Most people don't need to know such things when they are first introduced to a concept. They learn the inner-workings gradually.
Not everybody is as stupid as you seem to think they are. At the very least add more than a wiki link, link to mtgox, and your btc address. Give them easy access to learn more. A stickied introduction thread should have a good overview with links to discussion threads with deeper discussion about them, which as someone else said is all the current thread really needs (IMO). If people manage to find their way to a bitcoin discussion forum reading an introduction thread, they are probably curious and want information. In the meantime, anyone have some good links to fill out the faq in the existing one? |
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Meh, I like E's post better because it actually talks about how it works, instead of just saying it works.
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OKPAY had ridiculous fees last time I checked them out.
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I'm going to see it soon, but in my experience, the movie NEVER lives up to the book. Kids (and adults) need to read more...  Fight Club movie completely destroys the book. Another great example! I was thrilled with HBO's "translation" of Game of Thrones as well, even though that's not technically a movie. Game of Thrones (TV) is amazing. Never got a chance to read the books though, never knew about them before I started watching it. |
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Do I understand correctly, if my idea on this is, that as long as I only collect bitcoins and don't exchange them for items or usd/eur I should not include them to my tax report?
This is pretty much what my accountant said word for word when I asked him. Sure if it's recognized as a currency that will change, but it isn't. |
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Or hey, what about a world war? That would certainly put a damper on R&D.
Exact opposite actually. |
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Funny thing is nobody would know about him/it if it weren't for the abnormal blocks.
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I want the value of my BTC to rise, the higher the better. Developers, merchants, and charities all help to improve BTC's value. The more who use it the stronger and more valuable it becomes.
1. Urging people to accept Bitcoin to make their value rise sounds like a pump and dump scheme. 2. The typical merchants and charities don’t do shit, noone would use Bitcoins with them instead of fiat. They also just cash out Bitcoins for Dollars, so that actually brings down the price. Again, the only thing that really helps is to have applications which cannot exist without Bitcoin. 1. Agree so much. 2. I wouldn't go that far, bringing awareness is a good thing, and more people using the better. How many times would someone see different sites that accept bitcoin before he wonders what it is? Anything that gets people closer to that number is a good thing, and it's better than sitting around waiting for the "killer app". Think mind share. People should know they actually do have a choice. Maybe there's a pr/marketing person on the boards who can help with advice about emails like this. |
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You mean to tell me merchants don't realize how powerless they are when it comes to control of their bank accounts or paypall accounts??! How can Bitcoin ever compete then if people don't even feel like there's room for improvement?
A lot of people just don't know there are better alternatives, familiary is comforting. For some it breeds contemp and you'll reach those, but you could miss out on a lot of others just by including hot phrases. Bitcoin can stand on it's own merits. No need to tear the banks down, they're destroying themselves. |
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Using phrases like dictatorial control is just gonna turn most people off, and they'll just think of you as "that guy".
I said "almost dictatorial control" which is a big difference. I'm exaggerating, sure, but I didn't go overboard by saying something crazy like "I hate those fascistic vampire dictatorial banks". So if they share the sentiment at all with me I think my message should hit home pretty good. You see, I didn't even notice the almost part, when I hit dictatorial control my eye started twitching and I just skimmed the rest, and I'm sure he did too. Sure occasionally you might get lucky and find someone who actually agrees, but the average joe isn't. He doesn't know how money works, he doesn't know about inflation or deflation, the role the banks played in the economic troubles we're experiencing, or even what economic troubles we are experiencing in the first place. Spend more time extolling the virtues of bitcoin itself and what it can actually do, and less bashing the banks. |
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Using phrases like dictatorial control is just gonna turn most people off, and they'll just think of you as "that guy".
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Yes I do, just look at the many times in history where major criminals were arrested for tax evasion in lieu of other evidence (Al Capone being a notable example). Don't want to give them any more reason to scrutinize my finances, I'd have a hard time explaining where a lot of my income comes from.  |
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Good to hear, the trailer didn't really get me psyched for it.
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Well that didn't take long.  |
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Can someone fill me in? what did I miss? alright, doesn't matter.   |
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Yes I think most miners would still have a problem with it. Some of us have more money then other to invest in BTC but we are all on a level playing field. Would you still by a farm of GPU for mining when only 1 person has access to ASIC now and you never will? Where do you get the idea you have a right to a level playing field? Is it fair some people have $0.04 per kWh electrical rates and some have $0.30 per kWh. If it fair some people need to build their farm one GPU at a time and other can drop $15K on a rigbox or LargeCoin? Miners compete you have no right to any "fairness". Adapt, overcome, and expand or die. No different than any other private enterprise. May sound harsh, but life really is unfair sometimes. There's always gonna be someone out there with more resources than you. If you can't compete, then he has done his job well. |
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So for those of us who don't follow the SC saga (so many threads to read, so little time ), what are you intending to prove or disprove? What I mean to say is, are you proving you are who he says you are, or aren't? Or is it something else? |
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I haven't checked on my TradeHill account in months. Just needed to make a transaction and found out the site has gone. No idea who to email about getting my BTC out of my account. Hopefully I can PM Jared now and maybe get my coin back BitInstant was also involved with them, helping process transactions and such, if Jared is not timely in his response. And yes you should be able to pm. |
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Agreed, problem is the node is likely just an infected computer and won't slow him down at all. There is discussion going on how to prevent blocks like this here.Long term though, with the block reward decreasing there will be more incentive to include transactions. I don't think it's really a big problem though, and even if it were, how do you stop botnets on the bitcoin network? And would people be so upset about it if they processed transactions like any other miner? Edit: I really dont understand what you guys are reading in to those IPs?
The IPS are of whoever is relaying the blocks, you could be looking at the IP of deepbit, or any other pool or random bitcoin user.
So your saying its what? A hacked linux box some place? My senile mothers zombie laptop? we could still start an investigation that could point in the direction of the botnet we could still get lucky it certainly cant hurt  Like my Dad always told me, "You'll never get lucky if you don't try." |
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