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Other / Meta / Re: Most Influential Forum Members
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on: February 10, 2014, 07:26:34 PM
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-Matthew N. Wright (completely absurd that one poor bet overshadowed his contributions to the community)
Who do you trust more, Goat (whatever long absurd username he has now, something like "Grand poobah of bullshit mountain Goat") or Matthew N. Wright? |
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Other / Meta / Re: Most Influential Forum Members
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on: February 09, 2014, 01:12:27 PM
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by reputation: MPOE-PR
Ha, The only person who is more ignored than MPOE-PR is Smoothie. People ignore her because the truth hurts. |
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Economy / Services / Re: offering escrow services as a startup escrow
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on: February 06, 2014, 02:43:20 PM
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I think you have things backwards. First you establish your identity and reputation, then you offer to act as an escrow agent. If you want to start doing escrows, start by putting a gpg signed statement of your identity into your OP.
what's a gpg signed statement see, you have some learning to do before anybody will trust you as an escrow. Start here |
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Economy / Auctions / Re: my signature!
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on: February 05, 2014, 10:47:34 PM
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Hey, you didn't say when the auction will end?
You might get a higher offer for your signature space if you ever posted more than one line at a time and used proper capitalization and punctuation.
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Economy / Services / Re: offering escrow services as a startup escrow
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on: February 05, 2014, 10:39:23 PM
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I think you have things backwards. First you establish your identity and reputation, then you offer to act as an escrow agent. If you want to start doing escrows, start by putting a gpg signed statement of your identity into your OP.
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Other / Meta / Re: Most Influential Forum Members
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on: February 05, 2014, 10:05:00 PM
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Who are they?
(by # verified btc)
(by quantity/quality of posts)
(by community reputation)
etc.
Measurable metrics are preferable to keep things relatively objective.
I'm curious about who currently holds the most sway around here beyond the obvious folks like Gavin and Vitalik.
by reputation: MPOE-PR I seem to remember Phinneas Gage has the most posts by a long margin, I think there is some way to look that up? |
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Other / Off-topic / Re: Croatia
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on: February 05, 2014, 06:27:31 PM
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Why wouldn't us Americans have heard of Croatia? It is on the maps ...
I grew up in the Detroit suburbs; many of my schoolmates had moved here from Yugoslavia.
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Local / 中文 (Chinese) / Re: 比特国际出认沽权证了！
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on: February 05, 2014, 05:28:48 PM
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Here, let me translate that for you (via google)
Thanks for translating the spam. Heh, it's not much worse than some of the other things on this board, but it is in the wrong section. |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: When $1 was exchanged for 1,300 bitcoins, Why was this done at the time?
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on: February 05, 2014, 05:24:23 PM
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I don't even understand the question, am I the only one ?
How was the first exchange rate established? Because people thought it was worth $1 so they were willing to pay $1 for it. It is simple if you think about it a minute. Imagine you look into bitcoins and decide there might be some future for this thing, it is interesting and maybe it will be useful for something someday. So now you want to get some. There are two ways to get them, mine them or pay somebody who has already mined them. Then ask yourself how much money it would cost to mine it - the electricity, the time spent setting up the program, the wear and tear on your computer, and the time waiting for a block to be found. At the time, the difficulty was really low so it would not take a long time to do, but it is still not 0. So maybe you decide that for a dollar's worth of work and computer wear and electricity you could hash out 20 blocks, at 50 btc per block that would be 1000 btc. Some dude you met on the internet has already mined some bitcoins, they are just sitting on his computer doing nothing, so he gladly will trade 1000 bitcoins for your dollar. Bam, now you have an exchange rate. |
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Local / 中文 (Chinese) / Re: 比特国际出认沽权证了！
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on: February 05, 2014, 05:10:46 PM
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Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: What makes a transaction unique in-block?
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on: February 05, 2014, 05:01:17 PM
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Can someone suggest, perhaps ELI5, how it isn't possible for a miner to see a transaction payment to themselves; duplicate it many times; and put those into a block that they confirm? That would be trying to suck the donating account dry, down to the modulus. How is each transaction unique, that miners cannot exploit them in the block they are creating? Obviously, trying that would still be a matter of luck in order they are the miner confirming the next block but still not clear to me, how it's not possible. I'm expecting that transactions can't be duplicated from one block to another because of some ?Merkle root signature of the existing tree or similar but how is in-block duplication prevented?
If a miner tried to duplicate payments in the block it would be invalid and the block would be ignored by all the other miners. |
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Economy / Services / Re: I will answer chemistry questions for BTC tips
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on: February 05, 2014, 02:52:41 PM
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As I understand it, proteins interact with each other and other structures primarily through natural vibrations that arise from their folded structure. Are there any non-organic molecules that are so large that some parts of them could act as binding sites or receptors such as in proteins?
Proteins are strings of amino acids, there are 20 common amino acids, they all have a common backbone NH2-CHR-COOH, where for each amino acid the R group is different, called the side chain. These amino acids string together to form the protein NH2-CHR1-CO-NH-CHR2-CO-...-NH-CHRn-COOH, n can be anywhere from just a few to millions. Each protein therefore is a distinct set of amino acids in a specific pattern. The different amino acid side chain groups interact with other chemicals in specific ways, and you can imagine a protein is like a long string which gets folded into a specific knot with a very specific shape. So there are two things going on when the protein interacts with other molecules: the shape and the side chains. Another thing that happens is if the protein interacts with another molecule it often changes the shape of the protein, so then the protein will react differently to other molecules before or after binding to that molecule. Some of the properties of proteins are shared by RNA, some scientists have suggested that RNA carried out the functions of proteins in early life before proteins were developed. Now, back to your question: There are two things that allow proteins to do what they do, their size and their variability (the alphabet of 20 different amino acids). So to find an equivalent class of chemicals we would not only need something very large, but also something which can form distinct patterns. Large is not a problem, there are plenty of classes of inorganic molecules which form networks that make proteins look tiny, but these are generally made by simply repeating the same unit over and over again. Basically, the amazing thing about carbon is its ability to form long polymer chains with side groups. The closest thing I can think of would be some sort of silicone, which has an inorganic backbone of -Si-O-Si-O-, but silicones are still organic because they have carbons hanging off the silicon backbone. There are examples of inorganic materials which have specific sized binding sites, they are used to filter out materials (like how molecular sieves adsorb water to make anhydrous liquids) or as catalysts (like zeolites, for an example see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZSM-5). So I guess the answer to your question is yes, there are inorganic materials with structurally specific binding spots. |
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Economy / Services / Re: I will answer chemistry questions for BTC tips
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on: February 04, 2014, 08:08:37 PM
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Bump.
The past few days I have been doing a model reaction reacting 1-octene with syngas (CO and H2) to make nonanal. Is it just me, or is nonanal a funny name for a chemical? (The chemical is pronounced nonan-al, but what do you think of when you say it non-anal)?
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Economy / Securities / Re: [Mpex.co] The biggest scam in bitcoin history?
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on: February 01, 2014, 10:36:24 PM
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If you don't want to pay the registration fee, you can use CoinBr or another broker.
Should I use your link? If you want; it is there for people to use. And then also promote that piece of junk? No thanks. Just out of curiosity, since you're advertising the other popescu money printer, is there a bitbet when mpex/mpoe will collapse? Hey, I figure having the links there does not cost me anything and I might earn some commissions if somebody clicks on them. It is also an experiment to see if anybody ever follows links in my sig, I have had them there a couple months and have not gotten anything from either site yet. Maybe I need to switch them to 72 pt bright red font? |
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