I have adopted using Bitcoin to refer to the project itself and BTC to refer to the currency.

As soon as someone did that, it would be sued out of existence. Yet another example of intellectual property laws stifling innovation.

Third place!

Oh dear. This is going to start yet another "ZOMG PRICE GOUGING!" debate. This guy obviously wanted these domains sooner and more than anyone else, otherwise someone else would be the owner instead of him. He's taking a risk that nobody will want them at any price. It's a voluntary transaction. If you don't want to pay for these domains, don't.

Personally, I find these kinds of activities useful, such as ticket scalpers. Recently, I was able to get into a "sold out" concert at the last minute. That wouldn't have been possible otherwise since the demand at the price printed on the tickets was far greater than the supply. The only way I could have gotten into the concert that late is if scalpers were at work. They wait in line so the rest of us with better things to do, don't have to. So, sincerely, thanks a lot!

Even assuming that he's not like every other politician that gets elected on undelivered promises, I wonder what he could actually achieve. He wouldn't be a dictator. He would still have to deal with the other branches of government.



Instead of perpetuating an immoral and corrupt system, I think we should just force the government to file for bankruptcy, dismantle it, sell off the pieces to the highest bidders, use the proceeds to pay off its creditors and use the rest as restitution for the victims of eminent domain, drug prisoners, etc.

That's a good suggestion but I'd have to put it in an overlay or popup to avoid cluttering up the interface.

Some people have been having issues using Google for OpenID. The issue stems from the fact that there are several different OpenID URL's that they provide.

https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id

https://profiles.google.com/yourgoogleidhere/about

https://profiles.google.com/u/0/yourgoogleidhere/about?tab=mh

If you use these different URL's you will end up creating three different accounts. To avoid that, use only one. It doesn't matter which one you use, just make sure that it's the same each time you login.

I'm sorry for this but I don't have any way to fix it. I've contacted Google to let them know this is unacceptable. It would help if everyone else did the same thing as well.

The problem with that is that now anyone can see the successful payment URL. I know I can block access based on IP but I'm not too crazy about exposing my backend to my customers (that sounded dirty).

Thanks for your help though. I'll see if I can make this work.

I'm not having much luck using their service. I'm not getting a response to my questions and there's no documentation on using the payment links. I need to have the customer's email address passed along to me with the call to the successful payment URL but I don't see how that can be done.

It matters to certain economists and their followers. If you don't care, that's fine. Don't worry about it. I'm trying to remove doubts from other people that do care and do worry about it. They aren't impressed that you can buy pizza & drugs with BTC because they can do the same thing with USD and have the same issues with it, aside from inflation.

Likewise, we are all greedy when we buy stuff because we shop for bargains and better quality, forcing merchants to compete with each other in a race to the bottom. Of course, that's a good thing! It's not just foolish but harmful to pay more than you absolutely have to for a product. It promotes waste and poor quality relative to the price.

I respect your right to hold that opinion. Do you respect my right to hold the opposite opinion? In other words, if I disagree with you and start claiming property as my own, are you going to use violence against me or my property in order to suppress my opinion? This is the crux of the issue. Anarchism is the only system that can support both of our views. You would be free to live in a communistic society with whoever else wanted to and I would be free to live in a capitalist society with whoever else wanted to.


Don't you always have the option to farm, fish, forage or hunt? Unless you plan on eating the money you are paid, there's a more direct way to survive rather than being paid to work some menial job.

The right of private property is derived from being the first possessor because everyone else is a latecomer with respect to them. If you ignore the prior-later distinction then how can we have private property at all? Imagine if the second possessor was said to have a better claim to the property then wouldn't the same argument apply to the third possessor and so on?


The only way there is no "real" choice is if you are being threatened with violence. Otherwise, there is always a choice though you might not like it and wish to get everything for free. Do you think you don't have a real choice to buy a TV because the only way to get it is to pay money? Are you exploiting TV-sellers because you shop around for the lowest price instead of emptying your wallet to the first seller?

Another example is price "gouging". After Hurricane Fran hit in '96 there was no power in Raleigh, NC and everyone suddenly needed ice. Some enterprising fellows filled up a couple of freezer trucks with ice and started selling it at something like $8 a bag. People were lining up to buy the ice, even to the point where the sellers were limiting the number of bags that could be purchased per person. Of course, people complained about the price but they still bought it. Eventually, someone called the police. The police showed up and arrested the men, taking them away in handcuffs for violating anti-price gouging laws. The most bizarre part is that the people in line, who were so willing to wait in a long line to pay four times the usual price for ice they desperately needed, clapped.

Alright, sweet. Thanks for this!

Will this work without a hard disk and CD-ROM?

That's awesome. Will it ever be something that we can manipulate in 3D? Perhaps that could be done with Flash?

Well, (2) is immoral if done by force against other people's will and (3) doesn't exist. If your labor is worth $3 an hour but employers are forced to pay you $4 an hour then they would be losing money. Rather than hire you at a loss they would do better to not hire you at all, which is what actually happens. By setting a minimum wage you are making sure that jobs worth less than that don't exist. If (3) actually existed then we should set the minimum wage to $100 an hour and we'd all be rich. The reality is that (3) doesn't raise any wages at all but rather makes sure that certain jobs don't exist. Instead of "minimum wage laws" they should really be called "forced unemployment laws" but nobody would vote for that.

I think competition is good. There may be be an possibly unlimited number of cryptocurrencies but how many are actually going to be widely used? The incentive for people to flock to new currencies is small as long as Bitcoin is doing what people want it to do.

Some jobs are worth more than nothing but less than minimum wage. These jobs can't exist under current laws. Yet, it seems you would rather pay people to sit at home rather than pay them to do something useful and perhaps actually learn a skill that might eventually be worth more than minimum wage. That would be fine if you were paying people with your own money but you're not. You're forcing other people to pay for these do-nothings through taxation.