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561  Economy / Speculation / Re: Things are happening behind closed doors, very important for Bitcoin things. on: March 22, 2013, 09:05:54 AM
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If these projects come to fruition, which is likely to happen within 2 years time frame, the accessibility of Bitcoin investments to general public will be ubiquitous.

I cannot really put a number on that.

Then this whole topic is useless. Why did you even start it ?

For me "the accessibility of Bitcoin investments to general public will be ubiquitous" is worth more like 5-10 billion USD than 500 million USD.

Unless you are talking about some stupid startup that plans to create a non-fractional reserve bank, investment fund or FOREX-like market. That may be worth 100-500 million when it starts.
562  Economy / Speculation / Re: Things are happening behind closed doors, very important for Bitcoin things. on: March 22, 2013, 09:00:06 AM
Regarding how big is BIG in Bitcoin. There is Vladimir's Axiom that I have published some long time ago.

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"No entity with market cap larger than that of Bitcoin shall adopt it "

If that is true, then really really BIG for Bitcoin is something around half a Billion. This kind of excludes all the nation states. Cyprus, for comparison, needs about 20 billion USD to sort themselves out. Bitcoin is out of its league there so far.

And how BIG exactly will be this your "thing" ?

Can you at least give us a range - like "from 1 billion to 2 billion" ?
563  Economy / Speculation / Re: Things are happening behind closed doors, very important for Bitcoin things. on: March 22, 2013, 08:38:28 AM
If this is a really as BIG thing as Vladimir is describing it, then I can think of one thing:

Russia does not like dollar very much. China also. So do probably other asian countries. They may be conspiring to replace dollar in the role of world's reserve currency with Bitcoin.

LOL, nice one. But this kind of BIG is to a different Vladimir please.

Ok so then a smaller thing.
564  Economy / Speculation / Re: Things are happening behind closed doors, very important for Bitcoin things. on: March 22, 2013, 08:22:02 AM
Umm.. who are you and why do you know these things?

1. He is russian, russians are like that.
2. Let me guess...

If this is a really as BIG thing as Vladimir is describing it, then I can think of one thing:

Russia does not like dollar very much. China also. So do probably other asian countries. They may be conspiring to replace dollar in the role of world's reserve currency with Bitcoin.

If that is true, then price will skyrocket to about 100 x of what is it now, and even more.




565  Bitcoin / Press / Re: 2013-03-20 Zero Hedge---Spain & Bitcoin on: March 21, 2013, 10:02:45 AM
hype BS  Roll Eyes

Yes, sure, maybe there's an increased volume from Europe but I'm much more inclined to think it's a minority trying to get in on the action of the recent price rise rather than people actually scrambling to get their wealth into a safe heaven. Bitcoin although I think it may one day be is not a safe heaven yet.

Agreed.

Agreed. If they were really trying to protect their wealth, we would already be at 200USD / 1BTC.
566  Economy / Goods / Re: NEFT Vodka and Bitcoin on: March 20, 2013, 10:55:23 PM
But...

How much % of pure liquid Bitcoin does it contain ?

567  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: We are lucky to be a part of this. on: March 20, 2013, 10:38:33 PM
65 USD/BTC, with market capitalization (slowly ?) approaching one billion US dollars...

Oh my god...
568  Bitcoin / Press / Re: 20-03-2013 Reddit: IAMA Nassim Taleb - Bitcoin is the beginning of... on: March 20, 2013, 09:38:59 PM
Invalid link, badly formatted date.

Good link:
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1aoi0s/iam_nassim_taleb_author_of_antifragile_ama/c8zb3d8/

Good date:
2013-03-20

Could anybody correct these at any time ? Because nobody ever does.
569  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: [SOFT-FORK] Bitcoin fork "No Forced TX Fee" v0.7.2 avaiable on: March 20, 2013, 08:33:07 AM
block limit for 0.7.2 or ?

I was talking about the fixed 1MB block size.

Once we start getting close to it, low priority transactions (low amounts, multiple small outputs etc) without any fee may never confirm.
570  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Why bitcoin exploded in price on: March 19, 2013, 05:40:24 PM
You forgot:
- Cypress
- NZ
- Italy

All three countries are planning or attempting to plan to confiscate a percentage of their citizens' savings accounts.  People in those countries are going to be fleeing the national currencies like a bat out of Hades, you just watch.

You're out of your fucking mind if you think people who would be effected by that have any idea Bitcoin exists. This is a self fulfilling price, people have an idea of what Bitcoin is worth therefore they won't let it reach below a certain point. Bitcoin has little to no practical and no tangible value. There is no reason it should be at this price.

You are so wrong (and ignorant) that even explaining you why you are wrong is a waste of time of biblical proportions.

