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9001  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Time to adjust difficulty on: May 17, 2013, 10:29:06 PM
http://blockchain.info/stats
Hash Rate and Electricity Consumption



Difficulty

11,187,257.46



Hash Rate

90,647.82 GH/s





Electricity Consumption *

1,414.11 megawatt hours



Electricity Cost

$212,115.89



Mining Profits



Operating Profit

$285,569.87



Operating Margin

57.38%





Profit Margin **

32.38%
9002  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Have you been tipped in BTC for a post? on: May 17, 2013, 10:26:42 PM
I got a few millis.
9003  Economy / Speculation / Re: $1,000,000 for a Bitcoin? on: May 17, 2013, 09:30:09 PM
Yes, it will happen. Actually...we can make it happen right now.

I am willing to sell the first bitcoin ever purchased for a million dollars.

I do this for the community.
9004  Other / Politics & Society / Re: BitGov on: May 17, 2013, 09:25:16 PM
I am currently in Alpha stage on just such a system.

Check out https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=207759.0 for a more detailed description on how it works.
9005  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Banned Books in the US?? There may be at least one... on: May 17, 2013, 09:19:40 PM
The Federal Mafia

banned

But here is the pdf

Is there any truth to that book? Has anyone ever tried just declining to file or pay for taxes, and ignore the IRS when they try to investigate and collect later? How many people tried and went to federal prison?
I think Irwin Schiff is in prison for this.  To my knowledge the book isn't "banned", though.  A while back, if I recall correctly, Peter Schiff was giving copies away on some promotion.

Irwin Schiff was prosecuted in a court stacked against him that did not allow evidence.
"I will not allow the law in this courtroom" -- Judge Robert Dawson, Federal District Court

I bought his book about 15 years ago right out of college. I followed his steps for not paying taxes, I filed a zero return. The IRS sent me a letter, they did my taxes for me and asked for payment. I was just starting my career so I just cut them a check (being right out of college I only owed maybe a hundred bucks, more than likely I could have gotten money back).

The fact that I do not have more guns than the US government means that they can do whatever the hell they want. Extortion is ugly.
9006  Other / Off-topic / Re: The Story Game on: May 17, 2013, 09:02:05 PM
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Once upon a time, there was a Jesus. She walked out unadorned. Then, as bagpipes blared and didgeridoos fell, the star exploded.

Enter the vassals, creating comically obscene gestures with cryptocurrencies. Jesus cried!

Andy B. Casagrande immortalized the scene with photography. Space robots had been shoving corn vicariously into other crevices, hoping that Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis... perhaps silicosis, or QueerOsis, or trees could accomplish impossible synchronizations.

Fifteen wishes weren't exceptionally productive. She touched herself vigorously with tremendous pillows; creaming out butter flavored LiteCoins. Ironically, Bitcoins never lowered the dust limit so that Luke-Jr would be anally probed by martians invading us to steal our fish for little did we know, Fish is the solution to all our global problems! Seamen relentlessly fapped out the next generation of ASICS which actually works without any electricity at all. Powered by shipwrecks, signals meant that mermaids knew cryptographic encryption algorithms' weaknesses in theory but, in reality, Rpietila gave all.

Thursday passed without BFL taking the biggest shit, which when combined with their largest fanboy, Atlas, every miner stabbed Satoshi irregardless. Meanwhile, trolls eating crow poop, crow testicles, and God's vagina laughed.

Artichokes roasted sweetly over flaming gays, joyfully prepared numerously spiced blockchains sacrificing virgins disregarding matter. Therefore Jesus announced peasantry raping holidays. Upon reflection, Jesus quixotically decided retroactively somewhere in Reptilia's bosom to fuck an ant hill and myrkul touched himself feverishly ravishing all pillows! Lophie touched electrically his "contacts", pondering why her earlobes looked so tasty dipped in mustard sauce from Meze's toilet. Meanwhile, under scrutiny from DHS, MTGox got DDOS'ed by CIA bots, Chinese pygmies licked thousands, drooling custard from cracks forgone.

Alas, we combusted gloriously into eternity with malevolent douchenozzles. Faunlets screamed condescendingly into their rapists' buttholes. Nymphet's carefully propositioned orgies began fondling Eminem's mobile phone until climax commenced. Jailbaits serendipitously surrounded Clinton's ASICS with their pussy cats. "STOP!" The sign clearly said across a dark alley. Cheese fell curiously from long faces inedible, moldy, green
9007  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: The First Political Zone to Officially Recognize Cryptocoins on: May 17, 2013, 08:54:24 PM
Honduras is still trying to get this stuff to go through with a willing president and willing Congress and they are still having trouble with the bleeding hearts that do not want unbridled freedom in their country. Even after promising that 80% of the jobs would go to locals.

There is no country in this world that is friendly enough to freedom to get this done in a year.

