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841  Other / Off-topic / Re: Your time machine is here...what year would you like? on: April 19, 2014, 12:22:26 AM
Actually Stephen hawkings claims you can only travel into the future and not into the past. Sad

I'v heard that, has something to do with speed

in space if you achieve high enough speeds time goes by faster and you remain unaffected

something like that
really interesting though
Yes he said you have to almost attain the speed of light but he also said it's impossible to travel at light speed it's another fail safe of the universe.

but you must attain almost the speed of light, not the speed of light Smiley


I think he said it would take just 76 years to almost attain the speed of light.
Woho, given the the lifetime expectancy is increasing with an alarming rate we might after all live to see that. If his predictions are somewhat correct of course. There are so many unpredictable things that could affect it though.
842  Other / Off-topic / Re: How long have you been logged in for? on: April 19, 2014, 12:20:58 AM
Total time logged in: 8 days, 14 hours and 2 minutes


Total time logged in: 30 days, 18 hours and 20 minutes.     Cheesy
Achievement unlocked: No Real Life Cheesy
I cannot understand what you want to say what achievement unlocked ?

I've been registered for like a year and a half longer and this guy has more than me. I have 26 days, 21 hours and 40 minutes.

Achievement unlocked: No Real Life...
Login time isn't really an indicator of how long time you've spent here though, some people might have their computer on all the time, staying logged in basically 24/7
843  Other / Off-topic / Re: Fuck Summer! on: April 19, 2014, 12:19:48 AM
Well at least for some people(like me)  we don't have school this summer.. and that's just great ..
Holidays and free time sure are the best part of summer. Smiley
844  Economy / Gambling / Re: FairProof.com - the simplest provably fair bitcoin multi-lottery (instant) on: April 19, 2014, 12:18:59 AM
Your minimal bet NOW is 0.0001btc.
try to win more bitcoins with fairproof

Am I the only one having problems connecting to the website? I just get directed to Default Parallels Plesk Panel page. It happened some time before with CoinAd, but I seemed to be the only one having the issue.
845  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: any good bitcoin trader accepting PayPal? on: April 19, 2014, 12:16:57 AM
I see many ppl on localbitcoins uses it.

It's safe as long as the person who sends it is trustworthy, but most who appear trustworthy end up scamming eventually. All you have to do is complain to PayPal that you didnt issue the payment and you get your money back. As easy as that.

What to say to paypal, someone hacked my account or what?
Something like it, just as long as it seems like you personally didn't make the payment they'll cancel it.
846  Other / Off-topic / Re: Activity Score on: April 19, 2014, 12:16:10 AM
Meh, as soon as you become member~ you won't even notice the forum restrictions. It's like, 28 sec posting limit etc, really isn't noticeable unless you're deliberately trying to spam, why now anyone would do that.
There are a few people who post systematically, open a ton of threads write replies and then review before clicking post on all of them.
I do doubt that this affects the average user though.
Ah yeah that's a point of course, I've never done that myself, I tried once and ended up double posting and what not, was terribly confusing.
I just open one at the time, and therefore don't notice the restrictions. But I get your point.
847  Other / Off-topic / Re: Do you sleepwalk/sleeptalk? on: April 19, 2014, 12:15:00 AM
Sleepwalk? No
Sleeptalk? No
Do you sleep? No

Cheesy

Well that doesn't seem healthy at all! How do you recharge your internal batteries?
848  Other / Off-topic / Re: Ban User That Calls Himself 'counter' on: April 19, 2014, 12:13:46 AM
Is this thread supposed to make me laugh or cry?
Not sure if it's an alt account, a lunatic or a troll.
849  Economy / Services / Re: GAW MINERS PAYS FOR YOUR SIGNATURE >>> HIGH RATES 50posts = 0.08BTC on: April 19, 2014, 12:11:41 AM
We had a discussion about it earlier in the thread. This campaign has no pay day, every member gets paid 30 days after signing up and we have over 70 people here, so I'd need to work full time to process everything weekly.
I read all matters you already posted but still peoples asking too much about these then do post these in different colors so may be its easy for understand user Red for warning or restrictions and Green for achievement its better for understanding
I added something in the red, hope it's clear now.
It got very clear indeed, good addition to the OP.
850  Other / Off-topic / Re: Do you sleepwalk/sleeptalk? on: April 19, 2014, 12:10:56 AM
How am I supposed to know this, I'm asleep when it's happening? Can't trust anyone else either!

record yourself during night, once you will eventually catch yourself talking or walking around Cheesy

I've been told by family that I speak quite a lot in my sleep, however never anything intelligible, haha.
851  Other / Off-topic / Re: What do you HATE most? on: April 19, 2014, 12:09:42 AM
What was that? It's a bedbug. It doesn't feel like a bedbug! Okay, it's NOT a bed bug. ....L-l-l-let's go back to saying its' a bedbug.
How big are the bedbugs where you live? Could a penguin really be mistaken for one? Shocked

It was a quote (probably not word for word) from an old famous SNL skit with Adam Sandler. I think it was called "canteen boy" and basically Adam Sandler was a boy scout and his troop leader was making a pass at him. Watch it I'm sure it's on youtube.

