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Nice effort.
However, I'd like to tell you something.
Today on IRC I was almost insulted for trying to promote bitcoin. And you know what? Screw them!
I mean, if people are not capable of understanding what a good money is, then I don't want to spend my time trying to convince them. Nor do I want to withstand insults.
I learned about bitcoin because I was interested in monetary problems that exist nowadays. I was looking for something like bitcoin and I found out about it on wikipedia (it was the a just link: the article itself was on a user space at that time). Nobody came to me saying: "hey look at that!"
So from now on, I won't try to "evangelize" about bitcoin any more. I'll let people use their stupid beloved paper money if that's what they want.
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Agreed. A big advantage on small coins is that they are much more liquid than big ones.
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Will you be selling any 1 ounce gold coins? The smaller ones just have too much overhead to be used as an investment. I don't own any gold (except for my wedding ring), but I would like to buy an ounce sometime.
Yes I will! But right now I prefer experiment both biddingpond and the bitcoin community purchase power with small coins. |
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What's a magazine?
Basically it's the ancester of the blog. It's what people used to make in order to publish opinions and news before the web exists. They basically printed it on paper and sold it in the street. Many magazines have gained a huge popularity and are still sold despite their obsolescence. |
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Yes, I'm talking to you guys! You probably have a huge amount of bitcoins, and that must feel good, I guess. Maybe you convert it into cash, maybe you just hoard your bitcoins until you can buy really great stuffs with them. I don't know and that is none of my business. But wouldn't it be nice to diversify a bit and put some of your bitcoins into an other non-inflating currency? Wouldn't you like to put some of wealth in a nice, classic gold coin? You can do so, and it can even be fun, since you will be taking part in an on-line auction (believe me: auctions can be fun). So here you go: http://www.biddingpond.com/item.php?id=312happy bidding! |
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Another poll about bitcoin's notoriety.
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The real difference between inflationary fiat currency and a deflationary digital commodity like bitcoin is who benefits from the changing value. In the case of bitcoin, deflation (loss of coins) dissipates wealth to all the current holders of bitcoin. In the case of fiat, printing more money (inflation) transfers wealth from current holders of the currency to those with privileged access to the central bank.
Agreed. |
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How do you know something like this isnt already happening ?
If its a defensive thing it might be kept quiet and underground. Ah, you'll know when it happens, imho. A black swan event like bitcoin taking over a significant portion of electronic transactions is going to cause untold chaos on currency markets alone, not to mention follow on ructions in any connected markets. The whole payments/monetary system and the western central banking model collapsed in 2007 anyways and was only propped up by tax-payer promises but that is now inevitably dragging govts. into bankruptcy. Markets will sense this coming first and start twitching before the spasms increase ... when that starts happening they'll attack. I love that boiling bankster frog graphic ... give the frog a Bernanke face and replace the fire with glowering bitcoins as coals. I like this idea of bitcoin being a monetary black swan. I think it could make a nice symbol for bitcoin. Anyone would like to design a corresponding logo? |
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Bitcoin was featured on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's radio national technology show Spark today: http://www.cbc.ca/spark/Enjoy! Just finished listening to it. They did a good job, though it's too bad they didn't talk to someone more directly connected with bitcoin. It's a good introductory podcast to share around. Very nice broadcast. Very pro. Questions asked were very little technical, and yet quite pertinent. |
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yep, I've edited (we actually don't need tr either, by the way).
I also tested on the second block. I worked fine.
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I don't know what *would* happen. I don't pretend to know and I don't care. Moreover, I don't believe in central economic planification anyway.
I don't think prices would fall until the end of times, though. At some point, an equilibrium should appear. And if it doesn't: be it!
Pro-inflation economists say that a bit of inflation is good because it prevents people from hoarding, and it makes them spend in shops before their money lose its value.
I have an other great tool to make people spend their money. I think in english it's called the "whip".
Basically all you have to do is to hire cops to whip people if they refuse to enter shops and to buy stuffs. Isn't that a great idea?
