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[If tx limit is removed] Disturbingly low future difficulty equilibrium Bitcoin Discussion
@Vandroiy suggests that proof-of-stake may be part of the solution and I think h…
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n/a | cunicula | July 18, 2011, 10:59:35 PM |
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[If tx limit is removed] Disturbingly low future difficulty equilibrium Bitcoin Discussion
Work is already in progress on allowing bitcoins to be encumbered until a certai…
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n/a | cunicula | July 18, 2011, 10:50:58 PM |
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[If tx limit is removed] Disturbingly low future difficulty equilibrium Bitcoin Discussion
@Vandroiy suggests that proof-of-stake may be part of the solution and I think h…
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n/a | cunicula | July 18, 2011, 10:20:16 PM |
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[If tx limit is removed] Disturbingly low future difficulty equilibrium Bitcoin Discussion
I like an idea where EVERYONE mines to ensure EVERYONE has secure transactions.…
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n/a | cunicula | July 18, 2011, 08:21:27 PM |
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Forking the Blockchain for Bonds (25 BTC Bounty) Development & Technical Discussion
I'm surprised the OP hasn't heard of Open Transactions.https://github.com/Fellow…
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n/a | cunicula | July 18, 2011, 10:35:13 AM |
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[If tx limit is removed] Disturbingly low future difficulty equilibrium Bitcoin Discussion
Economics professor who sees a serious problem here. I have a background in ind…
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n/a | cunicula | July 18, 2011, 10:22:15 AM |
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Isnt it a fatal flaw that bitcoin can be manipulated by someone with 51% of MHs Bitcoin Discussion
If iwas the malicious attacker i think i would rent rather than buy the attackin…
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n/a | cunicula | July 18, 2011, 09:44:51 AM |
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will bitcoin become less secure over time? Bitcoin Discussion
Main point is that network security is designed to decrease over time to near ze…
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n/a | cunicula | July 18, 2011, 08:25:47 AM |
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will bitcoin become less secure over time? Bitcoin Discussion
Suffolk bank is irrelevant. Of course a monopoly transaction verifier has an inc…
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n/a | cunicula | July 18, 2011, 07:19:44 AM |
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will bitcoin become less secure over time? Bitcoin Discussion
Suffolk bank is irrelevant. Of course a monopoly transaction verifier has an inc…
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n/a | cunicula | July 18, 2011, 06:49:48 AM |
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will bitcoin become less secure over time? Bitcoin Discussion
Where does the fund come from to pay for the clusters in case of attack? Volunta…
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n/a | cunicula | July 18, 2011, 05:49:21 AM |
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will bitcoin become less secure over time? Bitcoin Discussion
Security is a canonical example of a public good. You need to have a serious ana…
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n/a | cunicula | July 18, 2011, 05:45:55 AM |
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will bitcoin become less secure over time? Bitcoin Discussion
You are basically saying that competition is a tragedy of the commons, which is…
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n/a | cunicula | July 18, 2011, 05:44:04 AM |
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will bitcoin become less secure over time? Bitcoin Discussion
I'm still thinking about this, but I'm sceptical that there will be a functional…
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n/a | cunicula | July 18, 2011, 05:30:39 AM |
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will bitcoin become less secure over time? Bitcoin Discussion
3. What you are proposing is already posibleThe "solution" to the no-problem is…
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n/a | cunicula | July 18, 2011, 05:12:34 AM |
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will bitcoin become less secure over time? Bitcoin Discussion
It's a mess, but if you take some time to think about it, it becomes clear that…
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n/a | cunicula | July 18, 2011, 05:05:53 AM |
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will bitcoin become less secure over time? Bitcoin Discussion
1. You are ignoring initial investment.It might not be profitable to buy more ha…
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n/a | cunicula | July 18, 2011, 05:04:06 AM |
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will bitcoin become less secure over time? Bitcoin Discussion
The current level of permanent hashing power is probably unsustainable in the lo…
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n/a | cunicula | July 18, 2011, 04:41:37 AM |
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Forking the Blockchain for Bonds (25 BTC Bounty) Development & Technical Discussion
A "Fork" in the traditional sense won't work: it is all or nothing. The clients…
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n/a | cunicula | July 18, 2011, 01:36:23 AM |
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will bitcoin become less secure over time? Bitcoin Discussion
