That one?

Frühere Hochs waren rein spekulativ. Dann kamen tausende von Dramen, aus denen die Community nun hoffentlich gelernt hat.

Wir sind quasi immer noch in der Inflationsphase. Die Schöpfung neuer Coins wird jedoch immer weiter zurückgehen, was die Nachfrage in den nächsten Jahren und folglich den Wechselkurs erhöhen wird, sollte Bitcoin überhaupt überleben.

Generell werden viel mehr Dienstleister und Warenanbieter gebraucht, um die Nachfrage nach Bitcoins zu erhöhen. Besser wäre es hierbei eher, etablierte Anbieter dazu zu bringen, Bitcoin zu akzeptieren, anstatt ständig neue Bitcoin-Shops aus dem Boden zu stampfen.

@bitrebel I hear you but I suggest you to learn temperance, discernment and getting a sense for communities.

A left-brain, technological community like this is interested in hard facts rather than anecdotes and outbursts of passionate outcries.

Point them to concrete sources. I know they are hard to find, but they do exist. Point them to logical fallacies and contradictions in the lies and fabrications released by official media.

It seems the private beta is going along very well. A serious, sober and factual site is just what the Bitcoin technology needs after all that recent drama.

lolz, you beat me to that.

And by next year, the last remaining land will be

• Bitcoinland

 

But it will outlive them ofc. 

Around 2005-2006, plenty of posts on various infamous websites listed the then last 5 remaining countries without a Rothschild controlled central bank on this planet:

• Cuba
• Iran
• Libya
• North Korea
• Sudan

Before 9/11, Iraq and Afghanistan were still on that list also.

Now i the light of recent events, make of it what you will, and look out for what the future will hold.

I'd like to



but things may be much more serious. "They" might go very far. Throughout history, many wars have been instigated for gaining control over nations' monetary systems.

Just to destroy Bitcoin and other P2P applications, they might enforce regulations on internet providers that essentially would shut down the free internet as we know it. They might centralize network access and make it into a proprietary thing that only runs the likes of MSN, FaceBook and appalling virtual shopping malls.

Klingt alles sehr interessant, und ich würde mir so ein Projekt gerne mal anschaun. Wie weit ist es denn schon vorangeschritten und was existiert bereits? Leben du und deine Angetraute schon auf dem Agrarland und weitgehend autark, und gibt es schon ein paar Mitstreiter?

Hooray, it just went into private beta.

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/

How about a conference on Mars? afaik there ain't no porn on Mars (yet). 

Laut http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektrischer_Reporter wird die Reihe auf dem ZDFInfoKanal ausgestrahlt.

Ah jo EDIT: Laut http://elektrischerreporter.zdf.de/ läuft die Reihe jeden Mittwoch auf ZDFinfo um 22:45. Rechts kann man die Folgen anklicken, diese lief also gestern.


Jo, nettes kleines Detail, wär mir ohne den ersten Kommentar unter dem Video gar nich aufgefallen.  Hat wahrscheinlich einer aus dem Umfeld der Macher gleich gepostet, damit's ja niemand übersieht.    

Diese Sendung hat immer eine Feature mit diesen "Zukunftsvisionen", wo alles sehr überspitzt und überdreht dargestellt wird. Guck dir alte Folgen an.

Das (wahrscheinlich absichtlich) zusätzliche ironische in dieser Folge ist, dass die meisten der Vorhersagen (Geldwechsel-Dienste etc) mit Bitcoin ja schon längst Realität sind und in viel kürzeren Zeitabständen eingetroffen sind.

Elektrischer Reporter, a professional and popular German video podcast about net culture and society now and in the future (at times ironic, exaggerated and hilarious), published a new episode about a fictional P2P cryptocurrency:

http://www.elektrischer-reporter.de/phase3/video/246/

In some years, traditional state economies as we know will run dry of money supply and will vanish, and the net citizens will fund projects like building an Eiffel Tower replica out of chocolate.

Bitcoin is mentioned to be the foundation and role model for this fictional currency, mind you.

This show is also transmitted on mainstream TV by the German public federal broadcaster ZDF via its information channel.

Anscheinend hat der Sixtus eine seiner früheren Meinungen geändert.

http://www.elektrischer-reporter.de/phase3/video/246/

Na das sind ja mal Zukunftsaussichten. 

Not the US, but remember there was a time before the US. 

The word Dollar comes from the Thaler, and the word Penny from the Pfennig.

+1 Great quote, I'm gonna recite it in my future discussions if you don't mind. 

Finally a metaphysical discussion, but to stay more grounded for now, how would one define a computer network as being "conscious" to begin with?

Even when we look at the standard theory of evolution, one of the important definitions of life is a constantly ongoing process of exchange with its surrounding and its environment. What would such an eco-system look like for a computer network?

It also seems life needs a purpose. Most of that purpose is a result of our self-preservative and reproductive instincts. So I'm afraid our computer network will die in desperate loneliness if it can't find a mate. 

wow, this is the story that gave birth to "tl;dr".

I got the OP also as an email message, and my Thunderbird displayed a warning bar at the top "This message may be a scam." 

They don't do that for PayPal messages. 

I'm afraid the term "Bitcoin" is pretty much blacklisted everywhere by now. 

That way it will never catch on. What can we do about that?