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Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: A Heroin Store
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on: August 10, 2010, 03:47:02 PM
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I don't like people with a heroin store bringing heat on bitcoin users. Leave the heroin store to the criminals(for now), and focus on selling goods and services that's less harmful to its users and will easily pass right through policemen and politicians.
What is something you do not cyberpunk! Shadow economy - the foundation of stability If you would sell weed, mushrooms, dmt, haya, xtc, even coce I could understand. But heroïn? you guys have to be joking right? I don't think someone who uses heroïn really will use something like bitcoin. How will he pay after sold his computer to pay for his addiction? shadow economy ok, heroïn, wouldn't associate bitcoin with it. But it would be nice if I could pay with bitcoins in the coffeeshop or smartshop, and it would be even more perfect to deal with transactions between the coffeeshop and the grower. Because no grower who delivers to a shop, really sticks to the legal growing limits, so get payed with a payment system that isn't traceable is of course always a positive asset.
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Economy / Economics / Re: Porn
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on: August 10, 2010, 01:24:55 AM
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It would also rock at poker, sure, but I don't think any of the established sites will want to venture a government action because they allow 'anonymous money' to go in.
http://www.pokerth.net/could be a winning combination...
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Economy / Marketplace / Re: Win 100.000 BTC
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on: August 10, 2010, 01:04:55 AM
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What are you doing if you'll never reach the 100.000 BTC limit ?
If it would truly take too much time, I guess I would have to lessen the amount to what I have at that point. A casino lottery system and an anonymous entity using an anonymous currency online is vastly different. A public business is held to much more scrutiny and if they cheat their customers, they are ruined for life (whereas a person around here can just create a new account the new day after a scam like nothing ever happened) True, still it is not impossible. It would be some more work but can be done. For an internet scammer, 100,000 BTC (Or roughly $6,500 USD per todays standards) is definitely worth the hassle. I'm not accusing you of anything yet, but I'm just stating that it's not pennies and there are a lot of deceitful people that would go for an opportunity like that, especially when they can disappear tomorrow without a trace.
There are scams out there that indeed involved less money than this amount. But if we want to use bitcoins as a currency for everything, this kind of things will happen in the future too. And the directory with ratings is a nice idea to prevent scams, people could than use some kind of verified logo on their site witch links to their profile, so people can see the trustworthiness of a site. But how you check something like my idea? The only thing I can proof the trustworthiness of BitPixel is by paying, but till I sold every pixel, I just can't proof that. If it is a scam, it's far to late by then. If it's not, people who would use it, didn't do it because the chance of it being a scam. 100,000 is more than 2% of all the Bitcoins currently in existence.
At this point yes, till the time I sold every pixel probably it will be less % It could easily take a year to get them all, and that's fine, don't forget it is advertising space I sell, so it would be less effective if all pixels where sold within a week. There will be less interest in visiting the site and people get there ads viewed and clicked when everything is sold and the big jackpot is gone. And yes it is a big amount, but that is also the purpose. It should be the big jackpot, the euromilions,the lotto,de staatsloterij,... under the bitcoins. Millions would be pretty impossible, still I want it to be something you can dream a little bit of. The kind of amount you would think "damned, I wish I won that, could do some nice things with that money" But I guess it won't work if people indeed don't trust it, something how sad for me it is, I can understand. So any suggestions on the trust thing would be really great. I could off course also do a lottery every 1000BTC or 10.000BTC, would defeat a little bit my idea of giving a big jackpot, but that way people could see faster I just give the coins and if not I would only get away with 1000 or 10000 coins. In total it would be still 100.000, they're would be only a lot more winners. Would be only unfair to those who entered first, they would have a lot more chance of winning. And last but not least, if you just want some good advertising space, it still is the deal of your life of course
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Economy / Marketplace / Re: Win 100.000 BTC
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on: August 09, 2010, 06:08:44 PM
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What does you think nobody can run with your money in a normal lotery? I mean, how do you know a casino will pay you out if you hit the jackpot, what makes you think euromilions can't run away with your money? Casino's and lotery's mostly put up pictures in advertisments of winners with a verry big cheque, and online casino's buy a license in Cyprus. But that doesn't mean they can't run away with your money. If the only thing you have is a number of a swiss bankaccount, you're pretty screwed too To answer your question, how could you know I don't just run away with the coins? You can't know for sure. Of course I wouldn't do something to people that I wouldn't like they do to me, and I never would do something that brings bitcoin in a bad daylight because I like this project to much. ...But that are things a scammer would say too. Think of it, if I would run away with the money, you at least have some advertising space, that is more than you would have if a normal lotery would run away with your money. And else you could always whois the domainname and find my address, and break my both legs. And running away with the money would be plain stupid, in the short run it would give me some coins and a bad reputation, a good reputation is much more valuable than those 100.000BTC. Don't forget, this is not the only site I have, the url I used before to host the bitcoin images will be home of a much bigger project. And I prefer 1000BTC from donations than 100.000BTC I stole from people who trusted me and even gived me some donations.