Assume the following:1) profits from attacking network are a fixed fraction of b…
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n/a | cunicula | July 17, 2011, 08:45:27 PM |
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will bitcoin become less secure over time? Bitcoin Discussion
But what we have to do right now? The only way which I see is equalization of p…
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n/a | cunicula | July 17, 2011, 09:35:58 PM |
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will bitcoin become less secure over time? Bitcoin Discussion
The solution is simple, integrate gpu mining directly into the client, that woul…
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n/a | cunicula | July 17, 2011, 11:24:00 PM |
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Isnt it a fatal flaw that bitcoin can be manipulated by someone with 51% of MHs Bitcoin Discussion
If iwas the malicious attacker i think i would rent rather than buy the attackin…
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n/a | cunicula | July 17, 2011, 09:16:48 PM |
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Proposal: Idea for a much more stable bitcoin Economics
Actually I love the idea of delayed rewards for miners. Of course these are also…
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n/a | cunicula | July 17, 2011, 11:11:15 AM |
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Proposal: Idea for a much more stable bitcoin Economics
I think the tax is highly desirable. As with bitcoin why would anyone want to ac…
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n/a | cunicula | July 17, 2011, 09:06:08 AM |
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Forking the Blockchain for Bonds (25 BTC Bounty) Development & Technical Discussion
I'm worried that the bitcoin community will take an extremely rigid approach and…
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n/a | cunicula | July 17, 2011, 01:18:32 AM |
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Forking the Blockchain for Bonds (25 BTC Bounty) Development & Technical Discussion
Mostly, loans require trust outside the system. You give someone the loan and i…
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n/a | cunicula | July 17, 2011, 01:11:32 AM |
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Targeted Deflation Rate Bitcoin Discussion
Different from the FED in that the goal would be to achieve deflation of around…
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n/a | cunicula | July 17, 2011, 01:05:37 AM |
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Targeted Deflation Rate Bitcoin Discussion
To clarify: the problem is inflationary risk faced by merchants who receive paym…
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n/a | cunicula | July 17, 2011, 12:33:18 AM |
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Targeted Deflation Rate Bitcoin Discussion
What problem are you trying to solve?Bitcoin not being enough like Federal Reser…
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n/a | cunicula | July 17, 2011, 12:19:42 AM |
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Targeted Deflation Rate Bitcoin Discussion
Also, how do you decide which price inflation indicator to use? What we call pri…
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n/a | cunicula | July 17, 2011, 12:10:05 AM |
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Targeted Deflation Rate Bitcoin Discussion
To clarify: the problem is inflationary risk faced by merchants who receive paym…
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n/a | cunicula | July 16, 2011, 08:55:12 PM |
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Targeted Deflation Rate Bitcoin Discussion
@patYou are giving miners a huge amount of power in your system. Do they have go…
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n/a | cunicula | July 16, 2011, 08:45:27 PM |
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Targeted Deflation Rate Bitcoin Discussion
To clarify: the problem is inflationary risk faced by merchants who receive paym…
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n/a | cunicula | July 16, 2011, 08:15:27 PM |
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Targeted Deflation Rate Bitcoin Discussion
What problem are you trying to solve?+1Also, how do you decide which price infla…
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n/a | cunicula | July 16, 2011, 07:27:25 PM |
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Why 6 blocks per hour? Bitcoin Discussion
Fixed exchange rate systems are susceptible to speculative attacks and currency…
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n/a | cunicula | July 16, 2011, 07:19:50 AM |
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Forking the Blockchain for Bonds (25 BTC Bounty) Development & Technical Discussion
Well get it down in code and when all the features you want are in the code we c…
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n/a | cunicula | July 16, 2011, 07:00:14 AM |
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Using short-run coin generation rules to dampen exchange rate volatility Bitcoin Discussion
What formula would you propose to achieve this? To be implemented, it would have…
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n/a | cunicula | July 16, 2011, 05:45:51 AM |
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Using short-run coin generation rules to dampen exchange rate volatility Bitcoin Discussion
I wanted to start a post for brainstorming about the currency generation rate.Ba…
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n/a | cunicula | July 15, 2011, 11:21:10 AM |
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Why 6 blocks per hour? Bitcoin Discussion