What about slavery? I think slavery was pretty good for the economy. It provided stable wages (zero is pretty much a constant number), so it was good for the companies which then could make predictable economic decisions. So I guess whipping customers and enslaving workers would be a nice way to ensure economic stability and prosperity.
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Thanks, that helped! #{
# "hash":"000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f",
# "ver":1,
# "prev_block":"0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
# "mrkl_root":"4a5e1e4baab89f3a32518a88c31bc87f618f76673e2cc77ab2127b7afdeda33b",
# "time":1231006505,
# "bits":486604799,
# "nonce":2083236893,
bigEndianHex2littleEndianHex() {
local s=''
while read -n 2 char
do s=$char$s
done
echo $s
}
ver=1
prev_block=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
mrkl_root=4a5e1e4baab89f3a32518a88c31bc87f618f76673e2cc77ab2127b7afdeda33b
time=1231006505
bits=486604799
nonce=2083236893
printf "%08x%08x%08x%064s%064s%08x" $nonce $bits $time $mrkl_root $prev_block $ver |
bigEndianHex2littleEndianHex |
xxd -r -p |
openssl dgst -sha256 -binary |
openssl dgst -sha256 -hex |
sed 's/^.* //' |
bigEndianHex2littleEndianHex
I can't really give the bounty since the solution was not complete. But thanks again. |
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Yeah right, and you hink the solution to this is to increase the price? "Oh my god, people don't buy my stuffs. I know: I'll just increase the price!" What a weird conception of economics. |
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I know this is a poor programming method, but I've tried a whole bunch of combinations for the size of each value: #{
# "hash":"000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f",
# "ver":1,
# "prev_block":"0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
# "mrkl_root":"4a5e1e4baab89f3a32518a88c31bc87f618f76673e2cc77ab2127b7afdeda33b",
# "time":1231006505,
# "bits":486604799,
# "nonce":2083236893,
ver=1
prev_block=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
mrkl_root=4a5e1e4baab89f3a32518a88c31bc87f618f76673e2cc77ab2127b7afdeda33b
time=1231006505
bits=486604799
nonce=2083236893
for s in - ''
do for a in 2 4
do for b in 64 128
do for c in 16 24 32
do
printf "%$s${a}x%$s${b}s%$s${b}s%$s${c}x%$s${c}x%$s${c}x" $ver $prev_block $mrkl_root $time $bits $nonce |
sed 's/ /0/g' |
xxd -pr |
openssl dgst -sha256 -binary |
openssl dgst -sha256 -hex |
sed 's/^.* //'
done
done
done
done
None of them works. I pledge 5 BTC to whoever finds the correct way. |
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A first it seemed weird to me too, that an "organisation" such as Anonymous could accept donations.
On second thought, when you donate, you give bitcoins to whoever has made the website available, providing you use the bitcoin address that is actually displayed on this website. So it does make sense. You reward whoever has published the news you read.
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Here is my first attempt to recompute the hash of the Genesis block: #{
# "hash":"000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f",
# "ver":1,
# "prev_block":"0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
# "mrkl_root":"4a5e1e4baab89f3a32518a88c31bc87f618f76673e2cc77ab2127b7afdeda33b",
# "time":1231006505,
# "bits":486604799,
# "nonce":2083236893,
ver=1
prev_block=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
mrkl_root=4a5e1e4baab89f3a32518a88c31bc87f618f76673e2cc77ab2127b7afdeda33b
time=1231006505
bits=486604799
nonce=2083236893
printf "%2x%64s%64s%16x%16x%16x" $ver $prev_block $mrkl_root $time $bits $nonce |
sed 's/ /0/g' |
xxd -pr |
openssl dgst -sha256 -binary |
openssl dgst -sha256 -hex |
sed 's/^.* //'
So far it doesn't work. Any help appreciated. |
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I doubt the OP is a scammer. He's made helpful posts in other threads.
I was joking of course. |
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Nice try  |
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/proc/cpuinfo is probably your best source of information about your processor.
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