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Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: The Sound of a Bitcoin
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on: November 30, 2011, 11:59:56 PM
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Guys, why going underground and audio waves? May I suggest that you look up? E-M-E (Moon bounce) is exactly what Bitcoin needs to free itself from the strangehold of the Internet providers. Just come up with the outline of the broadcast protocol for Bitcoin over PSK(whatever) bounced from the visible side of the Moon. Completely untraceable commerce lies ahead. Even if you don't get a working implementation you'll get a round of applause from your presentation at the next year's Bitcoin Conference. I tried to plant this idea with Lolcust and his planned money laundering operation with GeistGeld and Tenebrix. But he's more of a graphic designer and you guys have the required amateur radio background. Support the free trade on Earth by banking on the Moon! Actually, Lolcust's idea of "The Darkside Transaction Mixer" could be implemented as a literal "Underground" extension to the global Moon-bounce protocol. Use Moon-bounce to relay the transactions above the ground and use the ultrasonic carrier to relay the transactions underground. Please don't abandon this concept! https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=46656.msg556294#msg556294Haha, awesome. I don't know anything about the feasibility, if it is do it. If not write articles about doing it for the fun press. |
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Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: [ANNOUNCE] Electrum - a new thin client
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on: November 30, 2011, 08:19:33 PM
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Today I thought about features I'd like to see in best-bitcoin-client-ever, there is my brain dump. Maybe if others have some nice ideas it will be good to make a pool of them to let programmers pick what they want to implement.
* Firstbits support (in progress)
* Qt GUI (in early steps, not sure with results. I have many possible improvements of GUI in my head, however they're related to basic gui design, so nothing to reveal yet)
* Coin selection
* Notification for new client version (as protocol is in early stage it's important to tell users they have to upgrade)
* Send bitcoins to email (using server-side escrow, sending back not withdrawed coins)
* Wallet in the cloud (sync wallets across multiple computers)
* Server failover (server peer switching)
* Make network layer more robust (permanent connection, interface for browser clients, but fallback to poling for restrictive networks)
* Make wallet format more robust
Fristbits! After that.. better wallet format seems good. Coin selection sounds fun, though in practice I imagine it'll mostly involve people paying a little extra in fees and having false sense of added privacy since they'll screw it up. Electrum already has the deterministic wallets working right? Is it possible and reasonable to have a feature where the wallet is cleanly deleted after every use and regenerated next time it is needed? |
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Economy / Speculation / Re: All classic sings for another drop soon.
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on: November 30, 2011, 07:58:20 PM
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At $2.80 it doesn't seem to be much of a "drop" with strong support at the $2.60s.
Unless it does what the high school senior dude does on prom night when he realizes he forgot the condom Tells her he's going to pull out and doesn't? Has a kid in August? |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin in tv show -The Good Wife - Episode 3.13 - Finding Mr. Bitcoin
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on: November 30, 2011, 11:43:00 AM
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Well back to the topic.. even if this show does hit millions of eyeballs, I'm not expecting that to translate to sudden Bitcoin interest.
Judging by the casting notes - it looks like Bitcoin will be covered as some sort of shady,risky,illegal thing.
Is there an uptick in cocaine use when a major TV crime show features cops and lawyers chasing users?
I'm guessing not, and similarly - I don't expect this to bring the hordes to bitcoin.
It might get a few people intrigued, or at least make them more likely to read when they later come across the word bitcoin online, so in a way it's still a good bit of publicity (I hope!)
If .0001% knew about cocaine a show about it would probably increase use by 10x. Probably many will think it's a made up for the show thing. Later they'll be like "wait what, that's real what am I missing?" |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: good way to measure total Bitcoin users?
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on: November 30, 2011, 11:14:45 AM
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I don't have any stats, but want to mention what may be a growing type of user in the future. Last night I talked to a player who told me he had 80BTC but didn't know what they were.  He'd won freerolls at various sites and didn't even know there was bitcoin software you could use on your own. I don't think this is a substantial segment of users, but I expect it will be growing. I think the future is a bunch of merchants sending coins from their nodes and not a lot of individuals running them. I could be wrong, but it seems like a lot of people trust sites more than they trust themselves or just don't want any hassle. Maybe Electrum and similar will keep more individuals packing their own coin. |
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Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Poker and the shared pot at the table in a decentralised network
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on: November 30, 2011, 07:10:00 AM
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Re: Collusion prevention in decentralized poker.
I like the Rush idea. It doesn't even need to be one hand then shuffle. It could be 60 hands so you get a lot of the feel of a normal game. Or maybe it only assigns randomly and never moves you once in. This would let cheaters move until they bumped into each other, but if move behavior was public that might be okay. If accounts were free that history would be useless. Being required to pay an entry fee (to a random peer?) to be accepted by peers would make it free (or profitable in a sense if there were lots of multis) to play for single accounters (I'm imagining accounts being public keys) but costly for multis.
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Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Poker and the shared pot at the table in a decentralised network
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on: November 30, 2011, 07:01:50 AM
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I hope that will be found a way to totally avoid escrows ( totally decentralized and disconnected from thirty party ).
Is BIP_0011 the first step?
Alternatively you could use BIP_0011 to require 100% consensus before releasing funds from mutual escrow but "greifers" will ruin that. If I lost all my money I can just be an asshole and vote against releasing any funds. Granted I likely will never get my lost money back but I can ruin the game for everyone else. You could do an all but one rule. Also you could require players post say 20% more than they can play at the table so they always have incentive to approve even a loss. |
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Economy / Speculation / Re: Is the price slowly climbing?
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on: November 29, 2011, 06:36:59 AM
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I've been saying "long, slow slide" for months.
It's still not clear what the endgame is. It hardly matters at this point, though. As I point out occasionally, if one business the size of a typical single supermarket used Bitcoins, liquidating their daily receipts would crash the market. Bitcoin is now too dinky to be used as a currency.
Wow, imagine how much it would crash the price if bitcoin was accepted everywhere. |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Disappearing Bitcoins
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on: November 27, 2011, 11:00:35 PM
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You created a new address every time you sent coins and automatically sent the change back to yourself. The first 100 times you did this by sending to an address that was in your backup, but eventually those run out.
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Max Keiser, Bitcoin, and Twitter
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on: November 27, 2011, 10:35:49 PM
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Professor von Nipples November 26, 2011 at 9:49 pm
Only shit-heads support bitcoin.
LOL that is such a great statement. If someone makes a t-shirt with that on it, and finds Von Nipples' home address, I'll pay to have the shirt made (using bitcoin) and will get it sent to his house as a gift. Such prescience and insight demands compensation. Ahahahaha. That was grabbed from MarginalRevolution.com comments, but I wouldn't be surprised if he trolls here most of the time. |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Max Keiser, Bitcoin, and Twitter
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on: November 27, 2011, 10:17:30 PM
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I used to enjoy these forums, but the trolls and worse, attention whores who have nothing but negativity to contribute, have really ruined the experience lately.
Just watch man... the trolls who currently declare Bitcoin dead because the price is falling, will soon declare it unusable as a currency because the price is rising. The deflation argument will return. The bubble argument will return. The pyramid scheme argument will return. It's fine, when they've missed both their first and second chance to accumulate a stake in the most revolutionary technology since the internet, they'll be trolled by their own conscience and that's a very pernicious troll, indeed. +1 Professor von Nipples November 26, 2011 at 9:51 pm
That’s because retards are always the last ones out.
Professor von Nipples November 26, 2011 at 9:49 pm
Only shit-heads support bitcoin.
I have a feeling Professor Nipples is going to be feeling ill in about a year. |
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