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There is no moral issue with gambling until you start harming people gambling. If you find yourself using your credit card to gamble, you are only screwing yourself over morally. It becomes really unethical when you start asking your friends for money to go gambling. The high of winning tons of money unexpectedly is pretty intense. I will admit that I won about $2000 CAD at a casino and I sure got a rush from that. You have to remember though that the odds are always against you and you will always lose. My friend who works at the casino in my city even told me gambling is a waste of time and money and suggested to ban myself. I find myself still wasting my Bitcoins sometimes on the online casinos. I don't do it as much and when I do it's more for entertainment sake. I do not agree at all with many people's ideas about "strategic gambling". Smart people can always rationalize stupid ideas.
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I have much lower specs than you and I have seen Bitcoin crash on my computer before like this. Was your wallet synchronizing with the Bitcoin network? If that's the case the process may crash and you may need to force quit and restart.
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Interesting, Ponzi scammers found a clever way to scam Bitcoiners in handing over 1000s of mBTC to their scam. There sure are ways to gain the system and one thing I leaned in life is there are many people who don't get what they as far in life as they want because they scam/rip people off. Oh well, it's the internet.
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Jesus, these scammers are still at it? Now they want us to crowdfund BTC20 to "save the project?" Where is proof of legitimacy of this "project" No miner pictures posted, no YouTube account documenting the large facility they're running. It was just a simple ponzi site. Scammers trying to scam after being caught scamming make me sick.
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so for clarification, you are likely using a laptop (judging from you saying that you cannot use the left click from both the touchpad and the mouse) correct? other than that, theres not much information youre giving us to diagnose the issue, all youre saying is "hey my mouse doesnt work help fix pls." first off, what OS is your laptop running on? have you installed/updated anything recently? is your laptop brand new? anything and everything you provide can help people determine the issue.
windows vista home premium and is at least 7 years old, i have been having this issue for more than a year now Try downloading Knoppix Linux Live, boot up the CD and see if the mouse works in linux. If not, you need to buy a new laptop. |
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https://bitcoinmagazine.com/21809/open-letter-bitcoin-community-developers/As active contributors to Bitcoin, we share this letter to communicate our plan of action related to technical consensus and Bitcoin scalability. Bitcoin is many things to many people. However, the development and maintenance of Bitcoin is a human endeavor. Satoshi sought review and cooperation, and the subsequent work by Bitcoin’s developers has made the system more secure and orders of magnitude faster. The Bitcoin developer community is dedicated to the future of Bitcoin, looks after the health of the network, strives for the highest standards of performance, and works to keep Bitcoin secure on behalf of everyone. We’re committed to Bitcoin and responsive to the needs of the community. For the past five years, we’ve written code and managed over 50 Bitcoin releases and reviewed more than 45 formal proposals to improve Bitcoin’s performance, security, and scalability. Technical discussions, while heated at times, are always focused on improving Bitcoin. Much work has already been done in this area, from substantial improvements in CPU bottlenecks, memory usage, network efficiency, and initial block download times, to algorithmic scaling in general. However, a number of key challenges still remain, each with many significant considerations and tradeoffs to evaluate. We have worked on Bitcoin scaling for years while safeguarding the network’s core features of decentralization, security, and permissionless innovation. We’re committed to ensuring the largest possible number of users benefit from Bitcoin, without eroding these fundamental values. There will be controversy from time to time, but Bitcoin is a security-critical system with billions of dollars of users’ assets that a mistake could compromise. To mitigate potential existential risks, it behooves us all to take the time to evaluate proposals that have been put forward and agree on the best solutions via the consensus-building process. In the upcoming months, two open workshops will bring the community together to explore these issues. The first Scaling Bitcoin workshop will be in Montreal on September 12-13. The second workshop is planned for December 6-7 and will be hosted in Hong Kong to be more inclusive of Bitcoin’s global user base.
We ask the community to not prejudge and instead work collaboratively to reach the best outcome through the existing process and the supporting workshops. It’s great to already see broad excitement for the event and the high concentration of technical participants attending. We’re confident that by working together we can agree on the best course of action. We believe this is the way forward and reinforces the existing review process that has served the Bitcoin development community (and Bitcoin in general) well to date. We welcome your participation as we continue our efforts to bring Bitcoin into the future. Signed, Wladimir J. van der Laan Pieter Wuille Cory Fields Luke Dashjr Jonas Schnelli Jorge Timón Greg Maxwell Eric Voskuil Amir Taaki Dave Collins Michael Ford Peter Todd Phillip Mienk Suhas Daftuar R E Broadley Eric Lombrozo Daniel Kraft Chris Moore Alex Morcos dexX7 Warren Togami Mark Friedenbach Ross Nicoll Pavel Janík Josh Lehan Andrew Poelstra Christian Decker Bryan Bishop Benedict Chan ฿tcDrak Charlie Lee Jeremy Rubin Well, given that Bitcoin is quite a big concept now worth billions of dollars, this puts you developers on edge to do your jobs correctly and act on the best interests of the community, right? You are being compensated in Bitcoin after all. Personally, I do not have $2000 CAD to fly across the country and join the confrere. I went to CakePHP earlier this year. I paid for that trip on my credit card and still paying interest for my education. I simply can't afford to talk to you in person about this so here are my 2 satoshi: I think the blockchain technology is revolutionary and has a lot of potential. Personally, I think that if the limits are not increased in the core version of Bitcoin, the XT camp will fork and the price will plummet. Bitcoin will catch on and it has to have the capacity to handle networks as large as Visa and MasterCard. As far as I'm concerned Bitcoin is here to stay and the fork will only hurt the price. |
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Bitcoin's price stall really all has to do with the blocksize limit increase proposal currently going on right now. After consensus is found (which could possibly really take a long time) I am sure the blockchain technology will greatly be enhanced and the price will increase again. I have a lot of confidence in Bitcoin.
