(fiat)... inflation is minimal.

Our modern financial system(federal reserve) is a pretty darn amazing invention. Money is never wasted.

Now, we do have quite a bit of economic inequality right now, especially here in the United States, but that is less a factor of the financial system than the political system, and plenty of countries with similar financial systems to ours have more equitable distributions of wealth.

BitCoin alternatives

There are plenty of alternatives to BitCoin.

You can use regular money on your grid by way of PayPal and PayPal Micropayments. These modules are widely available for OpenSim and many hosting companies will set you up for little or no extra cost.

You can use the OMC currency from Virwox — which also supports BitCoin trading, if you want your customers to have the option to use BitCoin in some capacity.

And you can issue your own currency. That has some legal implications as well (see yesterday’s article Virtual Currency 101), and you have to be careful about how your set up your currency, but if you do it right you get to keep all the money you make from selling your currency in addition to providing a fun, low-cost way for your users to spend money in-world.

Hosting companies Dreamland Metaverse and TalentRaspel specialize in setting up custom virtual currencies for private grids — and the Website infrastructure needed to manage them. And the currency modules are also available, if you have the technical skills to set it up on your own.

Not java but check out https://github.com/weex/addrgen

^--- Aims to be a minimal single address generator and outputs random {"address","privkey"} pair with commented options to generate from a passphrase, existing privkey, and more.

This has nothing to do with ASIC, but just a side flaw of the current bitcoin implementation.

there is a high upfront cost to begin production, but once that's done, repeated production is dirt cheap on a chip by chip scale. hard to start up, but once going, easy to keep running.

  b) You should build in "p2pool" into the protocol to avoid pooling.

Sure I'l send you a design in a day or 2

Hmmh...but the problem is, that you would get a lot _more_ information, if you comment this code properly.

I checked the algorithm to create the addresses

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Technical_background_of_version_1_Bitcoin_addresses

and I guess the problem is simply, that it's complicated... :-)

So no matter how much comments you add, it's still complicated... :-)

//This is the base58 function

//We are now sha256(sha256()) hashing now

//RFIMID186 is happening here

xenland, that was fantastic!