Greetings fellow cryptonians.

I was wondering if any of you have heard word of literary magazines or book publishers having branched out yet into the cryptocurrency world.  It's been a while since I checked in on what's been new with the cryptocurrency stuff.
...And if not.  Somebody should.

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I read about Twister.  It really picqued my interest.

I must say,  from bitmessage, to twister...

I'm really excited for the innovations that bitcoin technology is bringing to the fold.

I can't wait for someone to develop a bitcoin based browser because that would really be awesome! 

I actually was thinking about different ways that a bitcoin based browser might function...

I think that it would solve many issues with current browsers. (Privacy/security wise)

bump.

Gotta keep this thread on the first page.

*sigh* This thread seems to have died...indeed.

I hope someone creates a fork of Bitcoin that's not subject to gatekeepers or monopoly.  Then we can all flood there and leave Walmart, the abandoned leftovers.

The major flaw with Bitcoin is that it can *and in some cases* has to be translated to USD.  The currency should just stand on it's own and develop it's own separate economy.  The any privacy concerns would negligible.  The privacy is only effected if you try to convert your BTC.
*Which is the government panicking because they've lost control*

Remember, all governments need us to need them.  If we can function independently, then there's no need for government.  *The whole military/police argument is a sad excuse* Again, fear is just the government's way of manipulating us.

So, if Bitcoin functions independently, *Fuck the Dollar* then the government can't know who we are.  And in that regard, I think Bitcoin is far more valuable *function wise* and should be allowed to take it's natural role as defacto currency worldwide. 

I don't believe that privacy is violated converting other cryptocurrencies to bitcoin or vice versa.   This only applies to state sponsored money. *correct?*

Have you ever tried mailing a dollar to Antarctica. *By snail mail*?

What would be faster? A dollar shipped physically to Antarctica or a Bitcoin transaction?

Your comparing a currency to services that use currency.

Paypal isn't a currency, it's a service.

Similarly to how something like Western Union isn't a currency either. 

Bitcoin is just a currency, it's only as fast as the service that delivers it.

The bitcoin network itself has been really fast for me.  Higher transaction fees equal faster delivery time.  *It's not fair* but it's not so big, a problem that it's worth caring about on my end.

Ok, let me put it this way.  What if you created something that you want, then wouldn't your labor have been the price to pay for your own creation?

I don't know you so I can't dispute what your saying with evidence.  However, I can only look at current trends and question things.



I plenty agree with that.

But I disagree that that is what creates stuff.  *Perhaps it used to*  It probably motivates people to save up to buy "stuff"
but let me ask you this,

Who does speculative trading help? It doesn't seem like a service that most people would have a use for.
Let me compound the issue further by questioning why labor is outsourced when people would need a job in their own country.

When looked at from an idealistic standpoint, which is what you brought up, it sounds pretty logical.  However when you factor in that there are people out there hoarding money, and doing nothing useful with it. *Such as speculation*
I wonder then, at that moment, what is being created that would benefit anyone.

As an investor, you bet on goods and commodities.  Which means that when you bet on a good and/or commodity to succeed *or fail*, you give up your ability to make arbitrary decisions about that good and/or commodity because your biased about it.

Now imagine the system was rigged by people with biased feelings about investments.  And they exist in a system that rewards such unethical behavior.  The idealism and logic of the point you brought up, falls apart.

Because, while you may be helping people.  The fact those people need help in the first place was caused by the manipulations of the various markets, and their affect on the political structure.

A woman a few minutes ago posted a thread on this forum.  Asking for help paying for her daughter's leukemia.  In a just world, she wouldn't have to pay money to save her daughter's life.  Instead she had to come here to beg.
But rather then anyone helping her, the post was deleted by admins.

If money helps so many people, then why do so many people find themselves condemned to death for lack of it?

No functional arguments for money can alleviate the wrongs committed in the pursuit of it.

Then you my friend are not delusional. 

Rich and poor are both made up terms.

...At the end of the day we're all human.


Bill Gates is a complicated issue.  The man is a master manipulator.  And he's rather self absorbed because he believes that the
whole entire purpose of education is to produce Microsoft employees. 

while, Microsoft employees have to be educated, there are other careers out there...*and why necessarily just careers? Why not the arts or scholarly pursuits?*

Warren Buffet is by far the more rational among them, actually wanting to pay more taxes. *He understands his role in the world* However, regardless of the members of that minority of billionaires who want to pay more, most *wealthy* are determined to hog as much as they can.

