I learned the admins are annoyed by bold and italicization  lol true story |
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Who was that in the BFL shirt?
Inaba / BFL_Josh(Josh Zerlan) Ahh. Charming fellow. |
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Who was that in the BFL shirt? |
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Who is this magical man? I'd like him to sit where Mr. Drones is sitting right now. |
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I learned the admins are annoyed by bold and italicization |
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The last guy who was pleading for help had a similar post: 'I want to link my Bitcointalk name with BTCJam's. Verification code: 8c8efb58-b621-4f8c-ace6-4e6bb6892d87'
Would you believe that when it was brought to his attention, he quit responding? I have a nephew that keeps moving because he can't afford the rent after the first month. It seems he spends all his time gaming, even taking days off from work due to lack of sleep. Did I mention he keeps seeking new employment every other month? I remember last year, he was able to rent a trailer for only $250/mo., and that included all utilities. After losing that and his job at about the same time, he gain employment for less money, and moved into an apartment paying $550/mo., utilities not included. The SOB looked his mom in the eye and actual stated that he's doing better with his life. Two days later he stole his 11 year old brother's games and sold them to buy drugs. Damn, you can rent a trailer for that cheap? |
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What is Bitcoin?Sadly, the first YouTube video you get when you search Bitcoin is "EHRMAGERD BITCOIN PONZI, BUY MY SILVER PL0X"
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Why do you call them faucets btw?
What I mean is that I am going to websites where I just put my address and earn bitcoins for free. No ads, no action involved, nothing.
Can't understand it. They can't be making ad returns from that.
Are they tracking your ip and wallet adress maybe to steal money?
The original bitcoin faucet was literally called a faucet and had a picture of a faucet You metaphorically turned the dial and bitcoin came out. If there's nothing on there, and they're only trying to give you coins, then refer to my first reply. That's the only reason I know of; they can't steal your coins by your public address. However, if you have adblock on, it's possible you're not seeing the ads that should've been there. If they're handing out like, 0.00001 BTC or something, they def make more on ads than they do giving out coins. Every view might earn them minimum a penny, and they'd still make a (very small) profit. |
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Some websites earn more money than they spend giving you.
Basically you just put your address while unknowingly (adblock?) watching ads and generating traffic.
I bet some websites are making n times more than what they are giving you.
That's true, and probably more likely. The last time I checked, there was a Bitcoin faucet that gave away coins by whoever would put cash into it. But I haven't looked into any freebie sites lately |
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I can't understand how some sites are paying me bitcoins for free, just by putting my bitcoin address in there?
Can they steal my money in the future or something?
Nobody gives money for free. Where's the trick?
Thanks
They're on a good will mission to spread the Bitcoins as far and wide as possible. The best incentive is to give people them. It's usually a very small amount, less than a penny. And no, they can't take your money, as long as you're not flashing your private keys. These are stored in your wallet.dat, so keep it safe. |
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Coins become lost when the private keys to them aren't stored anywhere, and nobody is holding them. So though the coins never really disappear, they can't be moved anywhere, because no one has the private keys required to move them.
Can't the private keys be cracked the same way they are discovering new coins? I wouldn't have to bruteforce 115792089237316195423570985008687907853269984665640564039457584007913129639936 possibilities Have they invented -illion words for how much that is? 115 quattuorvigintillion, 792 trevigintillion, 89 duovigintillion, 237 unvigintillion, 316 vigintillion, 195 novemdecillion, 423 octodecillion, 570 septendecillion, 985 sexdecillion, 8 quindecillion, 687 quattuordecillion, 907 tredecillion, 853 duodecillion, 269 undecillion, 984 decillion, 665 nonillion, 640 octillion, 564 septillion, 39 sextillion, 457 quintillion, 584 quadrillion, 7 trillion, 913 billion, 129 million, 639 thousand and 936  Talk about a mouthfull  |
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Google coin: the coin you want to google.
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Coins become lost when the private keys to them aren't stored anywhere, and nobody is holding them. So though the coins never really disappear, they can't be moved anywhere, because no one has the private keys required to move them.
Can't the private keys be cracked the same way they are discovering new coins? I wouldn't have to bruteforce 115792089237316195423570985008687907853269984665640564039457584007913129639936 possibilities Have they invented -illion words for how much that is? |
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Coins become lost when the private keys to them aren't stored anywhere, and nobody is holding them. So though the coins never really disappear, they can't be moved anywhere, because no one has the private keys required to move them.
