Asking people to install an entire desktop mail client for something they are probably only going to do once in a blue moon is a bit much in my opinion. That's exactly the problem. If you use something like Mailvelope you'll only use encryption once in a blue moon because it's not feature-complete. If you transition your email workflow to full featured-clients you'll use encryption more often, and discover the gaps in Mailvelope's feature set when you send an encrypted email out to three people and everybody can read it except the Mailvelope user. |
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You guys have some crazy laws in your part of the planet. The United States is a bad country to be married in. |
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Actually, depending on what state he's in plausible deniability is not enough,.
Some states will throw men in jail indefinitely on the mere suspicion they are hiding assets, with no particular burden of proof required.
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We're potentially talking about two different gold markets, aren't we?
There are sites like Coinabul that trade between BTC and physical, and then there's the implicit exchange rate between BTC and paper gold.
The degree to which the physical gold price diverges from the paper gold price is the degree to which the graph I posted is not accurate for physical gold, however I'm not aware of any divergence (yet?) that is significant compared to the magnitude of Bitcoin's movement.
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If the judge finds out he's got a bitcoin wallet and he refuses to turn over the bitcoins, he can go to jail for contempt of court (and probably other things).
If he doesn't want to do that there are probably ways he could establish plausible deniability with regards to holding those Bitcoins, but having a friend post the details of his situation on a public forum wouldn't be a good way to start.
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The dollar and gold are fundamentally different, so the prices are going to act differently.
Nice theory, but you're wrong. Plot the two side by side against and you'll see them both behave almost identically. I've given you one of the graphs; it should be easy enough for you to make the other one on your own. |
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Comparing gold vs Bitcoin isn't much different than comparing the USD vs Bitcoin.  |
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gold has been around for 4000 years, i bet it will be around 4000 more  Horses were the primary form of land transportation for those same 4000 years. How much has daily life changed in the last 100 years, to say nothing of the last 4000? |
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I still think the solution to the orphan problem is something which involves transmitting the blocks before finding the nonce. It's only the delays which take place after finding the nonce which cause orphans.
The vast majority (as in ~100%) of blocks are never solved. A particular blockheader only has ~4 billion possible nonces which even a low end rig runs through in a fraction of a second. Difficulty is currently 700 million which means for every solved block roughly 700 million block headers are constructed and no solution is found. If there are changes in the pipeline which require a hard fork anyway, might as well fix that problem too by increasing the size of the nonce field. |
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Brainstorming for names here: Pumpcoin (PMPC), CloneCoin (CC), SuckerCoin (SKRC) ... any other ideas?
Fork Bitcoin as "ChristCoin" and get a couple of those megachurch preachers to help you pump it in exchange for a share of the premine. |
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While in theory a 15 Mbps connection could handle that, try to find an ISP which won't cap, throttle, or simply bad you for using 5 TB per month. Time Warner Cable has been pretty good about that so far. OTOH I've been paying for the highest-tier package and not obviously using it for Bittorrent. Several other countries have it even better. |
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If Bitcoin blocks become gigabytes in size such that only powerful entities bother running validation nodes, then I think Bitcoin will collapse since it loses its main feature that is appealing (truselessness). A transaction rate which produces 144 1 GB blocks per day is achievable on a home internet connection which I can get for less than $100/month, assuming transaction messages are suitably optimized as mentioned by D&T. By the time the network is processing that many transactions, the cost of such a connection will be even lower. The answer is to optimize block propagation into something that resembles efficient use of bandwidth so that we don't have to fear success. |
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It looks fine when you ignore all the posters who put large annoying advertisements in their signatures.
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Exactly. Are the core devs treating this issue seriously? Some are, some aren't. |
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250 is the default in the reference software. A simpler hypothesis than miners performing some complex orphaning cost benefit analysis is that they don't care to change the defaults.
An easy way to test that hypothesis would be to change the default to 1 MB and see how many miners suddenly start creating larger blocks. |
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I have gone to entire economics department to talk about the economics of bitcoin and the outcome is always the same:
They see bitcoin as a fad with no credibility.
The department keeps arguing against bitcoin with these points.
1) Bitcoin is deflationary and it will cause it to fail. (facepalm)
2) Bitcoin is doomed to fail because people hoard it instead of spending it. No Economy exist.(facepalm x2)
3) Nobody uses Bitcoin for anything (Not Mainstream=Not real???) (Facepalm x 1,000,000)
My Goal: Raise Awareness about Bitcoin. Starting with the economics department and then expanding to the whole campus then the whole town. I don't want those people to accept or understand Bitcoin until it's too late. They are part of the propaganda arm of the system that traps kids into debt slavery to support their lifestyle; they deserve to miss the boat. |
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