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5281  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: [ANN] Buried Keys on: January 16, 2013, 05:05:12 AM
AHHH!!! I can't believe I missed this. My instructions are incomplete. When I said that modern spelling will be used, I meant only the questions, not the answers. The answers are as they appear in KJV 1611. I hope this did not throw anyone off. I will correct the intructions in bold.
5282  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: [ANN] Buried Keys on: January 16, 2013, 03:32:04 AM
I was notified that question 9 in the Bible dig is poorly structured. In this case, I will agree to rewrite the question in (hopefully) proper English.
5283  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: [ANN] Buried Keys on: January 15, 2013, 04:31:14 PM
I am re-visioning Buried Keys to add an interactive online game show. It will be more of a party atmosphere. The puzzles will not be easier, but there will be hints and other fun things in store. I want to make this into a contest to win bitcoins based on small entry fees. I'm hoping there will be interest in this concept. There will be more details soon.
5284  Economy / Speculation / Re: A word of caution to those who have bought recently on: January 15, 2013, 01:21:30 PM
Until someone publishes a grandma-easy Bitcoin client that makes secure backups, most old people with money won't know how to invest.
5285  Other / Off-topic / Hacker Tracks on: January 14, 2013, 04:42:43 PM
Please offer some recommendations for music you like to listen to while working, working out, or playing hard. Playlists are welcome.
5286  Other / Politics & Society / Spotting a sociopath on: January 14, 2013, 04:14:01 PM
http://www.naturalnews.com/036112_sociopaths_cults_influence.html#ixzz2Ch3BNbaW

This is a pretty good guide to ptotecting yourself from some of the crazy people.
5287  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Cascading Payment System on: January 14, 2013, 03:53:27 PM
I like this idea, but it would be hard to keep hackers from inserting their own BTC addresses.
5288  Other / Off-topic / Re: Identifying fringe creative movements on: January 14, 2013, 03:39:12 PM
Social networking is all about who you chose to associate with.
5289  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The 10 principles in Bitcoin on: January 14, 2013, 03:27:34 PM
It's cool to see threads like this where folks try to wrap their minds around reified notions. Some find ontological debates tedious. With Bitcoin, I find it fascinating. Money is man's greatest god and here we are writing his ten commandments.  Cheesy

I would like to see this broken down into sections. One describing the mechanical attributes, one describing the practical social attributes, and a third describing the potential disruptive attributes.
5290  Economy / Speculation / Re: in the future: sha256 gets cracked on: January 13, 2013, 04:04:40 PM
The way things are going, only ASICs we'll see are at the shoe store. Who knows, maybe China is reserving them to build their own mining rigs? Maybe BFL is a Chinese front company sent to demoralize the Bitcoin community? Maybe Russia will then develop a better, faster ASIC with more Bitcoin improvements and people will start using them. maybemaybemaybemaybemaybemaybemaybemaybemaybemaybemaybemaybemaybe
5291  Economy / Economics / Re: us fiscal cliff: what is it? on: January 13, 2013, 03:55:11 PM
You've got an odd way of rounding:

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China, which owns an estimated $1.16 trillion in U.S. Treasuries, is the number-one investor among foreign governments, according to the September 2012 figures released by the U.S. Treasury. This amounts to over 21% of the U.S. debt held overseas and more than 7% of the United States’ total debt load.
If we assume that when you say Obamacoin, you mean $1 trillion, then I could see rounding the value to any of the following:
About one Obamacoin.
About one and a fifth Obamacoins.
About one and a quarter Obamacoins.

But certainly the number is closer to one than one and a half.

According to the article it's about 7% of the U.S. Debt, and most analysts expect Japan to surpass China in 2013.
Sorry you missed the point. If we start printing Obamacoins, what will any of these numbers mean?
5292  Economy / Economics / Re: us fiscal cliff: what is it? on: January 13, 2013, 03:02:29 PM
about one and a half Obamacoins.
5293  Economy / Economics / Re: US Gov may mint a 1 Trillion dollar coin out of thin air - Hiperinflation? on: January 13, 2013, 02:17:47 AM
I think the $1 Trillion coin is more of a bargaining chip at this point. Or, perhaps more accurately, a threat. "Work with me or I swear to God I'll mint this coin!"

