my bitcoin is on the blockchain. i hope you mean private key which is able to control an allotment of bitcoin linked to that private key..  well yea i have a private key stored safely for long term investment, not imported nor ever was imported into a wallet. Ditto. I keep some hot, but not much. |
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Wait...you mean the devs need to eat? I thought they just ate code and went around giving gifts to people like Santa Claus all year round...
My whole belief system is ruined. I feel your pain Gweedo.
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Just use the search feature in the top right corner?
If you're on an iPhone using safari, you have no second search option. The header search isn't there. It stunk using blockchain.info's website on the phone anyway as the search box in the middle of the page moved with each incoming transaction...made it tricky to select! |
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Unless I missed it, I can't believe I am the first person asking this-do you have any credentials to show?
Yes, you have answered people's questions, but that does not mean 100% that you are a doctor. You could be a nurse, physicians assistant, student, or maybe even just have memorized Grey's Anatomy (not quite serious on that last one).
Whenever I am going to see a Dr, I look up their history and use a service to verify that they received their degree where they say they did, did their residency where they say they did, have had no malpractice suits against them, etc.-and that is among people I know for certain are licensed physicians.
I really don't mean to discredit you if you are in-fact a doctor, but I am amazed that no one has even thought to verify your credentials. A few posts above me I see another guy saying he is an Orthopedic Surgeon. Well, I am a Trauma Surgeon. See what I mean-I can be ANYTHING I want online. Before I take your advice (and I suggest before anyone else does, too) I would have to see verification that you are in-fact a licensed doctor. Don't call it "trolling", call it due-diligence, which, when it comes to health, really shouldn't have any boundaries.
Not only am I an orthopaedic surgeon, I am also a dealer in shiny novelty physical bitcoins that you recently bought from me  but you do bring a good point. If people are to pay for consultation, than credentials and liability are at issue. The credentials part doesn't bother me - easy enough to look me up - the liability issue however is bothersome, which is why I would prefer to offer free medical advice with disclaimer Tulane? And you sir from the big O? If it rhymes with the month of May, oh, then yes. It's a great place for radiology residency. I did med school in Chicago. |
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Most often, slow confirms are caused by the sender not attaching a mining fee. Pay the tiny fee, and the transactions is very likely to be confirmed in the next block.
I don't frequently send amounts less than ฿1 around, but, I've never had to pay a transaction fee. I mean, it would be awesome if sending 10¢ could be free (computationally and fee wise), but, the technology simply isn't there yet for that. Thus, the fee. The miners set the fee that they are willing to accept. The nodes bear the storage costs, but they have no say on the fee process. The default relay settings for dust is the only defense of storage costs and we have been trying to make fees so this job. Hopefully dust reduction (combined with fee reduction) will help push the lower limit on ฿ transaction value down a bit and speed up confirms. |
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I don't see this being a big deal. Merchants take checks which suffer from the confirmation problem, right? The difference with a check is that you know who wrote it. If someone wants to pay with Bitcoins and skip confirmation, then perhaps knowing who they are and where they live would solve the problem?
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Unless I missed it, I can't believe I am the first person asking this-do you have any credentials to show?
Yes, you have answered people's questions, but that does not mean 100% that you are a doctor. You could be a nurse, physicians assistant, student, or maybe even just have memorized Grey's Anatomy (not quite serious on that last one).
Whenever I am going to see a Dr, I look up their history and use a service to verify that they received their degree where they say they did, did their residency where they say they did, have had no malpractice suits against them, etc.-and that is among people I know for certain are licensed physicians.
I really don't mean to discredit you if you are in-fact a doctor, but I am amazed that no one has even thought to verify your credentials. A few posts above me I see another guy saying he is an Orthopedic Surgeon. Well, I am a Trauma Surgeon. See what I mean-I can be ANYTHING I want online. Before I take your advice (and I suggest before anyone else does, too) I would have to see verification that you are in-fact a licensed doctor. Don't call it "trolling", call it due-diligence, which, when it comes to health, really shouldn't have any boundaries.
Not only am I an orthopaedic surgeon, I am also a dealer in shiny novelty physical bitcoins that you recently bought from me but you do bring a good point. If people are to pay for consultation, than credentials and liability are at issue. The credentials part doesn't bother me - easy enough to look me up - the liability issue however is bothersome, which is why I would prefer to offer free medical advice with disclaimer Tulane? |
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Personally, I actually change my writing style on the Internet for this very reason.
Me good idea think have you. I style change now too also. Be hidden so bots not find on me. Actually, my approach is to just be real...and since it's hard to be actually become and remain rich anyway...don't try too hard to be rich. Life is short, enjoy it  |
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What about anonymous telemedicine, using tor+bitcoin. Good for doctors - no fear of lawsuits. Reputation can be gained in ripple-style. Good for patient - privacy, lower cost, no insurance records. Many illnesses can be diagnosed using just chat and a webcam. People can do many basic tests themselves. Throw in a medical equipment rental shop.
Doctors are already very public. The place they practice is public knowledge by law. Privacy on this issue is taken away from the physician as a service to the public. There's just too much fraud going on...I'm not comfortable being anonymous in medicine. |
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Unless I missed it, I can't believe I am the first person asking this-do you have any credentials to show?
Yes, you have answered people's questions, but that does not mean 100% that you are a doctor. You could be a nurse, physicians assistant, student, or maybe even just have memorized Grey's Anatomy (not quite serious on that last one).
