It is not so easy to become rich by hoarding or even cornering a commodity.  First, there is a competition between hoarders.  The less greedy gets his profit first, and reduces the price of the commodity, and thus destroys any hope for others to get rich.

Second, even if you manage to corner the commodity, your profit is not guaranted.   See the story of the Hunt brothers with silver.

I dare you to try anyway.  You'll see it's not that easy.

Bitcoin is a currency.  Not a currency exchange plateform.

Do you know any currency that integrates a forex trading system?  I don't.

Voui voui, vous avez bien lu:

http://www.laquadrature.net/fr/soutien2011


Personnellement je ne donne pas souvent à ce genre d'assoc, mais là puisqu'ils acceptent les bitcoins, je vais peut-être faire un effort...


PS.  Allez, je me suis fais violence et je leur ai envoyé 10 bitcoins.

Casascius, whatever you are proposing, please just do it.

It would be quite a relief if we could redirect people complaining about the constant final amount of bitcoins.

What about you implement such a service?

Hard to tell without spoiling.  Let's say it's a SF story about space travel.

I'm sick of this debate anyway.   Again:  just create a inflacoin, if you want.  It is just one line to comment in bitcoin's source code.

That wouldn't bother me, really.  At all.  I'd buy some of this new currency too.

Problem is that nobody would by a constant inflation currency.  I wouldn't anyway.

Nobody forces anyone to buy bitcoins.   I started to buy bitcoins when it was around 0.2$/BTC.  So according to you I was exploited by people who bought at 0.1$/BTC.   And yet I don't complain.  I decided to buy those coins.  On the contrary, I am thankful to satoshi and other bitcoin pioneers.

I don't know how to use ftp via SSL.  I tried with sftp but no answer from the server.


Anyway, if you want to share these for free, why don't you make an archive and share it via torrent?

Why?  Maybe it's a fake bitcoin app that has been detected by the software.

I think he meant "constant inflation".  But you make a good point.

Yes you can.  All you need is a bunch of bureaucrats who will decide for everyone what money should be used from now on.  Just like we did in Europe with euro.

Here is a small poll about different ways someone can learn about bitcoin.

I'd like to show that we should not try too hard to promote bitcoin.  IMO people who are interested in improving the current monetary system find out about bitcoin by themselves.  So my guess is most people will answer #3, as I do.

I'm pretty sure that people who are interested in improving the current monetary system, will eventually learn about bitcoin, and adopt it.  It's not difficult to search about digital money on internet and find out about bitcoin on wikipedia for instance.

IMO it's useless to try to get the average Joe to be interested in bitcoins.  Those guys will not accept this currency until it is talked about on national TV.

Hi,

first I want to say that in my opinion it's not very cool what Nefario is having you done.  Basically he forces you to beg for bitcoins in order to pass your grade.  Seriously not cool imo.

However, I seriously think you could make bitcoins much easier on this forum by just taking part in it.  Not just in the marketplace forum, but also in other general discussion threads.  We occidental people we are quite curious about life in China nowadays.  You could tell us what you think of capitalism, whether or not you feel oppressed by government, what your life looks like in every day basis, and so on...

Basically I advise you to take part in our discussions, and put a bitcoin address in your signature.  At some point if you write something interesting, you'll get some bitcoins without even having to ask for them.

Might be a big cliché, but I think they want everyone to live in harmony and non-violence.  Meaning that nobody possesses anything, everybody works for everyone and you have to share whatever you produce.

Very true.  But I suspect most anarchists (well at least the left-anarchists) don't like this idea, neither do they like cryptography or money in general.

Yeah my examples of utopias were not very good.  I lack imagination about those stuffs.

Anyway that was only part of my point.  Power does exist and therefore I have difficulty to imagine a society without it.

Truly, in the world there will always be at least one person who will be willing to take the power.  If nobody does, I will.

PS.  I hate hippies and in a hippie world I assure you I would build some guns and enslave them all.   

I expressed my doubts about anarchy in the thread about riots in London.  I thought we might open a new thread about anarchy in general.  I'll start giving my opinion on the subject.

I seriously begin to doubt the concept of anarchy means anything anyway.  To me, anarchy is to politics what nihilism is to philosophy.  It's a paradoxical, contradictory concept.

If we consider anarchy to be the absence of central rules or coercion forces, then we have to admit that there is an inner paradox in such a concept:  how can you prevent rules or coercion, without using coercion or rules?

In a sentence:   "No rules" is still a rule.

Politics is about organisation of power.   But politics doesn't create power ex-nihilo.  Power does exist, because human action exist.  Weapons exist and humans tend to use them when they can.   Anarchist would like to see usage of force disappear from earth, but it is just as utopian as the disappearance of sickness, aging, humger and other bad things in the world.

Politics is about opinions about which usage of force can be accepted, and which usage can not.   And to clarify these, there is a set of rules which can be voted by the people or edicted by an autocrat.  Each individual can have his own set of rules, and if his set of rules is totally different from the rest of the society, this person usually becomes a criminal or any other kind of asocial.

Honnestly, sometimes I think I understand anarchy, and somtimes I'm not sure I understand it at all.  It's kind of disturbing.

So I think I can't declare myself as an anarchist.   And yet, I think there is no real rule about how power should be organised.  Power is not something that should be discussed, it's something that should be taken.  It belongs to whoever is capable of taking it.