When they started talking about the penguin going in the guy's sleeping bag to molest him, the first thing that popped into my head was canteen boy.
Aha, thanks for clarifying. I missed that reference!
852  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Best way to explain bitcoin isnt "fake"? on: April 19, 2014, 12:09:02 AM
is there a non stoner version of that lol
No, apparently Bitcoins are still all about drug trade and Silkroad.
Yeah or perhaps you could read the other suggestions made in this thread. Wink

Don't forget about dirty money, money laundering, goods trafficking, mafia, and all that BS.
Yes well. I know all that, and it's what the media wants people to believe. They're not interesting in investigating and researching Bitcoins to actually find out what it is, they're interesting in scaring people with headlines about the devil-currency.

Wrong, that's not what the media wants people to believe, it's what the governments want.
Hm?
I don't know where you are from, perhaps the american government, and the Chinese government care about Bitcoins, but I don't think that goes for the whole world. Every article written, in mainstream media about bitcoins mentions that it's a currency used primarily to trade drugs, weapons etc.

You can't say that it's "wrong" or something new that the media live of scaring people, with headlines about how video games make you violent, the new diseases of the year, etc etc.

of course.  Mainstream media is a mouthpiece for the governments.  Or didn't you get the memo?
Be that as it may, the statement that it's what the media wants ( be them a tool of the government or not ) is still correct, which was my point all along.
853  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: will the bitcoin reach $1000 one day...? on: April 19, 2014, 12:08:19 AM
As I see matters, holders who can be scared into selling have already sold so I don't expect them to drive prices down from here.  Those (like me) who buy as the market moves lower are now mostly fully invested, so we're not putting very much new money into the market now to drive prices higher. 

That leaves as the primary mover of price the interplay between miners and new investors. 

Miners will not make new coins available for less than the price of electricity to mine them plus amortized hardware cost, so I don't see miners selling coins for under $400-$450 anytime soon; under $450 they can't pay for their existing hardware, and under $300 they can't even pay for the electrical power.   Some of them will gamble by pointing mining rigs at the altcoin markets to try to get some leverage on that expense rate, but the underlying equilibrium is driven by Bitcoin.  As measured in Bitcoin, the alts are essentially an artificial options market where every winner has an equal and opposite loser.  So there's not a long-term winning strategy there unless you're just plain better than average at picking the right time to mine the right alt, and because "better than average" implies the existence of equal and opposite "worse than average" the effect of alt gambling on bitcoin prices ought to be neutral.  So, based on the miners' expenses to mine, I'm seeing the current price as a supply side bottom and an excellent buying price.

So, finally, the remaining potential price mover is new investors.  New investors can't drive the price down, but they can drive it up.  How much? How fast?  It depends on what they want to do and how much bitcoin they need. 

I'm particularly interested in new investors who want to use it as a payment medium because that kind of investment gives bitcoin a sustainable value.  But they're a bit hard to predict in terms of effect.  The amount of bitcoin they need is inversely proportional to the speed at which they can move it around their systems, and although the ten-minute blocktime does impose a "soft" limit, they're already quite experienced moving fiat currencies around in conditions that are very similar to bitcoin moving faster than that limit.  The problem with that is, when moving bitcoin around faster than that speed limit, they don't realize any advantage from bitcoin's decentralized security network, so at those speeds it's not any better for them than dealing in fiat.  They want to move the coins around *slower* than the blockchain speed limit if possible, to mitigate risks and minimize expenses allowing them to realize an advantage from bitcoin, and that means they need more coins. 

There are also traditional investors who want to use it as a store of value.  They are drastically more dangerous in terms of making the market unstable.  The amount of coin they need is easier to guess at, but they're sweating bullets about SEC regulations, potential lawsuits, and repercussions.  Bitcoin is a fairly small and very artificial market.  If somebody who has put together a mutual fund including bitcoins moves ten billion dollars into this market this week, of course the bitcoin holdings of the early holders will double, largely at the expense of later investors.  And the following week, they can do the same thing again with more money providing a handsome profit to those who invest this week, and so on... moving the bitcoin price up at a superexponential rate until it collapses horribly and they wind up facing lawsuits about Ponzi scams and SEC fines about market manipulation.   They want in, but they are terribly afraid of the results of the Ponzi-like effect they'll have on the market when they get in.  They need a strategy that gives them some kind of agreed-on rules about how to get into the market without becoming its primary price drivers and therefore inevitably inflating-and-collapsing it.

