Why do you eat at McD? Why do you watch TV? Why do you buy an Iphone? Why do you use Google? Why do you drink? Why do you smoke? Why do you vote for a mainline party? Why do you use Facebook? Why do you code in Java? Why do you still use USD/EUR?..... ... all different instances of the same phenomena if we were to understand that the world would be a so much better place. I don't eat at McD. I don't watch TV. I don't have an iPhone. I don't use Google (I use Bing). I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't vote either. No, I don't use Facebook and I detest java. To be technical, I also don't use USD or EUR. Maybe I'm just different.
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Ten98 is not a Coinhunter sock puppet. His name is John Eddowes and he lives in in the UK, works for Tesco...
This guy: http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/John-Eddowes/595051435He looks like a loon, but I'm having trouble believing anyone who devotes his life to supplying good quality groceries and other delicious items at very reasonable prices can be an internet troll. Is siding with solidcoin equivilant to being an "internet troll" now? The sentiment is opposite at solidcointalk.
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Windows 7, chrome, also standard font set I believe. In firefox I see "฿O" (roughly), not combined.
Well maybe that isn't the best idea if firefox isn't displaying it right. IE does for me, though. And I believe that's what it should do, as the unicode specification indicates that it is a non-spacing character.
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The Bitcoin idea is again brilliant. The greed for tx fees are more atractive than possibility of lulz when the blockchain is injected with 500kb of garbage after long time of mining with modified no-fees miner.
And yes, the vote of majority. As long as majority runs non-malicious bitcoin clients, they are free to reject the invalid or malformed transactions or blocks above preset limit.
A miner can, at almost no extra cost, fill in blocks with undisclosed transactions while still doing the ones with tx fees. In fact, this is an minor advantage for the miner - there is more time needed for the other miners to download the full block, during which time this miner can keep mining.
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This doesn't show properly for me… (It shows as Ƀ square) What font/platform are you using? I think you know what the character should be. (It's a 20DD Combining Enclosing Circle) I'm displaying it fine with Windows and the standard font set.
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If you want to type the Bitcoin currency character easily, you can add it to your keyboard layout. I'd share my new layout, but I personally use the Colemak layout and no one is using that anyway, I guess. You can download the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (also works on windows 7) to edit it yourself. If people let me know what keyboard layout they use, and what location for the ฿ is the most convenient, I might fix up some installers tomorrow. how do you easily type this character: i still can't bring myself to deal in baht yet. Using the above tool, copy paste the following character into your wanted key: Or, this character:
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If you want to type the Bitcoin currency character easily, you can add it to your keyboard layout. I'd share my new layout, but I personally use the Colemak layout and no one is using that anyway, I guess. You can download the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (also works on windows 7) to edit it yourself. If people let me know what keyboard layout they use, and what location for the ฿ is the most convenient, I might fix up some installers tomorrow. I have the currency symbols assigned to AltGr on my Canadian French keyboard, but rather than using the baht sign (which I oppose), I use the three latin letters "BTC".
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在我的意见下,SolidCoin 是很特殊的。现在,我只有三百个Solidcoin,可是如果RealSolid把它送给大家的意见下,我很可能再买几百个Solidcoin。 我觉得暂时不能买太多,可是这个新的货币有很多好处。 这些意见是BitcoinExpress和Magnet发表得。这些人很不可信!
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Also, no rational person is going to assume everybody is going to pick 100%. I don't understand the reasoning behind that at all, dree12.
100% does not mean 100%. It means >99.5%, which is your argument applied in a stronger fashion.
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You give no reasoning why it is rational to choose the majority. Actually, you're trying to prove that that is the rational thing, which makes this whole thing a circular reasoning.
It's the rational or rather the determined response because it requires a majority to fulfill. Thus it makes it the most likely one to be correct. If you're wrong, the poll will be a mess in the end thus showing there is no consistent human behaviour in this test. If your axioma is: "Humans have consistent behaviour." Then that would be an okay reasoning. Also, your axioma would be horribly wrong. Patterns can be found especially in the visual and logic realm. My axioma would not be horribly wrong especially in the study of human behaviour. Ergo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effectThis is an interesting answer. However, I would like to point out that your logic, when applied further, gives an answer of 100% (which is, in effect, 99.5%+).
