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Does selling goods for gold, or anything not legal tender for that matter, offer any precedent?
A friend bought a motorcycle from someone for a few hundred dollars. On the paperwork however, the seller wrote that the sale price was 5 USD, below the threshold for applicable taxes. I suppose if the seller sold many motorcycles in such a way, the authorities might find it worthwhile to check out the Kelly Blue Book or something. That said, the Kelly Blue book isn't any more official than the Mt. Gox exchange.
If the Kelly Blue Book is good enough for the taxman, then Mt. Gox, or any other reputable exchange is good enough too. If I were a seller and wanted to fairly pay sales taxes on items for which I received payment in bitcoins, I would apply the tax rate to the value of the sale in USD according to the Mt. Gox exchange rate for that day.
Of course, I'm no tax expert. I didn't even stay at a Holiday Inn last night.
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And probably you also meant 50Mhash/s not Ghash/s.  Oops. |
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In all your time online, you've never encountered social conservatism before? O_o
There's social conservatism and then there's straight up bigotry. In 2011, complaining about miscegenation qualifies as the latter. |
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With regard to the issue of bitcoins appreciating over the course of the auction, what about allowing sellers to allow bidders to bid with respect to, say, the Mt. Gox exchange rate?
Or, sellers could simply promise a discount according to how long the winning bidder will have participated in the auction.
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Does anybody know what the criteria for insertion into Unicode are?
Pretty sure this thread has covered the question. What about placement of the symbol. I prefer it after the price. For example, 20.11ⓑ. And that, actually, has me leaning more towards not bothering with a symbol and just sticking with BTC. Eventually, deflation will have us using centi, milli, and micro bitcoins. Denoting them as cBTC, mBTC, and uBTC respectively. Doing so with any currency symbol just doesn't look right. |
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You have to go directly to the manufacturer's website to install their linux drivers. I'm pretty sure that Ubuntu askes me if I want to install the proprietary Nvidia driver right after my first boot. I didn't have to download anything manually from Nvidia. Now I'm getting about 50 Ghash/sec from my GeForce GTX460. |
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This is why we need a Bitcoin-for-Cash dealer on every corner of every village, every town, every city, in every country. Email me to list yourself as a Bitcoin-for-Cash contact in your own town.... on http://bitcoinbuy.com Every one of us should be a volunteer bitcoin-for-cash person wherever you live..... Contact me to get listed. My email is: email@bitcoinme.com I suppose I'd be up for that here in Manchester, CT, but all I'd be doing is reselling from Bitcoin Gateway. Why wouldn't potential buyers just go to my Bitcoin Gateway in the first place? |
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What's yours? [ ] Start jamming my downstairs neighbor's loud, tearful, 1am drunk dials. [ ] Brew a delicious breakfast stout. [ ] Start a brewery. [ ] Get abs. |
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The fact that us internet users do not actually own the wires and switches that make up the internet is a serious issue. Of course having a democratic government take over the internet from the corporations would probably make things worse. Would it really be so bad for a town or city to lay down its own fiber or set up its own wireless? What about an ISP run on a cooperative model, whereby the customers owned it? |
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What the hell is your problem with miscegenation? Seriously. I can't wait to see what my future half Korean, eighth Puerto Rican, three eighths miscellaneous children look like. Does anyone sell a "my kids are better looking than yours" bumper sticker? |
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There is obviously an organised agenda. I see people wearing Che t-shirts while the radio is playing a song about being a "teen-ages anarchist". You talk to them about their politics and you are likely to hear the same old proletariat complaints with a hip new varnish. Ignorance, irony, and immaturity seem like more convincing explanations than some organised agenda. Furthermore, I highly doubt that Clear Channel has the proletariat in mind, except for how to better advertise to them. Actually, it was his reference to $3 USD a day that prompted me to say that. Simple people think that money is valuable and equate the lack thereof with poverty. They look at those with money as somehow being responsible for their own deprivations.
The perfect tool for a would-be tyrant.
Many of the Mexican poor that fabianhjr speaks of have little more in wealth of any sort than their petty wages. Feudalism still exists. |
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And in true proletariat delusion you think this poverty is caused by a lack of money. Why would you think that when fabianhjr pointed out that Carlos Slim calls Mexico home? I don't think that anyone can argue that Mexico has a "lack of money". Rather, only a few people have access to Mexico's wealth, for various reasons. |
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I'll sell beer for bitcoins. I don't currently have anything in stock but hard apple cider, however I'll have some mocha stout soon and molasses imperial stout soon after. It's homebrewed craft beer though, so the price is gonna be considerably higher than for budweiser.
Greetings, fellow brewer! I cannot legally sell my beer, but I suppose it's good enough that I might expect gratuity in the form of bitcoins. I just bought ingredients for a breakfast stout. I guess we can have a Bitcoin party after all, if not a parity party. |
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I believe the idea is to simply handle division with better naming, like sending 35uBTC (that's micro btc or 0.000035).
ZOMG METRIC SYSTEM COMMUNISM!!!! |
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No one is selling beer for bitcoins, so until then, no party  . That said, I disagree that we'll have meaningful parity at BTC/USD=1. We'd have to wait until the number of bitcoins in circulation equals the value of the US dollars in circulation. If that happened to day, 1 BTC would trade for about 390 000 USD, I think. For that number, I divided the monetary base by the present amount of bitcoins. |
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For non-technical home use, go with Ubuntu. Although, there's no reason you can't get technical with it. It has a nice polish and is just a pleasure to use, more so than Windows and OS X. I've been with Ubuntu on and off since 2004, and constantly for the last year.
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This image, or a variation of it, might be good for the Wikipedia article. Unless you want to recommend another, would you care to license this image for use on the Wikipedia? |
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No. But I would invest. Space exploration can and should be profitable. However, I might make exceptions for academic ventures.
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Meh. I'm sticking with ⓑ and BTC until I see something better.
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