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381  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The Great Bitcoin Secret Revealed on: March 25, 2022, 06:36:24 AM


But I did not sell my address in the system. I still own the address.
To say "nothing" cannot be factually correct, because logic dictates that I obviously sold something. I owned "something" that, after the sale, I no longer own. I ask you again, what did I sell?

You asked what you own. You own an address. Like everyone that installed a wallet application. That's all that you own.

I also asked, what did I sell? Obviously, I didn't sell the address, I still own it. But I sold something. What is that?

Why is it so hard for you people to look at what is actually happening? Nothing is sold. Factually, the system just plays with the numbers according to some protocols. Can you comprehend the reality of that? Nothing is sold or bought in your example. People sell and buy liabilities in the banking system. Liability is the type of money. Operation with the numbers in the banking system means quantifying liabilities. Liabilities are existent things in the banking system and are quantified with the numbers. In the Satoshi's system there are neither liabilities nor some other type of money. Only fake quantities. These quantities fool many people by creating the illusion that something exists. That something is quantified with them, like coins. But it's not. Quantities are fake.
382  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The Great Bitcoin Secret Revealed on: March 25, 2022, 06:01:50 AM

~snip~

If, like you say, the companies think or say they are using Bitcoin, that's factually incorrect given not s single person on Earth has ever saw Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a non-existent thing. Of course, you can still think and talk about bitcoin. Like you can talk about Zeus, flying spaghetti monster, unicorn, or whatever. But those are all fictional characters. And if you insist talking they are real that fits the definition of a delusional behavior.

~snip~

Not a single person in the world has seen infrared light, yet it exists. You can measure it, it's not a made up thing. You use it every time you turn your TV on with your remote control, yet you don't see the infrared light between the two.

In a similar way, you can't see Bitcoin, but you can use it, it's as real as infrared light even though you can't see them.
Sure we can "see" infrared light. Not by our eyes of course. But instruments such as night-vision goggles or infrared cameras–allow us to "see" the infrared waves emitting from warm objects such as humans and animals.

In the Satoshi's system all that you see in the possession of a person is an address. And a fake number attached to it.
383  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The Great Bitcoin Secret Revealed on: March 25, 2022, 05:38:08 AM
I don't know what companies are thinking or saying. I never waste my time on something like that. I just observe reality and talk about facts. That's why I am also silent on your fantasies.

Don't you know that thousands of companies around the world already accepts Bitcoin as a payment? The company I work for included.
Don't you know that there are already several Bitcoin ETF's in many different stock exchanges around the world? And local financial regulators have approved those all?

Don't do this for your mental health. Don't lie to yourself that something you see in the news so much does not exist at all. You might end up hurting yourself or the others one day when you can't take it anymore.

Like I said. I talk about facts. So factually, there are thousands of companies around the world that participate in Satoshi's scheme and give their existing things for free just because the Satoshi's system will write fake numbers next to their addresses in the system. If, like you say, the companies think or say they are using Bitcoin, that's factually incorrect given not s single person on Earth has ever saw Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a non-existent thing. Of course, you can still think and talk about bitcoin. Like you can talk about Zeus, flying spaghetti monster, unicorn, or whatever. But those are all fictional characters. And if you insist talking they are real that fits the definition of a delusional behavior. Majority around the world are ignorant, and they believe false narrative on bitcoin's existence. So they aren't behaving delusionally. They are just ignorant. However, in this topic I have proved to you that bitcoin doesn't exist, so if you insist on talking that bitcoin exists and ignore all the empirical evidence I gave you, that's delusional behavior.


But I did not sell my address in the system. I still own the address.
To say "nothing" cannot be factually correct, because logic dictates that I obviously sold something. I owned "something" that, after the sale, I no longer own. I ask you again, what did I sell?

You asked what you own. You own an address. Like everyone that installed a wallet application. That's all that you own. Now, whatever playing with the numbers the system performs around your address doesn't make you an owner of something. For example, coins. Coins are tangible items. Like gold ones. You don't own coins. Neither bit-coins nor b-coins. Anyone who has ever told you that you own coins is simply lying or is ignorant. Also you don't own tokens or electronic cash. Those are liability type of money - an entity is liable to redeem them. So, anyone who has ever told you that you own tokens or electronic cash is also lying or is ignorant. That what you have next to your address is a fake number. Fake quantity. Quantity of a thing that doesn't exist. Letters B, T, C in your wallet are fake name. Name of a thing that doesn't exist. Flying spaghetti monster is also the name of a thing that doesn't exist. You can give names to non-existent or fictional things. That's what your wallet application does.
~snip~

Of course, you own an address in the system. Just like you own an email address.

It's not the same though. The main difference is digital scarcity. Bitcoins are digitally scarce. Emails are not. That's partly why bitcoins are valuable and emails are not.

I'll give you an example of digital scarcity that you might understand better.

Think about Google. They are basically a digital marketing company. They sell ads to people and companies. But what are they actually selling?, the first result of the list that is returned when you're looking for something.

