Pirate seriously needs to get knocked down a couple of pegs. Stealing millions is one thing, but being a stuck-up asshole? Unforgivable!

Can I get one with Nutella and pesto please?

Ooh! Thanks for another one to the big list of oxymorons 

How possible would it be to set up our own charity? Use the $1,000 USD worth of Bitcoin to buy a whole bunch of cheap phones that can be used there, preload them with some Bitcoin, and mail them to a village not too far from a city with some instructions. Considering how the people live there, they can probably survive for a week on a single bitcoin, and it would be pushing Bitcoin directly into Africa, without worrying about a charity taking 75% of the cut.

Wouldn't that depend on whether you are just swapping a whole wheel, or taking the tire off of it by hand and sticking a new one on?

I am pretty convinced now that Rarity is a long time SA goon. They are a pretty sheltered and pious bunch over there, so the range of their conversations pretty much never deviates from somewhere between "OMG, these people are so stupid, let's laugh at them," and "OMG, these people are doing bad things, let's explain to them how immoral they are." So just ignore him, and he'll eventually retreat to his home forum.

I miss PinkiePie 

Would you be offended if I said no?

I'm just amazed yokosan came up with a patent to show. And a very recent one at that 

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Can we make a claim that you are at high risk of defaulting because the interest rates you pay are ridiculous and unsustainable, and the moment you miss a payment or try to reduce the rate, you will cause a bank run on your holdings, causing your entire operation to implode?
Just offering a variable interest rate based on your actual investment returns, and publishing something about what kind of returns you get based on deposits, even without revealing how you make the money, will improve your credibility.

There's a big difference between bitcoin and the typical Hubris v.s. Innovation. Typically that hubris comes from large established companies that are comfortable with what they do, that get taken by surprise when someone with more innovation brings a competing product that customers want. Bitcoin is open source, with the developers and the customers often being one and the same, and no single entity really being in charge. So in this case, it would be like accusing the who e Linux ecosystem of having hubris and not being able to face innovation.

Charitywater.org replied with "Thank you for reaching out to us! Your payment system sounds really interesting, but unfortunately we don't have the capacity right now to take on any new donation accepting platforms."

That's 2 down, 5 more rejections to go.

ZFS file system. It uses a merkele tree, similar to Bitcoin's block chain, to verify the integrity of all the data written to the disks top to bottom, thus preventing any issues with partial writes, accidental writes, bit rot (bits just getting naturally demagnetized), etc. It also doesn't use partitions, writing to the whole disk as a very low level, using space from the very first to the very last bit, and thanks to integrity checks, doesn't get damaged from bad sectors (you won't even know they are there). Thanks to these features, you can put together a RAID array made of crappy old drives, and your data will still be bulletproof.

Why do you need other people's money if, with a 3% per week return, you can just borrow a whole lot of money on your own credit card, or get a high interest payday loan, or mortgage your house, and make all the profit for yourself? Even a 30% a year loan should be profitable when invested in your scheme. Why bother asking other people for money and expose yourself to so much risk?

Chain of what?

Miss Piggy and Yoda were voiced by the same person
http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/richest-cartoon-voice-actors/#!/15-frank-oz-net-worth-20-million_1866/

"He is using some intrinsic principles of bitcoin and applying them to highly specialized markets"

That's a line of sales-tactic bullshit right there. I get the feeling SA goons are coming out of hiding, trying to cash in on their perceived opinion that everyone in Bitcoinland is an idiot.

That still doesn't mean that if some new cryptocurrency comes out with a killer feature, and more and more people and vendors start to use it, that Bitcoin can't just implement that feature as well, and once again overtake the newcomer due to already having established hardware/software/merchant support. It could happen, but I really don't think it's likely.


This would make their currencies no different from Beens and Flooz, and will likely result in the same levels of adoption, trust, and eventual/inevitable conclusion.

Why would Bitcoin be replaced by another cryptocurrency if it can simply "evolve" to include the new features if they are good?

Also, do you accept BTCS&T bonds at full value as investments, since they are already invested in the same business?