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September 30, 2011, 02:48:00 AM |
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can anyone think of any good ones? something you could quickly mention to someone, like a fact or something.. stuff like, "there are over (some number) bitcoin related sites".. whatever, anyone got anything good?
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casascius
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September 30, 2011, 02:49:48 AM |
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"Using Bitcoin does to the big banks what e-mail does to the Postal Service." http://m.ibtimes.com/u-s-postal-service-first-class-mail-donahoe-congress-214545.html"We simply need fewer facilities to process less mail," Megan Brennan, said chief operating officer of the Postal Service. The postal service has experienced fast decline in First Class mail due to the Internet, as more people use e-mail and online bill pay instead. In the last five years, for example, First Class mail volume has dropped 25 percent. Single-piece first class mail -- letters and such sent with a stamp -- has declined 50 percent in the past decade.
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Companies claiming they got hacked and lost your coins sounds like fraud so perfect it could be called fashionable. I never believe them. If I ever experience the misfortune of a real intrusion, I declare I have been honest about the way I have managed the keys in Casascius Coins. I maintain no ability to recover or reproduce the keys, not even under limitless duress or total intrusion. Remember that trusting strangers with your coins without any recourse is, as a matter of principle, not a best practice. Don't keep coins online. Use paper or hardware wallets instead.
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September 30, 2011, 02:52:14 AM |
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Bitcoin: An Idea Worth Spending
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casascius
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September 30, 2011, 02:54:16 AM |
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You Asked For Change, We Gave You Coins
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Companies claiming they got hacked and lost your coins sounds like fraud so perfect it could be called fashionable. I never believe them. If I ever experience the misfortune of a real intrusion, I declare I have been honest about the way I have managed the keys in Casascius Coins. I maintain no ability to recover or reproduce the keys, not even under limitless duress or total intrusion. Remember that trusting strangers with your coins without any recourse is, as a matter of principle, not a best practice. Don't keep coins online. Use paper or hardware wallets instead.
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September 30, 2011, 03:48:59 AM |
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Bitcoin. Full-SHA encrypted. No back doors. Secure digital money. Swiss bank accounts for the millions.
inspired by: THE CYPHERPUNK MOVEMENT by St. Jude
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Explodicle
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September 30, 2011, 04:14:06 AM |
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Bitcoin is the world's most powerful computing network. It's harder to hack than any bank in the world.
You can use Bitcoin to buy [their vice] secretly, without giving away personal information on the internet.
Satoshi is Chuck Norris.
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September 30, 2011, 04:14:57 AM |
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You Asked For Change, We Gave You Coins
So far my favorite.
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September 30, 2011, 04:16:20 AM |
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Though I do say....
It's paypal meets napster.
but that may not invoke such a flattering image.
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September 30, 2011, 04:25:04 AM |
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Bitcoin will do to banking what bittorrent did to copyright.
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September 30, 2011, 04:38:22 AM |
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Bitcoin will do to bank executives what the internet did to travel agents.
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Companies claiming they got hacked and lost your coins sounds like fraud so perfect it could be called fashionable. I never believe them. If I ever experience the misfortune of a real intrusion, I declare I have been honest about the way I have managed the keys in Casascius Coins. I maintain no ability to recover or reproduce the keys, not even under limitless duress or total intrusion. Remember that trusting strangers with your coins without any recourse is, as a matter of principle, not a best practice. Don't keep coins online. Use paper or hardware wallets instead.
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September 30, 2011, 04:46:51 AM |
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Or a merger of the above two:
Bitcoin will do to banks what the internet did to travel agents.
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September 30, 2011, 04:55:40 AM |
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Bitcoin is money without banks
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Electrum: the convenience of a web wallet, without the risks
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September 30, 2011, 05:16:29 AM |
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Bitcoin is bigger than the Internet.
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September 30, 2011, 05:19:07 AM |
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Use today, tomorrow's medium of exchange.
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September 30, 2011, 05:32:29 AM |
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Bitcoin is borderless electronic cash - anyone in any country can send and receive bitcoins without signing up anywhere or opening an account.
(ok - so the merchant part, and exchange to local currency part aren't quite there on a global scale - but it gives an idea of the potential.)
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September 30, 2011, 08:24:06 AM |
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Bitcoin! going down like ham at a jewish wedding ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif)
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September 30, 2011, 08:44:38 AM |
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I seem to encounter a lot of really profoundly nontechnical people (which is odd, since I live in the Bay area and am a professional geek but I just don't cultivate a ton of geek social connections for whatever reason). I tell lay people: "these days the biggest supercomputer in the world is Bitcoin" whenever I do this I always feel guilty for not saying "these days the distributed computer system with the most processing power is Bitcoin." but if I said that they would hear: (in a nasal, condescending tone)"it's common knowledge that today the most powerful discombobulated hyper-processing aparatus in terms of decagigadefenestrations is, of course, the P9783.419 Microsupergigaperambulator which as everybody knows is being offered by Confusosoft as a metahypomux of the ultracombowhatsit.'" So I just keep it simple.
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Bitcoin is the money that people used back in the year 2200, just before we moved to space.
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osmosis
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September 30, 2011, 08:56:10 AM |
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Bitcoin is going to be the biggest opportunity for innovation that the world has seen since the industrial revolution.
Bitcoin is a startup currency which has never happened before.
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Sultan
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September 30, 2011, 09:41:12 AM |
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Bitcoin - it is Allah's Will
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