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legendary
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June 14, 2014, 05:04:26 PM
#46
The scarcity model for currency is what creates, war, poverty, income inequality.

Wars last only a few months when limited money is used. When the government pumps out unlimited money wars go for years.

Poverty and income inequality is produced when inflated currencies are first given to the haves who then pass the inflation onto the have nots.

Or when deflationary currency's are hoarded by the rich making the cost of debts unbearable. Credit and debt are 2 sides of the same coin. Its the same thing seen from different prospective. 

The dollar punishes currency savers and rewards currency borrowers
Bitcoin rewards currency savers and punishes borrowers

Inflation and deflation are both theft the only thing that changes is who is being robbed.


There's no perfect system.

Interest rates are built into fiat loans to try to make the deal more fair.
Negative interest rates could perhaps be used in bitcoin loans in the future in the same way.

No one's forcing anyone to take a loan or not take a loan.


legendary
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June 14, 2014, 02:47:39 PM
#45
The scarcity model for currency is what creates, war, poverty, income inequality.

Wars last only a few months when limited money is used. When the government pumps out unlimited money wars go for years.

Poverty and income inequality is produced when inflated currencies are first given to the haves who then pass the inflation onto the have nots.

Or when deflationary currency's are hoarded by the rich making the cost of debts unbearable. Credit and debt are 2 sides of the same coin. Its the same thing seen from different prospective. 

The dollar punishes currency savers and rewards currency borrowers
Bitcoin rewards currency savers and punishes borrowers

Inflation and deflation are both theft the only thing that changes is who is being robbed.
legendary
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June 14, 2014, 02:27:00 PM
#44
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Honesty is getting what you payed for....

They say they stupidest shit...
Bitcoin is just like the DOLLAR!

Do honest people hang around in forums where they openly despise the primary community topic and most of the people?

Yeah not much of a speller.

I dont despise bitcoin. It is just a distraction on the road to a new sustainable currency model.  I actually love the bitcoin protocol and I love the blockchain innovation, but the coin itself is garbage for anything other than blackmarket transactions (which is great) and speculation (which is lousy).

The guys in this forum are the people who matter in the world of digital currency. I need to work with you, but first we have to admit that bitcoin doesnt work right and isnt an honest form of money. Then we can look at how to fix it, I dont expect you to be onboard you have a financial interest in seeing bitcoin gain wider adoption.

I am looking for the people who are not selfish trolls only interested in their own financial gain. I am looking for people who want to promote freedom, who want to return the money power to producers, who want to leave the world a better place than they found it, and who want to change the power dynamic, not by replacing it with another top down, centralized, controlled, and manipulated currency like bitcoin, but by working in cooperation with other productive people. The people who create the wealth in the first place.

Just a bunch or wall street wannabees involved in bitcoin.    

Ways bitcoin is like the dollar

Centrally controlled, price is manipulated, neither have a socially objective standard (no standard), you cant say what either is equal to, and both derive their value from being scarce. 

Whats different?   
legendary
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June 14, 2014, 01:05:54 PM
#43
The scarcity model for currency is what creates, war, poverty, income inequality.

Wars last only a few months when limited money is used. When the government pumps out unlimited money wars go for years.

Poverty and income inequality is produced when inflated currencies are first given to the haves who then pass the inflation onto the have nots.
legendary
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June 13, 2014, 10:58:10 PM
#42
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Honesty is getting what you payed for....

They say they stupidest shit...
Bitcoin is just like the DOLLAR!

Do honest people hang around in forums where they openly despise the primary community topic and most of the people?
legendary
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Beyond Imagination
June 13, 2014, 04:48:30 PM
#41
You don't need to have a doctor's degree to understand money, you don't need to care about M0, M3, GDP, CPI, etc..., just the most simple rule of fair trading: If someone created money out of nothing, are you willing to exchange your goods/services in exchange for this money? I guess the answer is usually a NO

However, if you are a commercial bank, and you know that central bank created money out of nothing, if you could successfully pass those money to general public who don't understand what happened behind the scene, your answer might be YES
legendary
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June 13, 2014, 04:01:14 PM
#40
OP, please wake up from the slavery dream(Bankers print money and your work), and enjoy the beautiful honest money bitcoin

There are 2 major problems in the traditional money concept:


1. Do we really need price stability?

We all know that value is decided by supply and demand together, and that changes constantly. If the value is changing constantly, why should the price keep constant?


2. Who get the ownership of newly created money

Money is just like any other commodity, should be produced by labor in itself, in order to make the trading fair. If someone created money without doing anything and use that to exchange other's goods/services, what is the reason that others will allow this kind of robery happen?


So, a good money does not create price stability, its value fluctuates, this is due to the fact that the market demand for money is constantly changing. And, a good money must be created by work (have cost close to its face value), to make sure it is always a fair trade when someone sell their goods/services for the money


Honest and bitcoin shouldnt go next to one another like that. I dont expect to convince the bitcoin zealots and those with large bitcoin holdings. They say they stupidest shit.

