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by dcc1 13y ago
The problem is getting paid by Mt Gox in dollars, euro etc as many horror stories exist of people not being paid for months or ever Other exchanges would also have similar issues, and would hit you with all sorts of antimoneylaundering ques
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by dcc1 13y ago
Great > more electrics > less demand for petrol > lower petrol prices for us non-hipsters
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by dcc1 13y ago
Erm all bitcoin transactions are public ALL If you know someones address then you can go back and check all the transactions. As for refunds, merchants selling using bitcoin still have to follow law of the land, in most civilised countries
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by dcc1 13y ago
I went university, learned and used C for years, then Java in final years, then .NET on first job Over a decade later I almost exclusively use PHP, and it has put plenty of bread and wine on the table :) over the years. It just gets the job
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by dcc1 13y ago
Who is to say NSA are not "Satoshi Nakamoto" after all the code is of very high quality that was likely done by a team not a single person.
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by dcc1 13y ago
I didnt say it be good, I say it probably be implemented since a state (or central bank) controlled crypto-currency could be used to obtain more power over citizenry. Image the state knowing exactly where you get all your money from and wh
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by dcc1 13y ago
The confidence is not in the currency or the central bank. The confidence (of the markets) is that the central bank (on behest of the government) will use currency as a tool in order to ensure that economies dont sink due due to negative ou
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by dcc1 13y ago
I like how he ignores recent past of almost the whole global economy imploding due to debt based fiat system, and only being "resolved" by issuing even more debt and printing more dollars
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by dcc1 13y ago
Ah jebus another blogger who misunderstands bitcoin ecosystem, technology and its users. Who is looking for attention for his blog since its good linkbait. Well he/she got it. Economists (including the armchair variety like this blogge
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by dcc1 13y ago
US only, ffs there are countries outside the US
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by dcc1 13y ago
This is bad news (despite being a BMW owner) In future driving will no longer be fun, if you want to drive "non-automated" car or disable "auto-pilot" your insurance company will automatically jack up your premium, since
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by dcc1 13y ago
Our whole economy relies on energy, which ultimately comes from the sun, theres a correlation, doesnt mean its important as you are trying to imply
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by dcc1 13y ago
UK has turned into an Orwellian surveillance state (I live in Ireland) Hell I am watching news now and they are about to setup a centralised database of every woman who got breast implants, you couldn't make this shit up!
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by dcc1 13y ago
Newer mining equipment doesnt use as much electricity. Power is a variable but not an important one.
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by dcc1 13y ago
.... Then the federal government increases taxes on its subjects to spend on decryption of its subjects communications...
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by dcc1 13y ago
Or just download from pirates and get high quality drm free ebooks that dont fuck around.
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by dcc1 13y ago
Same experience (Stripe) also had an increase in orders the days after target thing came out. All very obviously fraudulent for example user in indonesia but cards from us
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by dcc1 13y ago
Have you ever tried getting a VAT invoice (invoice with price and vat amount and rates and numbers written down on the invoice) from any eBay seller? I doubt many of them are even VAT registered Amazon on the other hand clearly state the Ta
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by dcc1 13y ago
I hope Amazon crushes Ebay/Paypal Ebay/Paypal has a long history of screwing sellers and buyers and users of Paypal, just search the internet for horror stories. Their support is staffed by drones (ha) unlike Amazon support who ar
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by dcc1 13y ago
It rebounded back to almost same level http://bitcoinity.org/markets/bitstamp/USD % change 24hrs, -10% at time of this post
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by dcc1 13y ago
There is a lot of pumping by those who want "bitcoin to go to the moon" for their own financial gain. That still does not make bitcoin technology inherently evil. The distributed ledger and proof of work pioneered by Bitcoin does
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by dcc1 13y ago
I don't remember Bitcoin nearly collapsing the world economy and leading to misery for millions worldwide as the Banking sector has done in the past few years.
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by dcc1 13y ago
His main point is along the lines of "OMG <insert_bad_actors> can/may use <technologyXYZ>" Bitcooin like any tool from the invention of fire to tools like a hammer to "the web" can be used for good or ba
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by dcc1 13y ago
Urm Charlie could always issue "Charlie Dollars" backed by bitcoin, nothing stopping him creating his own inflationary currency. Just like nothing stopped governments issuing currencies backed by gold (and later removing the link
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by dcc1 13y ago
Pretty much most of elsevier works are available on pirate sites, all they are doing is harassing their customers by this stage and further alienating them.
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by dcc1 13y ago
share what? do i need to signup to find out??
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by dcc1 13y ago
Uhm f& k paypal, they regularly screw over sellers and businesses no matter how long you sell with them using paypal (or on ebay) or how low your chargeback rate is or how high your rating is. f *k em, paypal are driving themselves to i
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by dcc1 13y ago
Er you are pulling words our of some hole and putting them in my mouth...
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by dcc1 13y ago
You missed my point, "Because, Colonization" argument is silly, both Ireland and India were colonized for prolonged periods, both experienced extreme hardships in that time (and some benefits too of British rule) both became indep
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by dcc1 13y ago
Bitcoin has an intrinsic value A distributed ledger with proof of ownership that makes it impossible to forge transactions That my friends is a first in history, Greenspan and others have not realised yet the implications of this.

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