most of those pages are for donations, which do nothing towards building an economy for bitcoin. the only thing you can actually buy is baklava. i think thats even better than alpaca socks  i dont really see a critical mass there. This just in: Every single organization in the world now accepts Bitcoin donations, well over 100 million of them. No effect? But yeah, early to call it 'critical'. |
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BUT then again, bitcoin was designed when mining was astonishingly slow on the cpu. Now we are already 10000X faster, can bitcoin be strengthened if in 5 years GPUs can crack a key in a month?
Yes, it can be strengthened. |
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Ok I kinda get it now. Just seemed so easy to vanitygen all the valid 1mtgox addresses quickly.
Ah, yeah, not going to get 'all of them' by any means. There are still [sick huge number] divided by 58^5 [aka small number] of address. |
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Hmm ok, but on the off chance we before generate the same address, private leys will be identical right? Theres no protection?
No protection at all, the coins belonging to that address would be lost. I think the best way to think of it is this: If you eventually find a collision (millions of years with any reasonable amount of resources) the expected amount you will find is [enormous number of keys, call it 10^20] divided by [total bitcoins] = less than one satoshi (tiniest bitcoin unit). Compare to: Regular identity theft, car accident on the way to the bank, etc. |
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I can't see what on those charts makes it look like an adjustment is overdue.
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I didn't realize this was from SR. I guess it's mostly a marketing thing then? I'd understand wanting to keep them separate, but they aren't doing that so I guess it is a matter of "launching" being better than "now we do guns". |
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I don't claim to have the bitcoin protocol memorized but isn't the difficulty reassessment and adjustment on a static time duration? According to the charts on http://bitcoin.sipa.be/ we're overdue by quite a few days. How is this possible? No, it is every 2016 blocks which takes 2 weeks on average. |
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That is the most awesome video ever! Wow, that's great. I ain't gunna shoot anyone, and no one shoots me 'cause I got a gun. |
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Why would you be sending encrypted transactions? Don't you want miners to be able to put them in blocks?
Also if you are afraid of the government protecting you to death for encryption make sure you don't accidentally link to an https site.
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So, $5 a day from one person? That's kinda pricey. Plus aren't those ads mostly ignored? Can you post a regular Reddit post and just ask everyone here to upvote it?
That's against the terms of service. Asking people to upvote something is against terms? If you mean posting an advertisement post, obviously don't make it an advertisement just make it something interesting (to libertarians) that happened recently. Maybe link to that story about SR selling guns now that came out a while ago. |
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Well, I will happily take suggestions and go from there. Perhaps if I get some good recommendations I will consider. Unfortuantely, I'm leaving town for a week and I have no time to deal with this right now. And re-branding will be no trivial task. "Armory" is all over this project  I would really not stress about this. Most sites/companies fail anyway. This doesn't look like anything special and the people running it didn't consider their name very carefully since it's more likely to hurt them than anything. Someone hears there is a place to get guns for bitcoin and wants to check it out. They end up at your site and realize whoever told them it sold guns was just an idiot. Maybe when ignorant people complain to me that bitcoin is used to sell weapons I'll take them to your site and show them what bitcoin actually does. I really hope you don't waste any time dealing with this, but If you do rebrand, stay away from 'flower' ok? |
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I wouldn't worry too much about the name and certainly don't change yours.
We don't even know if this site will be around in a month.
The confusion is probably bad for you on the whole, but it isn't all bad. As mentioned nearly everyone will end up on your site before finding what they seek.
The authorities are incompetent at keeping us safe and wealthy because they aren't even trying to do that. If they raid you 'mistakenly' it won't actually be a mistake, it'll be an excuse.
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Was it really necessary to announce this? There is the Routers lady looking for people to interview about bitcoin and this turns up. Great!
There was already a fairly big article about SR selling weapons now. |
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is sealswithclubs the biggest site that accepts bitcoin? It seems like there is nobody playing half the times I log in.
Seals is growing. There is some action almost all the time now. |
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one thing that bugs me about bitcoin is things like this....
anarchy and liberty are two different things
Liberty is a more general term while anarchy, in its original and more accurate usages ( e.g. it does not really mean some kind of violent chaotic social disorder ), is more specific, i.e. "freedom from state coercion". So you no doubt would feel that states/governments have the right to limit the ability of its citizens to purchase weapons? An anarchist may ask if you truly have something like liberty and freedom if states determine for you what you can and cannot own... while giving themselves the right to own and use weapons and violence as they pretty much please in the maintenance of their own power and control. Having a government keep tabs on who owns what guns helps solve crime? maybe... 16 year olds should not be allowed own a fully automatic guns? maybe... Its not like it was impossible to buy unregistered guns b4 bitcoin, so i guess this doesn't really make a difference. but still, common... "drugs, guns, and gambling for anyone and everyone!" is this our new slogan? Do you want to define the privileged class who gets to defend themselves and enjoy themselves? Or maybe we can just let some special folks do that for us too? i want peace and love... short of that, i want guns to be sold to responsible people  So if an unknown person buys a gun from an unknown person should violence be done to either? Put another way, is there anyone at all who you would hurt for the act of buying or selling a gun? |
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one thing that bugs me about bitcoin is things like this....
anarchy and liberty are two different things
Liberty is a more general term while anarchy, in its original and more accurate usages ( e.g. it does not really mean some kind of violent chaotic social disorder ), is more specific, i.e. "freedom from state coercion". So you no doubt would feel that states/governments have the right to limit the ability of its citizens to purchase weapons? An anarchist may ask if you truly have something like liberty and freedom if states determine for you what you can and cannot own... while giving themselves the right to own and use weapons and violence as they pretty much please in the maintenance of their own power and control. Having a government keep tabs on who owns what guns helps solve crime? maybe... 16 year olds should not be allowed own a fully automatic guns? maybe... Its not like it was impossible to buy unregistered guns b4 bitcoin, so i guess this doesn't really make a difference. but still, common... "drugs, guns, and gambling for anyone and everyone!" is this our new slogan? Do you want to define the privileged class who gets to defend themselves and enjoy themselves? Or maybe we can just let some special folks do that for us too? |
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The March 4th 100BTC tourney is coming up.
It's this coming Sunday at 4pm ET, 2BTC to enter.
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one thing that bugs me about bitcoin is things like this....
anarchy and liberty are two different things
Don't they both involve freedom to do what you think is right? |
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