Hi there,

There is a novella by my personal favorite author, Vernor Vinge, called The Ungoverned and I think the libertarians here would enjoy reading it. Later on, The Peace War expands on such ideas. Has anyone read those? I would be interested to hear any comments on how viable the system, presented in the books is, according to you. One of my major beefs with Vinge's libertarian society is that he automatically assumes that it would breed innovation in technology which would surpass that of the nation states with their top-down organized labs and factories.

Greets,
M

Защо не станеш местен продавач през https://localbitcoins.com/?

Аз пуснах една обява в Бремен и се оказа, че има страшно много търсене на услугата. В момента продавам БТС с 9% комисионна =)

Трудността не се вдига нито линейно, нито експоненциално. Тя зависи от цената на монетите и от цената на тока. Ако токът ти е евтин, а монетите - скъпи, тогава ще расте, ако стане обратното, трудноста пада, защото няма да е рентабилно и доста копачи се отказват. Да не говорим, че можеш да гледаш на копаенето като инвестиция в бъдещето - копаеш сега, за да продадеш в бъдеще ако цената скочи много. Но иначе да, трудността ще си расте, това е заложено и в самата система. Както всичко останало, свързано с Биткойн - рискът присъства =)

I agree, after what happened to Liberty Reserve, mtgox has to be careful. A good step in the right direction for me. If someone wants to buy bitcoin on the downlow there's always more marginal exchanges and shady back alleys with wifi access from a nearby restaurant

Hi,

I have searched the forums and haven't found a satisfactory discussion, please correct me if I'm wrong.

Question:How do banks get more coins to pay interest rates if no new money is produced?

Further explanation:
Let's say we have 21M bitcoins and a free-market economy based on them. Everyone has some of those bitcoins and are exchanging them with each other for services and goods. Now, if I am a bank, how do I get more money to pay my lenders? I understand that the things you can buy with your coins grows overtime, but how do you get more money itself? If everyone lends to everyone (like kind of what happens today), then we would want the number of coins to grow, or someone would not be able to get enough to pay back, despite being able to purchase more stuff (his intrinsic wealth growing). On a further note, even a 1% interest would be actually compounded by the deflationary trend, making it quite lucrative. Is it possible that negative or zero interest would be lucrative (just to keep your money safe?)

Perhaps my questions are simplistic, but then again so is my knowledge in economics.

Thanks for reading

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/networks/bitcoin-atm-robocoin-makes-money-laundering-easy/

It talks about some BTC atm developments.

(Date fixed, due to urgent request, hope it's okay now )

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PIZZA just makes me think of Portugal actually. I'm not sure if they make nice pizza there. Probably do. It's really hard to get pizza entirely wrong. I've tried.

http://internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org/paper.html

how cool is that? I think it's very cool.

... here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bir_Tawil

I mean, de jure you could do it, just go there, stake it out and you can have your own claimed piece of land. Where you'd get the water is a bit of an important question though. And, of course, Sudan and Egypt might change their minds once they see someone to govern

Do you think someone with lots of cash could pull it off?

I always thought football fields had areas, not mass. So if you meant that, totally agree, someone is space is seriously trolling us.

That there really are square watermelons and it's not too hard to make them.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/odd/watermelon.asp

Hah, okay, when I pirate 4 million papers from JSTOR and crash their servers, call the feds. Pity for Mr. Swartz though, it's a shame to see such a brilliant mind gone.

Well, it has been a while, but I'm back and still offering the service. Let me know on the post or in a PM if you have any questions/requests.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kip_Rhinelander

If you suspect your wife is colored but are not sure and want an annulment of your marriage, there's already a US legal precedent

Depends on your jurisdiction, doesn't it?

Yes, but I kind of hate this idea that to do science you have to be a member of a university. What happened to independent scientists like Tesla? I'm sure there are really smart people out there who don't have the privilege to be in a university setting. Does that mean that they should be excluded from the exchange of scientific knowledge?
Besides, the current journals model is quite greedy - scientific journals do not pay for peer reviews and do not pay the authors of the papers. They obtain their profits simply because they have a monopoly on publishing. If you are a scientist, you have to sign away a large part of your rights on your paper just so you can get it into a high-impact journal. That's sad and slowly changing with the advent of open-source journals but old and bad habits tend to be hard to forget.

I think one of the most beautiful things about the Internet is the potential to share knowledge with anyone in the world, no matter of their nationality, political leanings or economic background. This is partly why I'm offering this.

Bumping this, because I do believe it's a valuable service! And it's almost for free

The number tattooed is 12, for D12 his rap group.

Yeah, I also think he meant me =D . Slavery was made illegal with the 13th amendment, I believe. So the constitution was modified after the majority of people decided to oppose slavery. Well, there was also this civil war, but it might have been pure coincidence.

I would offer the service to read a book and then write a report/summary on it. Sorry for butting in your thread on9isrock, it just inspired me. I read a book a week anyway, might as well make something out of it.
Prospective customers, PM me if you want to discuss details.
Or PM on9isrock, it was his idea in the first place!