Some anarchists (usually social anarchists) have advocated forms of direct democracy as an alternative to the centralized state and capitalism; however, others (such as individualist anarchists) have criticized direct democracy and democracy in general for ignoring the rights of the minority, and instead have advocated a form of consensus decision-making. Libertarian Marxists, however, fully support direct democracy in the form of the proletarian republic and see majority rule and citizen participation as virtues. The Young Communist League, USA in particular refers to representative democracy as "bourgeois democracy," implying that they see direct democracy as "true democracy."
I also don't believe in consensus decision-making. Rather, voluntarism is the driving principle of my life. I don't need your permission, but all I need not to do is not act out of violence or aggressions against others. |
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I do not trust them at all, or anybody, or even myself. That is why I am an anarchist. |
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Not because the French did any sort of anarchy(They did not)
Yes, there was anarchy; but it was a short lived, and particularly hostile, form of national anarchy. Which led to France being taken over by a short dictator for a while. We always think of the German Nazis as the worst example of collective madness, but the Germans still don't have anything on the French. Yes, the Nazis were terrifying as well. For that reason alone, I distrust democracies. But Lord Acton said it best, "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely." The American were privileged to have George Washington, who gave up his power. (For the record, I am heavily influenced by my history professor's lecture on the French revolution) |
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for I have lived long enough to know that 'abolish and replace' of government is a risky endeavor.
Amen. The French Revolution. Why the French celebrate it again? Not because the French did any sort of anarchy(They did not) but because it's a revolution that gone completely bunker. |
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Well I just don't like capitalism as it exploits people. If there could be a system where you make all the fish you can store them in a community store house and with that you can take as much bread wine and salt as you want because you did your job. If certain people try to beat the system and take more give non then the rest of the community will say your on your own no more fish for you unless you make your share of bread. BitCoin shows that we don't need money in the sense of a piece of paper that some big man printed and decided the value but that we the people control it like a union should control a factory. Communism is a sociopolitical movement that aims for a classless society structured upon communal ownership of the means of production. Bitcoin is a free market currency, not controlled by some annoying union in a factory. And I do not like other people telling me that some capitalist is exploiting my labor. Butt out. |
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I think you are very wrong. Bitcoin is certainly not a way to abolish money. Rather, it is a ultra-modern form of money. It is about as communist as gold can be. And I doubt gold is a communist money.
Don't confuse capitalism with banking system. Basically capitalism is the right of ownership. Bitcoin is a money that is way more difficult to steal than other forms of money. It is therefore not socialist. At all.
Not all forms of socialism reject money. Remember socialism is a set of goals, not a set of policies (whether you think this goals are important or possible is another matter). I consider the goal of socialism to be incompatible with my individualist worldview. I am not opposed to community, having social relations, charities, and things like that. I'll organize a society of mutual friendship and mutual help as much as I'll organize venture for personal wealth. |
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It's important to be clear whether we're talking about price deflation or monetary deflation. I think we can all agree that a stable supply (quantity) of money is economically ideal and under this environment, rising of falling prices are just a consequence of economic growth or contraction.
I think we also agree that manipulation of the supply of money, whether it be by governments or banks, creates a misallocation of resources which destabilizes the economy making us poorer.
I'm not sure about the first paragraph, but I perfectly agree with the second. I don't think there's anything economically ideal about a stable supply of money. I think people are happy with the ability to predict the growth of the money supply. |
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As alway, the adult industry is the first to adopt any new technologies, or at least relatively the first.
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No system is foolproof, but ShadowOfHarbringer's suggestions are good. That should eliminate 80% of fraud, which is "hit-and-run" scammers with stolen accounts, who must liquidate in a hurry before account owner notices. The remaining frauds are - person with good reputation, who has their account hacked
- person with good reputation, who, one day, without warning, "spends" that reputation on a massive fraud
The latter has occurred several times on eBay, where a titanium powerseller (the highest seller ranking) who has been completing sales for happy buyers suddenly switches to "evil mode", where they take customer money but never ship product. I call this the "sleeper cell" fraud. An intentional, long-term plan is the most difficult to prevent. I doubt there are any algorithm or any human being that can detect if somebody is doing this kind of fraud, unless he is a serial fraudster. |
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Compromising the bitcoin network is the fastest way to make your investment in a botnet worthless. Better to just mine it and sell it for bitcoins.
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I'm going to code a merchant toolkit in Rails during the next couple of weeks if you're interested That take too long and I have a web app almost ready to use. |
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I declare that bytemaster is dead, incapacitated in one form or another, or have trouble in life.
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sent.
Verified. Still, somebody donated an extra .50 BTC that cannot be verified. |
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http://www.soulplaying.com - A TODO list with RPG elements. Gain point for finishing your tasks on time! TODO: 1. implement objective list rather than a objective description box. 2. implement adminstration system. 3. implement transaction system. Mostly done. This is internal feature meant for use by admin. Put feedback here or give me feedback at hackerkiba__AT__gmail.com
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Wow, we hit $0.19 today!
The question though is this from money that was already in accounts before the PayPal debacle, or is there still new money flowing into MTGox?
It's now possible to send money into MtGox... |
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In the mean time, I'll guess I'll prepare a "prospectus" about the business idea. It will also include details of how to do assembly and voting, all the possible costs, business model and much more.
It'll be available for viewing and feedback.
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I lowered the fundraising target to 612.5. Until I can front the other half, it will remain no go.
Ok, but investors will be more interested in bringing the second half if you can show them that you already own the first. To put it simply, your project exists already : right now you own 100% of the shares. But those shares worth nothing, until you convince people to buy some. If you convince investors that you own 625$, and tell them that you intend to buy a 1250$ worh machine, then you might convince them to buy 50% of your shares at 12.5$ a share. Your company will then have the necessary amount, and you will have a the right to keep 50% of the profits. It will be hard to prove that I have 625 bucks, especially when I don't like showing my paypal account to outsiders. |
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Capitalism is free people making whatever agreement they want about capital and funding. If some people want to pay for his labor with half the profits from their capital, then so what?
grondilu felt this is an especially unfair arrangement. I want his money but I also want an amicable relationship with my shareholders. |
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I suppose you can check to see if the same coins were 'spent' by bytemaster, and to whom.
It looks like bytemaster is a scammer. Noagendamarket's transaction was 4f927df1213251... This was spent by bytemaster in transaction ddde42d19081ab... Block 83788 (October 6, 2010) Value: 0.02 To:12weUmfDsmhheC1cCM27gkLUMLjMxcqGjg Value: 2146.22 To:1K4HzMd3hNX1Ame7rfiZG61eigPq4B4e3J Could he simply be automatically sending bitcoins from one wallet to another? |
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