У каждого человека в клетках есть двойной набор генов: один набор от отца, другой — от матери. При зачатии и отец, и мать передают своему потомству лишь половину своих генов — по одному набору каждый. При этом какой из дублированных генов отца и матери передается потомству, определяется случаем. Так как версии генов, имеющихся у родителей, немного отличаются друг от друга, то и потомство отличается от родителей. С точки зрения биологии и эволюции это хорошо, потому что увеличивается генетическое разнообразие. Чем разнообразнее популяция, тем больше вероятность, что при изменении условий внешней среды носители каких-то определенных комбинаций генов выживут и оставят потомство.

На мой взгляд, те, кто говорят – каждый должен добиваться всего сам – на самом деле в жизни непонятно чего добились. Это можно увидеть по их гневным комментариям в ответ на сообщения, что кому-то родители помогли купить квартиру или машину. Человек, у которого есть хорошая квартира или машина, не будет гневно реагировать на факт покупки другим человеком дорогих вещей. Потому что у него эти вещи тоже есть. Гнев, вызванный завистью, появляется только у тех, у кого подобных благ нет.

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The "Black Hole" sounds like a great way to get "Black Listed"

I ask myself the question, if Bitcoins were a private project fueled by investment capital beholden to one voice - how would it be run?

Since we are all owners (in one way or another) in this project and some of us have short-term goals, some longer. Obviously the goals and how you reach them will be dramatically different between those two groups, so this is certainly a grand experiment indeed.

In some ways, I hope that my level of sentiment appeals to all parties. One for the speculators who are hoping for an easy/predictable market bottom - the second for miners looking for profits as a reason to continually increase the hash rate, and last the people who are really stuck with indecision right now - merchants. Right now, the first group is substituting in part for the third. Most of those hoping that the real third will eventually get on board (or that enough others at least feel the same way for the short view).

The irony is that the first two depend on the last. Bitcoin has the potential to be a disruptive technology - but to qualify for this - it needs to disrupt the current digital transaction systems (paypal, visa, mc, etc). That is the true competition and market niche that BTC must capture if the first two groups mentioned have any hope of survival in the long term. Otherwise as a new market, it simply doesn't qualify.

$100k a day is nothing in the terms of even a small economy - that being said, the entire discussion theme on these forums should be rephrased.

BTC are not an investment - they don't generate profits for a buyer without someone else putting money into them. This is true of all currencies, hence the tired "pyramid scheme" argument.

The demand in the market is ultimately dictated by what people view it's trade value as a currency is. Build applications for merchants/users that make this thing easier and simpler then a credit/debit card and you will see that value increase for the long term, unable to be controlled by speculators.

If you really want to contribute here, convince merchants to accept and support this currency in it's infancy. Develop payment networks that sit on top of BTC that allow for safety/trust in transactions with unknown parties. Support businesses that accept them by using them, if a business you purchase things from doesn't take BTC - send them an email asking them why they do not and if they have plans in the future to do so.

Use Bitcoins as a weapon to kill the paypal/cc mafia's and their exorbitant fees coupled with horrible policies. They leech money from the entire transaction economy increasing the costs for all of those involved.

Stop caring about the current PRICE of BTC/USD and only view what you want BTC to look like in the future, then build for that.

The 14 day claim period is a huge stumbling block. The last thing I would want to have happen is not being able to get the funds back in the even that the person was somehow *not* able to claim the funds. Basically this puts the risk exposure to me somewhere around the $20 mark for using that service.

For example, I just made an auction purchase for $785, there is no way I would ever send that via a service that could claim the coins after 14 days if for some reason the recipient didn't receive the e-mail, etc.

The site (that I'm proposing) really needs to define itself as the payment escrow/caretaker for those that don't have the knowledge/resources to conduct the transaction directly with the current Bitcoin clients. Piggybacking on a current exchange/online wallet service that can ACH transfer funds directly to a bank account would obviously be of great use as well and rapidly spur adoption. Essentially it's all the familiarity of using a site like Paypal, except instead of $ it's BTC.

