Now I'm not sure what did you mean by saying: A growing number of goldbugs are parting with their metal for bitcoins. It's a simple declarative statement backed up by a mere glance at material reality. ahh...yes, now I see. All has become clear...(witw?) |
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My vote is for the Thai Baht. It's clean, elegant and standard.
This isn't a vote; B⃦ has been the standard symbol since the beginning, and there is no good reason to change that. This is just Atlas trying to turn Bitcoin into mere "Silk Road currency". Except not every implementation of Unicode displays whatever symbol that is. If they don't, it's a bug. How long until implementations work for most people? 1 year, 5 years, a decade? Depends on how long "most people" use broken stuff. It works in all the software I run, at least, excepting only Links. I'm betting in 5 years it'll still be broken for about half of folks... |
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I missed this...when/where did pirate say that?
2012-09-17_18:15 pirateat40: Q: When will we get our coins? A: As of today the earliest estimated time that coins can begin moving is Friday, Oct 12th. I can only keep you updated on this date as I have more information. so he hasn't completely disappeared? He was in IRC two days ago, but nothing new I must confess, I'm confused. I would have thought he has already had enough time to arrange his disappearance....must not have gotten all that much money (or maybe he feels hidden enough). 2012-09-17_18:15 pirateat40: Q: What's going on? A: In short, one of my largest clients decided they would make things difficult for me. In the heat of the moment I made a move to secure the USD backing the coins when they were not returned and has made things much more difficult. I sincerely believe that pirateat40 really had intention of pay Now are being investigated by the SEC and possibly his funds are frozen. Part of me wants to believe there is something more to this than just simple theft...I just don't think it's the smarter part of me... |
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An app could do it...and there's lots of ways to do it on a computer...My thoughts were more along the line of security...
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My vote is for the Thai Baht. It's clean, elegant and standard.
This isn't a vote; B⃦ has been the standard symbol since the beginning, and there is no good reason to change that. This is just Atlas trying to turn Bitcoin into mere "Silk Road currency". Except not every implementation of Unicode displays whatever symbol that is. If they don't, it's a bug. The problem is that you've opted for a UTF-16 character instead of a UTF-8 character. UTF-8 is far more common and accessible. B⃦ is standard UTF-8, it is not UTF-16. Once again, I don't see any problem with using the baht symbol for Bitcoin and it has the added advantage of displaying correctly on a wide range of systems. I'm not addressing whether baht is an acceptable replacement or not; just the reality that it isn't the current standard BTC symbol. How long until implementations work for most people? 1 year, 5 years, a decade? |
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You'll just have to keep it up in your computer brain.
I wrote an app for iPhone to do it... |
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This seems like a bad idea and I most likely will not join in.
I'm in. Bitcoin needs a voice and a way of funneling resources to the tasks that require them. |
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I missed this...when/where did pirate say that?
2012-09-17_18:15 pirateat40: Q: When will we get our coins? A: As of today the earliest estimated time that coins can begin moving is Friday, Oct 12th. I can only keep you updated on this date as I have more information. so he hasn't completely disappeared? He was in IRC two days ago, but nothing new I must confess, I'm confused. I would have thought he has already had enough time to arrange his disappearance....must not have gotten all that much money (or maybe he feels hidden enough). |
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How hard would it be to build an electronic device that could generate and display a Bitcoin public / private key pair? It would be nice to have a physical device that could, without connecting to anything, give you a new safe address to dump your coins to at the press of a button.
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I'm just going to say this a few more times on these forums, because I'm sick of repeating myself. And, frankly, I'm beginning to think that most of you are completely incapable of complex systems analysis.
If you pay taxes on Bitcoin transactions, you will relegate Bitcoin to the dustbin of history.
It has nothing to do with what you think is legal or illegal, or whether you enjoy paying taxes or not. It's a simple, mathematical fact.
Let's suppose for a moment you are a US citizen and you made a non-trivial sum of money in Bitcoin. Did/would you report it as income to the IRS? They're not exactly nice about tax evasion... |
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I missed this...when/where did pirate say that?
2012-09-17_18:15 pirateat40: Q: When will we get our coins? A: As of today the earliest estimated time that coins can begin moving is Friday, Oct 12th. I can only keep you updated on this date as I have more information. so he hasn't completely disappeared? |
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A growing number of goldbugs are parting with their metal for bitcoins. Actually this is not true, Severian. Goldbugs are people that have very strong common sense compared to paperbugs or cryptobugs. this argument is ridiculously difficult to prove true or false...anyone up for a scientific survey of goldbugs? |
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People are still hoping! He is not paying anything back.
i just can't believe he got away with it... |
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I had a look at that list and I didn't see anything worth a fuck
I know gold and silver aren't as valuable or as durable as your "Visa money", but for those people that lack your faith in credit-based currency instruments, there's a rising list of metal traders: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade#Precious_.26_Base_Metals.2FCoinsWhen PM dealers are trading their stash for a currency, it's probably going to stick around for a awhile. good point...their inventory is their hedge... |
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Everyone is waiting for the 12th.
which will turn into the end of the month... |
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There's nothing other than drugs to spend them on.
You can't buy anything with Bitcoin, and 90% of Bitcoin investments are a scam.
[/quote] http://coinabul.com/Gold and silver != drugs.... |
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So no more raffle?
Not worth it  Love your site none-the-less! |
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reserved to answer questions from PM
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If anyone is interested, PM me.
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