Same title, but the topic is actually completely different. I will change the ti…
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n/a | cunicula | July 16, 2011, 05:13:23 AM |
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Forking the Blockchain for Bonds (25 BTC Bounty) Development & Technical Discussion
By forking, do you mean everyone who owned coins prior to the fork owns coins in…
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n/a | cunicula | July 16, 2011, 05:10:56 AM |
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Forking the Blockchain for Bonds (25 BTC Bounty) Development & Technical Discussion
Include the "same kinds of constraints" on processing speed then. Where is the p…
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n/a | cunicula | July 16, 2011, 03:59:02 AM |
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Proposal: Idea for a much more stable bitcoin Economics
The objection to the transaction tax is that it would decrease the value of bitc…
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n/a | cunicula | July 16, 2011, 01:48:32 AM |
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Forking the Blockchain for Bonds (25 BTC Bounty) Development & Technical Discussion
I think both methods suggested open the door for fraud.Can you develop?It compli…
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n/a | cunicula | July 16, 2011, 01:40:49 AM |
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Targeted Deflation Rate Bitcoin Discussion
Limiting deflation is easy-simply issue more coins. Limiting inflation is harder…
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n/a | cunicula | July 16, 2011, 01:32:35 AM |
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BitCoin Use #1105: Ridding the Community of Unwanted Members Bitcoin Discussion
If you can identify breaches, e.g. people can't assume new identities and enter…
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n/a | cunicula | July 15, 2011, 11:09:38 PM |
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Proposal: Idea for a much more stable bitcoin Economics
Such a proposal would be subject to manipulation, which disqualifies it for cons…
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n/a | cunicula | July 15, 2011, 11:01:11 PM |
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Why 6 blocks per hour? Bitcoin Discussion
On the surface this sounds like a good idea. But then how would it work in term…
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n/a | cunicula | July 15, 2011, 09:28:43 PM |
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Why 6 blocks per hour? Bitcoin Discussion
Some of the alternate chains have been discussing a concept they call "reputable…
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n/a | cunicula | July 15, 2011, 10:01:34 PM |
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Why 6 blocks per hour? Bitcoin Discussion
From what I've read from the whitepaper, 1 block every ten minutes was selected…
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n/a | cunicula | July 15, 2011, 09:06:45 PM |
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Forking the Blockchain for Bonds (25 BTC Bounty) Development & Technical Discussion
Freequent'+, I like your idea, but I have two questions that concern me.What rew…
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n/a | cunicula | July 15, 2011, 09:12:34 AM |
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The Creator vs. Evolutionary Innovation Bitcoin Discussion
Who is this "entity" that refuses to change and worships "the creator"? A few cr…
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n/a | cunicula | July 15, 2011, 02:14:45 AM |
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The Creator vs. Evolutionary Innovation Bitcoin Discussion
i) That's the bootstrapping problem that any new currency will have, and I think…
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n/a | cunicula | July 15, 2011, 02:08:55 AM |
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The Creator vs. Evolutionary Innovation Bitcoin Discussion
Yes, but afaik this system has never been tested. If the system is effective tha…
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n/a | cunicula | July 15, 2011, 01:45:26 AM |
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The Creator vs. Evolutionary Innovation Bitcoin Discussion
Yes, but afaik this system has never been tested. If the system is effective tha…
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n/a | cunicula | July 15, 2011, 01:30:19 AM |
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The Creator vs. Evolutionary Innovation Bitcoin Discussion
the c) is arbitrarily integrated into protocol. we cast our votes by deciding wh…
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n/a | cunicula | July 15, 2011, 12:32:44 AM |
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The Creator vs. Evolutionary Innovation Bitcoin Discussion
I don't believe in the long-term survival of an entity that refuses to change wi…
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n/a | cunicula | July 14, 2011, 11:53:23 PM |
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Forking the Blockchain for Bonds (25 BTC Bounty) Development & Technical Discussion
Bonds pay positive real interest even with 0% risk. Bonds are difficult to spend…
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n/a | cunicula | July 14, 2011, 09:55:53 AM |
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Forking the Blockchain for Bonds (25 BTC Bounty) Development & Technical Discussion
Make each block a mixture of 50 coins of different maturities. (e.g. 25% reg coi…
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n/a | cunicula | July 14, 2011, 08:00:10 AM |
