etherael

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   by etherael 13y ago

   Because the concept of an instantly transferable easily stored and hidden immune from state control pseudonymous electronic currency having any amount of success is clearly just as random and unpredictable as the result of a roulette wheel
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   by etherael 13y ago

   With magical patriot fuel that provides thrust relative to the amount of ridiculous drama that has thus far been painted on the stupid propaganda movie reel. Likely when the meaningless death of the goofy but loveable sidekick has been conc
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   by etherael 13y ago

   I would rather know the inverse; what causes people to reject that system of control? It is extremely rare compared to the acceptance but people do it, how do you "teach" the rest to do likewise?
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   by etherael 13y ago

   To answer your question quite simply; we do. When people realise it's all a shell game and they are being manipulated by a parasitic organism that pretends to act for their benefit while actually doing its utmost to control and extract
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   by etherael 13y ago

   It's such a relief we have not yet descended to these depths eh?
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   by etherael 13y ago

   I guess it will sound more stable this way, too. 1000 to 2000 or even 10,000 sounds like a much more sizeable jump than 1 to 2 or 10. Also helps overcome unit bias.
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   by etherael 13y ago

   Or maybe the values are inflated because we're in the middle of a currency war with all the central banks in the world trying to devalue their currency harder than the competition?
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   by etherael 13y ago

   Anarchists are not necessarily "bad actors". What is it you are afraid they will do with their btc wealth?
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   by etherael 13y ago

   Stop paying them.
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    by etherael 13y ago

    And how many naysayers are recycling the same tired old objections right now and for the entire history of bitcoin and probably well into the future of either bitcoin or fiat currency proper? Bearish sentiment in the run up to a massive sur
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    by etherael 13y ago

    So can you swift/iban jpy to your bank from gox and expect a good turnaround time?
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    by etherael 13y ago

    > Bitcoin requires middleman, just like credit card processors No it doesn't? Your address exists as a private key, no external middlemen play a part in the maintenance of that unless you want them to. > It also is significantly
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    by etherael 13y ago

    It was just as much news when Gox got owned, even though they covered the losses. Also, Insured vs uninsured is irrelevant in this category because you simply can't have an uninsured traditional bank in the fashion you're talking
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    by etherael 13y ago

    I'm getting somewhat tired of these kinds of stories, the stories and the responses here both follow identical patterns. 1) Security is compromised at an entity that deals somehow with bitcoins. The security of the blockchain remains
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    by etherael 13y ago

    Doing their patriotic duty. ;)
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    by etherael 13y ago

    Because the people who were prescient enough to figure out that there was immense unrealised demand for such a system are surely anxious to offload their now increasingly valuable stake in that system, right? I sure am, back when I was mini
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    by etherael 13y ago

    > If the problem is warding off a depression, then the solution I described is indeed a true solution. If the problem is warding off an invocation of oomkiller at the kernel level, then just setting the jvm heap size lower is indeed a tr
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    by etherael 13y ago

    By three days, I mean, I initiate a transfer from bitstamp, and I get it into my thai bank account within three business days. The transfer is always verified and initiated on the other end on the same day I make it.
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    by etherael 13y ago

    There are many more exchanges than gox. Bitstamp has a consistent 3 day turnaround.
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    by etherael 13y ago

    > What I explained is how things actually work, why they need solved, and how they are currently solved by intervention . Except that the people who disagree with your "description" would point out that they are not solved
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    by etherael 13y ago

    a blockchain that finances its ops by access to aquaponic food dispensaries would be an interesting future innovation. Similar to current cryptocurrencies, but the "backing" is that the dispensaries will take the currency for purc
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    by etherael 13y ago

    not a bubble, just reversion to the mean exponential trend that has been consistent since genesis.
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    by etherael 13y ago

    There's that "probably better" part of the debate. The fact that what happened, happened, though, is just further evidence of the fact that third party ratings agencies exist. Frankly, I do think they can be better than gover
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    by etherael 13y ago

    Now you're talking about consequences and penalties, which has nothing to do with the original statement relating purely to assurances and validation and authentication of claims. You can argue on top of that a paramilitary organisatio
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    by etherael 13y ago

    Of course, which is why you are wrong. It is not a matter of opinion or a political talking point, it is a statement of fact; all of those guarantees and checks can be facilitated by a private third party. The "probably better"
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    by etherael 13y ago

    I don't want to get into this either, suffice to say you're wrong.
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    by etherael 13y ago

    > Perhaps you can add up the numbers and claim that more suffering has been inflicted in total by governments (in the course of wars, or whatever, some of which were more justifiable than others) rather than isolated individuals. http:&
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    by etherael 13y ago

    > Life, liberty, freedom from discrimination, due process--these things I understand, and there are well supported philosophical frameworks (rule utilitarian, Kantian, libertarian etc.) for deriving them from first principles. Well, if y
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    by etherael 13y ago

    Nope, it was very quick test on the mining profitability calculator, but those results were so good that I was instead looking into this; http://mining.thegenesisblock.com/ Which gives much more realistic / complete an
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    by etherael 13y ago

    I must admit though, these criticisms are billions of times more valid than the ones in the article. Though you do a good job responding to them.