Maybe, or maybe I'm just tired of taking all my laptops out of their cases when my family travels.

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I've been thinking about that ipad. I guess I would want to escrow though, the seller has no history and no name I recognize.

I think I understand. You are potentially giving expected value to the other side by moving the line away from 'correct'. Only potentially because people could fix the line by betting the appropriate amount. Do I get it?

Non-generating nodes don't know the current block size you mean? Even generating nodes don't know what the current block size will end up being, so I don't think that's much of an issue. Non-generators do know the size of recent blocks, so they can guess about as well as generators.

It make the Jets a worse bet though, correct?

Exchanges like MtGox can handle many transactions "off the books" of bitcoin and settle officially later. It might make sense to do that here too.

So you send coins to someone first, do some downloading, speeding up certain files by offering payments, and the site moves the credit out of your account and into the uploaders, but doesn't send it to them until they click "Pay Me" or whatever.

I'd be interested in this, as a customer.

I had a similar idea that would work with bitcoin modified torrent. Say I'm a comic writter, every week I put out a new edition and put it up for download, but set it only to go out to people who send a 1000BTC payment. Once they get the content it is completely theirs and they can try to resell it for whatever they want 900, 100, 2, .01 whatever. I'd guess that prices would fall pretty quickly, but really popular stuff could probably command a very high starting price with people expecting to be able to sell many copies at a moderate price.

Do you mean that it is about protecting illegal behavior, but not bad behavior? I suppose a precise definition of bad would need to be developed.

It would be a little eerie to see "FreeMoney dead on or before Jan 1, 2011", but I'd consider it a great source of info and opportunity to profit. ;-)

I think celebrity death pools are fairly common and not universally agreed to be wrong.

Also people bet on their own death all the time and it is considered good by most.

Some people are using code written for GPUs now which are faster and more power efficient. There are a few threads about it.

Life has unknown opportunity costs. The exchange rate is a piece of knowledge that can help us learn a bit about what those opportunity costs are. A sudden change in rates simply means that a lot of people just revalued at least one of the things being compared.

It's silly to be against logging imo. Even if I didn't want it recorded, since I can't stop it, we might as well have a complete accurate record. Mark me as pro logging.

Anyone who wants to take 1% of millions of small transactions.

Did the Zim banker(s) print ZimBucks to buy real assets and move them out of the country?

I think it has more to do with obligations. If you can get away with simply meeting nominal obligations it might be okay, but if people will 'insist' that you give them roughly the amount of stuff the nominal promises implied or if the obligations were indexed to inflation in some way,it could get out of control.

Most people spend about what they make each year. It is still worth using a system of paying and getting paid in order to allocate resources effectively.

I'm impressed by how well BT works honestly, but I could imagine a faster system with even more diverse content and less wasted time/bandwidth on crappy downloads. I think giving the right incentives to host content that people want and to only download things that you actually want OR think others will pay you to host.

Hyper-inflation does happen sometimes. What causes it?