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401  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: BTC MINER uses MASSIVE HASHING POWER to CURE CANCER! on: April 29, 2013, 07:43:31 AM

Biggest problem i see... making sure there is a good system in place to use left over hashing power for other good causes in the event bitcoin miners have enough collective power to cure cancer in the near future.

Than we still have SETI@home, and actually there will always be scientific projects that need huge computer resources, even without diseases.


soon coming front page of NY times

"Bitcoin miners save the world! All crypto currency prices soar as all venues start accepting these coins in their never ending quest to be the ultimate currency"
yeah, soon, only need to find a second Satoshi to make it happen  Tongue
402  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: BTC MINER uses MASSIVE HASHING POWER to CURE CANCER! on: April 29, 2013, 06:23:45 AM
I don´t like the premine, this way you create a central authority who distributes the coins and this is really against the idea of cryptocurrencies.
It really should have some "proof of folding" imo

great idea guys! this coin would be the king of coins! why we haven't implement it earlier?
Because it isn´t easy to do, if at all Sad

Some other points to really make it king:
- no premine
- announcing it weeks in front when it will be released so nobody can complain about early adopter/mining advantage

If this could be done, I think CureCoin would have a pretty good chance to become Bitcoin2.0
403  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: BTC MINER uses MASSIVE HASHING POWER to CURE CANCER! on: April 29, 2013, 05:14:50 AM
interesting! also a kind of "merge mining" cure cancer and generate money would be great!
Great idea for an alt coin imo, if it's possible I don't know, I'm not a programmer but it would be great if someone could get it done that when you mine you actually do protein folding and while doing this you secure the network and mine coins . The coin that would do this, surely gets my support.
404  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Bought dog food with bitcoins on: April 28, 2013, 10:29:07 PM
I am currently in Afghanistan but my mother is taking care of my dogs. My mother is retired so I do not want her to have to spend a lot of money on the dogs so I take care of their expenses.

I am also making a bit more money than I used to so I can stop giving them the processed nasty food (that is probably contributing to my dog's alergies and itching). So I decided to get them some good healthy organic dog food with no preservatives. After checking out different companies I decided to try http://www.orijen.ca/ brand dog food. Their site has a list of online vendors.

I went to their online vendors and found the one with the best price and free shipping.

I found the dog food I wanted. Copied the product page link. Pasted the link into the easy form at http://www.bitspend.net and put my mother's address in there and placed my order.

A few hours later bitspend got back with me and gave me an invoice with a bitcoin payment link. I clicked on the link and paid with my bitcoin client.

Quite simple, order placed and my dogs get some quality dog food. I did not need to search for bitcoin merchants, I could go with the best product I could find on the Internet.

No more need to spend dollars on the Internet anymore.
Orijen is one of the better dry foods, but the best way to get rid of the allergies and itching is give them fresh raw meat, you can buy those premade and frozen or do it yourself. I always go for the frozen ones (smuldier) and they do great on it and they really love it. From time to time they also get raw fish and eggs as an extra. Giving dogs dry food how good the quality may seems is like if you would ate every day mac donalds for the rest of your life, day in day out without anything else, you'll survive but it's not healthy. A dog needs fresh raw meat and not grain with a percentage of dried meat waist.

But to get more on topic on the bitcoin part  Tongue
I like the idea that I can pay everywhere with bitcoin, but preferred if I didn't need a middle man but I think these services are great to deal with the "only few people use them as currency because nobody accepts them and nobody accepts them because only few use them as a currency" problem.
405  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Litecoin - a lite version of Bitcoin. Launched! on: April 28, 2013, 05:06:06 PM
I made a tweek to the logo  Cheesy

what do you think ?

Original



Tweeked


,
First one is better, the reason is, when you fade the coin, the colors change, that way they don't match the colors of the text anymore.
406  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Why I think Feathercoins will be a succes on: April 28, 2013, 04:57:26 AM

Some questions

does FC suffer from
[1] chain bloat being 16x faster than BTC so the blockchain will get 16 x bigger
[2] High fees like LTC atm.

[3] It sounds like a product of "RISE CHIKUN"

1. No, the blockhain will not get bigger, its pre-set how many blocks will ever be mined
2. Dont think so, the coin has very fast processing rates without transaction fee's.
3. I think the name indeed is a bit weird from the start, but we'll get used to it. We were also thinking that when "Twitter" was first introduced and now its generally accepted
How do you do this, get 3 incorrect answers and you seem to hold 3 crypto currencies, did you even invest 30min in the concept?

