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Quote from: bitsmichel on May 03, 2014, 07:58:43 PM

I watched the whole conference. If you want a brief summary (or video link) check bitprize.org
In general there were 4 topics: intro, legal and technical. The last part shows a starting information on how to make bitcoin products/services, which is the most interesting. If you are in the US, then the legal part is also very interesting

Price influence is long term. From a presentation:

We are now in the early adaptors phase according to one of the presenters, so we are in the investors, crypto-anarchists or the creators. If you are a day trader this has no influence.

Very nice, i think i were in the cripto anarchist phase in mid 2013 when bitcoin was 100 usd because some people made fun of me for having coins

, any time before 2013 was the tech entusiast

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Quote from: jwcastle on May 24, 2014, 10:22:51 AM

Having a highly prestigious university such as MIT speak about bitcoins is very significant in terms of the worldview. This is reason why I suspect that the value of bitcoins increased 25% within the last three weeks.

Anyone from just about anywhere in the world probably has heard of MIT.

Who is MIT?

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Having a highly prestigious university such as MIT speak about bitcoins is very significant in terms of the worldview. This is reason why I suspect that the value of bitcoins increased 25% within the last three weeks.

Anyone from just about anywhere in the world probably has heard of MIT.

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Quote from: Ron~Popeil on May 24, 2014, 12:58:03 AM

Quote from: Snax on May 04, 2014, 03:09:53 PM

Quote from: waldox on April 30, 2014, 06:35:14 PM

mit is the leading technology school in the world

Excuse the fuck out of me, but have you heard of CalTech which consistently ranks higher than MIT?

So much MIT fanboy dick-hoping here, jesus control your tits everyone.

Yeah we are all MIT fanboys. Never mind that the story we are discussing is happening at MIT. Roll Eyes

lol.... Snax had his 2 minutes of fame. Now we can all add his name to the ignore list. And WTF CalTech has to do with the Bitcoin give-aways? Who cares whether they rank better than the MIT or not? CalTech fanboys can suck Buffet's ####. Grin

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Quote from: Snax on May 04, 2014, 03:09:53 PM

Quote from: waldox on April 30, 2014, 06:35:14 PM

mit is the leading technology school in the world

Excuse the fuck out of me, but have you heard of CalTech which consistently ranks higher than MIT?

So much MIT fanboy dick-hoping here, jesus control your tits everyone.

Yeah we are all MIT fanboys. Never mind that the story we are discussing is happening at MIT. Roll Eyes

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Quote from: Snax on May 04, 2014, 03:09:53 PM

Quote from: waldox on April 30, 2014, 06:35:14 PM

mit is the leading technology school in the world

Excuse the fuck out of me, but have you heard of CalTech which consistently ranks higher than MIT?

So much MIT fanboy dick-hoping here, jesus control your tits everyone.

Wow college ranking. yup thats so significant

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Quote from: Crindon on May 19, 2014, 01:20:32 AM

It's interesting what MIT is doing. I don't think it will substantially raise the price, but it is good all around for the community. There needs to be bigger projects to impact the price.

The MIT project was aimed to popularize Bitcoin. Raising the exchange rates was not one of its objectives. Once Bitcoin gets popular among the general population, the exchange rate will automatically increase.

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It's interesting what MIT is doing. I don't think it will substantially raise the price, but it is good all around for the community. There needs to be bigger projects to impact the price.

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Though I do think that it would be very interesting to do 'Bitcoin MIT' in the equivalent university in the UK, Germany, China, India and so forth. If we want Bitcoin to become truly global, and not just an American phenomena that is.

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Come on man, don't be jealous, haha

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Quote from: waldox on April 30, 2014, 06:35:14 PM

mit is the leading technology school in the world

Excuse the fuck out of me, but have you heard of CalTech which consistently ranks higher than MIT?

So much MIT fanboy dick-hoping here, jesus control your tits everyone.

upal

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If u missed the show, watch out here => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqlvk51uS1M

bitsmichel

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I watched the whole conference. If you want a brief summary (or video link) check bitprize.org
In general there were 4 topics: intro, legal and technical. The last part shows a starting information on how to make bitcoin products/services, which is the most interesting. If you are in the US, then the legal part is also very interesting

Price influence is long term. From a presentation:

We are now in the early adaptors phase according to one of the presenters, so we are in the investors, crypto-anarchists or the creators. If you are a day trader this has no influence.

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Quote from: bryant.coleman on May 03, 2014, 12:22:23 AM

Right now there are less than 1,000,000 people who own Bitcoins (and a very large part of them have less than BTC0.01 each). Adding 4,000-5,000 people to this pool is very impressive growth. Grin

And those 5000 people are *hopefully* smart and well-educated.

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Yeah I think the additional benefit from possibly creating a micro bitcoin environment is that these students may very well create new innovations and services that are bitcoin based. MIT doing this could very well be the beginning of something big

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I think it is a very smart initiative from the 2 MIT guys.

Borrowing from the facebook example (where it gained traction on campus before hitting the wider public), this gets a whole lot of Next Gen kids not only into the possibilities of bitcoin, but, as said upthread, it should create a bitcoin based economy in the MIT area. Then of course, there are the long term benefits where the new users innovate the shit out of the space.

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Right now there are less than 1,000,000 people who own Bitcoins (and a very large part of them have less than BTC0.01 each). Adding 4,000-5,000 people to this pool is very impressive growth. Grin

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Quote from: ndonnard on May 02, 2014, 03:45:49 AM

That experiment with micromodel of bitcoin-based economy MIT undergrads launched seems really brilliant. Hope the results will be good.

It is almost impossible for the results to be bad. What is the worst case scenario? If every single person sold off their holding at the same time, it still would not be enough to even impact the prices at all. On the flip side, introducing BTC to probably the heaviest concentration of geniuses, can only result in some good results...

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"Students can cash out their Bitcoins if they like, and the project intends to have some mechanism for them to readily buy their way back in."
http://venturebeat.com/2014/04/29/mit-is-about-to-become-the-worlds-first-bitcoin-economy/

SO glad to see this. Perhaps the distribution will skew to current Bitcoiners who buy it up from their classmates, but maybe less than expected if there's an "official" alternative that the students know is available should they want to offload them without any trouble, and simultaneously a means for them to get back in if and when the buzz really catches on.

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That experiment with micromodel of bitcoin-based economy MIT undergrads launched seems really brilliant. Hope the results will be good.

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