There are two issues here:
The first is that Apple does have the right, as does any retailer to decide if they wish to carry a product in their store.
This is highly objectionable: if one is equipped with an IOS smartphone, the appstore becomes the only store one has access to unless one replaces it (people without computer skills will NOT jailbreak it). That's a high exit cost. Similar exit costs in retail are nowhere to be found. Combined with the fact that Apple as a company is commanding the majority market share in smartphones (even if android surpasses iOS in OS market share) , that gives enough reasons to ask Apple to be specific as to why they reject a bitcoin app, since the Apple guidelines are not specific. |
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Ce n'est pas une vidéo mais un podcast audio en français qui parle de bitcoin (il n'y en a pas tant que ça): le n° 3 de "Monnaie libre" publié aujourd'hui par Stéphane Laborde (Galuel). A relayer et reprendre largement sur vos propres blogs car il est compréhensible par des noobs. |
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@OP Je te signale sur ce thread le podcast "Monnaie libre" démarré par Stéphane Laborde sur son blog: aujourd'hui il publie dans le n° 3 une interview de votre serviteur sur Bitcoin ! A relayer et reprendre largement sur vos propres blogs. |
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Still scrutinizing the sky for Fedex aircraft to deliver first issue to Europe..
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(In fairness - there's probably not much choice for a serious bitcoin startup. Patents probably need to be held at least for defensive purposes)
So if we stop the religious war on patents for a minute and examine your statement above, it is absolutely correct. It is easily one of the top 3 questions first asked by investors these days. If bitpay wants to survive in todays business climate, patents are a necessary evil. Don't hate the player, hate the game.... +1 BTW, for the exact same reasons, Paymium (operator of Paytunia and Instawallet) has filed two patents already.. The patents are not related to bitcoin technology itself of course. Bitcoin businesses must attract VC money to reach critical mass and broader adoption. |
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It never takes me more than a few minutes to download two weeks of blockchain over the wifi. A little longer over the air. Samsung Galaxy 4S with all the latest firmware, etc.
That's fast. Anyway, those "few minutes" are the raison d'être for Paytunia (or other mobile e-wallet thin clients) on Android: when it's time to pay, the last thing people want is having to worry about a few minutes wait. With paytunia, payment is done in a matter of seconds. |
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Are there any trustable e-wallet services? I'm looking for one that allows multiple wallets in one account.
Short answer: no. This kind of mindset ("one cannot trust anyone in the bitcoin community") is exactly what can delay a broader adoption of bitcoin. IMHO, Bitcoin is not about removing the need for trusted third party (they will be needed for as long as there are dishonest counterparties in electronic transactions): its about giving people the freedom to chose between transacting directly or transacting through a trusted third party. |
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Je vais y aller, c'est promis  |
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Nice! Avec la petite profondeur de champ qui va bien et tout! Sur le fond, j'aime bien l'idée de ne pas nécessairement classer BitCoin comme concurrent frontal du système actuel, mais plutôt comme complément dans un premier temps... Bonne trouvaille pour pas faire flipper les gens qui ont tendance à être très conservateurs quand ils s'agit de sous! Autrement, peut-être qu'une musique de fond (discrète) ajouterait un petit quelque chose au tout non? PS: Peux pas faire de Like, je suis pas sur Vimeo, sorry! Merci! Pour augmenter la diffusion: faire des like/share/tweets sur mon blog (à défaut de vimeo). Ce serait bien que tous les bitcoiners francophones utilisent leurs comptes tweeter pour diffuser les news sur bitcoin. Compléments d'info: j'ai une demi-heure de vidéos en tout et d'autres en préparation avec d'autres intervenants donc l'intention c'est de faire grandir la chaîne au fil des semaines. |
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Je viens de créer une chaîne "e-ducat" sur Vimeo pour diffuser des vidéos pédagogiques sur bitcoin. Vous pouvez les voir ICI ou sur mon blog e-ducat.fr. Si les vidéos vous plaisent, merci de faire des like et des share ou de les inclure sur vos propres blogs le cas échéant. Vous pouvez aussi me signaler toute vidéo en français qui vous semblerait intéressante dans la même veine. |
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And what was the answer?  The short answer is: we say that the past blocks are good and now we switch to a new SHA from block X on: release a client upgrade to handle the new blocks, that's it ! Another faq is about quantum computing: well then all the banking systems, nuclear plants, military systems must upgrade, why not bitcoin ? The long answers are in the previous 37 threads.  |
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As far as "requiring more or less trust" (you have to trust your memory or your service provider), I would find it remarkable that some people would not trust a fully registered bitcoin service provider like Paymium for say 100 BTC yet leave their lifetime savings money in their bank account. Client side ewallets allow making offline backups and paper backups. The e-wallet provider is simply "hosting" the wallet. The wallet, keys, and funds are not tied to the wallet provider. You sound like you belong to the group "I 'd rather trust my memory" and this is a large, healthy group. Another group of people might decide to trust us with whatever bitcoin amount they feel comfortable with. Unlike traditional banks, a bitcoin bank like paytunia does not impose high entry/exit costs. With instawallet even, we are only one click away from our competition and that's fine. We believe that is the kind of freedom we want our customers to enjoy, that they did not have before bitcoin. You could be coerced into revealing your keys, just like the owners of paymium or anybody else. A paper wallet can be compromised without its owner knowing it until the coins are gone. That's also why we believe we provide a useful service. We have thought and we keep thinking about security. |
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Je suis dispo pour participer sur une base hebdo comme suggéré par Davout: il faut créer un public donc régularité + fréquence (cf Olivier Delamarche sur BFM Business tous les mardi )
Il se passe plein de choses donc il y aura matière à parler.
