Are you just being amusing, or do you really see any benefits in those crazy backwardds units?

Who desires a hole to be dug up and then filled? People with a religious belief in the ritual of burying their dead for example...

Just wait till global warming triggers the next ice age and you will have enough solid surface for every individual to live the rest of their lifes without bumping on anyone else

I wonder if such an individual starts to pose a clear threat to the regular Bitcoin users, if there will be enough pissed hackers to mount an uber cyberstalking squad and track the down the real person behind the thing...

Kinda scary to think there is a single person or group with so much power over the Bitcoin economy...

You said people would pay to play, but also that it would be open source and freelly distributed; i wanna know itwo things here, if people will be able to play without sending you money (and play completly offline), and if in order to play offline people need to setup a webserver on their machine or just loading the html file from the disk into their browser of choice (given it's one that is compatible with JS etc) would be enough to play the game.

The stuff many web hosting companies use instead of regular desktop OS, like could your average joe can just download the files, pull out the internet cable, double click a file or two and start playing the game?

This kinda worries me, what if i when i buy some bitcoins i end up depositing money on the bank account that belongs to some major criminal that the police is spying on to gather evidence to arrest (or see who the criminal is associated with) ?

Are big miners really good for the community in general? Aren't they who make the difficulty for the little guy with a not so recent machine be so absurd? How would the landscape be if there weren't massive miners in the network?

Will it need a web server OS or people will be able to play with a local copy in their desktop machines without needing a dedicated webserver OS? How would the paying for extra energy with real bitcoins work when playing offline?

What if instead of getting arrested  when you don't pay taxes, you only got demoted from the citizen status kinda like in some sci-fi and ancient cultures, no longer being allowed to walk on the streets, drive your cars, use state money and standins (credit cards, cheques etc), no longer being accepted in public hospitals, no longer covered by the state's justice systems (no court appointed lawyer, no right to a trial with ajuri of your pears etc) and so on? Would that still make taxes an agression?

A lottery based on the block hashes would be interesting; perhas since there are a huge number of possible results the prizes would be distributed according to how close to the result each number was (dividing the prize if more than one person bet on the same number) with a big prize for whoever gets the closest, and with the value of the prize getting logarithimly smaller (or some other curve) for each additional position till there is no more money to payout, and pehaps a biggger prize that acumulates when no one wins it, for who ever bets on the exact value.

You don't think people would deal well with the idea of floating value and adjusting prices down untill their intended customers can afford the productvservice?

I think either prices would get scaled so everyone can afford the more expensive things, or only the people who can figure out how to earn lots of money before the reset, or more likelly somthing between.

works for me

Do i need to make another account to use in the feedback system?

Randomness is not usefull if it's public?


Are those publicly avaiable sources cabaple of producing random bits faster than the Bitcoin network?

If you get free electricity and free water, but you live on a cruiseship, hydrogen is pretty much free, while you need to pay to get more iron  (you got only a limited amount of it avaiable for extracting from the ship itself).


If you're gonna live in space, i imagine you would value raw matterial that comes with oxygen more.

Since a valid hash can't be predicted (if it could, instead of wasting time mining people would just fill in the predicted value and solve block after block relativelly instantly), would it be possible to use those hashes or some related data avaiable thrue the Bitcoin network as source for "true" randomness?

Are talking about setting up bot traders to convert wealth from one game/ 'verse into bitcoins, and then another bot elsewhere to convert bitcoins into local wealth?

For a service like that to work, i think it would be necessary to have a significant number of people in both endpoints that are willing to buy and sell in-world goods in exchange for bitcoins; otherwise there would be no where for the 'coins to come from to replace the goods you wanna sell at first, and if the first step is overcomed, you still gotta find someone in the second world that wants to give away their goods in exchange for 'coins. So i guess untill Bitcoin reaches such a criticl mass, an automated intermediary wouldn't be very usefull, would just sit there waiting for the human operators to do the legwork and in the rare times you do find someone that acepts your terms, using a bot to perform the trade would mostly be just an extra hassle, it wouldn't do anything that the regular bitcoin and virtual world clients can't already do by themselves.