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Exactly. A fork of bitcoin would be if a group of bitcoin users decided to try to force the whole bitcoin community in a new direction. Unless everyone decided to go along, the fork in the bitcoin block chain would result in the smaller group (minority) being ignored by the larger group (majority).
The bitcoin software ignores a block chain if it does not have 51% or more of new mined blocks.
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They say you really know a language well if you can get a girl who speaks that language to kiss you. Did it work? Yeah, didn't think so...  |
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Why is this referred to as a "hoarding" problem? Why is saving not the correct term for this? To me, it's derogatory to call saving hording. At some point, the coins will be spent or sold. Hoarding is what those people on TV do, keep it until it is trash. Unless it's your plan to keep your BTC until you format them away, it's not hoarding. Correct. Because bitcoin is a deflationary currency it will be attacked by all who believe such currencies are doomed. Attackers (debaters if you prefer) should use logic to discuss the relative merits of fiat currency versus bitcoin. However, they are likely to also try emotional attacks, and calling bitcoin users "hoarders" is an emotional attack. It isn't logical, but that wasn't the point of the attack. |
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I took the pictures of Hitler and Stalin and tried to come up with a Frankenstein's monster combination of the two. I've put the originals in the background for comparison, what do you think?  |
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The title change was a intended as a joke although I'd guess many folks vacationing at guantanamo bay wouldn't find it funny. As to they're a great discovery that has saved many lives but they're massively overused. Its almost impossible to find unbiased figures for the damage done by them but many well researched and credible reports claim westerners immune systems are only 10% as effective against infections compared to medical records from a century ago.
OP here, I'm posting this because it's likely someone is already plotting it. The advantage of posting is that now it's out in the open. An out-in-the-open analysis of who would benefit will help save lives because the public is alerted beforehand and the perpetrators usually make mistakes. (An alert populace can find those mistakes.) |
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I agree - the flu won't damage the top producers in the economy.
Ok, what if that's the point? Who would benefit? The flu could create a panic by hurting the most vulnerable people in society without damaging the production of the nation.
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Ok, I think influenza qualifies on all points except it doesn't permanently disable survivors. Mortality rates are highest among the young and the old.
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Since there's now a "Flu Virus Outbreak" on the nightly news, what would it take to artificially introduce a new influenza strain that becomes a US pandemic?
Assume a new flu virus has been created already in a lab somewhere (skip the biology).
Also, who would benefit? Obama-care advocates? Wealthy plutocrats? North Korea?
(I'm just throwing out some bad ideas.)
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Baffling, yes.
I think there aren't that many developers with enough free time to do it. I have the free time but since I'm unemployed, I have to focus on survival.
Here's my address if you want me to port it from 0.6.x and fix the remaining bugs: 1GiN4UWo8VZ9PZuJXfMQYbQyP9opGsayYD
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Ok this is great!
So I've been playing around with Electrum and I like what I see.
I should probably tweak Bitcoin-Qt to add this feature. Would anybody want that? (For a few BTC I'd be sure and do it)
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A sheet of 1/2" ply! You must live in tornado alley or something! The new houses they build in the developments around here don't even use plywood (or osb) for the exterior anymore. They use foam board, with osb at the corners. You can literally break into someone's home by cutting through a wall with a utility knife. I have pellet rifles that can penetrate that! That's pretty sad! Can you name an area where they do that? (but not your location please) |
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I'm using the official Bitcoin-Qt client (0.7.2) and so far have just been receiving coins. How can I control the inputs to a transaction? I've read Quantitative Analysis of the Full Bitcoin Transaction Graph (PDF) - I think that means I don't want to just combine all my coins by sending them to one address. An algorithm could safely deduce that all the inputs to the transaction were really just me all along. I want to get in the habit of being as anonymous as possible. I understand that there's no such thing as perfect anonymity. The "send coins" view in Bitcoin-Qt is missing an option to pick an input and see what the balance is at that address. I googled to see if anyone had asked a similar question but didn't find one. |
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Some say the Voynich manuscript is a hoax, and contains no real meaning.
I'm fascinated by your idea, Phinnaeus. When the user gets to the final point, would the item do or reveal anything? If not... what a joke!
Oh, and I can second what SgtSpike and myrkul are saying: because GPS confines all coordinates to MSL (Mean Sea Level) + elevation, and elevation is always much smaller than the diameter of the sphere, then we can say elevation is always (approximately) zero.
This means a triangle formed by three GPS coordinates is either degenerate (it's a straight line) – or, the points and the length from each point will exactly resolve to one "solution." Since elevation is not truly zero, there are actually two solutions if elevation is included in the calculation; but both solutions need to be averaged together to get the best Latitude and Longitude reading for the real solution (that is, use Newton's method to approximate a more accurate solution along the line between the two mathematical solutions).
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FreeMoney's explanation is really good.
One thing that sometimes gets mentioned is a "51% attack," that is, if 51% of all miners suddenly decided to corrupt the bitcoin system, then the rules (protocol) would get derailed by them.
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