Like I said, newbies.

Didn't know you were into snuffing farts. But, hate to break it to you, no one cares about your kinks, so keep them to yourself.

Silly newbies  

A fiat IS an IOU. I thought you were smart and not a dumbfuck?


I do not own Realcoin, not have any relation to either Realcoin nor Brock. So I'm not sure what you think I'm scamming about.

Honestly most people aren't that smart. They'll just think, "Oh look, now my cash can be digital like PayPal" and not even associate it with bitcoin.


That's the thing, they won't have to. If, as these guys are planning, their Realcoin gets picked up by banks, exchanging USD to/from Realcoin will be done right from your own bank account. Remember, if these guys get enough asset, audit, and bank backing for their coins, no one will have to bother actually redeeming Realcoins for USD. Banks, after getting some Realcoins from his company (or another bank) can just swap in an out of them for you, right within your own bank account, knowing that they can always redeem them back into real dollars if they ever need to.

And once people do the simple swap right from within their own private bank account, suddenly their fiat currency is unlinked from any specific bank, and can zip along the blockchain to be traded directly with other people for other things (unless the regulators get too pissy about not being able to monitor everything)


Brock is 100% behind bitcoin, which leads me to suspect that this is perhaps his attempt at making entry into bitcoin easier for the economy as a whole (which would be a bit difficult to shove through the tiny narrow centralized exchange "pipes" we have now). Also, remember how Doge used to be really hated by bitcoiners, until we realized that a lot of people who thought bitcoin was a joke ended up getting into Doge, thinking "at least it knows it's a joke," and then those people suddenly understood first-hand how cryptocurrencies worked, and "got" bitcoin?

Because it's my thread? There's the back button.

Seems like some dumb shit does't understand the definition or concept of "backing." Oh well. Guess I'll have to find some sage guru to ask questions of elsewhere.

Used to be a child actor for Disney movies. Played the young version of the coach in Mighty Ducks, among other movies. Mostly crappy ones. Disney, being Disney, paid him in residual profits, which, for Disney, is always $0. Then he worked with (or helped found?) a company that worked with game vitual currency in some fashion. I think they had people mine WoW gold or somesuch (I really need to read up on this). The company made them tons of money, they had some crazy parties in Cali, and some guy wo attended those parties later accused Brock's roommate, or landlord, or something, of sexual harassment. Then they tacked Brock to the suit as well. Eventually the whole thing was settled out of court without any convictions. Allegedly the same guy who accused them is going after some other wealthy actors now, with the same accusations, so there's counter-accusations that the accuser just just sues wealthy people for money or something. Since then Brock has been involved in practically everything related to Bitcoin, and has invested a whole ton of money into existing businesses and startups, apparently many of them privately (in secret). Now he has a ton of really really high level connections in businesses (and sometimes politics) all around the world, a ton of investment and interest in all things bitcoin, and a ton of money to make his life interesting. The main thing I remember hearing from Brock is that he likes chaos, and will even invest in things that are directly competing with his own businesses and ideas, even if it means he will lose money on them, just to see which idea/business will be better and win out. That and that he believes Bitcoin is his main priority and the best investment out there, supposedly not even allowing wealthy investors who want to invest in his own bitcoin businesses to invest until they buy bitcoin itself, telling them that they won't find anything better than just bitcoin, and that they better own and understand bitcoin before dropping money on any related businesses.

Perhaps you can learn me what a fiat is? Or learn me something about how Realcoin doesn't have some features of bitcoin that I apparently talked about? Because I'm all dumb as fuck and don't understand these things.

Since you're smart(ass), maybe you can explain to me what it is?

Crosspost from Reddit, because holyshit guys! You've really been falling apart in the last few weeks! And why the fuck am I the only one to realize the following?



We need a decentralized exchange! First step? Get USD into a digital decentralized form!

