this is gret news,good bitcoin ... cardcash accept bitcoin payment,great! No mention of bitcoin  What am I missing? BTW, you guys know that this thread has been necroed from Sept2, 2015, right? |
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^Caveat: you sent BTC, your counterparty *got* BTC (not folding money, which is what WU is in the business of sending).
If said counterparty wanted BTC & not folding money (the sort that actually buys food and gas and smokes and pays rent), everything's fine.
Otherwise...
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^So buy GBP. ...
Protip: Don't buy [Walmart] gift cards with your BTC, buy USD GBP. That way, you can buy anything you want, anywhere you want.
If you insist on being difficult, buy yourself Walmart gift cards with that USD GBP.
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... Okay, sorry but if you could buy gift cards with it, I would just think that they'd know something about it, right?
Protip: Don't buy [Walmart] gift cards with your BTC, buy USD. That way, you can buy anything you want, anywhere you want. If you insist on being difficult, buy yourself Walmart gift cards with that USD. |
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Roach,
You are dead on brother. I managed a small hedge fund through the 90s (made over 100,000 trades during that span) < snip > How dare you stand in the presence of Our Royal Person, pathetic hedge fund manager of inferior merchant class?! On your knees, knave! Kneel before the Glory that is We, the King of Siam! |
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So how can people say Bitcoin is dead when there is still activity.
Bbecause before nursing butthurt, it's important to understand that bitcoinobituaries.com in OP is a clickbait site. In the linked article, http://www.coindesk.com/land-1000-bitcoin-wallets/ , the word "dead" appears exactly 0 (zero) times.Please read the linked article from Coindesk, the leading Bitcoin "news site," find out what (if anything) you disagree with, and get back to me. |
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Amazing. I was looking forward to this moment. On this webpage for those that don't still know, they make a compilation of news that are about how Bitcoins dead, how Bitcoin is doomed, how it is a failed experiment... in general, how Bitcoin is done for. And guess what: We are celebrating death number 100! www.bitcoinobituaries.comAnd of course, it had to be yet another smartass CEO ! John Biggs is CEO of stealth bitcoin startup Freemit and a former editor at TechCrunch. His work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Gizmodo and Men's Health. ...  |
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... Segwit will likely be deployed later this month or early may. ... That's longhand for "In Two Weeks TM," correct? |
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I think in my country nobody is selling nothing here... so it's just waste for me  maybe. but you can still ship stuff from overseas. the shipping fee can be a killer depending on where you live though. Not if the stuff's relatively light   |
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... How is this different from Bitcoin?
It is very different. ... Totes unlike every Bitcoin "business" ever on /bitcoin securities/ Andrej Brda is the real person under the Second Life avatar Wili Clip.
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He is the CEO of Second Ads, one of the most profitable companies of Second Life. He was claiming having monthly revenue of 1,600,000 lindens with expenses of only 157,000 lindens ...
In 2011 and 2012, he was paying on certain months 400,000-650,000 lindens in dividends:
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Taking in account the usual value of the linden of about 1 usd=250 Lindens, we are talking about monthly revenue of 6400 USDs.
< wall of rage and regret omitted for readability >
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I tried, but it didn't work... But I've just launched it, and I'm pleased to see that OB is working today. But I haven't understood why it wasn't working yesterday. Hey, if I want to use OB for business, I need 100% reliability.
Try using Linux or Mac, Windows (and the way the other apps you have installed on your PC manifest themselves with Windows) is likely making any early problems with OB much worse than they really are. Microsoft have always had a bad record with supervising different bits of software to play nice with one another. brb, buying a Mac to run OB  |
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Don't worry everyone, you still got me...  |
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^^Paste "tethering a phone to a computer" into Google -- solve your wifi problem (will be as slow as your phone, but will cost you zip).
If you're into tinkering, tinker that Dell back to life; if in Big City, plenty of computers at the curb on trash days.
Caveat: must go outside.