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Forking the Blockchain for Bonds (25 BTC Bounty) Development & Technical Discussion
Average difficulty for all maturities would be pegged to hold the total number o…
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n/a | cunicula | July 14, 2011, 02:10:03 AM |
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Forking the Blockchain for Bonds (25 BTC Bounty) Development & Technical Discussion
The buyer and seller have different inflationary expectations. In the bitcoin e…
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n/a | cunicula | July 14, 2011, 01:59:05 AM |
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Forking the Blockchain for Bonds (25 BTC Bounty) Development & Technical Discussion
Some helpful points.The blockchain is the bond issuer (just as in mining). Priva…
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n/a | cunicula | July 14, 2011, 01:45:34 AM |
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Forking the Blockchain for Bonds (25 BTC Bounty) Development & Technical Discussion
Her idea could require holding a reserve of bitcoin assets. For example she migh…
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n/a | cunicula | July 13, 2011, 07:47:20 PM |
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Securing contingent claims Development & Technical Discussion
I didn't read all the post in your article so I might have missed something but…
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n/a | cunicula | July 13, 2011, 11:08:28 AM |
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New release of MultiCoin client a branch of the BitCoin client Project Development
Hi, if you are considering alternate cryptocurrencies, you might be interested i…
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n/a | cunicula | July 13, 2011, 05:22:20 AM |
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Do you think there will be a clone of bitcoin? and corporation will do what? Bitcoin Discussion
In my opinion, introduction of innovations through cloning is the number one thr…
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n/a | cunicula | July 12, 2011, 09:07:44 AM |
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good post system Meta
upvoting is a really good idea. However, I think it would be better to allow wei…
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n/a | cunicula | July 12, 2011, 05:11:21 AM |
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good post system Meta
I really dislike the idea of showing scores that are universal across the board,…
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n/a | cunicula | July 12, 2011, 05:07:04 AM |
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Are you going to sell your Bitcoins before the difficulty reaches max? Bitcoin Discussion
Do you plan to sell your currency for consumption goods before the Earth is dest…
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n/a | cunicula | July 12, 2011, 04:55:33 AM |
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good post system Meta
upvoting is a really good idea. However, I think it would be better to allow wei…
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n/a | cunicula | July 12, 2011, 04:43:58 AM |
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Do you think there will be a clone of bitcoin? and corporation will do what? Bitcoin Discussion
In my opinion, introduction of innovations through cloning is the number one thr…
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n/a | cunicula | July 12, 2011, 04:36:26 AM |
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Securing contingent claims Development & Technical Discussion
One problem with using the existing block chain is that it ties up BTC in escrow…
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n/a | cunicula | July 08, 2011, 06:11:19 PM |
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BTC Loan Market Question Bitcoin Discussion
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n/a | cunicula | July 08, 2011, 05:12:07 PM |
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Deflation and Bitcoin, the last word on this forum Economics
And as I have already asked: sources please.QuoteCould we amend the request to…
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n/a | cunicula | July 07, 2011, 04:54:16 PM |
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Deflation and Bitcoin, the last word on this forum Economics
Change is price is neither a symptom nor a cause of inflation/deflation. It'd t…
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n/a | cunicula | July 06, 2011, 09:41:14 PM |
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Securing contingent claims Development & Technical Discussion
To provide some evidence for this (admittedly weak), I created a poll:http://for…
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n/a | cunicula | July 03, 2011, 11:53:24 PM |
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$50,000 Loans that Don't Have to be Repaid Economics
When I'm in trouble, I use insurance. Again, something I signedfor instead of ha…
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n/a | cunicula | July 03, 2011, 11:14:16 PM |
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ATTENTION: Any exchange right now can act like a bank Bitcoin Discussion
If everyone knows the exchange has a fractional reserve it's not a bad thing.If…
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n/a | cunicula | July 03, 2011, 10:58:29 PM |
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ATTENTION: Any exchange right now can act like a bank Bitcoin Discussion
This is trivially done. Check the total of BTC in the DB and compare it to the…
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n/a | cunicula | July 03, 2011, 10:21:26 PM |
