The current prices are rising constantly high even on a high trade volume. So I wouldn't say this is a bubble.

Mtgox BTC/USD is back to ~3,30 currently. I think this is the "normal" price, 0,40 was speculation.

Every hacker loves bitcoin. Bitcoin is the ultimate hacker & cyberpunk dream.

http://www.kimsufi.pl/ks/

Super-cheap dedicated hosting.
One core/250GB/2GB/100Mbit starts from about 20 EUR / Month.

And yes, it is quite stable/reliable, I'm already using it for more than a year.

Here is the french page - it's very alike in matter of pricing & selection:
http://www.kimsufi.com/ks/

There is an UK site too, but it is little more expensive.

Agreed



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What da hell are ya talkin' 'bout man ?
If that was an insult, you're getting your ass kicked today.
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If i wanted to cover bitcoin in one sentence, then i would say "Bitcoin is the first virtual, electronic bullion".

Hey, nobody is in a hurry here.
I was just asking if You can do it at all.

I'm not saying about hosting software, I'm saying about a Desktop computer with newest version of Firefox installed.
And contrary to some hostings which use such install scripts installing unstable & unsecure shit (by the way, what hosting companies are these ? i will know what to avoid - thx), standard desktops are not so suspectible to infections - of course only if you install software from signed repos and keep updated.

That's because "standard desktops" do not serve anything to outgoing world as hostings do.

If you're using Linux for bitcoin & only install software from signed repositories & keep system up to date, then probability of infection is almost unexistant.

You should be more worried if You're using Windows however.

I didn't say that it wouldn't work. I just said it is retarded

This is probably the most retarded idea of the century.
You can now claim the prize:
http://www.hare-hill.co.uk/pics/bunnies/previous%20bunnies/Pancake%20bunny.jpg (bunny included).

Can you provide some historial & economical context ? "Was horrible" doesn't say much.

Hey, I like the idea ! Sounds definately better than the current system.
Oh, wait...

OK, so point out these parts, i am interested what was lies and what was the truth.

I myself noticed one inexactness, but i wouldn't call it a lie.

I wouldn't call it lies - that would be an overstatement. It is just not very precise.
The movie itself is just adjusted so that the masses can understand how the system works without too much thinking, and it does that well. For the ones who want details, they can study Wikipedia, books, or watch other movies.

Money as debt is better though. But i have also met people who said that "money as debt is lies" because "it is more complicated than that". But in it's core, both Money as debt and AMERICAN DREAM are right. Central banks (and generally banks in today's sense) are here to steal from us and make us slaves. As simple as that.

I seriously doubt that 10% of gold/silver/platinum bullion is lost every year...

Once people understand that bitcoin is a hard money & a commodity, they will protect it with their lives, the same as they do with normal bullion. Therefore, i think that 10% may be probable for the first few years of bitcoin adoption, and when masses understand the power of bitcoin, the loses will fall to 3% or less.

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Also, new, better clients will be created with built-in multiple automatic wallet backups & data redundancy (or it will be implemented in the default client). So the losing of a wallet will become less common.

On Linux/UNIX there are network filesystems such as NFS and CODA, which can give you multiple backups on many servers at once. Everything everywhere cannot just go "boom" all in the same time.
Not saying about ZFS, SAN/RAID disk arrays, and lots of other technologies which give you multiple data redundancy. You can have as many backup servers as you want... possibilities are endless.

Anyway, this is not really a problem, because modern banks all use electronic currencies already, and if their computer systems failed, people would lose money the same way as they would lose bitcoins...

OK, actually we're both right, this discussion is pointless.

How did this start ? Ah, i said that bitcoins are "backed". Well, wrong choice of words. I should have said that they are valued at their market price like a commodity.
Mea culpa

OK, but gold is not also backed by anything itself.
So what ?

For thousands of years the only reason people wanted gold was because it was shiny, cool & trendy (I'm not talking about modern times when gold is used in electronics and so).
So if bitcoin becomes cool & trendy like gold, it can easily become the commodity everyone wants itself. It has an inherent value.

Also, if somebody finds another use for bitcoins (the same as gold is used for electronics today), then it will have all the properties of a commodity (except that you can't touch a Bitcoin).

This is a wrong way of thinking. Bitcoins cannot be redeemed, because they are not a fiat currency or I-OWE-YOU notes. They are more like a commodity, a bullion. They are almost physical, except that You cannot touch them or hold them.

What you are asking me to do is not to "redeem" bitcoins for something. You are asking me to either put the mined gold back to the ground [EDIT: or convert it to power, manhours & devices used to extract it]. But what would be the point of that ?

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EDIT: To be exact, you cannot put the mined gold back to the ground in precisely the same way it was previously stored, atom-by-atom. It is impossible with current technology. The same with bitcoins. Once you mine the bitcoin from the "ground", you cannot put it back in exactly the same way it was stored there previously. Also, you can't convert the mined gold back to the electricity, fuels & manpower used to extract it - the same as with bitcoin.

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The more i think about this, the more i see how incredible invention bitcoin is. Satoshi & whoever invented the idea of electronic commodity based on hashes are undoubtedly geniuses.

I would rather pay money to the site if they publish a bitcoin address or paypal or something themselves. I do not want to send money to someone random spotted on forums.