That's digital scarcity. There can only be one top result when you search for something at google. Result number 203 is not as valuable as result 5, and the first result is the most valuable. They're all digital things that Google can sell to people, with the top result being the most scarce, and the most valuable.

Now, Google top result shows digital scarcity, just like Bitcoin. But Google results are centralized. Bitcoin is decentralized, but that's another story.

The point is that I'm sure you now understand that digital scarcity exists and it's valuable. Bitcoin has digital scarcity.
Only the existing things can be scarce. Playing with the numbers don't make things pop into existence.
384  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The Great Bitcoin Secret Revealed on: March 24, 2022, 11:31:37 AM
Snowshow.

Don't go silent on your mental health. It must be devastating for you to see how Bitcoin adoption grows, countries adopt it, big banks start using it, companies invest in it and accept it as a payment.
Don't do this to yourself. It gets harder and harder for you to live happily if you keep lying to yourself. Don't do it.

How do you think in your mind that it is possible that companies accept Bitcoin as a payment but you say that Bitcoin does not exist. Are you saying all the companies, stock exchange ETFs, governments wanting to regulate Bitcoin etc... that they all lie?
And only you know the truth?

You must be devastated with every news about Bitcoin adoption and usage growing.
I don't know what companies are thinking or saying. I never waste my time on something like that. I just observe reality and talk about facts. That's why I am also silent on your fantasies.
385  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The Great Bitcoin Secret Revealed on: March 24, 2022, 11:14:19 AM
Snowshow.
How do you think it will affect your mental health when every day people are using this digital currency which you claim does not exist, more and more? To see how it's value is growing and more companies and banks adopt it to their system?

How do you see yourself handling these news next year? How about in 10 years?

Again, I'm not trying to insult you. I'm trying to show you that where all this is going is not a nice place for your mental health if you keep fighting the reality by lying to yourself that Bitcoin does not exist.

Idea: Would you believe that Bitcoin is real and it has value, if you buy little bit of Bitcoin with your fiat money and then you buy some products with that Bitcoin? Or would you still claim that even when store accepted it as a currency, it still does not exist?
I am not interested in your fantasies. Sorry.

No, I am showing you that you own no digital product. And that Satoshi's number which suggests you do, is a fake number. You see how simple it is?

If you've read my posts, you saw that I didn't talk about my feelings, Trump or elections. So, you're imagining things. Just like you're imagining that you own bitcoins.

Okay, I'll bite. If I don’t own bitcoin, then what do I own? When I go to the exchange and sell my bitcoin for $ 43k, what did I sell? I don't understand what you're really trying to prove here.

Factually, you sold nothing. System just increased and decreased the numbers next to addresses and added the results to the blockchain. In short, the Satoshi's system performed some mathematical and technical operations and then the exchange gave you the existing money (liability), that is, 43,000 units of that liability for free.

Of course, you own an address in the system. Just like you own an email address.
386  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The Great Bitcoin Secret Revealed on: March 24, 2022, 09:41:18 AM
Stop with this nonsense, you cannot fool anyone here.

I agree, you should stop with this nonsense. Whatever you're trying to achieve has never worked before, and it won't work now either.
The sun will still shine, the grass will still be green, and Bitcoin will continue to exist, and it will be redeemable. Deal with it.

I literally never saw such a bizarre behavior in my life. Why are you doing this? What are you trying to achieve?

Right back at you!

Sure Bitcoin will continue to exist, and it will be redeemable. In imagination. I never said otherwise.
387  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The Great Bitcoin Secret Revealed on: March 24, 2022, 09:21:38 AM

Bitcoin on the other hand doesn't exist. Something that doesn't exist cannot be money. It cannot be a digital product, or coin, token, commodity, whatever.


Ok. So you don't understand what digital means. You are feeling agry that people are using digital money like Bitcoin as a currency, savings account and investment and you want to use your energy to fight that reality that digital stuff exists. That even when everything digital is in the end lines of code, they can still have value to people.
You sound like Donald Trump supporter claiming still that elections were stolen. Even when literally a country has Bitcoin as their official currency. Cheesy

You must be fun at parties. Telling people how trillion dollar market cap currency is a scam, 100 million users are wrong and the CEO's of the worlds biggest companies and banks do not understand what you understand. Cheesy

I can already see you going crazy with more and more about Bitcoin in news. "It's not real, it's not real, it's not real..."
No, I am showing you that you own no digital product. And that Satoshi's number which suggests you do, is a fake number. You see how simple it is?

If you've read my posts, you saw that I didn't talk about my feelings, Trump or elections. So, you're imagining things. Just like you're imagining that you own bitcoins.

