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More news coming in next days.
Any news you can share yet? Particularly I'm looking for info on how to transfer shares from BTCT over to the CT account. |
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You might want to post this question over at webmasterworld. There are a bunch of SEO types there that would probably know about the reliability of the stats coming from ahrefs and also whether or not there were any recent changes to how those stats are calculated. [edit]You will want to make the question more generic by not including the bitcoin.org url[/edit] |
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Let's hear some ideas bro.
Pack the bitcoins in mayonnaise. No wait, better yet - Feed mayonnaise to the bitcoins! |
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The term "shutdown" that is being used for this charade is about as accurate as any other term used by politicians or 24x7 news outlets in need of a crisis to fill air time. The givernment is not going to shut down. Remember, these are government people that are left to determine the meaning of "non-essential services." What high-level, career government official or politician has ever believed that there are any non-essential government services? Some offices will be closed to cause political pain and some will run on reduced staff and/or hours to make a public showing.
I am still amazed though that the Senate democrats are willing to "bring the government to a stand-still" (their phrase, not mine) over one piece of funding.
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I have never been sent to jail for any of the al-qaeda bitcoin payments I've received. This is in stark contrast with the two life sentences I served for the previous PayPal payments they sent to me.
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I find the US corporate response to all of this to be intriguing. Their rhetoric is that Obamacare is pure evil but their actions indicate they are extremely excited to dump their employees into the program. Their actions are virtually guaranteeing a full goverment takeover of healthcare in the US.
The companies certainly aren't dumping their employees into the exchanges because they think it is good for the employees. It is much more expensive for them to cover the employee with a qualifying plan than it is to pay the fine of a few thousand dollars per employee. Jobs with low entry skill requirements in low margin industries are the ones being hit hardest by this trend. Jobs with higher requirements aren't as vulnerable since the employers are using the insurance benefit as a recruiting tool. Prior to passage of the law, critics of the bill that predicted this behavior were accused of using scare tactics to defeat the bill. |
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I have read through most of this thread from Sept 23rd onward and have not found answers to these questions (but saw them asked a few times):
- Will you be removing the .0025 reserve limit? It is trivial to each of your customers, but there is no longer any need to have it in place. Keeping it in place seems like a money grab as you shut down the site.
- Will you be setting the transaction fee to 0? It is the right thing to do.
- Why wasn't an email sent to all BTC-TC customers? You have all of the email addresses and should be communicating major announcements (like we're halting trading and closing) directly.
The first has been answered several times over the course of the last year or so, as some have pointed out. Sorry it's not in the FAQ. I'll plug it in if I can find the time after I have caught up with all of the ASICMINER-PT transfer requests, manual withdrawal requests, aforementioned mass email, and other time consuming things.  Setting the transaction fee to zero is not the right thing to do. The right thing to do is to try to raise enough funds to pay the company's bills. I've already "loaned" the company over 500 BTC. Chances are it's going to take another 500 to close things out. An email will be going out as soon as I can write an "email everyone" program. Easier said than done, since you can't just shotgun them out. Most providers start blocking after about the tenth email. I know it's easy to forget, but this thing is just me, myself, and I, run in the few hours a day I get after my day job responsibilities. Cheers. Thanks for the response. I know you've got a lot going on and are feeling pressure from everyone. I greatly appreciate that you're remaining responsive here in spite of everything else you need to do. |
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Sorry - I got side tracked by people attacking me for asking questions and forgot to include - I think the post referenced by Carnth adequately answers the question about the .0025 reserve. |
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Its 25cents please get over yourself, you are not getting it back bc it requires a backend change and can result in people overdrawing. Read before 2 days ago!
No, you fuck yourself. I know it's only a few cents and said as much in the post. And no, after spending 30 minutes or so reading through posts, I'm not spending any more time to read old posts. The point was that keeping those small reserve fees from thousands of customers is a money grab. If he had a running FAQ about the shutdown then I wouldn't even have had to make my first post that seems to have offended you. I think you're a little overestimating the size of BTCT. Even with a thousand users (with an actual balance) thats 2.5BTC in total. That's nothing compared to the network fees the site has paid over the time. Or did you remember paying any fees for withdrawal? You're just a little butt hurt over the losses you made the past days and you want at least something in return. Like I said, it is a money grab. It looks bad on their behalf and it is for what, a few dollars? This is at a time when he should be making every possible effort to demonstrate that he is trying to make things right. Losses? Since I haven't sold any shares and the companies I hold aren't going down I haven't lost anything. And for a third time, if he had been maintaining an FAQ on the matter I wouldn't even have had to ask the question. I tried finding answers to the questions prior to posting them. But after 30 minutes of reading recent posts in the thread I didn't happen on the posts that answered them. |
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Its 25cents please get over yourself, you are not getting it back bc it requires a backend change and can result in people overdrawing. Read before 2 days ago!
