I used to enjoy these forums, but the trolls and worse, attention whores who have nothing but negativity to contribute, have really ruined the experience lately.
Just watch man... the trolls who currently declare Bitcoin dead because the price is falling, will soon declare it unusable as a currency because the price is rising. The deflation argument will return. The bubble argument will return. The pyramid scheme argument will return. It's fine, when they've missed both their first and second chance to accumulate a stake in the most revolutionary technology since the internet, they'll be trolled by their own conscience and that's a very pernicious troll, indeed. |
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Anyone selling goods or services, especially related to Bitcoin, may be interested in FeedZeBirds.comYou can set your own advertising budget, and then an army of twitter users will retweet your message - sending it far and wide. Site is brand new and I'd love any/all feedback. Check it out - FeedZeBirds.com |
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I'm pretty sure the main reason the Euror is failing is that multiple countries with multiple fiscal policies are trying to use a single currency that needs a single fiscal policy.
It's failing because all the governments are bankrupt and people are realizing this. |
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evoorhees, there are so many trolls and asshats on this forum, that sometimes I despair and don't come back for days. But then I see your posts and I have hope. If we had just a few more forum posters of your quality and reasonableness, and a few less trolls, this forum would be a MUCH more enjoyable place. Thanks.
Thanks man I really appreciate that  |
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Damn, there goes bitcoin price to the sky again... and it will eventually fall as people lose interest in it.
Just wait and see...
New infrastructure and exposure brings new bubbles... new bubbles bring new infrastructure and exposure. We should expect many bubbles, and a continual waxing and waning of interest over the coming years, but always with a net aggregate growth in usefulness, userbase, and price. |
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Seems like Max Keiser is now fully on board with Bitcoin - the conference in Prague clearly pushed him over the edge. He's been tweeting frequently with great things to say about Bitcoin, and his legion of Twitter followers appear curious, intrigued, and supportive of Keiser's new fetish. And why not? The many reasons one ought to support silver and oppose central banking are just as relevant (or moreso) with Bitcoin. Speaks highly of Keiser that he's able to recognize the potential of this new technology - it shows that he understands monetary systems fundamentally, as opposed to being just some old-fashioned silver bug. A few tweets I just saw: AlexLFz Silver Surfer @maxkeiser tell us more about #bitCoin CMcEvil CIARAN MC @maxkeiser why are you so hot for BitCoin? NeilMichaelis Neil Michaelis @maxkeiser Bitcoin is the future. NOW! cnctcompassion Kellie Conley, MA @maxkeiser can u give links to bitcoin info? KnightCrawler_7 NieL aka .... add one more to that RT @maxkeiser BitCoin has about 100,000 users now. My goal is to try and get that number up to 1 mn. in 2012 Remmic Remmic @maxkeiser downloading bitcoin now and spreading the word! maxkeiser maxkeiser Last year we had three guests on "Keiser Report" talking about BitCoin. We are going to follow that up in 2012 with many more. |
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Re: European Bitcoin Conference Mitchell Bourne is an Australian wandering Romania without a fixed address ( google him) . He demanded that our firm www.fnib.co send him a wire transfer of US$5000 to cover his costs in Prague. We cut all ties. He has slandered our name in retaliation and pressured this forum to censor our posts. We will go to the press about him and this forum. We will nor shut up. Contact us for details: www.fnib.co  Dude - not a single person who is actually at the conference is saying a single bad thing about it or Mitchell. Nobody is corroborating your story, and you have no credibility anyway. So, you're kinda making a fool of yourself at this point. And who the hell cares if he doesn't have a "fixed address" and is "wandering"...? That seems to be your primary attack vector and it's pretty silly, as if a proper Australian ought to stay at his home in Australia! With your posts, you're slandering your own name more than Mitchell has... so if you're going to report him you may as well turn yourself over to the reputation police because you're your own worst enemy at this point. |
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- OperationFabulous.com (banner ads throughout bitcoin land)
- FeedZeBirds.com (brand new twitter advertising)
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Some us were able to spend our Bitcoins on beer today at the Hard Rock Cafe in Prague. The wi-fi sucked, but we still got through. The price of a beer is 50 kroner, or 1.05 bitcoins! I will take 2 more beers please!
Pics pics pics! And if I was a bar in Europe right now, I'd be more willing to accept BTC than EUR  |
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Hi traders,
Crypto X Change has a number of buy orders coming in and prices are being bid pretty high. I just sold 23 coins at $2.94 each.
If you have coins lying around, you might put a sell order there at higher than spot price and see if you can make a bit of profit.
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The best news would be cutting out Dwolla. Direct bank transfers would be brilliant.
Like CryptoXChange.com? |
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Very cool, will be recommending to people.
Well thanks, but with a name like yours of course you have to like FeedZeBirds  |
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I have been using bitcoin for a little over 6 months now, and I have decided to label the entire thing pointless. First off, at the time being, mining is impossible to be profitable, so that is off the table for earning bitcoins. All the investments you made went to shit after the bitcoin crashes back in july and august. Bitcoins went from 30 dollars to 3, in a matter of moths. That is a 90% loss, over 4ish months. Even if you can get bitcoins at a good value, what the hell are you going to do with them. The selection of marketplaces that accept bitcoins is so slim, that it is just not worth it. That is if you can keep your bitcoins, which some companies (MyBitcoin) cannot seem to do very well. So my question, Why are you staying here, and supporting this dead, useless, unprofitable, currency known as bitcoin?
