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5701  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [5000 GH/s] Slush's Pool (mining.bitcoin.cz); TX FEES + UserDiff; ASIC tested on: March 25, 2013, 05:11:54 AM
Something going on? Unable to connect to HHTT pools so dropped back to Slush's and no go there either. Internet is fine.
5702  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer - MtGoxUSD wall movement tracker on: March 25, 2013, 04:19:20 AM
Let's be fair with them, they would be pretty well off, however, with the depreciation of fiats and appreciation of bitcoin we are approaching convergence pretty quick, and in the end we are on pretty much equal footing.

On the contrary, the divergence is accelerating. Governments are no longer in the situation of kicking the can down the road but are in the process of following it off the cliff at the end. Meanwhile, Bitcoin came through quite a serious crisis with barely a scratch.

Well, I meant the convergence of wealth held by an early-in-early-out adopter and a coming-to-the-party-late buyer. Wink

Ah, gotcha Smiley
5703  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer - MtGoxUSD wall movement tracker on: March 25, 2013, 04:11:23 AM
Let's be fair with them, they would be pretty well off, however, with the depreciation of fiats and appreciation of bitcoin we are approaching convergence pretty quick, and in the end we are on pretty much equal footing.

On the contrary, the divergence is accelerating. Governments are no longer in the situation of kicking the can down the road but are in the process of following it off the cliff at the end. Meanwhile, Bitcoin came through quite a serious crisis with barely a scratch.
5704  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer - MtGoxUSD wall movement tracker on: March 25, 2013, 04:07:12 AM
Need Moar!!! launch pics!!!!1111

5705  Economy / Speculation / Re: Looks like we are going to hit 1000 usd this year on: March 24, 2013, 09:20:43 PM
Must be a typo...OP probably meant $100.

Twice? in the title and in the post.

So $200 then?
5706  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: [ANN] FIRST Feature-length Documentary on Bitcoin, 100% BITCOIN FUNDED! on: March 24, 2013, 09:01:01 PM
Let's pick some more:

Segment about Satoshi: "Who are you", The Who

Segment segueing from the first big rally & crash to the current rally: "You aint seen nothing yet", Bachman Turner Overdrive

Obviously, "The Taxman" by The Beatles has to be worked in somewhere too.

5707  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Social security is the govs way of saying you are too stupid to save your own $$ on: March 24, 2013, 08:55:56 PM
The problem is those societies are universally much worse off than societies with social security. So the empirical evidence strongly suggest in favor of social security.

Cause... effect... yadda yadda...
5708  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [3500 GH/s]HHTT -Selected Diff/Stratum/PPS/Paid Stales/High Availability/Tor on: March 24, 2013, 08:10:08 PM
If you can side-load, let me have your address and I'll spit out an APK that will work for you.
5709  Economy / Speculation / Re: $75...today? on: March 24, 2013, 08:01:03 PM
Just wait til Monday.  As all the new users send their millions of $ into the exchange, we're going to see record bids.  The moment $75 gets hit, large buys take us all the way to $80, and the Wednesday rocket will take us to $85-90.  A nice correction over next weekend for Easter, but then we hit $100.

Get yourself ready.

Sounds like a plan! Just wish I'd gotten a chance to get in on that $52 dip. Oh well, can't win em all.

I was asleep. Oh well...
5710  Economy / Speculation / Re: If the 75$/bitcoin price was a bubble on: March 24, 2013, 07:57:30 PM

Reading this gave me a sick feeling in my stomach. Do you honestly think that in order to believe in bitcoin (which we'll consider for the time being as being a public company stock, because that's exactly what it is) you have to *buy* it even when you don't need any bitcoins? Buy bitcoins when you need them, sell them when you don't. That's what a *currency* is for. Do you buy Canadian currency regularly while living in America? Do you buy Korean Won while living in Africa? Do you put money into your paypal account when you have no intention of paying for anything with Paypal this month? Why would anyone who believes in Bitcoin as a currency act in this way?

Okay, so you're not believing in it as a currency (good, because it's not one), but as a stock of a public company, whose owners are *everyone* who uses it and the stock splits every block. Fine. Then you're involved in bitcoin as an investment scheme.

To summarize:

If you believe in bitcoin, use it.
If you want to play the lottery and get rich quick, take the risk of buying some and holding them.



