I'm looking at it in a long-term perspective. As a comparison, to have to keep one's computer safe oneself is also incredibly old tech from that perspective. The usability of information technology will become much better. Even having to install apps on a smartphone is very old and cumbersome tech.
I guess you're a kind of a prophet, or there's something in your version of the future that hasn't made it into mine. I keep my own computer safe because no one else has a vested interest in keeping my computer safe like I do. When I buy a smartphone the first thing I do is erase everything in memory and install cyanogenmod---why? because I've inspected the source code and I can control what I put on or take off. Oftentimes, I download the cm source code and modify it to my needs before I put it on my phone. Who else is going to do that for me? I don't really know what you mean about "old and cumbersome tech". For me, it really sounds like you're saying something along these lines: Having to choose what you are going to eat for dinner is very old and cumbersome tech. In a happy future, you can just allow a company or institution to choose your dinner according to a correctly balanced nutritional profile. However, in my world, choosing what apps to install, what pictures to back up, what plants to put in my garden, what to eat for dinner isn't "old and cumbersome", it's what makes me me! I don't want to agree that choosing things for yourself is an old and cumbersome way to live. |
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I won't quite your posts considering it's giant...but there are plenty of bugs and new features being implemented and people just need to be patient.
Keep the feedback coming and eventually everyone's suggestions and questions will be answered to!
And on the other note congrats to siex, what a baller :p
"bugs being implemented"  I still can't get on the site unfortunately I can't wait until Stunna can fix out a solution! I can finally log on to where I belong. funny, but actually it's structurally ambiguous: there are [[plenty of bugs] and [features being implemented]]...
is the intended bracketing (which is legit, imho), your reading is: there are [plenty of [[bugs] and [features]] being implemented]
which is also legit, but not the intended reading, I think. |
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Cryptos are very, very far from being doomed. Yes, mainstream adoption has been disappointing.
High-street Western peoples are unenthusiastic as there are no advantages over their debit cards or credit cards.
However, there is still plenty of scope for massive growth in many areas, including amongst the unbanked peoples of the 3rd world, and in any country experiencing a major banking crash.
Wrong !!! Unbanked people from 3rd world wont be able to use Crypto. Because... i. They dont have internet ii. They are mostly illiterate Crypto will first conquer the remittance industry. Realize: ia. Internet access through smartphones is increasingly available even in the poorest countries. iia. Illiterate ≠ stupid. People will use technology as it becomes helpful to them, you don't need to know how to interpret Derrida in order to use a phone to pay a bill. |
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Cryptos are very, very far from being doomed. Yes, mainstream adoption has been disappointing.
High-street Western peoples are unenthusiastic as there are no advantages over their debit cards or credit cards.
However, there is still plenty of scope for massive growth in many areas, including amongst the unbanked peoples of the 3rd world, and in any country experiencing a major banking crash.
True, and furthermore I personally like the comparison to adoption of the internet. Obviously in the first few years there were only a few people excited about it because many of the supporting software (easy to use web browsers, javascript!, https) wasn't around and there was a technical hurdle for the common "high street westerner" to overcome. However, as the infrastructure filled out the next step was a big boom-n-bust when all sorts of fly-by-night ventures popped up and thus the dotcom boom then bust. Finally, in the third stage, internet adoption and online services continue to grow at a steady rate until world domination. |
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His "new development" is just the same thread again. I don't know why he wants everyone to keep reading his nonsense. |
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The original Bitcoin protocol is very innovative. However, there are several reasons for why today's cryptocurrencies will fail:
1. Too slow transaction times for general use.
2. Too bloated block chain for mainstream adoption.
3. Having to store coins "under the mattress" is a step backwards.
4. Proof of work will lead to too large transaction fees.
5. Proof of stake leads to the rich getting richer.
6. Lack of government support prevents mainstream use.
7. Trading against ordinary fiat currencies causes volatility.
What does this mean about "under the mattress"? That's the biggest problem! Cold storage. An absolute nightmare to have manage oneself even for a crypto-savvy person. Some people may enjoy storing private keys on paper etc, but those are the fanatics. For ordinary people the mess with having to secure the coins oneself is a major step backwards, into the Dark Ages. Hmm, I'm not sure I agree. I guess I'm a "fanatic" because I printed out a paper copy of some keys to be safe from a computer crash but I don't know why that's so crazy. What do you do to secure anything else on a computer that's important to you? I'll let you know what I do, I make backups and store them somewhere cool and dry. Here's the LOCKSS rule: lots of copies keeps stuff safe (a librarian told me that). As far as security, again, isn't this already an issue that's bigger than cryptocoins? Here's some rules of thumb: don't run windows, don't install programs you don't inspect, encrypt sensitive material. I don't see how these issues of backing up and securing data are relevant to crytpocoins specifically. They seem to me like general issues related to keeping sensitive/important information on a networked computer. |
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Yes, this what happened is tragedy, everybody agree with this.
But, I don't agree with this statement:
Anyone who thinks that race does not skew the application of criminal justice in this country is just not paying close enough attention. And the root of the problem is big government.
In my opinion, based on my experience while living in USA, root of this problem is in long history of slavery and oppression of blacks in America, not because of big government.
