Yes, I have heard of joystream also, and am eager for them to launch into the open. Would be great to seed for satoshi, even if it weren't too much.

ups, that is bad news as for mainstream adoption. Let's hope is precisely that, that they are doing adjustments to accept it in all regions.

I do not think that to be possible right now. Perhaps in 10-20 years, but not anytime soon. There are lots of elderly people who only know and use cash, and many uneducated people who you cannot just get out of the money system. Much education is needed before it happens.

Just think how much time took for credit cards to be a widely used form of payment, and still today many people refuse to use them.

What I understand he is saying is that there is no 21 million limit to the total coin number, but actually a 21 million transaction limit.

Do not understand the reasoning he does about that.

They do understand, but want to get advantage on people who do not truly understand. At least thats what it seems to me.

As I said in another post, it is great news for presenting Bitcoin to people.

When people stare suspiciously at you when you introduce bitcoin to them, you can show them a newspaper.

That alone is great!

Even in the case of a nuclear war and Internet going off, I think still will have some value for collectors that would pay for a paper wallet or something with Bitcoin stored.

would you ship it to europe? I have an old iphone 4 and was looking for a small boost.

If you cannot afford to buy the Bitcoins from them, you can tell them "I will teach you how to sell them". Then you appoint a date with them and a pc and sell them for money in front of their eyes. You can charge them, say 100$ for this lesson, they get their money, and you will have something to start with.

You won't get as much money, but will instruct them and get a very well paid teaching.

Indirect way that I thought about, is generating a lot of receiving address, then paying different people with different ips) to do faucet claims to those addresses for a week. But that would be a lot of work distributing the addresses among people, controlling they do the claims, and in the end won't get that much.

I used to do that in the regular stock market. Buying, them selling for a very small profit, but making much buying / selling.

So you need a big amount to do so, right?

I have an old linux distro (Mywolfe from puppylinux) and FunCaptcha does not work for me, so I could not try the faucet.

This is certainly laughable. Someone copying the scrypt.cc layout as if it was reputable enough!

LOL

Interesting, thanks for sharing.

Do not really know if I would buy it, but I'll like to get some of them. The block-less concept seems good.

Do not really understand how all this of the tangle works, but I am all in for a currency that allows for better microtransactions.

I really think microtransactions are very important in order to change the internet and reward content creators by small tips done to them by readers, watchers, etc. and getting rid of ad monetization.

So I will stay alert for this coin

As for me, I do not understand those terms. Too technical for me. Also, I am not in the US and cannot really give an opinion.

Hope your topic gets more public, though.

Yes! Bitcoin is moving forward! being officially a currency, Bitcoin users have the power to share about it and convince others that this is not "monopoly money", but real money.

Might be that altcoins follow the same path, but it doesn't matter that much. Since you can exchange alts to Bitcoin, there is a "door" for altcoins also.

That is very good news. But as some said, you still have to buy things, which will have taxes.

Great that there aren't additional taxes, though.

Really hope it launches, and it goes on well and used.

There aren't a lot of people using Bitcoin, and a high percentage of those people are using it just to store/invest, not buying. So I am not too optimistic.

True, logo looks very similar. But it can be good for Bitcoin in the end if some people are looking for Babel, get across bitcoin and happen to be interested in it.

As for payments through smartphone, Bitcoin being more global and not attached to a company, will have more chances to overcome competition.