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I've seen/done more of these polls over time, and usually the correct answer is indeed around the 25% range. I wanted to make it a bit more interesting, that's why I didn't make the ranges the same size; the high percentage is obviously much higher. I find it funny there's always people choosing 100%. It's not like everyone is going to do that…
V cvpxrq 100% onfrq ba na nffhzcgvba gung V nz engvbany naq rirelbar ryfr vf engvbany. Gurersber, fvapr jr ner nyy engvbany, jr jbhyq boivbhfyl nyy cvpx 100%. Gur bcgvzny fgengrtl vs rirelbar ryfr orunirq veerthyneyl jbhyq or gur enatr vapyhqvat 16.67%. Gur ernfba sbe guvf vf gung V pna nffhzr V nz vafvtavsvpnag. Gur bayl jnl gb fhpprrq ng guvf vf gb cvpx bhg gur pbeerpg engvb bs engvbany crbcyr gb veerthyne crbcyr. Vs unys gur crbcyr jrer engvbany, naq unys jrer veerthyne, bar pbhyq znxr n puneg nf sbyybjf: Nalguvat <50%: Ab, orpnhfr gur engvbany crbcyr jvyy nyy pubbfr gur fnzr nafjre. 51-99%: 8.3% (veerthyne) + 50% (engvbany) = 58.3%, va gur enatr. 100%: Ab, orpnhfr gur veerthyne crbcyr jvyy abg ibgr sbe guvf. Guvf cbyy unf fb sne erirnyrq 10.3% bs crbcyr cvpx 0-1%. Guvf bcgvba qbrf abg znxr frafr rira vs rirelbar jrer veerthyne, naq znxrf yvggyr frafr vs rirelbar jrer engvbany. Gurfr 10.3% pna or nffhzrq gb or veerthyne, cynpvat n zvavzhz ba gur ahzore bs veerthynef ng 62%. Xabjvat bayl n znkvzhz bs 38% bs crbcyr pna or engvbany, V oryvrir gung gur zbfg bcgvzvfgvp bcgvba cbffvoyr vf 36-50%. Gur zbfg crffvzvfgvp bcgvba jbhyq or 2-20%. (notice: the previous response is not written in German. It is rotated 13 letters of the alphabet to spoiler the discussion.)
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I wouldn't assume everyone here is superrational though
That's what I did and I got it wrong .
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I don't believe we're in a rally. Rally for me sounds like last summer's acceleration. We're more into a steady-paced climbing, with lots of mass that will be very hard to stop (high inertia).
12% in one day, and the day isn't even over yet. We are in a massive rally if this continues.
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Is cryptoxchange under a DDOS attack? It isn't loading for me.
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What about adjusting the difficulty without cap every block based on the speed of the last 6 or so blocks? Then, even if a griefer shot the difficulty up, it wouldn't take much time at all for it to come down.
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BTCEX: We'd love to see you in there using your real nick for once instead of coming in using fake names...
HAHA The three times I have, RealSolid bans in less than a minute even though I have never posted once. Ten98, I'm surprised you even suggested this. I assume you hang out in #solidcoin all the time. You should know that RealSolid bans us the moment we log in with our username or our IP. And anyone dares say anything bad about solidcoin or complain about it, they get banned pretty quickly. #solidcoin is run by a tyrant, and it's the opposite of "free for anyone to come in and chat to us, even trolls are welcome". If you want a real free chatroom, come visit #litecoin and talk about SC if you want. Everyone is welcome even you, Ten98. I won't ban anyone, except for spammers. So far, I have not banned a single person. Coblee, it looks like you are not banned from #solidcoin right now.
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IMHO the best bet is to just move it from "alternate cryptocurrencies" to "off-topic". I don't think we should ban/scamtag suspected socks unless an admin confirms identical IPs, like checkuser on Wikipedia. I just don't want to see some epic conflict that the media would portray as infighting.
This is reversing what was done previously. Solidcoin was moved from Off-Topic to Alt Cryptocurrencies. Ok, so let's reverse what was done previously and move it back. It's not a cryptocurrency. It's a Paypal-like online payment system. It is a currency, it uses cryptography to secure it. How is it not a cryptocurrency?
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IMHO the best bet is to just move it from "alternate cryptocurrencies" to "off-topic". I don't think we should ban/scamtag suspected socks unless an admin confirms identical IPs, like checkuser on Wikipedia. I just don't want to see some epic conflict that the media would portray as infighting.
This is reversing what was done previously. Solidcoin was moved from Off-Topic to Alt Cryptocurrencies.
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I wholeheartedly support this decision.
Bitcoin does not need Solidcoin, and Solidcoin does not need Bitcoin. The "bitcoin" threads on the solidcoin forums is full of anti-bitcoin sentiment, just as the "solidcoin" threads here are full of anti-solidcoin sentiment. Maintaining this is impossible, and I believe that the two currencies - run by different ideals, different technology, and different user base should do whatever possible to avoid each other. It is an undeniable fact that the existance of solidcoin in these fora have negatively contributed to the quality of discussion. In fact, I would even go so far as to censor all alternate currencies from this board.
No bitcoin supporters-in-waiting need to know about its competitors.
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I'm not dividing by zero, dude. I'm talking about the price of a bitcoin never hitting zero. Even if everything crashes, it would just be worth very little, like a cent per coin, or less. But not zero. As such, the resistance for zero seems infinite.
The actual support is somewhere below zero, as bitcoins do require resources (disk space for the wallet.dat, though a marginal amount) to maintain. So if bitcoin's value goes below that point, people will expend time (though a marginal amount) to get rid of bitcoins as if they were garbage - and that time is likely to be more valuable than the bitcoins themselves, meaning they had paid to remove bitcoins. Obviously this is a doomsday story and has nothing do with its likely future, but the resistance at zero isn't infinite from a fundamental standpoint. From a technical standpoint, however, chodpada is correct that support cannot be described at zero. This is because both zero and infinity are values no commodity can in theory have.
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