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2581  Economy / Economics / Re: May 2010 "Flash Crash" Perp Arrested Today on: April 24, 2015, 07:13:09 PM
If someone could go ahead and do the inverse of what this guy did, but on bitcoin markets, that would be great...
2582  Other / Off-topic / Re: Let my self go, walked 10 miles in florida sun. on: April 24, 2015, 01:12:43 AM
Ok, now is the OP a smoker?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx_5m1JTcoY = "I'm such an addict that I would walk the entire length of any island or continent if that was the only way to get my high."
2583  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Jeremy England: The Man Who May One-Up Darwin on: April 23, 2015, 10:51:06 PM
A tomato will decompose because no animal nearby wants to eat it at its peak, until it is fully consumed by all lesser organisms so that it is no longer unattractive/visible to people.
2584  Other / Off-topic / Re: Let my self go, walked 10 miles in florida sun. on: April 23, 2015, 04:41:32 AM
I feel like I'm missing something with these Camel ads.
2585  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Waiting List For Legal Immigrants Surges to 4.4 Million on: April 23, 2015, 01:43:47 AM
Refund legal immigration fees/reimburse lawyers' fees
Repeal immigration law (which is nothing more than a cash grab for the .gov and lawyer employment guarantee)

In that order.
2586  Other / Politics & Society / Re: CNN national poll: Rand Paul 13%, Bush 13%, Ryan 12%, Huckabee 10%, Christie 9% on: April 23, 2015, 01:18:50 AM
Nothing will ever get the MSM, or those who count the votes, on Rand's side. He's not going to out-bribe the most prolific bribers in history. It may take a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_%281946%29 at every Republican primary jurisdiction to ensure all his votes are counted, considering the aggressive violence directed at liberty-oriented Republicans at events.

The only way is for the public voice to rise up with a roar and decide to make a change from the left-right paradigm. It is old and broken because it only serves those who put the puppets in power.

Tyrants shrug, ensure the worst possible evil is elected irregardless.

Then civil war

We recrossed the grievances line of the American Revolution decades ago. Tyranny marches on. Seems like nothing short of democide by government in the US will ever make people think a defensive civil war is justified. Except by that time, "gun control" will have succeeded at its final solution and nobody will be able to resist at arms, being dumped into mass graves and ovens. The NRA is effectively powerless, all talk no meaningful action lobbying aside.
2587  Other / Politics & Society / Re: CNN national poll: Rand Paul 13%, Bush 13%, Ryan 12%, Huckabee 10%, Christie 9% on: April 23, 2015, 12:57:47 AM
Nothing will ever get the MSM, or those who count the votes, on Rand's side. He's not going to out-bribe the most prolific bribers in history. It may take a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_%281946%29 at every Republican primary jurisdiction to ensure all his votes are counted, considering the aggressive violence directed at liberty-oriented Republicans at events.

The only way is for the public voice to rise up with a roar and decide to make a change from the left-right paradigm. It is old and broken because it only serves those who put the puppets in power.

Tyrants shrug, ensure the worst possible evil is elected irregardless.
2588  Other / Politics & Society / Re: CNN national poll: Rand Paul 13%, Bush 13%, Ryan 12%, Huckabee 10%, Christie 9% on: April 23, 2015, 12:49:03 AM
Nothing will ever get the MSM, or those who count the votes, on Rand's side. He's not going to out-bribe the most prolific bribers in history. It may take a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_%281946%29 at every Republican primary jurisdiction to ensure all his votes are counted, considering the aggressive violence directed at liberty-oriented Republicans at events.
2589  Other / Politics & Society / Re: CNN national poll: Rand Paul 13%, Bush 13%, Ryan 12%, Huckabee 10%, Christie 9% on: April 23, 2015, 12:45:12 AM
How is a bloody legal drug user son going to affect his fathers' electability? The current and last POTUS used copious amounts of narcotics!
2590  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Breaking News! Gavin and Bitcoin Core devs join MIT Media Labs on: April 22, 2015, 10:25:32 PM
maybe it is the time when btc will again start its train journey to upward

That time will be when No-Bid is fully operational. I don't see MIT diverting resources from Bitcoin Core to work on it.
2591  Other / Off-topic / Re: Let my self go, walked 10 miles in florida sun. on: April 22, 2015, 09:49:55 PM
Do you even sunscreen, bro?
2592  Other / Politics & Society / Re: What are some movies you watched that changed the way you view the society? on: April 22, 2015, 09:41:27 PM
The first film that comes to my mind is the Atlas Shrugged (Part-1 and Part-2, the 3rd part was not up to the mark). Changed my perception about the society, especially that on taxes, government, employment.etc.

