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Isn't the owner of Coinabul aware of what threads like these mean to his business? Negative opinions spread a lot faster than positive ones. It is difficult to acquire trust and respect and so easy to lose it. Or maybe he only relies on a select few customers who are regular buyers and doesn't need to worry about the rest of the customers?
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Lol.
I have got an M4 in my bedroom and a police extendible cosh "Friction Baton" in the kitchen draw.
Anyone breaks into my place and I go to work on their legs for a few minutes, normally that is enough to convince them to crawl back where they came from.
No-one touches the rig!
You work as a bodyguard, in the army or in the police? It says you are in the UK in your profile, from what I've heard it's almost impossible to have a gun legally there. |
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I intend to add new, cheaper donator ranks. I won't decrease the price of the old ranks, though I may rename them (to "Donator+" and "VIP+" or something like that).
Senior VIP maybe? Are the new ranks' price going to be variable or adjusted every x days or months depending on BTC price? What do you think about pegging the price of the rank to something more reliable than a fiat currency but less volatile than BTC? I saw one guy here couple of months ago selling his ebooks for BTC pegged to the price of gold (don't remember the exact amount). |
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Conclusion: What I did is just a precaution. The bank does not pay me anything for keeping my money. I lose nothing if I take it out. I will spend it in my business in approx. 3-4 weeks even if nothing happens. If everyone did the same, there would be same hell here as in Cyprus.
A lot less than everyone  In most countries the minimum reserve requirements are in the range of 1-10%, the rest the banks can lend more than they have ( ''create'' money). |
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Hi,
Are there safe methods to sell bitcoins as an OTC face-to-face trade (Bitcoin for cash) without the obligation for the seller to bring an electronic device?
Perhaps with some sort of one-time transaction codes from a third party or something similar?
Thanks and sorry for my bad English!
d5000
Brainwallet for cash. |
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Considering the BTC price increase I am starting to regret I did not take advantage of the situation when BTC fell to $2 in autumn 2011. Could've created 100 accounts and bought VIP membership for them for $100 each..........
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500 posts for hero member...uggh this is gonna take a while
It takes quicker than you think - especially once you get addicted.  |
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They are a good few years late with that...
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Actually he has a point. Computers/electronic are a source of positive ions which are unhealthy, it's good to have salt lamps.
Positive ions are unhealthy? Wtf? Please link a medical journal or something that can backup what you're saying, cuz I think it's horse shit. Here you go: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7113513http://www.ionovate.com/images/bioai.pdfThose air conditioning rules are, as you mentioned, designed to maximize the life of the hardware. They do not exist for any health-related reasons.
Yes, but the 'side-effect' of enforcing those rules is that AFAIK breathing in a datacenter has no (or less) potential for harm. |
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If your GPUs are running at temperatures that cause the cards to release any kind of smell they're not long for this world  In the case of a GPU the air comes into contact with the aluminum and copper heatsink as well as the circuit board to a lesser extent. If breathing air blown over circuit boards was unhealthy datacenters would be deadly to humans  Have you ever been to a datacenter? They usually (at least in European ones I saw) have strict rules regarding air conditioning to ensure there is proper humidity and fresh air that doesn't affect hardware longevity. As for the above I'll addess it soon. |
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@malevolent +1 Salt lamps eh ?.. I'll definitely look into that. pEACe Clarification: apparently salt lamps don't work. I used to use air purifiers while mining and thought salt lamps were superior but just now decided too look into it more and more. OTOH air purifiers are a completely different thing and advisable to use if one sleeps in the same room with mining rigs working. http://aaqr.org/VOL11_No2_April2011/9_AAQR-10-06-OA-0048_179-186.pdf |
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I'll bet those strawberries taste like they were steamed by thermal paste. :/
Breathing the heat generated from computers/ electronics/ cars ect.. is NOT safe !
Breathing the air heated by cars is perfectly safe. Breathing the heated exhaust from a car is NOT safe. See the difference? One is simple air that has been heated, the other is chemically imbalanced to be toxic. Heat generated by GPUs are perfectly safe, as there is no combustion or chemical reaction. The "exhaust" air that is being vented by a GPU has simply been heated, not altered in any way. Actually he has a point. Computers/electronic are a source of positive ions which are unhealthy, it's good to have salt lamps. |
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I wouldn't bother with linuxcoin when there is BAMT that does the job well.
