Now, there are two ways you can react to this. There's the irrational way and the rational way. The irrational way is to parse dictionary definitions of "fiat" to see if Bitcoin qualifies. But this is irrational. If a company makes a three wheeled vehicle that acts just like a car, we don't look at dictionaries to decide whether it's a "car" or whether we must call it a "tricycle". We look at how it acts. If it works just like a car, we call it a car. And, if it becomes really popular, then we remove "typically with four wheels" from the definition of "car". I would go a step further and entertain the idea that Bitcoin is sufficiently unique that it requires a redefinition of the word "money". |
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Bitcoins in a mobile wallet are analogous to cash in a physical wallet. You carry around enough with you for routine purchases but keep your life savings somewhere more secure.
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I use blockchain.info for small purchases due to the convenience of having my address book and keys synced between my phone, PC and laptop.
I also imported the private key for that wallet into Armory as a backup so that if something happens to the central server I won't be unable to access my balance.
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However the main problem I am facing is to use the same private keys from my laptop and the phone. This seems to be an unsolved problem as of now.
I don't want to maintain two wallets (at least for the funds that I regularly use).
It's not at all unsolved. Blockchain.info uses the same wallet on all devices. |
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Take a breather, call up your folks and actually talk to them. Not about you problems here, not about your world view.
Just ask them about their day, and live a moment of normality for once. It will do you good. Not likely. Given his age the folks are, with a high probability, the problem. |
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From a technical point of view it's impossible for a court order to shut down Satoshi Dice. The server that processes the bets only needs a connection to the Bitcoin network in order to do its job, so it could be located anywhere in the world and operate undetectably through Tor.
Access to the actual web site isn't necessary to play. All you need to know are the bitcoin addresses to send your bet to, and that information has long since spread too far to be suppressed.
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I'm surprised that you are not taking this seriously given the very real impact it is having on your pocketbooks Are you talking about the 40% increase in the exchange rate since you cast the curse? Normally people who hold bitcoins consider that to be a good thing. Are you sure you didn't accidentally cast a blessing instead? I can see how it would be easy to get those mixed up. |
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Only one provider allows bitcoin.” This sounds like something BitPay et al. should be getting in front of. |
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I'll just have to disagree with you on that. Infringements of other people's rights are not a matter of opinion. A rapist can't avoid being evil by just choosing to disagree with the immorality of his action. Without discipline, children do not learn properly.
That's a story you are making up to justify your preconceptions. I know this because any time the question has been investigated scientifically "discipline" is shown to do the exact opposite of aid learning. It's particularly sadistic to hit children under the guise of help them learn when hitting in fact decreases their ability to learn. All it does is set up a no win situation in which the consequences of the abuse inflicted on them are used to justify more abuse. |
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There's a big difference between spanking to punish and hitting to the point of abuse. HUGE.
No difference at all. What right do you have to punish a child at all, much less for failures on your own part? If your child is too young to not to run out into the street then that child is too young to be let outside of arm's reach in an unenclosed outdoor area. If the parent allows the child to get into a dangerous situation like being able to run into the street then if anyone it's the parent who deserves punishment, not the child. Any form of punishment for disobedience is automatically abusive, because no one has the right to demand obedience from another person. Parents only get away with it because they are physically more powerful than their children. |
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Talk to me again in a years time after America has devalued the dollar some more  yes it's an exaggeration what I proposed, it might be more like 0.1 BTC realistically but that's the ridiculous amount that the federal reserve is printing. A more plausible prediction is that 1 bitcoin could be worth about $1 million in an optimistic scenario in which Bitcoin becomes a universal global currency. |
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What I mean is that the current paradigm is reaching its apex, like it did in the USSR in the 1980s.
There are too many unfunded obligations to pay, and when the cash runs out the regime will vote themselves out of existence and leave everyone who isn't part of the inner circle holding the bag. Pensioners, retirees, federal employees, creditors will get nothing.
The system that ends up replacing this one will be less totalitarian, because totalitarianism will no longer be profitable for the rulers.
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Padmé: "This is how liberty dies with thunderous applause."
The situation more closely resembles the USSR in the mid 1980s than the 1920s. |
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It's becoming quite a massive undertaking, as I've ended up basically rewriting the wallets from scratch. But it's being rewritten in order to give it the flexibility to things like this without redesigning it again. Will the new design allow you to add brain wallet capability? |
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I wish Bitcoind was a universal backend that all the clients (including Bitcoin-Qt) could use to acquire blockchain data and transmit transactions to the network.
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Idiots infiltrating the US Gov't have pretty much doomed that enterprise, at one point the most successful thing on God's green Earth. What are you talking about? The US Government is at the peak of its success right now. The are collectively the most successful band of thieves the world has ever seen. |
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What more could new Bitcoin users want in an eWallet service? I didn't see an Android app for your web wallet. Is it possible to read QR codes through a mobile web app? |
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If you want a more long term solution, Freemail is private both in the sense that messages are encrypted, and it's also not possible for a third party to perform traffic analysis. |
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I had my landlord set up a coinbase account and a payment page so that I can use bitcoins to pay my rent.
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