How you would monetize the service to pay for hosting, etc - I'm not 100% positive. However the startup cost for developing/hosting such a thing is so nominal these days that I would rather focus on something that services the community first, figures out how to build a business around it later.

Again - if someone is serious about attacking this - I'm happy to discuss in more detail.

When Paypal first started, nobody had an account - therefore the value of the paypal "network" was practically worthless.

The stroke of genius that Paypal had to get rapid adoption of it's payment system was to allow people to "send money" to others without a Paypal account.

Thus, if that person wanted that money - they would sign up for that Paypal account. Obviously, rapid adoption of Paypal followed.

This functionality *needs* to be implemented into Bitcoin. The biggest problem I have heard from users is "how do I get BTC". It's an annoyingly slow, painful process - even for the tech savvy.

I see two ways of implementation - the first being a "Paypal" like intermediary - though they run the risk of becoming the Paypal of the BTC world (fees on top of fees, etc) - the second would be a simple open sourced web implementation that allowed people to easily send money to someone that wasn't already familiar with Bitcoin.

I imagine a website that allows you to enter someone's email address, they (the website opeator) in turn receive the payment and send an email to the user explaining how to claim their BTC. Once the user does this - they have now crossed the threshold of pain in getting started with BTC. I'm sure what worked for Paypal, would work just as well for BTC.

Personally, I would use this site to send money to my friends - and I would also begin to use it for transactions on Craigslist, etc. Right now the running joke in our office is that we will pay each other back in BTC. Why? Because it's just so flippin' hard to use.

This would be blindingly simple to implement - and quite honestly, I'm willing to pony up 10BTC to see this developed - who else is willing to pitch in?

Two things I thought wouldn't be a problem since I started with BTC are:

A technically savvy person at work basically comes to me asking to buy BTC in cash. He has been waiting near a week going through the whole transfer/deposit process. This guy actually wants to start messing with this software that works as a mobile (iphone/android) betting application for friendly bets between friends with micropayments in BTC. His original idea didn't work with USD for obvious reasons.

We then literally discussed the idea of a mobile cash-->BTC truck that would just tweet it's location around the city. Yes it is *THAT* difficult to get BTC currently where a solution like this actually seemed practical right now.

Most people just don't want to mail cash or go through the hassle of deposits. Paypal got over this adoption hurdle by providing an application that gave people money to an email address. Most people were willing to do the steps required to get money they already *HAD* from someone. Look at miners - they spend tons of time/money just to get the promise of future $$$.

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Second, I convinced some friends of mine to accept BTC as payment. It essentially came down to the money argument again. They are a small t-shirt company and spend close to $15k a year in "transaction fees" between paypal/authorize.net. After explaining BTC (no chargebacks, little/no transaction fees, etc) they were sold to try the experiment. http://babbletees.com/blogs/news/3494702-babbletees-now-accepting-bitcoins. Within the first 24 hours they had two transactions, someone tweeted to Shopify (Babbletees E-Commerce provider) that they should start integrating BTC as a payment method for their customers, and in response Babbletees opened a ticket with Shopify for same.  You can imagine the buzz around their office.

If this story could be repeated with even a small percentage of the online stores in existence - this crap about drugs, money laundering, terrorism, speculation, market crashes, etc.. would all go away.

In closing, these two problems *MUST* be solved (getting BTC to users, and getting rapid adoption by merchants). If approached properly, this will insure the success of BTC in the future.

I just got an email from the shop owner stating that they have had two BTC transactions on the site already!

This has certainly gotten their attention/interest in Bitcoins. I also pasted them the link to the twitter comment about Shopify supporting BTC, so they ended up opening a ticket with them (Shopify) requesting BTC as a payment option!

If there are any other customers on Shopify that lurk this board - I would encourage you to do the same.

This is exactly the kind of thing we need to avoid BTC being considered "Fringe Drug Purchase/Money Laundering/Speculator" currency. Our media is sick and tends to focus on these stories so it will take 1000 good stories to counter every bad one.

