Who the hell is he, and why should we care?
He spoke at the bitcoin conference in Prague (mainly about himself and his crowd-funding-site piratemyfilm.com, which uses bitcoin for funding movie- and other projects). He has mentioned bitcoin as the "currency of the resistance" in his "Keiser Report" in april or may 2011 and interviewed Rick Falkvinge about Bitcoin very early (also in Keiser Report). He has clearly promoted bitcoin and still said he would be "using his media leverage to help tony (bitpay) reach the goal of 1 million new bitcoin users in 2012" (I'm assuming this will fail, but nevertheless, he's a bitcoiner of sorts and one that reaches quite an audience. Should we care if he denounces libertarians? I'm not sure... will watch the vid now. Bitcoin's community is not entirely libertarians. Rejecting him because he criticized them is unfair and unnecessarily disopen and elitist. Our goal is Bitcoin adoption, not production of copious praise for libertarians. |
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Yeah, necromancy increases when both price and difficulty have been rising. Happened last year around May/June as well. Signs of a bubble, IMHO.
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Heh, maybe a node, but not likely a miner with current bitcoin protocol and our understanding of physics. That rover landed 14 minutes before we got word because of that whole speed of light issue. Which does raise an interesting question: How will the network handle 10+minute lightspeed delays? Will someone on Mars just have to wait a little longer for confirmation? I assume each planet will have their own network. Marscoin, Jupitercoin, etc. |
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I got hit by lxFlasHxl for 2 BTC with a repayment date of 8/25/11. Don't feel bad for me, though, since I've long since made it all back from the other limited amounts of lending that I've done.
Updated! Shakaru
He'll get the top of the list once I figure out how much does he owe everyone. Any concise figures? 3K btc?  ? What's the story behind it? See : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=65989How do you arrive at your figure? I calculated 2211.07786728 BTC for my thread. |
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I've received three bitcents. I decided that there were better things to do with a signature, and more profitable too  . |
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You say no like you know no one mines it but I don't think you do know.
I'm being serious. Nobody mines Geist Geld. If you need links, maybe I can give you a few: This site no longer lists Geist Geld. This pool is down. This exchange no longer offers Geist Geld. This block explorer has an unresolved problem. So yes, I do know that no one mines it. |
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Robots gone mad? Someone trying to drive them mad?
LOL, MtGox's Front Running bot?  I wouldn't be surprised if Mt. Gox ran bots. Not as "volume-increasing", because that is unlikely to come at Mt. Gox's profit (too much risk). Last year, we had many situations where a bidwall was so close to an askwall that Mt. Gox would earn money if it sold/bought into both (due to commission). This year, these tête-à-tête walls have not yet been seen. Maybe these spikes are caused due to a asynchrony between Mt. Gox's matching algorithm and its liquidity-reducing bot. |
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I think the misconception here is how W is being used to measure energy. The unit of energy is the joule, not the watt (that is the unit of power). Power is energy over time, or more specifically represents the conversion of energy from one form to another over time. When the power shuts down, this conversion ceases.
I hope this is an adequate scientific answer, albeit simplified greatly.
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Last Active: July 06, 2012, 02:57:17 AM
I think he finally did a run for this. I think this was evident after he went two months without a post. I'm pretty sure that's when I listed him onto my theft list. |
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Hi I'm necroman, is there any pool that still mines or mergemines this chain? Does anyone mine it at all? I'm prepared to throw a cpucore at it.
Why? If you need an alt-chain, use I0Coin. At least it has something going for it. To answer your question, no. Nobody mines Geist Geld at all. |
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If you see a ocean in danger of pollution and you want to protect it, get some friends together, buy some defense, protect it.
See an endangered species? Capture them, nurture them, protect them.
Is your favorite rainforest in trouble? Make a contract with the lumber company and pay them not to wreck it. Pay a local militia to protect it.
Tired of people hunting and camping on a piece of land? Buy it. Protect it.
It's very simple. All the tools you need to promote your cause are in front of you. You just need to organize your labor to make things happen. It's a lot simpler than begging for world government to take everything over and tax everyone into your cause.
