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A 0.5 release with GUI changes should be huge news. I will be sure to blog about this. We (or you and developers) are half way to 1.0! Can't wait.
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Gavin is Notradamus: I predict there will be between one and five Bitcoin bubbles (price will double or more and then crash back down below the starting price) in the next four years. I am working on a killer application...hopefully I can finish it soon. |
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no
Only people who are actually living in North Carolina should really answer the question. |
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I'm playing the good guy here and I want to point out that there are some good people here that are involved in bitcoin who are not thieves, crooks, liars, or criminals. It's too bad some/(many) people have to ruin it for everyone else.
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That was pretty brutal to watch. |
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I don't like that idea at all.
Right now if the development group goes crazy, the links on bitcoin.org, IRC, etc. will be changed to point to some other developers and anyone sponsoring development will stop paying. If bitcoin.org is hijacked, the development group can issue a network alert about it and someone can set up a new site. Ownership of resources is decentralized among groups that are more or less independent.
If a foundation combines ownership of any resources that are currently owned by different organizations, then the Bitcoin ecosystem will be less robust.
Tor is not the greatest example, since Tor is inherently centralized. The network can't function without authoritative directory servers, and someone controlling most authoritative directory servers can break Tor's security.
I would support:
- Strengthening organizations that already exist while keeping them independent
- Breaking large organizations into independent smaller ones and creating new ones to handle new problems. (Create an independent unofficial development organization, and let someone else create a PR organization.)
- Improving communication between the organizations
theymos has some good points here. There has been already one "attempt" at a Bitcoin Foundation and it is called the "Bitcoin Consultancy" headed by genjix. In fact, what theymos says is completely true and genjix is, in fact, trying to create his own bitcoin library. If there were a foundation there would have to be rules so one group does not have an advantage over the other. |
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Does anyone here know how I could do something like: SELECT sum(value)
FROM outputs
WHERE script LIKE decode('76a91412ab8dc588ca9', 'hex') + '%'; Where script is a bytea object in order for me to support firstbits? That way I could add a fetch_balance_partial(...) method to support this. Maybe create another column of type text that is the text version of the bytea 'script' data. Then you can use LIKE since each data type is of type text. You could use a stored procedure to do the conversion but I think it will take too long. |
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Maybe a part of the Bitcoin Foundation should somewhat resemble the EFF. (Electronic Frontier Foundation.) We need some lawyers willing to protect bitcoin in every country.
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I've heard that the state of Utah and the Mormon church was interested in bitcoins. The state of Utah just passed some legislation to allow gold and silver to be treated as legal currencies. If the Mormon church realizes the power of bitcoins, maybe the Vatican will too.
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Gavin has plans to implement multiple private keys transactions before version 1.0. There will be multiple transaction types, not just A and B signing. Once these new transactions are available new services such as escrow will be available in the bitcoin API. Bitcoin's features will rock finance, escrow, banking, contracts, etc. Initial support for multisignature transactions This adds initial support for three new types of transactions: (a and b) (a or b) (a and b) or c Here is the design discussion: https://gist.github.com/39158239e36f6af69d6f |
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"In June, Senator Charles Schumer (D, NY) called the brilliant on-line transactional unit called bitcoin “a form of money laundering.”"
this is a paid subscription. he is one of the worlds most famous market analysts, the father of Elliott Wave Analysis.
He is not the father, but he brought back the Elliott Wave. |
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There is a professor that went to a Senate hearing in front of Ron Paul that wanted the U.S. to allow competing currencies including bitcoin. He seems to be a good candidate for a speaker.
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I'm looking for a Chinese speaker who lives in San Diego. I need this person to be able to translate the website. This person has to be interested in bitcoins and will work for equity.
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Can we relabel the front page of bitcoin to say crypto-commodity instead of crypto-currency? After much thinking I believe that it is a commodity. Also lawyers in France are using the bitcoin.org homepage against us.
Can we please relabel it for the sake of bitcoin and because it really is a commodity?
Thank you.
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Idea: Get alibaba.com to accept bitcoins. Easy money. Or someone else build an bitcoin version of alibaba.
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China is a good example. It is silly hard to pay someone in China from abroad.
Imagine what would happen if bicoin captured the remittance market. Huge amounts of money are moved by foreign workers who support families in their home country.
I paid someone 20 BTC in China ($100 at the time) to help me translate some bitcoin material. It was so easy. I would not have been able to do this with PayPal, Visa, Mastercard, or even cash. |
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do u have one in pdf format?
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