I believe it takes 4 or 5 years for wikipedia to mature, and less than 10 years that people start shutting up about wikipedia and accept it as part of daily life.
Bitcoin will grows the same way, as it benefit from network effects.
I like this comparaison a lot. |
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I agree with theymos. eMail is already peer-to-peer, since anyone can install a mail server.
However, it's a bit difficult technically, and it's kind of useless if you don't own a fixed IP and a domain name.
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Would anyone still pay to see someone do something along these lines? Because I'll do it as a star wars storm trooper, and have a friend take a video.
I can't guarantee I'll pay for it, but I'd definitely would like to see that. |
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Pour une question aussi technique tu devrais vraiment poster en anglais sur le forum support.
Tu auras une réponse bien plus rapidement amha.
Moi je ne peux pas t'aider en tout cas, désolé.
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Yes. But what I am trying to say is that it would be much easier for some organization hostile to Bitcoin to turn off (or attack) a few pool servers than to disconnect thousands of single users.
Well, even if they do, then the difficulty will decrease and the mining will be done by CPUs... I really think there isn't much to worry about. |
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I don't mind if there is a bit of centralisation, as long as it is not coerced.
There can be many pools, with different rules. Plus, nothing prevents you from investing in a lot of CGU and do your own mining.
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Indeed, and it is much less fun than I thought. I'll make the test one day, though. |
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Damned it ribuck has been quicker than me.
I'd like to make an experiment too. The purpose is to see how many people are willing to pay for a silly experiment. So, this experiment has no purpose. It is just a silly experiment.
In order to contribute to the experiment, please donate 1 BTC to:
186k1qpkn26Gd45Bznhh5SRReo93XLPvuu
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If they can revoke the credit, it causes the same problem as paypal in an exchange platform, right? Also, not sure that FB allows trading of their credits...  I'm pretty sure one of the objective is to allow someone to donate credits to someone else. If you can donate, then you can sell. |
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For some time I've been considering whether it could be possible to create some kind of a "mind fingerprint", using a decent number of Yes/No questions.
Results could be printed as a box in the above area.
As I see it, it would consist in something like 100 yes/no questions, and as a result you'll see where you are on a political map.
Questions would deal with death penalty, divorce, capitalism, freedom of speech, abortion, minimal wage, retirement, gun control, and so on...
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You say this as though company failure fixes all the problems. The failure of Enron caused enormous problems for millions of people and those problems haven't gone away. Do a google search for "enron pensions" just to get a taster. You could, however, argue that Enron became as big as it was, and therefore in a position to affect millions of people, by virtue of previous government regulation. There's nothing in a free market politics, though, that prohibits companies becoming just as big.
I don't see the problem. Those people just made poor financial decisions. There are some losses. Nothing to be offended about. |
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I think it's amazing that millions of people are about to accept using that. But anyway, I'm all about free market and I have nothing against private currencies after all.
So, what should we do about that? Is is good news for the liberalisation of currencies? Will it contribute to make people think about what is money?
I think that it will be important to offer a plateform exchange with this currency. I hope the main bitcoin exchange websites will integrate it as soon as the facebook credit is released.
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If you want freedom for yourself you have to let others be free.
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Yes, wikipedia's definitions are a little vague. I will now make some up: - Liberalism is socialism or progress towards it.
- Conservatism is free market capitalism.
- Libertarianism is personal and social freedom.
- Statism is essentially Authoritarianism.
I think you got all mixed up. I like the idea of a chart with economic freedom on the horizontal axis and moral issues on the vertical axes. But I don't like your labelling. To me it would be pretty much more like this: libertarianism ^ | communism <- -> liberalism | v conservatism |
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I'm not making up these definitions. Up-Down is politics, and Left-Right is economics.
With this I agree more or less. But not with what you wrote above: Leftist is Liberal (more freedom), Rightist is Conservative (more government).
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Leftist is Liberal (more freedom), Rightist is Conservative (more government).
That's not how I see things. To me left/right is the capitalism/communism antagonism. So basically it deals with economic freedom. Conservatism/liberal deals with moral issues. Basically all social stuffs, i.e. everything which is not related to commercial activity: mariage, divorce, education, crime, drugs, free speech, suicide, guns, religion, ... |
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To choose just one example, Enron, government deregulation of the energy industry actually led to a situation where Enron was fucking over both it's shareholders and the general public, the shareholders by using dodgy accounting methods, the general public my artificially inflating energy prices, in at least one case actually deliberately causing a power shortage to do so.
Shareholders can not be screwed by lack of regulation. If they need more regulation, they'll make their own regulation. Get rid of government regulation, and shareholders will price this increased moral risk. Market will take this into account. Good management can bring private regulation. Good managers can be nominated during the assembly. It can be decided by share holders just in order to raise the capital value of the company, and thus to make benefits. Nobody is against regulation. It just doesn't have to be done by government. I don't know well the Enron case, but at some point this company failed, right? Well, failure is part of free market regulation. |
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I answered rightist libertarian, which to me is just the true form of any libertarian.
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