If I had the choice I'd restrict everyone to the limitations imposed to regular members: no big letters, no colors, links allowed. That's more than enough for a signature.
Making signatures less visually annoying won't do much to get rid of the flood of low-content posts. Paid posters will still get paid per-post. |
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Just perm ban anyone with a paid signature, that would clean things up.
Right now I just ignore them, leading to a rather large ignore list. I wonder if Theymos would tell me if I have the longest ignore list? |
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The forum is nearing the lowest point content-wise I have seen. Click on just about any thread and it is mindless replies and bumps from people with big signature ads pushing something. There is nothing here, no content, no dialog. It is certainly not the place for cryptographers and programmers and entrepreneurs to exchange information about Bitcoin. If you are lucky, you will find someone completely out of their depth asking a stupid question answered a hundred times, someone that then cannot understand the answer. I agree. Signatures can be useful, but right now they are being used to destroy the SnR of the forum. More would be gained by disabling them than would be lost. |
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Any eta on when you will be working on hardware wallets?
Trezor support at best in the next release, that's late October/early November if everything goes according to plan. Does it mean Armory will support the long awaited BIP32 (deterministic wallet) and 39 (Mnemonic code)? I guess it has to or it won't work with Trezor. Don't forget BIP43 and BIP44 |
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they can be in dev mode for 3 years for all i care.
There are probably still people who believe that Pirate@40 is going to pull through and give them back their coins any day now. |
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well actually i will hodl ether when / if they ever finish building the protocol  You gave away real bitcoins for the promise of receiving some units of another currency which does not, and may never, exist. yes I am taking an extreme risk on a sizeable amount of bitcoin. i know... Your only hope is ethereum releases and somehow dooglus finds a way to open Just-Dice using Ethereum while him staying in Canada - otherwise sorry for your loss. Don't worry - it's not like Vitalik is trying to something completely silly like trying to base their mining algorithm on 12 dimensional hypercubes... |
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"does not need to be accompanied by a new financial claim" = We will fuck over the innovators and risk takers so legacy system gate keepers (aka bankers) keep all the money. Amazing how many people in the community were willing to sell out their integrity in exchange for Wall Street blood money. Not everybody involved with Ripple was an obvious scammer when Ripple got started. |
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well actually i will hodl ether when / if they ever finish building the protocol You gave away real bitcoins for the promise of receiving some units of another currency which does not, and may never, exist. |
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i would not have been able to take a heavy position in Ether had i not had alot of BTC at my disposal...
You have a position in Ether? That means you actually hold the Ethers in your own wallet, right? |
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Adam you need to admit it. From the Boston Fed paper: http://www.bostonfed.org/economic/current-policy-perspectives/2014/cpp1404.pdf"The revolution in payments technology pioneered by Bitcoin helps to accelerate
the development of better technologies for making payments and transfers cheaper, faster, and more secure. For instance, a new technology called Ripple, essentially a protocol that allows disparate systems to communicate in order to transfer funds and make payments, has recently been developed. One notable point, made clear by Ripple, is that the development of new technologies for making payments does not need to be accompanied by a new financial claim. " No one has a Fing clue! ...I dont have a clue make up your own damn mind. Ripple is a closed, invite-only network. Regular people can't just download software and start running a validating Ripple node - they have to be invited in by getting added to the trust list of an existing validator. Of course the Federal Reserve and US banking system in general is going to attempt to push for Ripple instead of Bitcoin - they are going to do as much as possible to divert and extinguish any movement towards P2P financial tools they can not directly control. |
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This seems like a complete U-turn <confused> They were subjected to unannounced financial sanctions by the rest of the world's banking system, most likely because of that announcement. I know of at least one startup that had their non-USD bank account (with a non-US bank) frozen just because one of their second round investors funded them through a bank that was located in Isle of Man. |
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What service did they provide to businesses accepting BTC? I believe several exchanges used banks in Isle of Man to process their fiat. |
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Open Transactions has been talked about as the answer for years yet still nothing working there either. OT works at the library/core level. Fewer people are interested in building applications on top of OT right now because the VCs are funding P&D app coins instead of anything useful or sustainable. This means is that OT development is slower and less flashy than the scamcoin startups. (Monetas hired three more developers this week, FYI) |
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The only fiat I have is in my wallet.
Everything else is Bitcoin.
Trading back and forth is for people who don't have some better use for their time.
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I mean look at all the alt-coins, don't say they fail because bitcoin is here or first to market etc, it can't be that simple?!? So finally the truth is revealed - this is what the OP is all about. There are many reasons the altcoins fail, and they can all be grouped into two categories: - Altcoiners are wrong about the nature of money.
- The market will only tolerate outsized gains, such as the outsized gains that accrued the ultra-early Bitcoin adopters, once.
In order to profit from a new idea to the same degree as Satoshi, that idea must be as much as an advance over what we have today as Bitcoin was an advance over what came before. Altcoiners want to achieve Satoshi's gains by creating a new currency while offering merely incremental improvements over his invention (if they offer anything new at all.) |
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that I've read Sounds like you have a sub-optimal "Ignore Boards" configuration. I don't understand how anyone can stand to read those sections at all. |
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Nice. Are you aware of any companies planning to develop on top of voting pools, or any communities in this field? (aside from OT community, obviously  ). I know there are companies interested in using OT in various capacities. I'm not really current on any of those details. Also, any other cool bitcoin things happening over there in Switzerland? I plan to drop to Basel in December, but perhaps could visit some other city if there's any community around...
I wouldn't know because I don't live in Switzerland (I just visit occasionally). You should ask them: http://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Meetup-Switzerland/ |
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Cool. What's the eta? Do they plan to launch a for-profit company managing those pools? Any way to contact them?
btw. where are you guys located? Europe as well?
Monetas is a for-profit company developing open source software on the Open-Transactions platform, including voting pools. They will not operate any voting pools themselves - they'll provide support and services for companies that use them (Bitcoin exchanges, etc). ETA for voting pools is next year. Hopefully early next year. |
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