Now that Bitcoin is being adopted by some of the major financial players, they are trying to apply some of their traditional concepts to it. Metcalf's law applies to the value of social networking and peer-to-peer communication networks, The Wikipedia article is here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_lawI don't really think it is applicable, but I'm not sure that I understand it completely. I'd be interested in some other opinions. For example, it seems to fail to take account of people like me who run two part time nodes, the different impact of miners, and users who have wallets with on-line services. So does it apply to Bitcoin in some way, or should I forget about trying to understand it? Yes of course it does. It is in fact a basic reason of why bitcoin maintains a good market price. I wrote an article with that a while ago. |
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Securing your private key is quintessence here, but there are some issues pertaining to your private key security what if something happened to you? How can you hand it over if you are already dead, right? These topics are relevant on how to transfer digital assets to your next of kin. I have read about “Coinbase” having this custodial service, in which they will hold your private keys. If ever something happened to you or in case of any fortuitous event (leads to your death). They will protect your keys until such time your legal heir(s) can provide legal document, e.g. death certificate and/or your will to transfer your digital assets. I think it would not fit to what bitcoin is all about, for it is anonymity currency. Inheritance of digital assets remains a top topic today and securing your private key is the tailback.
Why would I trust Coinbase more than a bank´s safe? What I would do is divide the key in two or three parts and store each on a safe in different banks. For small amounts, just leave it to two people you trust or, for safety, leave copies to four people. |
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I wonder why you want to sell your bitcoin fund? if you don't believe in cryptocurrencies so why you invest your money in it from beginning?
Are you aware that you will eventually want to do something with you bitcoins and that nowadays that means converting to fiat? Unless hodling beyond the grave is your plan. |
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This forum attracts spam and shit posts due to the simple fact money is made from cryptocoins.
First suggestion is rename to cryptocointalk.org it may be for sale.
Frankly the alt coin = every coin but BTC is a limiting concept.
That is an historical thing on this forum, but I guess it does not matter that much. Many early bitcoiners are a morally hurt by the alts because they think that, for some reason I fail to understand, bitcoin is the only "true coin" and Alts hurt its value. I think it is exactly the opposite. Just think of it in terms of another category such as coins or airplanes: The only coin is USD and the rest are "Alt Cash" or the only true plane is the Wright Brothers plane and the "F16" is an Alt-Plane. You see, on the end the "sects" will be losing opportunities in the name of a strange "bitReligion" (ooohh... that´s it, I am launching an alt with that  ) |
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It is unfortunate that the promotion that generated me the most money was in the on-line casino industry, and one signature on a porn webmaster board was earning £2,000-£3,000 per month.
That must have been a site worth seeing  One formula that does seem to work is to have an open section with a number of boards, and a closed section that is private and invitation only.
I kind of agree, there could be sections with requisites to entry, Ivory Tower and Serious Discussion are kind of that. Bitcoin Talk has a fairly difficult problem. It needs to be international, but it needs to have the main boards in English. Keeping the English boards clean can only be managed by active moderation in my opinion. It would also appear that it needs the traffic generated by the bounty hunters, and they seem to be very low level members in the main, and I believe that they should be contained in their own sub-section of boards.
I have been living and working in English speaking and non-speaking countries. Believe me, you actually need to promote more the local forums. There are billions of people that don´t read nor write English, nor are interested on learning it. If you don´t cater to their needs and legitimate desire for knowledge you are really missing more than half of the world that could be actively supporting Bitcoin and Alts. |
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This is why I am opening this thread to ask if any of you have been forum members in other forums that have become very popular over the time and can share your views on this so we can compare.
I have taken part for years on a popular forum dedicated to mountaineering, climbing and trekking. On that forum I wanted to share routes, experiences, comments on tools and materials but inevitably, some of the answers came from brand promoters, etc... A norm was set so that those comments would be accepted as long as the people having interests in brands or shops identified themselves as such. My experience is that anything that engages and excites people creates commercial opportunities and marketers of all levels, including the spammers, will jump in the scene at any occasion possible. On Bitcointalk this is even more acute because Bitcoin and Alts involve a young market with plenty of growth and excitement. That is the modern internet, the old times were amazingly naive, and it would be extremely difficult to change it. However, you can promote a better forum with things like the merit system, the trust system and the Serious Talk and Ivory Tower sections. Some of the keys: a) You need really good and active forum moderation. You may need more section admins. b) There has to be a systematic application of rules. You can´t leave to campaign managers admin duties, they have no incentive. But anyway, it is an arduous task and there has to be a balance between commercial and non-commercial content, because it is good that new funds come to the arena and it is good that this forum can channel them. |
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I think you all have valuable points, yet you might miss some of the problems and solutions in my first post.
