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The worthy will own Bitcoin and will profit mightily from its ascendance long before the unworthy are forced aboard the train.
+1 I actually like the train analogy beyond that - it is as if we're building the world's first train, and all around us people stare and say, "That's not a horse! It won't ever work!" Meanwhile the rails are being laid to their door. Well they certainly were laid right to the door of that lecture hall, thundering through every other minute, I really don't think that he gets it at all - he's trying to say like how the Internets etc may not catch on from the prior perspective of state regulated mail, telecoms & broadcasting & even if it did it would be such a threat to them that they would just have to try & destroy it rather than adapting, he seemed to me very smug & more interested in intellectual ego tripping than actually making a coherent open minded analysis of what Bitcoin is & could be Just a few facts were of interest, like that the fx market is ginormous & bitcoins being just a small part of that would be huge, though that's already fully known so hardly news & he failed in any objective way to prove his assertion that Bitcoin is not a currency - imo edit: currency, commodity, virtual trading units, whatever - I have done more international tx with bitcoins that any others over the last year, more purchases & sales (this has nearly all been bitcoins themselves rather than tangible goods - for those I still ex back to fiats), loans & receivables, investments & speculations, even charitable gifts than in any other currencies (fiat), commodities (PMs mostly), or even any other funds used for any purpose that I can think of |
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Approximately, how many clients/users did/does Bitcoinica have? I'm guessing about a couple hundred.
~Bruno~
Almost 5000 Wow! I didn't expect it to be that high and didn't expect you to personally answer the question, Zhou. I'll take your response as gospel. Thanks, bud. ~Bruno~ Yea, kind of sensitive information. But, 5000 Accounts doesn't mean 5000 clients. especially as he had a thread in the newbies section giving a $1 free credit to anyone who signed up for an account |
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I must say that I would still love one of these, but now with some pretty reliable guaranteed funds payback borrowers - say paying the least risk 2% per week, then the effective holding or opportunity cost of these beauts is their own bitcoin value in one year 1,040 BTC uncompounded, but for absolute cold storage then still hits the sweet spot especially if it's to be generational, lets hope that their collectable/rarity value increases eventually at the same 100% or so per year that putting the coins out to work would do here's what I really, really wants though - one of these, but made out of a 1,000 BTC Casascius coin  http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270980470752would need some different tech to house the private key inside (or somewhere) tamper proof & drool proof, but would be sweet  edit, actually maybe on the inside of the backside of the coin protected by hologram same as now would work simply & be fine edit 2, a 80's style digital watch window inset in the face would make for lower production costs, I'd still prefer the Corum Swiss movement & hands myself, though either would be cool, the digital version you could have so it can click up to show your BTC balance in cold storage or interface with an Armoury wallet or something - once a day every time the time was 13:37 it would also make a leet sound of course, tra la  edit 3, some pics:     feel free to photoshop them to 1,000 bitcoin goodness |
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I'm using a Mac with Firefox & have no problems like this at all, if that helps finding what's going on here
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Mac with Firefox, when I refreshed the negatives went away, maybe my comp is hexed  who wants to buy -51 BTC @ £3.24 each? lol  |
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Charles Darwin said the "survival of the fittest" is a central factor in the process of evolution. What exactly did he mean by that? He makes it clear in his book The Origin of Species: "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change."
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I just tried that C&P from myself's post & it worked fine from Gox - I see no space or anything like in your example
Maybe Gox is striping the character. If I double click to select the address in myself's post only part of the address is selected e.g.  But If I double click the address in your sig the whole address is selected. Somewhere along the lines an invalid character got inserted. weird, when I double click it it all gets selected & works fine |
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1G5apmPvo2iTtmkNWAHTCET7Y842Ufijs8
When I copy and paste the address from you post it has a space (or other invalid character in it) 1G5apmPvo2iTtmkNWAHTCET7 Y842Ufijs8 1G5apmPvo2iTtmkNWAHTCET7Y842Ufijs8 is valid. I just tried that C&P from myself's post & it worked fine from Gox - I see no space or anything like in your example |
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It's my address, with blockchain.info wallet in my sig, myself opened a thread about this too, I just tryed to send to it from Gox & it worked fine - no idea what's happening
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I just filled Smart's current availability of 76.67 coins, note that the rates shown on his home page are out of date, click on Savings to see correct current ones (which are those shown in his post above), his interest rates offered change every Sunday but obviously are fixed & locked in once you take out a saving's plan & the interest is added to your account & available to you at the end of the investment period
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Hi Patrick, thanks for this - very useful, how about Smart who has been in operation on the German forum for a while now & recently started to offer on the English one too, no exposure to Pirate & deposited funds are guaranteed https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=81357.0 |
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https://i.imgur.com/1e8J1.jpg^^^ Coin movement so far. Previous commenter was correct about those blocks simply being blocks relayed by Bitcoinica. On a related note, we know they "donated" some of Bitcoinica's BTC to the faucet, does anyone recognize any of the other addresses? so atm they are just working with 1 out of the 7 of the 2,600 BTC stashes they split it in to & seems they are just slicing off miniscule bits of it (from 16 coins or less) as the 'donation' to the faucet does so basically they are still sitting on the 18,000 odd coins for now, not sure how these little micro finance dispersments help them unless to spread the loot's taint as wide as possible before they get down to some serious laundering |
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Why would they want to invest in something that could end their hold on cheap debt and a controllable monetary supply?
It would just be eliminating their power.
Multi-millionaires and Billionaires will love BTC when they need to make a move that can't create too many ripples. +1 & some of those moves could be very positive too |
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Quick update: Since our house run of luck has been terrible (though we still believe, within the bounds of statistical possibility without cheating), we are increasing the house edge just slightly, up to 1% from .818%. We may bring the edge back down in the near future. We need to do this as the house pool is not large enough to enable people to be placing the size of bets they'd like so this should help with that aspect. It's probably due to people using a progressive betting strategy. This doesn't reduce your edge, but it does change the flow. What will happen is that instead of having a small trickle of profit, you will have a small trickle of loss with the occasional spike of huge profit. You will need to increase your reserve, but you should be quite happy to do that. +1 depending on the strategy the punters may enjoy modest & accumulating wins say about 98% of the time, but play long enough &/or enough of them playing that, then martingale will eventually bitch slap their collective wallets in the house's favor |
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We are still discussing a possible change in date and time for the PPT.E sale.
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you asked for feedback & got it, 90% favored an earlier time |
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very un Europe friendly time, can't the US bid in the AM or earlier PM at weekends, I hope the BOD will reconsider, probably I shall stop buying & trading them now
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Thanks for your statement.
Currently, there are free capacities about ~ 300 BTC.
And a small rate hike.
Greeting
Hi Smart, I have filled your 300 BTC capacity by taking out a 60 day savings account @ 8.56% interest/month = 351.36 BTC due 14/7 Many danks Otoh edit: & don't go bloody bailing out Greece with it, however much interest they may be offering on their 10 year bonds Apparently the favorite joke in Greece now is: the Prime Minister of Germany flies into Athens airport. "Name?" : "Angela Merkle." "Occupation?" : "No, no, just visiting." |
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It's the same person who called lotteries an investment there - I'd worry more about their grasp of English than yours, it's perfectly clear
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