Honduras had the law all set, everything ready to go but the lawyers and liberals fought it all the way to their Supreme Court and got it overturned. There was a lot of money behind it too.

Just being in talks with someone high up in government is going to do you no good unless that person is a dictator, which means he can let you build your city and he can also take it away.
9008  Other / Off-topic / Re: I can't stop gambling what do I do on: May 17, 2013, 05:58:08 AM
Losing money can suck. I had about 750 BTC at one point. Bitcoinica helped me to dwindle that down to about 200.

But that 750 BTC cost me $10k. That 200 I have left is worth over $20k.

Keep any BTC you still have.

I usually do not tell people about this because I do not want other people to compete against me making money but...

Go to BitFinex, move 20-30 BTC over there. Go to Lending, click the BTC tab.

Lend your BTC at a variable rate.  You will not get rich, but you will be holding on to bitcoins which will gain in value. And you will slowly increase your bitcoin holdings. I have had about 25 BTC in there for the past three weeks. I have only made .15 over that time but that is more than I would have made if it was in my cold storage.

However, it is a new company in a foreign country running the same software that ended up making a lot of people lose money. The risk involved is that the company will disappear and your bitcoins with it. That is why I only have 25 in there and not 200.

Buy a couple of bitcoins. In a year they will be worth more than your 20 BTC you lost.
9009  Other / Off-topic / Re: The Story Game on: May 17, 2013, 05:40:02 AM
<Sticky: One word per post!>

Once upon a time, there was a Jesus. She walked out unadorned. Then, as bagpipes blared and didgeridoos fell, the star exploded.

Enter the vassals, creating comically obscene gestures with cryptocurrencies. Jesus cried!

Andy B. Casagrande immortalized the scene with photography. Space robots had been shoving corn vicariously into other crevices, hoping that Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis... perhaps silicosis, or QueerOsis, or trees could accomplish impossible synchronizations.

Fifteen wishes weren't exceptionally productive. She touched herself vigorously with tremendous pillows; creaming out butter flavored LiteCoins. Ironically, Bitcoins never lowered the dust limit so that Luke-Jr would be anally probed by martians invading us to steal our fish for little did we know, Fish is the solution to all our global problems! Seamen relentlessly fapped out the next generation of ASICS which actually works without any electricity at all. Powered by shipwrecks, signals meant that mermaids knew cryptographic encryption algorithms' weaknesses in theory but, in reality, Rpietila gave all.

Thursday passed without BFL taking the biggest shit, which when combined with their largest fanboy, Atlas, every miner stabbed Satoshi irregardless. Meanwhile, trolls eating crow poop, crow testicles, and God's vagina laughed.

Artichokes roasted sweetly over flaming gays, joyfully prepared numerously spiced blockchains sacrificing virgins disregarding matter. Therefore Jesus announced peasantry raping holidays. Upon reflection, Jesus quixotically decided retroactively somewhere in Reptilia's bosom to fuck an ant hill and myrkul touched himself feverishly ravishing all pillows! Lophie touched electrically his "contacts", pondering why her earlobes looked so tasty dipped in mustard sauce from Meze's toilet. Meanwhile, under scrutiny from DHS, MTGox got DDOS'ed by CIA bots, Chinese pygmies licked thousands, drooling custard from cracks forgone.

Alas, we combusted gloriously into eternity with malevolent douchenozzles. Faunlets screamed condescendingly into their rapists' buttholes. Nymphet's carefully propositioned orgies began fondling Eminem's mobile phone until climax commenced. Jailbaits serendipitously surrounded Clinton's ASICS with
9010  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Pope Bitcoin? Pope Francis urges global leaders to end 'tyranny' of money... on: May 17, 2013, 05:30:47 AM
I am fine with the pope preaching for the rich to help the poor. I am glad that the Catholic church is taking a leading role in this. It should be voluntary charities and religions that help the poor. Not the government via force.

Ron Paul always spoke of his early days in medicine which I believe was a church hospital that charged very little to those that could not afford it. That is how health care should work.
9011  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Banned Books in the US?? There may be at least one... on: May 17, 2013, 05:23:41 AM
The Federal Mafia

banned

But here is the pdf
9012  Other / Archival / - on: May 17, 2013, 02:42:11 AM
nvm
9013  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: anyroll's 10BTC GIVEAWAY list of available numbers on: May 17, 2013, 02:39:20 AM
Time to give anyroll the scammer tag.

The pay out should just go to the person who's number corresponds to the amount of pages worth of posts his thread created.
9014  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: [IDEA] ASIC miner/TV bittorrent box on: May 17, 2013, 02:30:48 AM
you`re talking about a private tracker rigged to a mining box. that would be cool indeed.

hmm, I had not considered it as a private tracker...the key would be that anyone can upload a file anonymously. This would allow wikileaks types of videos to be shared as well.

