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by tabsa 11y ago
no one cares :)
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Show HN: Connect 1B sheep – Save the Internet(connectsheep.com)
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by tabsa 15y ago
I'm sorry but this is silly. What you are suggesting has been already tried in prohibition of alcohol, in war on drugs and now in a more civilized way in a "war on car downloaders". The main outcome was that black markets flourished. If peo
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by tabsa 15y ago
Bitcoin is pseudo anonymous. Everyone knows about all the transactions - they are kept in the block chain that all the clients have, you can only try to hide the real identities of the persons involved in transactions, and that is still qui
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by tabsa 15y ago
Current currencies "cash platform" already provides such services. Also offshoring, lobbying, loopholes in the law and creative accounting. There is no elephant here.
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by tabsa 15y ago
You didn't recognize how you did just the same with bitcoin - taking out one of the value points and creating strawman out of it? 1. CDS is basically an insurance product: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_default_swap 2. I mentioned CD
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by tabsa 15y ago
By new insurance products you probably meant something like CDS? Or credit rating agencies using those improvements in risk analysis to rate those CDO's as AAA+++ would buy again? What you failed to mention is that Bitcoin actually allows v
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by tabsa 15y ago
The article is more about the entrepreneur and less about bitcoin. Also you could make the same argument about Twitter/Apple/Facebook/Google/Android/Node.js before that there was RoR. Are those news(or even PR releases) more valuable than n
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by tabsa 15y ago
I'm sorry for the rant above, those type of comments get me quite emotional. I would like to point out some things why Bitcoin and especially Gavin Andresen is so interesting: 1. Gavin is a real forward thinking entrepreneur/hacker who is a
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by tabsa 15y ago
Yes, it's enough to talk about probably the biggest invention in financial sector in last 20 years. Let's forget all about those calls for entrepreneurs to focus on something more world changing than iphone widgets. If Bitcoin isn't just a
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by tabsa 16y ago
Also Zimbabwean dollar is backed with men with guns, and it doesn't guarantee its value.
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by tabsa 16y ago
Totally agree with you on possibility of governmental attacks on bitcoin, thats why i added the war on drugs analogy, and it doesn't quite matter what political moral high ground excuse will be used to attack bitcoin, be it terrorism or mon
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by tabsa 16y ago
So your argument is basically that government comes to tax bitcoin, or make it a part of a legal currencies, bitcoin will suddenly drop it's value? You could argue the opposite just as successfully - bitcoin will increase it's value even mo
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by tabsa 16y ago
From your comment it seems that your are advocating an "intellectual life". Isn't this the same old consumerism, just a changing real goods for virtual ones (aka information)?