Remember the years worth of calls for a decentralized exchange? This call-to-action was raised every time an exchange collapsed somewhere, whether due to bank closures, or owners disappearing with people's money. Many attempts were made at this, yet, so far, none are functional or useful. The main roadblock to a decentralized Bitcoin-to-Fiat exchange was that it required BOTH sides of the exchange to be decentralized, but while Bitcoin was easy, since it came both digital and decentralized already, Dollars proved way harder. The eventual conclusion was that, if we could decentralize fiat, we wouldn't need Bitcoin to begin with, and thus, after the last exasperated cries for such an exchange coming shortly after the MtGox crash, the project of "Decentralized Exchange" somewhat fell by the wayside, losing support and enthusiasm.

But, lo and behold, someone finally put in the massive amount of time and resources to make the fiat side of the equation digital and decentralized! Perhaps not as decentralized as Bitcoin, but it seems more than good enough for our needs! With this project we FINALLY have all the building blocks to finally have a real, decentralized bitcoin exchange. Rejoice, bitcoinland! Your savior is... what? Brock Pierce? That guy that everyone has rumors and preconceptions about, and immediately makes conclusions that anything he touches automatically turns to crap? Well... yes. And hopefully bitcoinland will realize the importance of this move before it goes too deep into deriding Realcoin as "a stupid idea because it's inferior to Bitcoin," or into Brock's personal allegedly sordid past...

Nope. Not in our plans yet. Two operating systems and development environments are quite different, so doing a port would take up a considerable amount of work and time, which we can't spare right now. We wouldn't mind some developer picking up the project and doing it themselves, since Mycelium code is available on github, but so far no one offered.

Not really. A year ago we had about as many major pools as today, and we've had these approaching-51% issues then too (It was BTCJam at the time). And the year before (I think slush came really close).

Since he can supposedly levitate and fly, maybe he can get a job delivering packages for FedEx by air

Uh... <.<   >.>   "working on it..."

There is something called CoinJoin, which is basically a mixer that doesn't rely on a central server. Everyone creates a single transaction putting their money and taking it out at the same time, then passes that transaction around, and signs it with their own keys once they verify that each person will get their own money back. Once everyone checks that they're not getting robbed and signs the transaction, the transaction is broadcast, and everyone's coins get mixed all at once. No need for servers (other than to help potential mixees find each other), and no need to trust anyone. That's basically what DarkWallet implements for anonymity. But in order to do that, you need to be able to send change, or in this case output from your coins, to a new address, which means you need BIP32 HD Wallets. That's what Mycelium is working on implementing in their wallet right now. Once HD wallets are done, they should be able to get CoinJoin in as well, and then you'll have mixing right in your android wallet.

Mycelium just rolled out their new website, and by doing so revealed a whole slew of projects they're working on right now.

First of all, check out the new look of the BitcoinCard. Remember the ambitious BitcoinCard.org project we announced a few years ago? Well, it been worked on all these years, and the project is finally nearing completion (we have working "finalized" prototypes that look like what's in the picture). Some features had to be scaled down due to battery technology being inadequate still, but some new really awesome things were added as well (flexible screen, board, and battery, on a layer as thin as a sheet of paper). And despite this, we still plan to sell for cheaper than the other competing hardware wallets.

Then there's the Mycelium Entropy device that we announced last week. We are still raising money on Indiegogo and are only 30% done. We really need to reach our goal to be able to make the initial large order from the manufacturer, because the price difference between the number of units that gets us, and the number we can order without your help, is ridiculous So please help us spread the word.
Gateway ATM and the Merchant Payment System are projects that were so secret even I didn't really know about them, and they will be designed to work together with our BitcoinCard, to let you make payments, or update/broadcast transactions, even when you don't have any internet access.

And you guys already know about Mycelium Wallet for Android that let's you spend directly from paper wallets, which would work great together with Entropy, and the Local Trader feature, which is like LocalBitcoins, but more secure, more private/anonymous, and more convenient, being built right into your Wallet.

