What you mean is that these houses are worthless because the city forces you to pay disproportionate property taxes. Land and a house (no matter how dilapidated) is never intrinsically worthless.

Or because you want both

I'm sure most conferences that Max Keiser goes to will pay his air fares, but I understand why the Prague conference can't do so. And therefore I understand why Max's costs have gone up, now that he knows he has to pay for his and Stacey's flights. Fair enough.

I've made a donation, and I encourage others to. Max has a big following, and for him to make a 25-minute documentary would be fantastic for the growth of Bitcoin.

(Molecular, you need to fix the third link in your original post.)

It would be great if Max could make this film. Unfortunately, both GLBSE and PirateMyFilm have cumbersome payment processes.

Can you just post a simple Bitcoin donation address? You are in good standing at this forum. I'm sure there are people who would donate based on your promise to make the funds available to Max's film, yet those same people would not go through the complex processes required to donate via GLBSE or PirateMyFilm.

Prosperity comes from people growing useful things, making useful things, or providing useful services. Contrary to what bankers and politicians will tell you, prosperity doesn't come from increasing the money supply.

The higher the rate of inflation, the more of the prosperity goes to people who borrowed their capital, and are in debt. The higher the rate of deflation, the more of the prosperity goes to people who have saved, and are providing the capital for others.

In ideal circumstances, there is no inflation or deflation. Savers can obtain a small premium in return for temporarily foregoing use of their money, and borrowers can pay a small premium in return for using other people's capital for productive purposes.

Miners need to keep the whole transaction history. Although the transaction fees that miners require are nominally tied to the block being generated, in the future miners will set those fees to a level that covers the costs of handling the entire transaction history, not just the mining of the current block.

Therefore, although the current transaction fee mechanism may not produce the economically optimum result, it's "good enough". It's viable, self-sustaining and self-regulating.

There's no evidence that violence towards children teaches them right and wrong. It does teach them to avoid the behavior that triggers the violence, but that's not the same thing.

So when the father is old and frail, do you think it will be OK for the daughter to use the same violence against him if he loses his false teeth or is incontinent on the carpet?

Miz,

What's the implementation language of Witcoinwitcoin?

Are you considering open-sourcing it? If so, I will make a donation. If not, would you be interested in supplying me with a one-time snapshot of the code and database schema (but not the data) in return for a worthwhile donation? Alternatively, I would be happy to post some bounties for you to make certain changes that would make it worthwhile for me to get more involved with your new site.

ribuck

I would let the witcoin.com site retain the coins that were deposited there, but allow individual users to request a transfer of their balance from one site to the other until, say, the end of the year. No biggie.

As for the concept of witcoin, I think it can be very successful, but the format isn't quite right yet. I have some specific ideas which I'm keen to discuss when you've decided how you're taking the site forward.

I think this change will be good for Witcoin. It gives it two new chances at success.

It wouldn't be exclusive if everyone knew what was posted there.

Leave a copy with your will, so that your coins go to your next-of-kin if you die.

Very hard to watch (I only made it half way through). The initiation of violence is never right. It's particularly bad against a child.

The word is only used disparagingly in some parts of the world, so you may not know it. In other places, people might say instead "What a load of Baloney". The meaning is the same.

Those who don't yet recognize this "invention" as a scam may find this article interesting:
http://blog.newenergytimes.com/2011/10/30/noble-aspirations-are-not-enough/

Now that you've got that off your chest, you could ponder why the "inventors" of these impossible devices always refuse to give a simple unambiguous demonstration that they work.

Life can be complicated. I'm currently being pursued by patent trolls, although I don't think Uclue infringes their patents. If I did substantial new development I would probably structure the service differently so that it's obvious (even to a patent troll) that the service doesn't infringe these patents.

US Patent 7,472,071: "Interactive System for Managing Questions and Answers Among Users and Experts"

US Patent 7,596,578: "Method and Apparatus for Operating and Funding a Question and Answer Interactive System"

In his latest press release, Rossi explained how his device works.

It's actually not cold fusion. It turns out that the device consumes as much electrical power as the heat it releases, but as a side-effect the device generates enough bitcoins to pay for the power consumed, so Rossi has been ignoring the electricity input in his energy calculations.

Bitcoin scripts do not form a turing complete language (there's no loop or "goto"), so the question doesn't arise.

[edit: this was a deliberate design decision by Satoshi]

I was one of the Google Answers Researchers. When Google Answers closed, I set up Uclue as a replacement. The answers are provided by several dozen former Google Answers Researchers. PayPal is used for payments.

If anyone has a serious business proposition to convert the site to Bitcoin, send me a PM or reply here please.

Also be aware that there is already a failed attempt at a Bitcoin version: http://bitqna.com/
At that site, payment is optional, which is never going to work.