Internet gambling is illegal in the US.
Only in some states that have a specific state law saying that gambling is illegal. As far as I know there is no federal law explicitly outlaw gambling online. |
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I thought NEM was just a NXT fork with a different initial distribution system. No?
No Well that is interesting to hear for sure. Any links where I can read up on some specifics? It's amazing how little information about new cryptocurrency tech gets propagated in the bitcoin community. Things like this should be big news. |
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Anybody here still playing FlyForFun?
I remember there was a guy who's dad went bankrupt and lost his computer store because he kept buying in game currency in that game. Something about spending it on some girl or something. I think I might have read it on Something Awful, but I'm not sure. |
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I can't believe there is a donation page for him why not use all the BTC he stole ?
Because he failed to actually end up with very much at all, funnily enough. Out of 200k btc that he should have had he only ended up with 150k USD. ~$0.75 a coin. |
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As people get more tech savvy more people will use Bitcoin. In it's current state Bitcoin is simply to complicated for the average customer.
The smartphone apps are actually pretty easy to use. It's still to complicated to get Bitcoins though. You can't simply buy them with your credit card.
I think the opposite needs to happen for bitcoin to go "mainstream" People in society are too lazy today to want to learn about new things. They want instant gratification. When wallets and apps are more user friendly (they have already come a very long way and the level of technical knowledge necessary is very small) the many more people will start to use bitcoin. I think Circle is going to help in that regard. Realistically the average person is not going to go download BitcoinQT and download a multi gigabyte blockchain. But using a service like Circle makes it much more likely that average people would be able to try bitcoin out without doing anything too difficult. |
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You guys do realize, PoW coins can just transform to PoS right...So if the dev of...idk.... Litecoin wanted to change Litecoin to PoS, he could..
So while coins like NXT may have the heads start by a little bit in the PoS department, Any other coin with terrific devs can simply turn PoS and destroy NXT's position in the PoS coin market...
But NEM will be POI (Proof Of Importance), PoW coins can't turn into that. That makes no sense...But ok. PoW = people doing busy work for the lottery ticket of a block reward PoS = big stakeholders forging so they can get fees, but nobody else has a stake in maintaining the network PoI = anybody that is upholding the network is rewarded for it (kind of makes sense) I've never heard of this PoI and I thought NEM was just a NXT fork with a different initial distribution system. No? |
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Oblivion is great, much better than Skyrim imo. Few games I've enjoyed as much as it.
+1, I bought Skyrim when it came out and played 80 hours. Haven't picked it up since then. Meanwhile, I played through oblivion for 150 hours, then my hard drive died so I lost everything...and I came back and started a new character. I just love the atmosphere and the quests in oblivion, I think those two things are so superior to Skyrim. Currently trying to get all the mods up to make Oblivion look good before I play again. After playing Skyrim the graphics are a let down. But the gameplay and story - best one around.  That's why I want to do in a step by step fashion: Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim. That way the graphics will only get better and won't take away from the experience at all. I'm currently playing the Witcher 1 now and at some point I'll do The Witcher 2 and 3 in that order as well. I think it's the best way. I have the Witcher, never came around to play it, is it any good? I'm finding it ok but I'm not loving it to be honest. Right about in the middle of it right now. It's pretty good but I had really high expectations I guess. |
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I made an account at FXOpen and I plan to put in my earnings in it when I get my account confirmed there. FYI to other people you can get a free ~0.015 btc bonus when you confirm your account with your mobile number via sms. So now the plan is: 1. Put bitcointalk earnings in to FXOpen 2. Short fiat 3.  4. Profit If it doesn't work there's always next week's earnings right?  And if it's working then I can keep depositing anyway. |
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I like AutoIT syntax, it isn't a real programming language, but has all I need to develop many useful applications.
' I use AHK a bit. It's pretty good and it's been developed to the point where you can do full apps with it. I think AutoIt is similar, weren't they related at some point? |
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What version of electrum? How much are you sending?
1.9.8 I've tried it with different amounts. Last normal sized transaction I did was ~0.3 and it wanted 0.0004. Maybe if I set the default to 0.0001 it would have taken it as a 0.0002 transaction, but I'm not sure. I'll keep testing it out seeing if I can find ways to send some tx's with lower fees. I guess some of my transactions are just too many kbs. Open /lib/bitcoin.py in electrum's install folder. (you can't do this with the standalone version) Search for Change that number from 10000 to 1000 (this is the new minimum fee for 0.9.0 and beyond.) Then after you save that file, restart electrum, then go into preferences and set the default fee to 0.00001 BTC (or 0.01 mBTC) and save. A little more than half of miners use 0.9.0 and beyond, so you might have to wait 20 minutes instead of 10 minutes for your first confirmation. WARNING: Setting that number in bitcoin.py to 0 is a bad idea, recently 0 fee transactions that require fees can take days or even weeks to confirm. Excellent. Thanks a lot. |
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Anarchy does have its drawback.
Don't forget scammers thrive in this kind of environment.
