Greetings fellow cryptonians.

I was wondering if any of you have heard word of literary magazines or book publishers having branched out yet into the cryptocurrency world.  It's been a while since I checked in on what's been new with the cryptocurrency stuff.
...And if not.  Somebody should.

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I read about Twister.  It really picqued my interest.

I must say,  from bitmessage, to twister...

I'm really excited for the innovations that bitcoin technology is bringing to the fold.

I can't wait for someone to develop a bitcoin based browser because that would really be awesome! 

I actually was thinking about different ways that a bitcoin based browser might function...

I think that it would solve many issues with current browsers. (Privacy/security wise)

bump.

Gotta keep this thread on the first page.

*sigh* This thread seems to have died...indeed.

I hope someone creates a fork of Bitcoin that's not subject to gatekeepers or monopoly.  Then we can all flood there and leave Walmart, the abandoned leftovers.

The major flaw with Bitcoin is that it can *and in some cases* has to be translated to USD.  The currency should just stand on it's own and develop it's own separate economy.  The any privacy concerns would negligible.  The privacy is only effected if you try to convert your BTC.
*Which is the government panicking because they've lost control*

Remember, all governments need us to need them.  If we can function independently, then there's no need for government.  *The whole military/police argument is a sad excuse* Again, fear is just the government's way of manipulating us.

So, if Bitcoin functions independently, *Fuck the Dollar* then the government can't know who we are.  And in that regard, I think Bitcoin is far more valuable *function wise* and should be allowed to take it's natural role as defacto currency worldwide. 

I don't believe that privacy is violated converting other cryptocurrencies to bitcoin or vice versa.   This only applies to state sponsored money. *correct?*

Have you ever tried mailing a dollar to Antarctica. *By snail mail*?

What would be faster? A dollar shipped physically to Antarctica or a Bitcoin transaction?

Your comparing a currency to services that use currency.

Paypal isn't a currency, it's a service.

Similarly to how something like Western Union isn't a currency either. 

Bitcoin is just a currency, it's only as fast as the service that delivers it.

The bitcoin network itself has been really fast for me.  Higher transaction fees equal faster delivery time.  *It's not fair* but it's not so big, a problem that it's worth caring about on my end.

Are you implying that only capitalism can have currency?

...And everyone has to eat.  The world leaves us with very little choice in the matter.

Ok, let me put it this way.  What if you created something that you want, then wouldn't your labor have been the price to pay for your own creation?

I don't know you so I can't dispute what your saying with evidence.  However, I can only look at current trends and question things.



I plenty agree with that.

But I disagree that that is what creates stuff.  *Perhaps it used to*  It probably motivates people to save up to buy "stuff"
but let me ask you this,

Who does speculative trading help? It doesn't seem like a service that most people would have a use for.
Let me compound the issue further by questioning why labor is outsourced when people would need a job in their own country.

When looked at from an idealistic standpoint, which is what you brought up, it sounds pretty logical.  However when you factor in that there are people out there hoarding money, and doing nothing useful with it. *Such as speculation*
I wonder then, at that moment, what is being created that would benefit anyone.

As an investor, you bet on goods and commodities.  Which means that when you bet on a good and/or commodity to succeed *or fail*, you give up your ability to make arbitrary decisions about that good and/or commodity because your biased about it.

Now imagine the system was rigged by people with biased feelings about investments.  And they exist in a system that rewards such unethical behavior.  The idealism and logic of the point you brought up, falls apart.

Because, while you may be helping people.  The fact those people need help in the first place was caused by the manipulations of the various markets, and their affect on the political structure.

A woman a few minutes ago posted a thread on this forum.  Asking for help paying for her daughter's leukemia.  In a just world, she wouldn't have to pay money to save her daughter's life.  Instead she had to come here to beg.
But rather then anyone helping her, the post was deleted by admins.

If money helps so many people, then why do so many people find themselves condemned to death for lack of it?

No functional arguments for money can alleviate the wrongs committed in the pursuit of it.

I suppose that was what I was getting at.

I recently learned that there was a study done at Cambridge university, where several neuro-scientists successfully *according to their research* proved that human and non-human animals have a consciousness.

I suppose that would fit into the *something more* category.  Because if we are just a bag of bio-degradable chemicals, then it would call into question, just how we know that we exist.  Or rather, where does our sense of self come from?

We are influenced by our chemistry, true.  But are we our chemistry, or are we the drivers of a biological machine?
Mystics over the years have referred to us as spiritual beings.

...And quantum physics/ metaphysics references various states of ourselves co-existing simultaneously on different frequencies.  Should that be the case, then is spirit really just energy condensed into a slow vibration? Or are we simply much more then we can ever comprehend?

I do know that we as a species have empathy. *It's not an original trait, since it's been proven that many animal species have it too*

So it raises a question, that if a person we consider greedy, *or even psychotic* were shown 48 hours worth of footage of other people around the world living, and the problems they deal with.
*How would that person be affected?* Would they change?

I think that that is again, debatable.  Nature vs Nurture.

I think that it's unwise to point to solely either one.
If people are indeed born with their own individual personalities, then it's possible that a few corrupted souls could come into existence.  However it still depends on the nature of the environment you stuff them in.

For instance, if a child isn't humored growing up, but treated like a person.  Educated properly rather then shoved in front of a TV.  There is a great deal to be hopeful about.

Children actually have an incredible learning capacity at the earliest years.  There's even been reading programs sold, that target children of two years or younger...

If a child begins reading at the age of two, I don't see how they could be unaware of their place in the world.  It really depends on how much a child's mind is nurtured.

A child without a thought, will act thoughtlessly.

Then you my friend are not delusional. 

Rich and poor are both made up terms.