1) blockchain goes on and on, or will we just stop when the last coin is mined and start again with a new one?
2) you can change the fee yourself, it's only a preset in the client, so it is whatever you want, higher fee means faster transaction. Litecoin will have a lower standard transaction fee in the next client, but that's actually only for those who didn't spend the 2 minutes it takes to view the preferences menu.
3) feather  = light, lighter as litecoin
407  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: [REQ] MagicalTux please desist from live TV interviews on: April 28, 2013, 01:06:33 AM
They need an official spokesperson.
This

But he didn't do too bad, I'm not a native English speaker too, and while I understand it perfectly and can perfectly have a conversation in English, doing a tv interview probably would end up the same like this, probably even worser. He is nervous and putting myself in his place, I would be nervous too and if you got to speak in another language than your native language when your nervous is probably not the easiest thing to do. So respect for doing this, but everybody is good in something different, an official spokesman would probably be a good idea.
408  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Why Litecoin? on: April 28, 2013, 12:07:38 AM
Litecoin is different than Bitcoin in some ways and came early enough so I can deal with it's existence unlike with all these new twattish altcoins.

However, you can bet that 99% of litecoin strong backers are those that hold significant quantities of it. Just like it is a case with other altcoins as well as with biggest bitcoin bulls.

Barely anyone cares about anything further than his wallet size. If his wallet is loaded, that coin is amazing and has great future Smiley

Actually, I currently have less than 50 Litecoins. All my LTCs are wrapped up in Bitcoin ASIC pre-orders and/or I was broke so I had to sell them! Angry

I just believe in it as a currency and a store of value, more so than any other ALT currency.
And this is why it has a future, enough Litecoin users don't have them to become rich overnight.
Somewhere there is a topic with the richest litecoin wallets, and there aren't lots of really big wallets.

Most will actually see it as a currency and want to use it that way.

 
409  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Who on earth valued feather coin so high on: April 27, 2013, 11:39:05 PM
I mined several ten thousands the first two days but than it went down quickly
30 ltc for 1000fc that where a day earlier mined at ten thousands at a time. Cheesy


I'll pay 10,000 bitcoins for a couple of pizzas.. like maybe 2 large ones so I have some left over for the next day.  I like having left over pizza to nibble on later.  You can make the pizza yourself and bring it to my house or order it for me from a delivery place, but what I'm aiming for is getting food delivered in exchange for bitcoins where I don't have to order or prepare it myself, kind of like ordering a 'breakfast platter' at a hotel or something, they just bring you something to eat and you're happy!

I like things like onions, peppers, sausage, mushrooms, tomatoes, pepperoni, etc.. just standard stuff no weird fish topping or anything like that.  I also like regular cheese pizzas which may be cheaper to prepare or otherwise acquire.

If you're interested please let me know and we can work out a deal.

Thanks,
Laszlo

You have a feathercoin as avatar and you post something that proves feathercoin is way overvalued?
When you could still mine like 200 bitcoins/day with a cpu (there was no gpu mining than) a pizza was worth 10,000btc. Nobody than mined 10000 bitcoins in 2 days, if someone could have pulled it off he would only get 2 pizza's. Bitcoin excisted allready much longer than feathercoin now. Bitcoin allready gained extremely fast, lots of value. You really think you can even fastforward this growth times 1000000000000. Good luck with that. The 10,000 bitcoins for the pizza were not suddenly the next day worth 120$/1000btc.

