Bitcoin Forum
June 08, 2024, 01:05:44 AM *
News: Latest Bitcoin Core release: 27.0 [Torrent]
 
  Home Help Search Login Register More  
  Show Posts
Pages: « 1 ... 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 [129] 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 »
2561  Other / Off-topic / Re: What phone are you using ? on: June 06, 2013, 01:47:08 PM
I want to buy one of these huge full hd android phones soon.
2562  Other / Off-topic / Re: Test 123 - IGNORE on: June 06, 2013, 01:43:06 PM
IntegrityError('testing something',) is not JSON serializable
2563  Other / Off-topic / Re: Posting about Garbage on: June 06, 2013, 01:40:38 PM
How is the garbage service in Panama? Adequate?
2564  Other / Off-topic / Re: GYFT.COM: wonder why you'd never heard of it before? on: June 06, 2013, 01:40:06 PM
Meh. I think it's good that Gyft is aggressively embracing bitcoin.

Last thing we need are lynch mobs with their torches and pitchforks going after every company that decides to jump on the bitcoin train.
2565  Economy / Services / Re: Bitcoin 100: Developed Specifically for Non-Profits on: June 06, 2013, 12:50:24 PM
If I could find a way to get this organization to get bitpay on their site, do you think they could be a part of bitcoin 100?

http://www.santisookdogsandcats.org/en/

How simple is it for someone to get bitpay on there? They have paypal there already, so is setting up bitpay similar?
2566  Other / Off-topic / Re: How long has your OS been installed? on: June 06, 2013, 06:10:17 AM
Windows Power Shell?
2567  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Ruh Roh, bitcoin on the radar of the IMF? on: June 05, 2013, 06:47:45 PM
Not if they mine the remainder of ALL bitcoins... Within seconds short time they can mine all of it using the above hashrate (Centillion Hash/s)  Than they can sell those about 11M coins at once into the market so its value would drop to zero
There is no way they can bring more computational power to the network than we already have within a short time.  They will not "mine all the rest" of the coins.  That cannot and will not happen.

If the forces that want to control/stop it actually try it contributes to speeding Bitcoin's wide scale adoption and success as they legitimize it.
This.  By design as they attempt to stop it they help it (publicity or mining).

They can buy mining hardware  equipment for unlimited amount of funds and mine the rest of the coins to corner / control the market

That's like trying to corner the market on winning the lottery.

Also, I don't know why we're seeing so many people talk about "mining all the bitcoins" like anyone could actually do it. It doesn't matter how much computing power you put toward mining. Coins will only come into existence at a limited rate until around 2030.
True.  Except where do all these dates come from.  Everyone just pulls them out of their ass I guess.  The date is 2140 as shown in your referenced article!.

Also note that this whole topic has already been discussed here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=224704.0

2 week lag on difficulty adjustment does come in to play though. So it's a bit more complicated.
2568  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How could bitcoin be used to address civil rights issues with the gay community? on: June 05, 2013, 01:21:29 PM
Yeah, FYI, I'm gay, and I have NO IDEA how, or even why, to approach this. There really is no benefit, aside from tax dodging, that bitcoin can provide to the gay community. Now if you were to ask about the furry community, 75%+ of which is gay, I would suggest target their artists, who currently rely on PayPal to sell their art, including porn, and who regularly get their accounts frozen by PayPal for selling porn. Or on a less risque side, target places like FurAffinity and have artists post a bitcoin address in the comment section of the art they post to solicit donations. The big issue you'll rn into, though, is that furries AND gays are typically liberal, so they'll instinctively reject anything that has to do with capitalism or conservative economics.

Art in general is a huge area of potential growth for bitcoin.

