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If you uncheck "Show only BTC rates" under "Settings" / "Layout", you'll see a lot more currency pairs on the front page.
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He sees the current incarnation of BTC as centralized on the hands of a few people As was pointed out nine pages ago, he can start a new cryptocoin with only a modest investment of effort, and make sure it gets more publicity earlier on, this time. |
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A fork means the amount of coin will get doubled immediately, a 100% inflation in the whole system, and this directly destroyed the promise of there will never be more than 21 million coin. This is not correct. The coins on the two chains will not have the same properties and will not be valued the same. |
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My bitcoin arrived yesterday, right on time (a little early, in fact).
Thanks, Coinbase, for a great transaction!
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Here's an interesting scenario. Create a fork with no more block reward. Given we are at about the half way mark to 21M, it should be worth double the value of the current bitcoin version. Key word should be. Value depends greatly on adoption rate, though, so it would start with a pretty low value. |
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If instead of butchering the existing system you deploy more and more blockchains (which your node's ability to serve as primary chain for the merged-mining of is already programmed in), as many blockchains can be deployed as adoption of the blockchain based currency concept might require in order that all people who need or desire to perform transactions on a blockchain get to do so.
Very likely the more they pay for their transactions the more ancient and respected and secured - and full to the brim every block - the specific chain their comfort level of fees affords them the use of will be. The elite might prefer to pay massive fees for the cachet of utilising the primary chain, the original bitcoin; others might feel the fee level of that chain is too high thus prefer to use the first secondary chain, and so on right down to those who use the latest and leastest chain that demand has caused by any given date to have been added to the panoply of merged mined chains (that the biggest, richest miners are able to mine every one of all at once despite the large number of them...) And so finally it turns out that Bitcoin's gold might need a silver after all, and a nickle, and a copper, ... |
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if people feel that the system made in such a way that some people will be richer than the others only because they invented it or were the first to join, people won't want to join it, and if people won't join it this system can't live But people are joining. |
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I have a few useless TRC and I'd want sell them.
You can sell them now. I've been buying on bitparking and now vircurex. |
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My brother has Paypal money and is willing to buy a Bitcoin, anyone offering?
Buy a 1.0 Bitcoin yourself using regular channels and sell it to your brother for Paypal. |
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Any guesses how I chose those 3 bitcointalk.org profiles..?  Registration date and using 2 spaces after a period. Is 2 spaces after a period one of Satoshi's traits? Because I do that. In fact, I'm always thinking I should not do that so as to avoid allowing any of my online accounts to be tied to each other. |
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Well, some aspects of socialism aren't "bad" in and of themselves, but too often socialism is equated with communism, which sparks the democracy fire in us western-culture children. :-) Socialism and/or communism are bad insomuch as they are implemented with the initiation of force. If you implement them without force, they are fine. In other words, if you give people the right to opt out (analogous to the way Bitcoin doesn't force anybody to use Bitcoin), then there's nothing wrong. Most families practice socialism internally to some extent, for example, but families typically don't force people to be members, at least after a certain age. If Joe and I go to work in the fields picking peppers at $5 a bushel, and I bust my ass and pick 40 bushels of peppers, while Joe fucks the dog all day and only picks 10 bushels of peppers, yet at the end of the day, the bossman averages it out and pays us each for 25 bushels of peppers, how is that fair? I did $200 worth of work, while Joe only did $50 worth of work, yet we end up each being paid $125? That's still fair because it's the bossman's peppers and he can do whatever he wants with them, and you can go work somewhere else.  |
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Think for a moment that there are millions of different ideas all over the place, all of which are made readily available to you. Some are the next big ideas that will change the world. Some are not so much but might make you wealthy. Huge majority are worthless. The way society deals with this problem is, reward people who pick the right ones. Why are you so against this? I love this paragraph. |
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You should have read my part about the central authority above. When no actual economic activity took place, no it did not need doing. It needs to be done, no matter what. If I want to transfer some coins from my account to yours, our transaction has to be stored somewhere, either this storing is done in a central database, run by a central authority. or it's done in a distributed database run by everyone. We chose the latter, the distributed database and we call that database "the blockchain". To create that database, THAT is what mining does, it creates the blocks that build the blockchain and which store all transactions. Mining is not about creating coins, it's about creating storage-space.If we don't create that database, we have no space to store any transactions at all and all coins (no matter how they are created or distributed in the first place) would be worth- and useless. Without the work done by miners (rather call them block-creators), we have not only no coins, we also have no payment system, we wouldn't be able to transfer anything to anyone. Excellent post. This needs to be repeated by people explaining the system to newcomers. |
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I'm hopelessly fascinated by Bitcoin in the technical and political sense Bitcoin is shiny, which makes it valuable to geeks like us. |
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Welcome, liraz, and good luck to you. It is spectacular news that BBE will be open source. I assume you are already aware of ABE, an open-source clone of BBE; this may be an additional source of ideas for cross-pollenization.
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HAHA, you made me jump briefly for a minute there. Glad to hear everything is all right. |
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The charge for my purchase went through to my bank account today, so as far as I can tell, I'm still on track to receive my bitcoin tomorrow.
It's a little odd that the transactions page doesn't show my pending purchase, but over on thefiniteidea's thread, his screenshot of his transactions page shows a pending purchase. I think this must be a bug, albeit a minor one.
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i just sent you a PM.... im fucking telling you this better take a fast track or im fucking steamrolling.]
Why should your issues take precedence over the issues of other customers? |
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Thanks for your support. Thank you for the years of service you've provided the community in this project. I've been using BBE for a lot longer than I've been posting here. |
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