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Why are Bitcoiners, the trumpeters of currency free from the tyrannical and corrupt reign of the government over money, turning towards those governments for help when their free currency is stolen from them, due to lack of regulation?
It is the ultimate in hypocrisy, IMO.
There is no hypocrisy whatsoever in living in the world as it actually is while arguing that it should be different. In any event, the tyrannical and corrupt reign of government over money has nothing to do with the legitimate function of government in operating police and courts to deal with actual cases of theft and fraud. +1 I would add that IMHO the legitimate function of government includes even regulation as long as regulation does not hinder innovation. Unfortunately, regulatory capture happens when lobbyists take the driving seat. |
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For heavy usage I'd recommend Blockchain.info wallet, which doesn't require that much trust and a backup of the private key can always be imported in other wallets if the service happens to be offline.
Paytunia can be just as well considered a safer option because the user can recover a forgotten password through KYC procedure. With a client-side encrypted wallet, if the user forgets/loses his/her strong password, he/she is done. That's why I would stay away from being judgmental about one or the other options: they are just different but none can be said "better" or "safer". As far as "requiring more or less trust" (you have to trust your memory or your service provider), I would find it remarkable that some people would not trust a fully registered bitcoin service provider like Paymium for say 100 BTC yet leave their lifetime savings money in their bank account. |
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Definitely instawallet: create as many wallets and name them as you would like. No signup. Mobile versions: android (instawallet) or iOS (friendlypay). This service was started by jav and is now operated by Paymium, a company legally registered in France since june 2011. Paymium is privately held and has completed a first round of financing last year. Other services operated by Paymium: paytunia and bitcoin-central. |
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Quote from: Boussac on Today at 09:04:12 AM Bitcoin needs to gain broader acceptance by buyers and merchants to become a credible alternative to the incumbent banking system. What bitcoin does NOT need is to develop fancy speculation tools that most people do not care about.
As I said before margin trading increases liquidity at the cost of volatility. Real trade of real goods and services increases liquidity while reducing volatility Good luck and best wishes zhoutong,your name will stay in bitcoin Metric forever Do you sincerely believe the relative price stability we are experiencing since mid february (about the same time as the Tradehill shut down) has something to do with bitcoinica margin trading feature ? If short selling has one major effect it is precisely that of reducing volatilty. Go and learn some basics from Khan Academy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAkMhEqWFF0I stopped watching your video after 2 minutes when I heard "borrowing the stock increases the supply of the stock". This video falls in the same fallacy as so many academic papers sponsored by brokerage firms or investment banks trying to prove against common sense that shorting has no effect on volatility (for the more conservative papers). Its sheer propaganda. Plus all this is considering stock trading (unknown future supply of stock) while bitcoin is in limited supply. If bitcoin margin trading reduces instantaneous volatility it's because it's attracting more volume, only of speculative trade: you then get major swings that are referred to as "market crashes" because the real trade is just not there. It's like squeezing a coil. |
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Could be a heavily invested entity keeping the price stable to attract users?
That and, alot of small hobbyist inverters who are simply never going to sell, if anything they will just use the bitcoin economy, day trade with some a % of their coins, and buy more coins! ) ironically its probably the people that bought at +5$ range that have sold off their bitcoins. Because lets face...the bubble was a bubble and when it poped we lots a lost of people, big and small investors... and the thing is... when it was poping... "really big investors" didn't wana touch bitcoin with a 10 foot pole the stable price will hold indefinitely, and this will make bitcoin a more attractive investment opportunity, And taken more seriously as an alternative payment system. +1 @Rothgar Concerning Moore's law, could you factor in the GPU replacement cycle ? |
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But this certainly has nothing to do with small speculators who don't have access to the Federal Reserve, Bitcoin speculators for instance.
I do not speculate about who the bitcoin speculators are because I don't know. |
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Quote from: Boussac on Today at 09:04:12 AM Bitcoin needs to gain broader acceptance by buyers and merchants to become a credible alternative to the incumbent banking system. What bitcoin does NOT need is to develop fancy speculation tools that most people do not care about.
As I said before margin trading increases liquidity at the cost of volatility. Real trade of real goods and services increases liquidity while reducing volatility Good luck and best wishes zhoutong,your name will stay in bitcoin Metric forever Do you sincerely believe the relative price stability we are experiencing since mid february (about the same time as the Tradehill shut down) has something to do with bitcoinica margin trading feature ? |
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