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I'm considering speaking at an inner-city public library about how bitcoin can help you if you don't use banks. Any suggestions? (self.Bitcoin) submitted 6 hours ago by tzadikv [–]tzadikv[S] 1 point 6 hours ago I want to focus on practical uses... online shopping... saving without keeping lots of cash in the house.... sending money to relatives in other cities... joining localbitcoins and becoming a trader.... ???? [–]iaglia 6 points 5 hours ago so you're going to tell a bunch of poor people to put their money into a highly volatile currency? lovely [–]tzadikv[S] -2 points 4 hours ago You're right. It's better to have all your assets in a currency that loses about 3% every year than one that tends to go up in value an order of magnitude each year because a certain loss is better than "volatility". And it's also better to be at constant risk of having your life savings wiped out by any burglar who can get through your window. And it's better to have to pay middlemen a large fee every time you want to move that money to someone that's not right next to you
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I've taken down the ads on my website in favor of bitcoin donations. 6 days later, what I've learned so far. (self.Bitcoin) submitted 10 minutes ago by astrowilliam 6 days ago I posted (http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/202pts/im_taking_the_ads_off_my_popular_website_and/) about taking all the ads off my website ( http://www.spaceindustrynews.com ) and replacing them with donation links for BTC. I plan on doing this for 6 months and at that time if I'm not making enough money to keep the servers up I'll have to switch back to a traditional model. Here's a recap of what has happened and what I've learned so far from my experience. I've received some very positive feedback about my move away from traditional advertising to a donation based format. I've been contacted by numerous people in the industry ( NASA, etc. ) about this. They are truly intrigued and didn't really understand how I was going to keep the lights on. The BTC community has been overwhelmingly supportive through this transition as well. I've gotten so many PMs from people that have built systems for easier BTC integration and I'm truly grate for that. Mind you, this is all still very much an experiment and will continue until I run out of money for hosting. I know what you're thinking, how much BTC has been donated so far? Day 1: I received 0.0125 BTC which equals ~ $8.00 USD. Day 2: 0.0015 BTC = ~ $0.95 USD Day 3: 0.00 BTC = $0.00USD Day 4: 0.00 BTC = $0.00USD Day 5: 0.00 BTC = $0.00USD Day 6: 0.00 BTC = $0.00USD There are probably a few reasons for this. One is that after the initial post moved down the page less BTC influencers were coming to the site. My normal audience comes from links and Google so who knows if they user BTC at all. This news doesn't halt me one bit. I'm in this for a while and will continue doing what is right and what is good. Like I said before, this is still only a few days old so there will be design changes, traffic changes. I'm still 100% behind BTC!!!!
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Mar 17, 2014 00:48
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Robawesome posted:The BTC community has been overwhelmingly supportive through this transition as well.
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Mar 17, 2014 00:50
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Robawesome posted:I've taken down the ads on my website in favor of bitcoin donations. 6 days later, what I've learned so far. (self.Bitcoin) i closed the hole at the bottom of the sales funnel, it's going great
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Mar 17, 2014 00:53
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Robawesome posted:They are truly intrigued and didn't really understand how I was going to keep the lights on.
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Mar 17, 2014 00:54
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Robawesome posted:6 months
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Mar 17, 2014 00:55
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lol what the gently caress is with this 3d poo poo in the gray forums did i just wake up in 2003 again
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Mar 17, 2014 01:00
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Greed is eternal posted:welp my dad asked me about butts my dads first email to me about bitcoin was asking me my opinion on it his second was linking me mtgox crashing and laughing at bitcoiners
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Mar 17, 2014 01:15
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apparently bitcoin showed up in the papers my parents get and i summarized it as "its stupid nerd crap, continue to disregard"
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Mar 17, 2014 01:19
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Phoenixan posted:lol what the gently caress is with this 3d poo poo in the gray forums did i just wake up in 2003 again
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Mar 17, 2014 01:22
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so is bitpay in the throes of happening? i got a busy week coming up, i can't spend time on happenings, can we delay it?
