Which is a better deal mathematically? - Buying lottery tickets for $1 each, with a $100 million prize
- Having unlimited free chances (maybe 1000 per second) to find a private key to a dormant Bitcoin account with millions of dollars in it
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I agree with you.
But for promotional and entertainment purposes ...
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Owners of addresses with a very large amount of Bitcoins in them, that have been dormant for years, should consider immediately moving them to multiple addresses with smaller balances in them. This will demonstrate that the accounts are not dormant.
Unless they are confident that the chances of someone obtaining the private key are "zero". You know, like jumping to another star.
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We should not promote stealing. It should only target abandoned addresses.
So, how do you know if an address is abandoned? That is an excellent question. Some people may be comfortable waiting 100 years before trying. Just to be sure. |
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We should not promote stealing. It should only target abandoned addresses.
Plus, it can't be stealing if they don't get an exact match. And we have already stipulated that the chances are very, very, very small.
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Regardless of the odds, they are a noticeable improvement over zero. And spinning the wheel is free, at many times per second. No they aren't. It is like trying to get to another star and your progress is 0% so you decide to jump. You get too feet off the ground and call that a noticeable improvement over zero. No. It is not like that. You decide to jump, hundreds or thousands of times per second. Most times you only move 0.01 inch, and occasionally you jump 46 feet, and occasionally someone posts documentation in a forum that they jumped 273 miles. The number of encouraging results increases over time. And "players" would get closer to a match. And the value of the Bitcoins keeps increasing. We would have a much harder time promoting something with a zero chance. Unless we were a religion, offering "eternal life". |
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Properly packaged, these could be an effective promotional item for Bitcoin. The ideal package should be preloaded with orphaned and dormant addresses, require that the "player" download a bitcoin wallet before using the generator, and ideally have made some Bitcoin transfer to it.As with any lottery, near misses to the big payoff should be displayed, and can provide tantalizing reinforcement. If we can't market unlimited free chances to win millions of abandoned dollars in a way that promotes more widespread Bitcoin awareness and usage, we really are a bunch of nerds. Regardless of the odds, they are a noticeable improvement over zero. And spinning the wheel is free, at many times per second. The screen saver method is only one such implementation. A simpler approach would be a batch file that ensures that the player has a Bitcoin wallet, and then runs vanitygen https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0 coupled to a GUI that provides just the right amount of user feedback and "near misses", with a search file of the largest abandoned addresses, and the matches written to an output file. By using just the first 8 characters of the target addresses, a small number of encouraging hits would be generated. |
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If they belonged to a poor person I would definitely give them back.
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 According to the Maryland indictment of DPR, on January 17th 2013 "undercover federal agent delivered one kilogram of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine to "The Employee". - A post on a poker forum from a user named "gooch" provides us an MSN username and an email address. You'll note a certain irony in the choice of the email address.
- The same email address has been used as email contact for a website named "anytimeairportshuttle.com" registered in Spanish Fork, Utah. Pokergooch also seems to be from Utah.
- The company is registered at the same physical address than the website and categorized under "airport transportation services, regular route", established in 2005 by a man going by the name Curtis C. Green. Do you remember chronicpain mentioned on Silk Road he used to own a transportation service company? Yes spot on
- Other searches link the nickname pokergooch to a person named Curtis Green.
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I dont believe Satoshi is one person.
Who would not spend at least some coins now when you have so many?
But wouldn't the chances of spending some of them increase with more owners? They did not have multi-signing then. |
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I'm not sure that; is there a satoshi? or is it a software company etc?
That would make sense. Like Lemony Snicket. Or Jiminy Cricket http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/minced-oath.htmlThe name Lemony Snicket originally came from research for Handler's first book, The Basic Eight. Handler wanted to receive material from organizations that he found "offensive or funny", but did not want to use his real name, and invented "Lemony Snicket" as a pseudonym. The name's similarity to Jiminy Cricket, whom Handler described as "exactly the kind of overly moralistic, cheerful narrator who I despise", was "likely a Freudian slip". . |
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Waiter. Here is your tip.  |
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Which comes first? - Donating $50,000
- Finding out what it is and how it is supposed to work
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It is easy to split Bitcoin addresses with a large balance into multiple addresses with smaller balances. But it does require that you: - be alive
- still have the private key
- not be in jail
- want to do it
Then you will not show up on lists like these. |
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Luckily Indians with PhD's in English cost 5-10$ an hour, so they can fix all that spelling/grammar stuff! :-D
Sir, That is funny. |
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OK Best wishes and good luck.  |
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How many times can a person spell literature incorrectly in a post about a master thesis? During the next six months, I am going to make a master thesis about Bitcoin. Currently my working title is " Bitcoin as a disruptive technology". My main hypothesis is Bitcoin is changing the value chain in finance, which basically means huge disruptions can, and probably will, happen. However, I would love to hear YOUR thoughts! I need a shitload of litterature, and I am currently collecting that. So far I've basically taken all the top 10 papers on Google Scholar about Bitcoin (the official paper, two Bitcoins at the price of one, how to make Bitcoin a better currency) and some others. I am not trying to cover Bitcoin from a technical angle (besides 5-10 pages which is necessary to understand its implications), but from a business+society angle. - What litterature would you include? Any ideas is MUCH welcome and appreciated |
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8y6DJAeoloThe point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. Thank you very much. |
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