Lol...you're joking, right? That's how you write in nerd speak. This absolutely in no way implies more than one person wrote it. There are many subtleties to true nerd culture...it takes one to know one indeed! For remedial reading, see: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majestic_plural |
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From Satoshi's white paper reference section #2:
H. Massias, X.S. Avila, and J.-J. Quisquater, "Design of a secure timestamping service with minimal
trust requirements," In 20th Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux, May 1999.
This is an unusual Citation format. It's more common to cite the proceedings of the meeting (which are published after the meeting) rather than the meeting itself. To me this implies that Satoshi was at this meeting, most likely as a presenter or because the meeting was held nearby to his academic institution, and he kept his copy of the meeting program.
There's no way there was a zillion people at this meeting. I suspect one could, with minimal difficulty, compile a short list of names of people who were at the symposium. Satoshi's name would be on that list.
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To answer the Q in your thread title: No.
How long have you known Dashjr?
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Great while it lasted!
Still over $1000. Dip under $40 has to stick for more than an hour before it counts... :-) I concur. Great to be back! |
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Funny you should mention Amazin and pizza...you're wrong in each point by the way. You can buy pizza with Bitcoin and BitPay just figured out how to provide service for sellers with goods in an amazon warehouse.
You should try reading the first page of threads in the main forum (this one). You might learn something that will help assuage your fears.
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"The incentive not to purchase more real goods increases as the currency appreciates because every unit of currency not spent now will be able to purchase even more real goods in the future. Hence, people avoiding spending now except for essential goods. This inevitably results in massive deflation and eventually destroys the economy, rendering the accumulated appreciation worthless." "> Do you have a single rational standard of what's "productive" and "not productive"? Yes. Trade is productive, it is the highest civic virtue. Hoarding is not productive, it makes us all poorer." "Appreciating currencies are disastrous for any economy stuck with them, which is why we're no longer on the gold standard." And tons of other pseudo-intellectual bullshit about why "people should use depreciating currencies because it's good for society". Source: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5323867Nice selection. Very relevant (unlike the following poser). |
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Unresponsive trade API, general slow website performance causing a clusterfuck.
Oh. My bad. I thought the crash had to do with a very large number of sell orders. Mods -- lock and move please. |
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The OP makes a good point. I think I need a plan. Ya never know, my stash might be very valuable someday. It would be a shame to have it lost with my brain.
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Perhaps this thread should be in the meta forum, but I think that we should have a Dev tag for those who have made code contributions to BitcoinQt. I was browsing the test site http://174.142.20.146/en/development and I noticed the names of several people that had made commits to the code repository...and I had no idea. It's one thing to toil without compensation, but a whole different thing to toil in obscurity. We should celebrate their talent and efforts...thoughts? |
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Wow this is great seeing as he could have just ran off with a load of money.
He never took money during the bet...no one even had to prove they had the number of BTC (or XBT I guess) they were betting (I suppose some betters pulled a Matthew in that respect as well, but we will never know). |
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I'm new to ripple...what's this about a bot?
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sent you 50 XRP  Thanks! I'll put you in my contacts...and then...we'll see what I can do! |
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I'm in!
I'm also willing to run a server to support the network when ready.
I can't follow directions...doh!
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I'm new to ripple...what's this about a bot?
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I see the block size (and frequency) as much as economic rules as the total number of coin is. I disagree with Satoshi that it is just something that we can 'change.'
I'm part of that sticky group of people that WILL NOT accept a larger block size. I doesn't matter what other people say; or the reasons that they give. Frankly, I would reject (with my full node, and SPV nodes) any non-bitcoin chain. Any block breaking the 1mb/10min avg limit will not be a bitcoin for me.
However I am not worried. I know that Bitcoin will be just fine with a 1mb block limit; as MarkM so eloquently put is, we need to get over having only one chain, but rarther think of having a ecosystem of hundreds of merge-mined chains that all fullfill different roles.
One of the reasons, (there are many), that I work on Open Transactions is that I believe that we need secure and cryptographically auditable off-chain transactions. Making the need for more than 7tx/s on the Bitcoin block chain much (completely?) negated.
The best part is that I am in control of this problem. Even if every other person moves to larger (or more frequent) blocks, I know my bitcoins are safe, and for-me bitcoin will keep-on working. (well other than the attack of a drastic lower hash-rate maybe)
So yes, I think that there is AT LEAST a key 10% of the Bitcoin user population (including me) that will veto any such changes.
I would consider running two nodes...one for the slow Bitcoin with tiny block chain and one for world dominating megachain Bitcoin...there may be a use for each type of Bitcoin. |
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There is a thread on summing up all known inaccessible coins...if memory serves me correctly, the sum was roughly on the order of 100,000.
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The OP's idea is well thought out...but is this a good idea? I mean, recreating banks? Seriously?
What the hell happened to revolutionary ideas? Now people want to recreate banks? What about replacing the financial infrastructure? Why are we talking about supplementing B&M banks with their digital equivalent?
I will never support an artificial code based highly restrictive limit on the Bitcoin economy. I argue the miners will by far be the most screwed if the limit does not increase; if the limit never increases, then once the limit is reached, there's no reason for new users to join.
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...if the bitcoin rules don't change, Bitcoin will be renamed to UselesslySlowCoin, and all the dolts thinking they're gonna cash in on transaction fees for UselesslySlowCoin will realize they have killed their cash cow via artificial scarcity...
So much for the revolutionary thinking that makes Bitcoin Bitcoin...I feel rather harsh disdain for those who wish to kill society's chance at having an open and robust payment network that can actually replace banks because they think they scan squeeze a few more dollars out of someone. A limit of 7 transactions per second will mean BITCOIN WILL NEVER REPLACE BANKS! In fact, it will never replace PayPal.
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