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I'm a bitcoiner and I have very little doubt that some exchange do indeed some FRS.
Why ?  Just because they can.

If you have a customer that has been giving you 100BTC so that you just hold them, and if you haven't heard of this guy for months, it's really difficult to resist the temptation of using at least a fraction of this money to do some business for your profit.   If the guy claims his money, but you have only 90BTC on his account because you used 10 BTC for something (a loan or whatever), hell you just have to take 10BTC from an other sleeping account.

It's that easy, and nobody has to know.

That's why when I send money to an exchange, I always presume that they will use it for some stuff, without explicitly telling me.



No.  Just be cautious and do not put too much money in the same time in an exchange.

I'm not responsible for other people's ignorance.  Whatever are the reasons why they are happy with the system, those reasons are not my concern.  I'm not in their head, and I'm not sure I understand the system better than they do, anyway.  Maybe YOU are the one who is wrong.

There really is no point launching a croisade against a this monetary system since you are not forced to hold fiat money.   Just buy precious metals, bitcoins or whatever.

Forcing people to ask for a same price for a same service IS planned economy.  It's called price control.  And it brings nothing good.  Do you think a bureaucrat is better suited than the market to determine what is the appropriate price for a given service?

Damn it you make me feel guilty about not having given anything already.  I'll add half a bitcoin.

You know what would be cool?   Some kind of a bitcoin standard test-bench, with predefined addresses, keys, transactions and so on, that all clients in all languages could use as a reference for testing.

I'm quite amazed by how fast you've been coding this.  Congrats.

Do you support IRC bootstrapping in the test network ?  I've searched occurrences of "irc" in your code and I've found nothing relevant.

I'm not a US citizen, but from what I know of american people, not all of them support gun ownership and therefore not all of them actually have weapons at home or know how to use it.  My guess is that burglars think the risk is acceptable.


I very much doubt a burglar is motivated by hunger.  Otherwise when someone robs a grocery store, he would go after the food, not the cashier.

Ces derniers temps on dirait qu'il y a beaucoup de nouveaux qui sont dirigés vers bitcoin-central.  Peut-être qu'ils sont un peu débordés (je crois savoir qu'il y a encore une grosse part de traitement manuel des données).


Cela dit je ne fais pas partie de leur équipe et je n'ai pas utilisé le site depuis un bail.  Demande à davout pour plus d'info, je crois qu'il bosse toujours autour.

Well, he has been robbed at the beginning of the process.

If I burn your house and see that ten years later you bought a new, prettier house, are you going to tell me that you have no hard feelings against me?


Well, what is it, then?  Because the way I see it, even in your SF world where robots do all the work and produce all the wealth, this wealth will have to be shared.  And even if you initially give everyone an equal number of shares, at some point people will start buying and selling them, so that eventually you'll end up with a world being like a big corporation whose shares will be pretty much as unevenly distributed as any company nowadays is.

Here we go with this again.  Reminds me of the thread about venus project and Zeitgest movement.

Let me explain you that what you describe is not much different than the current way capitalism works.  A robot is a mean of production, just as is a share of a company/firm/factory (I don't know exactlly how you call that in english).  And those means of production have to belong to someone.

From the point of view of the owner (i.e. the capitalist), it does not matter much if the worker is made of flesh or steel.  What matters is that it behaves as such:  it accepts to work, to give away its production and to receive a predetermined money amount in exchange.  The robot does not demand much wage, basically it only requires maintenance costs which is equivalent.  But otherwise, to the capitalist the robot and the human are not much different.  One is just much cheaper than the other.

So the situation you describe is just a fancy, science-fiction way to describe what currently exists already.  I do own shares of companies and most of my income come from that.  I don't care much about what kind of workers work in these companies.  Hell, I guess there is a fair amount of robots already.

Now, I guess you're going to tell me that we should give shares of companies to everyone, on an equal basis.  Ok so that means first that you have to steal mine.  Ok I'll try to ignore that and do as if it was moral.  Now, everybody has the same amount of shares.  Great.  I'll go see someone and I'll tell him:  « dude, you have 10 shares of company X and they give you 1 bitcoin a year.  I'll give you 10 bitcoins now if you give me those shares. »  The guy does accept because he thinks it would be cool to have 10 bitcoins now, and not to have to wait ten years.  So he gives me his shares and go buy some now legalized drugs with the money.  I, on the contrary, will keep on underconsumming or working harder in order to keep saving capital.

Eventually, people who tend to work and save will tend to have much more shares than people who tend to consume and be lazy.  And you'll end up with a situation which will be no different than the current one, except that you would haved passed through a phase where you expropriated people (remember the part when you to steal my shares to give them to everyone?).

Is that your plan?

Ok, so according to you in the particular case which is discussed in this thread, the old man should just have let the burglar help himself and get away (I don't see any other alternative if you don't want to kill nor imprison anymore).

Yes, there might be something wrong in the american society (I don't know, I'm european).  But until society is fixed, people should have the right to protect themselves from the consequences of this wrong society.  Don't you think?

I doubt people who favors gun ownership think this would improve society.  They just think it can help prevent people from undergoing the fact of living in a wrong society.  This is quite different.

Tu peux générer une adresse et communiquer cette adresse pour recevoir tes bitcoins.  En attendant que tes blocs soient téléchargés, tu peux vérifier que tes  bitcoins ont bien été reçus en consultant un analyseur de chaîne en ligne comme blockexplorer.

Garde bien à l'esprit que tu ne pourras utiliser tes bitcoins pour payer quelqu'un que lorsque le bloc dans lequel se trouve la transaction correspondante aura été téléchargé et relié au reste de la chaîne.


Bitcoin-central est le site le plus connu pour les français.  MtGox est plus international et a plus de volume mais les démarches pour l'inscription sont très lourdes (photocopie de carte d'identité, de justificatif de domicile et tout...).

Si tu veux acheter en vis-à-vis et que tu es à l'aise avec IRC et GnuPG, tu peux utiliser bitcoin-otc.

 Justin Bieber is a bitcoin developper !!   



 

If one of your 20 addresses has been hacked for some reason, the others probably are too.  IMHO.  Better use a key that has never been used and only you know it even exists.  It might be encrypted and hidden in a picture somewhere using steganography, for instance.

 

BTW guys, for those who do not know this, menopause is quite a unique feature of our species.   There's a whole evolutionary theory about it, called the Grandmother hypothesis

http://phys.org/news/2012-09-upconverting-nanoparticle-inks-invisible-qr.html

« An invisible quick response (QR) code has been created by researchers in an attempt to increase security on printed documents and reduce the possibility of counterfeiting, a problem which costs governments and private industries billions of pounds each year. »

« According to the researchers, the QR code will add an increased level of security over existing counterfeiting methods as the complexity of the production process makes it very difficult to replicate. »

They really don't get it, do they?

I mean, it seems that the only solution they can find against counterfeiting consists in making the fabrication process more and more difficult, and hope that counterfeiters will not have enough technical skills.

Yet the truth seems quite simple to me:   if a government can do it, or can pay technicians to do it, then anyone, with enough time and money can do it as well, with just a bit of reverse engineering and motivation.

So basically this guy is more of a supporter of bitcoin than Ron Paul is.  It's a bit surprising.