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Somebody has been impersonating me from Nov 7 to Nov 10.
Of course I have changed my password and deleted the (about 30) fake posts. The fake posts were mostly inoffensive with some promotion for scamcoins, which is consistent with a paid spammer.
I am posting this to leave a record that may be useful if this happens again.
I don't post frequently and never advertise scamcoins, so if you see that kind of posts it wasn't me. Please IM me if this happens again and also send email (I am easy to find online).
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I am thinking of something like this:
- Users can buy micro-shares of public companies. For example a user can buy 1/100 of a FB share (currently trading at $93) for $0.93, and pay in bitcoin.
- The money is used to buy real shares. In the example, as soon as there are enough buyers for one FB share, the operator buys one FB share and the user receives 1/100 ownership.
- Users can trade micro-shares.
- Users can sell micro-shares to cash out. For example if 100 users want to sell 1/100 FB each, the operators sells a real share and pays the users.
Does something like that (or similar) exist?
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1. Why the f# didn't they add the option to use also bitcoin addresses (instead of only public keys) to create multisig addresses? I am sure there must be a strong reason but I don't see it at the moment. Many users don't know their public keys immediately, and some (e.g. Circle etc.) don't know them at all.
2. When a multisig transactions has been partly signed, how can the other allowed signatories be notified? (besides emailing them).
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What publicly traded companies (NYSE, NASDAQ, OTC) are developing Bitcoin technology or applications? I know of Overstock, Bitcoin Shop and the Winklevoss ETF, but perhaps there other options for traditional investors that want to invest in the Next Big Things.
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What are the options to invest in the real stock market with Bitcoin? For example, funds where you can buy in with Bitcoin or Bitcoin stock simulation games.
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Who will maintain the post-mining Bitcoin network and why?
It is often said that, once all bitcoins have been mined, the miners who maintain the Bitcoin network will be compensated with transaction fees. But that will kill one of the main competitive advantages of Bitcoin, which is very low transaction fees.
OK the day when all bitcoins have been mined won't come for decades. But in a certain sense we are already in the post-mining phase, because mining is no longer profitable enough for most individual users. So I think we are beginning to have this problem now - no miners = no Bitcoin, mining not profitable = no miners.
Of course a new altcoin can be created to make mining (of the new altcoin) profitable again and thus provide incentives to new miners, but the new miners would be maintaining the new blockchain, not the Bitcoin blockchain.
Any new thoughts and perspectives on these related issue?
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I have been thinking that one of the first killer sidechains could be one to store and show text, html and images (web on a sidechain). Bitcoin micropayments could be used to keep spammers out and reward the readers who maintain the chain (writers pay, just like you pay for web hosting). Thoughts and/or implementation ideas?
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So who is building BitDAQ and BYSE, or something like that, a full equivalent of the global stock market on the blockchain?
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So when can the option to change avatar be restored? I am bored with mine, had it for a long time.
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What's the best place to set up a Bitcoin poker/gambling operator?
Of course the "best place" should offer a good/optimal balance of different criteria such as low regulation and good Internet infrastructure.
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I haven't seen Silk Poker mentioned here so far. https://silkpoker.com/Din anyone try it and what do you think? |
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Is there any BTC online poker with these features?
- Open backend software that anyone can inspect online.
- Random numbers from a hardware-based entropy generator (real random numbers, not pseudo-random) with sufficient evidence of no tampering by the operator (ideally the random stream should be provided by a trusted third party like a top university, NIST or something like that).
- No BTC is ever held by the operator, all transactions are player to player.
- Reasonably low rake of the order of 1%.
- Modern and very easy user interface.
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In a blockchain-based polling/voting system, what is the best way to ensure that nobody votes more than once, and what is the best way to keep votes secret (if that's a requirement)? The info available in the blockchain should be 1) who voted and 2) how many votes for each option.
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Can somebody explain to me why the Bitcoin scripting system is purposefully not Turing-complete? To make malicious programs difficult to develop (I guess)? Or because it was difficult to make it Turing-complete? Bitcoin uses a scripting system for transactions. Forth-like, Script is simple, stack-based, and processed from left to right. It is purposefully not Turing-complete, with no loops. ( https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script) |
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A crazy idea that I just had (but perhaps it's not crazy and/or not new):
Banknotes (say, one dollar bills) could be given a value in BTC and used to pay in BTC. Anti-counterfeiting is already implemented, courtesy of the state.
Take one dollar, choose a value of X BTC, send X BTC to an operator with the serial number of the banknote. The serial number goes to a database, and the operator will pay X BTC to the bearer of the dollar bill with that serial number.
Developing validation smartphone apps is easy.
Of course the problem is that the operator may take the money and go, or refuse to pay.
Anybody can think of a solution, perhaps involving a distributed database and a "distributed operator"? Can the Bitcoin network itself function as distributed operator?
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Hi, first post here after one year. I am persuaded that the BTC economy will really take off when we can go to the pub and buy a beer in BTC. In the meantime a _very fast and easy to use_ system to exchange BTC for cash would be useful. Perhaps based on NFC in phones? I am sure something like this must exist, please post links.
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