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Topic: In which way bitcoin can change the future? (Read 4512 times)

legendary
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-Bitcoin could facilitate assasinations, which would likely make more people mind their own business and be polite.

Any kind of envy would immediately be deadly. ...

Also, "Dancing with the Stars" would have to be renamed to "Mark your next Target".

You say that like it's a bad thing.
member
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-Bitcoin could facilitate assasinations, which would likely make more people mind their own business and be polite.

Any kind of envy would immediately be deadly. Any kind of attention could potentially be lethal. We would thus walk towards a society where everything abnormal (no matter whether great or gruesome) could only be done anonymously, with everyone trying to appear as average as possible.

Also, "Dancing with the Stars" would have to be renamed to "Mark your next Target".
hero member
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Bitcoin wont change anything. It's shit.

Are you paid to do this shit? Or do you truly have no life?
sr. member
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Bitcoin wont change anything. It's shit.

The sublime art of trolling hits new heights
hero member
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discussing the nature of reality on a bitcoin forum probably isnt the best use of my time.

How can you be so sure when you don't understand the true nature of reality?

speak for yourself.

eh...? it was a question. I don't understand your response.
sr. member
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discussing the nature of reality on a bitcoin forum probably isnt the best use of my time.

How can you be so sure when you don't understand the true nature of reality?

speak for yourself.
hero member
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Merit: 500
Isn't it about time you guys get off the grandiose idea circlejerk and get to work actually making this dream come true?

"Grandiose idea circlejerks" are what gave birth to bitcoin. Don't stifle intellectual discourse, offer something constructive.
hero member
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discussing the nature of reality on a bitcoin forum probably isnt the best use of my time.

How can you be so sure when you don't understand the true nature of reality?
legendary
Activity: 1106
Merit: 1007
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Uh, these responses are so weird, I can't tell if they are sincere. Here's mine:

-Bitcoin can possibly destabilize the Dollar as the world reserve currency, although that is likely to happen anyway, but maybe later.

-Bitcoin may render many drug, prostitution and gambling laws unenforceable, thereby facilitating their abolition.

-Bitcoin could help facilitate a society without a central State. This starts with fostering competition between tax jurisdictions. 

-Bitcoin could facilitate assasinations, which would likely make more people mind their own business and be polite.

- Bitcoin could help the world economy grow dramatically by encouraging capital formation and increasing economic efficiency.

hero member
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Bitcoin will make governments and central banks and other banks honest. (Yea I know this is quite a stretch)

Assuming that governments can't stop bitcoin (not saying they can or can't), what is to stop them using bitcoin themselves, including for their black projects? Now, *that* would jack up the value!

The CIA has already shown some interest in this direction. So it's possible.
full member
Activity: 140
Merit: 100
Bitcoin will make governments and central banks and other banks honest. (Yea I know this is quite a stretch)

Assuming that governments can't stop bitcoin (not saying they can or can't), what is to stop them using bitcoin themselves, including for their black projects? Now, *that* would jack up the value!
full member
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Isn't it about time you guys get off the grandiose idea circlejerk and get to work actually making this dream come true?
hero member
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Mars will simply have to have its own independent block chain. Right now there's no way around it. Smiley
legendary
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Let the chips fall where they may.
Bitcoin will cause a huge split in the market, and possibly lead to a full-scale nuclear world war, when the Bitcoin block chain on the Mars colony permanently forks from the Earth one due to the 15 to 30 minute communication lag, leading to double-spending, loss of faith in the currency, and vastly increased tensions between two already strained political entities. Satoshi should've foreseen the 10 to 20 minute one-way radio transmission time issue when he designed Bitcoin, and made the block generation either take more time, or have built-in interplanetary redundancy.

This won't happen as described. If bicoin is not replaced with something more latency-tolerant, the Mars Colony would start their own blockchain with their own version number. The reason a split of the existing chain would not be attempted is that the longest blockchain wins. That implies the Mars fork would never be accepted.

Of course, exchanges supporting latency-tolerant transactions would be set up. A bigger problem, is what prevents the larger network from manipulating the smaller one?
legendary
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Cheap interplanetary travel achieved by lining the bottom/back of a ship with mining rigs, their heat exhaust ports pointing outwards. Travel while mining for bitcoin (fees)
sr. member
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thorium reactors, space elevator, and asteroids.
sr. member
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hawkings said that the civilization or person that donated most of the money to get this going would be the most generous in all of human history because it would be something they would never see again. ill try to find it as it is a really good movie if you are interested in that sort of thing.

Didn't understand "because it would be something they would never see again".. say again?

Yes, I am interested cheers.

Stephen Hawking's Universe is what it is. http://www.youtube.com/user/Gravitationalist#grid/user/E1FDD899F0F06549

that phrase can also mean 2 things, that it was because civilization has went as you said it would or it was because of capitalism, that we are so successful that it would not be much to spend.

It is also leaned more towards going to other star systems. So such a ship would be made after we are able to get about our own solar system is trivial. that would mean we would not be using ~10% of all the earths metal to make the ship
vip
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Is everyone too afraid to even mention the Jim Bell system?

I wonder if he has heard of bitcoins from inside Federal prison yet.
He is due to be released in March of 2012.
sr. member
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hawkings said that the civilization or person that donated most of the money to get this going would be the most generous in all of human history because it would be something they would never see again. ill try to find it as it is a really good movie if you are interested in that sort of thing.

Didn't understand "because it would be something they would never see again".. say again?

Yes, I am interested cheers.
sr. member
Activity: 350
Merit: 251
the planet to planet latency issue does not need to be resolved, just let them fork.

By the time we're seriously colonizing Mars, we'll probably have evolved beyond ownership.

hawkings said that the civilization or person that donated most of the money to get this going would be the most generous in all of human history because it would be something they would never see again. ill try to find it as it is a really good movie if you are interested in that sort of thing.
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