So when is BTC going to be $1.00 again? I'd love to fill up my coffers with cheap BTC and mine the crap out if it with my computer's GPU.  |
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Yes, if they implement a program for all similar to Medicare, it would be great. Of the three major socialized healthcare programs that the US government runs, Medicare is definitely run the best. I think the secret to success is that they use private contractors to do the claim work for them. Also a plus is that the patient can chose to see whatever doctor that they want and can even opt to have a private insurance company handle their benefits for the rather than the government.
Medicaid is another decent program. However, Medicaid programs are run by each individual state. It can be problematic when the patient travels to another state. A provider needs to enroll to accept Medicaid, and many providers do not want to enroll in all 50 programs, (especially since Medicaid usually only pays rock bottom for services.)
The VA is a big old mess. It takes them a year or longer to process a claim and it can be a nightmare to actually get an appointment and be treated properly. If the US ever decides to start universal healthcare, I certainly hope they don't opt to use the VA health system as a model. It would be a complete disaster.
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@OP Not certain why you would agree to let someone pay off the loan for ghost writing for you when I can tell from the conversations you posted links to, your English is far better than his. This story doesn't seem to make much sense. Also, the password on this account was changed soon after the posting stopped.... Did someone sell you a green trusted account that happened to be worthless cause it was permabanned? Sorry if my theory is way off.
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Well, since your are talking about a password and not the seed, it would depend how you generated your password. If you used a password manager, it will probably be a tough nut to crack. However, if you used only your mind, it may be possible to crack via brute force. Unfortunately, I am not very technically adept, so I won't be able to assist you further.
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OK, it appears that I have not explained my point adequately. One of the problem with the healthcare system in the US centers around emergency care. In emergency care, it is not practical to secure payment up front. What the medical provider does in this case is extend the patient credit. Needless to say, this results in a good deal of bad debt. Now it has been demonstrated what happens when a certain sector of the economy generates a good deal of bad debt. The housing crisis is a perfect example. The losses end up getting socialized one way or the other. It is true that we could have just not started bailing companies out. However, if the government didn't shoulder the burden, then the costs incurred would have to be passed on to someone. In fact they already were passed on since many people lost their jobs, and the economy as a whole suffered. In an ideal world, it would probably be better to secure payment up front and not extend credit to anybody. However, in certain situations, (an medical emergency for example) this is not practical.
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Nobody will ever run out of money IF he considers everything he owns to be money. If all he has are the clothes on his back, his money is his labor. If he is too weak to labor, he will die soon. Only then will he not have money. But then he won't care, right? I'm not sure how this sentiment exactly gels with the principal put forward by the parable of the Good Samaritan. Also, I may have missed the part about Jesus charging Lazarus,the lepers, etc. Quite frankly, if a society thinks emergency medical professionals are being completely moral by sitting on their hands if they can't be assured of payment for their services, when a person is in peril of death, it is not a society that I would want to live in. |
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I see you decided to insult others. It speaks of your culture. What fills you, then comes out on the edge.
Shall we assume that you thinking it is OK to plagiarize content is part of your "culture?" I think not. It appears to be a personal ethical issue in your case. If you must use someone else's word to convey your point, this board has features such as making obvious it is a quote or you can post a link to the original content. There is absolutely no excuse. Also, it appears quite lazy that you have to resort to copy/pasting someone else's words just to make a brief "hello, I'm here and ready to participate," statement. I personally don't have an issue with you reusing your own introductory phrase. But to resort to copying someone else's introductory phrase and using it as your own is just plain wrong. It appears that the main reason that you were banned was because you were plagiarizing content on the Russian local board. If you are proficient in that language, that is just not excusable. If you are not proficient in that language and felt that you had the need to copy other people's content to make up for it, you had no business making any posts there in the 1st place. |
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If you are talking about health insurance, that is a big mess in the US. The problem with healthcare in general is that the biggest customers are either chronically ill or dying. Also, in emergency medicine, there is an ethical mandate to treat first. It's not practical or ethical for a healthcare provider to secure means of payment in the middle of an emergency. Most times the indigent or underinsured end up not paying the bill. Therefore, the healthcare providers are forced to raise their prices and try to make up for it by charging more. It just ends up being a feedback loop where the amount the healthcare providers charge keeps rising. In my opinion, the healthcare market is going to end up being socialized no matter what system you try.