One thing I didn't think of is that even if some of the ecommerce hosting players start supporting BTC - adoption rates would be huge as support would be builtin - bitconmoney gets right to the point with their twitter posting (Babbletees is hosted on Shopify):

bitcoinmoney : @Shopify Are you adding support for payment via Bitcoin soon? Your customers aren't waiting around for that to happen: http://j.mp/kjbhnL

Kudos to that!

Agreed - this part is huge. I am happy to see even more carts supported https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Category:Shopping_Cart_Interfaces over time - the big win will be as soon as a major provider (like Google Checkout) comes out with built in BTC integration.

At this point, I think as long as all the major ecommerce platforms supported BTC then adoption would be fairly quick. I don't know of a single merchant that doesn't hate their card processor - but it's pretty much a monopoly between the credit card companies/paypal right now.

Just wanted to let everyone know that http://babbletees.com now accepts BTC as a checkout/payment option.

They sell a variety of t-shirts that are driven by science/academic inspirations. I urged them to do this, so please provide support and help to prove bitcoin as a viable currency!

They are doing so on USD conversion rate for the day of purchase.

For those that are interested, the most intriguing part was the fact that the fees are low in comparison to Paypal and Credit Card Processing. They currently spend nearly $15k a year for those fees - so obviously this project was of interest to them.

A flat price/low volume generally indicates a mature bull market price point.

Agreed - there are two things that will happen as this project grows. The first is that the box/software all sits on owned hardware, no VPS, shared server, etc that is under third party control.

Secondly multiple exit points through tunnels along should prevent all but the worst from happening if a bandwidth provider freaks out when contacted by whatever authority there is.

Realistically, a directory such as this is usually more censored by politics then actual criminal legislation. Regardless, I never succumb to such requests anyways. Having fought off dozens of DMCA takedown's and snooping authorities when I worked as a campus network administrator for the university.

Thanks for the feedback - yes, I agree that the interface should be cleaner. I'm not a very good graphics designer however, so this will come with time. I really just wanted to get the project exposure and start to do things based on feedback from people, rather then what I think is good in my own head.

My main goals of content that was not subject to wiki-wars was the main reason to do this. The rest we will have to accomplish as we want to.

With the seemingly unstoppable growth of the bitcoin market, I decided it would be a good time to setup a site as a community resource so we can all keep track of the good/bad bitcoin shops around here.

I feel that we need more exposure for merchants/traders if bitcoins are ever going to be a long term viable economy (and not just an investment)

The URL is: http://bitcookies.com

The site is still under very active development, and most likely it will change quite abit from where it is now. But I wanted to do so with user feedback.

At a minimum it allows you to rate/review businesses you have worked with - as well as compliment/comment on user profiles so you can get a good idea of whether or not a company is good to do business with.

If there isn't a listing for someone you have done business with, you can easily add them to the site and give your thoughts. If you run a business that accepts bitcoins, please add your information and what you do to the site.

Unlike the wiki, I do not want/plan for any censorship here (save immature profanity laced rants which will be deleted just to avoid smelling up the place).

There is also a section that allows you to post photos of things you might have for sale as well as view the reputation (assuming they have already traded with someone) of the people you are speaking with.

This site is very young and there isn't alot of data there yet - the bitcoin forum people will be it's very first users. Feel free to add/comment and provide as much feedback as you can so we can have this resource.

How is the TLD/Root issue handled with .bit? I believe this would be a good addition to add to the existing (but horrible ICANN controlled) domain the server sits on.

I agree that censorship is horrible. I have setup a site to help function as a bitcoin directory that allows users and people that run companies/projects involving bitcoins to list themselves to the community.

The url is:  http://bitcookies.com

I have started to list a few of the sites, but really I just started working on it seriously this evening. The site is still very early beta running on my project box, and I would like to have it as a nice comprehensive Bitcoin resource for the communities reference.

If anyone has any feedback, feel free to let me know so I can improve things. This is a very early project that I think the bitcoin community really needs. Especially one that is not censored on content.

Also - feel free to add any worthwhile bitcoin businesses that you are aware of (or feel free to review ones you have done business with!). I plan to add as many as I have time for that I know to do good business. But I'm sure everyone out there has done good business with at least a few people?


Thanks!