Firstly, it doesn't matter much if the software is decentralised if the wealth is centralised and controlled by institutions in the end. No matter if Satoshi had 1 billion $ or 100 billion $, the fact remains that Bitcoin could never be an actual alternative in the real world with one person owning so much of a monetary supply. Would you ever shift fiat based capital into such a thing if you knew one person/entity had so much of the wealth? The other option is that the powers that be would, because they created bitcoin or see it playing out in big capitals interest and so they buy up major slots of bitcoin. This would still leave us with a situation in which these powers that be would reign supreme once again, gobbling up more and more of the wealth in the bitcoin chain.
Secondly, I never said we had to shut down the current bitcoin chains (obviously) so I don't see how my idea would impact assets people have on these chains in any way shape or form. That is, unless people validate my original point by investing massively into a satoshiless bitcoin alternative.
Lastly I just want to say, I never meant to imply in any way that the forks were minor or that the problems they solved were marginal. I understand how one would read this sentence as being disrespectful to the people working hard on these forks and the people behind them. All I meant to say was that back when I first learned of bitcoin, this seemed like the most obvious and least difficult problem to solve to me.
I really appreciate all of the comments, but I must say that I do implore you to come up with different problems than ''you can't restart a blockchain'', this is not my intention or ''satoshi deserves it''. Say, purely from a theoretical standpoint, that Satoshi is an internationally powerful network of pedophiles. No one says pedo's can't be smart, or that they can't contribute to society. All I am saying is, is it wise or even tenable to establish a new ''currency'' with this much of the distribution taking place anonymously?
Thanks for reading and greetings,
Auralea
Again, you CAN restart a chain, but the value of a chain is on the ecosystem: developers, hodlers, traders, exchanges, shops that accept bitcoin,... That is what you "can´t restart", and it does not matter if the main owners where a sect of fetuses eaters or fans of Woody Allen. |
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"Estipular compañeros forzados", algo así.
En el slam, un "matchmaker" es aquel que provoca situaciones de encuentros entre dos personas, generalmente con el fin de que éstas se relacionen, incluso aunque no se lleven bien o no tengan nada en común.
Matchmaking tiene intrínseco ese concepto de "forzado", ya que viene de ese otro concepto. Posiblemente es "forzar a la gente a que haga "click" jajajaj.
Imposible traducirlo en una sola palabra, como suele pasar en el inglés. Tradutore traditore!!.
Creo que depende del contexto, no hay una equivalente para todo caso. |
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Esa palabra probablemente venga de un texto totalmente en inglés. Tienes el texto completo?
Si claro, es de un WP que he traducido, el de Asuracoin. Se refiere a juntar a jugadores o equipos para jugar una partida. En otra ocasión lo tuve que traducir en el contexto de cruzar ordenes de mercado y use emparejar. Quizás cruzar hubiera sido mejor. |
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Quedan 18 días para terminar la ICO. Es un momento bueno, con precios economicos y para poder ver resultados rapidos.
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Quedan sólo tres días para poder participar en la ICO. No te quedes fuera que estos tokens no van a bajar de precio.
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Asura Coin es uno de los equipos mas serios que puedes encontrar, pero además tiene un grupo de asesores excepcional. No olvides ver el WP en español.
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I think that bounty allocations are dependent on market conditions, when there are many users out there looking to invest, bounty is much better than any other advertising. At the end of the day, you need to sell.
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DIvide your portfolio into long terms, mid terms and short terms. You should have around 30% in each. If you have time, put more into short term and be aware of changes in the market.
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I think that the first objective for ethereum is reaching a nice 1000$ per unit. Above that there is plenty of room to grow and it could be 1500 before the end of the year under the right conditions.
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It is very wise to diversify, but not as much as to not be able to follow your portfolio. It is much difficult to adjust your positions if you have 30 or 40 coins and it does not pay really.
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Pero hombre, que estamos en 2018. Mírate lo que es la ECONOMÍA COLABORATIVA DEL SIGLO xxI. Ya veras....
Ya me parecia a mi, eres de Venezuela y de tendencia chavista, con eso del siglo xxI. “Mejor es callar y que sospechen de tu poca sabiduría que hablar y eliminar cualquier duda sobre ello”. (Abraham Lincoln) Es de Groucho Marx |
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Hello! I want to make the AirDrop Trillion coins ( https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3741149 ) - to distribute the first 100 people to 1 million TRLN each. But I do not know how to do it without violating the rules: ...but you can't give people any bonus for replying to your thread I want them to leave their addresses in the topic, and I would transfer them to 1,000,000 TRLN each. But it can not be done? How do such distributions of coins usually work? Share your experience please. Why don´t you just use a google form? Anyway, most campaigns actually do tell users to post their data on the thread for bounties and the like. Just make sure you post in the right section instead of spamming a serious section or the like. |
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Well, let´s go into science fiction. Sure you can restore it, but most likely the chains would have been corrupted as the first nodes up could easily do a 50% attack and make profit from it.
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It might seem something too "exotic" goal to decentralize sports investment and funding. But this summit want to enable small investors, who is interested in blockchain or sports.
Not at all exotic, there are many projects that have taken a step into this market and allow investors to sponsor young promising talents in exchange for future benefits. It makes perfect sense, as this is an investment that many common people can now access. |
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