Btw, "capitalisation" is multiplying the number of shares in SOMETHING (e.g. equity - capital) by market price of that THING. What you have in the Satoshi's scheme is multiplying the sum of numbers in the Satoshi's system by number of dollars that someone paid to get number "1" added to a number next to their address. This has literally nothing to do with capitalisation. But hey, you in bitcoin community are champions of twisting the meaning of words. So it is no wonder you twisted the meaning of the word "capitalisation" also. Nearly everything you do is imagining things and twisting the meaning of words. This discussion is a perfect example of such behavior.
388  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The Great Bitcoin Secret Revealed on: March 24, 2022, 08:23:24 AM
You have literally ignored every possible definition of a financial or economic term in this discussion.All that just to claim that Satoshi's numbers are something they are not.
Dude, something that is redeemable needs no legally enforcement to be considered redeemable. Money IOUs in gambling sites are redeemable and they don't represent anything other than the units of the game. They don't represent "real tangible" poker chips. They're just "numbers in a database".

And I've already told you that the same happens with cash. When I hand out $100 in cash to you, I don't pay up any debts, I don't create any liabilities, I'm just handing out a number that doesn't represent anything other than the currency whose usage is being enforced.

Another example is frantically repeating the name Bitcoin as if people were actually holding a coin in their own hands.
"Bitcoin" is just a name and you're just an idiot. That was it, I quit.
Stop with this nonsense, you cannot fool anyone here. You literally said that you've redeemed Satoshi's numbers. However, "to redeem" means - to fulfill a liability. When a retailer created a gift card he created the liability to take that card back and give the card holder some products or services. When the retailer does that, the liability is fulfilled. This is what it means to redeem - to fulfill the existing liability. So, what you actually said is that you had the liability, and that you then fulfilled that liability. Which is an obvious lie. You had no liability. Neither you nor anyone else in the Satoshi's system. You literally made up that you "redeemed bitcoin", because I demonstrated to you that "liability"(to redeem) is one form of money. Because I demonstrated that liability is something that exists. Given that liabilities don't exist in the Satoshi's system, you simply twisted the meaning of the word "redeem" to create the illusion that this system has "something" behind the numbers. I literally never saw such a bizarre behavior in my life. Why are you doing this? What are you trying to achieve?
389  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The Great Bitcoin Secret Revealed on: March 24, 2022, 05:30:37 AM
If your definition of money doesn't fit Bitcoin, so be it. But the point stands that you can't just write some number next to an address (creating coins out of thin air). Since people pay lots of money to generate these coins and have them accepted by everyone running nodes, as well as the buyers of these coins, they do have a value.

But this is my last post in this topic. It's a waste of time, as I said.
Please stop wasting your own time as well; if you're not interested in Bitcoin, maybe get a hobby; if you still are, seriously educate yourself first and then we can discuss about what you didn't understand.
Coming into a forum of people that are highly educated and experienced in this field and telling them that all is a 'great lie' without having any idea about any of even the basics of this, is not a good idea. In general.
So long! *unwatch*
No, I have no definition of money. I am stating the obvious - money is something. And then I gave the examples of something: liability (to redeem - token, fiat money, bond, gift card...), coin (tangible item like gold). I am also stating the obvious: we use numbers to express the quantity of something. Obviously, people must comunicate somehow to inform each other what and how many units of something is owned or transferred. For communication, numbers and letters are used. Numbers for informing on quantity of things, and letters to inform on name of things.

Bitcoin on the other hand doesn't exist. Something that doesn't exist cannot be money. It cannot be a digital product, or coin, token, commodity, whatever. Nothing cannot have features to be able to fit the definition of a word like "coin". And in the Satoshi's system there's nothing that the holders of the addresses own. Numbers attached to their addresses just create the illusion that a specific quantity of something - digital coins called Bitcoins, exist. The system simply attaches, for e.g. "5" to an address, and then it is claimed that the address holder owns 5 units of something - a thing called bitcoin. But the holder has nothing in their possession. Neither digital nor tangible. The number is simply fake. It's a lie. The whole system is a giant utopia where participants think they own something, while in reality only fake numbers are attached to their addresses.

What is stunning is how people in this discussion twist reality and definitions to be able to claim that nothing is something. I literally never experienced such a bizarre behavior in my life. Claiming that entering into this scheme is redeeming the non-existent item is an example of such behavior. Another example is frantically repeating the name Bitcoin as if people were actually holding a coin in their own hands. The most common behavior is hiding behind cryptographic management of numbers to create the illusion that something valuable is behind the numbers. Anyhow, this is an interesting psychological experiment to watch.
390  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The Great Bitcoin Secret Revealed on: March 23, 2022, 08:58:57 PM
I am not interested in your philosophy about Satoshi's numbers. You said these numbers are redeemable. Now, back up your claim. Who has the written liability to redeem that numbers and what's the maturity?

The guy who claims something people use for payment everyday does not exist at all, is not interested in "philosophy". Cheesy

Are you for real? Have you been laughed so hard that only place to talk shit left for you is this forum?

Every bitcoin exists in the blockchain. You cannot take it out as paper money from there. You can only transfer the ownership of those digital coins to some other people. So there is no need to destroy anything.
So, you're not able to back up your claim. I knew that already. I am just showing that none of you have some rational arguments. You're all just repeating the same nonsense.

