+1

yet I enjoyed the pilot and I'm about to dl 1x02

PS.  I've changed my mind and I donated 1 BTC.  I'll give more if I enjoy the second episode too.

Yeah I'm working on it too.  I'm not sure how exactly would this be implemented.  I've experimented several solutions.

I want to mention something though.  Such a stock market doesn't have to be organised by corporations themselves.  Stocks can be sold on "second-hand", in a parallel market.

I've already sold 1 eBay share and 1 DRDGold share, using an auction process.  Search those terms in the marketplace forum.

Well, I guess anyone who is incapable of learning a few prefixes does not have much economic value anyway.  So I don't mind if these people don't use bitcoin.

PS.  If I ask my mother what scientific notation is, she will obviously say she has no idea.  But if I ask her how many millimeters there are in on meter, I'm pretty sure she'll have to give it about 10 seconds thought, but hopefully she'll come out with the right answer.

Come on.  He doesn't know what a millimeter is?  He doesn't ever use words such as kiloWatt, kilogram, MegaHertz, GigaOctet, and so on? ...

Will satoshi be back to sign the tarball if gavin increases the decimal precision?

I'd feel much more comfortable if it's satoshi who stays in charge for this.

I don't play WoW but I'm glad this service exists in bitcoin, because it is something that anyone can easily do to earn bitcoins.  It's certainly a good thing for bitcoin economy.

I suggest you add Satoshi Nakamoto to this list

Just read this quickly, skipping some boring parts about morality.

It is indeed a good text, much more clever that what I read usually from states-lovers.

I'll write more about it later.

It's just like a normal bank, with the folowing differences:

- there are several bank accounts per person.  You can actually create as many bank accounts as you want.
- accounts are anonymous.  Nobody can know who own a bank account, unless you publish the account number and declare it is yours.
- owning a bank account consists of having a mathematical key associated to it.  This key allows you to transfer bitcoins from this bank account to another.  You must keep this key secret and store it on your PC.
- all transactions between bank accounts are public.  Every transaction is stored on everyone's PC.
- every 10 minutes or so, someone is elected to play the role of a central bank.  He clears the transactions, checks balances, and creates a few new bitcoins for himself.

I doubt I could make it less technical.

Keeping 2100 BTC is a good symbolic number since it is 0.01% of the total amount of bitcoins.

Currencies don't inflate one another.

When Bernanke print USD, he doesn't hurt EUR or JPY

Yeah, and when they DON'T agree with such rules, they don't have to live like ermits as you suggested.  They just separate and gather in groups of people agreeing with a different set of rules.

I think this is called separationism (or maybe cessessionism), and to me it is better than democracy.

This is an error statits often make.  They see society as a whole.  You're part of it or you're not.

A society is basically a group of people interacting with one another.  If you reject one, you can join an other. Basically what I advocate is the right for individuals to chose who they want to work and collaborate with.

I very much doubt so.  Private capital accumulation doesn't lead to slavery, as long as it doesn't use force to coerce people to work.

Well, it is NOT a volontary contribution.  If you don't agree with it, you have to pay anyway.  If you don't, armed people threaten you and put you in a cage.  It is not slavery, but it's pretty damn close.


The lack of counter examples??  You're obviously biased.

Anyway, even if that was true, think about what would happen if suddenly government stopped funding those research.  Would all the scientists who were working for gov. suddenly become dum?  Would they stop thinking, creating, innovating?  Would they become too poor to organize themselves the funding of their research?  Wouldn't some private companies be glad to be able to support them financially?

In science, the governement is like an elephant in a room.  Once you get rid of it, there is plenty of room for other things.


PS.  And again, it's not even a matter of efficiency.  Science is great, no doubt of that.  But I don't value it more than my freedom.

PS.  Also, please stop using public scientific research as an excuse to legitimate taxation.   It is a very tiny small part of taxation. 

I don't care if taxes and public funding are more efficient for research, scientific developpement or whatever.  It is probably.

I'm pretty sure that a scientist will be more efficient if you give him one hundred slaves to help him for his research (building him a home, a laboratory, shining his shoes, whatever...).

It's not the matter.  With the same ideas, we could solve unemployement by rehabilitating slavery.


Domestication of humans is probably an efficient economic model.  I have no doubt about that.  Still, I don't want to be part of it.

Anyone working on the mybitcoin API?

I'd like to book two or three girls in order to celebrate the bitcoin parity.  They have to be tall, caucasian and good looking.  If they can bring cocaine, I buy that too.  Girls have to stay the night and accept anal, ass-to-mouth, gaging, deepthroat and spanking.    I'm sado so at least one of them has to be maso.  If the others accept to be beaten, it's good but I'm ok if they refuse that.  Yet all of them have to accept at least a few strong slaps in the face.


Please PM me photos and fares.

Agreed.

One thing people should do when they explain bitcoin, is to compare a bitcoin address to a bank account number.  Because it has exactly the same purpose, basically.  Except that this account number has a mathematical key that you keep secret.


An  other thing is to explain that everything works a bit like in the conventionnal banking system, except that the person who plays the role of the bank changes every ten minutes or so.


Once you've explained that, I think you got the global framework of bitcoin.

To celebrate this day, I suggest we all donate 1 BTC to our favorite organisation.

Personnaly I'll give one to EFF and one for Hayek's institute.

Also, consider adding nodes manually with the -addnode option or something.  It's somewhere in the wiki.  If you can't find it, ask on IRC.