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What's new with Bitcoin?
Scams, hacks, and controversy
Yet the code endures

This talk by Gavin referencing Yap Stones is part of what got me so excited about Bitcoin.

Where are  you located? I live in San Antonio, so your competition is fierce. My wife is Hispanic and an excellent cook, as well, but it's just so cheap and easy for us to pickup home made fresh (as in, made a few minutes ago) tortillas from a number of places.

"Bits" were eighths of a dollar in the "New World" before the US created the current coins. Consequently, quarters were often referred to as "two-bits", hence, the phrase, "shave and a haircut: two-bits" meant the cost of a shave and a haircut was $0.25.

I like to compare Bitcoin to smart phones. My mother (a grandmother) doesn't have one, doesn't understand them, doesn't want one and never will. This attitude isn't uncommon within her demographic yet smart phones still seem to be doing pretty well.

Personally, I think there's too much material. Not too mention, too many characters. How would you pack the following into a film that could be viewed in one sitting?

• Satoshi's white paper
• Mining the Genesis Block
• Development team forms
• Bitcoin forum is created (first incarnation)
• 10,000 BTC exchanged for pizza
• Satoshi disappears
• Numerous altcoins
• Dollar parity
• First Slashdot article
• First Bubble
• MyBitcoin.com fiasco
• First major price drop
• Mt. Gox incident and subsequent rollback of trades
• Second price drop (bubble officially burst)
• Gavin's CIA visit
• Silk Road (and their continued existence)
• etc. (it's been a really long day and I'm much too tired to go on)

I'd like to try it but my wife has very sensitive skin so I know it's unlikely I'd ever purchase any.

Thanks for linking to BitBrew, Nhym! I'll PM you a coupon code in a minute for a discount off your next purchase in appreciation for the endorsement, as well as for your work for the community.

I did check a bunch of new dollar bills I received as change once and the serial numbers were indeed sequential.

But you're talking about addresses, right? Not private keys? In any case, I don't think you could generate enough pairs in a lifetime to match a random serial number exactly.

How would this work? Would you be asking teenage girls (or more likely their parents) to exchange USD for bitcoins and then exchange them for merchandise? Or would you be giving away the coins?

For this model to become profitable, or even just break even, you'd basically have to become an online currency exchange. It would probably be easier to convince Mt. Gox to start selling celebrity endorsed Yubikeys.

If you're willing to operate at a loss simply to increase Bitcoin awareness, you'd better be prepared to give up astronomical amounts of money to convince your target market that it's better to obtain the merchandise through you instead of simply buying it at the mall or downloading it from itunes.

Someone from the Mt Gox support staff posted that they were planning on "verifying" Bitcoin related businesses and issuing their own Seal of Approval. I and others pointed out the inherent susceptibility to corruption just as it has been pointed out here and, as far as I remember, no one came up with an acceptable means of checks and balances.

Here they are: http://bitbrew.net/xenlands-bitcoin-podcast/

I took the liberty of including links to the topics you cover. Xenland, I do believe you may have found your calling. These are very good for an amateur.

Last I checked, Bitcoin didn't care where you are located. The addresses are in the blockchain and everything else is arbitrary.

Okay, this thread is beginning to get way off-topic but let me just say that I'm very surprised that anyone would take the "research" coming out of XEROX PARC at face value. If there was nothing to ENIAC's warnings then why was Xerox systematically eliminating or brain-washing everyone who sought to publicize it? Thankfully, Jobs and Gates had the foresight to have it secretly encoded into their DNA so that it might at least be passed down through their progeny.

Xenland, I'd like to put up your podcasts at BitBrew so my customers can listen and comment while enjoying their coffee if that's cool with you.

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The chip also had the unforeseen side effect of splitting Gavin's consciousness into several distinct personalities, including, but probably not limited to, Phinnaeus, Atlas, and pirateat40. CIA technicians are hard at work writing the program for his ultimate mission: hunting down Satoshi and returning his/her brain for study. Little do they know, Satoshi's identity was discovered several months ago by a secretive cabal of Bitcoin worshipers and his/her brain has been divided into three equal portions and is in the custody of Nefario, Matthew, and Vladimir, to be reunited when the blockchain is in imminent danger, as foretold in the Great Prophecy of ENIAC in 1954.

These barriers will take care of themselves. Can you explain how a 747 stays airborne to someone unfamiliar with mechanics? Did you install the alarm system in your house yourself? Eventually, when the general populace see enough of us trading in BTC without crashing into the ocean, they'll follow suit, and eventually someone with the right expertise will come up with a simpler method of securing them that will probably rely on installing some hardware or software that most of us couldn't build on our own.