Bitcoin addresses seem to work a lot like I.P addresses, yes, people can see what you're doing, but you can always take steps to mask that and like with I.P addresses because there are so many of them it would take a particularly determined person to find out what's going into your account. I'm pretty sure though as people have said there are methods to avoid people stalking a particular address to find out just how much you're getting. I wouldn't be surprised if in the future people started developing VPN style security specifically for Bitcoin addresses so people can't spy on you at all.

I find Bitshop particularly interesting because it stores the Bitcoins on a code and you can take it out like a seperate account from that code to your Bitcoin client so maybe you should look at something like that perhaps for your business, it is a concern, don't get me wrong, but like with I.P addresses I think people shouldn't be too worried just yet until we start hearing about courts using Bitcoin addresses as viable evidence or criminals actively stalking addresses that shift a lot of Bitcoin.

I don't know about making things simple but whatever you do could be explained a lot better, there have been years or months I've spent arguing with people to give better explanations from all professions not just people using cryptographic currencies. Someone just needs to get off their arses and write a very simple tutorial for mining the alternate currencies for example, then there's the fucking programming tutorials where they leave bits out and don't explain why they've told you to do something and so on.

Like I said, I'm not asking you guys to simplify anything, I think Bitcoin has actually been explained quite well which I suspect is why most people use it but good luck with the other stuff, it amazes me that people went and made stuff like Litecoin and didn't think about how the average person was going to use it. Just make sure that when you do something or you ask them to change a setting etc. you explain why, or for example you can give absolute beginner explanations for people just starting out rather than assuming everyone knows how to code already.

As embarrassing as it is I must have spent a good few months trying to figure out why my photoshop paintings were so damn blurry then I discovered it was just the brush hardness because none of the painting tutorials I followed mentioned that's what you need to get nice clear images. That and a high enough resolution that wouldn't break your computer and cause photoshop to freeze, all just because people forgot to mention things like that to beginners.

Speaking from experience, when you enforce too many ridiculous rules and try to make people post the way you want rather than just leave them alone forum communities like this one usually become ghost towns with only a few staff here and there and their supporters who think everything fantastic. Seriously, if you think you know better then go and set up a forum yourself, don't go usurping someone else's just because you don't like how things are run.

The fuck?! LOL!

Oh no! You've thwarted my point with sarcasm and irrelevant attacks on the way I've posted!

There are two main options that America has when it comes to keeping the dollar, default on their debt or try to hyperinflate their way out of the problem which as we've seen with other countries who have tried hyperinflation it doesn't work. So therefore their only real option is to default on the debt, you could of course try austerity, but good luck staying in power with a huge percentage of the country wanting your head for selling them out. I'm terribly sorry if I've hurt the feelings of any American Imperialists lurking on these boards by telling them the truth because I know they're out there.

*facepalm* People need to read up on economics

If they could debase the USD quicker then that would mean the USA's infrastructure would all collapse and the Chinese could buy everything up that isn't government owned, it'd be the equivalent of an all out invasion but without the guns, everything would become far cheaper for them to buy and they could get all the physical stuff because the U.S would be forced to sell to them at a cheaper price.

The thing is you may be billionaires or millionaires in the dollar, the pound or the euro, but that's only because they've devalued the crap out of it and Bitcoin is simply an honest reflection of how screwed up the major currencies are, the only reason people can spend so much with Bitcoins is because it's held its value against the other currencies far better and the central banks are working hard to keep the illusion that their paper is worth anything going.

Once the major currencies lose their purchasing power and more and more people adopt Bitcoin everyone will probably be a billionaire or millionaire in paper money but in Bitcoin there will probably be only a select few who have thousands or millions of Bitcoin as was the case before with paper money when they didn't go into a frenzy with it.

All this will do is make people adopt Bitcoin entirely and other alternative currencies over paper money to avoid having to deal in paper at all, they're digging their own graves.

I've been wrapping my head around the whole thing for awhile now and it just seems like one of those bans/limitations to a much larger problem ( If it is as much as a problem as people seem to think ) but to me it does seem as if some miners are desperate to get there way an awful lot when it comes to Bitcoin even if it means wrecking who whole currency just so they can profit more in paper money. If you remember we had a load of them ranting about the hard limits put on Bitcoin too and ASIC miners, screaming about the end of the Bitcoin.

I'm no religious person by any means, but thank god for open source, no matter how this turns out there will now always be alternatives.

Because he's a self-righteous scumbag who thinks it's okay to spy on everyone else as long as it isn't him, but honestly, if people want to make all these horrible ideas why don't they go and make their own altcoin that supports it and get government sponsorship? Or are they not intelligent enough to do that?

These guys are on the same level as Ben Bernanke and Paul Krugman all they are is a bunch of paid spokespeople for various pro-imperialist and neo-keynesian ideologies, lots of different opinions on how it should be done but they all follow the same thing.

Well how dumb of me, I was trying to set up a CPU miner to mine on a GPU, I'm using GUIMiner now and it's working great.

Bumping, if it's okay guys I'd like some parameters to mess with because I tried searching around and couldn't find an answer for why I'm getting such low K/hashes on a 6970.

These are the first crazy people that have genuinely made me smile.

LOL! Thanks! That's what I get for not checking things over carefully.

Edit: It's working fine now, my only problem is I'm only getting at most 6.0 k/hash at best, so I'm probably going to have to look for some AMD settings somewhere >_<

I signed up to https://featherpool.com/ and I've tried following the instructions but the miner so far refuses to work, I get the following errors:




What my config file looks like:


I'm using the ScryptMiner GUI that they provide.

If you have your own website this is a good option

Why don't you guys practice shooting up satellites and unmanned probes into space first? Then move onto bigger projects when you have the funding, they'd be a lot cheaper to make and you wouldn't have to worry about deaths on your hands.

Now you're making me even more unsure of this plan the OP has, I'm happy as long as the amount of times a Bitcoin can be divided stays fixed though just like with the amount of whole Bitcoins there are. It'd be a bit like taking a cookie and giving every child in the world a crumb, eventually it's just going to be nothing.