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261  Economy / Lending / Re: DiamondCardz's micro loans | ✔ Open! | .01 BTC min/.1 BTC max on: August 14, 2013, 05:42:39 PM
I don't get it. You don't do trust building loans but your max is .10? What legitimate use could someone have for an 11 dollar loan?
262  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I just got .5 BTC out of nowhere? on: August 14, 2013, 05:38:49 PM

Alright, well unfortunately I do not support aliens so that "charity" will never see any donations from me.
263  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: [WTS] BTC FOR PAYPAL on: August 14, 2013, 05:35:57 PM
If you are legit you should be using escrow.

Also, selling BTC for PayPal is risky because the PayPal user can chargeback the transaction.
264  Other / Politics & Society / Re: George Lambert,exploring a run for governor of New Hampshire, discusses bitcoin on: August 14, 2013, 05:32:43 PM
I live in NH, so this interesting. What's his platform? I can't find a homepage besides his FB which isn't very informative.
265  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 6 Bitcoin Societal Issues on: August 14, 2013, 05:30:56 PM
Also, bitcoins will never be completely untraceable. You have to use a computer, so that ensures that in some shape or form your transactions will be traced, whether it's with the blockchain, through your IP, or even through keylogging.

You don't have to use a computer. You can create a paper wallet (even manually hashing an address) and store coins on paper, and create transactions and sign them by hand. Then you can either call someone else with a connected computer to spell out the transaction to them, or even snail-mail that paper to them.

Or you can use Tor and a mixing service on an OS you run from a bootable CD that only transmits transactions, which you sign on a computer you never hook up to the web.

Well if you mail the wallet or call then there's the trace right there... Unless you deliver it by hand, in which case why not just use cash?

I guess you could do that CD idea but that would be quite a hassle.
266  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Earn Bitcoins Gambling On MINECRAFT! on: August 14, 2013, 05:18:57 PM
Why are you creating a TOTALLY NEW THREAD FOR A SERVICE WHICH ALREADY HAS A THREAD AND DOES NOT NEED ANOTHER ONE

For the referral link.
267  Other / Off-topic / Re: FU all you trolls and doubters where are you now??????????/ on: August 14, 2013, 05:17:42 PM
You really have 100,000? Can we see proof?
268  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Earn Bitcoins Gambling On MINECRAFT! on: August 14, 2013, 05:13:32 PM
There is no max ammount i would say.
I won already 70 BTC <3

I won 21,000,000 BTC guys! It's legit!
269  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Entitlement Mentality on: August 14, 2013, 05:11:38 PM
Feel free to keep ignoring how you would establish what a "fair wage" is by the way.

Something approaching livable.

"Something approaching livable" is less than minimum wage. No one works for wages that will kill them. If someone works for $2.00 an hour than obviously their wage is livable, unless one day a corpse shows up to work.

Also, could you be more specific?
270  Economy / Invites & Accounts / Re: Bitcointalk forums accounts for sale. Accounts from 2012 just .15btc on: August 14, 2013, 05:08:20 PM
Apologies for what I'm about to say.

There is no way in hell that this should even be allowed on this forum.

Full disclosure: I only read the first sentence of the OP. Nothing else in this thread was read.

I agree this type thing is not allowed to be here its going be very strange

It is allowed, since it's unenforceable.
271  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I just got .5 BTC out of nowhere? on: August 14, 2013, 04:55:32 PM

So you want me to donate? What does payitforward even do?
272  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 6 Bitcoin Societal Issues on: August 14, 2013, 04:53:53 PM
1) Bribery -- authorities can be bribed to grant favors. 
2) Unfair elections -- untraceable alien and excessive donations controlling elections.
3) Tax only the honest? -- under-the-table commerce and pay is not taxed. 
4) Financial aid cheating -- wealth can be hidden so poverty can't be determined as easily.
5) Terrorism and Crime -- no stopping funding of enemies foreign and domestic.
6) Porn and Drugs -- buying this stuff is made easier and undetectable.

Ironically, #'s 1 through 4 are already a problem without Bitcoin in the mix. So... Business as usual?

All already exist. All will keep existing.

I can bribe an official, send excessive donations, declare whatever taxes I want, hide my wealth, fund terrorists, and buy drugs with or without bitcoins.

Also, bitcoins will never be completely untraceable. You have to use a computer, so that ensures that in some shape or form your transactions will be traced, whether it's with the blockchain, through your IP, or even through keylogging.

Cash is still less likely to be tracked. If I give someone a dollar and no one else sees, there's no way that that transaction will ever be known.
273  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Irrational 1% Jealousy on: August 14, 2013, 04:48:20 PM
Also, keep in mind, a CEO might earn 2 million a year, but if he rakes in 50 million a year for the company it's a worthy investment.
No CEO has ever done that alone.