No, you cannot redeem Satoshi's numbers. You can just transfer them to your address.
And yet, that's what "redeem" means...
Quote
gain or regain possession of (something) in exchange for payment.
Also stop calling it "Satoshi's system"; it's cringe. It's our system, those are the rules WE have decided to follow, it's a currency WE verify, WE are the central banks of it. (Precisely, the last one describes the miners, but we're free to start mining)

Satoshi or any other authorities have no power here.

Who has the written liability to redeem that numbers and what's the maturity?
No one deals with liabilities, by default, in our system and that's a feature. We don't have to use debt in such system, unless one wants to borrow money. When you sign a Bitcoin transaction, there's no one promising coins, owing coins etc., it's a settled transaction that cannot be reversed. Just like when you hand out cash.
In finance, redemption describes the repayment of a fixed-income security—such as a Treasury note, certificate of deposit, or bond—on or before its maturity date.

You have literally ignored every possible definition of a financial or economic term in this discussion.All that just to claim that Satoshi's numbers are something they are not. In the same sentence you say that Satoshi's numbers are redeemable, which means someone has liability, and then you say that in Satoshi's system there are no liabilities. For you, it doesn't matter what is reality or truth. You're twisting everything just to fit your narrative. I bet that if Satoshi had written in whitepaper that his system creates airplanes you would have claim that numbers are capable of flying. That what you're doing is a textbook definition of a delusion.
391  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The Great Bitcoin Secret Revealed on: March 23, 2022, 02:02:44 PM
Bitcoin blockchain is the same as banks vault or database. When you want to spend your Bitcoins, the system check from the database/vault/blockchain if you own enough for that transaction and as you do, you are able to make the transaction. Same thing when you transfer euros in digital form from your bank account to my bank account, transaction just gets written in the database. Nothing else needs to move. Just database gets written. Same thing happens with Bitcoin. New amounts of yours and mine just gets written into the blockchain.

The euros and dollars are not tied to gold anymore so there is nothing valuable what the bank owns you. Only digital bits or some paper representing those same digital bits but in paper. That paper and digital bits are worthless. UNLESS they are written in some database / blockchain which people DO appreciate as a currency.

So, it does not matter if it is digital euros, paper money or bitcoin. It has a value if we the people value it as a currency. If we don't value it as a currency, then it is worthless.

You do not value bitcoin so it is worthless to you. Hundred million people, companies, stock exchanges and ETFs etc do value bitcoin as a currency. And you can't make us decide otherway even if you tried for 100 years. Because in our more educated opinion than yours, the Bitcoin is better currency than euros or dollars. You saying you don't believe it does not matter to anyone.
I am not interested in your philosophy about Satoshi's numbers. You said these numbers are redeemable. Now, back up your claim. Who has the written liability to redeem that numbers and what's the maturity?
392  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The Great Bitcoin Secret Revealed on: March 23, 2022, 01:58:15 PM
You're the one who keeps spitting the nonsense. I'm willing to exchange food for bitcoins, therefore you can redeem it to me. It's redeemable, Jesus Christ what the hell is wrong with this guy.
No, you cannot redeem Satoshi's numbers. You can just transfer them to your address. Redeeming means destroying. When you redeem a gift card it no longer exists. When you redeem dollars, the liability is decreased in the banking system, dollars are literally destroyed. You, neither have written liability to destroy Satoshi's numbers, nor you would destroy them after giving someone goods, services or labour. So, you're talking stupidity again.
393  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The Great Bitcoin Secret Revealed on: March 23, 2022, 01:48:32 PM
So the numbers on your bank account that refers to banks database IS money for you but Bitcoins on my wallet that refers to Bitcoin database called blockchain somehow ARE NOT money?
Seems unlogical. Have you tried telling anyone face to face about this big revelation of yours that hundred million people, stock exchanges, banks, financial officers, whole governments etc are all wrong and only you realize that? How did anyone respond to your claims?
Numbers on bank accounts are the liability of the banking system, that is, a redeemable record. They are redeemed literally every day for labor, products and services of the borrowers at every loan repayment. Watch the video linked in the OP. Numbers in Satoshi's system are no one's liability. No institution or organization has a liability to redeem that numbers for something. Neither today, not tomorrow. Never.


