I am visiting San Francisco/San Bruno arriving late night April 28th and staying until May 3rd. I would like to couchsurf with any bitcoiners if any are available and interested. Then I can save money that would be spent towards hotel and use it to party! Also check out the bitcoin party thread. I am visiting the area for a couple days/nights to visit with and rescue my Mom (and to return to Wisconsin with her). However, I will not have a location for myself for shelter for my duration of stay because I have no money. =/ If anyone is interested to meet and possibly assist with such accomodations, perhaps I can spare a few bitcoins as gesture of appreciation. ^_^
Additionally, by beginning of May, on the road trip back to Milwaukee, WI both my Mom and I would also appreciate possible sleeping accomodations if at all possible. I can also spare a few bitcoins as another gesture of appreciation. Here's a map of our route. I am not entirely certain where on the road trip we will stop to rest, but somewhere in the middle seems likely.
We will pass through and probably rest somewhere around the following locations:
Salt Lake City, Utah 745m ~12h
Rock Springs, Wyoming 929m ~15h
Rawlins, Wyoming 1034m ~16.5h
Casper, Wyoming 1152m ~19h
Midwest, Wyoming 1192m ~19.5h
Gillette, Wyoming 1276m ~20.75hI will be flying back to Wisconsin on May 3rd. |
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http://meta.witcoin.com/p/514/Help-TranslationIf anyone can provide a Blissymbol, Brithenig, Damin, Elvish, Enochian, Esperanto, Glosa, Ido, Interlingua, Ithkuil, Kēlen, Klingon, Láadan, Lingua Franca Nova, Lingua Ignota, Loglan, Lojban, Na'vi, Nadsat, Novial, Occidental, Ro, Slovianski, Solresol, Teonaht, Toki Pona, Tsolyáni or Volapük translation that would be Awesome!
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Does anyone have any questions they'd be willing to pay for an answer?
I'd like to establish an implementation that provides ability to let users profit from answering at the expense of users willing to pay for answers, however, I would like feedback if anyone is willing. Maybe I can offer to pay for feedback? *grin*
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Someone wrote to me: I personally do not like big gov but its better than most other parts of the world ,where tyrants rule and nothing else. |
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I thought of some things while seeping. Here's the brevity: slavery The policing and imprisonment system through the united states and I believe similarly well-established throughout the word is handled very similarly to slavery in that it may be a kind of evolved form of slavery, especially considering the established behaviorisms of related personnel in which they do not 'serve and protect' the public but instead 'server and protect' the continuously incoming profits from their actions of imprisoning and enslaving as many as possible or as much as they are permitted by society. Each individual or group of individuals that experience these types of abuses in relation to their friends and family being enslaved may feel as if they cannot do anything about it even as they try almost desperately as they are only one or a few distinct individuals in support of a single or few additionally established slaves (for varying durations of time). Recently watching videos at http://freekeene.com helped to reinforce or establish the ideas that made me to consider this concept. matrix / food / coupons The mass produced food in which we consume may be made available to consumers in a way that is contributory towards enslavement and control of the minds of individuals that consume such foods. e.g. you are what you eat. Although it may not be accurate depiction for all food suppliers offering coupons, coupons for particular products may be made available to undercut prices for competitive products allowing for the particular product related to the coupon having more recognition for having the cheapest monetary price at time of sale. This may allow for established monopolistic food entities to provide food offerings that may be detrimental or contributory to one's health perhaps in the form of GMOs designed to aid in such deteriorations or even to offer opportunity for consumers to feel a need for further reliance on medicinal remedies made available by health industry to cure or remedy common symptoms such as cold, upset stomach, flu, digestion issues, etc. These issues seem very related to the food we eat, that if we choose healthy foods, then our bodies may recognize that they are healthy and not become weakened or damaged due to unhealthy foods, especially ones specifically designed to be unhealthy. The matrix reference is in relation to scene of babies feeding the system. |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVrCSAMnf6II get this question a lot, which is why children, you can't reason with children so you have to use some kind of force to control them, to restrain them, they don't know what's best for them, they basically have cognitive deficiencies which necessitate the use of parental aggression in order to keep them safe and happy and on the right path and so on. And to my mind that is not a reasonable or good argument. And the way to best understand that is to understand that the principal is not parent to child. The principle is more cognitively efficient to less cognitively efficient. In other words, if it's just parent to child then it's bigger and strong and the key ingredient there is bigger and stronger not cognitive deficiency. But if we accept that parents have good brains and children have relatively not so good brains, then it is the good brains to not so good brains that really counts. In other words, if you can think better or more clearly or more efficiently than somebody else, then you can use force or bullying or aggression or abuse in order to help them to think better. Now, of course, the science clearly shows that stress inhibits the development of brain cells and impairs cognitive efficiency. Just try doing a quadratic equation while you're running away from a bear and see how well that goes. But, the reality is that if this is a universal principal like better better brain can bully worse brain in order to make worse brain better then it's a universal principal. It has nothing to do with parent child.