Even without government, there is the majority of people... Scammers would be dealt with. How so? Look at how badly bitcoin has dealt with scammers. A lot of people who were once Anarchists or sympathetic to the cause are no longer after seeing the reality of bitcoin. There have been far more scams pulled off with fiat currency than bit coin I assure you. People don't change a fundamental outlook because there are a few thieves in the world. Sure there's thieves everywhere, but there's no disincentive other than your own personal morality not to scam/steal in bitcoin and other systems where there is no regulation/authority. I've personally known people who have changed or softened their views on anarchism or libertarianism as a result of witnessing the extent of fraud that comes a long with a system like bitcoin. Some of it was just naivety to human nature, and some of it is realizing that complete freedom is not necessarily something that is inherently a good thing. With all that's happened in bitcoin in the last four years it's pretty hard to argue that humans are inherently moral and cooperative. A lot of people believe that living in some libertarian paradise will bring out the good in everyone, but that's just wishful thinking. |
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Can someone explain to me why a PoW coin where miners put up their money/resources(equipment/energy) is inherently more fair than these alternative ways of distributing stake at the beginning?
They can't explain that. Suppose, someone wants to get into bitcoin now, or any other coin from the top 10, they have to spend money to buy, can't mine anything with their normal laptop or even a gamer's computer. You have to buy either ASICs or buy coins at exchanges. But it's not fair! Someone could mine bitcoin with their office computer for years before it got to this stage! So, yeah, mostly people are pissed off because they weren't in the IPO for PoS coins, but they can't voice their complaint openly. Their ego prevents them from eating their pride and buying at exchanges at low prices while they last. They end up buying later at a higher price or not buying at all and missing the opportunity. It's all simple risk vs reward with both systems I guess. There doesn't seem to be any tangible difference between PoW and PoS initial distribution other than PoS clearly being the more advanced and efficient tech. Before this thread I just kind of assumed all this talk about NXT ect having major problems with the distribution method had something behind it. But it's really just fundamental capitalism, the capital takes the risk of funding and is rewarded proportionally. Just as people who choose to mine a new PoW coin are risking their time and their electricity. It's actually kind of interesting how the community seems to be ignorant to the fact that bitcoin and other coins are fundamentally distributed in a similar if not even less fair way since you need both the technical knowledge to mine as well as access to affordable electricity. |
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Everyone loves Python because it's pythonic. I need to learn one. Any recommendations for what would be the most useful?
Pppppppython for sure. It's a good all around language. Lots of libraries. Plus it's an excellent learners language. MIT Intro to Comp Sci was a Python course last time I checked. They have the course online, it's pretty good. |
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Anarchy does have its drawback.
Don't forget scammers thrive in this kind of environment.
Even without government, there is the majority of people... Scammers would be dealt with. How so? Look at how badly bitcoin has dealt with scammers. A lot of people who were once Anarchists or sympathetic to the cause are no longer after seeing the reality of bitcoin. |
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Oblivion is great, much better than Skyrim imo. Few games I've enjoyed as much as it.
+1, I bought Skyrim when it came out and played 80 hours. Haven't picked it up since then. Meanwhile, I played through oblivion for 150 hours, then my hard drive died so I lost everything...and I came back and started a new character. I just love the atmosphere and the quests in oblivion, I think those two things are so superior to Skyrim. Currently trying to get all the mods up to make Oblivion look good before I play again. After playing Skyrim the graphics are a let down. But the gameplay and story - best one around. That's why I want to do in a step by step fashion: Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim. That way the graphics will only get better and won't take away from the experience at all. I'm currently playing the Witcher 1 now and at some point I'll do The Witcher 2 and 3 in that order as well. I think it's the best way. |
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I'm pretty sure this is a scam and not set up by Trendon's lawyer.
Not that I would ever donate to such a silly cause of course.
But people should be cautious.
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Your doubt, your judgement, your negativity is killing my parents. They're so low on spiritual energy and all the hateful posts you make reaffirm their delusion, that which is, by very definition, a false belief.
Your parents read bitcointalk as well?! |
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Pretty good. The first one is definitely the best. I remember watching it for the first time in my basement with a friend on a really shitty 13 inch old style tv. Even with that we were blown away.
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My best dish is spaghetti carbonara. I also make a great pot of Texas red.
What is Texas red? I googled it and the results were not food related. If I were to guess, I'd say you were talking about chili. But I'm not sure. |
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Can someone explain to me why a PoW coin where miners put up their money/resources(equipment/energy) is inherently more fair than these alternative ways of distributing stake at the beginning? The main issue seems to be sockpuppets, which is understandable, but other than that is there an obvious distinction I'm missing?
I'm not a miner, so to me when I want to invest in a coin that I feel has potential I'm buying in at some point with my own money. So from my perspective, it doesn't really matter whether the initial stake was created by PoW or distributed some other way. PoW coins seem to be in the best interest of people who have already invested in mining equipment, but to people who haven't it generally seems like a waste of energy.
The way I see it is I could mine early on in a coin if I had the knowledge and the resources to do so, and on the other hand I could buy a stake/sign up early enough in a distribution cycle to receive a stake in a coin. The two methods both reward whoever gets in early, but that seems to be consistent across every cryptocurrency anyway.
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