Is it practical or ethical to socialize all healthcare, and pay for it with socialised debts that can't be paid at some point in the future? It's easy to say "socialize it to simplify it" now, and forget about how everyone maintains that long term. But remember why we're here on bitcointalk: government debts all over the world have increased more since 2008 than they have since the year 1908. That means big expenses like socialized healthcare are gonna either end or get drastically cut the world over once the government debt market reverses trend. I'm just saying, in the end, it becomes socialized in one form or another anyway. I work for an ambulance billing company. They are ethically and legally required to transport anybody. It would be totally unethical for us to leave a person untreated and untransported who is obviously having an emergency, even if the crew suspects the person does not have the means to pay. In the end, the ambulance service charges a higher price in order to recoup the costs from people who do have the means to pay. In the past, most hospitals were run by churches and non-profit corporations. Many still are. In the end, you just cannot have an effective free market when the main consumers happen to be chronically ill or dying. |
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Has anyone made a case for layering capitalist and socialist ideas on top of each other, seeing as that's what actually works in reality?
Insurance is a great example of that. A profit making company (capitalist outermost layer) that administers a money pool (socialist inner structure) that people join voluntarily (capitalist at the individual level) to manage risks.
Here's how you fuck that up: insurance companies convince government to add an extra layer; coerced standards (aka "regulations"). This makes it very difficult to break into the market as a startup. Then the existing companies can easily charge too much, because they haven't got any competition (and can make deals with their existing competition not to undercut each other). Next, the insurance company cartel can get government to force people into buying insurance for various risks, and present it as "keeping everyone safe".
Supply side distortions (standards that prevent new entries to the market) and demand side distortions (forcing all people to buy something at fixed prices) completely destroys the market, but it's apparently easy to convince people that this is free market capitalism in action.
But if everyone is forced to buy and there is no competition, how is that different from socialism? The method is different to outright socialism, and complicated: 5 layers of socialism and capitalism nested inside or across each other. But what's the outcome? Very similar to what happens in total socialism: friends of the government run massive companies that don't have any incentive to do a good job.
What type of insurance are you talking about? If you are talking about auto insurance, most states in the US require people to have auto insurance if they want to drive. However, I see a very vigorous, competitive auto insurance market. If you are talking about health insurance, that is a big mess in the US. The problem with healthcare in general is that the biggest customers are either chronically ill or dying. Also, in emergency medicine, there is an ethical mandate to treat first. It's not practical or ethical for a healthcare provider to secure means of payment in the middle of an emergency. Most times the indigent or underinsured end up not paying the bill. Therefore, the healthcare providers are forced to raise their prices and try to make up for it by charging more. It just ends up being a feedback loop where the amount the healthcare providers charge keeps rising. In my opinion, the healthcare market is going to end up being socialized no matter what system you try. |
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Username: bones261
Post Count:4278
BTC Address (must be SegWit):394Bi5bUphJ3WJrwFQxsXxX97PSBsS5G8N
Throwing my name in the hat, (pun intended.) I expect some stiff competition though.
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However verifying the receipts using multiple block explorers gives a similar result without the headaches.
(Actually Safer from a Sybil attack.)
AFAIK, most block explorers are non-mining nodes... Basically, a non-mining node is an auditor doing a full audit continuously. If you don't think having full audits done by multiple independent auditors is a valuable service to the health of the BTC network, I don't know what to tell you. * if non-mining nodes actually mattered in btc , they would do like dash and pay them a % of the miner's coins. *
You do realize that what the Masternodes in Dash are doing is helping to run a second layer on top of the blockchain to perform such services as coin mixing and transaction locking. https://docs.dash.org/en/latest/introduction/features.html Somewhat similar to what the Lightning Network is trying to do. Each channel on the LN are also rewarded a small tx fee if their channel is used in a hop. |
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Oh Zin-Zang, you really think major services like exchanges are just going to trust everything the miners are feeding them with an SPV wallet? They run full nodes that are non-mining which validate every single transaction in every single block, to make doubly sure the miners aren't trying to feed them some bullshit. If you really think the BTC network would be a viable p2p network if nodes such as these went offline, you are kidding yourself. Perhaps BTC can survive if all of the hobby nodes went offline; however, the economy of the network extends beyond just mining activities.
