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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Domain names
by
idontknow
on 18/07/2013, 12:09:36 UTC
I'm selling BitcoinBooty.com - 15 btc =)

A little too expensive I think.
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Board Economics
Re: the end of hypervolatility?
by
idontknow
on 18/07/2013, 12:02:40 UTC
My interpretation is that the supply of bitcoins is now distributed among much more people than a
few months ago. We saw a lot of massive sales, where a single trader used to sell 10k or 20k bitcoins
at once. When this happened, the coins that were sold were distributed among many buyers; the result
is that the number of people holding bitcoins is now much higher. Of course there were a few massive
buys too, but much less; buyers typically bought smaller amounts, especially during the downward trend.

So if that's true, how long until people stop complaining about the early adopters?


2 years later: People are still complaining about the early adopters.

Oh, and the end of hypervolatility you say? Cheesy

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Board Politics & Society
Re: Why do we need to Tax?
by
idontknow
on 27/09/2011, 13:10:03 UTC
The imposition of taxes, which must be paid in government currency, is precisely what gives government currency its worth. 

Then why does it have worth OUTSIDE of the country as well?

Well, if Japanese valued their Yen, it makes sense that anyone else around the world would also value the Yen, because they can buy things from the Japanese with it.
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Re: Why do we need to Tax?
by
idontknow
on 27/09/2011, 12:36:27 UTC
To be honest, there should only be taxes and no money-printing.

Printing money is a tax.

Only with money printing they take the wealth proportionally from all bank accounts, so it's more like a savings tax rather than an income tax.
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Board Mining support
Re: I need help and bad
by
idontknow
on 27/09/2011, 12:30:06 UTC
20Gh/s

I just realized this means gigahashes not gigahertz. Man some of this mining terminology had me confused.
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Board Economics
Re: the end of hypervolatility?
by
idontknow
on 27/09/2011, 12:18:49 UTC
My idea: miners add the current exchange rate to every block.

Just wondering, how would you choose WHICH exchange rate or which basket? For some people the price in USD is irrelevant, for example.

Ah, once again someone beat me to the post. I really need to upgrade this computer!
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Board Beginners & Help
Re: Question about the forums.
by
idontknow
on 27/09/2011, 12:14:50 UTC
At the top of the newbie section, theres a thread about whitelisting, you have to post there, then someone in a day or so will unlock you

I didn't have to do that.

After being logged in for 4 hours, I was able to start posting in the other sections without notifying anyone.
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Board Economics
Re: the end of hypervolatility?
by
idontknow
on 27/09/2011, 11:10:49 UTC
The solution I'm considering is dynamic inflation: adjust mining rewards to pin the price to a currency basket, at least until it's an established and stable currency.  That doesn't prevent devaluation so you'd have to be conservative with the adjustments, but it would prevent the "early adopters" problem.

But then nobody would have any incentive to get in early. Having an incentive to get in early is needed for establishing and growing the user base, no?
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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: MtGox to paxum withdraw delay
by
idontknow
on 27/09/2011, 11:05:37 UTC
Does anyone know if they have dedicated support staff? Like someone who's only job is to reply to emails?

It seems many people wait a very long time to hear back from them.
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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Invisible QR codes.
by
idontknow
on 27/09/2011, 11:04:10 UTC
Can you show us the original SVG file for comparison or is it too big?
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Re: Last post to this thread wins 1btc! (no deposit necessary) *UPDATE* 6 HOURS!
by
idontknow
on 27/09/2011, 10:54:15 UTC
Hey, post #50 for me!  No need to keep posting anymore, I can add links and images to my signature now.  Good luck being the very last one posting here!     Grin

So, where is it? Still text Cool

p.s. Congrats Tiagotiago.
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anonymousspeech.com
by
idontknow
on 27/09/2011, 10:52:04 UTC
Has anyone used the services of anonymousspeech.com? They might benefit from accepting bitcoins one day.

What about any similar service that DOES accept bitcoins?
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Board Economics
Re: the end of hypervolatility?
by
idontknow
on 27/09/2011, 10:45:44 UTC
My interpretation is that the supply of bitcoins is now distributed among much more people than a
few months ago. We saw a lot of massive sales, where a single trader used to sell 10k or 20k bitcoins
at once. When this happened, the coins that were sold were distributed among many buyers; the result
is that the number of people holding bitcoins is now much higher. Of course there were a few massive
buys too, but much less; buyers typically bought smaller amounts, especially during the downward trend.

So if that's true, how long until people stop complaining about the early adopters?
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Board Beginners & Help
Re: Question about the forums.
by
idontknow
on 27/09/2011, 10:42:59 UTC
Maybe try logging out and back in again.
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Board Mining
Re: Why can't we group buy fpga and get a discount?
by
idontknow
on 27/09/2011, 07:07:07 UTC
This may be relevant to the discussion

I read that and saw a link to largecoin.com --- Not many details yet however.
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Board Politics & Society
Re: The issues of the day
by
idontknow
on 27/09/2011, 06:56:42 UTC
I like the idea that each tax $ gives you a vote on what to spend it on.

The rich will naturally want to reduce their taxes, but then in doing so they will have less influence over government expenditure, so they won't want to reduce it too much.


On the surface this sounds nice, but you're probably not comparing how much you earn to the rich. Unless you're on $1m/pa salary, I don't think you realize just how little you have to vote with.

Oh it's true it would be bad for me while I'm poor, but I don't plan on staying poor forever, so I still like the idea.
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Re: The issues of the day
by
idontknow
on 27/09/2011, 03:43:41 UTC
I like the idea that each tax $ gives you a vote on what to spend it on.

That's a start. Where would you direct those dollars? Make this thread less tax centric and more issue driven.

Well, personally I would spend more of it on public parks. I'd rather an area was 50% public parkland and 50% apartment-style housing, rather than 99% separate houses all spread out with no where to go except a tiny park bench with 1 duck to feed. The former would be actually less claustrophobic despite the higher density living arrangement.

Not to mention apartments are far more efficient for things like water, sewer, electric, etc.
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Re: The issues of the day
by
idontknow
on 27/09/2011, 03:07:48 UTC
I like the idea that each tax $ gives you a vote on what to spend it on.

The rich will naturally want to reduce their taxes, but then in doing so they will have less influence over government expenditure, so they won't want to reduce it too much.
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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Domain names
by
idontknow
on 27/09/2011, 02:07:39 UTC
hey i like some of those too bad they were all registered by the time i saw this thread!

All the ones I listed are still available.

So are the others Paybtc listed. According to Namecheap.
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Board Goods
Re: [WTS] Domain: playcasinobtc.com
by
idontknow
on 27/09/2011, 02:01:37 UTC