*sigh*

I might get hated for saying this but...

I feel like the people trying to be like Job/Gates/Buffet are delusional...
partly because Job/Gates and Buffet are/were delusional.

The reason I say that is because so much emphasis is being put on acquiring money.  And money doesn't equal a happier life.
All the while, there are people having to trudge through dumpsters for food.  The hoarding of all that *wealth* means that many people will have to face possibility of starvation because a few people think that having so much money, that it could never be spent in their entire lives, is their meaning in life. *Which is delusion*

 You can live perfectly comfortably with a fraction of that.  No one needs huge mansions and 500 cars.
There's no practical/logical reason for it.

The purpose of money is to be spent and circulated.  There are people who really need that to survive, and by hoarding it, you are harming society and the economy.  *To perpetuate some sort of made up fantasy, that will probably leave you alone and unhappy for the rest of your life, knowing everyone is using you for your wealth and that you don't have a real friend in the world*

Hope that wasn't too cliche' but the thought that money hoarders are actually harming people, rarely crosses their mind.
So, I'm just intervening a bit of reality into the fantasy.

 
...Which in layman's terms means "Ooooooooooo shiny"

I honestly don't see how some people can dispute evolution when they're a walking contradiction.

This thread seems to have died...quite quickly.

I'm not trying to play teacher.  I'm just a sucker for a good argument.


Not entirely sure what to make of that, though.

Is that a boast? or truth?



...But whatever, I'm not going to judge.  You are who you are, and we are all one consciousness anyways.

Just replying to get this thread back onto the first page.

It's invaluable for the newer users.

Oh and FenixRD.  You probably did miss my point.

According to classical economics, a price is determined by the amount of labor that goes into creating a product.  Correct?
So I was simply pointing out the flaws in that argument, as nothing that has a price, under current monetary rules, actually reflects the labor that goes into it.

Most price is dependent on perception.  The perception of value based on brand-status...etc;

...But many critical facets of production are ignored.  And the price of production is often externalized onto the tax payer or the environment, rather then being reflected in the actual price of what we buy.

The concept of money doesn't exist in the physical world, at the end of the day. It's abstract and as such, determined by the minds of whomever is throwing around the idea.

If people were more realistic in their view of the world, no inanimate object would be taken so seriously.

Sadly, most currencies are traded and bought and sold...*within their particular countries*

Since Bitcoin doesn't have a country and the internet is so vast,  it makes it seem like a commodity.
Though, I understand your point.  And I'd rather that currency wasn't speculated on.
It serves no logical purpose.


What is money? It's all made up, man.  Wake up and smell the coffee.

The difference with Bitcoin is that Bitcoin doesn't pretend to be valuable.  Bitcoin doesn't even pretend to truly exist. *Hence the name, Virtual currency*  Gold is a real fop. *It's not good for anything* but people assign a stupid value to it. 
That makes Bitcoin more realistic in my opinion.  At least Bitcoin knows that it's fake. 

What you just stated is an assumption though.

It's not your fault, most people fail to understand the discrepancies in price.

In the price of a pizza, many variables are ignored.  Such as the cost of raising cattle, pigs.  The labor required to grow tomatoes...etc;

If market value actually reflected the true cost of manufacturing, most pizzas/hamburgers would cost in the realm of 200 dollars. 

So, it isn't fair market value that is determining anything.  It's subsidies.  Most prices are completely made up.  In that regard, the free market can't ever be, because the government plays such an integral role in keeping prices low on most things.

For their to be realistic market value of any kind, most fast food chains would have to file for bankruptcy. And most people would have to grow their own vegetables for sustenance. *Because that would be the most affordable way*

Bitcoin at least seems more reasonable in what people charge for services.  And even if the prices are made up, they seem more logical then what exists in the broader monetary structure.

If bitcoin becomes too big, activists such as ourselves will simply move on to a different virtual currency.
New ones are being made all the time.

The best way currently, to fight the greed economy,  *which technically isn't an economy"  is to create a separate smaller  trade cycle that doesn't rely on it.

How do you think social security passed in the first place?  You think FDR did it from the goodness of his heart?

During the great depression, starved for money, people returned to a barter economy, trading goods directly.  That's what caused the New Deal. Rich people panicked.

What rich people fear more then anything, is that we won't need them anymore.

That's why they need to keep us scared. *and dependent*

If bitcoin becomes corrupted, then there will be an alternative.  The bitcoin network is open source, and that makes it impossible to stifle.  And perhaps the community will become wiser over time.

*Its a hope*

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