And another one.

A meetup is tentatively being planned for Sydney if you're local.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=108904.0
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bitcoin-Sydney/457681220943285

Interesting, when I was there I didn't see any evidence they had any regard for copyright whatsoever. Getting into an international incident doesn't seem like the best way to start.

Yeah, I'm big fan of Stephenson, one of the only writers who gets away with massive info dumps. "Gets away with" doesn't quite give credit to what he actually does...

Maybe... a lot of people continue to lose money to similar looking schemes with traditional currencies (but they have law backing them to help them get back 5% of their original investments).

Given the nature of this forum, it gives me hope in humanity that this thread didn't get really messy, very quickly.

Well done btw, generosity for generosity's sake is always good to see.

Same.

Makes me think a Satoshi inspired fiction anthology might be in order.

The ever growing mythology around what is, at least now, a fictional persona, is mind blowing to see develop. Today’s Satoshi is probably so far removed from the original that if he really were an individual actually called Satoshi, he’d likely be just as much in awe of this character as everyone else seems to be.

This is the making of genuine mythology, the first, or at least the most obvious, I’ve ever seen. I imagine many of the classic myths were created in a similar manner, albeit a lot slower without the internet. If Bitcoin stays around and goes mainstream, in a couple millennia there may be stories about Hercules and Satoshi killing hobbits in Narnia.

Damien@bitinnovate.com
www.bitinnovate.com

In Japan there something called Pachinko http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachinko with parlors everywhere. It's basically like slot machines (pokies), but with little ball bearings and maybe a little more skill. It took me a while to work it out, I still don't know the full story, but it's something like this:
Gambling with Pachinko is illegal in Japan.
Pachinko parlors can't pay you directly for your balls but give you tokens instead.
There just happens to be a separate establishment near every Pachinko parlor called a Kiosk (always seems to be written in English) which for some reason happens to have an interest in purchasing little tokens.

Bitcoins are legally a commodity of perceived value similar to those tokens. Any gambling with bitcoins would currently be perfectly legal.

I'm Damien, another co-founder of Bit Innovate, also here to introduce myself.

This will be my primary account for communicating on the forums.

If anyone would like to contact me outside of these forums, feel free to email me at damien@bitinnovate.com


Thanks,
Damien

While I can imagine that some people might ask for loans 5 minutes after signing up, would anyone actually give them one?

This board apparently has a difficult to find reply button to keep out blind fools like myself.

I'm Damien, sort of new to bitcoin, although I've done some trades and a little mining.
Coming out of the lurk mode.