Anyone up to creating a Bitcoin100 banner?


From: Krystal Levine
Sent: May 13

Hi Rassah,

The new LTB site is up and we'd like to include a banner for Bitcoin100 in our charity spot rotation. The banner will be displayed on our main page and needs to be 155 pixels x 155 pixels.

Send it on over when you have a chance!

Thanks & Best,

Charities list to go over.

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From: Dr. Felix Kaegi
Sent: Mar 7
 
Hi Dmitry

The Global Peace Initiative Switzerland is a charitable, tax-exempt organization in Switzerland dedicated to promote peace in the world. Since approx. a month we are accepting Bitcoin donations. Here is our donation page (in German): http://www.friedensinitiative.ch/spenden

Can you include us on the Bitcoin 100 Charities list as a non-political, secular charity eligible to receive the Bitcoin equivalent of $1000?

Thank you.

Best wishes
Global Peace Initiative Switzerland

Felix Kaegi

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From: Sarah Jenislawski
Sent: Mar 28

Dear Mr. Murashchik,
 
The Mercatus Center at George Mason University is a non-partisan, 501(c)3 organization. As a university-based research center, the Mercatus Center advances knowledge about how markets work to improve people’s lives by training graduate students, conducting research, and applying economics to offer solutions to society’s most pressing problems. We accept donations in Bitcoin at  http://mercatus.org/donate and would like to take advantage of Bitcoin100’s offer to donate the equivalent of $1000 to charities accepting Bitcoin donations.
 
Thank you for your consideration. I have attached our IRS letter certifying our nonprofit status.
 
Best wishes,
 
Sarah Jenislawski

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From: John Chau
Sent: Apr 9

Dear Rassah and all of Bitcoin 100,
I currently work for a non-profit organization called More Than A Game that focuses on using soccer to give refugee youth the opportunity to grow in character, leadership, and teamwork through soccer camps, tournaments, and leagues. This summer, we'll be sending a team of soccer coaches over to Iraq to start up a sustainable soccer league in a Syrian refugee camp near Erbil. We recently began accepting BTC as an acceptable way of donating, and I was wondering if Bitcoin 100 would be interested in donating BTC to More Than A Game? Let me know if you are interested or would like more information!

Thanks!

John A. Chau
Outreach Coordinator

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From: Josh Fuller
Sent: Apr 9

Hello Rassah!

I'm a board member of a non-profit in South Korea.  We coordinate safety and cleaning initiates all over the country for the rock climbing community.  I've recently heard a podcast about the bitcoin 100 on the Ltb network.  I'm very interested in providing bitcoin as a donation option on our website and was curious about the donation promotion your group is currently doing.  The site is KOTRi.org

Please let me know what actions we can take to move forward.

All the best,

Josh Fuller

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From: Jonas Vollmer
Sent: May 8

Dear Mr. Rassah,

I was wondering if three organizations that I am involved with, Effective Altruism Switzerland, the Giordano Bruno Foundation and the Foundation Research Institute would be eligible for your program?

None of them currently accept bitcoin. If they begin to accept bitcoin will they be eligible to receive the bitcoin equivalent of $1,000?

Yours sincerely,

Jonas Vollmer

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Hi guys. I'm, uh, back. Sorry I was away for a while. We are seriously short on manpower here. I was out for a few months, dealing with the job transition to Mycelium, attending a few conferences, and traveling, and... nothing at all got done. My fault, since I'm the e-mail point guy, but I need to change that. Anyone else want to join a mailing list so that solicitors can email a bunch of us at the same time, and whoever is free can answer them? (I have 40 e-mails to go through).
We also need someone to go over and verify submitted charities. Things like whois info, when they started accepting bitcoins, if they are an actual charity, etc. I need help guys. I can't do ALL of this all by myself.

*bump* We're about a third of the way there, and we still need your help. Please let others who don't use Reddit or bitcointalk know about this.