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Economy / Marketplace / Win 100.000 BTC
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on: August 09, 2010, 01:05:52 PM
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Ok, I was thinking of making a person the first Bitcoin miljonair, but because this would probably take to long and I first want it to be fully automated, I changed it to 100.000BTC. The idea of making a 1.000.000 bitcoin lotery isn't gone but I first will see how this runs. The concept is pretty easy, you can buy pixels on my site and use those for advertising. I ask 0,10BTC/px and I sell them in blocks of 10x10, so you can buy one block for 10BTC. If all blocks are sold, I got 100.000BTC, and those Bitcoins I will put in a lottery. Than I use a random generator to generate a number, if this number is the same as one of the id's of your blocks, you win 100.000BTC. The idea is far from new, the only difference is, I put all the money back into the lotery. And I'll be happy with some donations use this address for those bitpixel related donations, I prefer not to use your payment address you get when buying pixels. 1FwU182VEcLzFLCoFE4qGA74wVSqjAp61W Also don't examine the texts on the site to much, they will normally be rewritten today or tomorow by my girlfriend. They schould be understandable but probably gramaticair not fully correct English. (I wrote them and English is not my native language, lol) So if you need some advertisement for your site or just want a chance of winning those 100.000BTC or both, visit following site: http://bitpixel.bitcoin.nl
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Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Printing bitcoins : could it work?
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on: August 07, 2010, 01:36:29 PM
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Maybe this has future, who knows.
But I really think that using smartphones to make payments with bitcoin is a more comfortable way of doing things. Printing paper is a thing of the past.
My idea too, just type in the amount on your smartphone, type in the adress, cashier can see instantly the payment and done. I don't see why we need paper bitcoins and deal with al the troubles involved with it, printing, scanning, trust,... and it isn't eco friendly. So I go for smartphone or maybe card, paper bitcoins doesn't have a future imho, but I can be wrong offcourse.
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Who's the Spanish jerk draining the Faucet?
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on: August 07, 2010, 12:16:36 PM
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If he/she lives near me I can pay him a visit... just saying. Put up a bounty for the faucet thief......hmm.... * offers 50 bitcoins - on condition that you add the bitcoins you find to the faucet! ok, I confess, I requested a total of 0,10 cent, allready sended 0,05 back, but I'll send the other 0,05 also back. When can I expect my 50 coins?
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Which Country You're From
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on: August 07, 2010, 10:25:01 AM
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I was just reading the faucet drainer thread and it came to mind that no one was brave enough to say they're from Spain I'm from Portugal, btw. I am from Spain. you're blacklisted buddy, we'll watching you ...joking offcourse
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Who's the Spanish jerk draining the Faucet?
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on: August 05, 2010, 12:29:10 AM
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What if they just use different proxy's, than the checking the first byte of the IP is useless. You could make a registration form on the site where they first got to activate they're email address, and than get a login code. After login than they can request the free coins, of course there is a limit of one request for one email address and you keep on checking the ip. So if you want a lot of coins, you first got to register a lot of email adresses and than you got to register with all those addresses, you really got to have no life to do all that trouble just to drain down the Faucet
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin graphics
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on: August 04, 2010, 11:51:50 PM
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Donate button: Could I get this one in the same color, but with this coin? I'll gladly donate ฿20, although it's probably worth more. here you go: Hope, this is what you mend? tnx btw, for pointing out that topic, didn't saw it till today What does the symbology mean? Why stars? It isn't a national currency. I think the design should highlight certain aspects of the system like 1 and 0s .
heh, the stars? to let it look like a coin? no real symbolic meaning in them. But I like your idea of the 0's and 1's, could work, will give it a try later on. nice page, like the multiplying coins
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How long to generate ONE bitcoin????
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on: August 03, 2010, 09:47:30 PM
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If you open a bank account, do you expect that the bank puts daily 100€ on your account, just because you have an active account with them?
No, you got to work to fill your bankaccount, the same with bitcoins, if you want them, than trade something for them (goods or services). It's just something like euro's and dollars, a way of paying for things, but instead of paying with creditcard, paper, coins,..., you pay with bitcoins.
That you get some bitcoins for helping the network is a nice little bonus, you could see it as the interest the bank gives you for renting them your money. In bitcoin you don't rent your money but ur cpu.
If you could daily generate a lot of bitcoins, they would btw be worthless, so whats the difference, if you got to generate a month for 50 coins and you can buy something for 50 coins or you generate 50000 in a month and for the same thing you got to pay 50000?
Btw, I got from 24/07 till now generated 50BTC and I got a khash of around 1600. I've made some graphics for the community and put them here and got in one day 26BTC from donations. So forget the generation, just do what you are good in and sell it for coins, or give it away freely and maybe you get some donations. (I prefer the last business model but that's up to you offcourse)
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Which Country You're From
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on: August 03, 2010, 06:00:24 PM
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Belgium The list is pretty limited btw It is, but I figure everyone is not from all over the place. I'll add for the odd person who's from somewhere else. You have in the poll: Beligum If you could change the i and the g from place, it's perfect. And continent would probably be a better choice, else it is going to be a long list after some time
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Economy / Economics / Re: Porn
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on: August 03, 2010, 05:50:42 PM
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I'm not saying I'd start it because of moral reasons, I'm just tossing out the idea that maybe hasn't been thought of too much yet.
You could still pay by the month, by the day, or as mentioned per video or picture. Nice simple payments across an open p2p system.
Who will provide the p0rn? I have some sparetime ...but I guess my girlfriend will be a little bit less happy with the idea
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