Yikes. I worry about what is coming as all these boomers retire. Even the ones that have saved often used the evil 401K. That's where you put up 100% of the money, take 100% of the risk, and if you are lucky you might get 30% of the profits. The future is poor friends.  Are you being facetious or serious in your terming of the "evil 401k?" Are you an advocate for an alternative system? I think they have become a legal scam. (Ok, maybe not evil). But many 401Ks are a bad deal for investors. They have many hidden fees and are mostly for making sick money on Wall St. Because of the employer contribution you may think that you are racking up the dollars. But you probably end up leaving a third of the money on the table that you could make with an index fun, for example. There is also the risk that is not talked about much. Some people seem to think that a 401K is a surefire way to fund your retirement. In fact the market could drop 50% next year or next week. If that happens as you get ready to retire... Well it's back to work for you Grandpa. |
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For the record, these are thought to be coins under the control of Satoshi. Since they have never moved after they were mined, It is quite possible that these are now inaccessible.
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Yikes. I worry about what is coming as all these boomers retire. Even the ones that have saved often used the evil 401K. That's where you put up 100% of the money, take 100% of the risk, and if you are lucky you might get 30% of the profits. The future is poor friends. |
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When thy talk about backdoors I don't think they mean the encryption scheme, they mean the proprietary software that uses it. For example Skype has backdoors that allow the NSA to eavesdrop on conversations. They are not breaking encryption, they are circumventing it with the help of Microsoft.
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You'd think w/ bitcoin being a method of payment that it would also be considered as a currency in some respects as well.
+1 I know I do. |
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Lol, they are going to decide "If and when". As if it's a choice they could make. lol  |
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I also don't like redheads, their coins should be deleted. And postal employees, don't get me started, let's delete their coins. Basically I'm cool with deleting all your coins but not mine.  Thank God this is impossible. |
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Trust comes with understanding.
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Yes. I am shocked at how quickly this is all happening. The growth I have seen in the past 5 years I thought would take 10-15 years.
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Peer review places science into the realm of scientists. However, ...  I don't totally understand, but it is true that most people alive today and certainly most who lived in the past 10,000 years believed in some kind of God and would agree with you. I know that is one of the arguments; "There must be a God because so many believe in a God." It does bring up the question of which God. So many religions contradict one another and that makes it even more unclear. Is it Ahura Mozda, Yum Kimil, Ganesha? There are thousands of Gods and each has it's devoted followers who believe with all their heart that their God is real. Are they all correct or are they all wrong? If asked I think many of them would say that only they are right and all other Gods are the product of a delusional mind. This is why logic, math and science have taken over the world and is replacing religion as a dominant philosophical paradigm. It is not subjective and belief has nothing to do with it. 1+1=2 no matter who or where you are. The Earth goes around the Sun even if the Bible says it does not. It does not depend on a vague notion or "sense" of Gods presence. Those things are simply not universal in how they are experienced. When a Hindu cries at his transcendent experience of mystical joy is he delusional? Or when I stand in awe at the wondrous mysteries of nature is that different? I don't know. |
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Anonymity s the worst thing which has ever happened to BTC. It only attracts scammers and ponzi operators.
It does make it easier for scammers but it is also a central feature that needs to be maintained. It's a new paradigm. No banks, no oversight. That puts security on you and me brother. Sure it's more work, but freedom often is. |
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The time has come for the scammers to face the music. Muhahahah  |
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None of those things even remotely constitutes scientific proof. If it did you could publish in Nature and stun the world. Science is a process of open peer review. It does not start with a statement like "There must be a God!" then a search for things that make that statement look correct. It starts with a question like "Is there a God? then moves to experiments and observations that lead to answers. Science has always run afoul with religion, kings, etc. because the answer is not what you want, it is what it is. |
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I would like a program that keeps video game scores and adds a betting layer. I have seen score keepers that work with many games, but not one that allows players to throw in some BTC then fight it out for the prize. Might be fun?
By the way, who is this "we" you mentioned?
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There seems to be a lot of people around here asking for Skype sessions, can that be the way to getting hacked?
The scammers would prefer to do this without an audience pointing out that this is a scam. P.S. I don't know about this offer, it could be legit since skype is involved in the business plan. |
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Page 248, still waiting to see this scientific proof? |
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Can you mathematically explain the code below and it's relationship to profitability of a malicious attacker? Thanks in advance Satoshi! #include <math.h>
double AttackerSuccessProbability(double q, int z)
{
double p = 1.0 - q;
double lambda = z * (q / p);
double sum = 1.0;
int i, k;
for (k = 0; k <= z; k++)
{
double poisson = exp(-lambda);
for (i = 1; i <= k; i++)
poisson *= lambda / i;
sum -= poisson * (1 - pow(q / p, z - k));
}
return sum;
}
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I set up TeamViewer and you give me $2 to set up an account for you. Lolol hahaha that's a good one. |
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Another theory about what they are doing in not specifically bitcoin related. There are ways of using a blockchain to verify identity and perhaps do away with the need for sim cards. Getting rid of those sim cards is a desire of the phone industry.  |
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