Posting here in the hopes Gavin sees it...  Are there any plans for a zerocoin hard fork implementation in the future?  Not even the near future, but any future.  Or is that just not at all in the cards?

lol fuck no.  we got over 86 more years in the century.  86 years ago cryptography and computers were non-existent.  satoshi was brilliant, but we can't even fathom what advances will be made by the end of the century.  kurtzweil predicts we'll have human level sentient AI by 2030.  and then we'll have 70 more years AFTER THAT before the century is over.  like i said, satoshi was brilliant, but if he's the most influential person of the century, it's because WW3 has made a nuclear winter and completely halted or reversed progress of any sort.

tested, looks good.  my only complaint is it's a bit jarring to see the bitcoin spin around and then the logo is magically back in place, rather than reversed like youre actually looking at the back of it.  it's like spinning a coin and seeing heads on both sides.  other than that, i like it a lot.  it's big.

Theoretically, yes.  The difficulty of getting fiat online is digitizing it.  If you secure it by not letting users print it at will, but instead at a either known rate or entirely pre-mined, then it is secure, but it's value fluctuates with market demand.  If you have genuine fiat and it can be printed at will by somebody, then you can't trust the value of it.

The only solution is indeed something like mint chip-- a directly government/bank controlled digital fiat that is made by government/bank, thus minting doesn't matter because it's government/bank BACKED.  Thus it's value is locked (as much as inflationary fiat can be).  It doesn't make for a great alternative currency in its OWN right, but it DOES make for a FANTASTIC transition intermediary to get fiat digitized, so that it can then be traded and exchanged into bitcoin.

There was a thread somewhere around here proposing dUSD, or digital USD, an alt chain pegged to USD.  The problem is, the only way to peg a digital alt-chain to a currency is to have a large entity that buys and sells on par with the currency, one which is large enough to be bigger than any reasonable market, thus negating market forces from trading at prices that aren't on par with its physical counterpart.  Unfortunately, there's really only one entity with such power to do this: governments.

But that's a GOOD thing.  We should ENCOURAGE governments to create digital currencies pegged to fiat, because once it's digital it can go anywhere, like into bitcoin.  So buying and selling become MUCH easier with government backed digital currencies.

Micon

I'm glad that public fight with mem broke out; it's good to see how people who are running businesses respond when their emotions are heated up.  That exchange has made me trust the site operator slightly more.  He threw out some mean words and occasionally didn't act completely appropriately, but he came out far ahead of mem, and also the nature of his responses-- direct, concise answers to concerns; trying to get information displayed publicly -- was in line with the way a responsible person would act.

It's nice to see people doing business the right way.

this is basically bitcoin but with an uncontrolled minting process.  you cant have that because then other people's money gets devalued by random people printing more.

why benefit does what you think you have in mind have over the current bitcoin system?

I laugh at them while they suck my dick?

Apparently I spoke about 5 minutes too soon.

dUSD already exists, it's called Liberty Reserve.  it's centralized, but for the most part it works, and it is a good test example of your system.  certainly, it works, but you still have the problem of converting USD into dUSD.  if you can find a way to turn cash into dUSD, that's the first hurdle.  the next is paypal and credit cards, since you run into the inevitable "one is reversible, one is not" problem.  IMO the only way to solve that is with centralization, i.e. trust in a specific entity, or a distributed web of trust like #bitcoin-otc's WOT.  but if you can solve the paypal or credit card/reversible  --> digital dUSD/irreversable problem, no matter the form, you'll be a bitcoin hero.

obviously you didn't escalate high enough

Just a warning.  This guy contacted me about selling me a phone I had requested on the forums, and was very kind and always quick to communicate.  He said that he would be able to get it to me, shipped from Russia.  I replied along the lines of "fantastic, how much, and please send me a list of users or services you would be willing to use for escrow if you don't want to use XXXX or XXXX" (people I trust and have used for escrow in the past).  Since then he has not communicated with me at all.  I am by no means saying he is scamming anybody, but his behavior is awkward enough, especially given his former quick communications, and the fact that he's been online often since my last few messages-- all that is enough to make me feel like I should at least tell others that this has been my experience.  If you do business with him, I would recommend requiring escrow.

Just a warning.  This user contacted me about selling me a phone I had requested on the forums, and was very kind and always quick to communicate.  He said that he would be able to get it to me, shipped from Russia.  I replied along the lines of "fantastic, how much, and please send me a list of users or services you would be willing to use for escrow if you don't want to use XXXX or XXXX" (people I trust and have used for escrow in the past).  Since then he has not communicated with me at all.  I am by no means saying he is scamming anybody, but his behavior is awkward enough, especially given his former quick communications, and the fact that he's been online often since my last few messages-- all that is enough to make me feel like I should at least tell others that this has been my experience.  If you do business with him, I would recommend requiring escrow.

there is a logical clock protocol to fix this

also, that sealsdeals bot is fantastic.  everybody involved with seals and those creating things liek that bot are doing a fucking amazing job.  fantastic works guys.

wow so the DOJ cracking down on gox's US account might be the best thing to have possibly happened for OT and p2p exchanges generally

micon, go do well at the series.  i got 1% of you.

Oh damn, the Chinese messages are awesome.

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