What about replacing proof of work by small bitcoin donations to predetermined addresses? This should be possible by using micropayment channels.
Potential donation addresses: atheros, bitcoin100, bitcoineater
Too centralized, and would greatly stifle adoption. People expect electronic message systems to be free, and not many would be willing to both have to pay per e-mail, and actually be able to obtain bitcoin in whatever hellhole part of the world they may be in where they would actually need Bitmessage. |
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Not sure because LTC has more advantages in the future
Just one, actually: Shorter confirmation times. And it's a crappy one, since the confirmation times are still 2.5 minutes. In the future, that may even be a disadvantage, since, once the network gets really large, 2.5 minutes may not be enough time for transactions and blocks to propagate around the world (block sizes will eventually be quite large), and the whole Litecoin system may explode in fork chains  |
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Maybe we can have a second donation address for the bitcoin100 where people can send money to be used to promote the Bitcoin100, and reserve the original donation address for money to give to charities?
If people want to spend money to promote Bitcoin100, why not just have them spend the money directly? I'm ok with holding even more money, but I'm not sure if there's a need for it... |
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Knowing that chickens eat anything and everything, I have a feeling as to how the bodies were disposed of.
That... may actually come in handy some time. Thanks. You and hubby been havin' a few spats lately?  Oh, no. Hubby and I are fine. 14 happy years and we're still acting like newlyweds. It's, just, you know... just in case. |
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No, *true* freedom is feeling you don't need a gun, and not fearing from not carrying one.
Then I am *truly* free. Why is it that you are not? Because, as has been repeated over and over and over, the issue is the culture of various places (not their level of gun posession). You live in a place where guns are not needed. I live not to far from a place where they are needed. Just because you are free enough not to need a gun, does not mean that others are as well. By your own admission elsewhere, you don't own a gun, and yet you seem to be just fine. Maybe your fears are imagined? Or maybe you should move. As I said right above, "I live not too far from a place where they are needed." I don't go to that place. Had I lived there, yes, I would have moved. Especially since my entire state bans having guns outside of your own house. And I recall a desire to go to Somalia on your part. Is that a better place that gives you freedom (no need to carry a gun).
Don't be stupid. You are free because you live in a place where you don't need a gun. Not because you don't have a gun. As I said, you got the order backwards. It is NOT
Bad Culture > Give up guns because they are "not needed" > Better Culture
as you claim. The "freedom" order is
Bad culture > Better culture > Give up guns because they are "not needed"
Does that make sense?
Sounds like the sound thing for you to do is find some better culture. Really? Are you sure the better thing is not to force this bad culture to give up its guns? |
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Knowing that chickens eat anything and everything, I have a feeling as to how the bodies were disposed of.
That... may actually come in handy some time. Thanks. |
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No, *true* freedom is feeling you don't need a gun, and not fearing from not carrying one.
Then I am *truly* free. Why is it that you are not? Because, as has been repeated over and over and over, the issue is the culture of various places (not their level of gun posession). You live in a place where guns are not needed. I live not to far from a place whre they are needed. Just because you are free enough not to need a gun, does not mean that others are as well. Until that happens, carrying a gun is the only way to have freedom in a situation where you need to carry guns and feel unsafe without them. You are putting your freedoms in the wrong order, in other words.
Huh? We've just agreed that I'm already free. You are free because you live in a place where you don't need a gun. Not because you don't have a gun. As I said, you got the order backwards. It is NOT Bad Culture > Give up guns because they are "not needed" > Better Culture as you claim. The "freedom" order is Bad culture > Better culture > Give up guns because they are "not needed" Does that make sense? |
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Based on discussions about this on Bitmessage groups, we believe this was a wa for the original poster of this message to collect Bitmessage user's IP numbers. |
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I would like to contribute at least 1 BTC and would like to recommend a 501c3, The Down Syndrome Association of Greater Charlotte. I am the President of the organization and am very confident that they are willing toaccept BTC.
Quick recap of some major programs done by the DSA-GC:
Camp Horizon - sends kids with Down Syndrome to an overnight camp, normally they are excluded from most camp program. Camp is run by volunteers and greatly subsidized by the organiza tion.
