First place you should be checking for available rooms if you're a free stater is http://porcmanor.com/[I built that site years ago, and recently sold it to someone who has the time to manage it (but still has a little learning to do so please be nice to her)] There's a few Facebook groups. Many free staters are opening up to bitcoins, and if you ask them directly, many will accept it. After all, Manchester NH is the home of the best bitcoin meetup going - #31 will happen tomorrow. |
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I'm new to all this precious metal thing, but do they have the same momentum as Bitcoins have? Are the precious metals not starting to become old fashioned?
Bitcoin is high risk, high volatility. Precious metals move slower. Bitcoin and PM are both good hedges against inflation. And there's new forms of bullion available now, which helps make it more attractive and useful. It is good to diversify. |
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It sounds like what you want is a designer, not a developer. They're two totally different skill sets, and extremely rare to find in any one person.
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So is there any reason why the server(s) handling ads needs to be the same one handling campaign management?
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I am a Drupal developer extremely interested in bitcoins. One of my websites is at max1securityproducts.com and we may go with accepting bitcoins in the near future. I am especially interested in a social network website that uses bitcoins as a means of barter. If you are a Drupal developer, please say hello to me! Oh, and I am also investing (hoarding?) in bitcoins and I have a smile on my face when I say that.  Hello! I've been accepting bitcoins on my Drupal UberCart site ( Shire Silver) for a while now. It works pretty well. Working on upgrading it to D7, and so far no one has a plugin for that version, so it looks like I'll be coding the upgrade myself. |
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Well, since I am currently looking for additional income, here's my info. For the last 5 or so years I've been doing Drupal site development and maintenance. That means some PHP and some MySQL, as well as a little JavaScript and a reasonable amount of CSS. To be sure, I can't design worth a damn, but I can take a design and implement it. In a previous life I was a Windows C++ developer, and a damn good one too. old resume that hasn't been updated in a while |
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Relisting on bitfunder or buying back at a reasonable price are both OK with me.
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Anyway, anybody using Diaspora, is it worth looking into. I am not a facebook or google+ user.
I've been on it for a while ( https://joindiaspora.com/people/4d1d1d9b2c17437fc00001ef ) but its pretty dead. There would need to be a lot of people going to it to make it worthwhile. I seem to check it about once a month when I get a notification that somebody did something. |
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You couldn't practicably use it to buy anything less expensive than around $20/€15.
tl; dr - If you could get someone to accept a silver coin to buy $5 of groceries, how would they give you your change? Cut a silver coin into fractions? Weigh you out some scrap silver? Not likely. Gold and silver are assets/commodities, not really money. They're the best assets out there perhaps, but not money, not in a 21st century sense of the word.
http://shiresilver.com/product/silver_half_gram_card (silver unit currently about $0.90) http://shiresilver.com/product/gold_twentieth_gram_card (gold unit currently about $4) I've also heard a presentation by a guy that hadn't heard of Shire Silver, wherein he suggested using gold leaf in plastic. You can have incredibly small amounts of gold that way. IIRC he was suggesting units like 1/1,000TOz and even smaller. |
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Yeah, I still don't even see it in the list of securities awaiting approval. Guess I should have gone with the other exchange.
'Tis the season. I'm willing to bet DeaDTerra's just been busy. I hope to see it setup soon. I'm itching for some shares myself. Yeah, he apparently had no problem getting it set up on bitfunder. And I got caught wondering why one of my suppliers was closed on both Dec 31st and Jan 1st. "WTF, closed? Oh yeah, some stupid holiday." Same thing happened at Christmas. |
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https://btct.co/portfolio: You currently have no securities. Head over to the Market to get some. When our old shares will reach btct.co? Yeah, I still don't even see it in the list of securities awaiting approval. Guess I should have gone with the other exchange. |
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You can screen-scrape to get silver prices. Get them from several places, toss out the obviously bad ones, and average the rest; if you want redundancy.
XE.com is $540/year and you can choose XAG for silver ounces, but that's still ridiculously expensive IMHO.
