Those metallic surfaces can radiate energy out. But, that's all you can do in space. Conduction and convection are out. And just as a surface can radiate heat, it can also absorb radiation, from the Sun for example. I think that cooling equipment in space presents some interesting engineering challenges. |
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Because the lottery is $1 each week to play. An entire PC would be considerably more XD
I already own a computer, and it stays on to seeding torrents. With Bitcoin, you play the lottery every ten minutes, and someone will win every ten minutes. In that way, it's more like a raffle than a lottery. I can't imagine that it costs very much to play for anyone who already has a PC that stays on most of the time. |
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I can imagine mining pools getting into this business.
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I smell a Bitcoin Magic tournament cooking.
How would we accomplish that, seeing as we're all pretty dispersed? |
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Oh man. I used to love that game. I wonder if I still have my cards.
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Everything else he's selling seems to have a somewhat reasonable price. If he's not really selling that one CD for that much, what could he be selling? Why would he want to sent that much money though Paypal? |
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Well, the point is that denatured alcohol would not exist if it were not for the desire to tax alcohol consumption. For every other use, plain ethanol is preferable. It's only when you want to create two classes of ethanol "for consumption", "not for consumption", as a way to limit consumption without affecting the non consumptive uses, that denatured alcohol is useful.
Kind of like how the government puts dye in diesel for home use but not for vehicles. Pretty grimy. |
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Ok so basically you're limited by the amount of bitcoins which are generated and that's the only way to create a bitcoin? I know I can buy them from 3rd parties, but they had to get them somewhere. That was most likely trading with people who generated them?
Thanks guys.
Whomever you bought bitcoins from either generated them or bought them from someone else. I can't say the probability for either way, but you can use the Block Explorer to see if the person sending you bitcoins generated them himself or not. |
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The fact that the testnet helps strengthen bitcoin is incentive enough. Let's publicize it more. I intend to volunteer some of my CPU power.
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How do you fund a bitcoin account? I understand there are people you can buy them from, but where do they get them or how do they generate them or move external money into the bitcoin system? This very well maybe a dumb question. Just trying to grasp the concept.
When you contribute your computing power to the Bitcoin network, you have the opportunity to win a batch of bitcoins every ten minutes or so. These bitcoins essentially come out of thin air, but people value them because they exist in a finite amount and you can easily trade them for stuff. |
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What I am looking for (since I have a regularly open storefront) is to allow people to get bitcoins for cash. This cuts out even more fees and 'makes it local'. Bitcoin user density is increasing and I want to support the movement. On top of that, once I find that I can move Bitcoin with no fees and chargeback risk I can accept Bitcoin for more items. Sounds like you need to introduce Bitcoin to Baltimores (Balitmorians? Baltimites?). Don't proselytize too much though, since that gets annoying. A sticker on your door and brochure by the register should do. |
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believe the new owner is in japan if he's the same guy running kalyhost
which is not good considering epic disaster
Radioactive bitcoins! Adding support for Yen would be nice. |
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Let me explain it in a way you all may understand it. It's as if Satoshi has a really long straw, all the way from Japan. Satoshi drinks YOUR milkshake.
Potatoes will be fine. |
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I know you said cash, but I'm pretty sure that you can sell your bitcoins on Mt. Gox and accept payment in USD via bank transfer. Bitcoin users are rather spread apart.
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I think the photo of Anna and the Yap stone is just fine. It has some surprise effect and has the merit of getting out of tech context.
She's also a real person, not a greasy basement dweller. |
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Not really true in this case. The risk of double spending is if there is a person on the sub trying to send coins from a wallet to another person on the sub, while another person in the greater Internet has a copy of that same wallet trying to spend those same bitcoins. This excludes the possibility that the sub was trying to generate while under water, which would be futile and therefore should be suspect anyway. There would still be a near zero risk that coins could be double spent on the sub itself. A disconnected client is at risk of a double spend, but a disconnected client can certainly itself spend.
Yes, but the sailors can't process the transactions by generating blocks, right? Otherwise, they'd have to fork the chain. |
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As I said above, I have provided the reader software online that I wrote. It isn't pretty, but you can get it working on the command-line as follows: 1. You will need Bazaar, Git, build essentials and libssl (sudo apt-get install bzr git build-essential libssl-dev). 2. See https://code.launchpad.net/~mgiuca/+junk/bitcoin-import, with further instructions here. 3. As instructed on my page, type: bzr branch lp:~mgiuca/+junk/bitcoin-import -- this will create a new directory called bitcoin-import wherever you are. 4. You also need Gavin's BitcoinTools if you haven't already got it. Type: git clone git://github.com/gavinandresen/bitcointools.git 5. Unfortunately, if you use Ubuntu, the supplied version of pycrypto will not work, so you need to get the full version here and set that up as per its installation instructions. 6. cd into bitcoin-import and type: make Now the instructions for use, as given in privkeyimport.py: 1. Get the private key you wish to import in a text file. To do this, you either need to download the PDF of the printed money in a reader that can select the text and copy it, then paste it into a text file, OR get a QR code reader and paste the output text into a file. Whitespace is not important. 2. Run privkeyimport.py KEYFILE. This will write the key into your Bitcoin wallet. Use -n to just print without writing to the wallet. 3. Run bitcoin -rescan to ensure any transactions belonging to the imported key are added to the transaction list and balance. As you can see, it requires a lot of technical fiddling, but no programming. Cleaner solutions will appear in time. Thank you for the summary! |
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I think I may have a question that proponents of the Labor Theory of Value can't answer. Not sure if I'm such a proponent, but here goes. I am a carpenter and I construct a chair. I sell the chair for 25 BTC to someone. If they turn around and sell that chair to someone else for 50 BTC, have they exploited me?
It as saying I voluntarily work for him for 25 BTC per chair, and allow him to take a 25 BTC fee, or profit.
If you are excluded from the market on which the person sells it, even by your own foolishness, he is exploiting you. Now, if he works to make the sale possible, by advertising the chair you've built, for example, he deserves a share of the sale price. Of you and him ought to determine the size of this share in the course of a discussion between equals rather than him simply assigning to a wage. Also, he should have no power to direct you as you build the chair. Such an arrangement is cooperation, not employment. You can also consider an employer as a king. You must submit to his will in order to use his property and he enforces the relationship with violence. Why overthrow the present government just to submit to a king? Things went well. Two interviews coming this week at places that I wouldn't mind working.
As I look back at my rant, I think it was making calls and going to meet people that got me anxious. I was just looking for an excuse for the way i felt. In reality, working for more money is always a good thing. And I can still do my own thing on the side.
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This is a good contrast between theory and reality. Thank you for sharing. Individual employers aren't so bad when you have bigger badder exploiters to deal with, like government, corporations, loan sharks.... |
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I think you just need to 'shop a better looking one into the photo and reedit the video to include it.
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