Anyway, I don't know how they're going to work it out.  If the store-of-value investors adopt a strategy of holding no more than, say, a tenth of what the payment-processing investors hold, then money will enter the market at some reasonably controlled rate and they probably won't become the effectively-a-Ponzi-scam that they justly fear becoming.  But I don't know if they can do that, and whether they can or not I don't know whether they can accurately assess their ability to do that.


That is one wall of text!
Protip for next time, add a tl;dr.
Thankfully Kiki did that for you already! Cheesy
But it was a good read, thank you.
854  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: I told you. Gamblex was a scam ! on: April 19, 2014, 12:07:09 AM
Why the fuck do you take money out of people before your product even exist ?


How to stop a scam for dummies :

- Altcoins section
- IPO
- Noob account
- Noob account investors
- No proof of any work
- No proof of skills from devs
- OP only posting about how much money he received and stress you to send before the IPO end
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Does someone scammed you on this forum?
Basically this is a good thought. But another way to view it is just to not trust people that you have no reason to trust. Remember it's real money we're handling, and it tends to make people greedy and prepared to scam others.
855  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How to achieve a million dollar turnover in 10 minutes with bitcoin! on: April 19, 2014, 12:05:20 AM
That was actually terrible. You've ruined my day.
Did you actually try it though? I doubt you did!
856  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: *Free btc* win BTC everyweek with surf4bitcoin.com [1.42195168 BTC] on: April 19, 2014, 12:04:42 AM
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20 March 2014 : We don't offers anymore for registration, only for drawing each week.
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To me that means they're not open for new registrations.

@mer2329 how can you say they are still paying this giveaway you have any resources about this
Indeed, just seems like a newbie posting for the sake of posting. False information tho, shame on him.
thank you, im going to add everybody was/is (depending on the poster) a n00b at one time (i myself still consider myself a n00b @ bitcoin, and i wont deny it) and inorder to get proper support for bfgminer (as an example) you need a minimum number of posts to post in the proper thread (i dont know the number of posts)
Yes yes, no blame put on you. We've all been there and so on, and no harm done. Smiley
857  Other / Off-topic / Re: loose != lose on: April 19, 2014, 12:03:52 AM
Definitely is a word that people can never seem to spell.
Luckily this forum has a built in spell correct! Cheesy
But it's a hard word for some reason.
858  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Stay safe. on: April 19, 2014, 12:03:22 AM
I am retiring from this thread. I will be giving permission to escrow.ms for the new OP.

Thank you all for your generous help.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=576036.msg6285515#msg6285515
Thanks for everything you've done here, it's been really useful information spread and I'm sure lots of people have benefited from it.

Thanks again! Smiley
859  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Ron Paul says Bitcoin is not "True Money". on: April 19, 2014, 12:01:54 AM
My question is why does this matter?

Posted From bitcointalk.org Android App
Bitcoin getting mentioned in the media is always interesting. It doesn't change anything, but it's still interesting to discuss.

also Ron Paul is a rare political figure, one of the very few who actually had the best interests of
the American people in mind, so his opinion is generally respected among a certain segment
of the population.
Ah, I can't really say anything about that as I'm not American myself and really don't have any knowledge about it. If that's the case it might be a bit disappointing that he's making statements about something he clearly doesn't know a lot about.

No, Like I said, and others have said here:  He probably said it with fingers crossed behind his back, nod nod wink wink.
Excuse my ignorance in that case but what on earth would he earn from doing so in the first place then? Show the Bitcoin community that he knows without being too obvious?
860  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Best way to explain bitcoin isnt "fake"? on: April 19, 2014, 12:00:44 AM
is there a non stoner version of that lol
No, apparently Bitcoins are still all about drug trade and Silkroad.
Yeah or perhaps you could read the other suggestions made in this thread. Wink

Don't forget about dirty money, money laundering, goods trafficking, mafia, and all that BS.
Yes well. I know all that, and it's what the media wants people to believe. They're not interesting in investigating and researching Bitcoins to actually find out what it is, they're interesting in scaring people with headlines about the devil-currency.

Wrong, that's not what the media wants people to believe, it's what the governments want.
Hm?
I don't know where you are from, perhaps the american government, and the Chinese government care about Bitcoins, but I don't think that goes for the whole world. Every article written, in mainstream media about bitcoins mentions that it's a currency used primarily to trade drugs, weapons etc.

You can't say that it's "wrong" or something new that the media live of scaring people, with headlines about how video games make you violent, the new diseases of the year, etc etc.
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