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Economy / Economics / Re: Will occasional losses of bitcoin wallets limit available maximum bitcoins?
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on: December 30, 2010, 05:06:19 AM
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Bill Gates would no longer be in the top ten most rich people list.
that should be fine if it's a result of the owner's fault, under other circumstances, if he's a victim of a crime (theft, sabotage, etc), most people will probably think not having a lost-coin recovery mechanism is a flaw. Such a mechanism would make bitcoin network unnecessary more complex.
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Bitcoin / Project Development / Super-duper Easy Backup and Encryption Bounty (REDIRECTED)
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on: December 30, 2010, 04:39:39 AM
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I am too lazy to backup and type in the password, upload to various services, yadyadaydaydayda.
Make me a backup utility that does this automatically(and prompt me a password so I don't forget mine).
Pledges:
Kiba - 5 BTC.
Total pledges: 5 BTC.
The spec are:
1. Regular backups. 2. Encryption. 3. Upload to various services such as dropbox, gmail, and other places you store file. 4. Upload your password protected keys to other places such as your thumb drive, your other computer and so on. 5. Make it freakishly stupidlishly easy to do all the above.
As a bonus: provide warning of trojan horses and limitation of such security measure.
This bounty will expire 365 days later.
EDIT: My pledge are redirected toward tahoe-lafs.
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4008
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Password, what password?
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on: December 30, 2010, 04:37:46 AM
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Provide an extension architecture and let bitcoiners add their own extension on top of the bitcoin client. Of course, that mean more work for the limited developer pool.
As for me, I don't do backup often because it's not exactly a walk in the park to do them. I have the programming skill to automate my backup, but far too often are distracted by somebody else.
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Economy / Marketplace / Re: Witcoin
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on: December 30, 2010, 03:38:56 AM
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I propose an incentive scheme!
Instead of people risking their bitcoin..they could be compensated like flattar. Like, if you have an account, you fund it up. Then you simply vote the answer you like. At the end of every month, your funding is divided up into shares that goes to people you voted up the most.
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Investment risks of holding bitcoins
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on: December 30, 2010, 02:40:39 AM
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If we really want Bitcoin to become popular, perhaps we don't want it to be assocated with this sort of extreme anti-authority viewpoint. Sure, governments are corrupt, but we're not "slaves" and there's no secret plan to take away all our freedom. Sorry to shoot down your conspiracy theory.
Most people here are either anarchists or libertarians. It's a natural consequence of a cypherpunk technology to attract antiauthoritarians.
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Economy / Economics / Re: Bitcoin Bank
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on: December 30, 2010, 02:30:19 AM
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Sir, why would my currency be anything other than bitcoin?
Mybitcoin is essentially like what you described, except it doesn't do the "own digital currency".
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