Topic: Not another "Bitcoin needs your help" (Read 2387 times)

i have often looked at OT and really like but honestly could never really understand how it works..care to gimme some lessons about it ?
the OT thread was not very helpful...or can u sum up ina  few sentences what OT can acomplish ? especially in conjunktion with btc?

i would even pay u for it ^^  but I can sense this is something really great !

I posted that here on the forums and no one replied    But the thread had a shitload of views so I hope enough people found something interesting with what he wrote.

Andrew, great post.  You mentioned Fellow Traveler, and I would encourage everyone, regardless of whether or not you think Bitcoin is ready for prime time, to take a close look at his Open Transactions project (https://github.com/FellowTraveler/Open-Transactions).  This is the future of peer-to-peer electronic commerce, in my view.  There are a lot of pieces, like basket currencies and OT server pools, than can help overcome some of the limitations of Bitcoin.  I've supported Fellow Traveler in the past and will do so again in the future.  His Bitcoin address is in the LICENSE-AND-CREDITS.txt file, or contact him for other ways to contribute.

Read what Plato wrote recently - http://codepad.org/k0gRMK5W

You're not the only one =)  I'm not going anywhere. The spot price isn't much of a concern for me, though it always sucks to have my bitcoinica margin liquidated 

I am taking actions, I just didn't want to hijack your thread.    "Unofficial BTC: Making Bitcoins Profitable Again"

But wasn't bitcoin created to avoid maintaining accounts with a third party? If I have to have such an account I'd prefer to have such account with my bank as it is regulated and controlled by a central bank!

If you do realize that you have responsibility to take actions, you don't have to wait for someone... but it's true that you need to see people around you doing the same so you don't feel alone...

Personal example, it's only thing that works...

With an instawallet account and some btc

I love Bitcoin… I had a goose bumps when read its description… I foresee this technology to lead us into the new type of world. Where everything is global… no borders… true freedom. And I’m sure that I am not the only one feeling like this.

Attracting and guiding a talented group of individuals toward a specific, unifying goal requires a clear, well-defined vision and a passionate, well respected leader. It's a lot harder than it looks.

Attracting and guiding a talented group of individuals toward a specific, unifying goal requires a clear, well-defined vision and a passionate, well respected leader. It's a lot harder than it looks.

You are right. Bitcoin currently is not a sustainable payment system. Technically it has many flaws

Even if it DOES go up again do any of you guys think this is a sustainable economic system for the long run? (serious question)

Unfortunately, this is true. My sympathy is all with what you said, Andrew. I can perfectly understand you.

I have personally tried couple of times to organize some developers in teams but miserably failed. Once they understand the scope and essentials of the project everyone of them thought they can do it alone and score by themselves. However, I'm not so stupid to tell them every bit of detail. So, sooner or later they fail but I'm stuck too. The truth is all we are greedy selfish bastards.

A non for profit bitcoin foundation is a must. I personally see it as a second generation non for profit foundation, say, like the Apache Software Foundation.

It’s the main problem nowadays – everybody wants to score by himself.

TL;DR I pledge to donate $100 every month to Bitcoin foundation.

I love Bitcoin… I had a goose bumps when read its description… I foresee this technology to lead us into the new type of world. Where everything is global… no borders… true freedom. And I’m sure that I am not the only one feeling like this.

I thought that everybody in the world will embrace this technology overnight… I still don’t understand how people can pass by and don’t spot this diamond lying on the ground... More of it, I am so pissed off about all these venture funding assholes who pour billions of dollars into stupid startups but pass by Bitcoin like it’s some leper on the street…

I donated 20 BTC during my first day at forum to anyone who was writing interesting stuff about Bitcoin

Each of us must do his part of the work for Bitcoin to succeed

People like Satoshi Nakamoto, FellowTraveler, Gavin Andresen, Ryan Fugger, Jeff Garzik did select to invest their free time to support their projects… instead of spending more time with family or getting kick ass corporate job and earn $100K+ salaries.

 “United we stand divided we fall” is always forgotten.



But it is shit to see when people do debates if it is nice move by Gavin to open private ventures or not…  “Oh my God, he needs money… how he can possibly do it, what a shame, most amoral deed I’ve ever seen”. It’s shit to see when Gavin is telling that “many things would be much easier if there was a non-profit organization like the Tor Project to pay core  developers, testers, a PR person, pay for the Jenkins nightly build server, etc etc etc” and nobody pays any attention…



We, early adopters, should take care of core development team, like parents take care of their children.

I pledge to donate $100 every month to Bitcoin foundation.