So are Bitcoins too.
So, who has the written liability to redeem Satoshi's numbers next to your address and what is the maturity?
394  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The Great Bitcoin Secret Revealed on: March 23, 2022, 01:42:37 PM
So the numbers on your bank account that refers to banks database IS money for you but Bitcoins on my wallet that refers to Bitcoin database called blockchain somehow ARE NOT money?
Seems unlogical. Have you tried telling anyone face to face about this big revelation of yours that hundred million people, stock exchanges, banks, financial officers, whole governments etc are all wrong and only you realize that? How did anyone respond to your claims?
Numbers on bank accounts are the liability of the banking system, that is, a redeemable record. They are redeemed literally every day for labor, products and services of the borrowers at every loan repayment. Watch the video linked in the OP. Numbers in Satoshi's system are no one's liability. No institution or organization has a liability to redeem that numbers for something. Neither today, nor tomorrow. Never.
395  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The Great Bitcoin Secret Revealed on: March 23, 2022, 01:09:35 PM
If it's this easy, please do it and show how you did it. Don't worry, it's not spreading misinformation, if it's possible, it's a bug in the system and it's totally your right to exploit it. Also, if it was this easy, someone would surely simply do that (in secret or now); yet somehow I still own my own coins.
Sure it's easy. You need a line of code to attach a number to an address. To create a coin - a tangible item or intangible liability, it's not so easy. Your problem is that you lack education in economics so you think that attaching a number to an address means creating a coin. Electronic coin or cash is liability written on digital media. Cash is liability written on paper or metal media. Writing down numbers into a database is not creating coins or electronic cash, like Satoshi said in his whitepaper. That guy wrote nonsense because he is also uneducated in economics.

The thing that you don't understand and cannot understand without educating yourself about cryptography and signatures: you can't just write another number next to your address.
Yes, you can... here you go. Addr4u7jgt67. I declare that to be my address. ... Addr4u7jgt67->1,000 And now I just attached a number to that address. Of course, I can make, a protocol... "Attaching is allowable only after POW. POW is traveling around the world". Ups... now it's not easy for me to attach a number. But, whatever. It is still a number. It's not a car. It's not an application. It's not money or a coin ( a tangible item or intangible liability). It's literally a number. With or without POW, it doesn't matter. POW doesn't magically transform numbers into gold.

When you claim that we can't 'show the BTC assigned to our address', it's a strawman argument. That's because we don't prove ownership by 'showing the number of BTC and the corresponding address', but we prove ownership through a cryptographic signature that only the owner can provide.
You don't prove ownership because you don't own a digital product, liability or a tangible item. You prove that a specific number was attached to your address. That's it.

Except we can. It's called cryptographic signature.
Cryptographic signature... I have to google it... " uses public key algorithms to provide data integrity. When you sign data with a digital signature, someone else can verify the signature, and can prove that the data originated from you and was not altered after you signed it."

So, with a cryptographic signature you are just securing the numbers attached. No bit-coins, that is, someone's liabilities to redeem numbers exist in a cryptographic signature. You see, you didn't prove the existence of bit-coins.

I don't attack you, I'm stating the obvious. You are talking out of your ass and embarassing yourself with your ignorance. Harsh reality, but it is what it is. Some day you might understand; or you will end up dying in your ignorance. It's up to you though; you seem not to want to learn & understand, instead keep hammering on your arguments based on wrong, naive assumptions. I don't keep my hopes up.
I refuted literally everything you said. Even that thing about cryptographic signatures. Are you using Freudian projection? It's like you're describing yourself.


What even is buying? Transfer of ownership. I transferred ownership rights of some amount of BTC from my secret key to the seller's secret key, while he shipped me a product. That's the definition of buying.
Again, if you can 'just transfer fake numbers to someone's address', why don't you do it? You keep saying that it's so easily possible, but I'd like to see you do it.
No, no, no and no. You didn't transfer ownership rights of some amount of BTC. You transferred a number. BTC is just Satoshi's trick of renaming the concept of a number to coin. Numbers are neither coins nor there's ownership rights on them. Satoshi didn't invent numbers or patented them. He just uses them to create the illusion of the existence of coins that don't actually exist.

That's wrong though; you have no, zero valid arguments why the 'numbers should be fake'. If they were, what stops you from generating such 'fake numbers' for free, yourself?
I am not a fraudster so I don't create fake things.


Dude, we understand. You're super proud that you understood how the banking system works. However, that doesn't mean every other payment system has to work the same way..
In fact, Bitcoin is more akin to 'antique money' than 'modern money'. Where people had gold coins that they paid with. The value wasn't in something 'backing the coin', some 'liability' or some bank. It was the value of the material, simple as that. Exact same thing with Bitcoin. A gold coin also wasn't 'redeemable' in the sense that a modern day banknote is; but people willingly traded goods for it since they knew it had value. Value due to scarcity and demand, but also through heaps of expended energy to get that shit out of the ground.

If you don't understand why, read more about it and ask specific questions. But this discussion doesn't help you understand and won't convince anyone of your pathetically wrong assumptions and derived wrong claims.

I also start to think it makes no sense to waste any more of my time with you. I tend to join these types of discussions so other users are not misinformed by trolls & can read my objective explanations why the troll is wrong, however I'm confident I've proven it enough by now.
Antique money is a tangible item. Modern money is redeemable record. Satoshi's numbers are neither. Which means they are not money, coins or tokens. They're just numbers. You are free to pay a million dollars for a number to be attached to your address. But you cannot lie that that number is money, coin or bit-coin. Although you can say it's a fake-coin.
396  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The Great Bitcoin Secret Revealed on: March 23, 2022, 11:24:52 AM
Sure, if people repeatedly lie that coin called bitcoin exists then I must repeatedly address their lies. I don't care about their nonsensical analogies with DNS or evolution. The people here are lying and spreading misinformation. That's the point. Hiding behind stupid analogies won't make that lies go away.

