I am a denizen of a group game/casino called Dragon's Tale.

The thing was essentially conceived of as a casino, with players just playing for themselves, but there is some sort of community trying to evolve, which makes it an interesting place.  Communities tend to emerge in all sorts of environments, of course, but this one is not very conducive, and in some respects it is even hostile, to emerging community.

The thing also operates very much like a work-lab for sociological study.  If I were teaching sociology, I would encourage my students to observe and take measures of several process like DT.  More about this line of thought in a later post one day.

In the meantime, where a person might like to 'hang out' there, he pretty much 'needs money', which he typically has to bring to the game from an outside source. And while I pick up a somewhat unsteady, but nonetheless substantial, income from playing bitcoin poker, I don't like the btc sink aspect of being there.

It happens that for every 10BTC wagered, you get back 100 btm 'dragon's treasure (DT).  I am thinking that a person could probably coast from DT to DT, employing such things as lots of micro betting, parties, feather trees, things like that.  If I am just goofing around of an afternoon, playing KS games while playing poker, I can easily knock of a whole percent of DT... and a hundred days of that gets you to the next DT.

So, I'm going to give that idea a spin, and this thread will be the record of it.

I just cleared a fresh DT, and so have about 80 btm in the account, along with 200 or so low end (KS 10KS) seeds of various kinds. I also have access to one of varieties of premium soldiers that offer 1 to 5 btm (depending on how long it has been since the last retrieval).  Too I get btm from  parties and so on, but tend to party back almost all of what I get in this fashion, and am avid to avoid becoming some sort of leech. Somehow, just dinking around on low bets, I already blew through the first 2% of the next DT yesterday!~

Anyway, I think I can do it if I stick with microbets for the most part.

I use the term 'rasta' because my image of rastafarianism (probably less than perfectly accurate) is that of valuing community, and partying, and not being all that ambitious about 'achievement' .... and in DT that means getting to a higher level.  And I have no ambition to do that at all.... I am level 8 now with my main character, and it seems that that is about the ideal level ... why push for higher, when the demands will only become greater, while the rewards for higher levels just don't seem to be worth the bother.  Levels 5 through 8 seem to be ideal ... you get there and you just hang out and play and party.  I am nominally 'trying to level... I have to do I think three more tasks... one of which is picking a zillion different herbs.... that will take years.... and 4 BTC worth of vegetables... well I am working on that at the KS seed level... so ... it's going to be a while.

Di might, at first think, not care for such a notion... but when you think about it thoroughly, having a background community of mellow people 'just hanging out' will tend to provide a friendly and welcoming sort of atmosphere for players who come to gamble substantially..... and encourage them to have fun, as it were.

So I'll be checking on on  this thread and sharing what's been happening there and my progress with the experiment on a semi-regular basis... and we'll see where it goes!~

A special hat's off to Umuri, by the way: I recently transferred my student-ship from him to another player, GG, who has been operatively my mentor for many months now, maybe even over a year.  Umuri was a total class act about it, explicitly giving his blessing, and showing not even the ghost of a shadow of an atom of resentment.

~Scorp

I go there and I get nothing at all... says the server is of line.

Anyone know what's up?

Hey  All!~


Busy as hell in the real world these last few years!~

What is the best way to secure your BTC these days, that is fairly accessible to technophobes?  (As in, 'I still have a flip phone and I will avoid the next thing for as long as I possibly can.  Every time in the past that I have learned the new technology it becomes immediately outdated).

Thanks much in advance!~

I got this email today:

Hello David…
 
 I just did what you advised me to do but the problem remains the same : importing the private key is not working…. drives me nuts!
 Last time I checked blockchain.info ( https://blockchain.info/address/17yFutSCSuUkAWeqMCKRRcr8Go6t98YcoX ) there was still 30.28020001 BTC ! But no way my bitcoinqt client loads the key so I am stuck with those BTCs.
 
 
 Thanks for offering your help with this. Here is my wallet.dat with the password http://goo.gl/sFgbEJ. If you need anything else let me know.
 If you can load the key please send the BTCs to 1DxFvJ6up9jXAZ9pkUmWVdiMTWvsjgB5Ea
 
 This would help me so much. Thanks David!
 
 
 Erwann



My name is not David, by the way. Almost certainly, the link is toxic.  I certainly didn't go there.

THat's the question... pretty busy so I don't have time to follow everything....

I appreciate your help and this excellent forum!

Thanks!

["Jaron Lanier! Where is your Bitcoin Address???"]

This just doesn't make any sense at all to me.

Jaron Lanier just released a book a couple months back called "Who owns the future?" and it is about the future of economy and money from an information scientist's perspective, as he puts it.