Honesty is getting what you payed for. No more no less, your view point of money is the slavery model. The scarcity model for currency is what creates, war, poverty, income inequality. Bitcoin is just like the DOLLAR!  

http://peacefreedomprosperity.com/7776/inability-bitcoin-serve-rational-economic-calculation/
  
legendary
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Beyond Imagination
June 13, 2014, 03:45:21 PM
#39
OP, please wake up from the slavery dream(Bankers print money and your work), and enjoy the beautiful honest money bitcoin

There are 2 major problems in the traditional money concept:


1. Do we really need price stability?

We all know that value is decided by supply and demand together, and that changes constantly. If the value is changing constantly, why should the price keep constant?


2. Who get the ownership of newly created money

Money is just like any other commodity, should be produced by labor in itself, in order to make the trading fair. If someone created money without doing anything and use that to exchange other's goods/services, what is the reason that others will allow this kind of robery happen?


So, a good money does not create price stability, its value fluctuates, this is due to the fact that the market demand for money is constantly changing. And, a good money must be created by work (have cost close to its face value), to make sure it is always a fair trade when someone sell their goods/services for the money
legendary
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June 13, 2014, 02:47:17 AM
#38
Keynes was such a great guy. If only his theories were taught in our schools and his theories touted by economists and government agencies.

Even Keynes saw the irony in this quote?
“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”  ~John Maynard Keynes
legendary
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June 13, 2014, 01:21:45 AM
#37
Keynes was such a great guy. If only his theories were taught in our schools and his theories touted by economists and government agencies.
legendary
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June 12, 2014, 09:16:50 PM
#36
First of all, I'd just like to state that any model that isn't based off scarcity is a fantasy because reality itself provides multiple limits on us. The only limitless dimension we can ever hope to experience in our lifetimes is our imaginations. The most simple illustration of this is time, in which we all have a limited amount and since all of our lives are built upon a limited and scarce amount of time, we can never hope to build something that is limitless on top of it. Logically, it makes no sense.

However, I'd like to address this abundance model specifically:

The Abundance Model. A promise of something specific from someone specific made valuable by its redemption in real production. The value of this type of money is defined by the promised redemption in goods and/or services. As such, this type of money is promises of an indefinite number of non-uniform commodities in indefinite supply and, unlike the limited quantity "coin" concept of money, the total quantity of these credits in circulation does not affect their value, because the value of a credit is defined by what its issuer will redeem it for in real goods and/or services. Examples are: business-to-business barter credits, customer rewards, travel points, discount coupons, mutual credit systems."

In this system, there is scarcity as well, namely the specific person and the specific good or service. For example, if 100 people have promises that a local carpenter will build a porch for them and that person dies, all those people who have this promise now have a worthless promise because that person will never be able to fulfill their promise. The main abundance in this model would be the amount of people defaulting on their promises.

Abundance is an illusion, scarcity cannot be escaped. The sooner it's accepted, the more practical solutions that can be devised based off of reality.



Right but people wouldnt trust coins issued from individuals in their 90's with no employees and if they did they would expect a risk premium.

The number of credits in the market place would be limited by the actual ability to redeem those credits. So reality would set the limit not some arbitrary amount of metal or number pulled out of the air.

Hopefully you're aware of the fact that people in their teens, 20's and all ages die unexpectedly or are injured in such a way that they can no longer provide goods or services. The truth is, the inability to service credit would happen all the time in a massive 'abundance' economy, so there would be risk in virtually every single transaction as they are all based on promises of future production. The future, by nature, is unpredictable and full of risk.

This risk is completely eliminated when value is cleared at the moment of transaction as in botcoin rather than a future date as in the abundance model.

Another massive problem with this model is the fact that issues of credit aren't really divisible, which will make liquidity a real problem given that people have a much harder time finding equal value transactions. For example, how does a bread maker trade for a car? Would they be able to give an auto company enough bread vouchers to get the car? Or would they have to trade airline miles, food vouchers, accounting services, and other issues of credit they have amassed through their bread making company just to make it an even deal? Even then, will an auto dealer accept a hodgepodge of credit issued from various producers and vendors that it may never deal with directly?

Or would it be better just to have a standardized transfer of value organizations can choose to accept or reject?

I feel like you're not really thinking the model through very much in terms of practicality.

http://www.moneyasdebt.net/  read the whole proposal.. your concerns are addressed
newbie
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June 12, 2014, 08:21:22 PM
#35
First of all, I'd just like to state that any model that isn't based off scarcity is a fantasy because reality itself provides multiple limits on us. The only limitless dimension we can ever hope to experience in our lifetimes is our imaginations. The most simple illustration of this is time, in which we all have a limited amount and since all of our lives are built upon a limited and scarce amount of time, we can never hope to build something that is limitless on top of it. Logically, it makes no sense.