If people who use bitcoin were will to use it and become sort of patrons towards the artist(and music) community online, it could really open up bitcoin to huge amounts of people who probably would never even think of using bitcoin.
2569  Other / Off-topic / Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? on: June 05, 2013, 09:53:58 AM
Proof that Ashish worked on Hashcash: http://web.archive.org/web/20070111153902/http://www.netropolis.org/hash/blog.cgi/About/CV.html?seemore=y

Quote
Code
Meng Weng Wong's TextAmp
Adam Back's HashCash

Its strange because as far as I can tell Ashish did not contribute to the hashcash library (and there were a few dozen people did).  Actually I had no idea who Ashish was other than the owner of hashcash.org (.com, .net) until reading this thread to realize he sounds like a pretty interesting open source crypto hacker and even involved with ecash related things at DMT which I was barely aware of though I had read some of the late J Orlin Grabbe's libertarian articles in the distant past.  I didnt realize he was an economist (see his wikipedia).

edit: Actually its not ambiguous the heading of the section on the above link is "As Seen On..." and includes sections for TV, news, magazines, and... code that mentions his name.  And hashcash certainly did that in the context of his giving the domain name, gratis.

Ashish did give me the domain - I think I offered $100 to have a better .org domain for the opensource project.  His counter-offer to give it to me was a pleasant surprise.  He got me to make a PGP signed statement saying I wouldnt try to obtain hashcash.com nor hashcash.net.  I notice now hashcash.net is for sale by one of those resellers so maybe he accidentally didnt renew it.

The speculations about Ashish personality to be eschewing financial reward are interesting (re $100m of unclaimed BTC on the block chain).  I dont know Ashish so I cant help there.  But it is interesting that there are some cultures and religions that do intentionally forgo financial reward, and shy away from shows of wealth etc.  I noticed some indian sub-cultures have that, but they are certainly not alone.  Ashish apparently was/is involved in open source, and interesting projects like DMT where presumably most of the interest is the technology purist, or political freedom potential.

Adam

Awesome. Thanks for your contribution. To both this thread and for inventing hashcash(aka bitcoin mining for those not familiar).
2570  Other / Off-topic / Re: Technological Singularity = EOTWAWKI? on: June 03, 2013, 04:39:51 PM
negative temperatures end up being hotter than absolute zero.


Buffer Overflow, lol.
2571  Other / Off-topic / Re: Technological Singularity = EOTWAWKI? on: June 03, 2013, 04:01:48 PM
Why does singularity = infinite?
2572  Other / Off-topic / Re: Technological Singularity = EOTWAWKI? on: June 03, 2013, 02:47:50 PM
No, wouldn't that just be death?
2573  Other / Off-topic / Re: I miss Game of Thrones on: June 03, 2013, 01:14:04 PM
Is this real life?
2574  Other / Off-topic / Re: I miss Game of Thrones on: June 03, 2013, 12:37:07 PM
Holy shit.
2575  Other / Off-topic / Re: I miss Game of Thrones on: June 03, 2013, 10:56:08 AM
It's here. It's here. It's here!
2576  Other / Off-topic / Re: Poetry Contest: Win 100 mB on: June 03, 2013, 05:03:24 AM
cock in my ass
dick in my chu
let me suck you

penis on my mind
you on my penis
lets dance together
as we celebrate sexmas

lips on my balls
balls on my lips
a nice penis tip


True Roman poetry, for true Romans.
2577  Other / Off-topic / I miss Game of Thrones on: June 02, 2013, 12:41:22 PM
Damn two weeks is killing me.

Can barely hold myself together.

Not long now... Cry
2578  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Transaction times on: June 02, 2013, 12:14:32 PM
This sucks.
2579  Other / Off-topic / Re: what to do with 2 unused vps on: June 02, 2013, 11:45:29 AM
How much do you think one of those would normally cost per month?
2580  Other / Off-topic / Re: I sent a Santaria parody to Zhou Tongued and he never got back to me on: June 02, 2013, 11:39:52 AM
Does anyone know the identity of the two members of Zhou Tonged?

Are they forum members here?
Pages: « 1 ... 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 [129] 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 »
Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.19 | SMF © 2006-2009, Simple Machines Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!