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Do you think someone in the Bitcoin community would be interested in writing a story specifically on the app/purpose/development? |
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Is it possible to produce exploits (not software, but perhaps related to social engineering) in which individuals around the world are led to continue their support of ideas as they normally do, but in a way in which their support is directed towards those that have exploited and instead redirect the support into other ideas (particularly those expressed clearly by Stefan Molyneux)? For example, individuals participative in the collective "powers that be" (similar to the swarm of anonymous) can simply pose as such and establish support from and control over others, in which the support is funding not continued enslavement of humanity, but instead funding help to reduce and minimize such control and power.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qID7Jsu1K0sAlthough I recognize the slave/master theme that still ensues for earthbound existences, what can be done to prevent further "happiness in slavery?" Near the end of the video Stefan suggested Sam should offer his education for free and instead accept donations. Perhaps there could be some sort of establishments in alternative education methods/systems that allow Bitcoin donations to fund individuals that would like to educate others? It appears ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_degrees ) that individuals can earn or establish degrees online. I am not too familiar with such forms of education, but I believe that with the Internet as being a superior database of information (mix of misinformation and accurate information) and with swarms of individuals pushing to bring out the accurate informations more so than the misinformations, there should be some method to implement a kind of reliable education system that allows individuals to learn and establish themselves in a way that forks from the current master/slave-influenced system. Maybe a p2p type of education system?
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From one of my Uncles after introducing Bitcoin to them: Hello,
I am not familiar with BitCoin. Sounds like a closed-ended bartering mechanism? right?
In my crude opinion, for currencies to be relied on, they should be:
1. Hard Currency (internationally float-able/exchangeable)
2. Have liquidity (sufficient number of people believe / concur in its exchangeable value)
3. Have the ability to be used by mainstream population
It would be interesting to see about how other people adopt it long-term. and what is its rate of adoption.
Creating money has always been an interesting topic in history. I don't think your uncle is misunderstanding anything yet. Bitcoin isn't hard money, it's not even money really. It's a currency.