321 Dash - (Bitcoin 100 could sponsor with its donation) 5k to spead awarenes, all proceeds are donated to Research Down Syndrome
First Call - trained volunteer parents to connect new parents to once they receive a diagnosis
Together in Education - provide schools training material, rresource, and contacts to assist teachers with children in their classrooms
Thank you for your consideration!
Seems pretty straight forward. I would say get a bitcoin address/donation option on that site (we tend to pinp for BitPay, since the're easy and free for non-profits). Anyone else have any objections? EDIT: Also, this happened: http://www.generationgreen.com/ Brand new BTC donation button on that site. If no objections, I'll send out money tomorrow evening. |
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Also everyone talks about self-defense here. Imagine a situation, where some sort of brawl/robbery is happening and one of the subjects has a knife in his hand, wiling to use it on another subject. Would you whip out your gun, and when attacker refuses to comply with your verbal warning, shoot him (aiming for the leg, hand, torso, whatever)?
If the options are shoot, or surrender, I'd certainly shoot. No good will come to either of us by surrendering. A pointless question to ask, and a pointless question to answer, given that the chance of one finding themselves in said situation, and the chances of someone actually knowing what they would do in said situation are limited. The truth of the matter is, the burden one carries with themselves when carrying a gun all the time subtracts from one's freedom. True freedom is not thinking about carrying a gun, because one isn't carrying a gun, nor feels the need to, and doesn't fear being without a gun. No, *true* freedom is feeling you don't need a gun, and not fearing from not carrying one. THAT is the only part of your statement that is actually "freedom," and would be the first thing that would be required to happen. Until that happens, carrying a gun is the only way to have freedom in a situation where you need to carry guns and feel unsafe without them. You are putting your freedoms in the wrong order, in other words. I mean, you are basically saying, "If only those uppity slaves on southern plantations put down their weapons, accepted that they were safe, and stopped fearing for their lives, instead of trying to fight off their oppressors in a hostile environment, then they would be free. WTF dude. |
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I'm worried something bad has happened to Josh. Last post from BFL_Josh, October 05, 2012, 11:26:27 PM. I hope he's ok.
Saw him at San Jose conference in May. He was looking very frazzled, but otherwise ok. |
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Yeah, uh, wtf. I'm not even sure how to think or react to this one  |
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Well that's awesome. So in order to protect myself, I invested in .1 bitcoin increments over many, many loans. Now I get settlements for around $10 equivalent and in order to enforce those in court I need to spend $35. Best plan ever.
Or maybe you could post that information publicly, and someone maybe will start to aggregate people's public names, addresses, and debts owed into some sort of public reputation database, and then no one else will deal with those people again, until they settle any issues with you? |
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I would like to contribute at least 1 BTC and would like to recommend a 501c3, The Down Syndrome Association of Greater Charlotte. I am the President of the organization and am very confident that they are willing toaccept BTC.
Do you have a website? |
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5. Finland: 45.3 guns per 100, 2.2 violent deaths per 100
Holy shit! Is that a typo?  |
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There is an undeniable hard cold fact, which is that in countries with more guns per inhabitant, there are more violent death per inhabitant.
This may be one of those Correlation <> Causation things. More guns could just be a symptom of more violence. I mean, look at wars. In war areas, the number of guns per inhabitant is highest, and the amount of violent deaths is highest. Does that mean that guns cause wars? |
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Unless the feds and major banks succeed in destroying bitcoin, then sure!
So, in other words, sure? |
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I am hoping for a separate piece of dedicated hardware to keep the private key in and to do any signing, with an observable, minimal data channel to the phone or computer that does the external communications. We don't have that yet, it is a hope for the future.
I believe you've just described Armory offline.  And Trezor. And BitSafe. |
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*bump* Any takers for higher than 26BTC? With the two €150 tickets to theconference.eu it's worth at least 28BTC now.
BTW, with the tickets included, may I do local pickup at the conference? Sure! Though we'll need the payment ahead of time. Bills to pay and all. |
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