Topic: Bitcoin Project will be making a major announcement in September - page 18. (Read 53379 times)
August 17, 2012, 08:15:01 AM
Iceland don't have a lot of international obligations if I remember rightly, could indeed be a geniune likelihood
August 17, 2012, 07:59:45 AM
Kim Dotcom will launch a new file/music/whatever sharing service that uses bitcoin as the currency of choice 
Iceland will start a trial where they accept tax payments denominated in Bitcoin, just to spite London for harbouring all those convicted criminal bankers.
Both of those would be awesome. Keep dreamin' - though Iceland is small enough that maybe government support and gradual introduction may be feasible as a secondary currency. Iceland will start a trial where they accept tax payments denominated in Bitcoin, just to spite London for harbouring all those convicted criminal bankers.
August 17, 2012, 06:45:14 AM
What would stabilize BTC and put it permanently out of reach of government and legal control (where It belongs)?
I think it will be adoption of BTC as a payment method by a major player!
It would involve Gavin because a responsible company/country would need assurances that the system could cope (it would be worldwide).
The first major player to do it will take 3% on profit margin to its bottom line and give it such a competitive edge it will be unstoppable.
It would be a fait accompli-usually used by women but to great effect against credit cards, paypal and bank transfer fees!
All the other options are either known, in progress or not significant enough to affect system dynamics? reg.
I think it will be adoption of BTC as a payment method by a major player!
It would involve Gavin because a responsible company/country would need assurances that the system could cope (it would be worldwide).
The first major player to do it will take 3% on profit margin to its bottom line and give it such a competitive edge it will be unstoppable.
It would be a fait accompli-usually used by women but to great effect against credit cards, paypal and bank transfer fees!
All the other options are either known, in progress or not significant enough to affect system dynamics? reg.
August 17, 2012, 05:30:44 AM
Theymos wrote:
- http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/ycyy9/pledge_if_the_bitcoindbitcoinqt_development_team/c5ugekw
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The "big announcement in September" isn't related to code changes.
- http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/ycyy9/pledge_if_the_bitcoindbitcoinqt_development_team/c5ugekw
What should have been obvious since all development decisions are done in a publicly accessible mailing list. This is open source, after all. There should be no "secret development announcement", with the exception of critical bug fixes like that denial-of-service one.
At least that's how I hope things happens... I confess I don't read the mailing list myself.
August 17, 2012, 05:29:33 AM
Perhaps some organizational sponsorship or something like that?
That's kind of what I was thinking. Some sort of funding that would allow more people to work full time on the project. Would be nice.
Could be the launching of Gavin's Bitcoin Foundation: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoin-foundation-49841
Edit: someone beat me to it above ^^
August 17, 2012, 05:27:36 AM
Perhaps some organizational sponsorship or something like that?
That's kind of what I was thinking. Some sort of funding that would allow more people to work full time on the project. Would be nice.
August 17, 2012, 05:18:07 AM
@stephen gornick
Some kind of W3C-like organization to manage BIPs, including Google's sponsorship ?
Some kind of W3C-like organization to manage BIPs, including Google's sponsorship ?
August 17, 2012, 05:15:42 AM
The market's certainly been moving and this tends to make me think that some people know what's going on behind the scenes.
August 17, 2012, 05:00:12 AM
Theymos wrote:
- http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/ycyy9/pledge_if_the_bitcoindbitcoinqt_development_team/c5ugekw
Perhaps some organizational sponsorship or something like that?
Quote
The "big announcement in September" isn't related to code changes.
- http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/ycyy9/pledge_if_the_bitcoindbitcoinqt_development_team/c5ugekw
Perhaps some organizational sponsorship or something like that?
August 17, 2012, 04:58:16 AM
Iran and China are pricing their Oil trades in BTC? 
August 17, 2012, 03:38:12 AM
Greece or some other sovereign nation is adopting Bitcoin as legal tender. Bitcoin will trade on FOREX.
I bet the Royal Canadian Mint is going to adopt the Bitcoin model for it's e-cash proposal.
That is actually not impossible, albeit not probable. And if so, woooh!
August 17, 2012, 02:45:17 AM
Greece or some other sovereign nation is adopting Bitcoin as legal tender. Bitcoin will trade on FOREX.
I bet the Royal Canadian Mint is going to adopt the Bitcoin model for it's e-cash proposal.
August 17, 2012, 02:32:43 AM
I know! I know! We're all going to Pattaya!!!!!
I think it's better than that. Gavin is going to announce that he's related to Marc Andreessen, along with there's going to be a Conehead invasion.
August 17, 2012, 01:38:42 AM
There will be a government ruling on the legal status of bitcoin is my best guess.
August 17, 2012, 12:48:13 AM
I'm not gonna say what the announcement is....but I will say that you are all wrong and no one is even close lol (Well...some of you were kinda close)
-Charlie
You mentioned something once before I think, about a surprise that will change what people think the government thinks of bitcoins... so I'll guess its some sort of basis for bitcoin being protected legally -Charlie
Ok, I take it back. Your the closest. Nuff said, Im gonna get shot for saying this much.
August 17, 2012, 12:35:43 AM
So much fuss and some truly bizarre ideas.
I'm 91.3% sure it's just a formal announcement of multisig. Sure, we know about that coming and have for a while but he's talking about public announcement.
I think in terms of the general public multisig and the finance features that brings with it and the stability that should result from better security are all going to be big. Recall he says it should result in more "stability". So it's not going to be some far fetched of unheard of change.
I'm 91.3% sure it's just a formal announcement of multisig. Sure, we know about that coming and have for a while but he's talking about public announcement.
I think in terms of the general public multisig and the finance features that brings with it and the stability that should result from better security are all going to be big. Recall he says it should result in more "stability". So it's not going to be some far fetched of unheard of change.
August 17, 2012, 12:27:05 AM
Maybe it's related to his idea of a bitcoin foundation:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoin-foundation-49841
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoin-foundation-49841
August 17, 2012, 12:07:39 AM
You'd think a government would announce something like that. And any change in the law would require an act of congress or the supreme court...I doubt Uncle Sam is ever going to be happy about Bitcoin unless they can control it. Will we see a fork for UncleSamCoins? I doubt that too. Is Uncle Sam gonna allow banks to hold Bitcoin as currency for meeting reserve requirements? I doubt it.
But now I really am curious...
UncleSamCoins is never going to happen unless it is something like MintChip, but that's centralized. There will never be a P2P UncleSamCoins or MintChip. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, the blockchain and the basic rules and operation of the protocol are not going anywhere. There is now over $100 million in the blockchain and protocol. Any major rule changes from Gavin & Co. on Bitcoin.org will probably result in an almost instant forking and mass defection to another client with the current blockchain. It would surely cause chaos initially and would probably cause a big price drop, but it would happen.
August 16, 2012, 11:55:15 PM
the 51% attack is history.
August 16, 2012, 11:46:32 PM
Greece or some other sovereign nation is adopting Bitcoin as legal tender. Bitcoin will trade on FOREX.
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