Agreed. If there is anything about bitcoin, PM me and I'll probably go.
Barcamps follow the Unconference model, so the schedule / speakerlist is not known yet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnconferenceInteractive presentations
The agenda will be created barcamp styles, the day of. However, we want to give everyone a sense of the topics that will be discussed. So please share what you'd like to present below
http://barcamp.org/w/page/36440921/PrivacyCampTO2Of course you could participate by giving a short talk yourself. They even have a speed geek workshop: "Instead of talking to a large crowd, you have a conversation with one or two people about your idea for 2 minutes, then another 2 people for another two minutes and so on." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_geeking |
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And what happens when your subjects no longer want your fiat currency? A recent crackdown has brought the unofficial foreign exchange market in Hanoi to a standstill.
Many gold shops in Ho Chi Minh City have ceased buying and selling dollars publicly to avoid stepped up government oversight.
A dealer in Hanoi told Thanh Nien that he only does business now with regular clients.
“Strangers may be police officers in disguise and I would be in trouble,” he said.
http://www.vnnnews.net/vietnam-launches-crackdown-on-dollar-black-marketVietnam's communist government on Thursday stopped issuing Gold Trading licenses, and vowed to ban gold-denominated bank accounts – now holding some $5.4 billion for Vietnamese savers hit by 12% inflation and repeated devaluation's of the Dong currency. http://news.goldseek.com/BullionVault/1299852417.php |
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s/gold/bitcoin/ = WIN
I just realized that to some degree we today already have a bitcoin-denominated debit card. I can leave $0 in my PayPal account and then just before making a purchase I can use CoinCard to add funds to my PayPal account using bitcoins. I can then use my PayPal debit card to complete a purchase. Of course, this isn't efficient either timewise or when considering fees. CoinCard's fee for doing that conversion is 3%, or $1 + 1% for transactions $50 or more, and then getting funds back into bitcoins isn't the easiest or cheapest either. However Bitcoin truly is leading the charge. This combination might possibly qualify as the first commodity-denominated debit card option available to us. |
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Fascinating...I wonder if it will allow for gold/silver-denominated bank accounts
Banks, even outside Austria and Switzerland, will quickly get up the curve of offering gold-denominated accounts once their corporate customers demand them. They will find that a substantial demand exists at the retail level also. Here, modern technology will be very helpful. An ordinary citizen will be able to use a gold-denominated account for day-to-day transactions by means of a debit card, without the need to carry round expensive sovereigns or double eagles.
http://www.prudentbear.com/index.php/thebearslairview?art_id=10471s/gold/bitcoin/ = WIN |
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implementation of a global currency, called the “bancor”, to stabilise the international monetary system,
Alex Jones describes this scenario on Coast To Coast AM - Mar 8th, 2011 Here's part 3 of 12 of the day's show in which Bancor is mentioned: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2bmG4IlEqk |
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It would be very surprising (and easy to make money on mining) if difficulty (mining effort) did not follow the price.
Yes. Except that because difficulty isn't high enough yet to discourage (a significant number of) existing miners, there will still be increases from: - New miners
- How much of the press in non-english speaking countries have not had any mention of bitcoin yet.
- Equipment ordered weeks ago finally coming online - Existing miners adding more hardware
- Increases in efficiency -- either with the miner and/or in the pool servers
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I just had an idea to write down all "killer-features" of Bitcoin in one place, so it can be used later to advertise it, or convince people to use Bitcoin.
Like, for use in the bitcoin.org redesign? http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4223.0 |
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if the $/BTC doesn't shoot up before the next 20996 blocks, miners will start quitting
In agreement with you 100% there. and bitcoins will fail as no businesses will want to do anything with bitcoins either
I'm not quite sure the relationship there. Bitcoin needs enough miners to protect bitcoin's integrity. How many, I've not a clue. But I might be satisfied that that the 50 btc per-block reward (and then the 25 btc per-block reward after block 210,000) will keep a sufficient number of miners around. |
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On a related note: They've offered a virtual stock exchange enabling participants to invest virtual currency dollars into the different startup companies. The virtual currency has no value outside the exchange however. Maybe for next year's event their virtual stock exchange will instead be offered with a digital currency where real money is invested.
Wouldn't a better approach be where, that by the time Austin's city limits are reached, the winner is already funded?
http://www.bitcoinmoney.com/post/3768248783 |
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It predicts that difficulty should stay level or decrease slightly for the next month. We'll see!
Its' too bad that http://BitcoinSportsBook.com doesn't offer a current way to wager on that. I'ld (hypothetically) put my money on the over, if I could. Way over. |
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