Better go back being a slave of your bankster overlords. That's what you do best, apparently.
571  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: CARPE DIEM on the Cyprus news! on: March 19, 2013, 08:42:58 AM
I think the meme is perfect.  Its a fucking annoying nerd who got in before you taunting you with the knowledge that if you only had your money in bitcoins you would be better off.  You just want to kick him in the teeth.  But you can only be mad at your self because you know hes right. 
+1

+1
572  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: [SOFT-FORK] Bitcoin fork "No Forced TX Fee" v0.7.2 avaiable on: March 19, 2013, 08:41:10 AM
dammit! Now 0.8.1 comes out and its a hard fork from 0.7.2 and lower! So this wont even work anymore.

Can you make a 0.8.x No Forced TX Fork ? Running a BitCoin Faucet/PTC site I desperately need this.

I will make a fork, however be wary that now that we may be reaching block limit soon, so the transactions you make may never confirm.

This fork is kind of dangerous until the block size issue is not solved.
573  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Is this an honest client? on: March 18, 2013, 09:28:24 PM
I would like to try this.  I don't want to take the time to figure out if it is a Trojan.  Will it steal my bitcoins?  Has anybody checked this?

Highly unlikely.

Such things are almost trivial to spot by an experienced developer or even better: code audit - oriented developer/specialist (when you have the source code).

Oh, really? http://underhanded.xcott.com/

YA, RLY.

Trying to hide code is trivial to spot because such code immediately fails readibility/understanding tests.

Unreadable or not understable code = suspicious code.

I don't think you understood the contest. The point was to write a short, simple, readable program that hid underhanded behavior. Even experienced programmers can miss that there should be a semicolon somewhere, and there isn't, for example.

It is simply extremely difficult to write a program which will do some "Complex Evil Thing(tm)" (like turning your comp into a botnet zombie or stealing your bitcoins) without the code looking suspicious.

It is possible, however highly unlikely.
574  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: CARPE DIEM on the Cyprus news! on: March 18, 2013, 09:24:22 PM
If you guys want to scare away potential Bitcoin users, keep sending them memes.   Would you want to trust your money in a system that promotes goofy tag lines and even goofier-looking meme characters?  Start presenting BTC in a professional manner, people will take notice.

Wrong.

You haven't considered that every type of "thing" is for different type of audience. Memes, for example are targetted at young people who understand the internet.

It's quite obvious that they won't be effective in getting older and/or more serious people into Bitcoin. For them, we have different arguments.
575  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Is this an honest client? on: March 18, 2013, 11:02:28 AM
I would like to try this.  I don't want to take the time to figure out if it is a Trojan.  Will it steal my bitcoins?  Has anybody checked this?

Highly unlikely.

Such things are almost trivial to spot by an experienced developer or even better: code audit - oriented developer/specialist (when you have the source code).

Oh, really? http://underhanded.xcott.com/

YA, RLY.

Trying to hide code is trivial to spot because such code immediately fails readibility/understanding tests.

Unreadable or not understable code = suspicious code.
576  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: [SOFT-FORK] Bitcoin fork "No Forced TX Fee" v0.7.2 avaiable on: March 18, 2013, 08:10:28 AM
I'm not saying we should have NO TX FEE at all. But at the very fucking a least a tx fee proportionate to the input value of the transaction!

The cost in storage, bandwith, and CPU is relative to the number of inputs and outputs not the value of the tx.  A fee based as a % of value would provide no DOS protection. 

Ok, but couldn't we get my topic any more derailed ?
577  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: CARPE DIEM on the Cyprus news! on: March 17, 2013, 09:32:16 PM

There, fixed that for you:
578  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: CARPE DIEM on the Cyprus news! on: March 17, 2013, 09:31:05 PM

So carpe diem and spread the word!
Joe

Let me check it in the books...

Yep, already done.

This meme spreads like wildfire.
579  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Cypriot bank deposits hit in €10bn bailout on: March 17, 2013, 02:36:36 PM
One thing is still unclear to me. How can EU save the banks in Cyprus by initiating panic, chaos and bankrun? It's like trying to cure broken leg by punching it with massive metal pipe.
There is no plan to save anything. The plan is to pillage as much as possible before the cash flow dries up. It's just like the final years of the USSR.

This.

Many people profited a lot from the fall of the USSR. How could I emulate their approach here?

Nobody knows this exactly.

The fall of EU will be probably very different from the fall of USSR.
580  Bitcoin / Press / Re: (March 17th, 2013)Bitcoin Report Volume 29(Arbing Crypto) on: March 17, 2013, 01:19:59 PM
IMPROPERLY FORMATTED DATE!

Shouldn't you simply get a title-moderating privileges in this subforum ?

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