A coin, a token, or money in the form of a record is basically a record of liability. Liability of the issuer of the record to redeem it. So, if that guy Satoshi claims that the numbers that his system is writing down are coins than he is actually claiming that someone has the liability to redeem them. Like banks redeem their records via loan repayments, like casinos redeem their records (tokens), like retailers redeem their gift cards, or corporations their bonds. But no entity exists that has the liability to redeem the record next to addresses in Satoshi's system. That's why the records that his system writes down are not coins. They're not bitcoins. They are fake numbers. Any idiot can print numbers, and then claim they are coins, without having any liability to redeem them. That's called a fraud and not a payment system.

No, you are wrong! Analogies with DNS or evolution are not nonsensical because you claim that Bitcoin doesn't exist because you can't touch it or feel it. You can't touch or feel DNS or evolution and yet they exist. How are those analogies nonsensical if they confirm that a thing can exist even if you can't touch it or feel it?
Yes they are nonsensical because they misrepresent my position. I literally never said that bitcoin doesn't exist because you can't touch it or feel it.

I said that bitcoin doesn't exist because I checked the Satoshi's system and proved by empirical observation that neither liabilities (to redeem) nor digital products exist there. But just numbers. You can't touch or feel liabilities and digital products but they still exist. It is just that they don't exist in Satoshi's system. So no coins or bit-coins. Coins are tangible items or intangible liabilities. None of that is in Satoshi's system. Just numbers. Numbers are concepts on quantity represented by symbols (0-9). They are not invented by Satoshi. So you can't just rename numbers into bitcoin and claim that you've invented new money, coin or token. That's a lie.
397  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The Great Bitcoin Secret Revealed on: March 23, 2022, 10:53:32 AM

~snip~

Any idiot can print numbers, and then claim they are coins, without having any liability to redeem them. That's called a fraud and not a payment system.

Bitcoin uses proof of work to generate new coins. In your terms, this would be the liability to redeem the coins. Miners are constantly working trying to find a new block, if one finds a new block, bitcoin is redeemed to the miner who discovered it.

Without work, there's no generation of new coins. You need the work to generate the coins, it's literally what you're saying. There is a liability, the work needs to be done. Bitcoins are not created out of thin air, they are given for work done.
And... another round of lies and misinformation.

Writing down a number (a record) next to miner's address after that miner provided POW, doesn't magically make that record redeemable. For a record to be redeemable someone has to have a liability to exchange it for products, services or other redeemable records like fiat money.

Bitcoins, that is, bit-coins, don't exist. A coin is either a tangible item like gold or other item with intrinsic value, or a record where its issuer has a liability to redeem it. That what you have in Satoshi's system are numbers, fake-coins, that people falsely call coins, tokens or money.
398  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The Great Bitcoin Secret Revealed on: March 23, 2022, 09:00:31 AM
I read the whole discussion since yesterday and all I see that you repeat the same thing all the time - Bitcoin doesn't exist because no one can show it to you. And when someone asks you about other things that do exist (communication protocols or evolution), you ignore the question or just say that you now nothing about that. Just let it go man... All of us here are delusional idiots who believe Bitcoin is something valuable and you are the only one smart enough to see that it's worthless. Is your life mission to save us all from our delusion?
Sure, if people repeatedly lie that coin called bitcoin exists then I must repeatedly address their lies. I don't care about their nonsensical analogies with DNS or evolution. The people here are lying and spreading misinformation. That's the point. Hiding behind stupid analogies won't make that lies go away.

A coin, a token, or money in the form of a record is basically a record of liability. Liability of the issuer of the record to redeem it. So, if that guy Satoshi claims that the numbers that his system is writing down are coins than he is actually claiming that someone has the liability to redeem them. Like banks redeem their records via loan repayments, like casinos redeem their records (tokens), like retailers redeem their gift cards, or corporations their bonds. But no entity exists that has the liability to redeem the record next to addresses in Satoshi's system. That's why the records that his system writes down are not coins. They're not bitcoins. They are fake numbers. Any idiot can print numbers, and then claim they are coins, without having any liability to redeem them. That's called a fraud and not a payment system.
399  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The Great Bitcoin Secret Revealed on: March 23, 2022, 05:37:13 AM
All you can do is attach the sum of numbers in the system to your address.
I can only attach it to my machine, but not to others'. I can change it to 18,000,000 BTC to my machine, but this won't make it true, because I won't have the necessary digital signature to prove it so. I need other people to sign that I'm the new owner of their coins. I can't just make those up.

As for semantics, that you keep saying, you're the only one who's playing with semantics all the time... "numbers", "math symbols", "Satoshi's system"... Get real, man.