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Carlton my boy, odds are I sold you your first coin. Your recent asshattery on this forum makes me doing that to you ... well, almost morally justifiable You won't have any qualms proving it then. Sign a message from a pre-2014 tx and it's possible that someone might believe your "OG Bitcoiner brah" claims. I'm waiting. Waste years of mixing to prove something to Anon from the interweb? I mean sure, Ross kept a detailed diary, with all of his feels re. hiring zomg a 4realz Angels hitman!!!1, but don't assume everyone is that stupid  |
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-snipe-
that's... disturbing. unless they do something about that, people will have to rely on a really trusted users from outside of OB. though that article you quoted doesn't have anything to do with what I said. you don't need to use a moderator to leave a review. Chicken or egg problem. They have no choice but to have overly permissive access to mod/arbitrator accounts, as potential sellers cannot even build up good feedback scores from buying from other sellers (because no-one has an OB tx history). Think about it: this problem will only have been worse for the early eBay, and their early customers probably solved the problem the same way you're thinking. Early eBay didn't base its business on anonymity -- the parties involved were (at least in theory) known to a trusted third party called eBay. Given a choice of trusting Anon from the interweb or a registered business with IRL address and stuff... well... call me a statist corporate sheep, but I feel a touch safer wit eBay Yep, you're a statist coporate sheep alright. Do you even Bitcoin? Can you reply without lying/trolling? The answer's "no", isn't it Carlton my boy, odds are I sold you your first coin. Your recent asshattery on this forum makes it ... well, almost morally justifiable |
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--snipe--
You might just find a good Desktop for sale at opening ceremony of OpenBaazar  I'd suggest you to go for an assembled Desktop with Ubuntu. Christ I need to get out more. I don't even know what Ubuntu is. Wasn't kidding about being a recluse, and I don't watch TV either and so I don't find out about these things unless I come here. This section is much nicer than the bitcoin part of bitcointalk. You guys snipe each other like a mound of bitches but the vibe is much different. Ubuntu is a popular flavor of Linux, a PC operating system. The good thing about Linux is it's free, and has plenty of free software that's almost, though not quite, as good as the fancy store-bought (or pirated) Windows counterpart. It's also much easier to tinker with, since it's [mostly] open source. OTOH, it's unlikely that you are a tinkerer if you don't own a computer, and most pretty much all computers come with Windows pre-installed when you buy them. If it matters, less than 2% of laptops/desktops use Linux (so ~1 in 100 computers runs Ubuntu).  So I'd say brave the outside & buy yourself a cheap new laptop if you have the money, cheap used crappy laptop if you don't, and a cheap desktop (remember, you also need to buy a monitor [screen, display], mouse & keyboard & a cheap wifi adapter for that) if really broke. Plus side: Life will become 100% better. |
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-snipe-
that's... disturbing. unless they do something about that, people will have to rely on a really trusted users from outside of OB. though that article you quoted doesn't have anything to do with what I said. you don't need to use a moderator to leave a review. Chicken or egg problem. They have no choice but to have overly permissive access to mod/arbitrator accounts, as potential sellers cannot even build up good feedback scores from buying from other sellers (because no-one has an OB tx history). Think about it: this problem will only have been worse for the early eBay, and their early customers probably solved the problem the same way you're thinking. Early eBay didn't base its business on anonymity -- the parties involved were (at least in theory) known to a trusted third party called eBay. Given a choice of trusting Anon from the interweb or a registered business with IRL address and stuff... well... call me a statist corporate sheep, but I feel a touch safer wit eBay |
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you have an option to use your local currency as your price. but people still have to pay in btc.
Are you sure? How would this even be enforced? well I'm not sure how to answer that. I guess it can't be enforced. but if someone bought something using some other currency outside of OpenBazaar (they only allow btc transaction) they won't be able leave a review because you're only allowed to leave a review when there's a record of the bitcoin transaction (not sure how it works in-depth). ... Found it. If you both agree to a price, the client creates a contract between you both with your digital signatures, and sends it to a third party called a moderator. These moderators are also folks on the OpenBazaar network—could be your neighbor or someone across the world—who the buyer and seller trust in case something goes wrong. The third party witnesses the contract and creates a multisignature Bitcoin account (multisig) that requires two of three people to agree before the Bitcoin can be released.
The buyer then sends the agreed upon amount to the multisig address. You get a notification saying the buyer has sent the funds, and you ship the laptop to them and mark that it has been shipped. The buyer receives it a few days later, and they mark it received, which releases the funds from multisig to you. You got your Bitcoin, the buyer got the laptop; no fees paid, no one stopped your trade, everyone’s happy.
What if something goes wrong?
As we all know, things don’t always go smoothly. What if you’re buying a certain book from a seller, you pay the multisig, and they ship you the wrong one, or it was in poorer condition than advertised, or they don’t even send a product at all?
This is where the third party comes in. Remember that a multisig requires two of three people to agree in order to move the Bitcoin. They control the third key to the multisig, so the funds will not move until either the buyer and seller work out an arrangement themselves, or the third party agrees with either the buyer or seller on how to deal with the transaction and funds in multisig. Note to self: 1. become 100 moderators on OB 2. Sell laptops; send bricks. 3. ? ? ? 4. Profit! |
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you have an option to use your local currency as your price. but people still have to pay in btc.
Are you sure? How would this even be enforced? By whom? |
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