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I love art, but, and maybe it's because I'm an artist myself, I wouldn't ever pay for pre-made art. Seems good enough to be able to look at it, but then again, I've never had the kind of spare cash to go out and buy some quality artwork, so what do I know |
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In a certain Japanese cartoon series, in the near future 300 years from now, Earth gets almost all it's power from the Sun through a ring of solar panels a few kilometers up above in the sky, around the planet.
I can imagine this will start with a few electric companies that decide to send a few dozen satellites into space. Then a few hundred later on. All orbiting our planet, and transmitting microwave energy into collection antennas on the surface.
That's a pretty common science fiction theme, but it's not going to happen. Think about it: if you were a sovereign nation, would you want some other nation (with whom you might have disagreements) putting a huge power beam transmitter into orbit that could have the capability of focusing its beam into a tolerably surgical death ray? You almost certainly would care for that... Will the gasoline and electric companies allow it? Not if they can help it. There's money to be made! It might happen, although it is understood that it can be a weapon, if there were agreements before about it's actual and intended use. If it were used inappropriately at any time, it would be shot down. Or it can be made in a such a way as to only orbit its owner's country or company and then they wouldn't have to worry about it give energy to anyone who won't pay. Gasoline companies are now going into renewable energy. Shell is an example. They know oil is going to run out, so they are researching other ways of making money while they still can, and then move over to the next territory. Solar power is not free. You need to set up the panels. The panels on the surface of the earth are less efficient than if they were in space, however there have been studies made where solar panels on earth can take up a small portion and be sufficient to power the world right now. I'm guessing if it's too expensive to send up some panels into space, power companies (or governments) will set up panels on giant man made islands along the equator line (where the sun is most powerful). Then you'd have to protect those panels from the environment and from pirates and from rivals. Yes, capitalism has this way of not really caring for the bigger picture and focusing more on "how much money can I make by doing this, and how can I stomp out my competition?" A combination of geo-thermal and solar would be great; there's lots of potential, if not free energy, to strike down the cost of it, but of course even that can be compensated by simply charging people the same rate as ever and pocketing the profits. Gasoline companies couldn't care less about renewable energy, they only go where their crowd is going. They'll find whatever the 'new' thing is, own it, and then charge everyone else several times more to use it. The problem today is energy is completely inefficient. America's one of the worst; if everyone needs to go places, and often to the exact same place from 8 to 5, why is public transportation so undeveloped? We figured out a while back that if you hang a train on magnets against a magnetized rail, you can make it go real fast, real efficient, and charge a small fee for using it. Set up such a system nationwide, with smaller, more local methods of transportation, perhaps trolleys or very conveniently placed train stations, and you can save on a lot of energy, where instead of individual vehicles getting crammed onto a road, you have one vehicle which can hold many--it would also be safer, but, that's another argument. A system like this will probably catch on today, if any entrepreneur wanted to screw with the gasoline companies, and take advantage of incredibly high gas prices. If we're considering powering the world as it stands, we're going to have a hard time. Powering a more efficient set of societies is a much easier task to accomplish. |
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Tell me more about the position you're in.
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In a certain Japanese cartoon series, in the near future 300 years from now, Earth gets almost all it's power from the Sun through a ring of solar panels a few kilometers up above in the sky, around the planet.
I can imagine this will start with a few electric companies that decide to send a few dozen satellites into space. Then a few hundred later on. All orbiting our planet, and transmitting microwave energy into collection antennas on the surface.
That's a pretty common science fiction theme, but it's not going to happen. Think about it: if you were a sovereign nation, would you want some other nation (with whom you might have disagreements) putting a huge power beam transmitter into orbit that could have the capability of focusing its beam into a tolerably surgical death ray? You almost certainly would care for that... Not so much that. More so, there would be too much threat for overabundance of energy, and therefor energy would be either extremely cheap or completely free. Free energy cannot be profited from, else Tesla might be the main fellow in most history books. Right now, we have every living being (at least in the first world) thriving from electricity, and every one of them has to pay for that energy. That's a great way to generate revenue and jobs etc., but the alternatives would completely remove these companies from existence. It's like gasoline; why is gasoline still being used after all this time? Have we really not found any better way to get people from point A to point B? And considering the extreme amounts of energy coming out of the sun, energy which stirred all of life to come into existence, and will continue to burn for billions of years, could we not then power everything in the world with the sun? Certainly. Will the gasoline and electric companies allow it? Not if they can help it. There's money to be made! |
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Lesson learned: never the GayPal again.
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