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Fair warning... December is gong to have a huge dividend payout (likely over 1900 btc to the asset holders). If you were ever thinking of owning some shares of S.DICE, do it in the next 24 hours. Holding a million shares will yield you over 190btc from Dec. earnings alone. 1m shares costs roughly 3,700btc right now at MPEX 190btc would be 5.1% yield in one month... and this is legitimate, transparent profits. And for all you who already own shares, Merry Christmas  Damn, I was gonna buy some more shares, but I'm still waiting on the funds in my Paysius account. |
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I think you should check out Shire Silver at http://shiresilver.com where we make cards with embedded silver and gold. I looked into using sheets to produce the cards, but went with wire instead. Its a lot easier to work with. |
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Bug report. Just tried to register and even though it says up to 20 characters for password, it said my 20 character password was too long. 19 worked though.
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Hey uhm, wouldn't it be best for the people that have come up with their own coins/money, to just hide it and wait for collapse or an acceptance of competing currencies to come out with it?
Why risk federal "pound-me-in-the-ass" prison?
Because a lot of the value in an alternative currency is the network of people using it, so building it up *before* a collapse means its more likely to succeed after the crash. Of course some of us don't believe there will actually be a crash, just a sort of continuing malaise that progressively gets worse until the need for a replacement currency is unavoidable. The politicians will be ready to foist off another fiat POS currency that will "save the economy", and we'll get screwed in the never ending cycle of bankster control. Some of us want to end the cycle, so we want to build up the alternatives before a replacement is critically needed, so we can step in with a credible and tested non-POS solution. |
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Yeah, you're technically correct, but the point I was trying to make is that a product won't get produced if it costs more to produce than you can get for it. This holds true for products that happen to be money as well as any other product. If the price of electricity rose so high that it cost more to create a bitcoin than it can be traded for, then miners will stop producing them. Of course the system was designed so that when some miners stop mining it will get easier, thus reducing the cost, so an equilibrium will be reached, etc etc. The pertinent case being that since the Liberty Dollar was trying to be an actual free market money, it had to be priced above the spot price of the metal. Bernard also recognized that the volatility of prices was a factor that would confuse people and add to the difficulty of using it, so he figured out a way that reduced the MSRP volatility as well as built in a means of profiting by using it - thus making growth in usage better. IMHO many supposed Austrians/gold-bugs seem to have a blind spot when it comes to spot prices. They just can't seem to recognize that a monetized commodity should have a different price than the generic version of that commodity. Just putting the commodity into a more convenient form does add some value. |
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If NotHaus is your anti-FED hero well you need to pick better heroes. Did you know the "Liberty Dollars" were inflationary. They contained less than face value of silver and as the value of silver rose the coins became more and more debased. Greed pure and simple. Just to make sure that isn't misunderstood, you don't mean traditional coin debasement methods where alloys are introduced like how a 1964 U.S. quarter had 90% silver content, but a 1965 quarter of the same shape, size and appearance had been debased with a copper and nickel coin with no silver content whatsoever. Instead what the Liberty Dollar did was change the denomination stamped on the coin. The earlier 1 ounce silver coin was stamped $10. The later 1 ounce silver coin was stamped $20. The price charged for an item in terms of Liberty Dollars though would fluctuate depending on the exchange rate for silver. So a 2005 (1 ounce silver) $10 Liberty Dollar pictured above would (presumably) buy the same amount of goods and services that the 2006 (1 ounce silver) $20 Liberty Dollar would. Even more importantly, no free market money can have a face value that is equal to or less than its underlying commodity's "spot price". This was true of the Liberty Dollar, it is currently true of Shire Silver, and it is also true of bitcoin. (The underlying commodity for bitcoin is the electricity and processing power required to mine it.) Money is a product, and as such it won't be produced unless it makes a profit for the producer. In a free market, that profit is visible and in the form of a margin on top of the cost of production. Governments profit by using money to control. I'd much rather have my money generated by a simple motive of economic profit as opposed to power profit. |
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So that's what that was. I saw it come in and thought "I haven't played SatoshiDice in a while, so that can't be a losing bet" And I just checked with my spreadsheet, and the amount was correct. |
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