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The only "better" bitcoin out there as I see it is darkcoin.
It has world class developers behind it and its not just a bitcoin clone.
They take privacy and neutrality seriously, and it is not pre-mined in any way.
Jesus, I can't believe anyone buying into a coin that isn't open from day one.
Thats the only real competition to bitcoin I have found so far.
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Isn't zerocoin a privacy wrapper for other coins, like bitcoin?
In that case, how can it displace it?
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Hi ! A new proxy is available to replace the dead masterpool proxy : - ip : 178.32.31.43
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I'm not so sure.
Anyone can set their own price on their own coins.
Could it be that they are trying to generate fiat as fast as possible in order to pay angry customers?
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This is an important point Fungibility. Good money needs to be fungible or the whole system of that money is inefficient as a medium of exchange and will inevitably break down.
It is not about anonymity per se but traceability. In the realm of digital money it must be untraceable to be fungible. Any piece of bitcoin must be indistinguishable from any other piece of bitcoin.
Anonymity can be a natural side-effect of untraceable digital money but is not necessarily a goal in itself.
And so is this As far as a transaction goes between two people; anonymous is synonymous pseudonymous.
You really can't have an "anonymous" transaction between 2 parties for as long as more than 1 still lives...
How much further can a currency go before it becomes impossible to identify a payment status of a specific order?
I think Bitcoin is about as "anonymous" as is effectively possible until somebody links your ID with your wallet address...
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It provides neutrality for everyone whether you are wealthy or not, and it provides protection from oppressive governments.
With the combination of decentralization and anonymity, a true democracy is suddenly within reach.
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Don't forget to talk about weaknesses and doomsday scenarios. Bitcoin has them both.
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Also, you typically want to do hashing in parallel using multiple threads, and that would be hard to do efficiently by selecting random nonces.
As far as I know, any number is as good as any other number so you might as well use a simple counter and do it sequentially.
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Wouldn't trust it, if it did exist. Which flavour of linux you using? I've not had problems on Mint, so expect all flavours Debian are stable. Can you not just download bitcoin-0.8.6-linux.tar.gz from https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.8.6/ extract from tar.gz and run the //bitcoin-0.8.6-linux/bin/32/bitcoin-qt ? I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 but have had problems installing from the terminal. I haven't extracted the tar.gz from bitcoin.org and I guess I could try that and see if that works I don't know why it's not working in the command line because I have root access etc. Download the tgz from here https://bitcoin.org/en/download and extract it with $ tar xf bitcoin-0.8.6-linux.tar.gz In the extracted directories there is one called 64 (for 64 bit systems) and one called 32 (for 32 bit systems) where you find the programs This should work fine |
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Pardon me but are you high? My $.02.  Nope. But thanks for reminding me! Joe You should ignore that kind comments. He's completely dense |
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Either the true purpose of Bitcoin will slowly get swallowed up by the current banking system and its regulators ...
Or there is going to be a struggle / tug of war like you've never seen before in the history of economics.
It all depends on how true those in the innovation / startup space stick to the core purpose of Bitcoin.
It all depends how steadfast, insistent, and loyal new business owners are to drawing certain lines in very specific areas of ideology related to Bitcoin.
And yes, thank God, the USA is not the only country in the world.
And thank God regulators have been made fully aware that they need to tread carefully because innovation will go where there is the least "friction" against it.