Just like you keep some $ in your wallet, you probably want to hold some BTC even if you just want to use it as a currency right now. I spent a few of mine last week and by the time I replenished them, the price was up over $5.
5711  Economy / Speculation / Re: Looks like we are going to hit 1000 usd this year on: March 24, 2013, 07:53:31 PM
I'll give OP a bitcoin if it hits $1000/BTC this year.  Will not happen.



You may want to put an upper limit on that Wink
5712  Economy / Speculation / Re: $75...today? on: March 24, 2013, 07:44:14 PM
Here we go again. Hmm.
5713  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Breaking: No deal for Cyprus despite widespread contradictory reports? on: March 24, 2013, 07:20:39 PM
I've been watching a lot of people sell (all day) and have been wondering "What on earth are people thinking?!". Monday or Tuesday could deliver some historic and shocking developments that could rock markets around the world. 

I keep wanting to stop buying. Then governments keep doing stupid sh*t.
5714  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Social security is the govs way of saying you are too stupid to save your own $$ on: March 24, 2013, 07:15:46 PM

Once you've done that, we can move on to force. As you know, buying automobile insurance is forced. I know you disagree with that concept, but it's reality. Can you think of other ways in which society forces things? I think you can. Please enumerate some.

Government is not society.
5715  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Social security is the govs way of saying you are too stupid to save your own $$ on: March 24, 2013, 07:12:13 PM

Please remember that, as an insurance/Ponzi scheme, one's SSI is not paid for with one's own money. It's paid for with other people's money, which is taken from them by force. If it were my own money coming back to me, that would make it a savings account.

Sooner or later, the young people will get pissed off and say "Enough".

Then the old people will say "But what about all the money I paid in"

And the young people will say "That was your responsibility to put a stop to that when *you* were young. You failed to protect your income to provide for your own future."

And those that see this coming will be prepared and live comfortably

And those that hoped to live off the backs of others in the face of brutal demographics...
5716  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: [ANN] FIRST Feature-length Documentary on Bitcoin, 100% BITCOIN FUNDED! on: March 24, 2013, 06:02:42 PM

It would be really nice to open the film with just a screen of the text appearing letter by letter, with the sound of typing.


I believe it's a legal requirement, mandated by international treaties, that any such documentary begins with Pink Floyd's "Money"
5717  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [3500 GH/s]HHTT -Selected Diff/Stratum/PPS/Paid Stales/High Availability/Tor on: March 24, 2013, 06:00:51 PM
Awesome - mind sharing the app or better the sources on github?

But then you would see my shitty code... Sad

It needs a bit more polishing first in any case. The address is hardcoded.
5718  Bitcoin / Pools / Re: [3500 GH/s]HHTT -Selected Diff/Stratum/PPS/Paid Stales/High Availability/Tor on: March 24, 2013, 05:28:13 PM
Well, here's my first go. Hourly rate shown, updated every 15 minutes.

5719  Economy / Economics / Re: Krugman makes some good points on: March 24, 2013, 02:55:49 AM
I'm a 'Keynseian' as much as believing in gravity makes me a 'Newtonian', LOL.
u are into that then this might be an opportunity for you.  The better members of the BTC community do the better BTC will do, right?)

Can you quack like a duck too?
5720  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Butterflylabs Huge SCAM on: March 24, 2013, 02:54:43 AM
well it quite a disappointment that BFL units haven't shipped.  I have heard if you want to cancel your order they only give you the dollar value back not the coins you paid to get the unit.  Isn't that kind of ripping a person off if I paid 30 BTC I should get 30 BTC back, but I guess it was based of the USD price to begin with so its a little fair.

Well, it's just a crappy deal caused by BFL. The cancellers don't get the benefit of having a working product and don't get the benefit of having held the bitcoins while the price went up... how many times? Meanwhile, BFL themselves didn't see any benefit since they no-doubt turned the BFL into fiat to pay for whatever it is they are doing (giving them the benefit of the doubt on being honest). The only people who benefited from the deal were external parties who bought and held the BTC that were cashed out (Hmm. That's me).

I'm not happy, however. I found out properly about bitcoin back in September and would likely have jumped on some mid-range GPU mining. Except the ASICS that were going to arrive in the next couple of weeks were going to make it pointless. So I got screwed by BFL and I'm not even a customer. FUD merchants they are.
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