In the book's opening salvo,  he lectures the reader to the effect that 'If you read this book without paying for it, you're taking something and giving nothing in return'.  (It happened that I requested the local library order it;  They did).  He offers no mechanism by which payment can be provided.  Am I supposed to ring him up and give him my MC # over the phone?  Am I supposed to fart around with paypal ( a loathesome operation), spending hours and hours to see how I might pay him?

Now, bizarrely, he mentions in that book bitcoin only once!  (!!!) and this in a footnote.

I hereby invoke the 6 degrees of separation law, which starting from this forum should be 3 degrees at most.

Please see to it that Jaron gets the following message:


Jaron.  Good and Mighty Soul.  It is both mildly appalling, and mildly amusing to me as well, that someone such as myself, who would probably sort out at the 80th percentile on a measure of technophobes, to be asking to the skies, the gods of the aether, and the cyber-spheres:



"Jaron Lanier!  Where is your Bitcoin Address???"

I mean, some serious 'duh!' here mon!~

Serious duh!

Hi...

I'm wanting to send some money to a friend in that area.... is there an y way for him to cash them in there?

Thanks in advance!

Seven time out of ten I try to bring up that site and the server doesn't respond.

WTF.

It's half and half most of the time, but this is absurd and getting worse.

What are the better alt coin trading sites out there?

My bitminter client says I need this.

Where do I get it?

Where do I install it?

TIA

At this point, it looks like BTC, LTC, and maybe even Terra and some others will be a permanent part of the landscape, with even metacoin (mutual-fund-like packages) materializing in the not too distant future.

Fundamentally, all they are is an agreement to have faith in an idea, and a formula.  Brand-wise they are very, very vanilla.  That is a good thing I think.

BUT.  There is a huge untapped market out there for branded coinage.

Why?  Several reasons.

People prefer to steer their money into communities that they feel a kinship or loyalty to.

So, think about it:  If you were Christian, wouldn't rather wheel and deal in "Jesus Coin"?  It may sound irreverent at first.. but if you were trading in such a currency, you would feel better supposing that there was a darn good chanc that the merchant or buyer on the other end was of the same philosophy as you.

Or: People also like to spend their money locally... so you have not only state-coin (California-Coin, Kansas-Coin, etc) but local cities and towns coin... (Chicago-Coin, Chatanooga-Coin)

Similarly, there are a variety of fraternities and groups whose cohesiveness would support a coin... "Marine-Coin" or "Nascar-coin" or "GratefulDead Coin)

I can see the shape of currencies evolving to fit and vivify the memescape... and it really shouldn't be very far away from us in time.

Network Science suggest that a broad rich network of microtrusts would make the ripple much more fluid.

So this thread is for that...

Put your ripple tag in this thread, and I will trust it.

I will trust by number of posts in the past and to a lesser extent, history.

Less than 10 posts = no trust

up to 100 trust = 0.001 btc

up to 200 trust = 0.002 btc & etc.

I know that doesn't sound like much... but with an extended network it will make a huge difference in system fluidity.

(Edit)  I will do ten or maybe a few more than that of these trusts.... after that my eyes will get dizzy with all the numbers and names, tryin g to keep them straight ... I encourage you all to grab a few of the numbers and trust them for a mere 1 btm ... you are in no danger and it will help the whole system ... just a little bit, but each little bit adds up.  Feel free to start your own threads, get your friends involved, etc.  Thanks for joining into the concept.

Post and trust below!

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They are taking money and then using that to buy BTC.  If BTC goes up they say "Sorry, your transaction looks like it was too risky" ... this after jumping through all the hoops, and getting your bank account attached.  Meanwhile  I not pursue other means of getting BTC, so their assholism lost me time.  That bank account, which I use for internet transactions like paypal and so on, is totally sounds and has been in existence since 1999 with  no problems.

Here is the email they sent me when the day the coins were supposed to clear... 6 DAYS after I was charged for them!

*"On Feb 21, 2013 you purchased 4.00 BTC via bank transfer for $120.99.
Unfortunately, we have decided to cancel this order because it appears to be high risk. We do not send out any bitcoins on high risk transactions, and your bank account will not be charged.
Please understand that we do this to keep the community safe and avoid fraudulent transactions. Apologies if you are one of the good users who gets caught up in this preventitive measure - we don't get it right 100% of the time, but we need to be cautious when it comes to preventing fraud.
You may have more luck trying again in a few weeks. Best of luck and thank you for trying Coinbase.
Kind regards,
The Coinbase Team"*

F### YOU COINBASE !!!!

(And:  I'm gonna!)

Please cut and paste this message on any review boards that you know of!