But pirate bay has "clearly" the purpose of providing people easy search to unlicensed copyrighted work (i don't think it should be unlawful) whereas bitcoins just provide an easy way to transfer electronically money without exhorbiting fees. I really don't see the pseudonymous transfer the main purpose of bitcoin.
Are you a Judge? I also think you'll find many who don't think things are so "clear". |
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Maybe the reason it got so little attention was people did not understand what it was getting at.
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Are you running Microsoft Security Essentials? This sometimes blocks Bitcoin traffic.
Any other antivirus programs that may be filtering your traffic?
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No offense, and are you sure about that? Even from a nontechnical perspective, having a fully-public transaction history is troubling, to say the least.
The full transaction history of every transaction everybody makes is available. (If that is what you were questioning.) What do you think is in the block chain? The Anonymity comes from not knowing who 'owns' a particular Bitcoin Address. |
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What are possible attacks?
The public key I use on the coins I actually generate is different from the one I provide to you, which will never generate. Edit: Hmm. This would require generating a separate hash. And it would seem silly to throw away a winning hash to spite the group. I should think more before posting. What about: once I generate a block I leave the syndicate without paying my 50 in? |
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Yes he did, that's why he's getting the error message whenever someone who has not upgraded tries to send him the 'bad' transaction.
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Also, if someone maintained a package and submitted it to distributions, it would already be auto-updated without the need to build it into the client.
Unless you run Windows. |
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- "you can mint Bitcoins yourself" Would "discover" be a better term? "Discover" is a great term. But it's not really "Bitcoins" that people discover, is it? It's keys to a transaction that they are discovering. Unless I can find a simple way to describe that for the target audience, I'll stick with the term "mint" in the first paragraph and the term "generate" elsewhere. This is probably too pedantic, but, It's not even keys to a transaction that they are discovering. People are being rewarded for finding the solution to a difficult problem. It just so happens that the best way we know how to solve this particular problem at the moment is just to try it lots of times and hope to get lucky. In which case none of 'discover','mint' or 'generate' seem appropriate. But 'generate' seems to be the most generally used term and it's not too misleading. (but I don't know if it's on fresno's approved words list.) |
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fresno, perhaps you would be kind enough to compile a list of 'banned' words for us?
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mizeryderia, you just copied and pasted satoshis post without adding any value.
You could have tried to address the points he raised, or at least put up a note explaining why this page was on the wiki and what you wanted people to do with it.
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I have a question. often my network breaks for short time and i see that the number of blocks for a long time remains unchanged. But as soon as I restart the program the number of blocks increases immediately. Although the calculation of the blocks did not stop and i have "8 connections" all the way. So the question is - whether the blocks are generated during frequent disconnections? is the programm reconnecting automatically? or blocks should not be downloaded by everyone immediately as they created? ...hope you'll understand what i mean  Is your computers clock accurate? What does the debug.log file say when it happens? Generating blocks without being connected to the network is a waste of time because they will be never accepted by the network, they'll be too far behind when you reconnect. There are lots of places you can check the current block number, but I like this one: ttp://nullvoid.org/bitcoin/statistix.php because it also has some nice graphs. |
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It is theoretically possible to run Bitcoin through email.
You probably wouldn't want to run a 'full' client but it should be possible to construct some kind of email gateway that would proxy transactions for you.
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Has anyone noticed that the FRN is exactly that, "it's own unit for accounting purposes"?
The lawful United States dollar is defined in law as 371 4/16th grains of silver. This has been slightly modified, but never repealed. The "dollar" is actually a unit of measure, you can look it up. Bet they didn't tell you that in school!
The Federal Reserve Note is "denominated in dollars", or as Red above states, they have defined their own unit for accounting purposes. Write the Fed a letter, press them on the subject. The will reply that the FRN is "backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government." What they won't admit is that the FRN is NOT a U.S. dollar as defined in law. It is "denominated" as one only because you agree to the terms in commercial contract.
Why did we take this little tour? Because it illustrates that we can define our terms. And that it is foolish to use their terms -- money, cash, dollar, currency, and a crapload of others.
I thought that it proved that we can use whatever words we want and define them however we want and just because 'they' use the word 'dollar' to mean something does not mean we can use a word spelled the same way to mean something completely different. |
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everyone deserves some referrals,
default sponsor (for those not including ref-ids) is now random.
Awesome! thanks. |
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Have you upgraded to 0.3.10?
What build are you running? (Downloaded/Self compiled)
What architecture/OS?
Are you usually a lucky/unlucky person?
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What is the 'add a link' page for?
Here do I get my referrer link from?
Are these two things related?
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How long did you wait? Has windows sneakily installed Microsoft Security Essentials?What happens if you delete the blk*.dat files and try to re-download from the start of the block chain? What is in your debug.log file? |
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Just start making threads in your preferred language.
If there is enough interest, you'll probably get a subforum.
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Commodity should not be on the vocabulary page. (I was assuming the suggestion to put it on was a joke.)
It's not a Bitcoin specific term, and isn't relevant to Bitcoin at all, other than so people can argue about what it is/isn't/does/doesn't apply to.
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