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Robawesome posted:I've taken down the ads on my website in favor of bitcoin donations. 6 days later, what I've learned so far. (self.Bitcoin) man, i didn't realize lowtax was getting so desperate
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Needless to say, I do not agree. I am not going to blather on the topic of just how wrong all this exceptionalist, jingo nonsense is. Instead, I will make it short and sweet : To better understand each other : it’s not the case that a proposition bet in the millions is either rare or exceptional on Bitbetv. It may be a rare thing in Vegas, and generally for the fiat world, but we’re rich, and we’re powerful, and this sort of stuff is both common and unremarkable over here. What’s remarkable, however, is that the yearly compensations of such luminaries as Kenneth Chenault, chairman, CEO and chief-everything of American Express (a company with gross revenue of 33 billion dollars over 153 billion in assets) comes to about fifteen million all told. That’s going to be 1k BTC if he’s lucky. So, dear people who go around in buggies, clad in pelts, washing your hands in ash : you come home and tell the missus you’re “an investment banker” ? You tell girls in bars you “work on Wall Street” ? How much do you make ? When is the last time you landed a multi million dollar bonus ? What are your odds of landing a multi million dollar bonus this year ? Here it is.  This beautiful painting was made by Stuart Herod, who accepts comissions. Originally I was going to close with a shot of Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross, but the lions won. The lions always win. quote:Bitcoin to surpass Berkshire as an investment
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What’s remarkable, however, is that the yearly compensations of such luminaries as Kenneth Chenault, chairman, CEO and chief-everything of American Express (a company with gross revenue of 33 billion dollars over 153 billion in assets) comes to about fifteen million all told. That’s going to be 1k BTC if he’s lucky.
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Mar 17, 2014 02:35
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bitcoiners don't seem to understand that unless all your holdings are in dollars, your assets will still retain their value regardless of the currency used. if bitcoin becomes the de facto currency of the world (lol), my farmland or your apple stock or Kenneth Chenault's stock portfolio will still be worth about the same also, no one in the world is going to let a bunch of nerds hold the vast majority of all of the world's wealth just because they were on the ground floor. in fact, the fact that only a few people hold so much wealth in bitcoin is yet another reason it wouldn't be widely adopted. who would willingly join such a rigged game?
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Mar 17, 2014 02:40
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ayn rand hand job posted:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/01/140108-west-african-lions-endangered-conservation-science/
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Cantorsdust posted:bitcoiners don't seem to understand that
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quote:( excluding known scams bucket shops and any other fictitious entities )
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Space is amazing and should be free to share, that's why we don't have ads. Help keep it free by contributing. Donate Bitcoin!
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[–]telepatheic 8 points 6 days ago On my website I accept bitcoin tips and I have adverts, I get about $1 per thousand page views so about $5 per thousand visitors. Since I put up a Bitcoin tipping address I have received $250 from Google and $0 from Bitcoin
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ayn rand hand job posted:Needless to say, I do not agree. I am not going to blather on the topic of just how wrong all this exceptionalist, jingo nonsense is. Instead, I will make it short and sweet : i'm the lack of accounting for market cap and number of shares outstanding
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Mar 17, 2014 03:12
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Cantorsdust posted:bitcoiners don't seem to understand that unless all your holdings are in dollars, your assets will still retain their value regardless of the currency used. if bitcoin becomes the de facto currency of the world (lol), my farmland or your apple stock or Kenneth Chenault's stock portfolio will still be worth about the same they believe that fiat one percenters hold cash the way they hold bitcoins, because they are ignorant.
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Mar 17, 2014 04:29
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Is "the lions always win" some new line from Wolf of Wall Street
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Nessus posted:Is "the lions always win" some new line from Wolf of Wall Street no idea what the wolf of wall street is about, but shouldn't the wolves be winning then?
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Mar 17, 2014 07:27
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Jonny 290 posted:libertarians and conservatives are loving allergic to owing people money pages behind but people are weird about taking money in general. the protestant work ethic and a desire to show how well off you are fucks people over.
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LongDarkNight posted:what is "!important" and how does it effect the forums? css style declarations have specificity: styles with more specific selectors override styles with less specific selectors. !important declarations can be used to override non-!important declarations even if the non-!important declarations have a higher specificity.
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Wheany posted:css style declarations have specificity: styles with more specific selectors override styles with less specific selectors. !important declarations can be used to override non-!important declarations even if the non-!important declarations have a higher specificity. you sure it isn't a virus to steal my wallet.dat?
