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"Central banks" and a decentralized crypto currency are oxymorons.
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A problem I see with this, is that the government might perceive Bitcoin as a threat and in reaction they will start to over regulate the technology to protect their reserve currency. The whole situation was caused by the government making bad political decisions and they might make even worst decisions when they are threatened. On the other hand, if they react negatively, people will be drawn to this technology in the black markets and they will have no control over it. If they accept it, and regulate it properly.... they might even profit from it.  I think the only problem with this statement is using"might" instead of "will" 😀 |
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If Trump has his way, there will not be a need for remittance services, because there will not be any Mexicans in the USA to send money home. Hitler also started with this kind of "cleanup" and it eventually turned into the The Holocaust, but I doubt if he will be doing such desperate actions to "clean" the USA. I think, he might be more worried about the illegal immigrants and the cost to the US tax payers to handle these cases.  It is funny every other country enforces its border and immigration laws - try to sneak into Mexico. Yet when the US does it, people cry "Hitler". The pope calls migrants "Jesus" and yet has closed borders at the Vatican and few notice. |
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I sent through some bitcoins and the transaction has been confirmed on blockchain 14 times but I am unable to withdraw the bitcoins nor is there any record of the transaction occurring on my account. Can anyone help?
What account? What web site? |
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"For now, however, there is a growing black market to facilitate a transfer of wealth to Mexico from its citizens [comitting a felony to be] in this country, even as ordinary Mexicans back home are stocking up on the remittance transfer alternative that most of them hope they’ll never need to use." Wut??? Why would they (the USA side you mean, right?) hope to never need to use bitcoin? I suspect after the first try, they would hope never to use the black market to transfer money ever again.  And the ones in Mexico who are buying bitcoin presumably aren't sending them to the USA; they bought them in expectation of the peso dump and would be happy to cash them in later when they have preserved their wealth. Clearly when they say "Mexicans back home are stocking up on the remittance transfer alternative that most of them hope they’ll never need to use." they are referring to Mexicans in Mexico. Not Mexicans breaking the law and being in the US. If the Mexicans in the US were not "Mexicans" but "former Mexicans", things would be different for people in the US. Divided loyalties shouldn't be welcome anywhere, if Mexicans illegally in the US view Mexico as "home" perhaps they should return there. Agreed about the ones buying in Mexico. |
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Indelible.ink has recently invented a way to store an 80 character record on the Blockchain. Coinidol.com caught up with Steven E. Williams, the CEO of indelible.ink, and asked him a few questions about his company and what it offers to the ...
Lol. "Recently invented" using OP_RETURN? That has been understood for years. If they are claiming that, I'd beware of their other claims. |
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Thoughts on Bitcoin belong in the forums elsewhere.
THIS IS A NEWS ARTICLE FORUM -- PLEASE MOVE THIS THREAD, MODS.
Thanks.
Are you blind? The thread is moved to press, which is clearly the place where the discussion needs to be. It is not in general section anymore. Stop crying to mods and realize that it is in the correct spot please. And actually read the article and add something constructive to the discussion next time. At least reformed the title to match the format: POST FORMAT: YYYY-MM-DD SITE - HEADLINE https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=246823.0 |
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This is causing a chain affect, because some other countries are starting to do the same. A recent example is Venezuela, where they are doing this to take on the Mafia --> http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38284485 .... People are gradually losing faith in bigger fiat denominations, because it's mostly used in illegal activities. { Strange... I thought Bitcoin was the only currency being used for crime }   I love how India considers "bigger fiat" to be $7. Venezuela is worse: "In a surprise announcement, Mr Maduro said on Sunday that the 100-bolivar note, worth about 2 US cents (£0.015) on the black market, would be taken out of circulation on Wednesday". So the only bills left would be worth a penny or less! 😀 They can't just man up and admit they really don't like freedom to spend how you see fit to and want to control you completely. 'He said the aim of these "forces" was "to destabilise out economy and our society, to leave the country without 100-bolivar notes".' No one needs to destabilize the economy, the socialists have taken care of that themselves. |
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The Rise of Bitcoin in the Wake of Demonetization in IndiaThe buzz around Bitcoin has been growing stronger steadily over the past few years. Though, a vast majority in India is still unaware of the digital currency. The government’s decision to demonetize Rs. 500 and Rs.1000 currency notes has catapulted Bitcoin into the foreground of people’s attention as they explore various cashless mechanisms in the face of currency ban in India. http://www.newsbtc.com/2016/12/09/rise-bitcoin-wake-demonetization-india/ The sad thing is that the government of India trusts their citizens so little and wants to control them so much that they are banning what amounts bills that are $7-8 bill and $15. It is sick that their morality thinks that they have the right to try to control this many people. Perhaps the Brexit/Italy/Trump effect will hit India next. |
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Seems like your server's X display didn't start properly. Do you have a monitor connected to the server and can other ubuntu gui applications like xclock.