It could even automatically connect via Tor as well.
9015  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Obama was the best thing that ever happened to the USA in a long time... on: May 17, 2013, 02:20:17 AM
Lifted restrictions granting Cuban Americans unrestricted rights to visit family and send remittances to the island
A good start.

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Eliminated subsidies to private lender middlemen of student loans
Ending subsidies is always good.

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Expanded hate crime law in the US to include sexual orientation
More thought crimes.  Roll Eyes

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Extended Benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees
More money to equalize bad policy.

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Reversed 'global gag rule', allowing US aid to go to organizations regardless of whether they provide abortions
More money to equalize bad spending.

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Signed New START Treaty - nuclear arms reduction pact with Russia
A good start.

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First president to endorse same-sex marriage equality
More regulation to equalize bad government intervention.

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Signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, restoring basic protections against pay discrimination for women
Pay control regulation.

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Reversed the policy of barring media coverage during the return of fallen soldiers to Dover Air Force Base
I hope the media respects the families of those soldiers.

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Signed the Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform Act to stop fraud and wasteful spending in the defense procurement and contracting system
Signed in 2009...I have not noticed any changes in oversight as a defense contractor...I hope it helps, I notice that the law had plenty of mulit-billion dollar projects that were excluded.

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Ended Bush administration's CIA program of 'enhanced interrogation methods'
I hope so

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Tax cuts for up to 3.5 million small businesses to help pay for employee health care coverage
I am sure those businesses are overjoyed by those small tax cuts to help pay for a business killing health care system while large companies are getting waivers


9016  Bitcoin / Project Development / [Alpha] Killer App for Bitcoin? BitPools - Vote with your bitcoins on: May 17, 2013, 12:37:45 AM

Currently in Alpha stage (back end created, working on visual side) I am happy to announce BitPools, a new way of pooling your bitcoins with other people and voting with your coins to get big things done.

The customer based overview can be found at the About tab at http://www.bitpools.com

From a more technical stance, when you sign up for your account you will also include an empty Bitcoin address. You will then fill that address with the amount you plan to use toward pledging toward projects. (It has to be empty first to verify that you did not just go out and grab someone else's address). From there you can either create a pool or join one.

Pools
Pools are basically groups of people getting together with a common goal. When a pool is created, the description of the purpose will be spelled out and a minimum pledge to join will be included. When you join the pool, a portion of your bitcoins from your bitcoin address will be dedicated to that pool. But you still hold your bitcoins in your wallet. When the pool grows large enough that they have enough bitcoins to put toward their common goal, then proposals will start being put forward.

Proposals
Proposals can be made by anyone (pool criteria may restrict proposals to only members). This is where it gets a bit more technical, click here to read about Dominant Assurance Contracts. Basically a proposal will be created, the proposer will fund a "Voter fund" with the proposal (or an address will be created and if there is interest, people can support the proposal by sending bitcoins to the "Voter fund"). The proposer will also include his/her own fee in the proposal along with the amount of bitcoins required to move forward with the proposal. Once the voter fund is sufficiently filled, a date will be set up and voting will commence.

Voting
When it is time to vote on a proposal, each pool member will receive a set of addresses with options (or a single address if it is a Yes/No proposal). A file with all addresses and their choice meaning will also be released, encrypted with a password. Before the end of the voting date members will then vote the amount of bitcoins required in the proposal by sending their bitcoins to the specified address. When the voting date has passed, the password to the encrypted file will be released. The BitPools site will automatically tally the votes and determine if the proposal passed or failed. If the proposal fails, everyone's bitcoins will be returned to their bitcoin address. If it succeeds it will be passed on to the address given by the proposer (this could be an escrow account or whatever the voters are comfortable with, that is part of the criteria for deciding to vote for a proposal or not). Regardless of the outcome, the "Voter fund" previously filled will be distributed to all voters. This creates an incentive for people to vote even those who would usually sit on the sidelines. At the very minimum the voter fund will cover transaction fees. If the proposal passess, a new pool will be created consisting of the members that voted for the proposal.

New Pools
When the proposal succeeds, those that funded the proposal will be part of the new pool. The proposal will include the exact same criteria as when a new pool is created. The new pool could be exclusive only to those that funded the proposal, or a fee could be created for entry by new members. The fee can then be distributed in any way to the current members. Imagine a club getting together to fund a club house, the members have already paid for the club house...new members would pay those original members to be allowed access and join their club. Again, this is all criteria that would be included in the proposal. It also allows for many unique ways of distributing fees (equally, more to early members, tiered, etc.).

