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The Federal Reserve should not be allowed to print unlimited amounts of money, but we as citizens grant them the permission to correctify highly volatile markets.
I granted that institution no such permission. But if you did, please answer for the graph shown here, on the record of the Federal Reserve:  That is a chart of how much the Dollar has gone up right?  Yes!  And it's thus clear that we should create a second Federal Reserve to make the value go even higher! Look how the dollar has skyrocketed since the creation of the first one! |
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Hi OP- might I recommend that you use Cinfu.com? I just bought a domain from them but of course they do hosting and private servers as well. I used them because they accept Bitcoin... and the transaction was very easy. I have a few dozen domain names at GoDaddy... I've always used them, but I may just migrate them to a new host like Cinfu because they accept the good coin  |
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LOL. i just got an email from Dwolla advertising their new iPhone app that allow you to send money to an email address. everyone's gettin on board.
but how do u compete with btc's minimal tx cost?
Dwolla's a great example of a new, innovative, and valuable company that probably would've been very successful until Bitcoin arrived. Sure BTC is helping them immensely in the short term, but in 2 years, what advantage can Dwolla offer? The brilliance of Bitcoin is that the transaction mechanism is essentially free... no office with staff have to be involved in the process. That whole cost is gone. Dwolla has to earn revenue from money transfers, but how can it compete with Bitcoin which does not? The staff and assets at Dwolla have been made redundant. Perhaps same with Paypal? "Disruptive" does not begin to describe Bitcoin. |
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Yes I'm sticking with what I said. But you won't take a bet on it? How about this: if BTC drops below $11usd on Mt. Gox anytime on friday EST, I'll send you 2 bitcoins. If it does not drop below $11 during friday, you send me 1 bitcoin. I'm a man of my word and I'll assume you are too. Care to wager? Edit: you must respond in the affirmative to this post before Friday for this deal to be valid. |
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My advice: don't try to "trade" the market. It's pure gambling and you're just as likely to impoverish yourself.
Buying bitcoins and holding them is ENOUGH of a speculative activity as is. If Bitcoin succeeds, and you can get a hold a few hundred of them now, then you'll be well-rewarded. Trading these things daily is a silly distraction, unless you do it purely for fun (and there is legitimate value in that).
Anyone who figures out trading strategies that work will not tell you about them for many obvious reasons. Anyone telling you a trading strategy is probably full of crap, because if it worked reliably they'd milk it 24/7 and wouldn't risk new entrants decreasing their gains.
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Looks fine to me...?
Sometimes that site doesn't update all data immediately. New blocks shown there can take a bit before they display the data within them. This worried me at first also but it seems normal.
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But in the end, it will be the people that make or break Bitcoin, not the technology.
Very true. While the decentralized, typically "amateur" nature of the btc marketplace will yield some worthless offerings, it's also open to ANYONE from anywhere in the world. An impoverished Sri Lankan 17 yr old with $200 netbook could write the next killer app for Bitcoin. And the marketplace's hyper competitive nature, with almost no barriers to entry, will tend to produce brilliant products and services but these may be months away. I also think the core dev team (Gavin et al) is the minority of the development. They're making a better core client, but such gains are marginal compared to the peripheral businesses being developed elsewhere. |
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Skepticism is a healthy attribute. And to be brutally honest, of course Bitcoin is likely to fail - all new things are likely to fail. We're all engaged in a wildly speculative and risky venture, here. Even conservative ventures usually fail, and this is anything but conservative.
However, skeptics seem to be fixated on Bitcoin as it exists in the immediate present and this is severely damaging their objective analysis. They see that Bitcoin is hard to carry in one's pocket. They see that PC-based wallets are vulnerable. They see that one cannot yet buy gasoline and bread with Bitcoins. And seeing these problems, they then assume such issues will always remain and thus are hesitant to believe in the Bitcoin idea.
And so I don't mean to be rude, or draw silly comparisons, but it seems this is a bit like observing the Wright brothers, and their floppy, ridiculous plane, and then dismissing air travel because of all the problems. "Well, only one person can fly on that craft," "Well, it can't go much faster than a car," "Well, there is a high danger of crashing and dying," "Well, it is much too expensive to build something so useless." "Well, these are way less convenient and reliable than a horse." "Well, this is nothing but a dangerous toy," "Well, man was not meant to fly," etc. As I've mentioned elsewhere on this forum, my great-grandmother's college science textbook assured her that man would never be able to go to space, because there was no air.
