One thing is still unclear to me. How can EU save the banks in Cyprus by initiating panic, chaos and bankrun? It's like trying to cure broken leg by punching it with massive metal pipe. There is no plan to save anything. The plan is to pillage as much as possible before the cash flow dries up. It's just like the final years of the USSR. This. |
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- Most newer systems do not have serial ports [/li][/list]
Incorrect, it is trivial to buy a Serial-To-USB cable. It also works under Linux. Checked myself. Just my 2 cents/satoshis. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21812043Just watch few first second of this clip. A bunch of apparatchiks coming from a meeting where they so brilliantly decided "Ohh we will just take 10% of money saved in all banks of Cyprus. Bingo! Problem Solved." Look how they are smiling and happy with themselves. These people grew up so far detached from reality. The only reason I see for them to go this route is because they have fallen for their own lies and simply unable to comprehend anymore how money actually work. They could as well have decided "let's start a snow ball of bank runs all over EU". Edit: opps the link now shows a different video, wow, sorry. BBC, it seems, has removed/replaced the video that showed a bunch of EU commissars smiling and happy as they get from their meeting after deciding to help themselves to 10% of money in bank accounts. Actually 9.9%, some of them perhaps have started in marketing, 9.9% seems to be so much less than 10%. Found it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSJRHTpKnBM This is the video that BBC had on their website and then quietly replaced by another. It must be politically incorrect to show the shipple our unelected overlords that are happy with themselves after helping themselves for 10% of money saved in banks of a EU member country. QFT +1 |
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Borrowed from somebody earlier in the topic:  |
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When i read it today, i simply couldn't believe it. They just took people's money. Just stole it. Just like that.THIS IS UN-FUCKIN-BELIEVABLE. Is the system really already starting to crash ? |
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even an nominal tx fee like 2% of total input or some shit. the tx fee for 300% of input value is bs
This is a strong point actually. The fee system requires some rebalancement apparently. |
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Luke has a point.
As much as I'm a libertarian, it's also true that social rules make life a lot easier.
AFAIK libertarians believe that social rules are n3ecessary, but there should be a minimal government. Over in the Politics forum, there's a constant argument between the libertarians and others. I can't stand libertarianism myself. Just my opinion, but libertarianism is a terrible idea, Then you will make a great slave. But don't count me in. Think. If Bitcoin becomes useful, then taxes will be implemented differently. For example, taxes will be based on the height of your fence, or how many shingles are on your roof, or how big your waist is.
They can take your car and your house, but they will still be unable to take your Bitcoins. You can sell the house and car for Bitcoins, and they cannot take anything from you anymore. So taxing people having Bitcoins is not as easy as it might seem at first. This will probably lead to lowering taxes to an acceptable (for almost everybody) level. I myself think that the TOTAL amount of taxation (including all hidden fees and taxes) should not exceed 10%. 10% is a fair amount of taxation which i could bear. |
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This is huge. If BTC spreads in some small countries which don't like USA and want to be independent, it may become a secondary currency in some of them. The fact is that there people love the USD, they historical used it to hoard against the endemic argentine inflation. Oh, i failed apparently. Don't mind me, nothing to see here. |
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This is huge. If BTC spreads in some small countries which don't like USA and want to be independent, it may become a secondary currency in some of them. |
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I'm pretty sure Mt Gox, blockchain.info, and BitPay were all on 0.7, and probably some other major sites as well. Sites like that are probably less capable of changing versions overnight compared to mining pools.
It baffles me why they would not have switched to 0.8. That version was out for weeks before the fork happened. Oh well, live and learn. Then you don't really know a lot about large institutions, do you ? I would bet that many banks run software written in 1999 or even before, you know why ? Because when huge risks and costs are involved, you don't change something that works properly unless there is a serious reason. Hell, some large companies still run COBOL code written 30-40 years ago ! Changing software versions is a significant risk each time it is done. |
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Luke has a point.
As much as I'm a libertarian, it's also true that social rules make life a lot easier.
AFAIK libertarians believe that social rules are n3ecessary, but there should be a minimal government. You don't have to be a libertarian to use Bitcoin.
No, but you cannot be against libertarianism either, you have to accept that there are libertarians (and even anarchists & crypto-anarchists) using the currency and live with it. Otherwise sooner or later you will start to fight what you don't like, which makes you an enemy of Bitcoin - that is what I am talking about. Its exactly the same with cash - because of people who are against cash, governments of the world are actively fighting cash, and forcing every bigger money transaction to be bank-to-bank transaction. |
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This matter was apparently for the first time discussed here, which is in itself ridiculously late, but the recent events illustrate the need of having the various issues much more clearly delineated. (...) blah blah blah (...) (...) some bullshit (...) From the posts of yours i would rather say that you are an idiot, not the devs. And a troll. This is an open source project for a reason. Use the source, luke. If you don't like the default Bitcoin client, make a better one yourself. Or pay for the features you want.(Or you could just shut up & die). |
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From what I've seen of Josh Blue LukeJr on stage, I don't think he should be in procession of sharp objects.
Link to video please ? |
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Edit: This thread was created to discuss the possibility that Donal O'Mahony, Michael Peirce, Hitesh Tewari and now Michael Clear (et al., possibly more) make up the Crypto Mano Group, referred to as CMG (mano is Irish for coin), an entity we currently label as Satoshi Nakamoto. Now where have I seen this White Paper before? http://www.w3.org/Conferences/WWW4/Papers/228/ Also, what is more interesting - check out the headers of this URL: (Status-Line) HTTP/1.1 200 OK Via 1.1 tinyproxy (tinyproxy/1.8.3) Content-Type text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Etag "b21e-2e61b9105c040" Server Apache/2 Cache-Control max-age=21600 Expires Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:50:00 GMT P3P policyref=" http://www.w3.org/2001/05/P3P/p3p.xml" Date Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:50:00 GMT Last-Modified Thu, 09 Nov 1995 22:27:05 GMTContent-Length 45598 Accept-Ranges bytes They had more than enough time... |
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In some time in the future, a new poll will be made. The next poll will be how many people upgrade to a new version that contains the change. Quite probably. |
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This poll I think is misleading. Opinions could have now changed, but those votes in whatever category are locked.
In some time in the future, a new poll will be made. You can't make a new poll everytime somebody changes his opinion. |
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Akka, are you using some "theme" other than the plain old default shades-of-blue?
As maybe some "themes" act differently on details like that.
Or maybe it is that voted and I didn't, or even vice versa. (I don't remember voting but also am not positive I didn't.)
-MarkM-
OK it seems that poll system on SMF is broken and after i locked voting, viewing results is no longer avaiable... Unlocked it. EDIT:
Fixed. Poll is properly locked, but results can be seen. |
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Can "No limit" be added? Thanks.
No it cannot. Without the limit, Bitcoin network can't function. why? Actually that sentence is outdated. I am no longer sure if the network can function without the limit. |
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