I think it's more desperation, they're basically running out of ideas, I'm looking forward to this year for sure, there will be only one thing they can do soon enough.
I think the coin is more of an intervention in a suicide attempt by a Congress with a 9% approval rating. I say let them jump.
5294  Other / Off-topic / Re: Perpetual motion device - Free Energy - Do you believe in it? on: January 13, 2013, 02:15:24 AM
As I said before, you can have extremely plentiful and cheap energy but from what I know so far, never free, unless someone stumbles on something like magic.
Perhaps we are just looking at the problem all wrong. Science has a way of doing that. Energy may not be the scarcity we think it is. We just need more raw science.
5295  Other / Off-topic / Re: Perpetual motion device - Free Energy - Do you believe in it? on: January 13, 2013, 02:11:30 AM
I highly recommend reading Carl Sagan's "The Demon Haunted World" or for that matter anything written by Sagan.
5296  Other / Off-topic / Re: Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz commits suicide on: January 13, 2013, 02:01:27 AM
I recall back when a family member of mine had to appeal to a state supreme court over someone copying business information off a hard drive with the intent to profit of of the information. It wasn't even considered a crime back then.

I think Schwartz did the right thing in getting the files, but should only have secured them and not released them. Too many corporations and government agencies are shredding and erasing any documents that may be embarrassing. I would like to see these files stored in encrypted and decentralized storage with multi-signature and time-locked keys by anyone with access to them with suspicions about their chain of custody. Even better, would be to have all government documents signed publicly, stored encrypted and decentralized with custody balanced by separation of powers as intended by the US Constitution. No more of these secret email accounts and files.

edit: As the story unfolds, it seems that Schwartz did nothing illegal. This is a tragedy caused by bureaucratic opportunists profiting from abuse of power.
5297  Other / Off-topic / Re: Play EVE Online if you want to prepare for a Bitcoin marketplace on: January 13, 2013, 01:32:01 AM
>lobbied Congress to allow cheap wheat from overseas to be brought in without import taxes.

There's your problem right there, government intervention of market forces.
Actually, it's government reversing its intervention of market forces. Quite the opposite.
5298  Other / Off-topic / Re: Play EVE Online if you want to prepare for a Bitcoin marketplace on: January 13, 2013, 01:25:53 AM
I just thought I'd put it out there, like I said, getting sick of seeing daft people whining on this forum about losing their money because they were giving money to people that were obvious scammers, I'll bet a lot of these EVE Online scams look very familiar.
Scams are everywhere, literally. Every corporation in the world is a scam. Every sales person is a scammer. Every relationship involves one person scamming another.

I'm a millionaire with lots of dollars.
You are a farmer with lots of bread.

I give you a dollar for a loaf of bread.

Everyone gets what they want, and is happy.  WHO IS SCAMMING WHO?   Huh
Right. I was a farmer until you cornered the market on my crop and cut off my distribution. You were just being a good millionaire businessman looking out for your shareholders. I was forced to sell out into a contract with a corporate farm. I used to sell my wheat to a breadmaker with union workers making good living wages, but he was bought out by his partners when they sold to one of your subsidiary firms. Now he is an employee of a bakery that pays minimum wage and pays me half of what I used to get because they lobbied Congress to allow cheap wheat from overseas to be brought in without import taxes. You give me a dollar, what am I supposed to say, thank you or fuck you?
5299  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: A Manifesto is needed. on: January 12, 2013, 03:59:50 PM
I am angry now. This is good for writing. It makes me focus. Screw the banksters. Game on.
5300  Other / Off-topic / Re: Play EVE Online if you want to prepare for a Bitcoin marketplace on: January 12, 2013, 02:37:47 PM
I just thought I'd put it out there, like I said, getting sick of seeing daft people whining on this forum about losing their money because they were giving money to people that were obvious scammers, I'll bet a lot of these EVE Online scams look very familiar.
Scams are everywhere, literally. Every corporation in the world is a scam. Every sales person is a scammer. Every relationship involves one person scamming another. Eve models an anonymous online economy closely resembling Bitcoin, but the key to avoiding scams is to get out and experience life.
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