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I think Bitcoin in itself is enough of an investment. Invest some capital into bitcoin and earn bitcoin by doing work on the side. The more Bitcoin you save, the more potential wealth you will accumilate in the future. Credit card companies attacking Bitcoin because they were not afraid of it.
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There is no efficcient way all the governments of the world could collaborate and ban all crypto. Technology does catch on fast and as far as I know there have been countries that have tried to ban Bitcoin but were not successful. Bitcoin is here to stay as far as I can see.
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Sounds like the best way to plug this loophole is to create the blacklist as suggested. Good to see developers catching this stuff before there is an attack on the whole network.
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Imagine the capital that needs to be solidly into bitcoin to push the price to 100 billion..... does it feel like that kind of money is running into bitcoin, or even close? No way in hell this thing is going anywhere for a long time.
I always thought the halving will be the catalyst, however, I think the number of coins mined has nothing to do with the current price. So halving will do nothing, if anything it will tank after the halving.
There will be nothing new in bitcoin land unless bitcoin itself improves in a way that a whole lot of people will value. I see nothing on the horizon that is that type of improvement. Nothing. It will happen, but I think we are 5-10 years from anything significant changing.
Although I mostly agree with everything you said, but that last point about the lack of future significant improvements which I simply can't. The logic behind my disagreement is quite simple, that is, you never know for sure what future holds. The history always repeats itself, something entirely unexpected happens all the time... And it seems to be the only thing which can be taken as granted... I agree. I am sure Bitcoin will really catch on within five years time. The blockchain technology has a lot of potential and once people see the value Bitcoin has, the price will go up. Things take time to catch on though. |
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Welfare programs are also a strong reason for Africans to immigrate to rich countries, which close their borders very precisely not to let foreigners gain access to welfare. Welfare and borders are the same thing: restrictions to freedom.
Welfare payments are the primary reason for people from the third world nations to immigrate to Western countries. For example, take the case of Afghan migrants. The richest country in the world (Qatar) is nearer to Afghanistan when compered to the European nations. Qatar is also culturally similar to Afghanistan. But still, Afghan migrants prefer Europe. The reason - welfare payments. That's what I'm saying. Welfare systems are a magnet for migrants, and migrations have to be stopped for the sake of the welfare state. Imagine a world without any welfare. There would be much more freedom to travel and move, that's what I want. Right! If you stop the gigantic welfare financial drain across the board (or even reduce it), you'll never get elected a second term. The only way left is to eliminate certain classes of people. Eliminate the ones whose vote is going to affect you the least when they go south (pun intended).  Yes that's true. People don't want to do things that are boring or learn a productive skill but boy will they do a lot to get to a welfare state. If we were to stop foreigners from getting welfare cheques, or as previously mentioned find a job for them and force them to work. It sickens me to se so many lazy people in the world. |
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In a few years, the price will stabilize and may me worth upwards of $800 per coin. By Then people will have really caught on and adapted Bitcoin and the technology is improved. Bitcoin is accepted at more places and there is way more awareness of it. It has the potential to be worth millions of dollars. Anyone who ever believed or invested in Bitcoin will be rich.
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I would wait for the transaction to finish. Next time pay a bigger fee and the transaction will be faster. Double spending will only hurt the network.
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HODL you coins, Bitcoin is enough of an investment in itself.
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If there were a way to crack into the blockchain and do something to create fake coins or commit doublespends like what he is talking about, the price of Bitcoin would plummit. Thankfully, we have quality MIT and Caltech league Computer Scientists working on this project, and would quickly foresee any kind of exploit inquired by the OP. Script kiddies won't be able to beat that.
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At the end of the day it doesn't matter. At the end of the day gambling is still gambling and you end up losing. I do my best to avoid all form of it. I already am in a lot of debt, I don't have more to throw away.
Try slowly recover what you have loss. Dont hit too much, although if you are in a lot of debt if each day you can recover some later on you will recover all of your loss. So it depends on you whether you want to change it or not  . And one more thing try to control your greediness. It have a great overcome if you can control it I'm not prepared to "recover" my losses by risking more money. That's just stupid. |
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At the end of the day it doesn't matter. At the end of the day gambling is still gambling and you end up losing. I do my best to avoid all form of it. I already am in a lot of debt, I don't have more to throw away.
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This is a very touchy subject. While it is not against the rules to have more than one account, there are those who are against it. I would use alternative accounts very scarcely if at all if you are going to have multiple accounts. I would say post mostly from one account, and you can create another account if you use it rarely as a means to either promote your business or some other specific purpose.
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It is unfortunate people game and abuse the system on this forum. Far too often I see the most ridiculous loan requests posted here. There are many ways people come up with excuses to not repay the loan. I probably won't bother in the future with getting a loan from a stranger in the future.
That's the reason we shouldn't provide any one loan without proper collateral. Collateral should be easily liquidated later to recover our money. People come up with so many new ideas of reasons for asking loan without any collateral but do not fall on those traps. Just follow no collateral means no loan then you will be safe in this business otherwise you may end up loosing some money because of scam. That's the best thing to do. I will never give out a loan without any collateral in my hands. I'm all for this P2P lending idea but at the moment we have a broken system. I may actually might want to look at building a website, get it tested by a professional hacker and launch a secure P2P Bitcoin lending platform. BTCJam is the shits with scammers as well. My site would hold collateral. |
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