abulafia

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by abulafia 12y ago
It will be difficult to make any change in this to open up for alternatives like Google; there's so much entrenched interest/power among cable MSOs and telcos. Hence, the best shot at succeeding is just reclassifying. This would b
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Grassroots Game Industry in Philadelphia(newsworks.org)
1 points by abulafia 15y ago|0 comments
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by abulafia 15y ago
I'm suggesting that if you believe in the model, and even the most obvious ramifications of such an economy, the value of participating in the system is to be as far upstream as possible. I don't believe in the model, so, I'm not suggesting
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by abulafia 15y ago
It's not the same as taking early risks; this is a very constrained and artificial environment in which bitcoins are generated. One can be pretty certain that if one generates coins early, one can then make money selling them to others. Thi
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by abulafia 15y ago
There have been attempts to fix the value of gold for currency purposes, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Gold_Pool but these tend to simply prove the silliness of bothering with commodities when fiat currency is inherently more elega
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by abulafia 15y ago
This would be a significantly better project than bitcoin, and it would be possible, it just wouldn't serve the same purpose. What it would do is value time and effort; what it wouldn't do is waste pointless cycles and energy to make hidden
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by abulafia 15y ago
Since bitcoins are inherently deflationary, it's hard to argue that they make a poor investment vehicle. However, it's the inherent long-term lack of liquidity that dooms this usage. To be viable in scale, a cash-replacement like bitcoins n
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Superfluid adds project management to collaborative economy(tumblr.thesuperfluid.com)
1 points by abulafia 16y ago|0 comments
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by abulafia 16y ago
superfluid has functionality for commercial (with IRS-reporting, per jambo) and non-commercial efforts. So it handles both the barter exchange and favor-bank sort of model. -The IRS has exclusions for non-commercial services. superfluid:p2p
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Rushkoff goes to superfluid(bigthink.com)
2 points by abulafia 16y ago|0 comments
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An Alt Currency that even the IRS Could Love(boingboing.net)
14 points by abulafia 16y ago|0 comments