiting to buy google, $602,400 is more than enough for software. If he wanted to he could hire me at a salary and I will work 9am-5pm on developing this forum software.

I hope this doesn't come off as mean, but learn to bootstrap. I think this is actually a great lesson for a young person to learn. Cause in the real world without a prototype no one gives funds. Even without testing the market you don't really get funds. I think you should try and do as much as you can with little or no funds. Your a programmer, try and get BTC3.5 by working for someone else.

Also don't tell your parents this but college is a scam. I just graduated from college (23yrs old), and let me tell you I am not even going to use my degree (Computer Science), cause I got into bitcoins so early, it makes no sense for me to get a job. I am actually starting my own company (of the many companies I started). I think your really talented, and you should be hustling in the bitcoin community. You will be rich trust me, especially since you know python that is one of those scripting languages, that great for web or desktop.

So get out and HUSTLE, just do what you got to do. Especially now since you live at home with no expenses you can bank all this money. Wait until your 17, you be driving a Benz maybe even a ferrari to school Take my advice, bootstrap, hustle, you will be big... And when your starting your own companies you come to me for funding ok.

I watch the mt gox ticker and sometimes I cry, no seriously you guys don't do that either...

First off that is web sockets, so you would probably get every ticker, and most the time it is the same price. It also keeps the client having an open socket to mt gox. Also web sockets are kinda iffy they break a lot. While the short answer you can do web sockets, you can't do javascript polling, cause I know for chrome that sends up a red flag of cross site scripting.

WOW no javaEE programmers? really come on.

I love my valentine one radar, I use all the time, never got a speeding ticket in my life.

Why would I have to pay extra? I don't want to give someone my gf's information to register, I don't think she would want emails from some people around here, but if their was a service, I would use, you know expand the economy.


I don't think they do e-gift cards, plus they want way too much information for just a gift card.


I am think I am just going to use bitinstant to paypal.

So I am working on a project and I have worked with Servlets and JSP using Jetty. It was a torrent tracker. So I know what I am doing.

What is a good server program to run servlets?

What is the difference between TomCat and GlassFish? (Beside one is apache and one is oracle)

What the difference between Tomcat/glassfish and google app engine?

What amount of data would be the required to get the benefits of hadoop?

Should I be using a datastore or mysql?

I need to buy a gift card, I would like get one from http://www.forever21.com/ ($100, in the form of an E-Gift card) is their a service that can help me out, or do I have to sell some bitcoins to get money into paypal (in that case I would probably use bitinstant) to buy this thing? Please help me out.

Upgrade your CPU, it is bounded by I/O otherwise after it syncs it will not take this much time, this is the just the first time you sync.

well now your looking at it as one section of the community. I agree the users that don't own a business or don't make an income in bitcoins. It is ok not to pay taxes on them, until you convert it to your fiat currency, which is called the capital gains  tax. When your a business owner and your income is only bitcoins, I could easily say I made $0 which would be true, but I don't. I hope people don't treat bitcoins as an offshore account or as you put as a tax free heaven. Stuff like this makes it harder to put money into bitcoins which is important right now. Bitinstant could easily say they don't want to pay for the licensing but they do cause in the overall benefits the community. That is all I am saying is lets think like a community and not an individual. Of course you do what you want, but it just hurts people like me running and starting up business. Believe me I look and see my taxes going out it doesn't make me happy. But in my mind I say this is what is needed for the community currently. Also where did you get the number 99% don't pay taxes, cause a lot of legitimate business owners do. I would almost bet every single user of bitpay conversation tool from BTC to USD pay taxes. That is a lot of people.

You completely wrong, money laundering is illegal, and people that use bitcoin as such are just going to hurt what the other community members are working so hard for. So while I am not going to say not to do that, I am just going to say think about the community and not yourself.

I don't feel entitled at all. You are correct, it is none of my business where the ad money is being spent, I don't want the decision power at all on how the forum's money is being spent. But the forum is a big hub for the community and I think it should be as transparent as it could be, is that really too much to ask? I also agree that people who see the mod job as making money and not as a privilege in the community, if this become too publicized. I am kinda torn between being open and not publicizing it.

I was talking about when you convert to dollars or any fiat currency, you should be paying taxes on the gains. But if you own a business you should be doing your books as if you were getting dollars, and paying taxes on your income. Currently for me my only income is bitcoins yet I still pay my taxes on those coins.

The key to keeping bitcoins legal, is to work with governments and respect their regulations. As I have stated many times before just cause we have the power to not pay taxes, or not follow regulations, doesn't mean we should. We should only execute that power in critical situations. Currently working with the government to help them understand what and how bitcoin works, is the best thing we can do.

Yeah we got all that. But still, I was thinking of buying ads soon, and no where does it say that the ads are going to mods. That would be nice, cause the forum is non-profit so transparency is a big thing. At least in my opinion, and money does change people, not saying it changed any of the mods but it could happen. 

It is an ethical thing, are they doing it cause they paid, or are they doing it to help foster growth in the community. Also they didn't formally announce it. I see their point but also transparency is key in this community at the most.

You can always trust an italian, cause I am italian (100%), and they never screw over their own kind.

The American dream? This is bitcoin and you should never risk everything you own to start a business. That is just being dumb. You should bootstrap your business as much as you can. Your probably going to fail the first company. Trust me I failed at 3 companies, one site pays for itself, and the other I sold. These were just in the bitcoin space. You have to go with that attitude that you will fail, and if you succeed, you will be working to make sure you stay at the top. Another thing that bitcoin companies have to deal with, is to know you may not have any funds the next day. Bitcoin is very young, it could go to 0, is it likely no. But I wake up every day knowing my wealth could be gone tomorrow and I am actually starting another company so it even scares me more. I always hedge, I actually have about a quarter of my wealth in dollars just incase.