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Sad to see an innovative Bitcoin venture like this struggling. How to start a casino and lose money.
like what? i couldn't see any reference or link in the article.
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January 18, 2012, 11:11:25 PM |
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Sad to see an innovative Bitcoin venture like this struggling. How to start a casino and lose money.
like what? i couldn't see any reference or link in the article. Oh.. this is https://strikesapphire.com/
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January 19, 2012, 12:13:20 PM |
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The future of payment for legal services - The Bitcoin? Steve Lombardi 2012-01-19 http://www.theiowaedict.com/business---competition/the-future-of-payment-for-legal-services---the-bitcoin/Would you accept payment for legal services in bitcoin? Should you? What is a bitcoin? ... Let's say a client offers payment for legal services in bitcoin. You accept his payment and make the transaction by transferring his bitcoin to your digital wallet. You then use it to buy something you need to run your practice that is sold on the Internet. But how do you account for the transaction for income tax purposes? That's the part I don't understand and so lawyers will be pretty hesitant to venture into using bitcoin.
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January 19, 2012, 12:26:52 PM |
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This 'Law and ICT' blog post is particularly interesting in that the author mentions they only found out about bitcoin after seeing the recent Good Wife show
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January 19, 2012, 12:41:39 PM |
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The point of this argument isn't particularly related to bitcoin - but like the previous 2 posts in this thread, shows that while the Good Wife bitcoin story might not have particularly appealed to most Good Wife fans - it seems to have put it on the radar of Law professionals.
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January 20, 2012, 04:06:21 AM |
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Commerce Weekly: Slow in-app purchasers are worth the wait Digging into in-app purchase data, Bitcoin draws attention outside tech, PayPal and HomeDepot expand point-of-sale trial. David Sims 2012-01-19 http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/01/in-app-purchase-bitcoin-paypal-home-depot.htmlBankers show interest in Bitcoin Bitcoin is becoming increasingly mainstream — at least awareness of it, if not actual use ...
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January 20, 2012, 04:37:32 AM |
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As Bitcoin acceptance grows, it could run afoul of federal laws prohibiting the creation of currency that competes with the U.S. dollar. haha, look out Bank of Japan, the Yen is competing with the U.S. dollar... you're gonna be in big trouble.
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January 20, 2012, 12:26:09 PM |
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A rather glowing introductory article in ParisTech Review (Paris Institute of Technology - "a research and higher education cluster of excellence, is composed of twelve French Grandes Ecoles (Engineering and Business Schools) that cover a sweeping spectrum in science, technology and management. The high professor/students ratio, the wide range of scientific disciplines covered and the quality of research at ParisTech attract the best students and scientists.") The concluding paragraph is an interesting comparison to the W3C. Perhaps the proposed 'Bitcoin Foundation' will evolve into something like that ( https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=49841.0) By analogy, it is interesting to note that the governance of the World Wide Web is an organization governed by a non-profit - W3C - composed of 300 members among the largest companies in the high technology sector. Clearly, any support from government to a member of the W3C can be compensated by the other if it is not for the public interest. If this principle successfully managed to control an area where technology is new production methods and knowledge sharing, it is hoped that a similar organization may also supervise the technical protocol bitcoin. This would allow bitcoin to preserve its integrity and innovation potential to hazards of macroeconomic measures.
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January 21, 2012, 03:21:53 AM |
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Bitcoins are created ex nihilo, pretty much in the same way as dollars are created when a commercial bank lends money to someone who is buying a house. Actually, bitcoins are created according to a set of rules, themselves based upon the laws of math, logic and thermodynamics. As Stephen Hawking would say, the fact that such rules exist implies that bitcoins would exist. Bank loans exist at the whim of the banker.
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January 21, 2012, 08:43:27 PM |
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Burger, Bier und Bitcoins - a short feature aired today by the big public-service German television broadcaster ZDF about Berlin's bar/restaurant room77 that accepts bitcoins. The feature concludes that Bitcoin won't be serious competition to dollars or euros because it's used by nerds only. phew ![Cool](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cool.gif) - German thread
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Burger, Bier und Bitcoins - a short feature aired today by the big public-service German television broadcaster ZDF about Berlin's bar/restaurant room77 that accepts bitcoins. The feature concludes that Bitcoin won't be serious competition to dollars or euros because it's used by nerds only. phew ![Cool](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cool.gif) - German thread I've always wanted to know how long it takes me to transcript and translate 3.5 minutes of video. Too long. But here is the result: German transcript: Burger Bier soweit alles Standard in dieser Berliner Bar. Aber eines braucht der Kunde hier nicht: Bargeld. Denn in der Kneipe von Jörg Platzer kann man mit Bitcoins bezahlen, einer alternative Digitalwährung. Kellner: "Das macht dann 15€. Umgerechnet in Bitcoins ... macht das ... 