Thanks,
macintosh264
1) Mining will always tend toward zero profitability - it's not a money-making scheme. 2) Your time horizon for "investments" is pathetically short. You're concerned with a price fall over the past few months... that's nothing. Come back in 5 years and tell us Bitcoin was a bad investment. Besides, year to date, Bitcoin is still up 100%, and is way higher than that if you go back to its creation. I'm sorry you got involved during a price bubble, but if you're going to "invest" in something you better be ready for years of volatility. 3) If you don't understand the usefulness of Bitcoins, then I can see why your interest is so fickle. Send me $0.10 without Bitcoin and let's see what happens. Send me $100,000 in another country and see what happens. Try opening a store and accepting credit card orders from Cote D'Ivoire and tell me what happens. Try sending a paycheck to a home bank in another country every week and tell me what happens. Try playing online poker from the US and tell me what happens. Try sending money between two of your own bank accounts 50 times and tell me what happens. Try preventing the Government from seizing your bank accounts or inflating away the purchasing power of your money... Do you want more? 4) "The selection of marketplaces that accept bitcoins is so slim, that it is just not worth it." <---- dude it's been like 6 months since anyone really knew about Bitcoin. Give it time. Have you seen https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade recently? 5) You cite MyBitcoin like that is common. Cite another ewallet that disappeared. The number of sites that ran off with peoples' money can almost be counted on one hand, and there are hundreds of sites out there. Be diligent and take responsibility for who you trust. 6) Those of us who are supporting this currency do so because we know it is mankind's single most important invention since the internet, for many reasons. I'm sorry you didn't get rich in 2 months. tl;dr - what's the point? To fundamentally change the monetary system of the planet. |
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"A fiat currency used in Internet commerce"  Yeah why do so few people know what fiat means... it means "by decree" of government. Come on CNBC do 5 mins of wikipedia research =) Anyway, awesome placement of an article! Will surely get thousands of views. |
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All pretty except the part about funds owed to spam accounts being donated.
Give it back to advertisers, that's how real advertising agencies do it. The fact that the advertiser didn't get what he paid for, yet you keep his money to donate to someone else is fishy as hell.
That's not a bad suggestion, we'll consider if it would be reasonable to implement. Thank you for the idea. Spam accounts are blocked and reported to Twitter
Huh? Isn't your entire business model built around twitter accounts spamming ads? Not at all. There is a big difference between a legitimate Twitter user who sends periodic sponsored tweets to his followers, and a "spam" account that has fake followers. We screen the latter group out. How and when a legitimate user sends a retweet is up to him - and if he does it too often, or with completely irrelevant ads, he's likely to lose his followers, so there's a nice feedback mechanism to keep people from going crazy. If this mechanism is not sufficient, we may implement a limit of retweets per day (2 or 5 or 10 or something). Our business model fails if spam accounts get through and become widespread - so we keep a close on that. |
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Announcing the love child of Twitter + Bitcoin... FeedZeBirds! [OPEN BETA] - FeedZeBirds.comFeedZeBirds is an advertising platform which leverages the instant payments afforded by Bitcoin and the social media networking power of Twitter. Using your already-existing Twitter account, you simply log in (no new account needed), and retweet any of the available sponsored messages. The site automatically calculates your followers and the sponsor's CPM budget and pays you Bitcoins instantly. Truly revolutionary advertising made possible only by Bitcoin.- Works anywhere in the world - No personal or financial info needed - Instant, automated payments - Payout to your Bitcoin address or your email address[/li][/list] - Users have full control - never an automated tweet you don't approve of - Advertisers have full control - set a budget and the price you'll pay per 1,000 Twitter followers who see your ad (CPM)[/li][/list] Advertisers - this is a great new way to get your message out and pay solely in Bitcoin. It's fast, you set your own CPM figures, and then users can choose to retweet your message if the reward is worth it for them. Spam accounts are blocked and reported to Twitter - any funds owed to spam accounts will instead be donated to charity (or maybe the Bitcoin Dev Team =) We also have a mechanism to enable donations for a campaign, so charities or community groups can fund a message - supporters can donate at any time to keep the campaign running. The site is fully-functional, but we expect some bugs in this open beta. Please let us know what you find, and also if you find anything confusing we need to know! We intend this to help advocate Bitcoin to the masses beyond Bitcoin-land. Sponsored Tweets is a growing industry (see SponsoredTweets.com) - Kim Kardashian makes five figures on every tweet (a good sign of society's demise, to be sure). Maybe we'll see if she wants to join us. Get started here: FeedZeBirds.comFollow @FeedZeBirds Bitcoin FTW |
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Great news - proof of concept for a "normal" business to integrate Bitcoin with legacy systems. Really exciting |
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I found the new interface MUCH faster and more responsive. Bitcoin now loads in 5 seconds instead of 25 seconds, and there is a nice splash screen letting me know it's on the way.
I hugely favor 0.5
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Please add me. Good idea OP.
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LOL OP what the hell are you talking about?
This is a vast improvement, both aesthetically (although I guess that's always subjective) and functionally (not subjective).
I heart it very much.
Aesthetically it's look like malware written for kids. You are probably new to computers, and you probably never used Win95 that set standart for computer interface for more than next decade. All you need is eye candy that detaches You from the program workings, such as hiding number of connections, hiding number of blocks and so on. The Functionality is more broken than ever. Using 0.4.0 generate new address and then copy to clipboard it to paste it somewhere. Now do it again using 0.5.0 when the client is in Overview mode. How much clicks You need to done, how much eye and cursor movements? I guess if you're going for a Windows95 motif then this latest version is a regression. Personally, I think Win95 had much too much eye candy... all those corners and colors and buttons and crap. DOS was far superior, for it let you really connect with the "program workings." I'm hoping Gavin and Co. will just scrap the GUI entirely. THEN Bitcoin will really catch on. |
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