I am not familiar with what a "closed-ended bartering mechanism" is and thefore I do not understand whether it is accurate understanding of Bitcoin or not. =/ Regardless, I am not certain I can best explain Bitcoin since the countless individuals I have discussed with or tried explaining to, I failed mizerably and haven't been able to peak anyone's interest. Therefore I instead direct them to partially participate with the rest of the community/enthusiasts, if at all likely for them to engage in such participation. |
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I encountered Bitcoin Darts and played a total of ten times each for 0.1btc. I came out ahead by 0.41btc. So I decided to investigate further the odds of winning. I analyzed the PNG image and noticed a bit of antialiasing and also a bit of green bleeding into the bullseye area. Additionally I wasn't certain how to evaluate the black pixels, whether they are to be included and if so which color to evaluate it as. I figured perhaps the code is designed to regenerate a position if black is picked. Additionally I wasn't certain how the code would handle antialiased pixels that do not match the exact rgb value of the majority of colors, so I recreated another image with no antialiasing that I then wrote a script and parsed the data from. Attached is the image I produced and below is a PHP script I wrote to gather and output the following data: <?php
$im = @imagecreatefrompng("5x2ki8jf.png");
$imx = imagesx($im);
$imy = imagesy($im);
$odds = 65535;
$pixels = array(
"Bullseye" => array("count" => 0, "pays" => 5),
"Double Bullseye" => array("count" => 0, "pays" => 10),
"Blue" => array("count" => 0, "pays" => 2),
"Blue Inner" => array("count" => 0, "pays" => 6),
"Blue Outer" => array("count" => 0, "pays" => 4),
"Purple" => array("count" => 0, "pays" => 1.2),
"Purple Inner" => array("count" => 0, "pays" => 3.6),
"Purple Outer" => array("count" => 0, "pays" => 2.4),
"Cyan" => array("count" => 0, "pays" => 1),
"Cyan Inner" => array("count" => 0, "pays" => 3),
"Cyan Outer" => array("count" => 0, "pays" => 2),
"Red" => array("count" => 0, "pays" => .5),
"Red Inner" => array("count" => 0, "pays" => 1.5),
"Red Outer" => array("count" => 0, "pays" => 1),
"Green" => array("count" => 0, "pays" => .2),
"Green Inner" => array("count" => 0, "pays" => .6),
"Green Outer" => array("count" => 0, "pays" => .4),
"Outside" => array("count" => 0, "pays" => 0),
"Black" => array("count" => 0, "pays" => 0)
);
for ($y = 0; $y <= $imy; $y++) {
for ($x = 0; $x <= $imx; $x++) {
$color_index = imagecolorat($im, $x, $y);
$color = imagecolorsforindex($im, $color_index);
$r = $color["red"];
$g = $color["green"];
$b = $color["blue"];
$a = $color["alpha"];
if ($r == 0 && $g == 0 && $b == 0 && $a == 127) $pixels["Outside"]["count"]++;
else if ($r == 0 && $g == 0 && $b == 0 && $a == 0) $pixels["Black"]["count"]++;
else if ($r == 74 && $g == 74 && $b == 255 && $a == 0) $pixels["Blue Outer"]["count"]++;
else if ($r == 255 && $g == 66 && $b == 66 && $a == 0) $pixels["Red Outer"]["count"]++;
else if ($r == 130 && $g == 254 && $b == 255 && $a == 0) $pixels["Cyan Outer"]["count"]++;
else if ($r == 255 && $g == 74 && $b == 253 && $a == 0) $pixels["Purple Outer"]["count"]++;
else if ($r == 0 && $g == 0 && $b == 255 && $a == 0) $pixels["Blue"]["count"]++;
else if ($r == 255 && $g == 0 && $b == 0 && $a == 0) $pixels["Red"]["count"]++;
else if ($r == 0 && $g == 252 && $b == 255 && $a == 0) $pixels["Cyan"]["count"]++;
else if ($r == 255 && $g == 0 && $b == 252 && $a == 0) $pixels["Purple"]["count"]++;
else if ($r == 77 && $g == 255 && $b == 77 && $a == 0) $pixels["Green Outer"]["count"]++;
else if ($r == 0 && $g == 255 && $b == 0 && $a == 0) $pixels["Green"]["count"]++;
else if ($r == 0 && $g == 0 && $b == 180 && $a == 0) $pixels["Blue Inner"]["count"]++;
