People tend to get into things gradually. The example was just one of many possible ways for someone to get interested that didn't involve spending a lot of money upfront. Buying a small amount would probably be fine for most people, but that seems very hard now, since PP has chargebacks and new people have no reputation. So it would be nice if people could get a bit without having to wait a long time, hand outs are fine too, but I think they cheapen it a bit "oh, people just give these things away, they must not really be worth anything" sort of thing.
New people could earn bitcoins by joining talhoe lafs when bitcoin micropayment integration are built in. It make easy for people to earn a little bit of bitcoins. Sure, I didn't mean to imply that pooled generation is uniquely necessary or something. Eventually I hope there will be lots of microjobs people can do for BTC. I think microjobs are stage 4 of economic growth. |
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People tend to get into things gradually. The example was just one of many possible ways for someone to get interested that didn't involve spending a lot of money upfront. Buying a small amount would probably be fine for most people, but that seems very hard now, since PP has chargebacks and new people have no reputation. So it would be nice if people could get a bit without having to wait a long time, hand outs are fine too, but I think they cheapen it a bit "oh, people just give these things away, they must not really be worth anything" sort of thing.
New people could earn bitcoins by joining talhoe lafs when bitcoin micropayment integration are built in. It make easy for people to earn a little bit of bitcoins. |
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You can set the budget of any proposal. So just make the one you want passed to be 50% of the total.
I have a feeling that the democratic system of your website will leave most of the organizations' treasury empty. |
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Is there a way to manage the budget? I want to be able to hold 50% of bitcoins in the treasury from being spent at any time.
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Maybe pooled generation will help get newcomers some tiny amounts of their own.
I don't understand what you're thinking there. Instead of waiting an average of 2 months for 50 coins. New people who use the pooled mining software that is being developed could have .5 coins in 15 hours or something. After a few days, they come play some poker and win big and buy a silver dime on biddingpond. Then they are like "damn, this is so cool, I'm going to wire $400 to mtgox and buy a bunch of coins" Interesting, but a bit way aroundness. I thought an interesting introduction for kids is to play MMO and then discover that they can exchange their MMO currencies for bitcoins and use bitcoins to spend on things. |
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Put me down for 50BTC.
This is a good idea. Maybe I need to do a bounty for my Facebook developer store plug-in idea.
Thanks for increasing the bounty to 300 BTC. |
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With SmokeTooMuch and the joining of the seventh members, we got 517.5 bitcoins. 17.5 are donations from the BMAA.
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Maybe pooled generation will help get newcomers some tiny amounts of their own.
I don't understand what you're thinking there. |
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File "/home/kiba/projects/tahoe-lafs/support/bin/tahoe", line 6, in <module>
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
ImportError: No module named pkg_resources I got this error. Help? Google says that setuptools should be installed. Googling doesn't seem to turn up a solution. I try easy_install the .egg but that doesn't exactly work. Perhaps, I'll need to install easy_install too. |
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File "/home/kiba/projects/tahoe-lafs/support/bin/tahoe", line 6, in <module>
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
ImportError: No module named pkg_resources I got this error. Help? |
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As soon as I got a node running and finish fixing my system clock, I'll pledge 5 BTC for whoever integrated bitcoins into the tahoe network.
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back to the original starting point.
The bitcoin rally.
Prices have pushed to 10 cents and hold firmly above that level. Volume has been low after the breakout. There hasbeen quite some buying interest at the 10 cents level, indicating that some folks are speculating on a further rally.
There hasn't been downward pressure despite a huge increase of block generation rate despite high difficulty (280 blocks past 24h )
Technically speaking a further rally is the most probable scenario. Only a close below the 6.3-6.5 cent former breakout level, would invalidate this outlook.
Next resistance is 13 cents (alltimehigh) and 15, then 20 cents
Wait, this doesn't make any sense. We are unable to deposit dollars into Mt. Gox. for quite some time. |
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I am predicting the divison of labor already.
Older bitcoiners have an enormous reputation due to their contribution to the bitcoin economy and the number of people who can vouch for bitcoiner's trustworthiness. These guys will end up top dog and brokers for huge deal.
New guys will have to find their own niches other than what the older bitcoiners occupied.
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It'll be cool once we have the critical mass for their to be bitcoin 'dealers' in large cities.
I think that's at least 6 stages from where we at. For stage 3, I am thinking the rise of MMO that use bitcoins. |
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An easy way to put your paycheck into bitcoin is going to be an important step. Something that does not include a middle man such as paypal or pecunix or anything else.
Middlemen should be convenient, but not assholely. |
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From bitcoin, it is clear that the first stage of growth is marked by sporadic services and goods that can offered with relatively little investment. It is also dominated by exchange entrepreneurs and bitcoin speculators.
Speculation and exchange between one currency to another is the main form of economic activities. The liquidity grease the engine of small web app and businesses.
I think the second stage of economic growth is the payment processor, and the ability to pay for goods.
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Hmm, there are various bitcoin causes competing for bitcoins. |
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Perhaps, Mt. Gox. could add many options for deposit and withdrawal?
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This got my attention, and want to know more about Wirtland. Can you describe your experiences thus far?
Well, I enjoy my Wirtland identity, I also have a plastic ID card from Wirtland. I have made a contribution to the Wirtland project by creating a network of Russian-speaking witizens (i.e. citizens of Wirtland). I follow Wirtland news. What else? I have Wirtland gold (see pic below) and silver coins. Occasionally I wear my Wirtland sweater  By the way, every witizen can submit articles to Wirtland's newspaper. I think those BC-enthusiasts, who join Wirtland, should suggest some material for publication in "The Times of Wirtland" - to explain Bitcoin, etc. Just an idea...  So far, Wirtland seems to be an early version of a 'phyle'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age#Phyleshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirtland_(micronation) And the coins look awesome. How can I get some? Writcoin and bitcoin exchange market! |
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