2.77Bitcoins." Manuel: "Ich bezahl meinen Burger mit Bitcoins. Ich muss nicht mehr zur Bank gehen. Brauch kein Bargeld mehr und bezahl einfach mit dem Handy." Bezahlen mit dem Handy oder dem Laptop. Ohne Banken oder Kreditkartenunternehmen. Weltweit und überall. Bitcoins, kein Geld zum Anfassen sondern virtuell. Basierend auf einer mathematischen Formel und in der Menge begrenzt auf 21Mio Stück. Lädt der User die dazugehörige Software herunter, wird er Teil der Bitcoin-Community. Er erhäldt eine digitale Geldbörse mit einem Verschlüsselungscode. Nun kann er im Netz Bitcoins tauschen. Ganz klassisch gegen Währungen wie Euro oder Dollar oder gegen Waren und Dienstleistungen. Noch ist die Gemeinde klein. Schätzungsweise 100.000 Menschen nutzen Bitcoins derzeit weltweit. Zusammen mit anderen Pionieren hat Barbesitzer Jörg Platzer ein kleines Unternehmen gegründet. Für sie ist die Digitalwährung ein großes globales Experiement mit Zukunftspotential. Johann-Friedrich Gallas: "Man kann innerhalb von Sekunden von Deutschland nach China 1 Cent oder auch 1000€ schicken, ohne dass es dabei Reibungsverluste gibt durch klassische Drittanbieter wie Banken oder Zahlungsdienstleister. Bitcoin funktioniert von Person zu Person." Denn alle Bitcoin Teilnehmer bilden ein Netzwerk. Wechseln Bitcoins den Besitzer, wird dies von einem speziellen, leistungsstarken Rechner im Netz überprüft, authorisiert und in einer öffentlichen Datei abgespeichert. Die aktualisierte Datei wird dann an alle Teilnehmer verschickt. Dadurch sind alle informiert, wieviele Bitcoins in Umlauf sind. Das schließt Fälschungen und doppelte Verwendungen aus. Für die selbsternannten Wirtschaftsreformer ist dieses dezentrale Verfahren das Entscheidende. Kein Staat, keine Zentralbank bestimmt. Vielmehr vertrauen sie darauf, (Jörg Platzer:)"dass ganz viele Menschen sich ansehen können nach welchen Regeln diese Währung funktioniert. Dass diese Regeln demokratisch von der Community ... festgelegt werden und in Quelltext und mathematische Algorithmen gegossen werden, die von keinem mehr willkürlich irgendwie geändert werden können. Aber das System ist nur so ehrlich wie seine Nutzer. So haben einige ihre Bitcoins auch für illegale Waren ausgegeben und ohne staatliche Kontrolle sehen Kritiker die Wertstabilität des Geldes gefährdet, denn der Bitcoinkurs ist auch schonmal extrem abgestürzt. Haben Bitcoins wirklich das Potential zur Weltwährung? Prof. Dr. Wim Kösters: "Wenn die Bitcoins sich als Weltwährung etablieren würden, dann würden sie dem $ und dem € und dem Yen Konkurrenz machen, aber Bitcoins sind ja eben nur für eine kleine Gemeinde bisher ein Geldersatz." Auch wenn Barbesitzer Jörg Platzer nicht glaubt, dass Bitcoins Standarwährungen ersetzen wird, träumt er doch davon, dass es sich als alternatives Zahlungsmittel etabliert. Und zwar nicht nur im Internet sondern auch im realen Leben. Translation: Burger, beer so far everything in this is standard in this Berlin bar. But one thing the customer does not need: Cash. For in the pub by Jörg Platzer you can pay with Bitcoins, an alternative digital currency. Waiter: "That makes for 15 € Converted into Bitcoins ... makes ... 2.77Bitcoins." Manuel: "I pay for my burger with Bitcoins. Don't need no cash anymore and pay easily with my phone." Pay by mobile phone or laptop. Without banks or credit card companies. Worldwide, anywhere. Bitcoins, no money to touch but virtual money. Based on a mathematical formula and limited in the amount to 21 million units. When the user downloads its software, he becomes part of the Bitcoin community. He receives a digital wallet with a cryptographic code. Now he can share in the Bitcoin network. Classically for currencies such as euros or dollars or in exchange for goods and services. The community is still small. An estimated 100,000 people worldwide currently use Bitcoins. Together with other pioneers bar owner Jörg Platzer has founded a small company. For them the digital currency is a large global experiement with future potential. Johann Friedrich Gallas: "You can send within seconds from Germany to China 1 cent or 1000 €, without friction losses through traditional third-parties such as banks or payment service providers. Bitcoin works peer to peer." For all Bitcoin participants form a network. When Bitcoins swap ownership, this is checked, authorized and noted by a special, high-performance computer on the net and stored in a public file. The updated file is then sent to all participants. This means that all are aware of how many Bitcoins there are in circulation. This prevents counterfeit and duplicate use. For the self-appointed economic reformers this decentralized process is crucial. No state, no central bank decides. Rather, they rely on (Platzer, Joerg:) "that very many people can look at the rules by which the currency runs. That these rules are determined democratically by the community and poured into source code and mathematical algorithms that can not be changed arbitrarily. But the system is only as honest as its users. Some have their Bitcoins also issued for illegal goods and without state control critics see the stability of money at risk because the Bitcoin rate already crashed extremely. Do Bitcoins really have the potential for world currency? Prof. Dr. Wim Kösters: "If the Bitcoins would be established as a world currency, then they would compete with the $ and the € and the Yen, but Bitcoins are here only for a small community so far a substitute for money." Although bar owner Jörg Platzer does not believe that Bitcoins will replace standard currencies he still dreams of it, that it is establishing itself as an alternative means of payment. And not only on the Internet but also in real life.
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Burger, Bier und Bitcoins - a short feature aired today by the big public-service German television broadcaster ZDF about Berlin's bar/restaurant room77 that accepts bitcoins. The feature concludes that Bitcoin won't be serious competition to dollars or euros because it's used by nerds only. phew ![Cool](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cool.gif) - German thread I thought that was really the most fair and good quality report on Bitcoin we can ever hope to get from the corporate media. They even explained the technical details almost completely accurate and yet fairly simplified.
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This really looks like a scam. First they list all the reasons not to use a centralized service for uploads anymore but they go on to say "hey, but don't worry, use us, we're going to be different." and they even say they're not a scam which makes me think all the more that they are, lol.
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