This idea seems like it has a lot of potential. Maybe we need a specialized Silk Road for this?

Donc on utilise l'inflation comme une taxe. Je pense que ça c'est ce que le gouvernement des États-Unis essaie de faire, n'est-ce pas?

Je pense qu'il y a deux buts qui sont impossibles de satisfaire à la fois:

1. Un revenu universel à tous les identités sans condition
2. L'anonymat, ou le droit d'avoir plusieurs identités si on le veut

Il est évident que tout le revenu ira a ceux qui font beaucoup des identités. Si il y a quelque niveau de participation minimal, ce n'est plus un revenu universel, c'est un salaire pour quelque travail. Quelqu'un qui peut faire ce niveau de participation 5 fois pourra faire 5 identités et recevoir 5 fois le revenu, quelqu'un qui peut le faire 20 fois pourra recevoir 20 fois, etc. Donc on peut utiliser ce mécanisme pour récompenser quelque sorte de participation sociale, mais je ne vois pas comment un revenu universel est possible.

This is key. Just to explain a bit more, let's say that in 2010 there are 10 million X in existence and you have 100 X. In 2020, the number of X goes up to 20 million. The result is twofold:

1) Your share of the total sum of money has decreased from 10 per million to 5 per million.
2) Every 10 minutes (assuming money supply growth is exponential), a miner gets coins equal to 1.3 per million (since 1.0000013 ^ (6 * 24 * 365 * 10) = 2). This income transfer to miners carries certain economic effects (encouraging mining, reducing the bitcoin price due to for-profit miners wanting to sell, etc)

Now, let's say there is no inflation, but there is demurrage. In 2010, there are 10 million X in existence and you have 100 X. In 2020, there are still 10 million X but you have 50 X. The result is:

1) Your share of the total sum of money has decreased from 10 per million to 5 per million. In order to effect this change, every 10 minutes, 1.3 per million must be lost out of every pool of money every 10 minutes (since 0.9999987 ^ (6 * 24 * 365 * 10) = 0.5).
2) To keep the money supply constant, every 10 minutes a miner gets coins equal to 1.3 per million of the total money supply.

The two scenarios are EXACTLY THE SAME.

How do you know that's not just interventionist policy on the part of some early adopters?

Question 2: if it is, does it matter?

If you want to take an 8-hour break from trading, you can. Just convert all your bitcoins into whatever your home currency is at the end of the day and convert it back the next morning. That way you can feel safe and secure with your money and not lose sleep while everyone else keeps trading. If something causes the price to rise or fall during those 8 hours, then if there was an enforced break that same movement would happen within minutes of the market opening and people who didn't log in fast enough would still miss out.

While we're all here, if anyone has any suggestions for what you would like to see from my Bitcoin Weekly articles, I'd be glad to hear them - either here or commenting on the site is good. My articles for this week are close to done already, but I'll be sure to keep them in mind for next week and the future!

So, I guess the best strategy is to use it on minimal trust mode (ie. use it for the service, but keep as little as possible in the account).

1. I have done work for people in exchange for Bitcoin already. I don't see any of my employers reporting anything to any tax agency. Of course, the money I'm making is far too small to matter, but if a couple more security precautions (eg. public key encrypting messages) are added it would be quite possible for online workers and employers to evade government taxation entirely.
2. So you want a system where people who make money by working for a physical employer can be taxed while people who make money off of money (eg. speculators) can avoid taxes untraceably?

Spend a bit if I see anything spendworthy, donate/tip a percentage and save the rest.

No, that wouldn't. It would reduce the number of coins out there, but it would reduce the value of each one even more since it would become nearly useless for its only purpose, spending.

Another happy customer here.

The fact that I can now make online purchases without involving credit cards, banks or Paypal anywhere in the process still hasn't ceased to amaze me.

I'm interested.

Meanwhile, Tradehill is incredibly flat: http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/thUSD#rg5zvztgSzm1g10zm2g25l

Already did: http://blockexplorer.com/tx/fc5e57be78ea26a519805d6699cf6eb58499cb62470ca33685134365f64c00c2#o1

Thank you, everything works now!

.ui coi pendo jbopre .i le'i vi jbopre se kancu fi na'e li so'e

Greetings, fellow Lojbanist! There aren't many of us here! (lit: the set of Lojban people here is not counted to be a lot)

mi jinvi ledu'u lu u'i mi tcidu lo lojbo li'u zmadu drani kei ri'a lonu lu mi tcidu lojban li'u claxu zo la kei .e lonu lu mi tcidu la lojban li'u ji'a na'e drani ri'a lonu do tcidu ginai le lojbo bangu ge lo se cusku bebau la lojban.

I think "u'i mi tcidu lo lojbo" is more correct because "mi tcidu lojban" lacks the article and "mi tcidu la lojban" is also not correct since you're reading not the Lojban janguage, but rather something written in Lojban.

My client is, for the past few weeks, taking a really long time to get connected to the network. Is there any way I can fix this?

Hey, guys. Us folks at Bitcoin Weekly (http://bitcoinweekly.com/) are running low on cash, so we've decided to try a novel business model to get things rolling. We got an article locked up, Bitcoin for Individual-to-Individual Transactions and Community Trade, by me, and we're not giving it up until a total of 0.500 BTC (as of my original writing this 0.319 remaining; you can check progress here: http://blockexplorer.com/address/1JYXS3dpHjk9MT7U6oXNKwfVeubW41iWkf) is placed into that address. So if you like Bitcoin Weekly, or you're feeling generous right now, or perhaps you got a sudden windfall from one of those pyramid schemes, or you're just plain bored, please consider donating to us! We are, of course, still continuing to release other articles, and remember: all our content is public domain! If our experiment succeeds, we'll keep doing it and even set up an automated system to show the ransom on our website, and hopefully we'll get a nice steady revenue stream going so we can expand our operations and pay more to our writers.

Learning Lojban can be hard, this is probably the fifth time I'm trying. It does take discipline to get enough gismu and cmavo memorized, but then it's more fun to learn by reading Lojban IRC logs, which can be found here: http://www.lojban.org/resources/irclog/

lonu cilre fi la lojban. cu nandu .i mi ca ji'imumoi troci. .i so'i menli jitro cu sarcu lenu morji rau gismu .e rau cmavo .iku'ibabo zmadu zdile fa lonu cilre fo lonu tcidu le vreji be la lojban.iburycy. poi se facki la'o .url http://www.lojban.org/resources/irclog/ .url

.i le do bangu cu zdile .i di'u se jarco la'o .url http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/ .url .i semu'ibo mi zmanei la lojban.

.i zo'o ji'a la lojban. cu dukse pluja .i a'o ro rutni bangu tavla cu simxu pendo