Thank you for your reply. Yes, I have monitor connected. The deskop shows correctly. And yes, other programs starts ok (for example truecrypt). Any other suggestions? I guess I will try another reboot...  There are various ways to see if X is running, but a more robust way might be to try something like this: if ! xset q &>/dev/null; then echo "No X server at \$DISPLAY [$DISPLAY]" >&2 exit 1 fi see ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/637005/how-to-check-if-x-server-is-running) |
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I've installed bitcoin core and it was running OK. We had an electric surge recently, consequently server running the wallet restarted. Now when I try to start bitcoin core wallet by "./bitcoin-qt" I get QXcbConnection: Failed to initialize XRandr Qt: XKEYBOARD extension not present on the X server. The X11 connection broke: Maximum allowed requested length exceeded (code 4). XIO: fatal IO error 2 (No such file or directory) on X server ":10.0" Thank you for your time. Please help Which version? What OS and version? 😀 |
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Make sure you have a decent stash of bitcoins. Then at your 10 year reunion show your teacher your Ferrari and say glad I didn't listen to you. Find a new job teach.
Reminds me of the old saying: Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. |
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For all you that love 'decentralization', it has made a right fucking mess of things.
Basically the open wild, wild west of 'consensus' is causing tremendous problems in the Bitcoin network. People are not working constructively together to achieve a remarkable new system, but rather fighting like little school girls on Reddit. This is a damn mess. We need a CEO and management to direct efforts and align them to reach a goal.
Is it the case there can be no noble CEO? I don't buy that theory.
If you don't like it, there is a trivial answer: 1. Fork the code - call it CEOCoin or BitcoinCEO 2. Fork the block chain 1000 blocks from now for example 3. Convince some miners and users that your fork is better Instead of complaining here and doing nothing about it, you'll have empirical evidence as to the number of people that agree that bitcoin "needs a CEO". [ And 1 and 2 are trivially easy to do, btw. ] |
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Thanks to new scientific elaborations, the emergence of quantum devices could happen much sooner than anyone waited. Moreover, the fresh fulfillment of Shor algorism points out the obligatoriness to prepare Bitcoin to the emergence of quantum PCs... https://bit.news/eng/bitcoin-prepared-emergence-quantum-pcs/To be clearer, this probably should be written something like this: "Thanks to new theoretical advancements, the emergence of quantum devices could happen much sooner than anyone anticipated. The new implementations of the Shor algorithm points out why Bitcoin should be prepared for quantum PCs" Spelling errors, incorrect word usage and grammar issues etc are rampant on this web site. |
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I think they are saying, bitcoin will increase in value, but somewhat hard to tell for sure. It seems like this web site needs an editor who can read and write in English since this is ESL/ETL level writing: Pursuant to experts of the concern, as the arrival of... Trump will sow panic in the state ... The markets are aware of "overvaluation intentions" ... Remind that in the Tor network was detected the site where ... |
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Hi, It sounds like this is in a non-English speaking country. At least in many Western countries such as the US (in theory - the socialist authoritarians with help from proto-fascists who want to force people to buy products etc don't like freedom too much) we have a government of enumerated powers, not enumerated liberties. Just because something isn't specifically allowed, doesn't mean it is illegal. So bitcoin per se is not illegal. Some *uses* could be, for example purchasing drugs online. The rest just sounds like a teacher who knows very little about economics and is anti-freedom among other things. He should google the purchasing power of major currencies over the past 110 years - even the past 20 years - and see how much inflation rots away the value of a euro, yen or dollar. Then ask himself if he would use that as a store of value when its value is inflated away. As far as silver goes, a US silver dime ($0.10 face value) from 1964 is worth about 16 times its face value (~ $1.60) today. If he considers that to be "stable" he doesn't know the meaning of stable. Five days ago, a friend of mine studying Economics at High School had a discussion with its teacher, regarding Bitcoin, since I told her about that. Here's what the teacher said :
1. That's illegal : He did not bring many proves here, just saying that since it has not been regulated as a currency, we were in a grey area, and something in a grey area is rarely something that will become totally white from one day to another. He added that the sole purpose of that was to buy all kind of drugs over the Internet.
2. It will crash : He said that he had studied Bitcoin's price evolution throught the time (what I doubt) and said her that being so constantly rising was a sign that it was not a viable project. Its proof : manipulated prices of things like silver or wheat are very stable !
3. Anyone clear in its head wouldn't use it : First, he doesn't recognise any kind of manipulation of the money and the danger that there is for people keeping all their savings in fiat. I know that because I had him as a teacher too some times ago. So trying to explaining him about the fact that there is a clear war against cash and evident facts, like that that shows our money need to be converted into something viable to be protected from massive surveillance, is useless. Him not understanding that, since its the best argument I have, I couldn't have replied. When she told him about the speed of transactions, he replied "we have PayPal", so I said me that it wasn't worth to ever try explaining anything. As a final point, he said again that the sole real use that is making standing apart is that you can buy drugs on the Internet...
4. Bitcoin at a bigger scale would fail : I couldn't explain you much what he said because what she told me wasn't very clear so I personnally did not understood, as her I presume how confuse her explaination was. To summarize, he said that it's still a little market and that it will fail to scale and will go back to close to nothing in value.
I'd like to get your feelings on that. Just call the arguments 1, 2, 3 and 4 and tell me what you would have replied back and what it does inspire you !
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