Friends, allow the free market to observe these problems and it will tend to solve them. Can't easily reimburse your friends for drinks using Bitcoin? BAM - Brain Armstrong's Android app is released yesterday and looks brilliant. Tired of using only one vulnerable exchange? BAM - a half dozen more have sprung up in the past month. No easy way to accept Bitcoin payments on your website? BAM - Bit-pay.com appears.
A good skeptic should ask, "is the underlying technology/protocol of Bitcoin sound?" If it is, then all those tertiary issues will be solved over time because the marketplace wants to profit from the efficiency of frictionless-money.
There is too much profit to be made from a Bitcoin world for entrepreneurs to ignore such a revolutionary technology merely because they cannot yet purchase gasoline down the street.
As Wayne Gretzky said, "look where the puck is going, not where it is."
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Yeah that's kinda the article that prompted my post - there are similar developments with other companies as well. Let's consider that it took at minimum 3-4 months for ebay and zong to negotiate and sign a contract together. That takes us back to mid-march... when Bitcoin was essentially still a completely unknown phenomenon. In that span of time, Bitcoin appreciated by an order of magnitude, hundreds of new businesses have been created, half a dozen new exchanges emerged, and an elegant end-to-end mobile app was developed for Android. All in the time it took them to discuss their contract. Wow =) |
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This morning over coffee I was pondering for a while over the incredible losses that many big companies are going to face due to Bitcoin's timely arrival.
We're on the cusp of mainstream mobile phone payment systems - systems that have been built for hundreds of millions of dollars over the past couple years. These systems are now about to hit the market, and big companies like eBay/Paypal, Google, and Visa are buying them.
And now this ridiculous thing called Bitcoin happens, and this dude Brian Armstrong develops a beautiful and elegant Android client, and suddenly anyone in the world can send payments to each other online or with their phones with almost zero fees. How disruptive this is! These other mobile payment companies may be screwed over the next 1-2 years of Bitcoin is widely adopted as a currency.
Capitalism can be brutal.
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Does anyone have an idea whether this lawyer filed this for himself (perhaps he's a bitcoin speculator) or on behalf of a client?
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Noob question - On my PC the "block chain" data file is several hundred megabytes. How is it only 14mb on this mobile version?
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Goofy...the $10,000 IS THE TAX, as it must be returned to the Treasury. When it's returned, that a Tax Return.
LOL and please tell me, when exactly do I need to return my $10,000 to the treasury? Which agency, or court, is going to order me to do so? |
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I think a lot of the more hardcore nuts to have anti-government theories regarding Bitcoin need to realize that aspect of Bitcoin is so strongly rooted within just how the program runs, that you do not need to advertise it.
Totally valid point. |
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A person who holds $10,000 in federal reserve notes, holds $10,000 in debt, and owes taxes on that sum.
That is patently false. Please point out ANY law, stipulation, legislation, court order, or even an op-ed that suggests one owes taxes on money he/she already possesses. You get taxed on income, yes, but once you have $10,000 after that income taxation, it is YOURS and nobody has a claim to it. Did Alex Jones tell you this?! |
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Thank you OP. It is great to see free-market certification solutions meeting the needs of customers, instead of ridiculous government laws "mandating" security.
Cheers to you, I've opened an account.
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This anti-government stance only harms Bitcoins. The community needs to decide whether it want's to be a black market currency with limited notability, or a widely excepted medium with strong support and real growth.
I'm in the business of advocating personal freedom and open markets (but that's redundant ). If such is adversarial to your preferred overlords then so be it. An anti-government stance doesn't harm Bitcoin. Bitcoin is, in and of itself, an anti-government stance. It is a currency alternative to the US Dollar - and given the fact that the Federal Government has dismayed it's own binding document (Constitution) both in fact and in principle, by raping any semblance of sound money, one could argue that it is in fact the US Gov which has committed the great treason against the United States of America, and that Bitcoin is in fact one of our best opportunities to be patriots - in the proper sense of the word. |
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I actually don't much like this idea. To me it seems better to withhold donations to charities until they accept Bitcoin. We know Bitcoin is good - so perhaps we accomplish double-charity when we put market pressure on others to realize the same. |
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