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Must be a typo...OP probably meant $100.
Twice? in the title and in the post. |
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Way too many posters here seem to have a naive belief that Bitcoin is indestructable. Governments cannot do anything against it because ...... peer to peer!!!1!
But that isn't true. It is completely trivial for a government to squash Bitcoin out of existence with the stroke of a pen. All they have to do is say, of course you can accept and use coins! We just need you to take a few small measures to help us fight the terrorists. You can start by filling out this 100 page form, and registering with your local regulator. By the way, they will charge a fee of several thousand dollars to consider your application. After a few months they will evaluate your risk to the system and decide on the level of surety bond required, normally half a million dollars will do. Don't forget to do this in every state where you might have a counterparty!
An outlaw currency is not even useful to outlaws. So that would be the end of Bitcoin.
The absolute best way to bring this scenario about is to engage in a dick-waving contest with the police. How many politicians got elected by promising to be soft on crime? Zero. It never happens. So if the police go to your local representatives and say, "it feels like half of our investigations come to a dead end because the scammers are using Bitcoin" suddenly the idea of just regulating it out of existence will seem like an awfully good one to the decision makers, especially if 90% of the electorate just hasn't heard about Bitcoin or doesn't care yet.
That's why it's important for Bitcoin users to recognise that one day we might be asked, "what's your solution?" and an answer of "we don't have one" will result in regulation. And no amount of bitching or posting cute quotes from historical figures will change it.
You are US-centric here, half the nodes are outside the US and probably more than half of all users are outside the US. I can wipe my ass with those 100 page forms Bitcoin can be used over TOR, not sure about I2P but IIRC there is a functional implementation of Namecoin over I2P (the same developer is working on DIANNA) and there are some plans of Bitcoin over Freenet although the works have stalled (probably until there is more demand for it). People are involved in cjdns and mesh networks, hopefully one day the Internet infrastructure will be operating independently of the governments ('I have a dream...'). The best the govts can do is follow North Korea's steps - allow only a few selected individuals to access the Internet. I don't believe they would go as far. Despite China's Great Firewall people are still able to bypass the censorship, same would happen to Bitcoin users if it was to be outlawed. |
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Regardless, the entire point of this proposal is it is not state control. It's a system based on majority consensus, just like Bitcoin. malevolent clearly hasn't read what I wrote because there's no fork of Bitcoin needed. Checking blacklists is an optional extra layer on top.
Well, I can admit I hyperbolized, hence the use of the '::)' smiley at the end. What I wrote is what can happen - first we start with your proposal, 5 years later we end up with developers being paid by govt. agencies to introduce some change or two in the protocol that may aid in tracing 'laundered' coins, of course the change could at first and second sight appear to most insignificat enough as to make it easy to convince most of the network to adapt for their own safety; how many people are there out there that are very well-versed with the Bitcoin protocol, cryptography and networks among the Bitcoin users as to not be fooled by this? I am sure less than 50%  . The point I am trying to make is that what you are proposing is not something that should be of Bitcoin developers' concern and that you should remain neutral. Let the state figure it out for themselves because your solution, despite good intentions, may be a step back from what Bitcoin was destined to become. |
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First Jeff Garzik says to the WSJ: "We want to work with authorities". Now Mike Hearn with this post. Can I say these 2 dudes are now officially creeping me out without you guys calling me paranoid?  This is sad. ''He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither'' I wouldn't be surprised if Bitcoin was to be forked, with some people continuing to use normal Bitcoin and some following Mike's steps in using its castrated counterpart, preferably with in-built tools aiding the State in controlling its minions' monies.  |
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Two questions:
1. When will I be able to use MtGox instead of other exchanges to cash out money via SEPA? If you have a long waiting queue due to limits couldn't you simply set up more bank accounts in EU?
2. What is the correlation between the order lag and your profits/insider trading?
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As a currency, Bitcoin is still, and will remain for some time, unstable. There are two things that need to change:
- low capitalization - more people need to join
- centralization - I think it is safe to assume that whatever happens with BTC price on MtGox, it will be reflected on other exchanges which make up (please correct me if I'm wrong) less than 10% of the Bitcoin trading market, with MtGox in control of the rest.
- difficulty of getting started into Bitcoin and actually using it safely and conveniently
Just being an ass  Fixed, I intended to mention two at first. |
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