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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin stole my weekend!
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on: March 17, 2011, 01:39:45 AM
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Well actually, I just went on my dad's computer(which is a windows 7 and is pretty much ALWAYS logged in on his account which is an admin so he doesn't have to type in pass for downloads) and just somehow accidentally clicked on the download link to this, so now I'm just running it on my dad's comp.
Whoops ;-) You need your own computer! |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Slow News Month For Bitcoin?
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on: March 16, 2011, 10:21:15 PM
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Onto the topic, we should offer goods and services that are uniquely advantagous when using bitcoin. To a certain extent this means offering goods or services that are illegal or banned in many if not most countries.
Here's what we really good at: 1. Making possible an international information economy. There is no need to mess with bank accounts and national currencies when selling information for bitcoin. Bitcoin is bitcoin no matter where you are on the planet. 2. Capital formation. You can form a bitcoin corporation with stock holding and such, with capitals being dispersed across the globe. All you need is a stock market to trade in and the institution/rulebook that everyone can follow. Anybody buy and sell stocks anonymously. 3. Completely open market. A computer of some kind and an internet connection is all you need to start making a living. Doesn't matter if you're old or young. Who care the fuck about minimum wage law and all sort of regulations? If you're good, you will get paid. In short, the lack of artificial barrier and regulations will make bitcoin one of the most powerful economy in the world. |
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Other / Off-topic / Re: Government regulation always a bad thing?
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on: March 16, 2011, 06:07:29 PM
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He will only make available just enough to maintain his profits. If he satisfied everyone's need, there'd be no more demand and no more profit. Providing safe, affordable housing, or even the ability to build it, to those who need it is not profitable. Therefore, a capitalist won't do it.
Bollocks. This is a matter of cost and selling price. If the cost is low enough, you can make a profit selling at a slightly higher price. |
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Other / Off-topic / Re: Government regulation always a bad thing?
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on: March 16, 2011, 05:31:33 PM
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Yes, but a capitalist will not want to kill that opportunity by making affordable, safe housing abundant. He will only rent out just enough housing so as to extract maximum profit. Perhaps he has no regard for the fact that such behavior ensures the existence of homelessness. Maybe he does it just to get by while satisfying the demands of his lender. We can trace the problem to a capitalist worldview.
Then a capitalist figure out that making affordable, safe housing abundant make him rich, therefore making the "problem" moot. |
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Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Gimp Letter Writing Campaign
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on: March 16, 2011, 05:21:55 PM
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Dear the GIMP team,
Members of the bitcoin community appreciate your open source image editing software and the effort of volunteer programmers to making them better.
The community using Bitcoin <https://bitcoin.org> -- a new open-source P2P cryptocurrency system published under the MIT license -- already comprises several hundred enterprises and individuals.
Several members of our community have offered to donate to your foundation, with x bitcoins pledged so far. In order to accept pledged and future donations, the GIMP team would need to create and publish a Bitcoin address using a local client, or use an online service such as MyBitcoin.
Warmest regards,
Bitcoin community
Here's the letter. |
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Other / Off-topic / Re: Government regulation always a bad thing?
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on: March 16, 2011, 03:39:04 AM
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Just go to Haiti for your answer. Tough building codes saved a lot of lives in Japan and lack of them killed a ton of people in Haiti.
Haiti don't have the wealth to prepare itself as an earthquake ready society. |
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Economy / Economics / Re: Deflationary currency? Really?
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on: March 16, 2011, 12:43:36 AM
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Resource usage not so much. It is limited by available materials and the energy from the sun. It would be stupid to bet on exponentially increasing amounts of for example copper, so don't. Prices will make sure most people won't.
Mine asteroids. |
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Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Bitcoin.org Redesign (mockups inside)
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on: March 15, 2011, 08:20:16 PM
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Well, I'm guessing Gavin has access to the website server. Someone needs to turn that design into usable code first, though. That may be difficult or not so difficult depending on the CMS bitcoin.org is using, if any.
The webmaster is Sirus. |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Slow News Month For Bitcoin?
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on: March 15, 2011, 08:14:54 PM
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The right word is not "I suspect", but "I hope that".
But we can see, that actually this is the end of bitcoin era.
The ballance of generated bitcoins vs demand for real world is not reached.
The bitcoin price will continue to decline,
user base will not grow,
And the future of bitcoin is forgetting
I was referring to my business operation. |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Slow News Month For Bitcoin?
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on: March 15, 2011, 08:14:20 PM
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- Improve client to be more friendly. We need an addressing scheme that's easy to use for plebs.
- Funding. Influx of money.
Agreed. - Stock exchange to gain funding for business ideas.
A nasty briar patch, IMO. If you ever reach ~50 investors in a single company, you trigger securities laws. And in some countries, you probably trigger securities laws anyway. What ya going to do when shareholders are anonymous and the companies have no real identity other than the fact that they exists on the internet? |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Slow News Month For Bitcoin?
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on: March 15, 2011, 04:43:28 PM
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Let me modify my suggestion. If you want to see more Bitcoin mentions in different media, you can buy more and push the price up, or you can offer new goods or services people want. In the absence of either a new price hike or new uses for Bitcoins, there is little to talk about.
I am trying to constantly produce new contents. So far I only have 3 posts on witcoin that are profitable. I suspect the short term loss will be balanced out by a later rise of traffic. |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Slow News Month For Bitcoin?
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on: March 15, 2011, 04:28:46 PM
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Much of the hype around Bitcoin has been the rapid rise in exchange rates vs. USD. This rise has leveled off for a while now, and it seems some of the enthusiasm has faded with it. No surprise, really. The kind of extraordinary growth we saw recently can't sustain itself indefinitely. Want Bitcoin to succeed? Hype it less, offer more goods and services.
We barely got started with the exponential growth. |
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