Whenever I am going to see a Dr, I look up their history and use a service to verify that they received their degree where they say they did, did their residency where they say they did, have had no malpractice suits against them, etc.-and that is among people I know for certain are licensed physicians.
I really don't mean to discredit you if you are in-fact a doctor, but I am amazed that no one has even thought to verify your credentials. A few posts above me I see another guy saying he is an Orthopedic Surgeon. Well, I am a Trauma Surgeon. See what I mean-I can be ANYTHING I want online. Before I take your advice (and I suggest before anyone else does, too) I would have to see verification that you are in-fact a licensed doctor. Don't call it "trolling", call it due-diligence, which, when it comes to health, really shouldn't have any boundaries.
This is a very important point. Anyone can pretend to be anyone online, and there are plenty of stories of some doctors practicing well outside the scope of their training. Even more confusing, since most specialists have to do at least one year in basic medicine or surgery, we get double listed as specialists and generalists as well. Anyhow, here's me (I'm in the US): Brian Goss NPI: 1427284033 https://npiregistry.cms.hhs.gov/NPPESRegistry/NPIRegistrySearch.do?subAction=reset&searchType=indmy email address is my last name, period, first name @ a very large non-profit multi-specialty group practice located in south eastern minnesota (PM me if you can't figure this clue out, but, there are very few world famous clinics with names that might be confused with condiments). |
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Bitcoin can contribute to a decentralized healthcare plan. People who need insurance simply pay a fee to a decentralized Bitcoin escrow network for their healthcare. Certified professionals (docters) hold a private key to tap into that escrow fund. If 6 peers (3 patients, 3 doctors) approve the need for healthcare payments, the patient receives the cash, which he can use to pay the doctor.
Advantages of a P2P healthcare system:
1. Everybody can sign up - no background checks, no denial of insurance (democrats love this);
2. Everybody can decide their own monthly fee;
3. Anyone who has paid into the pool can get healthcare;
4. System maintenance cost is much lower than commercial healthcare (you get more healthcare for your $);
5. The government cannot force you to participate (republicans love this);
6. The network/protocol can automatically identify abusers and lock them out permanently;
7. people can organize different pools. For example, republican billionaires don't have to be in the same pool as the 99% - everybody is free to organise their own pool.
This satisfies both 'democrat' and 'republican' needs. In fact, any group of people could organise their own healtcare pool. The 99% could have their own pool and the 1% could have their own pool. Who cares?
Sure, we need to put in the security checks to minimize abuse. Sure, there will be "elite healthcare pools" and "pools for the poor". I think this is inevitable. Nevertheless, people will receive more healthcare than traditionally. And that's the point.
Years ago I had this idea of a 'P2P healthcare' system. Bitcoin got me thinking about it again...
You could do this in fiat too...I still see fraud as a big issue. Doctors are not immune to committing fraud. In fact, fraudulent self-referred medical imaging is a major problem in health care (it's technically not a violation of the laws the prohibit self-referral if the imaging equipment is "regular in-office equipment"...such as an urinalysis test strip machine...but, some doctors claim MRI's and PET scanners are not sophisticated pieces of equipment but just routine office stuff; anyhow, medicare bought it hook line and sinker). |
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The problem is the payment processing system for dollars employs very weak authentication and dollars are not intrinsically cryptographically secured. It's sad so many people are exposed to this risk.
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who is Gavin??
What does the number 5340 have to do with it?
Gavin is the only guy paid to make Bitcoin software. The Bitcoin Foundation started in large part to come up with a way to convert Bitcoin from being a hobby project to something one could make a career out of. Some people in the Bitcointalk forum community think it's wrong to pay people for work, or at least work of this sort (ie, revolutionizing money). Additionally, Gavin changed a config file to protect our network. The new config forces people running a version of Bitcoin software to change settings if they want to open the floodgates of tiny transactions of no economic value. Again, some thought this was wrong. He set the lower limit of transactions worth mining to ฿0.00005340. There is significant harm in permitting cheap access to large volumes of transactions...significant harm that can't be undone in the future. |
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The more people who run a full node, the greater the decentralization[1][2].
I can't run a full node full time right now because there is no upload throttling. The Bitcoin client slows my Internet down to literally unusable (4sec+ pings). Not because of hard drive space. I've got 900 GB free right now. What kind of Internet connection do you have? I'm running a full node on a refurb low end Mac mini...I can't tell that I'm running it...I do have a 100mbit/s connection, but I think I would do fine with 1/10 that. |
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Slashdot, 2010. Back when your laptop could do this:  |
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I'm a pseudo early adopter...I mined a few hundred ฿ before you needed anything more than last years laptop...but those were short lived days for me. I remember "wasting" like $20 on bitcoinmarket.com when the price rose sharply from less than a penny per coin to like several ¢ per coin.
I'm not afraid of the wild success of Bitcoin. There are many far ฿-richer people than I who's holdings are more or less well known...I have no intention of ending up incredibly wealthy. I've got a great career ahead of me that will provide well enough for what I want to get done in life. Bitcoin is a bridge to get me through the rest of residency...not my retirement plan.
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This is a very good social observation. I think that mainstream adopters won't think twice about liking Bitcoin on Facebook. So, I agree that the number of likes is a low estimate of total users (although it's higher than I thought it would be...and perhaps many likers are not users), it's probably not a bad estimate of main streamers.
We don't seem to have many women on this forum, but I think the female perspective is sorely needed here in general.
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I'm a doctor. I can't think of a way Bitcoin can help (other than auto-taxing all transactions to fund health care stuff...but that would be a regulatory option overlaid on Bitcoin, not really Bitcoin itself)
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