Even better solution: Engrave your bitcoin key on a bullet! You can defend your bitcoin under the 2nd Amendment, and have another nifty way to transmit it over long distances

(I'm actually not a gun nut, nor even own a gun, but the "gubming gonna get you" comment made me think of this)

Certain types of pornography is illegal. There are more types in Canada than in US. US has outlawed books with those, and there are certain types of books that you can buy in US from Japan, but is illegal to poses in Canada.
I like the claim that government can outlaw anything. Especially if it's to "save the children," and it's very easy to see how Bitcoin can be targeted with that.

I may have jumped the gun on this one. The old one has the same problem of not actually finding anything in safe mode, either (the one I was looking for would've taken an estimated 3 days to find it in safe mode, so it never finished)

I think the issue may be something else now. Then again, maybe it DID work back when I had 0.16, and something changed between then? Damn. I hate debugging things. Sorry :/


I was thinking I could do something like step through it line by line to see where it SHOULD actually find a match and see what happens when it skips it and keeps going. I code in VB for Excel for work, and used to write in some other languages. There's no compiler out there that would allow me to execute the code line by line? Or is the stuff in the background too complicated to monitor?

No, safe mode doesn't help.

What code is this written in? Or rather, what compiler (for Windows) should I get? Maybe I can step through the thing to see where it fails (I at least know that much about programming >.< )

They did it with "gay" for a few decades/centuries, so why not?

I think you may have mixed up your labeling there. ~140 * 365 = ~51456 GIGAbytes, not terabytes. ~51 terabytes per year isn't really that bad today for a professional data storage place, and likely will be something home users can get 10 years from now (according to this http://www.pricewatch.com/hard_removable_drives/ ~51 terabytes only costs about $1,774.80 today, which already isn't much compared to what some of the bigger mining rig operators spend. This will likely drop to $200 in ten years)

I kind of don't like the name "bitcoin" either. Mainly because the plural version is kind of meh. A few bitcoins? A lot of bitcoin? I think the "coin" part of it is weird sounding.

Divide it by the number of users instead, since users/holders benefit directly from having their Bitcoin stores secured. Even if we use a very conservative estimate of 60,000 (MtGox registration database from last month, which doesn't include people from China or Poland), 1,297/60,000 comes out to about $0.02 per person per hour. About $0.50 a day or less isn't much to secure millions of dollars, and I suspect the actual cost per person is even less.

Likely it'll be treated the same as any other foreign currency: you pay taxes on your profits when you convert them into your home country currency. (I suspect it should be treated like that already, especially if your profits are HUGE, and you want to stay safe and avoid IRS audits and jail)

So, does anyone else have/had an issue where olcvanitygen never finds a matching key, and just continues searching regardless of how easy the request is?

huh, good point. I never thought of this beyond thinking about low v.s high skilled workers in a supply-demand system, where high skilled are always in lower supply than needed.

Well, the biggest bank in the game SecondLife had an administrator/representative who was a fox (had a fox avatar). ... though that bank did turn out to be somewhat of a ponzi scheme :/

I'm still here. Bought at various times from $6 to $20. Bought a few grand at $20 actually. Still holding, still ok, still expecting it to go up eventually, and still buying (at $10 now).

Unemployment rate is about 4.5% for those with a college education. That suggests that the people who can't get jobs should maybe focus on getting higher education, or at least going to a school specializing in some profession.

They already outlaw intentional aggravated application of Newton's Third Law of Motion to people's bodies.

Mom, imagine your Bitcoin wallet is a stack of envelopes you store cash in. You can get as many envelopes as you want, and for all the cash you receive, you get to pick which envelope you store it in. If you don't care where the money came from, just stick all your cash into the same envelope. If you want to separate the money and track whether it came from Ted or Chris, just ask them to put the cash they send you into their own separate envelopes. You can even label those envelopes as "Cash from Ted" and "Cash from Chris." The only difference between actual envelopes and Bitcoin is that instead of you getting the cash and stuffing it into an envelope yourself, you give those envelopes to other people and ask them to put the money there themselves. Don't worry, they can only put money in. They can't take any of it out unless they ask you to put the money into one of their envelopes, and you do it yourself.


Regarding #3, personally, I think a few people with an ENORMOUS amount of money invested in a project have an ENORMOUS incentive to see the project succeed, so I actually see this as a strength. In other words, had bitcoin started the way you suggested, we'd still have a few nerds with a little bit of cash still stuck in their parent's basement (sorry for stereotyping, rich nerds   ), but instead we have a few nerds who suddenly have A LOT of cash to invest in developing this system.

As for #4, Bitcoin is doing just fine on Android, and that OS has more users than iPhone, so even if Apple never allows any Bitcoin apps, it'll only hurt them (more) in the end.

Ok, answer this then: why is it that in our monetary system, technology has progressed exponentially in the last 150 years, replacing millions of jobs with automated systems, yet the unemployment rate has held steady with an average of 4% to 6% (not including market crashes)? Do you believe that this is because the number of janitorial and financial jobs has increased?

Also, is the point of your argument that:

Automation/technology is BAD because it destroys jobs, but only because, due to money, jobs are needed to survive, so to fix this issue, we need to get rid of money, but continue to allow automation/technology to destroy jobs?

Great. Now I feel REALLY guilty for using another exchange for my last Bitcoin purchase 

Actually, one important point on this. Luddites fear that machines/automation will kill jobs. After all, a single combine harvester with a single driver takes the job away from dozens, maybe hundreds, of farmers.
What they don't realize is that automation and machines creates way more jobs that it destroys. Those jobs just move into different areas. That single combine harvester replaced 100 farmers with thousands of engineers, steel workers, chemists, botanists, mechanics, oil producers, etc. Automation will just take this a step further, replacing manual laborers with more thinkers/designers. The work will be easier, but there will likely be a lot more of it.

Any amount of automation will ALWAYS require someone's labor behind it. Even if you have machines that can use 3D printers to print out more machines and can fix/maintain those other machines, you still need someone to take the time to invent, design, and improve those machines. 3D Cad design and engineering is A LOT of work, and requires a lot of different specialized education. You would need people who have specialty in electronics, physics and engineering, software development, chemistry (to create new stronger materials), architectural design, and for robots that grow food, biology and botany. After all those people get together, you'd also need specialists in 3D engineering design and CAD software design, as well as resource and operations management to make sure all materials for these machines can be acquired and are used correctly. Getting specialized in these fields takes A LOT of time and work. Why wouldn't these people ask "Why am I busting my butt, spending YEARS to learn this stuff, just to provide these goods/services to people so that those people won't have to work or learn, and have everything they want provided to them?" Sure, there will be a few (maybe a lot) of people who are interested in these fields, but why would they want to do this work for others without asking for anything in return? And what if there is a shortage of people to do these things? Will someone have to force people to work on this?
I think THE ONLY way RBE is even possible is if machines replace the only type of work they still can't, which is creative thinking. But, once machines are able to think and invent as well as humans, our race becomes obsolete, anyway (especially since machines will likely figure there's no point in spending their resources on us)