No, you fuck yourself. I know it's only a few cents and said as much in the post. And no, after spending 30 minutes or so reading through posts, I'm not spending any more time to read old posts. The point was that keeping those small reserve fees from thousands of customers is a money grab. If he had a running FAQ about the shutdown then I wouldn't even have had to make my first post that seems to have offended you. |
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Also, to avoid having to repeatedly answer (or ignore) the same questions, you might want to create a shutdown-faq page on your website and then add a link to it in the 1st post of this thread.
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I have read through most of this thread from Sept 23rd onward and have not found answers to these questions (but saw them asked a few times):
- Will you be removing the .0025 reserve limit? It is trivial to each of your customers, but there is no longer any need to have it in place. Keeping it in place seems like a money grab as you shut down the site.
- Will you be setting the transaction fee to 0? It is the right thing to do.
- Why wasn't an email sent to all BTC-TC customers? You have all of the email addresses and should be communicating major announcements (like we're halting trading and closing) directly.
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Oh crap - Is that the NOC list? |
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Heard on the radio a while ago in some talk about government costs: I know it's impossible to really grasp the idea of 500 million dollars. But if you put it into terms of what that money could buy in everyday life it is easier. So just picture 500 million items from the dollar menu at McDonalds. (Yes, the guy was joking around.) |
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You don't mention what type of position you are applying for and whether or not it is an entry level position. But if an interview ends after only one question, then maybe you are applying for a position to which you are very over qualified or under qualified. Obviously there's a lot of advice available on interviewing. You've probably heard some of this, but here are some basic tips that come to mind: - You should know something about the company and the position before the interview. Read up on it and be ready to use a small amount of it in your conversation with the interviewer.
- It's YOUR interview. Be sure you cover topics that you feel are important to helping you land the job.
- Not all interviewers know how to conduct an interview. So again, make sure you cover the ground that you want to cover.
- Come prepared with a few questions about the position. What's a typical day like? Could you describe the team I'll be working with? Bring a pen and a small pad of paper with your questions.
- Take a few notes. It doesn't need to be lot.
- Don't ask about the pay and benefits in a 1st interview unless the interviewer opens the door. Even then you should go lightly and just touch the basics.
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I'd like to see short spots that show off the state of fiat currencies. No need to mention bitcoin directly. There are other organizations that might be willing to contribute. Something like this near the end of the game would be nice. (Switch Euros and other currencies for Dollars in the appropriate regions): Dollars printed by U.S. since kickoff today:
xxx,xxx
Dollars printed by U.S. since 1/1/2014
xx,xxx,xxx,xxx
Total U.S. dollars in circulation:
xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx
Total U.S. dollars backed by gold or silver:
0
(I don't know what the actual numbers would be, so "x" above is obviously a placeholder for what would be researched values.) This comparison would be a bit silly. How many satoshis have been mined since 2009? How does the rate at which Satoshis have been mined from 2009 - 2013 compare to the rate of increase in real dollar (M2) supply? And, last I checked, bitcoin is backed by neither gold or silver. And, obviously, the bitcoin source code can, has, and will be modified in the future by the development team. Hence, there is no guarantee that mintage will be capped or that the rate of production will stay constant. The point is not to promote bitcoin, but to help people wake up to the state of fiat currencies. Nobody thinks bitcoin is backed by gold, but I would wager that many people (maybe most people?) believe that the U.S. dollar is. Sure, a lot of bitcoins have been mined since 2009, but the rate is fixed and the overall number of them is fixed. The dollar and other fiat currencies are inflationary because the governments can just keep those printing presses running 24x7. You can't put a complete bitcoin education into a TV spot. However you can drive home a couple points that will cause people to ask more questions. You won't convert anyone with a TV ad. But you can get them to ask questions about something they've always taken for granted. The overall strategy should be to get people to search for more information. |
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