Bitcoin Project will be making a major announcement in September - page 9.

thebaron

sr. member

Activity: 434

Merit: 250

Quote from: cbeast on September 04, 2012, 11:27:17 AM

Quote from: ?? on ??

Quote from: Giulio Prisco on September 04, 2012, 06:39:39 AM

A great announcement would be that McDonalds will accept BTC worldwide. I cannot imagine anything more disruptive than allowing everyone on the planet to buy food with BTC earned by doing microtasks online.

McDonalds sells food?

McFlurries should be on Silk Road.

Rolls instead of Rolo's?

ildubbioso

sr. member

Activity: 389

Merit: 250

is this one? Undecided

I hope not (US State Representative adopts Bitcoin donation system): http://www.finextra.com/news/Fullstory.aspx?newsitemid=24030

cbeast

donator

Activity: 1736

Merit: 1010

Let's talk governance, lipstick, and pigs.

Quote from: ?? on ??

Quote from: Giulio Prisco on September 04, 2012, 06:39:39 AM

A great announcement would be that McDonalds will accept BTC worldwide. I cannot imagine anything more disruptive than allowing everyone on the planet to buy food with BTC earned by doing microtasks online.

McDonalds sells food?

McFlurries should be on Silk Road.

interlagos

hero member

Activity: 496

Merit: 500

Quote from: paraipan on September 03, 2012, 10:17:48 PM

Quote from: drakahn on August 16, 2012, 10:21:08 PM

Quote from: bg002h on August 16, 2012, 10:16:51 PM

...

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...

... I assume it'd just be "Bitcoins are seen as X" and from then on Bitcoins would have the existing laws of X

It would be great

I'm not sure that recognizing bitcoins as X is such a great idea. One of the strong points of Bitcoin is that bitcoins themselves don't actually exist! All that does exist is a transaction record (cryptographically signed message) that says address A now owns Y bitcoins, but it doesn't say what they are or where they are stored.

That's why it was deemed hard to put Bitcoin into any existing legal framework and thus put pressure on it.
It would be interesting to see how bitcoins are defined from legal point of view.

Giulio Prisco

full member

Activity: 173

Merit: 101

A great announcement would be that McDonalds will accept BTC worldwide. I cannot imagine anything more disruptive than allowing everyone on the planet to buy food with BTC earned by doing microtasks online.

labestiol

sr. member

Activity: 434

Merit: 251

Quote from: dishwara on September 04, 2012, 06:04:54 AM

Major announcement will be "Bitcoin is scam"?
The scamming by pirateat40 & now the diablo GLBSE problem forces to think that everything is scam

HostFat

staff

Activity: 4256

Merit: 1208

I support freedom of choice

I would like that the announcement is that Ryanair is starting to accept them, it would be really cool

dishwara

legendary

Activity: 1855

Merit: 1016

Major announcement will be "Bitcoin is scam"?
The scamming by pirateat40 & now the diablo GLBSE problem forces to think that everything is scam

Technomage

legendary

Activity: 2184

Merit: 1056

Affordable Physical Bitcoins - Denarium.com

Quote from: unclescrooge on September 04, 2012, 04:07:20 AM

Can we at least have the date of the announcement?

+1

It's frustrating to be so out of the loop in a community based open source project. Giving us the date would help alleviate the situation.

unclescrooge

hero member

Activity: 868

Merit: 1000

Can we at least have the date of the announcement?

triox

newbie

Activity: 19

Merit: 0

Quote from: enmaku on September 04, 2012, 02:15:15 AM

Charlie: No, this is not it. What he's announcing is an announcement, not... Well, I don't wanna say any more.

Your question was in relation to the Bitinstant Card.
Charlie's answer would indicate to me that the announcement is not about any product, service or feature, but is more 'meta' - something about the Project itself.
Perhaps they secured some funding and are changing the structuring of the Project (Foundation? INC?). Maybe a reveal of Satoshi's identity (huge mistake IMO).

repentance

hero member

Activity: 868

Merit: 1000

Why the delay in making the announcement if whatever it's about is already certain (and if it's not certain, the why hype it up with a pre-announcement)?

enmaku

hero member

Activity: 742

Merit: 500

Quote from: drakahn on September 03, 2012, 10:04:57 PM

Its already been leaked before lol, I pointed that out pages ago

I got the chance to ask Charlie in person and all I could get from him was:

Quote

Me: So a little while ago, Gavin said that there was a big announcement coming up in September. Any chance this is it?

Charlie: No, this is not it. What he's announcing is an announcement, not... Well, I don't wanna say any more.

Me: Fair enough, didn't expect you to go on-record with it if you knew.

Charlie: No, he would kill me if I said anything. He was just here recently. He would kill me.

Bitcoin Oz

hero member

Activity: 686

Merit: 500

Wat

Its possibly related to Gavin visiting the CIA.

HorseRider

donator

Activity: 1120

Merit: 1001

the bitcoin will be build into linux?

freetx

newbie

Activity: 48

Merit: 0

Quote from: drakahn on September 03, 2012, 10:04:57 PM

Its already been leaked before lol, I pointed that out pages ago

I certainly hope its not something like: Govt X will recognize BTC as a currency.

If that happens, its game over.....

paraipan

legendary

Activity: 924

Merit: 1004

Firstbits: 1pirata

Quote from: drakahn on September 03, 2012, 10:04:57 PM

Its already been leaked before lol, I pointed that out pages ago

You mean this?

Quote from: drakahn on August 16, 2012, 10:21:08 PM

Quote from: bg002h on August 16, 2012, 10:16:51 PM

Quote from: Yankee (BitInstant) on August 16, 2012, 09:24:24 PM

Quote from: drakahn on August 16, 2012, 09:20:41 PM

Quote from: Yankee (BitInstant) on August 16, 2012, 09:08:09 PM

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

Ok, I take it back. Your the closest. Nuff said, Im gonna get shot for saying this much.

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...

... I assume it'd just be "Bitcoins are seen as X" and from then on Bitcoins would have the existing laws of X

It would be great

drakahn

hero member

Activity: 504

Merit: 500

Its already been leaked before lol, I pointed that out pages ago

ErebusBat

hero member

Activity: 560

Merit: 500

I am the one who knocks

Quote from: Yankee (BitInstant) on September 03, 2012, 09:56:37 PM

Quote from: repentance on September 03, 2012, 09:48:25 PM

Quote from: MatthewLM on September 03, 2012, 01:04:19 PM

I don't understand what the wait is for. Is there some special event for it or something? Doesn't make much sense to me personally.

Hopefully they're not going to planning to announce it at the London Conference. The devs specifically chose to disconnect the forums from the Bitcoin Project in an attempt to keep the Project itself neutral and professional. They can't maintain any appearance of neutrality if they make major announcements at an event being organised by shonky operators whose behaviour calls Bitcoin into disrepute.

No.

SO do you know what it is then Charlie? I though you said you didn't, but you are acting like you do?

Elwar

legendary

Activity: 3598

Merit: 2386

Viva Ut Vivas

September annoucement:

Bitcoin IPO!

Topic: Bitcoin Project will be making a major announcement in September - page 9. (Read 53379 times)