This world runs on EVIL,GREED and SELFISHNESS - page 3.

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Today we have a better option. Mining on P2Pool, you only have to trust your ability to keep your Bitcoins safe. An added bonus is that you are also helping decentralize the network.

Also the community, in general, needs to take responsibility for pools centralizing the network too much, if that's indeed the case, by pushing people away from solo mining.

And developers need to take responsibility, in particular, by removing the Coin Generation option from the Bitcoin client which probably did the most to drive the last nail in the coffin of a decentralized network.

I'm NOT saying P2Pool is a bad development, however, I still don't know what I should think about that yet.

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Quote from: farfiman on February 05, 2012, 02:16:11 PM

This thread was started because of this:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.731942

For those not interested or too lazy I'll summarize.

1) Ozcoin pool was hacked and funds stolen, graet(the owner) was pissed
2) I was pissed at everything today
3) Started thread.

My questions for starters:

1) was it always like this? or is it getting worse?
2) is there anything we can do or just toughen up and take it "like a man" ?

1. Its always been like this. If you are religiously minded, check your bible and see that Adam and Eve stole that apple.
2. You can focus on the fact that most people are decent and that the kindness of strangers far outweighs the bad stuff that happens. Be careful from now on but don't don't let it distort your attitude to people.

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Quote from: farfiman on February 05, 2012, 03:17:02 PM

So the answer is - we cant do anything - this is humane nature.

Kinda reminds me of the series "Terra Nova"

For those they dont know it:

The future world is in shambles, they find a wormhole to go back 65 million years.

"Lets send back the best people and start a new and better world!"

What happens is of course more of the same evil, greed and selfishness but with dinosaurs

Who's qualified to say who the best people are? If they could be identified, I think, the "best people" would create the same mess we now have over time, dinosaurs or not.

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Quote from: farfiman on February 05, 2012, 03:17:02 PM

So the answer is - we cant do anything - this is humane nature.

Hmm, quite the contrary. We can't do anything about others, for the most part. But we can accept responsibility for our part in the mess of this world and improve what we have control over, which is ourselves.
Sam

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So the answer is - we cant do anything - this is humane nature.

Kinda reminds me of the series "Terra Nova"

For those they dont know it:

The future world is in shambles, they find a wormhole to go back 65 million years.

"Lets send back the best people and start a new and better world!"

What happens is of course more of the same evil, greed and selfishness but with dinosaurs

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Quote from: farfiman on February 05, 2012, 02:26:12 PM

Quote from: bb113 on February 05, 2012, 02:20:05 PM

The thing to do is figure out what went wrong and prevent the same thing from happening in the future.

of course

but I'm talking about PEOPLE = this was done by PEOPLE.
The evil is all around us in every aspect of our lives. We have to be ON WATCH continually.
Personally , I'm tired of it.

Yes, we do, and I am tired of it as well. I have run into this at the corporate level with being laid off, and so I'm more than a little jaded at the moment. All we can do, individually, is to not act like those who take advantage of others.

We can't change the behavior of others, only ourselves.
Sam

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Greed is good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vscG3k91s58

What did the non English subtitles say?

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Quote from: farfiman on February 05, 2012, 02:16:11 PM

My questions for starters:

1) was it always like this? or is it getting worse?
2) is there anything we can do or just toughen up and take it "like a man" ?

1. Yes it was always like this. Looking back at history we see all types of evil. In our current society some things are getting better. Such as the internet allows us to interface with people we would otherwise never know or understand. But it is also getting worse because anyone can say or do anything now with little or no repercussions. So allot of us don't act as responsibly as we should.

2. I think we all should "toughen up and take it "like a man"". At the same time we should exercise a little more personal responsibility. In this information age we have allot of power that previous generations didn't have, but we don't always reflect how our words and actions effect those around (in the virtual sense) us. We should concentrate on more personal responsibility and raising up our fellow man and speaking as well of him as we can as apposed to trying to crush another line of reasoning.

Sam

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I take issue with the idea that "This world runs on EVIL,GREED and SELFISHNESS".

Yes there are allot people who definitely fit these categories, but, with the exception of actual and real Evil, these aren't completely bad qualities if not taken to extreme.

There are allot of selfless people in this world and we may out of jealousy or lack of self examination think these people fit one or more of the above categories.

So I think if we try to look objectively at ourselves and our motives, as well at our fellow man/woman/person we may see something different in them as well as ourselves.

Sam

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Quote from: bb113 on February 05, 2012, 02:20:05 PM

The thing to do is figure out what went wrong and prevent the same thing from happening in the future.

of course

but I'm talking about PEOPLE = this was done by PEOPLE.
The evil is all around us in every aspect of our lives. We have to be ON WATCH continually.
Personally , I'm tired of it.

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The thing to do is figure out what went wrong and prevent the same thing from happening in the future.

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This thread was started because of this:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.731942

For those not interested or too lazy I'll summarize.

1) Ozcoin pool was hacked and funds stolen, graet(the owner) was pissed
2) I was pissed at everything today
3) Started thread.

My questions for starters:

1) was it always like this? or is it getting worse?
2) is there anything we can do or just toughen up and take it "like a man" ?

edit: this is not about a hacked pool or even the bitcoin community as a whole although the goings on here
(hacks,scams etc..) have ignited the thread. just watch the news around the world or in your own community.
are the good people being overrun by the (hopefully) small amount of people that create the chaos?

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