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Do you think we need such warning in reference client? I vote for it.
If we can think message which won't confuse user or make user panic, then i don't have reason to disagree. Otherwise, such warning should only be shown for bitcoin-cli users or on debug window. Additionally, re-org doesn't mean 51% attack is happening. There's chance it's done intentionally for good non-hostile due to accidental hard-fork (just like after qt 0.8 release in 2013) or some nodes mines/runs on invalid blocks (such as overflow bug in 2010). Well, it could clue someone in that something may be going on. Even if the reorg is benign, the node user may discover sooner that they should update their software. Plus, since it just your software indicating a reorg took place, it cannot be as open to attack like the alert system was. |
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This is not standard for the Bitcoin core implementation. You will probably have to find a program that monitors the blockchain and warns you if a reorg takes place. I believe several exchanges implement such warning systems in order to mitigate the damage already done by a double spend attack.
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Thanks for the messages. So in this case, there is not a chance to recover my account, right?
Unfortunately, it has not been revealed the exact reason for your ban. It might have a chance to appeal. Hopefully, hilariousandco will notice this and can shed some light. Or someone may come along who is proficient and willing to check your post history for possible copy/pasting infractions(plagiarism.) Thanks for the advice. Should I contact him to see if there is a chance? I'm not certain if sending a PM to him would be considered ban evasion. |
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Thanks for the messages. So in this case, there is not a chance to recover my account, right?
Unfortunately, it has not been revealed the exact reason for your ban. It might have a chance to appeal. Hopefully, hilariousandco will notice this and can shed some light. Or someone may come along who is proficient and willing to check your post history for possible copy/pasting infractions(plagiarism.) |
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LOL, trying to "spin" a copypasta post by spelling out the emoji. That's rich! Actually, that's what happens when you select the text in your browser and copy/paste it. That's even worse. When I post, I usually go over what I just posted again and proof it. It's clear the OP just copypasta and moves on. Even if he isn't proficient in English, it should be clear that the post doesn't look quite right. If he was using a bot, it's clearly a badly written bot. But hey, I guess if you are just trying to up your post count to meet the signature campaign quota, it's just not economical to actually spend a minute or two on each post. Good riddance to the OP.  |
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does 1 mistake have no chance?
It wasn't the "one mistake". You have a lot of copypasted messages. Copy: Filled form but im still curious about this. More info or website Smiley anyways, Goodluck to this project and good job
Original: Filled form but im still curious about this. More info or website  anyways, Goodluck to this project. Copy: its really amazing idea. I hope you can make it Wink Good luck!
Original: wow! cannot trace transcation on ethereum network? its really amazing idea. I hope you can make it  Good luck! LOL, trying to "spin" a copypasta post by spelling out the emoji. That's rich! |
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You pay slightly over the market price but I quite like buying on Localbitcoin’s. They have an escrow type service that protects both buyer & seller.
I had to verify my real life name & address there last year though as they said I’d sold too much (it was when I converted BCH into BTC & sold the BTC’s there. It added up to I suppose what some might consider a lot (fiat wise) in a short space of time.
I have never used Localbitcoin's, but if you are using them as an "escrow," aren't you basically trusting a third party with your coins? Plus, you reveal that you had to give them KYC information. Therefore, it appears using Localbitcoin's is only slightly better than using a standard exchange. |
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Have anyone here ever received something like this?  If you’ve got coins on there I’d get them the fuck out. Well that is rule number fucking one, don't store coins on an exchange. Not your keys, not your coins. Although that is true, some people actually like to engage in day trading their coins. Some people even like trading with fiat pairs. I suppose that you could go to Local Bitcoins and try finagle a deal, but there is a counterparty risk in going that route as well. I for one don't want to be meeting up with strange people and then have it end up being government agents who bust me for being an unregistered money transmitter. Also, if you go Bitcoin ATM route, you pay a higher fee and this method is really not very conducive to effective day trading. |
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