-B-
Some people will follow government regulation and some people wont, Bitcoin allows both to coexist without any struggle at all. The problem I guess is that those who doesn't will wake up one day and find their bitcoins unspendable in certain parts of the world. As Andreas Antonopoulos says, anonymity should have been implemented from the start. Personally I find comfort in the fact that if bitcoin doesn't do it, some other coin will. I can't see how that's possible... I don't think that's the kind of regulation we will be seeing... Even if that type of oversight was somehow accomplished, there are too many new doors opened by the protocol to actually stop people from doing what they wish. It essentially boils down to the fundamentals of unenforceable laws... The Bitcoin protocol is like the Universe; within the Universe you have different fields, each with a set of real laws which govern the interactions of the content within. No matter how hard you try, how much you spend, and without regard for who you are, the Universe will uphold the laws of it's creation. If you wanted to change the laws you would need to create a completely new Universe with a different set of laws. Conventionally people had to fear control under subjugation. It's not within the laws of the Bitcoin protocol to allow for unilateral control. If the chain is forked the people can easily move to a different coin. The only power anybody holds over the network is what power they can hold over you. Maybe, but I'm not convinced. I have seen how prominent bitcoin representatives starts crawling when faced with official authorities and law enforcement. Those who hold a lot of coins will let all principles go in order to protect their value. We have seen it before. The use of multiple addresses in a wallet goes a long way to prevent blacklisting of coins from being efficient, but anonymity, or rather the technology that comes with it, would have been the ultimate stronghold against brutal dictators like Kim Jong-Un and Kim Dotcom. |
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Shocked that no one said Electrum O_o.
I use electrum too, and I know others who does as well, but they are not likely to post on a forum like this. |
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Either the true purpose of Bitcoin will slowly get swallowed up by the current banking system and its regulators ...
Or there is going to be a struggle / tug of war like you've never seen before in the history of economics.
It all depends on how true those in the innovation / startup space stick to the core purpose of Bitcoin.
It all depends how steadfast, insistent, and loyal new business owners are to drawing certain lines in very specific areas of ideology related to Bitcoin.
And yes, thank God, the USA is not the only country in the world.
And thank God regulators have been made fully aware that they need to tread carefully because innovation will go where there is the least "friction" against it.
-B-
Some people will follow government regulation and some people wont, Bitcoin allows both to coexist without any struggle at all. The problem I guess is that those who doesn't will wake up one day and find their bitcoins unspendable in certain parts of the world. As Andreas Antonopoulos says, anonymity should have been implemented from the start. Personally I find comfort in the fact that if bitcoin doesn't do it, some other coin will. |
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I assume OP is talking about bitcoins ability to regulate itself.
The technology is quite amazing. Revolutionary even
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I thought I remember reading that we are expecting to hit 21 million Bitcoin in 2040 but won't Bitcoin lose a lot of interest when it does hit that amount I was under the impression Bitcoin was being driven by the media at the moment and the people who want to make a quick profit.
I believe that is 2140. @OP While those who wants to make a quick buck will create some ups and downs on the price, it is the general adoption of bitcoin that is interesting for the rest of us, and that should be a good old exponential curve in the longer run, due to the network effect. Also, there is no technical reason why bitcoin should drop in price when we hit 21M. Just like gold didn't loose its value when the gold-rush was over |
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http://coinmap.org/ also shows a few nodes in Russia. It used to be only one car service in Siberia on that map
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Jesus, talk about solving problems that doesn't exist.
What will be the next, mind control programs?
Backbone network taps 'did not exist' either...until Snowden released the NSA docs last year. Until then they were paranoid fantasies. I remember when 4 or 5 undersea cables went down in rapid succession maybe 5 or 6 years ago. I personally thought it entirely likely that this was a result of taps going in. Of course the hypothesis was roundly derided as some sort of paranoid fantasy. Fortunately (or not) it has never really bothered me to be labeled a 'conspiracy theorist'. Time has proven again and again that it has resulted in a more accurate view of the world. In fact I only every really heard of and became interested in Bitcoin itself because of looney-tunes whacko interpretations of how monetary systems worked. Right or wrong, my outlying views on the subject have directly resulted in a huge increase in my financial statement if nothing else. Predating Bitcoin in fact. I'm not quite sure what your take is, but I admit there is a few use cases where such a thing would be useful, like when an old woman is being robbed of her smartphone with btc on it. If there was some kind of massive scale abuse though, we would have bigger problems that couldn't be solved by turning off phones willy-nilly. That said, I completely agree on getting open hardware going. I have been arguing that for quite some time myself. |
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I use Bitcoin-Qt + Armory because I like to have paper backups of my wallets, and because I like to have the blockchain locally.
If I were to use a online wallet I would use blockchain.info because Andreas M. Antonopoulos works there.
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