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mainstream viewers will probably go "Bitcoin? Yeah right, April Fool".
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...or the abolishment of any "official" currency.
And all kinds of exchange systems people use would naturally reflect the potential of their economy, without any direction being enforced top-down.
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http://halfpasthuman.com/Some new age guy with some podcasts also covering Bitcoin. It's a manifestation of the Age of Aquarius and all.  Claims to already have correctly predicted some things. http://halfpasthuman.com/wujo/clifswujo3252013bitcoin.mp3Here he predicts that on financial news television, if you look closely, you will see that some of those brokers and journalists in the background are going to have some Bitcoin charts clandestinely displayed on their computer screens. All that despite the official coverage will largely ignore Bitcoin, and it won't appear on any of the officially presented charts and tickers of course. It's supposed to begin this week afai remember. So let's keep an eye open or two.
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why did they delete it?
probably because it wasn't all too original.
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Advocates would say that Das Wunder von Wörgl was because of the Freigeld demurrage money they used (/cc Freicoin), but yeah, I guess it was rather simply because they got together and strengthened themselves as a local economy, escaping the stranglehold of the big banks and corporations back then. |
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Having just bought a sweet video projector with Bitcoins I would have to disagree.  Well you basically bartered. |
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I would see it from another angle:
Bitcoin is not yet a currency (but surely designed to become one, anticipating the Regression Theorem).
So far, it is just a speculative vehicle, an asset, a share, but there's nothing wrong with that. It's a share of a borderless potentially anonymous open and transparently developed value transfer system, eating away market share from the likes of PayPal, VISA, MasterCard, Western Union etc. And you can invest just by holding some of the limited 21 million transfer units, whose value is determined by supply and demand.
But if/when its market share approaches satisfaction and its volatility stabilizes, it will finally become a real money very native to the medium in which it was born, the internet.
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ich hab gesehn viele benutzen LTC zum "parken". d.h. seit FinCEN spekulieren sie nich mehr USD <-> BTC, sondern LTC <-> BTC. Weil what happens in Crypto, stays in Crypto. |
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time for the basement miners of yore to move into a bigger one  |
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And I noted that in his report on youtube he says "You can make a lot of money by trading in bitcoins...." so you mean he sparked the current rally |
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The concept of crypto-currency was very new back then. Satoshi (or the early adopters) had no other choice than to mine the first coins themselves in order to bootstrap it. If they had not done it, or if they had publicized the concept widely first and waited, they would not only have met skepticism (bitcoins were practically worthless back then, the concept would not have been understood), but also someone else would have started mining instead, so it wouldn't have made any difference. It was an experiment, a proof of concept. Turns out it was successful. Now if there is a significant envy of early adopters, some people will have to get together by their own initiative (i.e. not expect a government to do it for them) and start a competitor with the goal of more equal initial distribution. The concept of crypto-currency is more widely understood by now, so maybe they will be successful. Apart from that, also take a look at Freicoin or Ripple, maybe you prefer how they handle initial distribution. The latter is also a peer-to-peer lending and (in the future) a community credit platform, and credit is a less "limited resource" (can have advantages but may also have drawbacks). |
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SOURCE: BITCOINSnew meme incoming! It's strange how the TV is always so accurate about things I know nothing about
fallacy |
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those were the days... no internet...
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SOURCE: BITCOINS
new meme incoming!
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yup, I'd also like to see a web 3.0 that encompasses something like freenet on steroids (i.e. it scales) and communication/social networking with total control of own's privacy built-in, mesh networks (no more ISPs), and P2P currency of course.
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every single person globally no matter their age will be offered an energy efficient mining device beginning with the least developed nations. convince samsung/apple to build the asic into every futuresmartphone.
a more realistic start would be to get kiva org into the boat.
most certainly no one here will stop you from taking the initiative to such projects. |
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