Requiring a 50 BTC deposit (or whatever) would be another way to prevent Sybil attacks. Perhaps this could be an alternative to giving out your identity.
Another possibility would be to have one of several third-parties verify your identity and give you an anonymous "voting token" using blind signing.
Technical changes will happen as they have for the last couple of years-- get rough consensus in the developer community then convince miners and merchants and users to upgrade. Didn't you want to "standardize"? A change of plans, eh? |
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Luke-Jr, if you go to Tools/Encoding in your Chrome browser while in Wikipedia, you should have the UTF-8 option checked. Is that so? I'm not the one having problems... This guy is a nut. Plain and simple. Awhile back he added a Tonal number section to the Bitcoin article. |
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when you use the thai baht my wife has to ask what it is...
The US Dollar came out of the same evolution: "The [$] sign is first attested in British, American, Canadian, Mexican and other Spanish American business correspondence in the 1770s, referring to the Spanish American peso,[1][2] also known as "Spanish dollar" or "piece of eight" in British North America, which provided the model for the currency that the United States later adopted in 1785 and the larger coins of the new Spanish American republics such as the Mexican peso, Peruvian eight-real and Bolivian eight-sol coins. The best documented explanation reveals that the sign evolved out of the Spanish and Spanish American scribal abbreviation "ps" for pesos. A study of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century manuscripts shows that the s gradually came to be written over the p developing a close equivalent to the "$" mark.[3][4][5][6][7]" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign |
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Perhaps some of the attraction of religion comes from hearing what we want to hear? Things like; you will not die when you are dead, neither will your loved ones. Or, the wicked will be punished and the good rewarded, no matter how much it does not look like that is happening. And of course, you have a invisible superhero who protects you.
Not all religions believe these things but our universal sense of justice can be shaken upon realizing that we do die, the wicked often die wealthy and happy, and that this world could come apart and kill us all.
In the case life is only a blip, it would be served well by an eternal void without memory. Although your consciousness only existing once seems more unlikely than it being reproduced again, assuming an infinite universe. |
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This doesn't look same to me.  vs  There is no identical unicode symbol. The Thai Baht is the closest however and The Silk Road (the largest Bitcoin marketplace) uses it. |
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That's what I prefer. There's also this one: BTC
That's not standard unicode though. If Luke-Jr is trying to pushing a custom font on top of another symbol, that's just not going to fly on Wikipedia. |
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Luke-Jr keeps changing it to some weird Russian symbol nobody uses on Wikipedia. It probably shows up as the Baht for him or something.
Anyways, we generally use the Thai Baht for Bitcoins, right?
฿ <- that right there
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Bitcoin is interesting, but I really can't identify with this religious fanaticism that requires companies, organizations etc to either be "true believers" or "heretics".
We just want Bitcoin to survive as long as possible. Corporate hegemony can end things if we let it. |
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http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3486823&pagenumber=154#lastpostAccording to the gentlemen, HazCat, at the bottom of this thread, I have stripped women of personhood just by referring to them by a different name. Does one really have power over a woman's happiness and personhood just by calling them females among other things, or is this whole feminist "proper name" etiquette just another way of shaming people into submission? I find the idea of women falling into horrible agony by me referring to them as females or humanoids as pathetic, if not amusing. Women really depend on me respecting them by their exact terms in order to be happy? I thought they wanted to have more power in society and independence in their lives? Anyways, today's form of feminism is turning pretty silly.
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I like to think we are all god as we are separate parts of a singular universe. There is an origin to all of this and we came from it, thus we are the origin. We are god.
Have you watched The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya?  Nope. Let me guess: The ending deals with this? |
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I like to think we are all god as we are separate parts of a singular universe. There is an origin to all of this and we came from it, thus we are the origin. We are god.
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Kill men, have clear activities surrounding their body then bring them back to life. Ask them what they saw. All we need is a resurrection method and we're good.
Indeed it's important to mention that the subject should be capable of describing what happened in the room if he claims that he was actually floating outside of his body. I suggest we write a word on his front-head and we make sure there is no mirror in the room when he wakes up. Genius! Now all we need is to form a test lab with willing subjects in some lawless slum in Africa! Right after we find a Resurrection method! Haha. |
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Well, if something is reported enough under consistent circumstance, can it be reasonable to think it is likely?
It makes it an interesting subject of study, but unless you can reproduce those circumstances and observe the claimed effect, skepticism is natural. Hm, here's an experiment: Kill men, have clear activities surrounding their body then bring them back to life. Ask them what they saw. All we need is a resurrection method and we're good. |
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I make a couple thousand a month trading Bitcoins on Mt. Gox at clear opportunities. I consider that my job.
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Common reports: Floating above dead body and surrounding environment. Tunnel of light.
It has been witnessed, but nobody has ever been able to reproduce the experience at will. It's like cryptozoology: some people say they have seen weird animals, but when we go to the place and have a look, no matter how hard we try, we never see anything. So you just can't believe those witnesses blindly. Well, if something is reported enough under consistent circumstance, can it be reasonable to think it is likely? |
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We really need a full alternative, TBF independent, client. Asap.
bitcoind is the bitcoin protocol. You can't have two different protocols that would be compatible. One thing you're forgetting are the miners. If there were to be a drastic change in the protocol, at least 50% of the miners would have to agree to it, thus I don't see a problem with having one "official" client representing the protocol. For everything else (gui, taint analysis, etc), we already have several clients that follow the same protocol, and you are free to use one any of them. cbitcoin, libbitcoin, BitcoinJ will all be independent clients that implement the consensus that is the Bitcoin protocol. |
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Well, there are people who have been clinically dead and came back.
Common reports: Floating above dead body and surrounding environment. Tunnel of light.
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Over a million dollars in profit is made on the Silk Road every single day, in Bitcoins. What is the likelihood taxes are paid on all of this income?
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