Your funds are always under your control until you fund a proposal. It only resides in the BitPools cold storage during voting, then is immediately distrubuted once voting is finished.

tl;dr Welcome to the revolution.
9017  Other / Off-topic / Re: How can I use a proxy to sign back up to a forum thats put an IP ban on me? on: May 16, 2013, 09:50:17 PM
I use HotSpot Shield. Though it is not so much a one time thing, the ads are annoying and it is likely tracking all the sites I go to. 
9018  Other / Off-topic / Re: The Story Game on: May 16, 2013, 09:22:59 PM
<Sticky: One word per post!>

Once upon a time, there was a Jesus. She walked out unadorned. Then, as bagpipes blared and didgeridoos fell, the star exploded.

Enter the vassals, creating comically obscene gestures with cryptocurrencies. Jesus cried!

Andy B. Casagrande immortalized the scene with photography. Space robots had been shoving corn vicariously into other crevices, hoping that Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis... perhaps silicosis, or QueerOsis, or trees could accomplish impossible synchronizations.

Fifteen wishes weren't exceptionally productive. She touched herself vigorously with tremendous pillows; creaming out butter flavored LiteCoins. Ironically, Bitcoins never lowered the dust limit so that Luke-Jr would be anally probed by martians invading us to steal our fish for little did we know, Fish is the solution to all our global problems! Seamen relentlessly fapped out the next generation of ASICS which actually works without any electricity at all. Powered by shipwrecks, signals meant that mermaids knew cryptographic encryption algorithms' weaknesses in theory but, in reality, Rpietila gave all.

Thursday passed without BFL taking the biggest shit, which when combined with their largest fanboy, Atlas, every miner stabbed Satoshi irregardless. Meanwhile, trolls eating crow poop, crow testicles, and God's vagina laughed.

Artichokes roasted sweetly over flaming gays, joyfully prepared numerously spiced blockchains sacrificing virgins disregarding matter. Therefore Jesus announced peasantry raping holidays. Upon reflection, Jesus quixotically decided retroactively somewhere in Reptilia's bosom to fuck an ant hill and myrkul touched himself feverishly ravishing all pillows! Lophie touched electrically his "contacts", pondering why her earlobes looked so tasty dipped in mustard sauce from Meze's toilet. Meanwhile, under scrutiny from DHS, MTGox got DDOS'ed by CIA bots, Chinese pygmies licked thousands, drooling custard from cracks forgone.

Alas, we combusted gloriously into eternity with malevolent douchenozzles. Faunlets screamed condescendingly into their rapists' buttholes. Nymphet's carefully propositioned orgies began fondling Eminem's mobile phone until climax commenced. Jailbaits serendipitously
9019  Other / Off-topic / Re: The Story Game on: May 16, 2013, 06:17:45 AM
<Sticky: One word per post!>

Once upon a time, there was a Jesus. She walked out unadorned. Then, as bagpipes blared and didgeridoos fell, the star exploded.

Enter the vassals, creating comically obscene gestures with cryptocurrencies. Jesus cried!

Andy B. Casagrande immortalized the scene with photography. Space robots had been shoving corn vicariously into other crevices, hoping that Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis... perhaps silicosis, or QueerOsis, or trees could accomplish impossible synchronizations.

Fifteen wishes weren't exceptionally productive. She touched herself vigorously with tremendous pillows; creaming out butter flavored LiteCoins. Ironically, Bitcoins never lowered the dust limit so that Luke-Jr would be anally probed by martians invading us to steal our fish for little did we know, Fish is the solution to all our global problems! Seamen relentlessly fapped out the next generation of ASICS which actually works without any electricity at all. Powered by shipwrecks, signals meant that mermaids knew cryptographic encryption algorithms' weaknesses in theory but, in reality, Rpietila gave all.

Thursday passed without BFL taking the biggest shit, which when combined with their largest fanboy, Atlas, every miner stabbed Satoshi irregardless. Meanwhile, trolls eating crow poop, crow testicles, and God's vagina laughed.

Artichokes roasted sweetly over flaming gays, joyfully prepared numerously spiced blockchains sacrificing virgins disregarding matter. Therefore Jesus announced peasantry raping holidays. Upon reflection, Jesus quixotically decided retroactively somewhere in Reptilia's bosom to fuck an ant hill and myrkul touched himself feverishly ravishing all pillows! Lophie touched electrically his "contacts", pondering why her earlobes looked so tasty dipped in mustard sauce from Meze's toilet. Meanwhile, under scrutiny from DHS, MTGox got DDOS'ed by CIA bots, Chinese pygmies licked thousands, drooling custard from cracks forgone.

Alas, we combusted gloriously into eternity with malevolent douchenozzles. Faunlets screamed condescendingly into their rapists' buttholes. Nymphet's carefully propositioned orgies began fondling Eminem's mobile phone until climax commenced.
9020  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Sorry to bother you with another potential worry but... on: May 16, 2013, 05:53:18 AM
It occurred to me today that bitcoin is not democratic.

Democracy is a very bad thing in a world full of idiots.
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