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BTC Loan Market Question Bitcoin Discussion
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n/a | cunicula | July 03, 2011, 09:23:06 PM |
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Bitcoin social networking? Bitcoin Discussion
It makes me kinda sad that bitcoin cannot enter the facebook world (since facebo…
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n/a | cunicula | July 03, 2011, 06:32:44 PM |
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ATTENTION: Any exchange right now can act like a bank Bitcoin Discussion
When a user registers an account, they need to be assigned a permanent bitcoin a…
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n/a | cunicula | July 03, 2011, 06:39:14 PM |
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BTC Loan Market Question Bitcoin Discussion
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n/a | cunicula | July 03, 2011, 06:18:40 PM |
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Securing contingent claims Development & Technical Discussion
I think the main reason I'm skeptical about all this, is that I think debt and c…
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n/a | cunicula | July 03, 2011, 03:25:56 PM |
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BTC Loan Market Question Bitcoin Discussion
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n/a | cunicula | July 03, 2011, 03:13:20 PM |
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When US The Federal Reserve . . . . Bitcoin Discussion
I don't understand why is most of us people worried when the fed print more doll…
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n/a | cunicula | July 03, 2011, 02:30:27 PM |
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BTC Loan Market Question Bitcoin Discussion
How many BTC would you be willing to pay now for 1 BTC delivered 1 year from tod…
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n/a | cunicula | July 03, 2011, 02:17:04 PM |
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Does it bother you Bitcoins is used to finance drugs, child porn and terrorism? Bitcoin Discussion
Bothers me that bitcoins are used by Christians. Maybe these uses will help keep…
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n/a | cunicula | July 02, 2011, 10:23:33 AM |
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Securing contingent claims Development & Technical Discussion
Okay, so this is back into the realm of 'let the market sort it out'. I thought…
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n/a | cunicula | July 02, 2011, 04:17:43 AM |
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Securing contingent claims Development & Technical Discussion
b How do you propose that pricing be done for the derivative market? I think i…
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n/a | cunicula | July 01, 2011, 08:21:41 PM |
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Securing contingent claims Development & Technical Discussion
If you use a simple system in which you just mine for one type of block and the…
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n/a | cunicula | July 01, 2011, 07:51:47 PM |
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Securing contingent claims Development & Technical Discussion
The bitcoin vis bitcoin bond would not have a pegged exchange rate. You would ju…
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n/a | cunicula | July 01, 2011, 01:53:41 PM |
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Securing contingent claims Development & Technical Discussion
Yeah, that last explanation made it all a lot clearer for me. I still have only…
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n/a | cunicula | July 01, 2011, 01:07:18 PM |
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POLL: What are the most likely things that may cause bitcoin to fail ? Bitcoin Discussion
People are apparently most worried about bitcoin a) being perceived as useless b…
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n/a | cunicula | July 01, 2011, 12:45:49 PM |
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Let's crack this chicken/egg problem Bitcoin Discussion
Solving the chicken:Modify Currency generation rules as described here: http://f…
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n/a | cunicula | July 01, 2011, 03:19:45 AM |
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BitWillet: To help merchants accept Bitcoin Marketplace
A more expensive service that took on bitcoin risk might be worthwhile. For exam…
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n/a | cunicula | June 29, 2011, 02:26:00 PM |
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Kill the Politics forum Meta
To be clear, I don't support killing the Politics subforum. I want to see this…
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n/a | cunicula | June 29, 2011, 12:04:48 PM |
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Deflation and Bitcoin, the last word on this forum Economics
That's what some people don't like about bitcoin and why many people think centr…
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n/a | cunicula | June 29, 2011, 11:03:42 AM |
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New block chain owned by the banksters? Bitcoin Discussion
Currently the reserve currency is the USD. I hope you don't mind if I am a littl…
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n/a | cunicula | June 29, 2011, 01:56:36 AM |
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Securing contingent claims Development & Technical Discussion
I'm a bit confused about how your system handles both bonds and 'contingent bl…
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n/a | cunicula | June 29, 2011, 01:48:25 AM |
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