Yup, big or small government, USA has been oppressing natives, blacks, anyone who didn't come over in the western european colonial wave for centuries. Surely this is more relevant than big or small government. Small towns with small governments in USA also have skewed application of criminal justice. |
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Went ahead and voted for you, OP, after all your Satoshi murdered nonsense recently. Really, what are you on about?
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^^^This! Dude posted a similar thread yesterday about satoshi murdered and "new evidence coming in" which contained no reports of any evidence coming anywhere. I don't why this guy is on about Satoshi being murdered. Can you explain yourself cryptopaths?! |
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The Bitcoin Foundation was subpoenaed? What for? And where are they actually based. California?
The "what for" is in the OP. The details are in the article. Wikipedia says BTC foundation are headquartered in Seattle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_Foundation |
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The original Bitcoin protocol is very innovative. However, there are several reasons for why today's cryptocurrencies will fail:
1. Too slow transaction times for general use.
2. Too bloated block chain for mainstream adoption.
3. Having to store coins "under the mattress" is a step backwards.
4. Proof of work will lead to too large transaction fees.
5. Proof of stake leads to the rich getting richer.
6. Lack of government support prevents mainstream use.
7. Trading against ordinary fiat currencies causes volatility.
What does this mean about "under the mattress"? |
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And that was all made possible because bitcoin had first mover advantage, use your head man.
It's called innovation and sooner or later an altcoin is going to make it big on innovation because bitcoin is to scared to. Some altcoins have already seen very good success, Bitcoin could increase it's worth past the point that it's already at if it just accepted this.
after 3 years of litecoin and 2 years of lots of altcoins, all i see is pump and dump coins that last 3-6 months, and a bunch of dice games. I think your purposefully turning a blind eye to the innovation happening with altcoins. I think he is turning an insightful eye towards the fact that most of these "innovations" are mere headlines designed to attract the attention of the easy marks. It really is like san franscisco in 1849. There were a few dudes who hit gold and made good money in 1848. By the time 1849 rolled around, the scene was full of vultures and speculators and theives and the only ones making money were the ones selling picks and shovels. You can call this the "first mover" advantage if you want. But none of these altcoins have a large enough community to matter. In fact, if you say btc is slow to innovate the protocol consider the fact that the bitcoin community is large enough that any changes have to be resonably consider and carefully considered because there is a lot of work that has been done and no one wants to screw that up because of an ill-thought out idea which seemed like an "improvement" untill it was realized that it wasn't one all too late. /thread What does it mean when you say "/thread"? It reminds of LaTeX, but with wrong slash. it means "End Of Thread", as in what you said was the be all end all of the subject and there was no possible rebuttal to your post Right on. Cheers! I think I would have recognized [/thread] or </thread> or \end{thread}. lol |
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Can anyone tell me if it's okay if I use this signature? updated it myself, thought I'd bring some new colors to the table.  Probably best to get confirmation from Stunna before you make any changes IMO. If Stunna not allowing our referral link then how he will allow to third party referral link. Just use common sense, and don't take risk with it. MICRO said that it is not allowed to use the referral link. Apparently Stunna told him so I'll just wait until Stunna announces his new plans for this campaign. It's not? Last time I heard Micro said it might be allowed. Should I maybe remove it until we get a confirmation? You whould ask Stunna for that. You should'nt modify the sign, to make 100% sure that you'll be paid. Alright, keeping the original one until we know more. Again REF LINKS IN UR SIG ARE NOT ALLOWED ATM . They might be allowed next term but u will be notified of that change. As for changing sig design , well its better to have same across the board but i don't think Stunna will deny u payment if u did play around with sig design. Thanks for the clarification on this. I was wondering the same thing myself. I personally think Stunna should allow us to play with the colors as really the same ad again and again and your brain stops seeing it. When it appears slightly different, your brain re-reads it, do you know what i mean? |
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OP, probably time to go ahead and lock this thread by clicking the "lock" link at the bottom left. Then, when you've come back with more specific questions, you can start a new thread on that topic in the relevant subforum.
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Bitcoin is going down like every other altcoins out there.
I don't know exactly what this is supposed to mean. If you're referring to fluctations in the market price of bitcoin, they're expected. If you're acting like it's going down the tube long-term, I think you couldn't be more wrong. |
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Yeah dev will make it so when u click on name scroll bar will freeze and then u can easily select item in dropdown.
This is a good idea. In fact, it might be nice in general to be able to pause the scroll. sometimes it starts going waaaay to fast to read. |
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Another victory for Operation Liberation.
So was operation liberation the operation that brought us the scam-coin-du-jour nonsense scene that is the altcoin world of today? |
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hmm thanks light you clear the thing .. of trust..
and yeah i want 60 dollars to unlock my iphone ..
i can give you this account as collateral and pbmining account 44ghs as collateral but noob gave me neg feedbackk.:
Why does it cost 60$ to unlock the telephone? I just called my phone company and they gave me the unlock code. Who would you be paying? Also, there's the thing about how/when you'd be able to pay back. If you don't have 60$ today, why will you have $70 next week? |
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how small transaction would likely come off as a scam?
Your question is too vague to answer. Can you fill in some details or context or start a new thread? |
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These guys are just lucky I'm not a mod, I would remove all these queer "bits" references and covert them to satoshis or kSat or mBTC whichever was most relvent. Weirder still, it seems like "bits" is equivalent to uBTC which is obviously transparant. Who came up with this "bits" thing anyway? How did this nonsense start?
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