Yes I know Kraken, of course. They've been around a long time and I have an account with them for maybe 18 months. I don't have any BTC nor altcoin there at this time, but it's quick to make a transaction.

I'm well aware of the difference between what a politician says and what he's doing. I just wanted to point that by saying this, without any act, he has assuredly lost support from many liberals.

You just need to save money for retirement. That's what most people do except in communist countries. I guess I'll travel a bit less, but I'm addicted to it. I get bored when I'm staying more than a month in the same place.

Have you ever tried to sell advertising space? It's far from easy, and you cannot create, nor host, the ads, the clients create their own ads and they want it hosted on a website not related to the editor, but on a platform they can trust.

I don't think it could work unless you manage to get millions of folks all over the country to share their connection, and that would require huge money to begin with. So...

What is the purpose of this topic? To promote that Bithub company? Then what is the goal of that company? What service does it offer? And are those services only for Africans or people all around the world?

It's difficult to imagine a stateless society, but there are plenty of stateless people. Guys like me who have left their native country, with no plan to go back, and no desire to become a citizen in any other place. BTC is made for us.

I own websites which bring me some income via adverts so I'm very concerned about this, and that scares me.

I can fight with a code that would sniff ad-blockers and tell the visitors they're f*cking me with their software, and that I would not send them my content unless they remove it, but I'm afraid I would lose them if I do that.


That wouldn't work. Advertisers are used to the choices and features of Adwords and a single guy, or even a small team, cannot compete. And it would take a dedicated sales person to convince advertisers, something I just can't afford.

My friend, I don't like your project. I don't like it at all because you have no idea. You made a nice list, but there's nothing new. You're just copying others. There are already dozens of websites doing what you plan to do.

You've got to make something different from what the others are doing.
Sorry, if I disappointed you.

Nice idea. But tell me, who would you trust to say this is ponzi, and this is not? Your government? A central bank? There are plenty of folks saying that BTC is a scam. And the US dollar is a ponzi scheme, don't you know?

Had never heard of Medvedev being a liberal. I guess we don't have the same definition of liberalism... But I wonder, if he's a liberal, why does he want to regulate blockchain systems like the DAO, and put them under government's control?

Thanks!
I was very disappointed that I couldn't access the first one. Is that original uploading only available in the US?

Regarding the subject, the real issue is that we've lost control on the digital things we own. I don't have a smartphone, and I never will. I have a tablet without a SIM card, so I have some kind of control on it. And I'm writing this on my laptop, but I have a lot of software on it to control it, so I hope I'm pretty safe.

Well, I wouldn't like to surf bitcointalk on a small screen. I'm always surprised when I hear about people willing to do everything on a smallish screen. Long list of topics, some long posts to make very long pages, and how to write quality posts without a keyboard?

I'll keep on surfing this board on my computer!

So what? There were shirt makers, shoe makers in every country in the world a few decades ago, but now most of that stuff is coming from China. That's not the end, though, as some clothes factories have closed in China, with new ones opening in Vietnam and Bangladesh. Maybe miners will follow the same path.

I don't see BTC changing the world in the near future. It would take at least 5% of the population in any given country to change things. If Saudi Arabia says it wants to sell its oil for BTC, that would change the world, but this isn't going to happen.

I guess I could manage to support the idea. I certainly don't like the idea of stealing, but I dislike even more what IS is doing, but I wonder if this is real.

I'm not promoting Ether nor comparing it to BTC. I'm promoting and supporting good governance, which BTC badly needs.



Yes, he's gone and that's sad. Gavin Andresen isn't the leader anymore, Mike Hearn has left too, and it's very true there are many other developers but there isn't a single one who has any kind of influence over the others. So it's as decentralized as it can get. I see BTC as a large ship with plenty of sailors but no captain. Some want a hard fork, some others a soft fork. Some want no changes, some others want a 2MB block size, while others want a 8MB block size. If we want BTC to grow and get better, if we want solutions to be found if a problem arises, we will need some kind of organization.

Congratulations Lauda, you've been the only one to answer my point. When I mean leader, I don't mean someone to give rules, nor to tell us what to do, but someone to fix problems. We may imagine that some hacker tomorrow, finds a vulnerability and writes a virus to attack all miners. Just like a city needs a fire department service, BTC needs someone able to fix any problem which may arise, and I say that's why so many people like about Ether: there's a guy in charge.

Technology? Supply? Contracts? Let's be frank. I don't give a damn. The microwave oven remains the perfect example of my point. I know how to use but I have no need to understand how it works. Nor do I care.

What matters is people.

BTC is ungoverned. We've seen that the BTC Core team is unable to fix problems (or way to slow). Will the foundation make a comeback? Satoshi Nakamoto? I would have liked Craig Wright to be Satoshi, he would make a nice ambassador.

On the Ether side, I see Vitalik Buterin who is smart, young, very knowledgeable, so much that I trust his abilities to find and implement solutions if a problem arise. I have no doubt the scalability issue BTC's facing would have been fixed months ago if he was running BTC.

So I'm afraid Ether will pass BTC some day, not because of better tech, but because of better and stronger leadership.

You, saying this? Please go back to all the topics from last July. I wasn't the only one. Plenty of transactions didn't go through, and that may happen again tomorrow. The network can handle some 11,000 transactions per hour, that's highly inadequate if we want BTC to become the world's leading cryptocurrency.