bank is against everything gold.

seems that the market doesn't care too much.

support you!

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Gold is not published by any centralized organization, just as is bitcoin (what gold is different from bitcoin is that gold is in fact unlimited). In this way, I think bitcoin is gold 2.0.

But with only gold and without bank, without note, the economy is constrained. That's why we need some center in a decentralized world.

I think most people tend to swing from one extreme to another.

In fact, a decentralized world with many power limited centers is ideal.

... which is the very reason why we deem it as a true revolution.

In fact, I have a foundation currently active offline in beijing.

I found a fact that most developers need less money (fiat or btc) than proper ideas.

A reliable bitcoin related business needs several factors combined:

Trust worthy (which is the hardest to find)
Competent (in a specific area)
Well-rounded (cross-demain knowledges)
With faith to bitcoin (speculators are dangerous)

Conclusion? Merely a foundation is not of solution.

laws... traditional laws are hardly practical in virtual worlds. Try to observe the status quo: did laws successfully prevent the bittorrent file sharing?

reddit has a reward system for authors, translators, and sharers?

Hackernews ( https://news.ycombinator.com ) is a clean solution for aggregating, rating, updating news.

Do we need a bitcoin edition of hackernews？

If we do need this, on the top of a hackernews clone, I want to establish a donating mechanism to reward authors, translators, sharers, which will guarantee the quality of materials.

Every story should assign an wallet address to receive donations from readers.
* Platform gets 10%
* the sharer gets 10%
* the translator gets 30%
* the author gets the rest.

and a system to reward submitters by the quality of stories they submit, and punish plagiarism.

I'm working on it. hope it could be online within two weeks.

any suggestion?

People are always hesitate to fully accept bitcoin because of lack of trust.

Ripple tries to solve this by developing a p2p IOU mechanism. (..., which seems to me an immature solution).

However, it is often neglected that a trust involves two parts: trust between users and bitcoin, or trust among bitcoin users..

As for trust between users and their preferred currency, no solution is better than bitcoin. Bitcoin solved the problem of "double spending" by creating a universal account book (block) with p2p network, by which books, coins, transactions are all unable to counterfeit. No currency in the history does that. Therefore, bitcoin is now perhaps the single currency that users can absolutely trust.

What is uncomfortable is the trust among currency users, which, in my opinion, is in fact out of realm of technology. No technology can force a fraud to be a honest individual, or vice versa. For centuries, people have been trying to solve this problem, by building bank, issuing credit cards, and only end up to little.

In a word, people just blame bitcoin with a flaw that doesn't belong to bitcoin at all.

However, there is a possible solution: time. One day, when there're enough users who openly use bitcoin with their true identities and do not care about alleged "anonymity of bitcoin", trust would be prevalent.

Japan.

essentially I think namecoin is nearest solution for this purpose.

 

what bitcoin-related startups need least is fiat money.

to OP: if you cannot develop by yourself, then don't try a bitcoin-related startup, because by doing so you give others opportunities to cheat you. Don't testing people.

I saw a chance that we could end tyrannies.

Around 210 A.C, in the East, a tyranny, Qin Shi Huang ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Shi_Huangdi ) made two move:

1. Burning of books and burying of scholars ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_books_and_burying_of_scholars )
2. Standardizing the Chinese units of measurements, including the currency. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Shi_Huangdi#Economy )

Qin Shi Huang was perhaps the foremost ancestor of all tyrannies.

The development of the Internet has already broken through the information control to a largest extent. Until the emergence of the bitcoin, monetary restriction is the last weapon that a tyranny holds. But a p2p distributed currency may well render that weapon to be no longer in force.    

At first, bitcoin was merely an idea, proposed by an anonymous and well-gifted programmer, but soon it became an implementing social experiment ($1), and now bitcoin is becoming a social practice participated by many.

I'd like to see in the future bitcoin as de facto.

I think we need more time to see the reactions of the reality.

If you embed this feature into a wallet client, that means the feature is only available to a portion of bitcoin users, which is a limit...

works like namecoin?

Yeap. Ideas are cheap.

I confront a difficulty when I initiated the charity donation for Lushan Earthquake (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=181336): somebody reposted the text and replaced the receiving address with his own.

It's not the first time it occurred to me. I've once posted a receiving address in one of my article, which was quite popular, however, I lost that wallet, while the post were being reposted all the time.

Therefore, I want a service that can bind my bitcoin receiving address to my email address, which is almost "permanent" to me. With this service, I might change the bitcoin receiving address, but for others, what they only need to do is to send bitcoin to my email address.

Is this useful to you? If the idea is viable, I'll try to make it.

Thanks for your suggestions.

到时候币值会涨的……不能拿现在的价格计算那时候的收益哦。这问题两年前大伙就担心了。