...At the end of the day we're all human.


Bill Gates is a complicated issue.  The man is a master manipulator.  And he's rather self absorbed because he believes that the
whole entire purpose of education is to produce Microsoft employees. 

while, Microsoft employees have to be educated, there are other careers out there...*and why necessarily just careers? Why not the arts or scholarly pursuits?*

Warren Buffet is by far the more rational among them, actually wanting to pay more taxes. *He understands his role in the world* However, regardless of the members of that minority of billionaires who want to pay more, most *wealthy* are determined to hog as much as they can.

Which is why true capitalism can't exist either.  It's too perfect.  You'll always wind up with monopoly and corporatism when there aren't restrictions on how competition is allowed to thrive.  Take mergers and buyouts for instance,  and how far that's led us astray.  Too big too fail is an understatement.

When greed is publicly encouraged, you also get mass suffering.  So just because people are flawed to a degree, should that be used as an excuse, why we can't imagine greater?

To a degree, all people are a product of their environment.  *That leads into a debate on nature vs nurture* which hopefully can be slightly avoided.  And since we are assaulted constantly, since childhood by messages of materialism and greed, rather then being taught to appreciate each other, and the planet we live on, *that has an impact on young minds*
To an extent, we are what we know.  no baby is born greedy.  *It's a learned behavior*

The fact that some people would sacrifice clean air, and clean water for a bit of green paper, signifies that there is something deficient in our societal wisdom.

Before we can begin to change the world, we have to change those aspects of ourselves.

I think that showing actual truth about what's happening in the world to everyone, and having people learn about other cultures and ways of life could greatly decrease the ignorance and materialism latent in our society.

Perhaps that's why television doesn't usually show what's actually happening.

I'm not a Marxist.  You assumed I was.  

I've actually never read Marx.  I've been saying things like this my entire life, and people assume I read Marx.
I'd like to think that my views are far more radical then anything Marx could cook up.
...But I'm not interested in having such a discussion right now.

*sigh*

I might get hated for saying this but...

I feel like the people trying to be like Job/Gates/Buffet are delusional...
partly because Job/Gates and Buffet are/were delusional.

The reason I say that is because so much emphasis is being put on acquiring money.  And money doesn't equal a happier life.
All the while, there are people having to trudge through dumpsters for food.  The hoarding of all that *wealth* means that many people will have to face possibility of starvation because a few people think that having so much money, that it could never be spent in their entire lives, is their meaning in life. *Which is delusion*

 You can live perfectly comfortably with a fraction of that.  No one needs huge mansions and 500 cars.
There's no practical/logical reason for it.

The purpose of money is to be spent and circulated.  There are people who really need that to survive, and by hoarding it, you are harming society and the economy.  *To perpetuate some sort of made up fantasy, that will probably leave you alone and unhappy for the rest of your life, knowing everyone is using you for your wealth and that you don't have a real friend in the world*

Hope that wasn't too cliche' but the thought that money hoarders are actually harming people, rarely crosses their mind.
So, I'm just intervening a bit of reality into the fantasy.

I don't question people anymore, I accept them as they are.
There's far less stress to be had in the world, that way.


Ah, math,  My old arch nemesis. *

I wouldn't try to fit human behavior to a series of number.  The reason why is because no math can compensate for the variables of individuality.

You cannot understand life by lumping whole species into a single category.  Every person is unique to a tee.
...And no one person sees the world exactly the same way.

We'd make far more progress by simply getting to know people and hearing their stories.  *That's what would end wars and conflict.  The realization that we might be able to relate to each other*

However that's just radical new-age hooey, right?

Regardless, I think that if we truly wish to evolve further as a species, then we need to stop valuing things because they're shiny.
In the process of mining gold, people die.  And territorial conflicts ensue...etc;

Same thing goes for any mineral, alloy...etc;



The pursuit of ever more, rocks *essentially* we are devaluing the preciousness of life.  

...And what becomes of all that gold? It rots in a vault somewhere.  It's never used, nor circulated.  But rather used as a leverage of power.  *Giving some people a feeling of superiority because they have tons of a yellow rock, wasting away in their safe*

I believe that an indirect result of trading with currency is hoarding.  And only when we've made a currency that can't be hoarded and that forces you to have to spend it, will economies be unbreakable.

...Because right now, people care too much about the currencies themselves.  They forget that they don't cease to be a human being just because they have nothing.  So they shouldn't let an object define them, nor depend on it.


I don't mine bitcoins.  I actually work for them, so for me it's convenient and sort of a necessity.

 
...Which in layman's terms means "Ooooooooooo shiny"

I honestly don't see how some people can dispute evolution when they're a walking contradiction.

This thread seems to have died...quite quickly.

I'm not trying to play teacher.  I'm just a sucker for a good argument.


Not entirely sure what to make of that, though.

Is that a boast? or truth?



...But whatever, I'm not going to judge.  You are who you are, and we are all one consciousness anyways.

Just replying to get this thread back onto the first page.

It's invaluable for the newer users.

Oh and FenixRD.  You probably did miss my point.

According to classical economics, a price is determined by the amount of labor that goes into creating a product.  Correct?
So I was simply pointing out the flaws in that argument, as nothing that has a price, under current monetary rules, actually reflects the labor that goes into it.

Most price is dependent on perception.  The perception of value based on brand-status...etc;

...But many critical facets of production are ignored.  And the price of production is often externalized onto the tax payer or the environment, rather then being reflected in the actual price of what we buy.

The concept of money doesn't exist in the physical world, at the end of the day. It's abstract and as such, determined by the minds of whomever is throwing around the idea.

If people were more realistic in their view of the world, no inanimate object would be taken so seriously.