I just posted this on a topic elsewhere, but I wanted to give it a thread of its own as it is about BTC price and utility which are fundamental concerns to us all: i cant even get a hooker for btc.
... directly from a provider (without a 3rd party exchange involved) You obviously don't use hookers. Realistically, one can only track escort agencies that accept BTC: (1) Independent hookers are dodgy, on drugs/booze, pathological liars, fly-by-night operators at best... (And I don't care if they are "nice" and have a flashy web site)... These flaky girls NEED an Authority Figure to keep them productive. 100% bullshit. You really think independent folks are more flaky than those who can't stand on their own? Exactly the opposite is true in general. More importantly your analysis leaves out the most important part: location. These things are shaped by legal, historical, and societal factors and change greatly from place to place. Support and be respectful of independent women. |
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The industrial motor setting was most relevant to Ayn Rand's time and fit the book well. I could see the same meeting of the Federal Reserve where a young financer by the name of Satoshi stands up and walks out to stop the modern day motor of the US, the financial sector.
Except that the financial sector isn't the motor of the economy, but is rather a bloated parasite sucking the life from it. +1 to Bonam But your referral to "the financial sector" (hey that's us) is not exactly what you meant to say. No Atlas, credit creation fraud and counterfeiting are not motors of industrialization. "Hey the gas tank has been leaking a gallon a day for years and the car runs great. If you plug that up you could really fuck up the engine". |
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Test, code, test, code, test....
Test for what?
Bugs in the code? But didn't they say that the code is the spec?
So if the code is the spec, then who decides when the spec is wrong?
Decentralised my ass. I can't wait until someone beats them at their own game and dethrones those clowns.
The writing is already on the wall: Ripple Really, it says Ripple on the wall. I promise to lift this cover off the wall to show you, sometime soon. |
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Because block size is limited, and there is ~1 block per 10 minutes.
10 minutes is 600s. 1000kb / 600s ~ 2kb per second.
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I'm not sure I follow the "address probe" reasoning.
Don't change addresses on the block chain already have some money on them? They are already "tagged"..
But if there isn't much there, and somebody is grasping at straws looking for any information at all..
In any case, the next step for you sleuths out there is to see what those 1000 addresses have in common, i.e. to see why the lulz giveaway targeted them. Any common addresses in their input branches?
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Quick question:
Why is taking hashing power away from botnet operators and putting it in the hands of hardware owners a bad thing?
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You are quite right. However, the first probable prime still fails. The positive result is: Primality testing 65004063504559525007738276505391185322137155270201199057971076511954045665048965173722209501026611156768988779138868408914387452650147975793533060274322762631 [N-1/N+1, Brillhart-Lehmer-Selfridge]
Running N-1 test using base 3
Running N-1 test using base 7
Running N+1 test using discriminant 19, base 1+sqrt(19)
Calling N-1 BLS with factored part 49.24% and helper 2.29% (150.19% proof)
65004063504559525007738276505391185322137155270201199057971076511954045665048965173722209501026611156768988779138868408914387452650147975793533060274322762631 is prime! (0.0250s+0.0033s)
does this mean it's not actually generating valid primes? As I understand the primecoin paper, it accepts pseudoprimes for making a block.. as a true check of primality would take too long for nodes to verify. |
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You know, it really saddens me that nutjobs like you go on about crazy theories that don't make any sense when there are so many real threats to our liberty that we need to focus on.
Discussion here reminds me of Deek Jackson's character "conspiracy clown": "Hey Hey Hey - Its not enough our world leaders are lying murdering scum - They have to be shapeshifting lizards from uranus as well" Mea Culpa: I have nothing to contribute regarding the GAALT devices, sorry  |
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Are you asking who we want for a roof?
I'll take the mafia any day over the uniformed gang members.
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What would you rather have.. botnets of consumer zombie devices that control and threaten the network or hardware farms that control and threaten the network?
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How is this different from the 52 states (plus the rest of the world) borrowing dollars from the Federal Reserve, dollars, which too get printed out of thin air?
It's same everywhere, but before 1971 fiat money were backed by gold, so they were not printed out of nothing If you can devise a system in which paper is provably backed by gold without counterparty risk, I'll give you a bitcoin  |
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Glad to elicit such responses. I personally think nationalism is a sickness and don't want anyone to suffer because people think they are American/Russian/Indonesian first and human second.
This is one planet now and people trying to fight us living united for personal profit, well, I advise you to stop that. I'm also happy to be reading such opinions more and more often, as I get older. Maybe there is still some hope for the humanity after all.  More ++ to semaforo |
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Wow so you wanna buy an expensive car? You must be very enlightened and aware of current events.
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We should also approach the "i'm really fucking cool" and also the "I'm rich" societies. Self aggrandisement is totally satoshi style right?
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Don't forget about Andrew Breitbart, who died on the day that the NDAA came into effect, and the day before he was to release information he claimed would "bring down the Obama administration". Also don't forget his coroner, Michael Cormier, who died of arsenic poisoning.
Or Philip Marshall and his 2 kids. |
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If the dollar is so strong then why did it cost me $4.39 for a gallon of the other day?
Because you shop like an idiot? Seriously, I pay $2.75 for a gallon of milk. TRWTF is a grown man drinking milk. |
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Put your vows in the blockchain. And the prenup |
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I was going to post the FAQ for you, but why bother. It's harvested from other prepaid card sites anyway. |
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this is supposed to be a democracy.
Is that supposed to be a good thing somehow? Yes. Just because people have misused and abused a word.. (note: representative democracy is neither) doesn't mean that the thousands of years old concept is unworthy. The concept has even proven its ability to solve the Byzantine General's problem. In fact it may be only now coming of age and actually could be implemented. |
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the US government only has control over US dollars..
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Didn't you get the memo? Federal Reserve is 100 years old now. US gov orgs gave up control of the dollar long ago. |
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