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Other / Off-topic / Re: Why there is so much hatred towards the Winklewii?
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on: July 03, 2013, 09:59:35 AM
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Anybody actually know if they are jocks as in the movie? Separately, are they annoying as in the movie? Have they always been from a monied background?
And is Facebook actually a ripoff of their site contrary to the lawsuit? What was their site called?
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Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Sell BTC on BitBargain.co.uk if you are NOT from the UK ?
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on: July 02, 2013, 09:54:31 AM
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Looking at the details section there is no 'country' field. However, I think if you can get around that then yes you can. There is a lot of verification though.
I didn't need verification to buy before but now when I login I can't browse to the buy page. Is verification now needed to buy as well as sell BTC?
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Economy / Speculation / Re: Mt.Gox Co. Ltd approved to be a licensed MSB by FinCEN
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on: June 29, 2013, 05:00:42 AM
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anomymous transactions are not only useful for criminals. this is the anonimity argument again. similar to the guns argument. there are pros and.cons but think about concentration vs decentralisation of power.
as just one example, would you.buy a 23andme genetic testing kit and trust google not to store you cc info next to your google openid info/facebook and all the rest?
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Economy / Economics / Re: How much do you value your credit score?
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on: June 29, 2013, 04:46:29 AM
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i find this thread interesting as debt is not something that bitcoin addresses alot. in particular I see people talking about trust. but in my experience its not trust these days thats the problem; its the ability to repay. its gambling; typically we gamble for a reward and the risk can be sometimes be.to loose everything. typically we are not equipped to assess the risk:reward payoff.
debt is running the world. its in our minds and has been, including in religion.
just because we choose to ignore leverage doesnt mean it doesnt effect us. are house prices effected by it? are markets distorted by it putting.those who avoid.it at a competitive disadvantage?
theres a book 'debt: the first 5000 years' I think... if you think its bad now just be thankful theres less.selling.of daughters these days.
question: what was the monetry value of pirates reputation before the problems, how much was taken vs this and how does this ratio compare to a typical credit.ratio rating?
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Economy / Auctions / Re: Auction- 160 BFL Credit Chip code
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on: June 20, 2013, 08:07:15 PM
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This is supposed to show what? This is the most recent thread for the escrow provider. The thread agrees on JohnK's reputation as safe escrow. A bidder should do their own due diligence and research, I quickly posted the most recent thread. Turns out it would have been a good habit to exercise in reading that thread especially
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Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: Guide: Building a Solar Powered Mining-Plant
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on: June 16, 2013, 10:04:23 PM
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From experience in boats and RVs I can say that it's a good idea to keep things simple.
I want to find a guide for the Raspberry Pi & 12v ASICs.
You want to keep everything 12v if you can. Converting to and from A/C induces loss and gets complicated.
The advantage of ASIC is that you can potentially keep adding them until they match what your solar panel is putting out.
I also recommend keeping the whole thing independent on it's own if possible, running either off a leisure battery or another battery setup if you have something cheap or for free.
I don't like batteries; I would much rather store energy as kinetic if possible - like water in a high place. Batteries are always going wrong and they're hard to service. Even forklift batteries get corroded on the fins inside. Sealed batteries are even worse.
Questions:
- 12v USB hub. How to add extra power without using a wallwart? - Is there a guide for the Raspberry Pi and ASICs? I think if the Pi runs off USB it's unreliable? I've tried the Beaglebone and that's more reliable off USB, running at a lower CPU mhz (300mhz instead of 800mhz I think) - another way to store 12v energy other than batteries which need replacing?
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Economy / Speculation / Re: Crisis in Argentine
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on: June 09, 2013, 11:57:00 AM
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Doug Casey is the only foriegner I've read to understand the madness of Argentina when he says (not exact quote) - 'They have these young people in power with optimism idealistic thinking, almost communist'.
That matched my experiences when I was living there. It's a thinking that everyone can be equal and free. I kind of like this. The problem is that it's all done manually - like in communism, this is too inefficient to work and nobody seems to have the brains to use the market rather than fight it.
The inflation has been high for years and years. Everybody's hardened to it and used to fighting to avoid the gov monster. Everybody trades USD cash in the black market so Bitcoin is an easy adjust. The mailing list is busy now but very quiet. A very long way to go before people are using it as they do the dollar.
The best way for them I think would be to buy Jalapenos. Other than that, many have secret accounts outside the country. Many have family members in places like the USA in order to escape some way financially.
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Other / Beginners & Help / Re: mtgox - cannot withdraw BTC
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on: June 07, 2013, 04:53:43 PM
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I've had the same problem before; account limited. I think the thing that did it was connecting from another country. I travel a lot so maybe it was that. Hopefully I'll get a chance to go back to the country I opened the account from one day to login and withdraw... I'm never submitting ID - talk about financial suicide
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Economy / Goods / Re: UK Samsung Galaxy II, water damaged with 1BTC inside
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on: June 06, 2013, 08:53:37 PM
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Finally had it open a couple of days ago. Various contacts corroded, much worse than I expected. I never thought it would be possible to get it working at that point.
Spent hours cleaning with isopropl alcohol spray cleaner. The spray itself wasn't actually removing the corrosion - it looked as if it was but after drying out it was much the same. In the end I'd cleaned a lot but gave up and tried powering on... still nothing.
Then gave it to a friend. He picked at it for a minute and tried switching on... well, magic hands because now we have power to the screen (mostly grey and white)!
...worked on it a bit more and got it working. Remember that next time you got water damage. Quite amazing really, whole areas were white with corrosion.
Q: This reminds me of heat damaged radeon repairs. How expensive do you think a piece of electronics has to be to make this sort of repair economically worthwhile?
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Economy / Trading Discussion / Verification, KYC, documentation storage needs to be improved
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on: June 05, 2013, 11:26:41 PM
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Increasingly interaction with fiat currencies is involving more and more "verification". This typically means involves finding a utility bill and ID document and uploading it to a server.
We have no idea whether the ID is actually of someone using an account. We have no idea how the documents are stored, yet we see passport scans being sold on the deepweb no problem and anyone at the exchange with access to these files can reuse them again to open an account somewhere else...
Does nobody notice how ridiculous this is?
In the UK for example, there are laws on storing certain documents. Credit cards have a whole load of guff legislation regarding them; visa then awards a compliance level. In order to get to the various compliance levels companies have to do various things to get there; it's a real ball ache for all involved. It helps but of course beaurocracy is one step away from the crushing inefficiencies of communism and statism slowing it down for solutions like Bitcoin to fill the gap.
Surely there's a 3rd party out there to store documentation on behalf of companies? Can't something like OpenID step in to help too?
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Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: BitcoinSpinner
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on: June 05, 2013, 03:25:39 PM
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Where does Bitcoinspinner store it's data in the filesystem? I am trying to recover a wallet or private key from a water damaged phone.
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