If you have  0.0000001 attached to your address, and a guy has 18,000,000 attached you both can show equal number of keys and math symbols.
Ugh.. Same shit... All over again... You don't (want to) get it...
Again, you don't have coins. You have fake number attached to your address that provides false information about the existance of a thing named "coin", while in reality you own nothing. Anyone can write down a number a name of a non-existent thing and then clam to owe it. I can write down to own 10 Ferraris. Satoshi, via his software, can write down that a miner's address owns 10 bitcoins. Someone else can counterfeit $10,000 dollars and claim to own bank debt. All that would be false information. If I would keep insisting I own 10 Ferries, while only pointing to what I wrote down, that would be called a delusion. If I would do that publicly, that would be spreading misinformation.

A guy with 18,000,000 attached to his address, and a guy with 0.00000001 attached, can both show only keys and math symbols.
That's the point: these 'only keys and math symbols' do hold value. You seem very confused, because you keep going back and forth between 'you guys just show the number e.g. 5BTC but not what it points to' and 'keys are just math symbols'. Those are two different things. Both are wrong, but both are different. Are you even aware of this? It would be beneficial to know what we're discussing about, because (1) is completely wrong and easy to understand, while (2) gets a little bit more interesting.

Nothing else. There's no difference between them. So, what is your point? On what did the first guy spend 1.2 trillion dollars?
Just because two cryptographic keys are both 'math symbols' doesn't mean both need to have the same value. It's like saying 'your shed and this skyscraper are both building, lol why would this stupid guy buy the skyscraper for $100 million when he can buy a shed that is also a 'math symbol'building and only costs a couple grand?'

A guy with 18,000,000 attached to his address, and a guy with 0.00000001 attached, can both show only keys and math symbols.
But only one of them can prove that they own 18,000,000 units of the system. The other has much much less.
You explained very well; maybe it helps him understand better if we tell him that Bitcoin is UTXO based, so there are no 'accounts' per se, but ownership of UTXOs. This ownership is proven by possession of the only private key ('just number / math symbol') that allows you to transfer this UTXO to another owner. This is your ownership right. The key.

Again, I challenge @Snowshow to come up with a 'just a number' that allows him to send me 1BTC through the blockchain and I will pay him in cash for that coin. Smiley It doesn't get easier than that, according to him.
Heck, I'll send him the blockchain on a HDD via mail to make it easier for him.

Does DNS exist? I don't even know what DNS is. If I would claim it exists I would provide evidence for my claim. You claim that bitcoin exists but you have zero evidence to back it up.
Oh wow, sorry but you must be pretty clueless about technology. Maybe read a book or something. I'm not saying everyone needs to know what DNS is, but if you want to discuss the maths and protocol of Bitcoin at this level, it seems to me you lack all of the basics, and this is kind of the icing on the cake.

You cannot utilize bitcoin. All you can do is swap numbers with someone. And then use your imagination to think that you own xx bitcoins. Or you can think that Bitcoin is a good that will solve all your problems. You can think whatever you want because human capacity for imaginary creation is enormous.
Since you like proofs, here's a proof okay? I and many others here bought lots of goods through Bitcoin. But you claim we never 'utilized' Bitcoin? How's that possible? If only our imagination would tell us that we own that amount of Bitcoin, nobody would take them for payment, right? Maybe you can prove me wrong, since you like proofs, and 'think you own xx bitcoins', then convince someone of it and have them give you a physical good for it? Good luck with that! No keys, no coins dude.

If I own 1 car and a guy owns 10,000 cars, this guy can show 10,000 more four-wheeled road vehicles powered by an engine, than I can.

If you have  0.0000001 attached to your address, and a guy has 18,000,000 attached you both can show equal number of keys and math symbols.
No, they cannot. One can provide a cryptographic signature that proves the ownership of 18 million coins and the other can't. Simple as that.
I know with pretty high confidence that you have zero idea about cryptography and signatures, so read a book or two on that as well, when you're done with the basic protocols of the internet. Then we can talk technology and cryptocurrencies. So long!

PS: Also read the forum rules. You always quote everything, that's painful.
I am not confused. I am simply stating the fact that none of you are able to show a thing whose name is bitcoin, and whose quantities are written next to your addresses. That's all. That's why you're focused on ad hominem attacks. Talking about my motivation, education and knowledge. I am having real fun here watching what people are capable to do or say just to justify false narratives and misinformation. I am viewing this as some sort of psychological experiment.

As for your false claims. You bought nothing with bitcoin. You transferred fake numbers to people's addresses and these people transferred the ownership of the existing things to you. Why the people did that? Probably because they are the victims of misinformation that bitcoin is an existing thing.
Does DNS exist? I don't even know what DNS is. If I would claim it exists I would provide evidence for my claim. You claim that bitcoin exists but you have zero evidence to back it up.

Do you know what Bitcoin is?

As I see it, your opinion about Bitcoin (yes, an opinion, not facts) seems to have the same value as my opinion about Darwin's theory of evolution, which I know practically nothing about. Imagine I were to claim that evolution of living organisms doesn't exist. Would you be able to prove me wrong given that I am completely ignorant on the subject?