I also see one main difference, when you bought 2 pizza's for 10,000btc, most people were talking about how btc would change the world, how one day we would pay everything with bitcoins, how people would have more freedom,... btc was seen as a currency not a get rich quick scheme. I only see people in this topic who actually don't want feathercoins, I only see people who want dollars...
410  Bitcoin / Press / Re: 2013-04-27 RT: Canada to tax Bitcoin transactions - TV on: April 27, 2013, 10:18:04 PM
So how is the taxation working if you don't sell your bitcoins because what I can understand from this text even than it is taxable? Which exchange rate they are going to use?
The most logical would be they let you pay taxes in bitcoins for the bitcoins you earned, but I guess they don't have plans in that direction.
411  Local / Alt Coins (Nederlands) / Re: LTC @ Mt.Gox schatting(en) on: April 27, 2013, 10:01:46 PM
lol, ik dacht het al toen ik het volgende topic inging  Tongue
412  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Why Litecoin? on: April 27, 2013, 09:58:02 PM
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4. Litecoin confirms in 1/4 the time that Bitcoin does. This one is brought up the most often for obvious reasons. I am sometimes impatient and do not want to wait 10 minutes to a hour+ for one or ten confirmations on the Bitcoin block chain. Although in theory this makes Litecoin 1/4 as secure as Bitcoin, I personally have never suffered any problems using Litecoin. Also, Bitcoiners refute this point by stating Bitcoin will soon be faster as soon as the devs increase the block size (I think this is the method they are trying to use), but it is a lot easier said than done. If it was an easy thing to do, then it would have been done long ago. Litecoin is faster right at this moment, which is valuable to me.

Waiting for 6 transactions (or whatever) is just an arbitrary number. You correctly noticed that the same transaction amount for Litecoins is less secure than for Bitcoins. So why not just wait for less transactions when using Bitcoins?

That is true, but one of the reasons I saw usefulness in Litecoin and why Litecoin would be a good 2nd crypto was the faster confirmation. 1 confirmation for Litecoin isn't as secure as 1 from Bitcoin, for large amounts it doesn't matter, you need to wait just as long. But if you buy a bottle of water, the security isn't that important, you easily can take the risk to just wait for 1 confirmation, so waiting 10min or 2,5min waiting is for small purchases a big deal.

For me Bitcoin = larger purchases and Litecoin = small purchases were the security of 1 confirmation is enough.
It will never be bitcoin 2.0, it never was supposed to be, for me the differences were big enough to adopt it. Besides ppcoin (which imo could be bitcoin2.0 but we'll see how this experiment turns out) there isn't really another alt I adopted.

Beside of this they openly promote porno sites, drug markets so if this continues it will become the most evil currency.
You seem to forget that silkroad was pretty good for the marketing of Bitcoin, some users also thought that Bitcoin would be seen as bad because of this.
The reality is, any currency is used to buy drugs and porn, everybody knows this, if we would deny any currency that is used for buying these things, we wouldn't have a currency at all.
413  Local / Alt Coins (Nederlands) / Re: LTC @ Mt.Gox schatting(en) on: April 27, 2013, 08:32:08 PM
Grappig, in hun shoppingcard kun je bijv. 0.1 als aantal opgeven, dan heb je 1000 cjips voor 78BTC Smiley
heh  Huh
414  Local / Nederlands (Dutch) / Re: Hoe werkt een offline wallet precies? on: April 27, 2013, 08:28:02 PM
Kan Armory ook voor LTC gebruikt worden?

Neen is enkel voor bitcoin, had er ook al naar zitten kijken, uiteindelijk maar zo gelaten.

