i don't like that idea of a pseudonymous developper behind something as ambitious as bitcoin, that's shady for non-tech people and not good for mainstream adoption and common perception of crypto currencies in general.
You don't know who invented the wheel, or algebra, or concrete, yet you have no problem using them.
If there was a tipping option, I would tip for this comment. Now I can only say QFT
Capitalism makes me sick, I don't engage with it unless I'm coerced to for my survival.
I will find something kind and compassionate to do with my ample free time.
This is my dream too. If I had enough money, I would start some cheap/free education centre for young people to learn electronics and coding.
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Re: PayPal VISA and other companies with BTC. It is good?
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hopey
on 17/09/2014, 11:14:18 UTC
It doesn't take away the _option_ that BTC gives you to stay anonymous and be your own bank. If you buy something from big corporations, you need to play with their rules in any case. With BTC you always have a way to stay anonymous and use your BTC for small retailers etc, if you wish.
Corporate adoption doesn't take away anything fundamental from BTC.
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Re: PayPal VISA and other companies with BTC. It is good?
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hopey
on 17/09/2014, 10:11:31 UTC
All publicity is good publicity and all adoption is good adoption.
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Re: PayPal VISA and other companies with BTC. It is good?
Doubt paypal will lower the fee for bitcoin low enough to hurt their own bottom line.
And as soon as buyer realize they don't even need paypal and deal with merchant directly, paypal will go away.
That's probably right. But for the shortterm, Paypal accepting or supporting btc is a good thing i think. The exposure will be great, and, as you say, hopefully many folks who find out about btc through paypal will end up ditching paypal for the "pure product".
We already have payment processor such as Coinbase and Bitpay. They only charge 1%. If Paypal wants to compete with them, its fee cannot be too high.
Both are too cumbersome and slow for someone who wants to get BTC immediately to purchase something.
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Re: Stephen Reed's Million Dollar Logistic Model
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hopey
on 17/09/2014, 05:28:16 UTC
Is it possible to make this thread sticky? Thanks for updating a very interesting chart
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Re: PayPal VISA and other companies with BTC. It is good?
A lot of big retailers have started accepting Bitcoin but at the same time not many new avenues for purchasing Bitcoin have appeared. I think there's currently an imbalance and new easy ways to acquire Bitcoin should probably be a good thing.
QFT One should be able to buy BTC instantly when needed with a cell phone. Preferably only by just putting the sum and pressing ok. Or why does someone, who has linked paypal/credit card in phone need to worry about conversion at all?
Then when retailers give a discount from BTC buys, even normal people would use it and slowly start to hold it.
This should happen *now* because it will be alot harder after one/two years when Apple gets their system up and running.
anyone else having trouble with mytrezor.com? it just says that its loading forever for me after i enter my password.
It has been working fine for me. Are you talking about when trying to send btc? You obviously dont need password just to view balance
Cant even view balance
mytrezor.com is not working for me, the 3 rectangle progress bar next to each account never stops cycling
test.trezor.com works though
Not working for me... But it feels a bit better I am not the only one. Hope they will get it fixed soon.
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Anyone know free BTC faucet software for BTC giveaway?
by
hopey
on 05/09/2014, 07:27:15 UTC
Hi,
I've been working on BTC demo, that does something funny when you send any amount of BTC to an address. However most people don't own any BTC and I thought if it would be possible to have software, that would give a small amount of BTC for example every time you scan a QR code. This might be an incentive for someone to install cell phone software to get the BTC and try out the demo?
Does anyone know already how to do this? Does this kind of software exist? It is quite hard to google this cause most of the links are about getting money from faucets (greedy people ).
Well if for example some merchant would accept bitcoins, that most people don't have access to, it would be nice to buy some btc first with your cellphone and then pay for the merchant. Other option might be to pay your friend with BTC that you can aquire instantly.
One of the biggest obstacles in BTC adoption is that it is too slow and difficult to obtain.
On the other hand, if two people have an iphone that can send funds to eachother, then who cares about BTC really... but what if the other phone would be android?
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Re: Death of Bitcoins made by Apple?
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hopey
on 02/09/2014, 07:43:13 UTC
If credit cards are integrated to iphone, would it be possible to make an application that could be used to buy bitcoins instantly with your phone?
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Re: U.S. Marshals Are Selling 29,656.51306529 Bitcoin | The Atlantic | #bitcoin #US
by
hopey
on 23/06/2014, 11:16:55 UTC
Panic sell until my FIAT transfer goes through to exchange please.
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Re: Feels like I am screaming "get off the beach" before a tsunami but no one cares
by
hopey
on 27/05/2014, 17:11:43 UTC
Reminds me about Linux community. Just go and read Slashdot, it has been going 15 years or something, and when finally Linux went mainstream, it wasn't like we nerds thought it would. Still no Linux on desktop, let's see how bitcoin evolves.