What if there was an option for vendor feedback. They should have a place to make an announcement that they accept bitcoins so the pledges know they can start buying. An RSS feed would allow pledges to not keep checking back. An if a vendor reports an increase in sales after announcing their acceptance of bitcoins, it might encourage other vendors to participate.

I'd use it.

I see what you're saying now. I'm not prepared to buy all of those things at once. I suppose I could create an amended, ready to buy now with bitcoins, wish list. I just think this forum is an inefficient way to do it. We need something that can merge same items and sum bids. What about the wiki?

Oh, heh. There's nothing like a good pair of safety glasses.

Atlas, do you plan on including prescription lenses, or would the buyers have to source them (ie. bring your frames to Lens Crafters themselves)?

I think it would be something of a breakthrough if one could readily exchange bitcoins for something as necessary as prescription eye-wear.

If we can figure out how to get it safely.

We have a winner!

Too bad that Satoshi didn't call bitcoins internets instead.

I think the universe pretty much covers everything.

10,000 Internets to whomever can name that reference.

Depending on what they look like, and their price, you may find an eventual buyer in me.

It'd be nice if we could compile our Amazon wish-lists. Here's mine: http://amzn.com/w/3B8X6GC7WECRZ

Too lazy to list its contents.

I'm just trying to explain that government and capitalism are inseparable. I will concede that some forms of hierarchy make sense, like when it has to do with expertise on a particular subject. There's no coercion when it comes to deciding to follow the direction of someone who knows their stuff. I don't know if you could even call that hierarchy though as long as experts don't get any special entitlements.

I rather liked that quote from Warren about the priest. I also like this one supposedly from Noam Chomsky: I say "supposedly" because its source website doesn't look very nice and that tends to indicate unreliability.

I see some problems with it though when it comes to scarce things. For example, if I build a few widgets, but many people want them, I think that after excluding people who don't really need the widgets, to the best of my ability, I don't see anything wrong with selling them to the highest bidders. How do you feel about that?

EDIT: I thought about that some more and I have to qualify it. If the scarce product is baseball cards, and nobody really needs them, just sell them to the highest bidder. If you have food or water that's scarce, which people do need, you feed yourself and ration the excess. Don't hoard, especially if the food will go bad before you can possibly eat it. Importantly, you have no right to preclude others from making whatever it is themselves. So, don't hold unused land for ransom, for example.

The liberty-dollar was a physical currency supposedly backed by precious metals, rather than a digital one backed by USD.

Unfortunately, the misappropriation of words happens far too much.

Sometimes I think that we exist for the purpose of observing the universe. Why exist if nothing else exists to care? Although, that's a very human thing to think.

I think adopting something like a seven day floating average might be a convenient step in between pricing things in USD and then converting to BTC and just pricing things in BTC.

So, every little bit counts right? Let's keep the CPU generation option in the standard client.

Well, anyone with a computer and internet access can participate. As far as the environment is concerned, I'm not sure how any currency could intrinsically affect it. I guess paper money requires trees...

I would like to add that Belize is a beautiful country inhabited by nice people and I'm proud to be party Belizian.

An Anarchist FAQ, least the Infoshop edition (I'll have to check my dead tree version when I get home), provides a good definition:

So, employers, landlords, and usurers currently enjoy relatively comfortable hierarchical positions at the mercy of the larger state in whose jurisdiction (territory) they exist. In the absence of a larger state, they will each (re)gain the monopoly of violence over whatever territory they can control. They will have to use their own violence or threats of violence, instead of relying on that of a larger state, to maintain or elevate their hierarchical statuses.

When I was getting married, I though about using a rep-rap to do the calligraphy on the invitation envelopes. Turned out that my mother-in-law could do it way faster than I could have possibly hoped to acquire one.

You, like many other capitalists, do not realize that the employer, renter, and lender (who charges interest), are also states.