I was about to say something about this and Bitcoin, but there's only so many articles you can comment on before you end up sounding repetitive :S why don't people learn from their mistakes, ever?

Sorry, should re-phrase that, the governments you seem to support lol

It's ironic that you don't seem to trust these kind of people yet they're the very people who are running the governments that you support in the first place.

Okay, if I were a super villain what you would do to cause a widespread panic with a virus at least is not just make one, you would target the most basic of food, so anything with ingredients like flour or milk, so you attack the wheat farms, the cattle farms, water and so on, anything which people generally rely on, then the amount of disease that spreads from that because it infects the humans that ingest it would be catastrophic and of course the amount of panic the infections would cause would spread everywhere making it extremely difficult for the government to pinpoint the source.

It would actually be disturbingly easy to take down a western country because of both how centralised and disorganised everything is in the government most of the time.

I wouldn't mine Bitcoins purely for profit because it just isn't consistently profitable like real work would be if you look at the general math and I wouldn't get ASIC's until they're actually released because the pre-orders seem like a scam to me and the reasoning behind it all is a bit flimsy in my view. If you're going to get into Bitcoin, have an alternative plan so make sure you can use the computer for something else other than mining because otherwise you'll just waist money, it looks like a pretty acceptable gaming computer as well as other things though.

It's a difficult one, there are no written rules at all on whether you should or shouldn't use a real name but the problem with the internet is whatever you say or do is publicly broadcast across the world, you certainly have to think every time you post somewhere that you're on national television so if you do something that makes you popular etc. what you're going to say will get you noticed. It sounds paranoid but honestly I've had some weird moments with people on the internet so you do have to be careful with what you post.

Don't be like those poor idiots who post their entire information on facebook etc. where you've had several hundred people coming to their parties and stuff because they've forgotten to make sure the message is private, I'm okay about people searching up this username etc. and in fact it helps me because I want to be known so people will be interested in any work I do but if you want to stay hidden just be careful. The worst part is when you've got all these damn companies trying to data farm you and demand all sorts of real information about you even if their products are only digital, I suppose it's for tax information and everything but its well known that a lot of these internet companies are selling it off to third parties like marketing companies etc.

The short version of it is, if you value your privacy on this username, don't post anything real about you and only give information to people you can 100% trust, if you can't trust them, don't do it, if a disaster happens then thankfully you can always make up a new username and it's dead easy to register again on the free email addresses. This is why it can also be extremely easy to scam people on the internet but considering what can happen to the poor folk who post their real information up internet privacy is something we should all fight tooth and nail for because I don't want to end up stalked and stabbed by someone just for pissing them off at the wrong time.


Don't you think people like Satoshi Nakamoto has a good reason to stay hidden? Just for inventing Bitcoin he probably already has several agencies on his tail or at least monitoring him. I wouldn't be surprised if that's why he's stopped being active, seems paranoid I know but there are simpler cases I can show you why people keep their identities hidden, like children for example, even governments agree they should keep under age people out of the public eye

I'm mining just for fun and to get some Bitcoins, who knows? Might get hilariously lucky.

I found out the problem, in the newer version you have to use the "launch Bitcoin client as server" option so far everything is working fine once I got it set up.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=123564

Going to leave it running for the lulz now and see what happens

lol how did this thread turn to construction? It does make you think though? How the hell can we keep our homes secure against hurricanes and tsunamis? I wonder if steel is a good option? Though that seems like it would have problems as well.

Here for example : https://www.coindl.com/page/category/wallpapers

They have a pay what you want button where rather than pay a specific price people can just pay money that they enter in, it would be pretty awesome too if you could have a minimum amount put in as well perhaps but it's something that seems to be popping up around websites lately because people seem to like not just paying a fixed price all the time.

Here's a bit of a read for a little study into the payment method as well : http://www.copyblogger.com/pay-what-you-want-pricing/

Yeah, criminal activities seems to be the only real argument against Bitcoin stuff in general really but that's the price you pay for a mostly anonymous free market and that's a very small problem compared to what a lot of other conventional markets have to deal with.

So I abandoned trying to fix this problem for awhile now but lately because I'm bored I decided to try and see if I could find a solution to this problem again, I've done fresh installs of my clients ( both Bitcoin and GUIMiner ) and I still have issues trying to get solo mining to work properly, I've checked all the usual stuff like the directory paths but my GUI miner refuses to solo mine, helpfully now with the updates I can more easily look at the errors that are popping up but as is the case with anything that has been made by a programmer to any normal person it looks like nonsensical gibberish most of the time. I've also tried disabling things like the firewalls just to be sure it's nothing to do with that but that doesn't seem to have worked either.

I'd appreciate help getting this damn problem fixed because I had no problem getting GUIMiner set up in earlier version so there must have been some change done that means I have to mess with some magical settings, if I ever do mining it's for the hell of it not for profit, so please don't rant to me about my GPU not being powerful enough etc.


Errors:

No response to getwork, using as stratum

[Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it

IO Errors - 1, tolerance 2

No more backup servers left. Using primary and starting over.

To change peoples mentality immediately and quickly we'd have to change the way Bitcoin works entirely so as I've kept saying for awhile now just be patient and let them come to us, the one thing I think we could do is focus on making Bitcoin far more user friendly than it currently is by writing tutorials in English etc. For instance, I'm still trying to look into why I can't solo mine despite having the GUI client set up properly and whenever I try to read peoples explanations or look at any other clients as a possible solution I feel my brain cells committing suicide from the effort it takes to understand it.

I'd love to see a P2P Stock Exchange set up, especially if it involves Bitcoin but no one seems to be actively developing it yet but the idea does seem to be floating around.

Hilarious

I think the U.S will ban it definitely, don't know about the other countries though but Bitcoin is a direct threat to a lot of country's sovereignty however you look at it.

I wish I could see some actual math reasons on why politicians are so damn scared of paying off their debt but to me it seems like the only reasoning they have for not paying off their debts is ideological neo-keynesian bullshit where they want to keep inflation going as much as possible to keep the never ending lending up from what I know anyway.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensable of duties. - Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette

ROFL I wasn't going to say anything, I have a bad enough reputation on the internet when it comes to Asian chicks as it is

That and a lot of the nuke fear mongering is really just a load of bullshit American propaganda designed to scare everyone into giving them the responsibility of hunting down imaginary nukes in unstable countries that have oil and precious metals, if there really were evil terrorists out there who wanted to nuke us they would have done it already, ironically the only country in history to have used a nuclear device on another country has been America as far as my knowledge goes anyway.