hey that's a cool idea if i understand it properly

in thinking about how online commerce works right now, pricing is pretty stable.

to make bitcoin work in that context, you might have to fix prices against another, more stable currency... is anyone doing this?

as much as i love it as a concept, that actually does seem to make bitcoin quite undesirable as a currency rather than an investment vehicle. but it doesn't seem to have any hope of stopping?

how could this work? could you use an idea similar to the brazilian URV to at least stabilize the perception of prices, and make it feasible to use in a commerce situation?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-fake-money-saved-brazil

where is this idea at? more and more relevant by the day. anyone actively coding it?

so there is a game that is being played by people with a strong media presence, like gambling? they get points for siding with the 'right' things and not siding with the 'wrong' things?

i never looked at it that way.

it's pretty sad.

well played, ATI CEO... well played.

how does one get to be a 'top tweeting' mouthpiece like the all-knowing bram cohen anyway? is it just based on followers?

http://mobile.twitter.com/bramcohen

bramcohen Will the Bitcoin fiasco make Libertarians realize they know diddly about economics? No, it will not.
bramcohen Everybody wondering what Bitcoin fiasco I'm talking about: Don't worry, you'll know soon enough.

that's all i ever see on twitter in that 'top tweet' position. do we even need to play the game and fight this? should we bother getting top tweeters and other nonsense to spew negative vitriol?

what a show...

some illuminating points:

- silicon valley is afraid of and will demonize any awesome tech that they cannot fully control
- economists are afraid of and will demonize any awesome idea that they cannot fully comprehend

and of course, I've learned by following twitter: that everyone is an 'expert'.

my hope is that bitcoin destroys and reboots *4* things:

- traditional views on money
- the central banking system
- our ideas about countries and trade
- and as bill hicks would say, all those fucking fevered egos running around (in other words, you look like an ass if you talk like you know about something, when you don't, rather than our present situation of 'anyone who talks with high-level language about complex subjects is subject to no scrutiny at all')

beautiful, really. if this is the unfathomable future, bring it swiftly.

I think it's a good idea if it could be done in a somewhat lightweight way.

what about adding another dimension to this; letting people write these summaries in other languages? for example if you don't speak english natively it might be quite handy to see a summary in your own language before you slog through it. hmmm?

Baisley,

if you're suggesting setting up a usenet group, that's not what i mean. i am asking if there are any bitcoin-related mailing lists that one can subscribe to. that's all.

*murders all of you*

this is a fucking brilliant idea

god damn, really

i know what NNTP is. the question was more like, what the fuck does this have to do with my question? i'm asking about a bitcoin discussion mailing list. that's obvious, isn't it?

Nigga what?

is there any bitcoin mailing list? as nice as the people are on this forum, i sure would rather interact with the community by email/mailing list.

really nice work!

And I just want to say, since it's likely to be blocked by the great firewall ASAP, it's probably high time to start implementing some smarter routing/bootstrapping ideas, otherwise it seems it will just pop up briefly and then die.

https://twitter.com/?q=bitcoin#!/search

This post is smart:

http://www.quora.com/Bitcoin/Is-the-cryptocurrency-Bitcoin-a-good-idea/answer/Zbigniew-Lukasiak

the question is, why would a hoarder get 'scared'? at this point the hoarders are mostly people who mined EARLY -- ie: their investment isn't substantial in most cases.