else if ($r == 189 && $g == 0 && $b == 0 && $a == 0) $pixels["Red Inner"]["count"]++;
else if ($r == 0 && $g == 179 && $b == 181 && $a == 0) $pixels["Cyan Inner"]["count"]++;
else if ($r == 181 && $g == 0 && $b == 179 && $a == 0) $pixels["Purple Inner"]["count"]++;
else if ($r == 0 && $g == 181 && $b == 0 && $a == 0) $pixels["Green Inner"]["count"]++;
else if ($r == 189 && $g == 125 && $b == 0 && $a == 0) $pixels["Bullseye"]["count"]++;
else if ($r == 255 && $g == 168 && $b == 0 && $a == 0) $pixels["Double Bullseye"]["count"]++;
//else if ($r == && $g == && $b == && $a == 0) $pixels[""]["count"]++;
else echo "$r $g $b $a<br>";
}
}
echo "<table><tr><th>Color</th><th># Pixels</th><th>Chance</th><th>Payout</th></tr>";
foreach ($pixels as $color => $data) {
?>
<tr>
<td><?php echo $color; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $data["count"]; ?></td>
<td><?php echo number_format($data["count"] / $odds * 100, 2); ?>%</td>
<td><?php echo $data["pays"] * 100; ?>%</td>
</tr>
<?php } ?>
</table> Color # Pixels Chance Payout
Double Bullseye 72 0.11% 1000%
Blue Inner 655 1.00% 600%
Bullseye 440 0.67% 500%
Blue Outer 760 1.16% 400%
Purple Inner 780 1.19% 360%
Cyan Inner 839 1.28% 300%
Purple Outer 923 1.41% 240%
Blue 4796 7.32% 200%
Cyan Outer 984 1.50% 200%
Red Inner 792 1.21% 150%
Purple 5622 8.58% 120%
Cyan 6173 9.42% 100%
Red Outer 958 1.46% 100%
Green Inner 1122 1.71% 60%
Red 5812 8.87% 50%
Green Outer 1282 1.96% 40%
Green 8196 12.51% 20%
Outside 16156 24.65% 0%
Black 9687 14.78% ?% Chances of winning or breaking even: 0.11 + 1.00 + 0.67 + 1.16 + 1.19 + 1.28 + 1.41 + 7.32 + 1.50 + 1.21 + 8.58 + 9.42 + 1.46 = 36.31% Chances of losing: 1.71 + 8.87 + 1.96 + 12.51 + 24.65 + 14.78 = 64.48% Otherwise if as suggested above, black pixels are not included, then Color # Pixels Chance Payout
Double Bullseye 72 0.13% 1000%
Blue Inner 655 1.17% 600%
Bullseye 440 0.79% 500%
Blue Outer 760 1.36% 400%
Purple Inner 780 1.40% 360%
Cyan Inner 839 1.50% 300%
Purple Outer 923 1.65% 240%
Blue 4796 8.59% 200%
Cyan Outer 984 1.76% 200%
Red Inner 792 1.42% 150%
Purple 5622 10.07% 120%
Cyan 6173 11.05% 100%
Red Outer 958 1.72% 100%
Green Inner 1122 2.01% 60%
Red 5812 10.41% 50%
Green Outer 1282 2.30% 40%
Green 8196 14.68% 20%
Outside 16156 28.93% 0% Chances of winning or breaking even: 0.13 + 1.17 + 0.79 + 1.36 + 1.40 + 1.50 + 1.65 + 8.59 + 1.76 + 1.42 + 10.07 + 11.05 + 1.72 = 42.61% Chances of losing: 2.01 + 10.41 + 2.30 + 14.68 + 28.93 = 58.33% Note: The site was also mentioned a few times: originally here, laterly here, more laterly here, even more laterly here and second to lastly here but not here. Also Statistics |
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Bitcoin Control PanelI would like to prepare this initial code offering for wide adoption. I am uncertain if it is a best implementation, but it is functional and minimal in design. For the moment, a PHP-based server-side backend is made available, however, I would additionally like to expand this particular project to account for other server-side scripting language environments, however, I am not certain how to accomplish this myself. Any feedback is appreciated, and especially I encourage others to help contribute and expand upon it if it seems worthy.
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From the maker of Please.Bitcoin.Me and Bitcoin.Me comes witcoin beta
witcoin beta
post, reply, upvote
more to come never (see below)
if you have any questions, feel free to ask and even answer them (if you know the answer) in the faq and of course, make sure to upvote as you like.
hint: for now all costs are set to 0.01 witcoins
hint: 1 witcoin == 1 bitcoin
more professional explanation and documentation to come nevers because I am no longer involved. |
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