However, I'd like to address this abundance model specifically:

The Abundance Model. A promise of something specific from someone specific made valuable by its redemption in real production. The value of this type of money is defined by the promised redemption in goods and/or services. As such, this type of money is promises of an indefinite number of non-uniform commodities in indefinite supply and, unlike the limited quantity "coin" concept of money, the total quantity of these credits in circulation does not affect their value, because the value of a credit is defined by what its issuer will redeem it for in real goods and/or services. Examples are: business-to-business barter credits, customer rewards, travel points, discount coupons, mutual credit systems."

In this system, there is scarcity as well, namely the specific person and the specific good or service. For example, if 100 people have promises that a local carpenter will build a porch for them and that person dies, all those people who have this promise now have a worthless promise because that person will never be able to fulfill their promise. The main abundance in this model would be the amount of people defaulting on their promises.

Abundance is an illusion, scarcity cannot be escaped. The sooner it's accepted, the more practical solutions that can be devised based off of reality.



Right but people wouldnt trust coins issued from individuals in their 90's with no employees and if they did they would expect a risk premium.

The number of credits in the market place would be limited by the actual ability to redeem those credits. So reality would set the limit not some arbitrary amount of metal or number pulled out of the air.

Hopefully you're aware of the fact that people in their teens, 20's and all ages die unexpectedly or are injured in such a way that they can no longer provide goods or services. The truth is, the inability to service credit would happen all the time in a massive 'abundance' economy, so there would be risk in virtually every single transaction as they are all based on promises of future production. The future, by nature, is unpredictable and full of risk.

This risk is completely eliminated when value is cleared at the moment of transaction as in botcoin rather than a future date as in the abundance model.

Another massive problem with this model is the fact that issues of credit aren't really divisible, which will make liquidity a real problem given that people have a much harder time finding equal value transactions. For example, how does a bread maker trade for a car? Would they be able to give an auto company enough bread vouchers to get the car? Or would they have to trade airline miles, food vouchers, accounting services, and other issues of credit they have amassed through their bread making company just to make it an even deal? Even then, will an auto dealer accept a hodgepodge of credit issued from various producers and vendors that it may never deal with directly?

Or would it be better just to have a standardized transfer of value organizations can choose to accept or reject?

I feel like you're not really thinking the model through very much in terms of practicality.
legendary
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June 12, 2014, 07:28:31 PM
#34
As far as using electricity, it won't be long before it reaches the limit and can't be mined any longer, hence no more use of electicity

what the heck are you blathering about

Mining never stops. Once rewards stop, ppl will mine for fees
legendary
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June 12, 2014, 07:26:51 PM
#33
As far as using electricity, it won't be long before it reaches the limit and can't be mined any longer, hence no more use of electicity

what the heck are you blathering about
newbie
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June 12, 2014, 06:53:20 PM
#32
As far as using electricity, it won't be long before it reaches the limit and can't be mined any longer, hence no more use of electicity
legendary
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June 12, 2014, 04:33:57 PM
#31
Do you like the willy report? http://willyreport.wordpress.com/


The Willy report is/was a fascinating look at major fraud. The crime helps remind us how desirable Bitcoins are. That demonstrated BTC value justifies the cost of production and network security.



Do you like the price instability?

Yes I certainly do.  Smiley

 Roll Eyes
legendary
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June 12, 2014, 04:09:46 PM
#30
You should put all of your money into Euros right now.

With negative interest rates you will be able to enjoy some great inflation.
legendary
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June 12, 2014, 03:08:02 PM
#29
Gold as a currency for thousands of years and then being usurped by an oppressive government is a great indication that the scarcity model does not work for money.

Gold is not problem...government is


I read that book. Murray Rothbard "What has government done to our money" he is mostly wrong. I would rather deal with gold manipulation than the governments manipulation, but that was written in an era where those where the only two options. That isnt the world we are living in.
   

Yes, now we have alternative in form of cryptos. I just hope they survive long enough.
legendary
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June 12, 2014, 03:05:25 PM
#28
Do you like the willy report? http://willyreport.wordpress.com/


The Willy report is/was a fascinating look at major fraud. The crime helps remind us how desirable Bitcoins are. That demonstrated BTC value justifies the cost of production and network security.



Do you like the price instability?

Yes I certainly do.  Smiley
legendary
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June 12, 2014, 03:02:02 PM
#27
The value of my money goes up or remains constant over time = scarcity is bad... that argument makes no sense to me.

That is not the argument.. Money that's value stays constant is exactly what I am after. It is money who's value changes that is immoral. Deflation airy currencies rob from borrowers inflationary currencies rob from savers, both are bad. Honest money maintains its purchasing power, it doesnt increase or decrease. 

value stays in constant in relation to what?

In relation to a socially objective standard, the rodgers commodity index has been suggest. 

there's probably a reason why shares of index funds aren't used as money, but I don't know what that would be.
Probably because few people are concerned about it.
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