Could only afford to see part 1 because of the limited release hoity-toity theater prices, but it practically seemed like a documentary of present day. I was already a libertarian before seeing it, but moved closer to an-cap.
2593  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Is there any demand for a Bitcoin auditing service? on: April 22, 2015, 09:18:07 PM
Wouldn't the audit need to be repeated, every single minute, by an automated process, that locks down the exchange and if necessary doublespends hacked BTC with a higher fee to an emergency evac address, as soon as any funny business is detected?

Frequent audits would be preferable but it wouldn't need to be any more or less frequent than those for non-Bitcoin businesses. Mt. Gox was audited in 2011 but the results of that audit had no relevance by the time it collapsed in 2014. An audit once or twice every year or so would have been much better since even a yearly audit would have found serious problems with the exchange much earlier compared to not doing one at all.

If I'm reading http://blog.wizsec.jp/2015/04/the-missing-mtgox-bitcoins.html right, the theft effectively started right after the 2011 audit. So if another audit had been done a year later, it would been the better part of 365 days too late. Hence my question above.
2594  Other / Off-topic / Re: How many of you signature campaign posters sell your coins once you received it? on: April 22, 2015, 09:05:59 PM
This is my BTC theme song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVp-zIONsrs
2595  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Best Engraving material for Seed words? on: April 22, 2015, 08:48:47 PM
http://www.norsam.com/rosetta.html

Engrave on nickel plate too small for eyes to see.  

Read with a microscope.  

Hide anywhere.  
That seems a bit too excessive, I am not holding 100's of coins. I just need tags that ill engrave and a little letter on the top left i'll put a letter and a word it'll spell and that's how I will know what order they go in.

You should choose a word that anagrams out to the most possible other words, otherwise it won't take long to solve. How many 12 letter words are there?
2596  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Should Satoshi's coins be deleted? on: April 22, 2015, 08:45:11 PM
I thought "Satoshi's coins" were unspendable even if he A) was still alive B) had the original wallet.
2597  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Does Bitcoin Has What It Takes To Replace Fiat? on: April 22, 2015, 06:38:54 PM
Slower than the 2 days it takes credit card payments to go from pre-authorized to cleared? Nope, a TX can be verified to comprise valid UXTOs and not be at risk of double-spending in muuuuuuch less time than 2 days.

Wait a minute pls! I'm just trying to imagine and visualize the bloke in the off-licence shop around 11pm as he checking the TX for valid UXTOs Smiley.

That's what software is for.

Does he have to check whether the credit card payment is valid or wait to see if the card is going to be chargebacked or has been stolen x amount of days later? Payment processors are used with both cash cards and bitcoin and they will protect against this sort of stuff but regardless once coins are sent they're as good as spent the vast majority of the time.

With a credit card payment you can be quite sure about that you will get your money. Your shop insurance can cover losses from credit card fraud, so there are no need to check it, if the bank accepted the transaction.

So you want to pay higher insurance premiums to accept fiat payments which can be 1) cancelled before the preauth goes to cleared 2 days later 2) reversed months afterward. Great!
2598  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Is there any demand for a Bitcoin auditing service? on: April 22, 2015, 08:48:07 AM
Wouldn't the audit need to be repeated, every single minute, by an automated process, that locks down the exchange and if necessary doublespends hacked BTC with a higher fee to an emergency evac address, as soon as any funny business is detected?
2599  Other / Politics & Society / Re: US Warships in Yemen. Why? on: April 22, 2015, 08:42:33 AM
To waste as many trillions of taxpayer dollars as possible.
2600  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Does Bitcoin Has What It Takes To Replace Fiat? on: April 22, 2015, 07:46:09 AM
Why a transaction processing system would replace money? IMO bitcoin is too volatile and transactions are slow for a fiat replacement.

Slower than the 2 days it takes credit card payments to go from pre-authorized to cleared? Nope, a TX can be verified to comprise valid UXTOs and not be at risk of double-spending in muuuuuuch less time than 2 days.

Can bitcoin slap sense into morons who would rather pay thousands of dollars in fiat transfer fees than practically none at all for BTC? No.

The transfer fees is none, but there are conversion fees. Fiat->BTC and then BTC->Fiat. Bitcoin is far from the stage where one can keep and use Bitcoin instead of converting it.

How are you not aware that there are 0 conversion fee BTC->fiat companies?

0 conversion fee is not a long term option for the company offering this service if it cannot get money from other sources.

With the typical millions in seed funding and obligations to bring profit to shareholders, the company offering the conversion service can set a profit threshold so that the business customer is paid the current market rate of fiat, but the BTC is held until a bid arises at a desired percentage above the original market rate. The conversion is then made free for the business customer and profitable for the converter. But the "long term plan" seems to be to dump the BTC instantly, tank the market price constantly. The status quo doesn't make sense.
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