then, your conversion is inaccurate and points to your fundamental lack of knowledge about gold.
I know the difference between metric and troy, and it's wholly irrelevant. Since you didn't supply any corrections of your own I consider my point proven. (You didn't touch the cost of extraction at all) |
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As much as I'd love to call up my buddies at TED and tell them to sign me for a presentation on Bitcoin
One of the great things with global forums is that there's always someone more connected than yourself. I'm very impressed by the above, knowing very well how TED speakers are selected. You cannot possible be a "Matthew N. Wright"  |
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Gold is finite. Yes. Like everything else, depending on the timescales. there's not enough gold for everyone to have just 1 ounce. At the end of 2009, it was estimated that all the gold ever mined totaled 165,000 tonnes
~6 000 000 000 oz means you're right but it's a rather close call. However, when talking about price and whether you're in a bubble or not this is what matters: The average gold mining and extraction costs were about US$317/oz in 2007
(Yes, I believe in there being such a thing as fundamentals in Bitcoin price also depending on current mining cost) |
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Anyway, you'll love the 5-star resorts on the beaches of Pattaya.... for about maybe 10% of the cost of the same room in the US.
Exactly. It's why huge conferences (CES!) are held in Las Vegas as well. It's simply a great place for conferences no matter everything else that the place in question might be famous for. |
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Consider focusing the bitcoin conference locations on world financial centers (hong kong, london, dubai, nyc, ...) rather than fun vacation destinations All destinations mentioned in Bruce's mail look appropriate. Maybe comments to the contrary lack global insight? (I'm slightly startled, as a European, as to what people seem to think about Amsterdam. It's as if I would describe the whole of San Francisco as a good place to meet bums after having spent a night or two south of market/mission). |
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That just strikes me as sad. What group of people would decide those are the best two places to hold conferences?
What does that say about them and the people they are hoping to attend via those city attractions?
I think it says something about some people's (nationalities?) associations. Us europeans are quite used to going to Amsterdam for conferences. Last one I attended there was OSiM - Open Source in Mobile. (Thailand I've never been to, but in my local country Pattaya is referred to as the biggest tourist centre and lists lots of family activites) |
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Do you know how much fees are at other conventions?
Do you know what a real convention is??? LOL. I do. One of the conferences I'm going to in October has an admission fee of $4000. |
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All I read from the op was that he is unhappy that someone else is not working hard enough to make the btc price go up for him
+1 The true content was in the personal meetings. Sorry guys, that's always the best thing with conferences.
I think the problem is that a lot of people here only know "conferences" to be E3, CES etc. They don't know that a lot of conferences are 30-80 people flying in from all over the world with little to none external coverage and very niche specific. |
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According to Manny, the manual head count done during the Keynotes was approximately 120 - 140 people.
That's absolutely amazing for a first time conference not really being majorly advertised in the weeks running up to it. Well done. |
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Its not the e3 FYI.
To be fair, those are the only conferences a lot of people know since they are the ones you get to hear about even if it's not your industry/interest. I've flown half across the world to speak at conferences were no one but other speakers turned up - and those were run by professionals and well advertised. To be the first of its kind, this one seems to be doing really well. |
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Thank you Lumpy, wolftaur and defxor. I changed the link as per suggested and included NSFW in bold. Any other corrections or suggestions are truly appreciated.
Umm. Since it's a completely different tattoo now it's safe for work though ... |
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Tattoo link is NSFW.
I'm asking for clarification on this issue. Should the link be changed because of NSFW? Only americans care about NSFW as far as I know, but the link should be changed for a completely different reason if I recall correctly: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28001.0 |
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I don't want to walk into a trap here, so what do you mean by "regular people"?
No trap I'm talking about people who don't know what a cryptocurrency is, do not believe the world is run by a secret cabal of bankers, don't think ponzi schemes are a valid line of work, don't ... There are a lot of weird posts here. That's ok, I like almost-unmoderated personally. A lot of people don't. |
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Well, if sourceforge is such a puppet in the U.S. government hands, i say take the client out of there, because it doesn't seem the right place to be hosting it.
To anyone who wants to make Bitcoin a bit more global I'd suggest approaching http://prq.se/ for hosting. |
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I suppose I need to revise my definition of spam then. Spam is any post which doesn't make sense, or doesn't add information that may be of value to other people. Like a post that simply says "Boo!". No one wants to read that. Also, obvious scams would be considered spam and would be deleted. But, I absolutely don't mind people coming in and advertising their own websites or promotions though (provided it is posted in the correct section of the forum).
So, your sales pitch is that you will run a forum we can safely point regular people to? That would be a welcome change indeed. |
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I believe your questions are irrelevant
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By popular request, we're having a $20 Freeroll, Sunday, 9pm GMT...
one table only, so get there early... signups start 6 hours before the tournament!
We've enabled chat in the poker lobby now, so you should be sure to find a game in the lead-up, and all ring poker games on Sapphire are still rake free until Monday!!!
See you at the tables.
+1 Registered and waiting. |
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