if you could load bitcoins on a cellphone and the cellphone had an encrypted wallet with a special scanner to pay for an item at a cash register. that would solve any problem
We've already got that, but it still requires that the vendor accept bitcoin as a form of payment. Few do as of yet. |
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I get your point though, these are Bitcoin centered businesses which cater to Bitcoin specifically, and would likely fail outside the Bitcoin sphere. They are not a bunch of regular old businesses who have simply chosen to accept BTC as just another means of payment.
Getting some of those would be nice.
(Memorydealers could be an exception, but they seem to get a significant portion of their business from the Bitcoin community, so maybe not.)
MemoryDealers is most certainly an exception, for it was a successful business before bitcoin. |
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There is no need to be an advocate for Bitcoin. It will succeed or fail upon it's own merits, regardless of what you do. And mistrust is a rational response to such a radical idea. I didn't trust it either, when I first heard about it. I felt that it had to be some kind of elaborate scam. Yet, something about the idea kept gnawing at me until I had read the white paper about four times, and then something just clicked and I understood it.
And here I am.
Be patient with your friends. For the first time ever this past Tuesday, I was approached by someone that I know and was asked, "have you heard about this bitcoin thing?" without a mention or prompt from myself in any fashion. And it was at a county Republican Party executive meeting, no less. I was more than happy to whip out my android phone and show him BitcoinSpinner.
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So, essentially, backing-up my wallet only protects me from my own mistakes. It serves no protection for me against the mistakes of the e-wallet service?
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Instead of having ordinary, uneducated people mine Bitcoins, why don't we elect a trusted, secure central authority to manage the Bitcoin network and pick optimal transaction fees?
They could then use the transaction fees for the common good such as for free healthcare, free food and free transportation for everyone!
Also, more electricity would be saved!
Perhaps you stumbled down the wrong alley on the Internet? |
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I wish I had as many BTC as my post count. Yeah, me too. |
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Perhaps it's better to have walls.
Indeed, it is. The walls are evidence that there is an active trading group, thus the price is a current consensus. The lack of walls implies that speculators might have been scared away as much as it implies that the price is moving. |
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That's impressive. So I'm looking at this excess 5.56 on my shelf that we discussed about at the end of May, still interested?
Sacrilege!! No such thing as too much ammo!! There is once you've already sold the rifle! |
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Taurus Judge, loaded with birdshot. Winner for close-combat. Buckshot also available.
..mugged by 6 or more attackers? .. You obvoiusly don't watch many Zombie movies.. You need fi'a powa !! Sure I do. Screw the handgun in the zombie armaggedon, I'm using a super soaker with petrol in it and a flare gun. From a second floor balcony. |
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Hotlinks, of any sort, are considered bad form around here unless you have a long post history. Too many scammers posting links to malware and wallet.dat stealing trojans.
This is certainly not 4chan.
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I guess it's actually a rules needed to avoid trolling, spam... Even if a bit boring i do support it
It doesn't stop trolling very well, but it does help us catch spam-bots. Also, the four hour login rule limits the number of repeated newb posts where people don't make a habit of trying to find out answers to those common early questions before posting the same question that another guy did 10 minutes before you, and that 1000 people posted over the past month. Please, people; read! We know that Bitcoin is complex and novel, but once you understand it, everything will just 'click'. |
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I can't afford to leave my PC on 24/7.
Oh, wow. How 1990. I didn't know people still turned their computers off unless it locked up. |
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Hello, I'm a total Nebie to Bitcoins, but I'm very interested in it as an alternative currency and also the fact that it is relatively new.
Having said that there seems to be a lot of drama that has already happened. I'm sure to have a good few questions over the coming months, so please bear with me. (I'm still try to get my head round how this bitcoin mining works.)
Drama?! On an Internet forum? Never! |
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Why do you want to move a PC wallet to your phone? Just send the money from PC to phone and you are done.
I also plan on continued use of my PC client. I want to have access to the same things I have access to on both devices. I don't want to have to get on my PC or my phone to access certain coins. For example, I have tor on both devices, I have PGP apps on both devices, etc. I'm trying to create redundancy and in doing that, portability. Would an encrypted tunneling app from your phone to control your pc work? |
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Hi everyone! I'm from South Dakota, U.S! I'm bran new to Bitcoin and installed my own personal wallet! I've done some research into this new currency and very interested to start joining the new currency (not all yet)!
Wait, really? We have a member from the United States?! Gotta be a DEA plant. |
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Just checking a barometer about Ron Paul. Is the Libertarian community still fooled by Ron Paul? Have they moved on to other demagogues to worship? Maybe I shouldn't word the question like that. Is Ron Paul still popular with Libertarians?
Who here as read "End the Fed" or "The Revolution: A Manifesto"? The title of every book that Ron Paul writes should be entitled "<Title Here>: A Manifesto" because that is all that he writes.
For those who care about what I have to say about Ron Paul's latest book "End the Fed: (A Manifesto)" (parenthetically added) here is the link to my book review of "End the Fed". Under the pen-name "John Anon".
Sorry, but I didn't see any point of reading past this sentence considering that it just bleeds your bias, just like most of your posts here do... In order to explain the fallacy of this book and its fly-by-night ideology The only reason that someone with your worldview bothers to read an entire book written by Ron Paul is to deconstruct it. I'd wager it was real work for you to get through it, considering the massive aount of cognative dissonance that it must have caused you. Even Paul Krugman hasn't actually read an entire book by Ron Paul. |
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I think Ron Paul is a false hope, There never was much hope, only a fool's hope. Unfortunately, Nobody didn't run. |
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Uhm, I am sensing some negativity, I just wanted to start a discussion on Bitcoin.
Really? I didn't get that at all. You came into our house and took a crap on our kitchen table, so I would think that the responses that you've received so far have been relatively civil. |
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Bitcoin is a risky project and there is a high change that you will lose everything.
If I lose everything that I have today, I would honestly have to say that I've come out ahead overall over the past 2+ years. Now that you've said your peace, I'll buy you out at $3 per and you can leave. |
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I like the part where he stuck his finger up at Agent Smith.  I wonder how hard it would be to get Gavin to do a bit part in that prison garb to do this clip better. He could just sit there and say, "It's pronounced An-Dre-Son" and then flip him off. |
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