bmdavi3Smack-Fu Master, in training:
It's probably true that those who live in Cyprus are not the ones directly responsible for driving up the price of Bitcoins right now, but that doesn't mean the Cyprus crisis isn't at least partly responsible for the rise. I live in the United States, but I read about what's happening in Cyprus just fine. I imagine lots of people do. When those who are on the fence about buying Bitcoin read about a story like this, I imagine "government / bank seizing / freezing bank accounts" might be enough to push them over the edge and make the purchase.

That statement makes more sense to me than the Quote from an "expert" on virtual worlds on the site...

You know something, I wish someone would make more turn based/RTS games that weren't just based off bloody history or just terrible parodies of it, where did all the imagination in the games industry go? I'm also getting sick of being constantly reminded about World War 2 every fucking year, get over it already people!

Not really. Anything which can kill could in theory be labeled as something which can deter by threatening to kill. In which case, items whose primary purpose is not to kill, but can kill, have three possible uses, which is one more than guns. Those three functions being their primary purpose, killing and threatening. I really don't think guns have a primary function which is not one of the two: killing, and threatening.

Clearly the car analogy is an absolute failure, and only makes gun advocates look like stupid individuals who have no better argument up their sleeve. Furthermore, it makes them look like they can't think, as it's just a repeated mantra. It is a sad reflection upon themselves. And specifically, the car is so integral to people's everyday lives, commerce and the economy, that it just compounds the apparent stupidity of gun advocates. Best thing they could ever do to try and win some points with gun control advocates would be to drop that meme like it never existed. But go ahead and keep using it, and trying to make it seem relevant, if you wish to maintain such appearances.

That would likely be case #1, 2 or 3.

1. Ineffective laws enforced ineffectively puts guns in criminals' hands.
2. Ineffective laws enforced effectively puts guns in criminals' hands.
3. Effective laws enforced ineffectively puts guns in criminals' hands.
4. Effective laws enforced effectively keep guns out of criminals' hands.

So half of your income at 0% tax and the other half at 0% tax?


And people would avoid taxation even it was 1%.

Assisted by gun owners. Definitely not assisted by those who don't own guns.

The Newtown shooter was armed by his mother. The Aurora shooter was armed by gun sellers. The Columbine shooters were armed by gun owners. All criminals who have guns get their guns through a path which originates from gun sellers or gun sellers to gun owners.

What's worse, virtually every one of those gun owners who gave up their guns to criminals go out buy more guns. Thus the escalation of guns to 300 million guns in this country, which is the problem.

Irresponsibility of gun owners and gun sellers are the reason for the arming of criminals.

My idea: miners add the current exchange rate to every block.  Anyone cheating will simply create orphans, so you don't have to enforce a specific quote source; each new miner just has to agree that your quote was fair +/- a little bit (just like they agree now that the transactions you signed were accurate).  From there you just apply a smoothing algorithm to it (perhaps a mere SMA, but I have more sophisticated methods in mind) and adjust inflation / demurrage to compensate.  I can think of similar methods to handle other aspects of monetary policy in a decentralized way, but I don't want to get too far off the subject here.

If this is debunked, can you link me to where I can read more?

yes, you are. bitcoins have indeed a limited supply, and stability in the price does indeed raise demand which in turn raises the price.
BUT hughe price increases usually come with observable causes in the real world: more news being posted and switch from cpu to gpu was the first jump in price, since gpu sales in the high end market went through the roof. The second jump was cyprus declaring bank accounts to be frozen, and asicminers/fpga's coming into play.
Note that btc prices still rose independent from those jumps, but those jumps were clearly visible nonetheless. And the famous bubble bursts were not real bubble bursts; both were made artificially (the first mt.gox? being hacked and the second mt.gox inability to process the huge amount of new customers and the resulting downtime/delay driving fears of another hack ).

And if you watch the graphs a little you will notice that the "buuble bursts" have only driven the bitcoin prices to a little more or less than before the jumps.ss

PPC. For having real creative thought underneath that solves important bitcoin issues.

Unlike simple number and algorithm tweaking plagiarism such as LTC and most other coins.

This will be very nice I see a rise incoming

1k to the first 15 addresses.

There not worth anything and probably wont ever be worth anything but if you want some anyways post your address

http://porncoin.xxx/

I want to post in order to contribute with statistical information (What hardware I bought, how I can help).

So, there it goes, this is my first, really not-useful post.