If anything can kill bitcoins, is governments adopting it, embracing and extending, making everyone use their client version "because you can pay your taxes with it" and then legislating their implementation into total control, thus obfuscating bitcoins for the general public. We just need to get wide acceptance before that  Well, they'd have to adopt the concept but with a different currency, perhaps called the bitfed or the fedcoin. Otherwise I'm not sure how they'd prevent folks from using their own clients. |
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Also prohibited by Google Checkout: "Goods, literature, products, or other materials that promote revisionist theories proscribed by applicable law" WTF? Is this a nod to the Chinese government or something?  I couldn't find such a prohibition from Google Checkout. Link? |
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s/money/sandwich/
You're gonna have to explain that one if you want me to understand it. |
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i like the word money Indeed, "where's my money, bitch?" sounds better than my example. I just want everyone to be on the same page in that, despite their relation, Bitcoin differs from bitcoins. |
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- "Where my bitcoins at, bitch?"
And that should cover everything, right? |
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People. Bitcoin will never go mainstream. Interested why? Read on (thanks wikileaks): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8189868/WikiLeaks-US-lobbied-Russia-on-behalf-of-two-credit-card-companies.htmlThe story is about the failed project of Russian national payment system, fueled by Russian government and biggest banks. It was killed by lobbying it out due to the threats it posed to Visa and MasterCard. Bitcoin will fail as a mainstream project as soon as it will start to compete with the Big Guys. Remember, Paypal is not competing with Visa, it extends it's functionality. Bitcoin is not going to mainstream. Bitcoin is not going to get into the coffee machines, as many of you dreams. Russian government was unable to build their own electronic payment system. Do you really think you may do that better, that the powerful government? Kind of trollish to post this in more than one thread, no? |
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So, the US persuaded Russian not to establish its own National Processing System. Which government will the US persuade not to establish Bitcoin? None, because Bitcoin requires no government. What's the problem?
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Let's use Bitcoin (singular, with upper case letter b) to describe the protocol, network, and software, and bitcoin(s) (singular or plural, with lower case letter b) to describe actual bitcoins, as generated by computers. Examples: - "He installed Bitcoin on my system"
- "I sent you a bitcoin"
- "You sent me five bitcoins"
- "I will accept bitcoins in exchange for US dollars"
- "I will accept payment via Bitcoin"
- "I will accept payment in bitcoins"
There. |
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Withholding source code via cryptography, obfuscation, or just not revealing it for a period of time is both legitimate and moral. This is a critical component of expression, which is composed of both speech and silence.
Legally removing a modifier's right to silence effectively criminalizes a large number of possible business plans that would've benefited countless people. One can exercise his right to silence by using GPL'ed works privately. The license provides for such use. So, how many killer apps have been made impossible by the GPL and other copyleft? How many killer apps have been made impossible by intellectual property monopolies? The GPL is a symptom of the excessive protections afforded by copyright laws. We have to cope somehow. I think also that people don't realize what the GPL does to create permanent code monopolies. This would be much more equitable if the author were also bound to the GPL, but in fact one of the prime uses of the GPL is to prevent others from selling commercial licenses while retaining one's own right to do so. Modify the code and, as required, license it yourself under the GPL. Now you can sell commercial licenses, too. |
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Ok. But how many of these will work? And I also give names, physical addresses and phone numbers. And it's huge, world-wide repository.
Was witchspace even trying to troll you? |
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Businesses can encourage bitcoin adoption by offering discounts on purchases paid in bitcoins. They can also offer cash to bitcoin conversions in person. Of course, that all depends on the existence of a quick and easy way to handle bitcoin transactions in person. Having to type in a bitcoin address just to buy a beer is no fun.
What about buying bitcoins with one’s cell phone via SMS, or an application? Would such a method offer a more secure transaction for the seller?
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Sad. No CUDA support for my GeForce FX 5900 Ultra.  |
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Consider "Area F" of Nanaimo has no building code or official community plan. They have an asphalt plant in a residential area and a sawmill next door to the elementary school.
I'm thinking of starting a dogfish rendering plant in the mobile home park. Maybe I'll buy the bridge over to that part of town and demand tribute in song from all who want to cross. What properties of anarchism allow for such a scenario? |
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It doesn't have to cost anything.
I have recently discovered that i have very strong will if i want to. Especially if i see that an addiction is destroying my body - this is the reason i don't smoke cigarettes even though i stay often in the same rooms with people who smoke and nicotine is present in my blood anyway.
The problem with computer-related addictions is that they don't break down your body & mind - especially if you do some sports & care about your physical condition as well. So you don't have necessary incentive to drop such addictions. Also, I'm an IT specialist, so i guess i will be addicted to some game or other computer - related activity forever. that is no big problemthough, as I don't need to do it all the time - I can take longer breaks and it's fine.
I wasn't really talking about your circumstances specifically. My point is, and I recognize that we've gone well off topic, that an addict's problem isn't necessarily the addiction itself, but rather the cost of his addiction. Therefore, it's kind of unfair to compare an addiction to a video game to that of a narcotic. I would guess that a decent heroin addiction in the United States might cost an addict at least hundreds of dollars a month just on the drug itself. Now add the cost of neglecting obligations and the risks of consuming tainted product or getting pinched. I can't imagine that any video game addiction would entail similar costs. /pedant |
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You should generate on your GPUs, CPUs are pretty uneffective for generation.
I'd like to do that, but I read something about someone making a client for GPU generation that would actually steal bitcoins. What's the best, and most secure, way to accomplish GPU mining? |
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For those running Firefox on Windows XP for whom ⓑ, the unicode character 24D1, doesn't display properly, I have an easy fix: 1. Download the Quivira font from this page. 2. Extract the file and install the font according to this guide. 3. In Firefox, select Tools --> Options and then the Content tab. Under Fonts & Colors, click the Advanced button. 4. Select 'Other Languages' in the Fonts for drop down field. 5. Select 'Serif' in the Proportional field. 6. Select 'Quivira' in both the Serif and Sans-serif fields. 7. Select 'Western (ISO-8859-1)' in the Default Character Encoding field. 8. Click the 'OK' button in the current window, and then again the next window. ⓑ should now display properly in your browser. If you have another font in mind that supports ⓑ, feel free to swap it for the one I suggested. |
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For me it is called "Minecraft". I have never played a game which would make me more dependant. I could play it for weeks without noticing external world  I suppose heroin addiction cannot be much worse. How much would Minecraft have to cost for you to stop playing it? Now, how much would heroin have to cost? |
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One of my friends (well, a friend of a friend) runs code on racks of servers containing boards which host masses of GPUs for fluid dynamics calculations for the oil industry, not sure how much these systems cost, but they are available to industry and are as powerful as several thousand high end graphics cards.
Banks could easily afford them
So, the evil banks invest in super computers just to horde bitcoins? Where's the profit in that? |
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Ooh, so someone could attack the network by generating coins and posting them to deliberately broken addresses?
The attacker would require a lot of computer power to generate the vast majority of remaining bitcoins. It seems like an unlikely scenario. |
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