Do you have proof? Would Microsoft exist without Bill Gates? Would Apple have existed without Steve Jobs? Would Facebook have existed without Mark Zuckerberg?
Looks like you missed the point, we aren't discussing existentialism.
Though each made great contributions, none of those are alone in those contributions.
On the existence question, would any of those companies exist without the folks in the trenches?
The CEO that claims they are making all the difference has more hubris than leadership.

Looks like I missed the point? Maybe you can argue that Bill Gates and Steve Jobs sat around twiddling their thumbs, and just by chance they made billion dollar companies, but Zuckerberg made Facebook. Without him, it would not exist. So how could Facebook make a dollar let alone millions if it never existed?
274  Economy / Lending / Re: 0.01 Loan on: August 14, 2013, 04:44:10 PM
You're trying to scam for a whole dollar? Really? How cheap are you that you can't get it yourself?
275  Other / Off-topic / Re: New form of transportation to be announced: LA to SanFran in 30min! on: August 14, 2013, 04:38:10 PM
I hope they've taken into account that most people might not be able to take the strain of travelling at such speeds and that solar power doesn't work at night, sounds like another bullshit advertisement campaign done by newspapers like Virgin's 'space plane' which doesn't actually go into space but exits the atmosphere for a few seconds before going down again, don't believe anything of what these people say until they have fully working prototypes and not just stupid 3D or 2D animation mock ups.

I know I sound very negative, but people like this really do make a mockery of science >_< particularly because when they finally make the real deal no one's going to believe the people who did actually figured it out.

Elon Musk makes a mockery of science? Even though he made electric cars mainstream and has the first private space program... Keep in mind pneumatic tubes already exist, they just need to be made bigger.
276  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: BTC Clicks - Anyone discovered this yet? on: August 14, 2013, 04:33:14 PM

Seems like someone has discovered it.  Roll Eyes
277  Economy / Economics / Re: The very sad truth about Bitcoin : It might die to gambling on: August 14, 2013, 04:30:58 PM

Normal People, Family & Friends
People like you and your family use Bitcoin to transfer earned income and savings directly to their children, without government intervention.


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Normal People, Whose Savings Are Being Destroyed By Inflation
People like you and your family use Bitcoin to to preserve their savings from inflated fiat currencies.

Except that BTC is tied to those inflated fiat currencies, and is far more volatile than any other currency. One day your savings will be worth 100,000 and the next they're worth 90,000. If you bought BTC when they were really high then you lost more than 50% of your wealth.
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Normal People Making Small Purchases on the Internet
People like you and your family use Bitcoin to conveniently purchase individual songs and other intellectual property on the internet.

Waiting 3 days for a wire transfer, and then an hour for confirmations to clear is far from convenient. I'd say Itunes has this covered, if you're going to pay in the first place.

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Businesses
Businesses use Bitcoin to avoid expensive chargebacks from dishonest credit card purchasers, and to lower the cost of doing business.

Not sure how the cost of running a bitcoin business is any cheaper than a fiat business.

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Refugees from Repressive Regimes
People trapped in corrupt jurisdictions use Bitcoin to protect what they have earned.

Really? Do they just set up their desktop in the middle of the refugee camp?

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Philanthropists and Other Generous People
People who learn about genuine suffering use Bitcoin to eliminate the middle-man and send anonymous contributions instantly to wherever they can help.

Which isn't a lot of places. As far as I know no medical charity organization accepts BTC. You won't be donating to red cross or MSF any time soon.

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Journalists and the Media
Journalists and the media use Bitcoin to provide incentives and protection to Whistleblowers.

I don't know about this.

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Travelers
People who travel for business or pleasure use Bitcoin to reduce the risk of carrying cash or credit cards.

How? Unless they have memorized their wallet they need some physical way to keep track of the address and private key.


Here's the real major groups that use BTC:

Investors

People use BTC as a commodity or stock, instead of a currency.

Drug Users

People who want the best strains of weed can purchase it anonymously and easily.

Gamblers

People who don't want their gambling activities to be public can also use BTC anonymously for transactions.
278  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I just got .5 BTC out of nowhere? on: August 14, 2013, 04:18:37 PM
You are welcome.


Pay it forward.

What?
279  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: I just got .5 BTC out of nowhere? on: August 14, 2013, 03:52:48 PM
That sounds like a bug with VirWoX, given that there isn't an actual transaction on the blockchain.

Well we'll see if my BTC withdrawal gets confirmations.
280  Economy / Lending / Re: Catfish on: August 14, 2013, 03:51:43 PM
I can meet you at Marco's pizza.  Nice and public.  Free Pizza.

If you'd like to do it, I have a form for you to fill out. Giving me permission to use the video for profit.

I'll turn you into the greatest meme the interwebs have ever seen.

This could also lead to the death of bitcoin, if he is the only mainstream bitcoin-related meme. It wouldn't be good if BTC becomes known for scammers.
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