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341  Economy / Economics / Re: Anarcho-capitalism, Monopolies, Private dictatorships on: May 12, 2011, 06:14:38 PM

Schools suck/stagnate.

I mean, why do we have to listen teachers yammer in lecture? Just record the lecture of the best teacher and use it to teach everybody about topics. Plus, that mean no rushing to write down notes.

I never got much out of lectures anyway.  But there is some value in tutoring IMO and personal interaction.  Watch a lecture, then have less skilled tutors around to help out.
It exists, it is called Khan Academy. I use it for maths and occasionally other vids. I suggested them to accept Bitcoin donations, awol/no response after a month.
342  Other / Off-topic / Re: You live in a "FREE" world!!! on: May 12, 2011, 06:08:04 PM
You are overthinking, it already works over I2P and Tor.
343  Other / Meta / Re: kiba going crazy with the moving??? on: May 12, 2011, 06:06:04 PM
It isn't a big deal. Being a mod or not, the don't care attitude isn't the best nor something worth posting.

We could close this if you want at any moment.
344  Other / Meta / Re: kiba going crazy with the moving??? on: May 11, 2011, 07:46:06 PM
No, your powers are fine. It is just about dealing with your attitude. I reported so that other mods could look and help you in a civil way. You can read it because, obviously, you are a mod. The report is plainly o your attitude, not on your actions.

They are fine, though this are some criticisms to help you. You as a mod need to hear the community. Some posts were great, for instance you defending the moving by telling nobody complained. The post on "don't care" is what worries me. Why did you posted that?
345  Economy / Economics / Re: Will Bitcoin ever drop down below 2 USD? on: May 11, 2011, 11:27:08 AM
Now that is interesting, thanks for the graph.
A think you must consider, does the thash/sec affects the exchange or does the exchange affect the thash/sec?
346  Economy / Economics / Re: Proposal for structured digital economy (UPDATED) on: May 11, 2011, 01:35:36 AM
So when are you going to start developing these other softwares?
Do you want them? You can pledge for them or diy. Really that is what Free Software is about, not free dev.
347  Economy / Economics / Re: Will Bitcoin ever drop down below 2 USD? on: May 11, 2011, 01:24:40 AM
Lol, yeah. I mean, you can get enough Bitcoin value, lets say $5K and then just sell the half each time the Bitcoin value doubles.
You can set the ask prices from now and then just enjoy 2.5K for the rest of your life, of course you could go with more.

There is still a risk that they stop being appreciated this wildly or even a consolidation, though doesn't matter.

As long as people believe it as a medium of trade everything would be fine.
348  Economy / Economics / Re: Will The Bitcoin Economy Only Be Able To Sustain 18,000 Transactions Per Hour? on: May 10, 2011, 08:35:30 PM
I do know it is how it is done, just fall back to that system.
So for instance, we could have 50 kb for free, 50 kb would be 0.01 BTC, 50 kb at 0.02, 50 kb at 0.04, etc.
Though, I think there is still not the need for it, I checked and there are rarely fees being paid, so this is not an issue atm.
349  Other / Meta / Re: kiba going crazy with the moving??? on: May 10, 2011, 08:06:18 PM
He is also leaving a lot of "moved" messages, for which is completely unnecessary.
Plus some changes are arguable, topics should only be moved if it is completely clear they are in the wrong section.

Also, his attitude of "don't care" isn't the best.

That is all this thread is about.
350  Economy / Economics / Re: Will The Bitcoin Economy Only Be Able To Sustain 18,000 Transactions Per Hour? on: May 10, 2011, 02:19:39 PM
I propose we remove the upper limit and instead ask all miners to have a free space and scale the cost as the block size's increases.
Size limit on blocks would also be removed.
351  Economy / Economics / Re: Will Bitcoin ever drop down below 2 USD? on: May 10, 2011, 02:16:09 PM
Not anymore. We are way beyond the point of return. We made a jump to 5 USD with both price and volume in currency highs.

The high volum is a really bullish indicator and I am sure we will break 7 or even 10 USD by the end of this month. I have so far gotten more adopters to the system and I am soon to open a business with Bitcoin. Smiley

Some events are accelerating the exchange rate and even after the DDoS MtGox suffered we are still on rally. If PayPal were to make an open statement of Bitcoin it would be great.

First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.

