That would result in a much, much smaller forum.
I am going to use your quote, completely OUT OF CONTEXT  (so please bear with me.....lol)To address the OP, using your reply above: Wouldn't it be nice to see the actual number of people registered and active ? I am sure the stats look impressive, with thousands of user accounts, but I fear that those 'thousands' of user accounts are controlled by only 'hundreds' of actual users...lol I don't think it's quite that bad, but yeah, I'd wager the forum's actual membership is a noticeably smaller number than it's registered users. Numbers a bit outdated, but this paints the picture. Administrator: 2 Brand new (SPAM): 41547 Donator: 76 Founder: 1 Full Member: 996 Global Moderator: 5 Hero Member: 363 Jr. Member: 7612 Newbie (SPAM?): 11220 SCAMMER: 101 Sr. Member: 447 Staff: 18 VIP: 28 Whitelisted: 1 |
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Painfully obvious inflation mostly, obscured slightly by bogus statistics. The usual. Remember that the debt in question is denominated in a currency that we can print at will (and have!). The repayment amount isn't a fixed value, but a fixed quantity.
Who would buy or hold a debt like that? Turns out that everyone does, because the alternatives are mostly worse. That may change in the next 20 years, maybe it will even be Bitcoin that brings the system down. But those are both long shots.
The alternatives are mostly worse...for now. I see other world powers losing patience with the fed's monopoly on, and inevitable devaluation of their holdings. Being "the best looking horse at the glue factory" is no way to run a world reserve currency. Already China, India, Russia and others are making noises about some "basket of commodities" system. Once the rush to get out begins I just don't see how the dollar survives. This is curious; we seem to largely agree on the facts of the matter but have come to diametrically opposed conclusions. Except that being the world's reserve currency isn't a gift, it is a burden. A huge fucking burden. The price that the USA has paid over the last 40 or 50 years to support, build and rebuild the world is mind boggling. Only in flawed economic thinking is it a burden. The Triffin dilemma is based on one of the greatest misconceptions in modern-day economics: "a trade deficit is bad". The USA has been a hungry importer, receiving a huge influx of useful goods, lasting commodities, and safe securities in exchange for its depreciating, produced-on-demand USD, all because it owns the world's reserve currency. |
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Support "Games and rounds". Oppose deletion or outlawing.
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The earnings of SatoshiDice are sufficiently high for me. I'm more concerned about the risk: - SatoshiDice Failure (level-0 risk): If Bitcoin's economy explodes, then SatoshiDice's relative importance can diminish greatly.
- MPEX Failure (level-1 risk): A lack of ability to be polite and a refusal to move off a tainted domain gives MPEX a high chance of disappearing.
Further increased with the passthrough: - GLBSE Failure (level-2 risk): GLBSE has a chance, however small, of failing.
- DeadTerra Failure (level-2 risk): DeadTerra is well-respected, but still has a chance of default.
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Coinbase seems to be a blockchain.info clone (or hybrid of Blockchain and BitInstant), so maybe they'll clone that feature too  Coinbase is a Flexcoin clone that doesn't have Flexcoin's interest. |
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The Bitcoin Wiki is lacking in address coverage, so I decided to start writing some pages on notable addresses in Bitcoin history. It's a niche interest, I know, but pages written here also serve an educational purpose: just how anonymous is Bitcoin? I've started the project by writing two articles, found in this category. If you are an address enthusiast, please help out by expanding coverage of addresses and writing new pages on addresses. Connecting addresses to a specific entity is encouraged, to better educate people about proper anonymity techniques. Just make sure the analysis is rational! I guess having a topic in Project Development would be useful, because Bitcoin.it doesn't have a concept of WikiProjects. This thread should serve as a discussion hub for addresses that should be covered or other related activities. I'll start the discussion by asking for suggestions on a notability guideline: what type of addresses should be covered? I'm of the opinion that if an address meets any of this criteria, it should be eligible. - Address firsts: e.g. 342ftSRCvFHfCeFFBuz4xwbeqnDw6BGUey (the first P2SH address)
- High-volume addresses: e.g. 1DkyBEKt5S2GDtv7aQw6rQepAvnsRyHoYM
- Addresses linked to a notable company: e.g. 1dice1e6pdhLzzWQq7yMidf6j8eAg7pkY
- Addresses linked to history: e.g. 1KPTdMb6p7H3YCwsyFqrEmKGmsHqe1Q3jg (destination of the Allinvain theft)
Any other suggestions? |
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What are your thoughts about Pirate if he pays back some accounts and not other. Like what if he claims he needs a list of information about people before he sends coins? Would that be scamming?
