The blocks are the components of the block chain, when you mine, you're doing some heavy math with the data of the blockchain trying to find a lucky number (it's way more complicated than how i'm explaining), you download blocks to know where the money is, and when you know the whole story you have the means of trying to create money out of nowhere (if you don't got the whole story others will not approve the result of your mining and you get nothing).

That heavy math and everyone else checking if you didn't cheat to find the lucky number helps making sure people aren't making money for free and also helps ensure once someone spends some money they can't spend that same money again.


The blockchain is like a crazy shaped jigsaw piece, it gets a new shape with each new block, mining is kinda like throwing a bunch of debris in a box with some glue and shaking, then seeing if the resulting piece fits the blockchain; it is easy to see if a new piece fits, but you gotta shake lots of boxes till you finally get somthing out that fits.







I probably made lots of mistakes in this explanation, and missed lots of important details; could someone better at this explain things better please?

So you're saying Bitcoin is more real than government issued money?

Entropy-coin? Nice!


Hm, converting dollars, gold, carrots etc into a Planck based unit in such a way that their exchange rates are respected without the assistance of arbitrary constants? That does sound like an interesting challenge...

Even though LL tries to get their asses out of the line of fire by saying L$ is just make believe monopoly money, people still trade it back and forth with official government money; what could make that any less real than Bitcoin?

I wonder if i get any current from the phone wire even though i don't got a line subscription at the moment...


Also i wonder if i could steal electricity from the phone company with some gizmo hooked to the phone plug leeching the energy while the phone is on the hook...

Is there somthing that never changes value, like somthing you could use to evaluate how much a currency is worth at any point in history without being relative to other currencies nor the price of a BigMac nor anything, somthing that has the same (non-zero) value for anyone at any point in history? Or you can't give somthing value without considering how it's value compares to the value of somthing else?

If right now you can only afford bitcents, i could accept that; working with photos is somthing i enjoy doing, and with the stakes being low it would be a nice way to get my feet wet without all the pressure and stuff

You want a bank to hold your bitcoins? Save your wallet into a flashdrive and put the flashdrive in a safe inside the bank (write down the address(es) in that wallet so you can make deposits without needing to go plug the flashdrive).  To spend those coins, bring a laptop with cellular internet connection (or get a bank that offers WiFi inside the safe), then send the coins you wanna spend from your savings wallet to another wallet you own or directly to the person you wanna pay.


For buying BTC, you don't need to use one of the big exchange services, if you find someone you can trust, just deposit regular money in their bank account and have them send BTC to one of the addresses you own.

I agree, geeks understand virtual is just another type of real, but the general public thinks it's make believe

Not really, wanna gimme a quick job to start building one? If you insist i'll make this first one for free

Looks interesting, i'll keep an eye on this

I'll do things like removing/smoothing out wrinkles, zits, eyebags etc, removing people from photos, tunning up scans of old photos so they don't look so aged, replacing backgrounds etc.

You pay me 1 BTC to hire me, and then i'll try to do my best, once i'm satisfied i'll send you the result and you pay me whatever you judge it's worth (please check with me first so i can tell if you if i believe i can do what you want me to do with the photo so i'll not need to send back the 1BTC). Oh, and if after accepting a job i realize it's beyond my skills, don't worry, you will get your 1BTC back,  you can trust me.


Depending on the work, if i judge necessary i'll show you intermediary stages, previews etc to confirm i'm going in the right direction and if you got any suggestions or comments on my approach to fullfililng the request etc.



Any questions, comments, feedback etc?

Could you post your comics here too so i'll get an email notification when new ones come up please?

Wasn't German news that a while ago fabricated a story about real children being raped inside Second Life or somthing along those lines?

I'm confident it will reach 100 bucks before the  next worldwide rolling  fireworks party; i dunno exactly when though, could be in just a couple months or it could be around Xmass.

Do you got any firewalls running on that machine?

Eu vou paga imposto quando me mandarem Reais em troca de BTC (se não tivessem cobrando eu receberia mais pq quem tah mandando não perderia tanto na transação) e vice versa, eu pago imposto com a eletricidade, com a internet etc. Mas quando o governo começar a tenta me forçar a pagar por fazer contas de matemática eu vou ir atras de material pra construir molotovs recheados de napalm e granadas de termite (ambas coisas são surpreendentemente mais fácil de fazer do que muitos imaginam).

Buy it from him yourself and rub on his face in a few weeks

I'll look into my next light bill (new home, first time with my own place) and let you guys know

You might wanna look into Renderfarm.fi