2009, Bitcoin had no value at all.
2010, Bitcoin is told as a concept and not a possibility
2011, PayPal stops processing Bitcoin payments and 2 PayPal exchanges close their doors. More to come.
Is the victory close?
352  Economy / Economics / Re: "Bitcoins are not good for anything besides trading." on: May 10, 2011, 02:05:34 PM
What do you say of the 10K BTC pizzas?
That guy has 100K USD now and it is just starting. D:

Dunno if he hold it however the buyer, a mod here, has now bought the most expensive pizzas. Hope they were the best in the world.
353  Other / Off-topic / Re: You live in a "FREE" world!!! on: May 09, 2011, 04:51:39 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkmcupFx3FQ
354  Other / Meta / Re: Marketplace Regulation on: May 09, 2011, 02:58:43 AM
A waste of time since the bitcoin forum prohibited the selling and buying of black market goods in one own's country.
Not really, I mean stuff that might have some cultural conflics, like porn, warez, "Terrorist Cookbook", etc. Or is otherwise not school/collage/work safe.
355  Other / Obsolete (selling) / Re: [Selling] Various Steam games [Cheap prices!] on: May 08, 2011, 08:07:54 PM
I bid 3 BTC for Killing Floor Complete Pack, not on your list.
356  Other / Meta / Re: Marketplace Regulation on: May 08, 2011, 08:04:30 PM
Another reg, LEG for Legitimate offers. And GREY or GRY for the ones that have certain legality/ies issues.
I am also upboat the notion of a Buyers and Sellers subforums.
357  Economy / Marketplace / Re: "Backup" software, games and movies for BTC (Tor Network) on: May 08, 2011, 07:53:50 PM
I don't understand exactly what or why he is "selling"Huh

Has nobody ever heard of isohunt, thepiratebay, or demonoid?!? How about torrents in general?

It's all free people, no idea why you would pay for somebody else to do your dirty work, it's just as illegal.
I double it, though he is stating he send a physical copy and that it is ideal when ISPs don't allow for easy filesharing or an ignorant user.
Also, this is what Bitcoin is prone to, prepare for even worse things, and this ain't really bad at all. Imagine sponsoring Domestic terrorism in the form of an inflation-proof currency. That is plainly evil, don't you know the damage you are doing to the gov? And what about those poor bankers? D:
358  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Bitcoin Crowdfunding(Open Source) - Pledge 165 BTC on: May 07, 2011, 10:36:59 PM
First of all, most of the OPs and big pledgers are really active in the community, including brucewagner and me.

Second, I will remove the Design Document requirement becuase no one seems to be able to do one.

And lastly, I will start developing an Open Source Crowdsourcing site. Stay tuned for more.

PS: Still Alive
359  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Bitcoin PHP Class - Facilitating Bitcoin Integration without Third Parties on: May 03, 2011, 12:40:30 AM
I beg your pardon, I am not familiar with their efforts.

Though, after some quick reading it looks like m0Ray is limited to account management instead of full API access and that Mike's is a bit outdated of the new calls that have been integrated into BitcoinD.
360  Bitcoin / Project Development / Decentralize Financial Institutions - Part 1, Planning on: May 03, 2011, 12:36:20 AM
Abstract
A purely peer-to-peer version of financial institutions would allow financial
services to be provided directly from one party to another without. This coupled
with Satoshi's Bitcoin enhances one's freedom in the world and allows for far
more than has been possible up to now. The network is intended to decentralize
the following, but not limited to, services: banks, insurance, stock exchanges,
and brokerage. This whole system revolves around the concept of "I owe you".

Grounds
It is based on a Web-of-Trust and to fight some of the disadvantages I purpose
the data to be divided in a more manageable form. To ensure data availability
and manageability I purpose the data to be divided  and distributed using the
available Distributed hash Table technology already being used in distributed
protocols such as BitTorrent.

Protocol
-3 Levels of trust: "I might trust you, though I will manually check your coms", "I trust you", and "I trust you and those you trust". Additionally if a connection is not trusted it is plainly ignored.
-Each node can choose his preferred algorithm and bitlength. The key and related info will be stored in a Distributed Hash Table and a similar address convention to Bitcoin will be used.(RFC: This is the chance to add more goodies)
-A credit line would need to be established. Trust from one to another does not infer the trust from another to one.
-Payer is the only one that must sign a contract in order to owe "something" to "somebody".
-All communications from a non-trusted peer are simply ignored.
-If a peer, ex a payment gateway*, needs a tremendous amount of bandwidth it should be requested. *A payment gateway you trust would be able to receive a payment ending up he owing you "x" amount that you can use in your favour by sending payments trough him to a peer in another location. This allows you to send payments even if not globally trusted.
-Contracts, by instance IOUs, can be created by peers. This contracts are stored in an individual DHT and have the option to leave fields for payers and payees. An example is below:
Code:
{
"hash":"12x(whatever)",
"legal":"Legalize Here:\n Simple IOU \n I , $payer$, agree to pay the amount of $amount$ of $type$ to $payee$",
"layman":"I owe $amount$ $type$ to $payee$"
}
-Intermediaries would route the payment between unkown and directly untrusted parties. Though, their consent is not needed as their total credit will be unaffected.
-All contracts and trust between peers would be public knowledge. Contracts signed between parties would be stores in a distributed hash table with a time-stamp.(Anonymity issue? Workarounds?)

This is just a proposal and a request for comments. If I haven't considered an issue please point it out. Yes, this is based on Ripple. It is slightly different in the sense that it takes care of more than credit and it is decentralized completely. This would help with the recent MtGox attacks and ensure the financial integrity of Bitcoin. I suggest this software to be called OurFinances, however suggestions are appreciated.
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