Just curious.
It would say a lot about the future of Bitcoin if Baby Boomers could understand enough to use/get the hang of using Bitcoin.
Matthew
baby boomer here... just give me a few minutes to sidle up to your ageism in my walker... eh, now? < points ear trumpet... > what's that y'say, sonny? i got my 22 year old daughter to get involved with Bitcoin. i think it was easier because i educated her about operating systems some time ago, and she is now an ardent linux user (and has converted others to FOSS). saayyy... you don't use windoze, do ya sonny? Hahaha... But to answer your question, no I don't use Windows. I use Linux Mint 11, 100% of the time for work and personal. you should try LMDE. mint's a good distro in general, but the debian spin is much more versatile. |
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Most parents are getting used to the computer in general. Bitcoins are not user friendly to the general computer user. Oh wait...
Mtgox hacked, client hacked, volatile market, lead anonymous dev, etc. etc. etc. etc.
Why do I want my parents in on this again???
ummm... because we invented the internet, and can show you how to use it safely? |
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Just curious.
It would say a lot about the future of Bitcoin if Baby Boomers could understand enough to use/get the hang of using Bitcoin.
Matthew
baby boomer here... just give me a few minutes to sidle up to your ageism in my walker... eh, now? < points ear trumpet... > what's that y'say, sonny? i got my 22 year old daughter to get involved with Bitcoin. i think it was easier because i educated her about operating systems some time ago, and she is now an ardent linux user (and has converted others to FOSS). saayyy... you don't use windoze, do ya sonny? |
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bruce?
you are kind of a fanatic - and that's ok.
but let me give you a tip - because you're becoming a very high-profile, go-to guy as far as the media is concerned.
get contracts for interviews. real contracts, with... like... lawyers. and don't give any more interviews without final cut: that is, it doesn't print or air without your ok. the slant of a piece on Bitcoin is irrelevant; but you need to keep a firm hold on context, exact quotes, and facts.
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You mean from the perspective of most of human history in which natural resources were effectively unlimited and children were forced to work for the family's benefit?
not really - although you are correct as far as the change in resources. but children were family - and weren't so much forced (by family...), as just a part of the chain of life. there have always been good cultures in which to be a child - and bad ones. non-family child labor is a different conversation though. today however, it's not that much different. where there's poverty, there's higher birthrates - even discounting the child mortality rate. they pay off the debt of rearing with care for the elderly, and expect the same in their time. * shrug * we're not really as much like that anymore, in the US, as we were. maybe it's resources? |
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just another steroid-soaked ex-blackwater script geek, picked out like any TV contestant is - focus groups, y'know - to sow FUD. he's been around for awhile.
he's paid.
joe the plumber'll be along shortly...
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...and if poverty does exist, it's called the default human condition. We are born on this planet with nothing except parents who raise us out their own voluntary goodwill.
mmmm. one of these days, you might want to spend a little time correlating statistics on poverty and birthrate. it's almost enough to get one to the conclusion that good will has little to do with it. children could actually (from a macro, evolutionary perspective) have more to do with a retirement plan than with the warm fuzzies... |
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 This is really really scary. it is, a bit. it's so obviously artificial. the joys of an unregulated market: keeps you on your toes, doesn't it? |
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 it looks like there's a rough correlation (green lines) with the production of blocks. true. but how does a 50 BTC block correlate with a wallet transaction of 9,000 - 75,000 BTC? |
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bruce wagner posted - a couple of days ago - about an acquaintance who was selling a "large" number of Bitcoin for cash only. when he says "large", i interpret that to mean into six figures.
but cash only - so i'm figuring face-to-face transfer. which would explain these odd patterns, the size of them, and why they represent wallet-to-wallet transactions.
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i'm not gonna mess around with grass - or even leaves. i'm going straight for the large denomination stuff.
< scratches head >
i reckon you could do it regular (no pun intended... no, really), and just mine 10 squares or so per meal.
but i've figured out a new mining protocol that uses EX_LAX_INT - and i think i might be able to mine thirty squares a day. i should have a whole roll in three weeks...
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It is slow for me using plain http. I would also be willing to chip in a few btc for server improvements. The CPU/memory/disk load is actually quite minimal. Something else is wrong.
This leaves bandwidth. Could that be the problem? propagation delay. the load needs to be spread out geographically. two more physical servers, in two other widely separated locations - with load-balancing set up for closest connection... |
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You haven't dealt with a lot of consumers, have you? The concept of an insured, high security means of exchange that doesn't have many disconnected and possibly untrustworthy entities, that can also allow you to dispute a charge when the product or service delivered is unsatisfactory, without having to resort to bringing a lawsuit, is extremely appealing...
And then?
People still use cash. Synaptic has a valid point: consumers do want a chargeback option. sellers don't. sellers prefer to base their business model on reputation. they don't want third parties getting between them and their buyers. consumers want transactors which save them the embarrassment of returning goods 'face-to-face'. and yes, some are thieves, or simply dishonorable. there's room for both models - i don't see a problem. no seller is going to limit himself to one payment system. i can see a time not too far off when Bitcoin sales are offered at a discount roughly equal to the fees from other payment processors + a pooled fraction of theft. something like that. the good thing in all of this is that entities like PayPal will stop kissing consumer ass, and chargebacks will become much more difficult: they always should have been. |
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The parasites can't collect taxes on money they can't see.
You read a lot of Ayn Rand, don't you? Meh. I can respect some of her positions but mostly she was an overly-pragmatic, pompous bitch. You named yourself after her most famous steaming pile of hypocritical bullshit. Let me guess - you're a teenager with fairly well off parents who thinks he's figured it all out with the sheer brilliance of his own sparkling intellect. Your sneering narrative voice is a dead giveaway. how odd. do you know, i'm unable to detect even the faintest trace of a sneer in the narrative voice of this post? |
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excellent. the 'Bitcoin of journalism' weighs in.
people everywhere, of all political persuasions, go to that site.
very good news indeed.
i'd better send them something.
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Why not take another form of payment people are willing to pay?
that's a good idea. what if they are willing to pay in Bitcoin? does that count? why limit your market as a seller? y'know, there are people who want to pay with Bitcoin first - they go quite far out of their way to find a vendor who will accept it. |
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let us also keep in mind that Ironkey's founding was (according to wikipedia): "partially funded by the U.S. federal government, with a grant of US$1.4 million through the Homeland Security Research Projects Agency".
their software is a proprietary fork of open source stuff.
i dunno. maybe it doesn't mean anything, and Ironkey is a completely neutral entity. i have no idea.
still, there would appear to be the possibility of a conflict. seems a tad dodgy...
me, my long-term storage research gives me a different solution.
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