So is it okay to just quote a post without even adding anything, or is that even worse than just putting '+1'?

Edit: I realize he bolded a part, but still, I have seen some people just quote the previous post verbatim without any notation whatsoever.

I'm not trying to join them, I just though she had already answered the question you were asking?

Or offer to do something for bitcoins. Work hard, get paid bitcoins.

I was thinking more along the lines of I post a "+1" to subscribe to the thread, the mod deletes my post, the next time somebody posts in the thread it will show up in 'watchlist' (if you have selected the option of automatically adding posts to the watchlist) but not in 'show new replies'.

The people paying for these signature ads do not have the time to go through the hundreds or thousands of posts people are putting up.

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I agree that posts should be removed if they do not contain any meaningful addition to the conversation.

I do have a question: If somebody puts up a '+1' post, that would add the thread to their 'Show new replies to your posts' list. But if that post is later deleted by a mod, would that also remove the thread form their relies list? I have recently switched to using the watchlist so I guess that would not affect me, but some people might miss out on conversation they were interested in.

Is this in addition to the bitcoins you are trying to use to pay your debt, or would buying his silver make you cancel the auction?

Only if new mining power is added exponentially. If no new mining power is added to the network the difficulty will stop rising.


What are you basing this number on? What does "substantially" mean? Are you saying that only large mining rigs are profitable? I think if you buy small hardware at the right price it can be profitable too. So the amount you mine is simply proportional to the amount you invest in. Small miners can actually be more efficient because they can be cooled more easily and do not need a dedicated space.


Then the less efficient miners will stop mining, and the difficulty will stabilize.


Then no new power will be added to the network and the difficulty will stop rising. The people with the most efficient miners will continue making money the longest. If mining is unprofitable, then the network will shrink until either it is profitable, or the people mining are willing to mine at a loss. Some people who want to continue using bitcoins will mine at a loss if their business is dependent on bitcoin continuing, and some people mine at a loss just because they are true believers in bitcoins.

One could point to the slippage from large purchases, so having a deal at about the going rate could be good for large amounts, but I do not think this amount would significantly move the order book on the larger exchanges.

Look up some of the exchanges (MtGox, BTC-E, Bitstamp, CampBX), find out how they allow funding to/from and try out the user interfaces, then pick the one that works best for you. Send them money and buy bitcoins, if the price of bitcoins goes up, sell some and then buy them back later when the price goes down again. Then you can withdraw your money and you have some bitcoins.

The other thing you can do if you buy some bitcoins as stated above is send them to one of the bitcoin stock exchanges (MPEx, BitFunder, or BTCT) and then use them to trade bitcoin stocks. You can buy low and sell high to make some bitcoins, or invest in dividend giving stocks and just earn some bitcoins slowly.

You might want to put up a link to this or the auction thread over in the IRC #bitcoin-otc

You might also want to go into more detail about what escrow you are using, or are bidders allowed to choose the escrow service?

Is that the number you are looking for?

I don't remember where she said it (and I don't feel like going through the work of searching), but in a reply to me in one of these threads she said S.MPOE does not include a balance sheet because the equity is 0, which I guess means that all the information you want should be in the profit/loss statement.

Right, I did not mean to say you were scamming anybody, like many of the other mining bond/company operators, I am just saying that it was not a very good investment, and most mining type investments are not good investments.

I looked into that, and from what I read it looks like only MacBooks about a year newer than mine are capable of the upgrade.

I concede the point, I had forgotten that there used to be a PMB on the MPEx. Nevertheless, it is possible to have a bitcoin stock exchange without PMBs.

So I keep running into this problem: I go to add a program to my computer or update an existing program and I find out it is no longer supported on my computer. Everything for OSX requires 10.6 or later, so I am basically screwed. Some things I can get an older version of the software, but that doesn't work for everything.

My mac was great when I first got it, nice and slick and easy to use and stuff, but now I am just getting angry at Apple. They want me to shell out another bunch of money to buy a new computer. Well, I say screw Apple, I am not gonna shell out money like that again just to have it decreed obsolete by some fat-cats in suits who want my money after just a few short years.

I am pretty sure my next computer will be running Linux of some sort. There is no way I am going back to Windows (that's what I had before my current computer).

So I guess to make this thread more useful for everybody rather than just me ranting against obnoxious corporations, what version of linux would you suggest? I am looking for something dependable and easy to use.

Any comment on whether any money will be spent on advertising?

It is just a matter of which exchange it is on and who runs the pass-through. The real asset is S.DICE on MPEx, but there are lots of pass-throughs, with names like G.SDICE, GSDPT, S.DICE, or S.DICE-PT.

Hmm, there is what they paid for it, and then there is what they could sell it for now. Those are not always the same thing.