You cannot utilize bitcoin. All you can do is swap numbers with someone.

However, 100 million people currently using the Bitcoin network beg to differ. And just another fact check, even your example shows that Bitcoin has at least some utility.  Grin

I don't have opinion on bitcoin, I am exposing misinformation that bitcoin exist. I am proving that the numbers written down by the Satoshi's system are not the quantities of an existing digital thing but fake numbers.
400  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The Great Bitcoin Secret Revealed on: March 22, 2022, 08:10:08 PM
And I gave you an example that proves that your arguments are flawed.
I ask you again, does DNS exist? Can you show it to me?
You couldn't have proved that my arguments are flawed because I made no arguments. I was simply stating facts. Saying that the Sun is bigger than the Moon is not an argument.

This is not a fact, but your fiction. Stating that the Sun does not exist because you are visually impaired is not a statement of fact.

Saying that bitcoin doesn't exist in Satoshi's system is not an argument. It's a statement of fact. I am simply observing the system. When people say that they bought bitcoin, all I can see is the change of a number next to their address. So, I observe a couple of math symbols, and not some revolutionary digital product that is capable of making people free. Then, I check the network. And I see nodes that are keeping the numbers and addresses stored in a database. Again, no revolutionary digital product there. Than I check the wallet app. I see only keys that everyone got for free. And numbers attached to address. And letters B, T, and C. But again, I see no revolutionary digital product there. So, I have empirically confirmed that no revolutionary digital product exists in the Satoshi's system. Not a single bitcoin holder has ever demonstrated to own such a product when joining the system. What we all observe is a simple system that attaches numbers to addresses and keeps that stored in a distributed database. People then simply read that numbers via wallet applications. That's literally everything. A revolutionary digital product, a new form of money, an advanced electronic cash, ... exist only in human imagination.  

I ask you again, does DNS exist? Can you show it to me?
I know it's mind boggling, but it amazes me that after all this time you can't figure this stuff out yet ... maybe you'll catch on someday.

Now you say over 100 million people around the world are stupid? Wow, talk about arrogance!
I would never say that Elon Musk is stupid. Nor anyone here. You are just ignorant or driven by greed, so you shut down your brains when discussing bitcoin issues.

Since you don't know me, you can't know that. It's just your opinion. Once again, putting yourself ahead of 100 million other people is a sick level of arrogance. I suggest you talk to someone about it.

In fact, you can't really show a digital book. Unfortunately, humans do not have the ability to see (or perceive) digital electrical impulses stored and transmitted through electronic circuits. All you can do is show a visual (or audial) representation of digital data, whether it be a digital book, picture, audio recording, or any other data type, including bitcoin.
I can prove that a digital book exists by reading text or watching pictures after opening a file. In the same way you can prove that a number is attached to your address when opening your wallet. But you cannot prove that there's a digital product called bitcoin.

It seems to me that you have a very narrow and inaccurate idea of what a digital product is. Digital products are available in different forms. For example, Google Search is a digital product. You can't read it or watch it, but you can utilize it. In a similar manner, I can utilize bitcoin, so it is a digital product that exists.

I demonstrated by empirical evidence that it is a fact. You've just rhetorically denied the evidence. Nothing else.

Does DNS exist? I don't even know what DNS is. If I would claim it exists I would provide evidence for my claim. You claim that bitcoin exists but you have zero evidence to back it up.

You cannot utilize bitcoin. All you can do is swap numbers with someone. And then use your imagination to think that you own xx bitcoins. Or you can think that Bitcoin is a good that will solve all your problems. You can think whatever you want because human capacity for imaginary creation is enormous.


Everyone that has installed the wallet app has keys an numbers attached.
That's what n0nce told you.

Everyone that has downloaded blockchain can see numbers and addresses.
That's also true.

Anyone that would pay $1.2 trillion today to have the sum of all the numbers in the Satoshi's system attached to their address, would have a number attached, the same as any person that holds an address in the system.
That's false. If you bought the equivalent of $1.2 trillion in Bitcoin, you'd have definitely more Bitcoin than I do, because your balance would be greater than mine.

It's just that the number would be different.
That's a big difference. If you own 1 car and another owns 10,000 cars, you both own cars, and therefore, both own a number of cars, but not the same amount.

A guy with 18,000,000 attached to his address, and a guy with 0.00000001 attached, can both show only keys and math symbols.
But only one of them can prove that they own 18,000,000 units of the system. The other has much much less.
You cannot buy the equivalent of $1.2 trillion in bitcoin, because bitcoin doesn't exist. All you can do is to have the sum of the numbers in the system attached to your address.

If I own 1 car and a guy owns 10,000 cars, this guy can show 10,000 more four-wheeled road vehicles powered by an engine, than I can.

If you have  0.0000001 attached to your address, and a guy has 18,000,000 attached you both can show equal number of keys and math symbols.

Units of a system is another name for math symbols. You're just paying semantics.
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