Carrying BTCs around is quite risky, as well as inconvenient. Devices such as smartphones can be hacked and all the coins in them can be stolen.
That's why you don't keep a lot on cellphone wallet. All the main stash should be kept cold, ideally with multisig. Then another wallet on laptop for a few BTCs to refill the cellphone wallet. Yeah, everyone should just keep as much BTC on their phone or whatever as they would in their real wallet that they put fiat in. |
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I think the illegal use of BTC is affecting the price less and less as time goes on. In the beginning, I think it actually had a positive effect because it got people talking about it.
I first heard of BTC because I heard about people buying drugs, IDs, etc, online "anonymously" I was intrigued, so I researched more and that is how I first learned of BTC
It definitely help drive the first bubble to ~$30. It was all over the news as I remember. Even congressmen were mentioning BTC. But wait, if the price hasn't ever fallen below 30$ since, are you correct in calling the increase to 30$ a "bubble"? What? The price went down to a few dollars. |
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For all we know BTC could be dead in a few years and another coin could be worth MORE than what bitcoin's price is now, maybe even higher than BTC highest, who knows?
That's quite possible. But I highly doubt BTC will be ever be dead. Even as cryptocurrency evolves beyond Bitcoin, since Bitcoin was the original and scarce crypto so it will probably end up considered something like gold. Scarce and valuable, not as good as alternatives for use as a daily currency, but a good store of value. |
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Oh, another important thing but not necessarily immediately critical would be a step by step guide for people to get started with Bitmark. 6
Also, maybe even some additional guiding for people not familiar with crypto. 3(for now, more important in the future)
Media kit. 2(again, for now)
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people are getting to the point where we would love to be able to just link people to bitmark.co, with or without a discussion area. Especially considering we already have this thread and IRC.
Okay, let us provide that then. Please all list what you feel it is important to provide on the website, perhaps with a number 1-10 of importance beside each item. Collaboratively defining what is required will help us not to miss anything obvious. A condensed overview of what Bitmark is and what the project goals are. 10 A link to download the clients. 10 Links to the project-bitmark Github, this thread, #Bitmark IRC, the Marking document ect. 9 A FAQ covering questions that are going to be coming up in places like troll boxes soon, as well as other questions. 8 A blog. 6 I'll post more as I think of them. |
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Letting emotions drive all our decisions in life.
Letting personal differences ruin working relationships.
Jumping to conclusions based on little evidence.
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Pretty unlikely to happen but within the realm of possibility. A strong enough solar flare would definitely spell the end for Bitcoin I would think. Bitcoin would probably be the least of your worries though.
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Haha, that Bitcoin onesie is hilarious. I want to see someone walking around in that at a Bitcoin convention.  |
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I think the illegal use of BTC is affecting the price less and less as time goes on. In the beginning, I think it actually had a positive effect because it got people talking about it.
I first heard of BTC because I heard about people buying drugs, IDs, etc, online "anonymously" I was intrigued, so I researched more and that is how I first learned of BTC
It definitely help drive the first bubble to ~$30. It was all over the news as I remember. Even congressmen were mentioning BTC. |
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How would you go about doing this exactly?
Is there some sort of market infrastructure already in place to allow this?
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Well, as everyone knows Bitcoin is not even close to being accessible for the average person yet.
It would take at least one major private company in Argentina to offer a full-package Bitcoin service so that people could use and spend BTC as easy as they could any other money.
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I definitely think there should be an informational page up as soon as possible. The discourse community is important but the website should not be depend on it imo.
Having bitmark.co to link to rather than a 43 page thread here is important I think. While the OP is great, some people might prefer a different format.
I should clarify that ' discourse' is community software, something we will use as our own discussion forum on bitmark.co Do you all feel it is wise to give priority to the creation of an informational website at bitmark.co, as zadinga said 'to give us a face', adding in later our community software? Please confirm. I do, yes. Especially considering forking discourse and adding a completely new functionality based on a completely new invention(Marking) is a major project. I actually had no idea that you intended(or were considering anyway) to launch the website fully complete with the fork of discourse included. In a vacuum of course having that part of the website fully functional at launch would be great, but in reality it's probably going to be a lot of time and work on your end as you know. And I think people are getting to the point where we would love to be able to just link people to bitmark.co, with or without a discussion area. Especially considering we already have this thread and IRC. |
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I was wondering... What is the block with the lowest hash, or what are the, say, 10 blocks with the lowest hashes? Is there a list? Also, until which difficulty would these blocks be accepted in the blockchain?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=29675.0I don't think anyone maintains a list. Ah awesome! That's pretty interesting! So currently we are at: So the block would be accepted at a difficulty 5896.74 times higher than today's difficulty! Awesome! Anyone have a ball park on the odds of this happening? I'm guessing this is like someone winning the lottery but with no reward other than a single block |
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It's growing faster than the internet was in 1995; faster than twitter; faster than facebook.
Price != adoption
Not saying you're wrong, but what are you basing this observation on? |
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Really depend on price.
If price is lower in bitcoin, then I will pay using btc. If not, then cash.
Yeah, price is going to be a big motivator. Also it depends on whether or not I'm currently being paid in USD or BTC. If I have BTC cashflow and I don't have to convert fiat to USD then all else being equal I would pay with BTC. |
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Milestone We have slowly reached a difficulty of 56, with an average hash rate of over 2 GH/s, there are only a handful of scrypt coins at this difficulty or higher.
Questions
Our website will have a large structure, with many resources and informative views. It will also house our discourse based community, with marking support.
The question is one of priority.
Should the website be created and put live quickly, providing a coherent informative place where people can join us and overview what Bitmark is about, with the discourse community added later?
Or perhaps we should stick with the current plan, to provide the discourse community and everything else, all at the same time?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
I definitely think there should be an informational page up as soon as possible. The discourse community is important but the website should not be depend on it imo. Having bitmark.co to link to rather than a 43 page thread here is important I think. While the OP is great, some people might prefer a different format. |
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Anonymint, maybe start your own thread about all this technical talk?
I and every other regular reader does not understand a word of your conversation and consistant spam of posts. They might be important, but please start a new thread, so we can go back to have an altcoin discussion.
It really ruins my reading experience.
Other than the fact that the thread has recently gone in a bad direction I'm a regular reader and I just want to say that I was enjoying it quite a bit before the recent turn. |
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