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May 08, 2012, 11:33:45 AM |
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you gotta learn to think big. what if gov'ts decide it's in their best interests to adopt Bitcoin?
Now I have to remind you that gov'ts have always had gold (that is the best and hard money) but they invented fiat money expressly for having a money that follows their rules and not the other way around. Sound money is not in the best interest of gov'ts and I think it's much better to prepare for the moment where all business in btc will be forbidden in some nations.
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May 08, 2012, 11:36:40 AM |
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Down goes silver.
Under $30? I blinked and missed it. check again. Missed again... Oops. OK, check now..
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May 08, 2012, 01:47:12 PM |
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let's not be so negative and instead look at this from a positive perspective:
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May 08, 2012, 02:46:24 PM |
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. Everything down today. ;( The market, gold, AAPL, BTC.. ;( Lets blame it on the French!!
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May 08, 2012, 02:48:18 PM |
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. Everything down today. ;( The market, gold, AAPL, BTC.. ;( Lets blame it on the French!! what's the score?
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May 08, 2012, 02:56:01 PM |
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last chance to buy Bitcoin under $5.
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May 08, 2012, 02:58:35 PM |
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last chance to buy Bitcoin under $5.
Final last ultimate chance this time before we never ever go back again?! I’ll just quote myself from this thread:
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May 08, 2012, 03:06:11 PM |
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last chance to buy Bitcoin under $5.
Final last ultimate chance this time before we never ever go back again?! I’ll just quote myself from this thread: you know my theory from the newsletter. i think it may be so.
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May 08, 2012, 03:10:30 PM |
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I believe it will just gap up a dollar or two within 24h someday, and then we enter a multimonth move.
For now though, the trend of trendlessness continues to rule.
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May 08, 2012, 03:12:02 PM |
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By my two-second calculations, if about half of the worlds population were using Bitcoin and making 2 transactions per day, a flat average would be about 70,000 transactions per second. To account for peaks which one typically finds in network service use, better bump that up to about 250,000 transactions/sec. Then one must consider the potential for DOS attacks. Contrast this with the .25 (aka 1/4) transactions/sec at the current high. As currently implemented, Bitcoin scales until it fails then that's all she wrote. Ultimately I would be more comfortable with a solution which anticipated 'sharding' of some sort, and it seems logical and workable to combine this with a multitude of crypto-currencies each tuned to offer various advantages to their user base. Of course the 'money changers' would have a hey-day in such an environment, but that fine. Probably open systems would develop to make things less costly for end-users. Some guy had a link to such a project a while ago. I think it was on Docmeister's Bitcoin-2 post. Vast majority of those 250000 transactions are going to be small transactions that need instant confirmation, which means they will not be handled directly by bitcoin network. There will be a bunch of payment processors who will provide instant confirmation functionality, and use bitcoin network itself to regularly balance the books between themselves. So the Bitcoin network would rely on independent 'banks' of some sort to offload the accounting to? Or you believe that it could handle such traffic if it needed to?
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sig spam anywhere and self-moderated threads on the pol&soc board are for losers.
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May 08, 2012, 03:16:17 PM |
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I believe it will just gap up a dollar or two within 24h someday, and then we enter a multimonth move.
For now though, the trend of trendlessness continues to rule.
as long as it holds right here that's BULLISH. and then you're right, we'll gap up.
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May 08, 2012, 03:21:38 PM |
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I believe it will just gap up a dollar or two within 24h someday, and then we enter a multimonth move.
For now though, the trend of trendlessness continues to rule.
as long as it holds right here that's BULLISH. and then you're right, we'll gap up. OK, agreed! Since it would be literally doing higher lows and higher highs (5.48>5.45).
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May 08, 2012, 03:23:20 PM |
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asking to have very single transaction on the block chain is like asking to get the cash each time someone buy something with a cc on your store
Asking that the cash you wish to spend be handed over to a quasi-bank-thing which is probably considered illegal and a national security threat by TPTB is like...well...giving your money to 'Tom Williams'. There is nothing 'wrong' with the solution per-se; It's just not the same thing as the Bitcoin which appealed to me in the early days.
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May 08, 2012, 05:49:07 PM |
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Down goes silver.
Under $30? I blinked and missed it. check again. Missed again... Oops. OK, check now.. This is a good start. Sweet! Now if we can just get to the sub-$25 range in the next month it would be quite handy for me as I need a sink for some USD variety funds. I'd actually prefer to have more gold than more silver at this point but I'm afraid that the Chinese are going to put in a pretty solid floor above the price which I would consider 'the deal of the day.' Maybe I'll just buy a new toy instead. I've always wanted an excavator and have some projects which I could use to justify such a thing...in my mind at least.
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May 08, 2012, 06:00:18 PM |
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. Everything down today. ;( The market, gold, AAPL, BTC.. ;( Lets blame it on the French!! what's the score? what, you only want to give the score when you want to?
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May 08, 2012, 06:49:31 PM |
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Ben: "Hmmm, interesting article. Do I really want to give up my power as THE Central Banker of the World? Do I want to be known as THE Central Banker who destroyed the greatest country the world has ever seen? Do I really want to turn power over to Putin, the Chinese, or the Mexicans? Nah, no more QE. Let's see if I can take gold back down to $500 and teach these guys a lesson and then we can start over."
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May 08, 2012, 08:57:55 PM |
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. Everything down today. ;( The market, gold, AAPL, BTC.. ;( Lets blame it on the French!! what's the score? what, you only want to give the score when you want to? I just did it yesterday! I have a headache
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May 08, 2012, 09:01:22 PM |
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Ben: "Hmmm, interesting article. Do I really want to give up my power as THE Central Banker of the World? Do I want to be known as THE Central Banker who destroyed the greatest country the world has ever seen? Do I really want to turn power over to Putin, the Chinese, or the Mexicans? Nah, no more QE. Let's see if I can take gold back down to $500 and teach these guys a lesson and then we can start over." If that were to happen, purchasing power would be preserved for the USD. However, like the planets in our star system would be if the sun were to go supernova and collapse to a dwarf, the inflationary damage has already been done to nearly every national currency outside of the the US. Should Europe decide to inflate, demand for gold will continue virtually unabated - which seems especially likely now that short-sighted socialism is infesting that part of the world. With a stable dollar and most, if not all other global currencies in turmoil, good luck getting paper to be readily accepted outside of North America. Germany is mortally fearful of inflation the better part of a century after the Weimar Republic's financial travesty, so to think populations experiencing paper putrescence within their own lifetimes will dance right back to it is simply mistaken. If it weren't for the countless dynamic threads in play right now, I might see both paper and physical gold potentially declining to 3 digits again. However, I can't agree with you at this point, or we'd both be wrong There is no turning back no matter what Bernanke's Fed does. Game over. As for the article, in relation to paper vs. physical precious metal prices: the real value of gold (and perhaps silver) will be even more obscured than it already is.
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