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PostNouveau posted:you sure it isn't a virus to steal my wallet.dat? only if you're not !important
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Here are some of the best bitcion jokes I could find on the Internet. I must admit, they are not that great. (self.Bitcoin) submitted 27 minutes ago by RJSchex I asked a hooker if she accepted bitcoin. She told me no because it goes up and down more than she does. A bitcoin hippie says, I cannot wait for the next network difficulty change to get high on hash. A guy is on a roof above Wall St. with a central banker. Guy says "Did you know Bitcoin is so amazing it not only could transform finance, it has actually transformed air currents?" Banker is skeptical, Guy continues "No, really, watch -- the air currents on Wall Street below are such that I can jump off this tall building and they will blow me right back here safely." Sure enough, the guy jumps off the high roof, a moment later there is a whoosh sound and he's back on his feet. He demonstrates it a couple more times to the skeptical central banker. Finally the banker decides to try....he leaps off the roof.....only to promptly crash to the ground breaking his legs. As they put him in the ambulance he asks why the air current didn't save him and what happened. The EMT answers "Oh man, that guy on the roof is Superman, only thing he loves more than Bitcoin is messing with central bankers." I'm pretty sure all the alt coins are a joke What kind of car will you never see a bitcoiner driving? A: A Fiat Panda What you call a cross between a Bitcoin And a Litecoin? A Bacon Letters and Tomato Coin. BLTCoin Bitcoin seems to be the one enterprise where the gamblers want to invest in capital equipment and solve difficult math while the statistically minded want to gamble on an item with wild price swings. The trollbox fiat Q: Why did the hipster Bitcoin miner burn out his GPU. A: He was mining before it was cool. We'll start shipping in two weeks. What's the difference between a blind man using a map and a truckload of BFL Jalapeños? The blind man has a chance of finding a block. How many miners does it take to change a light bulb? A million, one miner to change it, and a million miners running in circles to determine who gets to do it. How about the answer: A million - one to do it and the rest to verify he did it.
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...! posted:Here are some of the best bitcion jokes I could find on the Internet. I must admit, they are not that great. (self.Bitcoin) the best bitcoin joke is bitcoin
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Mar 17, 2014 10:34
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Zamujasa posted:the best bitcoin joke is bitcoin
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...! posted:A guy is on a roof above Wall St. with a central banker. Guy says "Did you know Bitcoin...." the banker leaps off the roof
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dorian nakamoto couldn't have made bitcoin, he's too broke for internet access.
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One World Currency (Dollar + Bitcoin + GLID) (self.Bitcoin) submitted 6 minutes ago by micheldegeofroy Many people are saying that Bitcoin will eventually dethrone the USD as the world "reserve" currency others are believe that Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme or that it was created / invented by the NSA. Most talk without really understanding Bitcoin and especially the revolution that the distributed ledger Blockchain represents. At the very least it is the most disruptive invention since the internet and it may have common origins. Some may know that the internet genesis happened in 1962 as the "Galactic Network" concept as described in memos written by J.C.R. Licklider of MIT who incidentally or not was head of the computer research program at DARPA. The internet created the biggest giant surveillance grid for the NSA to spy on the world as the recent Snowden revelation outline. It is evident that apart from holding onto ICANN the USA controls the internet backbone which gives them strategic and economic advantage. It widely believed that Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto is the inventor of Bitcoin and it's underlying technology but most miss the real question "Cui Bono" who profits from the existence of Bitcoin ? I would say the USA because it's the only entity with the power to take over Bitcoin with its Quantum supercomputers giving them a monopoly on bitcoin mining and because the USD is untouchable and will risk nothing from Bitcoin. So if it is a DARPA project what is its use ? the answer is: to weaken all other world currencies so that in the end we will have Bitcoin because of it's superior qualities as a currency and the USD backed by the most powerful world army and the unit of purchase of petrol the dominant energy source. It is interesting to note that gold has been substituted for military power to back the USD and that Russia instead of backing Bitcoin has made it illegal as a means of exchange in it's territory another indication that Bitcoin is a tool of the US government. The next move will be to effectively merge Bitcoin and the US dollar into the One World Currency attach it one world biometric identity the precursor being the GLID (Greenlist ID). One more step towards One World Government.
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Dear Newsweek, You are wrong. The US Government invented bitcoin. (self.Bitcoin) submitted 15 minutes ago by bc2014 I just learned that the US Government wrote the Satoshi Nakamoto white paper using the pseudonym — Satoshi Nakamoto — because there were several Japanese mathematicians on the secret, bitcoin project and no Government employees with that not-uncommon, Japanese name. The public bitcoin version was extremely modified (e.g. public vs. private ledger, fixed supply, floating price, programmed mining difficulty, no registration, single vs. two-factor authentication, et al). I hope to be able to post here many supporting details as soon as I have permission from my source. Until then, I believe what I am telling you is true and credible.
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It feels like the price is going to explode any time, just feels like. Im not some smart guy with an explanation, so maybe downvoting is best but it's my feeling (self.Bitcoin) submitted 26 minutes ago by webitthedust
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