Tell me, why does the lumber company have the rights to the rainforest? Do they really create more value than non-destructive groups? Who decides who gets the rights to the rainforest? Fact is, all this is subjective. Lumber companies may produce some value by exploiting the rainforest, but many would argue that more value is produced by leaving it alone. So why, why, should these lumber companies own the rainforest in the first place? Who sells it? Because they have the cooperation, force and will necessary. They're stronger. If you want your desires met, I suggest you start working towards them. You can wait for your all-knowing god government to meet your desires or you can get them yourself. Are you advocating for a society in which a greater cooperation, force, and will implies the ability to rob others? If so, expect to be robbed by the Mafia. Working with the Mafia might be the only way out of this. Be prepared. You just described today's society. Replace Mafia with Governments and Corporations. Let me ask you again: who sells the rainforest? Who gets to use it? Whoever is allowed to by the organization or man with the most military force. You have to use force or persuasion to get your way in this world. There is no other way. I am only preaching reality. You'll find that that ideology is overwhelmingly antiutopian. Society is a powerful force programmed into humans. Without it, quarreling would have driven us to extinction. Military force has in the past been used neither chiefly for terror, nor chiefly for the robbery of power. Rather, it has been employed for reunification, for development of an ideology, or for the betterment of society as a whole. Eventually, society improves. We are built as a species to work together, not to persuade each other to get our way. A rainforest offers us necessary components for life. Society can easily topple the will of a destructive forestry industry if the problem gets worse. But for now, environmentalism can reduce the cleanup we might need later if a crisis occurs. The reality you speak of is distant from the reality we live in. And when both sides have guns? When both have missiles? Nuclear warheads? Think your point of view is a little south of reality.
During the cold war, there was a state coined "MAD": mutually assured destruction. Neither party struck first, because neither party could gain from it. Society is not zero-sum. |
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If you see a ocean in danger of pollution and you want to protect it, get some friends together, buy some defense, protect it.
See an endangered species? Capture them, nurture them, protect them.
Is your favorite rainforest in trouble? Make a contract with the lumber company and pay them not to wreck it. Pay a local militia to protect it.
Tired of people hunting and camping on a piece of land? Buy it. Protect it.
It's very simple. All the tools you need to promote your cause are in front of you. You just need to organize your labor to make things happen. It's a lot simpler than begging for world government to take everything over and tax everyone into your cause.
Tell me, why does the lumber company have the rights to the rainforest? Do they really create more value than non-destructive groups? Who decides who gets the rights to the rainforest? Fact is, all this is subjective. Lumber companies may produce some value by exploiting the rainforest, but many would argue that more value is produced by leaving it alone. So why, why, should these lumber companies own the rainforest in the first place? Who sells it? Because they have the cooperation, force and will necessary. They're stronger. If you want your desires met, I suggest you start working towards them. You can wait for your all-knowing god government to meet your desires or you can get them yourself. Are you advocating for a society in which a greater cooperation, force, and will implies the ability to rob others? If so, expect to be robbed by the Mafia. Working with the Mafia might be the only way out of this. Be prepared. You just described today's society. Replace Mafia with Governments and Corporations. Look, I care little about what you believe me to be supporting, but I can assure you it is nowhere near as disastrous as what you are. I have neither supported the "governments" nor the "corporations". You have supported such a society by stating that all must "work with" a tyrannical forestry industry. Effectively, you have advocated breaking up the government and instilling a fascist regime of industries that gain the right to exploit and rapidly deplete every bit of the Earth's resources, with the only barrier being pesky organizations left with no option but to "consult" with them. Does this sound like a government? I, on the other hand, have supported organized societal movements. I have rejected this right that you proclaim for a forestry industry to "own" a rainforest. Let me ask you again: who sells the rainforest? Who gets to use it? |
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If you see a ocean in danger of pollution and you want to protect it, get some friends together, buy some defense, protect it.
See an endangered species? Capture them, nurture them, protect them.
Is your favorite rainforest in trouble? Make a contract with the lumber company and pay them not to wreck it. Pay a local militia to protect it.
Tired of people hunting and camping on a piece of land? Buy it. Protect it.
It's very simple. All the tools you need to promote your cause are in front of you. You just need to organize your labor to make things happen. It's a lot simpler than begging for world government to take everything over and tax everyone into your cause.
Tell me, why does the lumber company have the rights to the rainforest? Do they really create more value than non-destructive groups? Who decides who gets the rights to the rainforest? Fact is, all this is subjective. Lumber companies may produce some value by exploiting the rainforest, but many would argue that more value is produced by leaving it alone. So why, why, should these lumber companies own the rainforest in the first place? Who sells it? Because they have the cooperation, force and will necessary. They're stronger. If you want your desires met, I suggest you start working towards them. You can wait for your all-knowing god government to meet your desires or you can get them yourself. Are you advocating for a society in which a greater cooperation, force, and will implies the ability to rob others? If so, expect to be robbed by the Mafia. Working with the Mafia might be the only way out of this. Be prepared. |
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