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Nice to see a long article about Bitcoin and technology. For most bitcoiners it is not new, but I think to many people it is;
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The future is reason, truth, and mathematics. Violence, coercion, and deception - the hallmarks of nation-state existence - are the past.
Very nice quote, hopefully it will turn out that way. |
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Blockchain.info is great for beginners as you dont have to download the entire blockchain which is annoying at first.
I would not recommend blockchain for newbies. They would likely not understand the importance of strong passwords. As if you try to login three or four times to your yahoo account you will be forced to use captsha before you try again, slowing you down, and after enough attempts you will be locked out for x amount of time. With blockchain passwords you can try an unlimited number of times without limit and can try a password without a connection to the internet. Multibit and/or coinbase are better options for newbies as they offer a better amount of security for someone with the above amount of knowledge The problem with Coinbase is that you have no control of the private keys (and hence the bitcoin). Of course you must be thinking that Coinbase is a huge company and you could trust it. Well, mtgox was the biggest and most sucessful bitcoin exchange, once upon a time... +1 You want control over your private keys, because they are used to transfer money. That is why a desktop wallet is much much better, you are in control of your bitcoins. |
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Food poisoning and racism are not related, this may be political correctness going out of control.
If the restaurant is causing people to be sick, something must be done about it. The government should validate the situation.
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Austria is on the map, but not on the list.
Maybe the creator doesn't know, that Austria is not part of Germany anymore ..
The list is incomplete. France, Brasil Estonia, Latvia, the Netherlands are also missing. |
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It's a matter of national security.
Yeah... this is the excuse which is being made to spy on everyone's social media accounts. I don't understand what they are going to achieve by spying on normal citizens. A complete waste of taxpayer's money. If the PR is wrong about them allegedly wanting to stop terrorism and in fact wanting to set up Orwell's 1984 then they're doing a fine job at it. But, the pendulum may very well swing back in the other direction and I know that Rand is going to make this whole ordeal a linchpin of his Prez run. Yes. This next election will be crucial. Does anyone really trust Hillary to reign in the surveillance state? Our grand experiment is in doubt if we get much further down this path. I do not think the next elections will change the mass surveillance program, they will stop at nothing. If they do not have your data, you are a 'terrorist'. Of course, this program can be used to get of political opponents, crush dissidents etc - in the same way that mass surveillance was used in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. The best chances to avoid it is to use cryptographic tools and "going dark". |
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They are getting scary. Policing thought is a dangerous precedent to set. I hate racist groups like the Ku Klux Klan but I would defend their right to their own misguided beliefs any time. In terms of the political system, the US is becoming more and more like the old Soviet Union: dragnet surveillance, war on terror, thought crime, torture etc; |
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That will most likely help out a lot, linguistically I read that if one language has roots in others it doesn't make it terribly hard to learn the others but maybe I read that wrong.
That's right. The more close a language is to a language you know, the easier it is to associate it with something you already know. This has something to do with brain connections; For example, if you know Spanish it's easier to learn French than Russian. |
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I think the opposite is true, Central Bankers need to be controlled. |
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I'm trying to learn a multiple of languages at once, which probably isn't a good thing. However I'm doing duolingo, memrise and just trying to immerse myself in the language itself. Spanish speaking shows and what not (spanish is the language I've decided on at the moment, I took some in school but have forgotten just about everything) but I don't feel like I'm learning enough. They base a lot of it on repetition of words that you got wrong, this understand, but I want to progress faster and it isn't helping when out of the blue I'm getting a word they tried to teach me 3 or so pages ago.
Its possible to learn multiple languages at once, but if they are close linguistically it gets easy to mix them up. I spent a good 2 hours on spanish last night, and I am still getting sentences like me gustaria un poco de vino por favor (which i'm pretty sure is wrong) wrong still.
Does anyone have any language tips they can give?
Practice like its a second nature. Record several questions in a cassette, playback and answer the questions as phrases. This forces you to answer quickly, and over time it will get more natural. In addition, basic phrases really help. Try to learn the present form of these http://sipuebla.com/verbos/100verbs.htm like "I open", "I buy" etc |
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I should have stuck to programming when I was younger I know I would be a hacker know it all by now. But I didn't I chose to build them and manipulate the hardware and now i'm just a nerd  lol I wish I had learned programming when I was younger too and I really hope somebody tells this guy how much trouble he'll get into breaking into government servers. It depends if you are caught. Most often consequences are not positive, but sometimes they are. Back in the 90's in many countries there were simply no laws regarding hacking, so you could simply hack servers and get away with it. All the old day tricks worked, XSS and what not. Nowadays there's all this legal stuff; |
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"20-year residential lease for your own tropical paradise island." So with $600k I get it for only 20 years? :/ Islands in general are expensive. Price ranges from 500.000$ to 30.000.000$. It may be cheaper to make the island yourself or to share the island with others; |
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What do you think were the most significant events of the 19th, 20th or 21st century? Wars, Revolutions, Political Ideology, Technological innovations? What events do you think truly changed the world? In terms of technology: 19th centuryThe battery. Electric dynamo. AC motor and transformer. 20th centuryTransistor The integrated circuit & the microchip. The flip-flop circuit invented. First computer controlled by software. |
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The link has been removed.. |
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After the fall of Mt. Gox ...I think this is very important Q to all Bitcoin newbies like me.
use btc-e.com for larger amounts. i will never forget the time LR (payment processor that is now dead) key was cracked and attack took place on btc-e.com every single coin that was lost, every single bad trade users made due to that hack, literaly everything was returned to user accounts on the cost of btc-e.com owner. that day they had me, never left them since. ofc use other exchangers in smaller amounts to trade /arb, but when it gets to your big holding, store them localy in your local storage, or if u have to have it online, i recommend btc-e only. cheers Why BTC-e? They have the lowest prices and the biggest fees of all the exchanges. Bitstamp is way, way better. The advantage of btc-e is that you don't need to complete verification before trading bitcoin.  Bitstamp's verification process takes 1 day max. It's serious people. Plus, you don't need all kinds of papers, an ID card and a phone bill is enough. Why do you need an ID card for an exchange at all? Its the reason I avoid Bitstamp. |
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I would rate it 7/10. The image looks more like a token than a coin. I suggest changing the colors a bit
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It's been 40 years since Armstrong landed on the moon, so why hasn't anyone gone up there again? Why hasn't another country developed the means to travel to the moon?
I also saw a documentary about how the entire thing was a hoax, but that was a while ago. Have they proved that the moon landing was not a hoax?
The Chinese have a robotic moon mission https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Lunar_Exploration_Program I think, the cost of going to the moon is higher than the benefits; |
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Why have you joined bitcoin?
Obviously to make money, that's why I joined.
But after losing quite a bit from being scammed once, I lost all my faith in bitcoin.
The only reason why I stayed was because of this community. It is like my second family.
What's your reason for joining and staying with bitcoin?
This is my 500th post !!
Because bitcoin is an investment which can really increase over time. It went from $1 to > $600 so far, who knows, it may go to $6000 |
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1.There were three men on the Apollo 11 spacecraft. That means that the odds of someone dying at any given point in the mission were one in three... YET NO ONE DID!
Where do you get this chance of one in three from? I don't think this is a valid assumption. |
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I don't recommend online wallets, some get hacked once in a while. I don't recommend mobile wallets either, simply because many of the mobile apps contain spyware. There are these desktop wallets: Bitcoin Core Multibit Hive OS X Hive Armory Electrum You could pick based on your operating system. Full list here: https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet |
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