fixed some bugs, added some stuff, time to test if everythings ok now.

so here's another incredible offer:
free memberships

i'll pay the inital membership fee of 1btc to the first 10 people,
that send me a PM with subject: userid:bcaIN.

i don't mind if you already have an account and referr yourself, or just don't want to pay the fee to activate it.

anyone could grab a free spot, one per forum-account.

sign up, login, send PM, get unbelievable rich! 

That would be awesome, but we'd need some sort of agenda that makes it worthwhile. Maybe this will take off once Bitcoin matures a bit more and there are sufficient reasons for a conference.

If you're interesting in voluntaryst/anarchist type of conferences, there are already plenty of those each year: http://freedomainradio.com/

I understand your point of view. It makes perfect sense in reality. Say I come into a community and I teach basket weaving. If I leave and take nothing the community is richer. 

However in the case of a formal monetary system it does have consequences. A LET system is equivalent to a fixed currency system in the sense that coins, bullion or tally sticks, it someone enters the community than leaves taking the currency, then there is less currency to go around. It is monetary deflation. It makes it harder to trade.

In LETS as others' balances go more negative you have to either allow more credit to compensate for the unspent credits or change prices to compensate for the hoarded currency.

If die or formally leave the community and return your unused credits, you have the same issue as someone dying with negative credits. You still have to redistribute the good fortune, or the burden. It is much easier in a LETS system since there is central control of the accounting.

I heard that the patch was available before Satoshi awakened.

Moreover, in the context of a LETS system it negatively effects the community. If someone hoards a positive balance, then others' balances by definition have to remain negative.

I am not sure how this is done on other countries, but in the United States the contract is written on a federal form W-4, and documents the employee and his Social Security account number and the employer and his Taxpayer Identification number. It contracts both parties with the federal government to abide by a set of rules called the United States Code, the Code of Federal Regulations, and a host of others.

You cannot have the kid down the street mow your lawn as an "employee" outside of this system. Impossible.

My point: These words have consequences.

I'd like to factor Bitcoin the method from Bitcoin the useage.

Bitcoin should be a convenience owned, used, and maintained by the community.

The community can grow around Bitcoin, to be a web payment system, or an auction, or a commodity exchange, or whatever. But it must be understood that these enterprises are independent of Bitcoin. They should not be owned, operated, controlled, or promoted by Bitcoin in any way.

Keep it simple!

This is more common than you think and not arbitrarily non-sensical. Suppose you work for a fixed salary and generally work 5 week days and get 2 weekend days off. Now if you happened to work one weekend extra it is clear that you are "owed" two days of not working as compensation. If you take those two days the next week that seems perfectly reasonable.

However, what if you decided to "bank" those two days and to not take them for five years? Say over those five years your salary increases 50%. So when you take those two days, they are equivalent to three days of work at the rate you banked them. Is this fair to the company? What if there is a recession and your salary falls 50%? Do you have the right to demand four days off-work instead of two?

More and more companies in the US are employing a use your vacation (this year) or lose your vacation strategy whenever possible to avoid these issues.

The LETS philosophy adopts this concept for everything since everything is basically "work" to them. According to the founder there is no point at all in saving in LETS credits. Credis should remain fixed in value. If you want to save in something that changes in value choose one of the numerous commodities produced and traded by members of the LETS community. That is why they stress keeping everyone's balances close to zero.

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Bitcoin differs greatly from LETS in this philosophy but only because of the 21,000,000 fixed bitcoin policy. Bitcoin's monetary policy could be varied (in theory) to bring it closer to LETS, but that is definitely NOT a priority of the bitcoin community.

I agree that it was a great article, and I'm glad that you echoed it to the forum; because when I went to that link all I ended up with was the Apache2 default webpage.  Looks like this author is already facing some blowback, and perhaps someone has nuked his server.

I'm wondering if bitcoin's design currently allows for other transport mechanisms?  When I think about taking BitCoin mainstream, I can't help but think about the pervasiveness of email.  Even my grandfather, and some farmers have email addresses and know how to send small attachments.  Can bitcoins safely be sent and received as an attachment in an email?

I know there are some issues with this concept (and of course anonymity would be compromised), but I feel like if we could start sending and receiving BTC through the normal channels that everyday people use, we could really boost their value and presence.

The Open Transactions post http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=847.0 by fellowtraveler got me thinking about it.

I'm puzzled.  Why would anyone do this?

Effectively, we're already pooled today.  Over the long haul, every 10 minutes, someone gets 50 bones, and it's apportioned based on CPU speed.

If a slow machine isn't worth running hot for months on end to search, then why would it be welcomed (at greater value) to a pool including faster machines?  Seems to me that if you found a group of like-minded honest individuals, you'd end up with a cluster of really slow machines, rarely finding a treat, and doling out pennies to each.  Further, anyone inclined to join the pool is already running their machine anyway.

I guess I'm missing the point.