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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: My response to the community
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on: December 31, 2012, 06:51:18 AM
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Why "deep end"? What this guy did? I'm really curious. I don't know why construct a big reputation to just throw away in the rubbish bin...  He made tens of thousands of bitcoins worth of bets, lost, claimed it was a joke. |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Natural progression for a Silverbug: Bitcoin
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on: December 30, 2012, 08:56:00 PM
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I'm the opposite! I've been in Bitcoin for quite some time now, and only started on the silver market 4-5 months ago
Same here.. BTC ~2 years.. silver just recently about 2 months ago... How's that work guys? One day you're like "I wish there was something like bitcoin but slower, heavier and could tarnish..." I kid, I have some metals. |
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Other / Off-topic / Re: Parents need to bring back the belt!
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on: December 30, 2012, 07:53:09 AM
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Does hitting kids do anything but teach them its okay to hit people... as long as they are smaller than you and doing something you don't like?
it teaches them, that I'm the boss, and you do as i say, OR ELSE!  when talking to them, giving them time-outs, yelling, and all that fails, then time to pull out the belt? IDK, all i know is this kid is not listening and his bad behavior isn't simply going to go away. It teaches them that they're the boss once they can beat the shit out of you. It's not so hard to not associate with people who aren't enjoyable to be around. All you have to do is want your kid to get hit less than you want him to play with a kid who hits them. I'm not saying to never see them again after one more hitting, but end the day, then call them less, then call them almost never. People don't want to be alone and if they see that hitting the people they'd like to be with isn't getting them what they want they'll stop. Or they're crazy and you found out cheap. |
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Other / Politics & Society / Re: The man with no identity
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on: December 30, 2012, 04:38:42 AM
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Is no one going to mention how weird it is that the guy whos ID he stole was named John Doe?
But seriously this isn't that special, all over the world there are tons of people who no state has tabs on. I suppose the state interacting with a (clean, not-poor I assume) 1st world person who they don't have a file on is surprising, unfortunately.
Silly that the standard is to equate 'identity' with 'holding a fancy picture of someone who could plausibly be you'.
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin BillPay?
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on: December 27, 2012, 11:02:05 PM
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I'm not sure if there's a demand for this service, since bank billpay is pretty easy and free.
There is plenty of demand. If I have bitcoins and need to pay my gas/water/electric/whatever bill, then I either need a BTC billpay service, or I need to convert BTC to fiat, get that into my bank, then use the bank bill pay. I would much rather pay 1.5% for someone to accept BTC and pay my bill rather than either take a lot of time to get money in my bank, or pay 1.5% and have to do a bit of leg work to get BTC into cash, then that cash deposited. You are assuming that the guy has his entire liquid asset in Bitcoins and not much money in the bank. I can certainly see a few people doing this, but I don't think most people here has their entire liquid asset in Bitcoins. Total or relative balances of either aren't that important for this. If you have bitcoins you want to get rid of and bills to pay it could work for you. |
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Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: An alternate "51% attack" possible?
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on: December 27, 2012, 06:54:46 AM
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With a worm like that, modifying the Bitcoin clients would be more effective. Even with 20% of the Bitcoin network redirecting all their transactions to you, much more damage can be done than a 51% attack.
That's something else that bothers me. It wouldn't necessarily require a worm. What if everyone started using a popular client, then the developers suddenly released a malicious version and hijacked the network to their bidding... or someone in an open-source project managed to sneak something in at the last minute or modify the program offered to users for downloads. Hacking (the malicious kind) is often the most effective by subtle means, rather than banging at the door with a sledge hammer (brute force -- e.g., 51%er). But to me a "super worm" sounds more feasible than building a massive, trillion-dollar array of supercomputers to comprise 51% of network computing power. A popular closed source bitcoin client that automatically updates? And maybe everyone will just eat poison and you can have all the gold. |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Block 0 created Jan 3 2009 - 4 year anniversary
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on: December 26, 2012, 04:33:08 AM
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Personally i would not even mind if he started with 1 million, it pales in comparison to what he has done for mankind.
Im sure hes sitting on a few thousand bitcoins right now A few thousand! What do you think he just left a miner on all the time for a month? Crazy. |
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Economy / Gambling / Re: SealsWithClubs.eu | Largest Bitcoin Poker Site | No Banking | Fast Cashouts
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on: December 25, 2012, 11:19:17 PM
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The SNG launcher is launched. There are 6 structures to choose from. 'Turbo', 'turbo+' and 'smooth turbo' have 2% rake, 'normal' and 'smooth' have 3% rake and 'slow' has 4% rake. We'll probably tweak the structures in a week or two and welcome feedback. You can open any SNG that you can buy in to and you will be entered automatically when it is created.  |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Block 0 created Jan 3 2009 - 4 year anniversary
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on: December 24, 2012, 07:19:02 AM
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https://blockchain.info/block-index/1Only a week or so away. Block 1 came out on the 9th: 2009-01-09 02:54:25 I guess Satoshi created the genesis block and sometime later started mining? Huh, I never knew he waited so long. I guess he wanted to tell some people and surely had already tested everything on a test chain. I think he was pretty sensitive to the head start issue, even though imo he clearly deserved an moderately 'unfair' advantage. I wonder if that was even him who got block 1. |
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