Sounds like you could spin it off as kickstarter clone, except with bitcoin.
That would be an excellent idea for a bitcoin-based service. I've been thinking about making something like that myself. |
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I like the idea. Having some way to natively hook into bitcoin events would be quite helpful, particularly to anyone trying to set up their own merchant script. Depending on how flexible the scripting language proves, it could also potentially allow for crude automated selling without the need for a third party.
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How to incorporate profitability in p2p social networking, I have no idea, but it's an idea that popped into my head.
I can't see any reason why the usual methods (advertising and paying for special content, whether that be on the network itself or in an add-on) couldn't be adapted for p2p networks. |
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The transactions of a block are encoded into a bouldering problem, that can be replicated on standardised indoor climbing walls anywhere in the world. The first climber to crack the problem in a public competition confirms the block, and gets to keep the transaction fees. video of a climber "solving" such a problem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxH3Mc07xcE+1 |
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Look to Captchas for inspiration. Basically anything a human can do easily which a computer cannot.
Make love to a Thai ladyboy? Sounds good. They have those on Newegg, right? |
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Look to Captchas for inspiration. Basically anything a human can do easily which a computer cannot.
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Hi! I'm also a member on that site and though I didn't try the bitcoins feature because I'm 10 and there's a password that my parents have to type in before I install anything(and they make sure it's "appropriate" before they type it in), it sounds cool and if I somehow manage to install it somewhere, then yay! Dang this marquee thing is cool...  You don't really have to install bitcoin. Just download the .exe and double click on it. Hopefully it will work. That said, you probably won't generate any bitcoins in the near future because the network already has lots of people competing for them. If he's running Windows 7 they might have it set up to keep programs downloaded from the Internet from running or writing to the hard drive until approved by the administrator. |
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The webmaster is Sirus.
Ah, okay. Good to know. Thanks. :-) |
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Awesome! I'm going to have to go check out that MMO. :-)
Glad to have you onboard.
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Wow. I felt like I was 8 again. I can't believe that's still up! That's strangely comforting. :-D Edit:Now though, there's so much cool shit happening. Now is the best time in history. ... Fuck, I wish I lived in the far future when we're terraforming Mars! That honestly makes me a little sad  Certainly you look at the motivations & attitudes over the decades and there's been a massive shift. From the industrial era focus on work, corporations, family ... to creativity, individualism, knowledge. It's hard for people to notice this when you're an ant on the ground, and people constantly deride how things are getting worse- they most definitely are not! +1 |
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Are we agreeing on a particular design? What's the next step to getting it implemented/live?
I don't know nuthin 'bout changing video default images.
If anybody does, I'd be happy to replace or tweak the link to the video at bitcoin.org.
Well, I'm guessing Gavin has access to the website server. Someone needs to turn that design into usable code first, though. That may be difficult or not so difficult depending on the CMS bitcoin.org is using, if any. |
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Much of the hype around Bitcoin has been the rapid rise in exchange rates vs. USD. This rise has leveled off for a while now, and it seems some of the enthusiasm has faded with it. No surprise, really. The kind of extraordinary growth we saw recently can't sustain itself indefinitely. Want Bitcoin to succeed? Hype it less, offer more goods and services.
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I think I see what you're saying. It would be analogous to keeping a delta index in something like Lucene, right?
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I am fully aware that Bitcoin is designed to help people avoid using banks. When I said that Bitcoin has nothing to do with banking I meant legally speaking. Before accusing people of being newbies, try to understand the context of their statements.
I'm sorry. I thought your statement was in the context of the poll answer titled "Distrust Central Banks." My mistake. |
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One question I have is: What does Bitcoin have to do with banking law? Bitcoin runs outside of banks and really has nothing to do with banking. If you want to talk about 'money transmitters', that would be more accurate in my opinion.
 Bitcoins are very much supported by people who are disgusted with the banking system as it exists now. They are by design decentralized and limited. Under our current banking system, currency is both centralized and (theoretically) unlimited. By taking the power to essentially create currency away from the central banking authorities, away from the Fed, we take away their power to rob us via inflation. It has everything to do with banking. I voted early adopter too, though I am also a speculator and distrust central banks. I voted early adopter because I tend to like new things in general. They intrigue me. That's what drew me to bitcoins in the first place. The meteoric rise of bitcoins in the last year combined with my enthusiasm for being part of the creation of a new electronic currency (and the knowledge that our current fiat banking system is fatally and congenitally flawed) has kept me around. |
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This sounds like an agorist wrote it. However, there is no way to know if this author is representative of Anonymous, since they seem to reject anyone who attempts to speak for them.
There is no "they." Anonymous is to groups what Tor servers are to web traffic. If enough people rally around the cause then it might be considered an action by Anonymous, though the Anonymous acting may have no connection to any Anonymous that has acted before. Anonymous is just a name, really, not any particular group. You might as well say "a sizable group of people" as that's basically what it boils down to. |
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Let it never be said that the Bitcoin community lacks the ability to dream big.
You know, we on these forums have been accused of irrational exuberance a few times before. I've heard people project that bitcoins will be worth at least $4 apiece by the end of the year. Yet I have no idea what such predictions are based on, aside from an assumption that the quadrupling of the value of the bitcoin over the last year will continue into the next year as well. Last year we got Slashdotted, right? So that rise makes sense. But when we keep predicting an upward trend for bitcoins, on what is our optimism founded? What's to keep us from being the next BetaMax? What is our plan? Just wondering. I'd love to be able to do all my transactions in bitcoins. I'd love for all the transactions my transactions are founded on to have been done in bitcoins as well. But what are we doing to make that happen? Could I get a summary of current efforts? A "state of the union," so to speak? |
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Technically yes, we are in the inflationary stage of the bitcoin deployment. And yes, the number of bitcoins to be made is set at 21 million. However, we must assume that once all the bitcoins have been deployed there will be a slight rate of deflation as wallets are lost to the destruction of the media on which they are stored. Someone stores their wallet on a personal computer without an off-site backup and a natural disaster or accident destroys the data? All the bitcoins in that wallet are gone. So yes, bitcoins are ultimately deflationary. Once we hit 21 million we will only be able to destroy them.
That is true, but the rate of loss will be inversely proportional to their value. This deflation is quite mild compared to inflation via quantitative easing, interest rate manipulation, and fractional reserve banking. Well, yes. Obviously! I don't think we'd all be here if that weren't so. :-) |
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I don't see why people keep calling Bitcoin deflationary, it's not. Prices today are chosen based on the amount of fiat currency some number of Bitcoin can buy. As Bitcoin becomes stronger with regard to fiat currency, it seems as if there is deflation, but there really is not. The money supply is increasing at a rate of 300 BTC/hour.
Technically yes, we are in the inflationary stage of the bitcoin deployment. And yes, the number of bitcoins to be made is set at 21 million. However, we must assume that once all the bitcoins have been deployed there will be a slight rate of deflation as wallets are lost to the destruction of the media on which they are stored. Someone stores their wallet on a personal computer without an off-site backup and a natural disaster or accident destroys the data? All the bitcoins in that wallet are gone. So yes, bitcoins are ultimately deflationary. Once we hit 21 million we will only be able to destroy them. |
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