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Find a bank with no account maintenance fees - problem solved (well one, anyway).


Well you can say "really really low fees", "less than a penny fees", "statistically insignificant fees", but absolutely none of those are the same as "no fees", which is what a lot of Bitcoiners are parroting around, and it is wrong.

Since you're a "life scientist" that's pretty much what I expected you to say.

They do when they only "find out" if the berry causes cancer because they have a hidden agenda. I mean really, if you spend your whole life trying to find out if a berry causes cancer obviously you're going to want to "find out" it does, amirite guys?

Now if you let the free market handle it, you get the absolute best-quality, cheapest possible cancer-berries (thanks to zero government inefficiency) and then someone else will sell you the cure to that pesky cancer. It's a win-win for everyone.

With bastards using penny HIBs to validate thousands of Steam accounts for the free achievements, you're probably better odds entering your state lottery and then just buying every game on Steam.

NothinG + Steam Sales == Ouch, my aching wallet.dat

Thnx man.

Smooth transaction, thanks!

Sorry about that, my only experience with Ukraine is via the media, and a few Ukrainian-Americans who virtually never mentioned that country outside of "in my old country".

Edited to fix.

I see a lot of myself (when much, much younger) in Atlas in certain ways.

What he needs to understand is that he doesn't know shit. I mean he really needs to understand it, not spew forth a bunch of wannabe-zen bullshit logic like "I unremorsefully admit that I know very little and am learning every day" while continuing to be a pretentious fuckwit everywhere he goes. I mean he really needs to get it.

He needs to quit talking "bootstraps", when you can tell just by his YouTube videos that given his upbringing he has a very skewed definition of what "bootstraps" actually means. He needs to understand that by virtue of his situation, no matter what menial achievement he reaches it will never be a case of "well if I can do it, everyone can."

Atlas, I heartily recommend travel, since your parents seem affluent enough to let you put yourself in a position to make it happen once high school is done. You once mentioned that because of the "free market" you could get a broken leg set and cast in Asia for $200USD. I would definitely insist that you go there, or maybe somewhere like Ukraine, and see how "Doctors" live when they work for those prices, and perhaps check out the quality of the work and the sterile environments too.

But mostly travel because it's fatal to ignorance, which you are absolutely pouring with right now. Going to school in Chicago won't do it, you can likely find a mob of objectivist upper-middle-class douchebags where you can fit right in with, you need to get completely out of your comfort zone and experience some shit.

Finally, and this was the hard-learned lesson for me, you really may consider talking less and listening more. I've found that you occasionally learn (or at least develop a better understanding) by explaining a useful concept to someone who doesn't get it (I had a massive "oh shit" moment regarding pointers in C many many years ago, while trying to articulate my ill-founded understanding to someone who was utterly clueless), but for the most part you don't learn anything by talking.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/naq79/hopefully_theymos_doesnt_consider_himself_a/c37p0sk

That thread's awesome.

Why would I be scared? I'm not a goon and their Bitcoin thread is the first time in about 8 years I've bothered to look at the site. I just thought the "One day, you'll be sorry. You'll all be sorry!" thing was a bit much.

... and if you search my post history here, I'm pretty sure there's a post by my calling them out on the personal attacks. Fact is that the goon community is huge, and with that community there are bound to be some shitheads that the mods can't control.


Link? I spent all my free time on the frontpage lately and somehow missed the drama.

"I'm gonna get rich, then you're so going to regret picking on me."

Really? That's what it's come down to?

The whole thread is TL;DR for me, so maybe someone else answered this, but:

Fucking YES. After all, what the fuck has the Bitcoin community built if the only thing stopping it from being trashed by a large national interest, is disinterest on their part? Absolutely nothing, that's what.

If a large nation with huge resources decided to take an interest in toying with Bitcoin, that'd be awesome. We can put our imaginary money where our mouths are. We can see how the devs, miners and community in general respond to a massive difficulty roller-coaster. No matter what happens, Bitcoin would be better for it.

So if (and what little of the thread I've bothered to wade through, it doesn't seem likely) a large portion of China did decide to fuck with Bitcoin, absolutely - go right ahead.

Oh look, another post by Atlas where he started a new thread to continue a conversation that was already going on in an existing thread. 

I try really hard when I post something critical of you to not come off hyper-critical, lest I sound like Matthew. It's getting harder and harder, because it seems like your douchebaggery is growing exponentially. :/

I approach this "problem" from the opposite end. You're right: it's not fair, it's not optimal.

But how would you do it? How do you dole out a new currency to people in a fair manner, but also in a decentralized way that's not subject to gaming or influence by any third party?

That, I think, is the key to understanding Bitcoin's idiocy. Things about it's design that seem stupid? They're not that way because it seemed like a good idea to some coked-out libertarian (as much as other coked-out libertarians will insist otherwise), it's that way because there's simply no better way of doing it.

Come back with an argument as to why this app is broken when you understand how the private keys in Bitcoin work.

There is a certain issue with trusting the balances coming in (if for any reason the server providing the data is motivated to lie to you and tell you a fictitious transaction confirmed when it has not, there's no way for you to tell that happened without the blockchain), but beyond that there's very little harm that can be done with such a "centralized" solution.

Again, the great thing about Bitcoin is not that it has to be decentralized, but simply that it can be. You can be your own bank, your own currency exchanger, etc. Or not, if you simply don't give a shit about those things.

Don't be silly - some people just really like to be right on the internet, and that's why they'll repeatedly post things they're convinced is truth. I'm the exact same way about things I'm interested in.

They're convinced Bitcoin will fail, and they shout it from the rooftops because when it inevitably (to them) does, they want everyone to know they called it.


This was the exact criticism I had of them months ago regarding Bitcoin. Many of the exact flaws they can point out in the Bitcoin community (because this forum in particular is one giant echo chamber of yes-men, if ever there were one) can be attributed to them as well. There are some really braindead, pants-on-head retarded folks here - but you'd have to be deluded to think that any sizable community doesn't have it's fair share of village idiots.

SA's issue is that they think the only idiots in their group are the Bitcoin supporters.

Thanks!

Good, responsive seller and delivered as promised. \o/

I have mixed feelings about this, solely because I feel like it uses Dr Paul's name, words and likeness almost to promote Bitcoin.

Also, given that a good many "True Believers®" genuinely believe that Bitcoin's value would be soaring right now were it not for some mysterious "manipulator", the quote chosen almost seems counter-productive: if the allegations of "the manipulator" are true, then Bitcoin is no better than USD, except you have the option not to use Bitcoin.

Measuring time in the future is horrendously inaccurate, as while you can take a pretty good guess at what it'll be (indeed the purpose of difficulty is to estimate and regulate this) between hashing power leaving and joining the network and the fact that the process is, well, random... it's just not a good way to measure time.

Measuring in the past is probably a lot more useful, because you have a globally agreed-upon timestamp. But what do you gain from it besides a little geeky fun and a lot of confusion?