Zelf heb ik gewoon een oude laptop genomen, de HDD volledig geformatteerd en een cleane Ubuntu installatie erop gezet.
Hierop de Bitcoin en Litecoin client geïnstalleerd, wallet geëncrypteerd en laten syncen, mijn "spaarcoins" ernaartoe gestuurd en losgekoppeld, dan een backup gemaakt van de wallets op encrypted usb sticks en deze veilig opgeborgen.
De laptop blijft gewoon offline (doe er eigenlijk niets mee dus ook veilig opgeborgen), als ik om de 1 of andere reden de coins moet hebben moet ik wel connectie maken maar dat is nog niet het geval geweest. Het is niet de 100% veiligheid van Armory maar eerlijk gezegd denk ik dat de kans dat het op deze manier misloopt toch wel relatief klein is. Zolang je een cleane installatie gebruikt en het op een pc zet waar je niet mee surft, niets anders op geïnstalleerd hebt en hij 1x connectie gemaakt heeft met internet zit je wel redelijk veilig. Op die manier word het enkel wel meer een spaarrekening dan een bank, je kan bedragen in je hotwallet ontvangen en houden, word die wat te gevuld stuur je ze naar je "spaarrekening". Als je van daaruit wilt versturen moet je wel nog eens verbinding maken met internet. Maar dit houd normaal ook niet echt grote risico's in, tenslotte is het lastig een pc die niet (online) gebruikt word geïnfecteerd te laten raken.
415  Local / Alt Coins (Nederlands) / Re: LTC @ Mt.Gox schatting(en) on: April 27, 2013, 02:06:47 PM
Ik gok dat de implementatie op Gox Litecoin over de 5 zal duwen... hoewel ik eigenlijk niet verwacht dat het enorm veel hoger zal worden. (De Litecoin-prijs is al zo hoog!)
Hij staat nu op 4,2, lijkt mij sterk dat hij maar ietsje meer als 0,8 gaat stijgen, kans zit er in dat hij de 5 al haalt nog voor het op Gox komt, op dit moment daalt btc en ltc is aan het stijgen.  Shocked
Er komt echt zo'n grote hoeveelheid mensen bij die nu litecoin kunnen gaan kopen en velen die er zelf nog nooit van gehoord hebben.
416  Bitcoin / Press / Re: My friends amazing bitcoin animation, MUST SEE! on: April 26, 2013, 06:47:10 PM
wowsers the graphics are a-w-e-s-o-m-e
This, great video  Cool
417  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: I propose yet another new coin: Coinmunism! on: April 26, 2013, 06:37:51 PM
I'll mine my commies with a bunch of old smartphones, tell me when this coin gets released, now the used phones are still cheap.  Cheesy
418  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Who on earth valued feather coin so high on: April 26, 2013, 06:30:39 PM
I mined several ten thousands the first two days but than it went down quickly
30 ltc for 1000fc that where a day earlier mined at ten thousands at a time. Cheesy
419  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Who on earth valued feather coin so high on: April 26, 2013, 06:12:29 PM
I have no problem with anyone doing whatever it takes to put extra cash in their pockets.
If it's ok by you that I do whatever it takes to put some extra cash in my pockets, could you pm me your address and when it is most likely nobody is home?
And to buy some of your stuff back I have a sweat business deal for you, you pay me 100btc and I'll give you 1000 back, you only need to find 10 other people who do the same.  Cool

trading and mining in values less than one stops being fun.
Go to preferences - display and set "Unit to display:" in µ
Your instant rich.  Grin

Really guys, your not even trying to come up with good arguments, things like:
- It's more fun to see big numbers
- It has four time more coins than Litecoin, that should make us the copper to btc, right?
- It's easier to mine
- As long as I make some money who cares
- There is a gap under Litecoin, maybe you don't see it, but I see it
- ...

Are all not arguments for a sane person to adopt this currency, I hope there still comes someone with a better argument, else you better start thinking of making a comedy show, you only need to put in all the arguments why Feathercoin is great and you got an instant "comedy show of the year".

I didn't know I had to impress you. I'm sure you're a nice guy and all, but not really that important in my life. I'm amazed at the number of people that spend so much time against something rather than for their own passion.  Look, I'll leave it to the messageboard to keep with the 'noob, idiot, comedy' type comments. Enjoy that life. Smiley For the rest of the sane crypto population, we'll continue to work on services for the coins WE enjoy.

If you don't like a specific coin, don't use it. 
You don't have to impress me, but if you don't want to see the following scenario: pump - dump -death
Than you better convince some people, and that won't be with the arguments I see here.

I don't hate your favorite coin, I'm not against alt coins, else I wouldn't have bought Litecoins and PPcoins right away. The others I don't have, and that has a reason. But I accept anything, if you need something and I can offer it I'll accept your Feathercoins, I just won't hold them for long because I don't have confidence in it at this moment.
The only people I see that have confidence in the coin are people that heard a month ago from cryptocurrencies and now adopt the first one that has some hype around it in the hope it goes up. This hasn't worked in the past and I can't believe it will work in the future, some will have earned from it, most will have waisted time and money.

I'm not important and I'm not starting a war against Feathercoin, I just give my opinion like the people that are pro-feathercoin give theirs, and sorry but the arguments I listed are arguments really used by them, and they will have the total opposite effect their trying to accomplish with them.
420  Local / Alt Coins (Nederlands) / Re: LTC @ Mt.Gox schatting(en) on: April 26, 2013, 03:23:25 PM
Was geen 1 April grap, want is op 2 April nogmaals bevestigt via Twitter, hadden alleen nog geen datum wanneer.
Denk dat zo'n grap hun ook niet direct in dank afgenomen was, 1 April of niet.
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