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Bitcoin / Press / Re: Bitcoin press hits, notable sources
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on: June 29, 2011, 12:13:46 PM
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BitCoin may fail. But it won't be because it's a scam.
It will be because it was attacked and couldn't stand up to it.
With more success comes more threat of attack.
And at some point the full resources of the bank system and governments will come to bear and try to stomp it out because, eventually, it is either them or Bitcoin. Eventually.
It's much easier to kill it while it's still young (as Bob Marley once sung, "I Shot The Sheriff").
As always, there's the option of "if you can't beat them, join them". Traditional banking and bitcoin does not always have to be opposed but it is traditional banking that have to change their way, not bitcoin. |
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Economy / Marketplace / Bitcoin Weekly Looking for Sponsors
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on: June 29, 2011, 01:17:37 AM
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Bitcoin Weekly will now run ransoms event for our articles, in which articles are kept until a specific donation target is reached. For us, our pilot experiment suggests that we can raise money for the publication this way You will play a role by incentiving donors with deals and discounts. For example, if somebody donate .10 BTC, he might get a 20% discounts for the next 10 t-shirt and so forth. Contact me at hackerkiba AT gmail.com for more details.
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Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Is there a real bitcoin economy?
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on: June 26, 2011, 03:00:23 AM
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Actually, what you see is the most visible part of the economy. That skew perception quite a bit.
For example, I pay my 3 employees every week for content produced. In turn, I also work a small job in which I produce content for some other guy.
However, these economic relationships are invisible to see for the average users. They just see my magazine and have interesting articles to read, along with an advertising banner on the top of each page.
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Other / Meta / Re: Kill the Politics forum
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on: June 26, 2011, 02:51:23 AM
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Saying that bitcoin has no political/economical view built-in at all is just wrong. It does.
This is true, but irrelevant. Do you want Bitcoin to be used by those who do not share your political beliefs? If so, then don't present it as "the libertarian currency". Present it as politically neutral, even if it's not. IF bitcoin cannot succeed because of its political baggage, than it is a poorly designed currency. |
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Economy / Marketplace / Re: Kalyhost unresponsive still after almost a week.
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on: June 25, 2011, 07:06:51 PM
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I was able to get kalyhost working but one time my site is down for no reason and went up for no reason.
I sent an email but never got it back. The only thing that ever worked is emailing magicaltux. For me, this means I should not relies on a single webhost for my website. I need to spread my site over several hosts, but that mean my hosting bill will goes up.
Wish there's a good way to decentralize hosting for my website.
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