Nice; screw the citizens, and the bank employees, all in one fell swoop.

In other news, the bank of me is open for as long as it's not my nap time

Ahh!  Okay found him

So we got ourselves a regular cowboy huh

You'd want to use a trusted service.  Trust requires many people.  People should be more inclined to vote for the most qualified professional, at the best price offered.  Heck, even the guy with the great handshake might get more jobs than the guy who does the job extremely well, but that's a matter of society, a matter of people acting like people.  Just look at who we decide for our president, anyhow   Those who do a poor job are likely to be pushed off the job, or never hired again.  I have full confidence in a free, unregulated market, where the best service goes for the best price; but, of course, there are several drawbacks of capitalism, inherent in the system whether government is involved or not.  People can figure it out, that's what they live for.  Not to work, work comes second, always second to thought.  Once the thinking's all done and through, then it's time for work.

The problem is, we're assuming fiat will still be a thing and the only thing we're replacing here is taxation.  Given the current state of America, this will run into a problem of the poor being unable to fund their own projects, while the rich live away from the poor in their mansions and beautiful cities for rich-onlies.  In order for a no-taxation system to work, you've first gotta get rid of government, which keeps the circle of rich-being-rich and poor-being-poor going.  Let's assume, instead, that we're in a capitalistic society in which Bitcoin is the popular currency, and due to it being deflationary, people earn wealth, rather than releasing debts.  Thus, those who save will cease to be quite as poor, so long as they don't let go of their digital gold to some hooker with a referral to a ponzi scheme, and those who are rich will have actual wealth, as opposed to the silliness of what we have now.  At this point, when regulation and patents are nixed, all that can be done is to educate the masses (and I mean real education,) and pray they don't allow themselves to slip into another scheme like the one we're in right now.  Used to be, you were poor because you made poor decisions.  Today, unless you're born into wealth, you're poor by default, and will likely remain poor.  Workers will need to feel they're worth MUCH more than their time is currently worth, which can be accomplished by first abolishing the minimum wage.  Minimum wage assumes that $7.25 is actually a living wage.  Obama wants to increase this to $9, and I still don't call this a living wage, especially when considering wages are not competing with inflation.  Without minimum wage, people would (hopefully) fight for better wages (since there's no substandard invisible bar that $7.25 is better than nothing.)  In the end, people fund the rich.  Without the poor, the rich cannot be rich, yet very few seem to acknowledge this to its fullest extent: it's as if you could scream it at the top of your lungs and it still wouldn't ring as true.  The poor must stand up for themselves, and demand higher wages from those with extreme wealth.  Without a government to protect the rich, it will actually be possible.  As it stands, it is not, and the poor continue to be exploited for they spend too much time working to ever know the difference of their circumstance and how swiftly it can change.

Forgive me, for I don't mean to come off as hypocritical; I'm speaking in hypotheticals, mostly for fun

Beats the piss outta me  It could be as simple as a community joining together and figuring out how they'll go about it, to an automated system, perhaps a website, which collects funds to be distributed by a trusted member of society (LOL) for the contractors who auctioned for the job.

What about a two-way auction; workers decide on prices they'd like to work for, and people decide how much they're willing to spend for the projects--people as in, entities, groups of people, or maybe one charitable rich individual (LOL)


That's what gets me the most.  It'd be hard for America to ever see this day because Americans are trained to be Americans, and Americans pay for their room and board out of pocket, and everything else is taken from them automatically--fixing a road would be considered another expense they don't want, despite no longer having to pay taxes.

You're only a noob once.  Then you have all this 'responsibility' and 'post-count' junk to worry about.  Hogwash!  I'm still a noob at heart!

And yet one's legal and the other isn't.

In other news, my ass is backwards.

AFAIK, this is the major forum for Bitcoin.  There's a few others but they're tiny.

There is, however, an IRC the Bitcoin devs use to communicate with one another.  You should find the info somewhere around here...I'm not entirely sure myself.

Who is this guy, anyway?  Is he you?

This is hilarious

Life's one big gamble.  The only way out is honorable death.  Then you'll get this final payout stuff yadda yadda, heaven or hell, that sort of thing.

Economics 101

"I want that."

"I like this tho."

"I'll give you this much for it."

"I'll only sell it for this much."

"Okay deal."

Economics 102

"I really want that."

"I really like this tho."

"I'll give you more than I used to give you for it."

"Okay."

Economics 103

"I don't want this that much anymore."

"I really want to sell it tho."

"I'll give you this much less than I used to."

"I don't like it, but I'll take it."

I now congratulate you for completing these courses in "Why the hell is this priced this way?"

I think they changed it, I had to authenticate my account to use dwolla with Gox.

That's it.  Bitcoin is a terrorist.  Quick, iBama, use your e-drones to destroy the cyber threat!

A little better.

You make me laugh, sir.  Why must you tickle my insides with your words!

Damn.  That is one well-armed gang.