That's scamming. "Hey, I would love to pay you back, but first you need to give me your credit card number, expiry date, and mother's maiden name." |
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I'm no expert on this address, but I've just created a wiki page on it. Experts, please help provide information to everyone by expanding it! |
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What software is compatible with this pool? Edit: Nevermind, figured it out. This article is helpful. I also made a new article documenting the future of mining: Higher difficulty pooled mining. I'm no miner, so the page needs some serious work. Also, adding some links would be helpful. |
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Legality aside, decency would suggest you should put a notice on the "private message" page stating that the messages are not private and may be read by moderators.
They're "personal messages", not "private messages". I think it's obvious that the administrators of a site will check PMs when necessary, but I added a note to the page. I think it's great that you are disclosing the PMs to the police, and if that fails, publicly. Freedom of information is necessary to bring justice, and once one waives privacy they should not expect it. |
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Update! Some accounts have been repaid. Looks like calling the default was uncalled for.
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well, there aren't many pastes yet so I'm pretty sure most came from these forums, though in these instances no referrer is even given. And they didn't visit any specific paste pages. it's just funny, that's all. Oh, and there's one visit from a very large investment management company  The fact that there isn't any referrer header is consistent with links from this forum, which, apart from redirection topics, all open on new windows/tabs. ? WTF, interesting tag I never knew about. Also really annoying. It's useful for linking to another BitcoinTalk thread, because I hate it when Firefox has 20+ BitcoinTalk tabs open at any time. I've used it for a while for non-outgoing links, and nobody seems to have noticed. Also, it's probably not necessary, but I've used it for links to an anchor too (just to make sure it doesn't break). |
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well, there aren't many pastes yet so I'm pretty sure most came from these forums, though in these instances no referrer is even given. And they didn't visit any specific paste pages. it's just funny, that's all. Oh, and there's one visit from a very large investment management company The fact that there isn't any referrer header is consistent with links from this forum, which, apart from redirection topics, all open on new windows/tabs. ? |
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I also don't think it's right to call this an IPO when only 10% of the company is up for sale. If evoorhees made >50% equity available for purchase by the public, I'd change my opinion. If you don't want to call it an IPO, then what is it? Seems like IPO is the commonly accepted term that comes closest to describing what this is? Admittedly, normal terminologies aren't perfectly applicable in Bitcoin world. Hopefully the contract adequately informed people what was being offered, what the obligations are, etc. If there's some new term that should be used for such a thing, I'm all ears Revolutionary technologies have a tendency of disrupting traditional nomenclature. The issuer probably shoot himself in the foot by allowing trading while "IPO" is still going. What is really strange, this same mistake gets repeated over and over in every issue on GLBSE and probably will be repeated in new exchanges like https://cryptostocks.com, https://www.litecoinglobal.com, etc. What is also missing, is the fixed deadline and what happens, when all shares are not sold by this particular date. So evoo just pays himself for the shares who the hell cares? It's the same to cancel/end the offering and to buy them from yourself. I guess you have no idea what the idea behind a "IPO" is. Maybe you have some idea about IPOs elsewhere. But this one (and all I've seen here) are a simple way to offer some shares to the public. It doesn't matter if evoorhees, evoorheez, or a swamp monster buys the shares or doesn't. One share is a set fraction and you don't need to worry yourself with others. Yeah, the terminology was confusing, but the type works fine. The difference between this IPO (which was technically still a "initial public offering", though different) and regular IPOs was how the shares are a) not issued by a company, but sold by an individual and b) do not raise money for the company. |
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Interesting that there's an exact negative correlation between credit score and interest rate: pick any two deposit takers with a different credit rating, and the one with the higher rating offers a lower interest rate.
It's entirely understandable though.
Works this way everywhere. Bonds that have low credit scores are "junk bonds" and pay high interest, while AAA bonds pay interest lower than inflation. |
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It's measured in SAT, not BTC. |
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I think the third tranche is already up for sale?
It may be out there floating around, but it won't sell because there are cheaper shares available. I would probably have invested in SDICE myself if it wasn't for the $200 MPEX fee and the risk/reward. I think SDICE is a good business (at least in theory), but if I'm being sold equity in anything, I want voting rights. I also don't think it's right to call this an IPO when only 10% of the company is up for sale. If evoorhees made >50% equity available for purchase by the public, I'd change my opinion. I don't want to tie my capital to the whims of a single person who is running a business of undetermined legality in the US while also residing in the US. The investment extremely risky. If the IPO does sell out, it's safe to say that holding would have been better than sell-low then buy-high (which is a loss). The $200 MPEX fee is a turnoff, but GSDPT offers a solution by allowing 0-fee investing. |
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