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Do we want to work with money regulators, or keep Bitcoin unregulated? Bitcoin Discussion
Quote"We can work with regulators to make sure Bitcoin is acceptable to them. Fo…
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n/a | edmundedgar | June 24, 2013, 07:47:20 PM |
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Japan bail-in Economics
Detail here:http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/5a5aa406-d33e-11e2-95d4-00144feab7de.…
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n/a | edmundedgar | June 17, 2013, 03:00:14 AM |
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2013-06-13 Latest from FinCEN Bitcoin Discussion
Wow, that was super interesting and positive. Clearly FinCen is not trying to ki…
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n/a | edmundedgar | June 14, 2013, 05:30:03 AM |
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The Big Mac Index Economics
That would only be true in United States based McDonald's, if McD in Germany acc…
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n/a | edmundedgar | June 11, 2013, 05:17:57 PM |
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Proposal: We should vote on the blocksize limit with proof-of-stake voting Development & Technical Discussion
I've seen at least a half dozen proposals involving various ways to calculate "s…
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n/a | edmundedgar | June 11, 2013, 01:12:17 AM |
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The Big Mac Index Economics
If MacDonalds accepted Bitcoin they'd price in dollars then convert when you pai…
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n/a | edmundedgar | June 10, 2013, 07:34:30 PM |
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The RealCoin Idea Altcoin Discussion
You cannot sustain the price of a currency by printing more.Who has the usd to b…
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n/a | edmundedgar | June 09, 2013, 07:10:06 AM |
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The RealCoin Idea Altcoin Discussion
There's no way for a currency to be both pegged AND decentralized. It just does…
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n/a | edmundedgar | June 09, 2013, 06:48:39 AM |
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Did Krugman just admit that deflation has been good for Japan? Economics
Then why not the US?http://www.forbes.com/sites/eamonnfingleton/2013/02/06/paul-…
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n/a | edmundedgar | June 07, 2013, 07:07:07 PM |
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a 51% attack costs $20,000,000 and is devastating Bitcoin Discussion
You will need more than 100% of the current hash power, i.e. 120TH/s to attempt…
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n/a | edmundedgar | June 06, 2013, 07:37:46 AM |
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Please do not change MAX_BLOCK_SIZE Development & Technical Discussion
If you get complacent and think that what the cypherpunks achieved is sufficient…
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n/a | edmundedgar | June 05, 2013, 10:51:06 PM |
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Idea: Donate to Sea Shepherd and get them to name a ship Satoshi Nakamoto Bitcoin Discussion
A ship named Satoshi Nakamoto would be a great idea. It would be a terrible idea…
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n/a | edmundedgar | June 05, 2013, 08:50:24 PM |
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Please do not change MAX_BLOCK_SIZE Development & Technical Discussion
In regards to all of the talk about banning encryption, I guess no one remembers…
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n/a | edmundedgar | June 05, 2013, 06:34:32 PM |
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Please do not change MAX_BLOCK_SIZE Development & Technical Discussion
Quote from: eclipticBitcoin is designed to be distributed peer to peer currency…
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n/a | edmundedgar | June 03, 2013, 07:57:23 PM |
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Please do not change MAX_BLOCK_SIZE Development & Technical Discussion
For mining, and I2P is not ready yet.Out of interest what's your goal here? Do y…
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n/a | edmundedgar | June 03, 2013, 04:28:37 AM |
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Please do not change MAX_BLOCK_SIZE Development & Technical Discussion
QuoteOK, so now I see some bitcoin war having a chance to pop up in a near futur…
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n/a | edmundedgar | June 02, 2013, 06:47:18 PM |
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Please do not change MAX_BLOCK_SIZE Development & Technical Discussion
BTW one of the mysterious things about people wanting to optimize Bitcoin for ea…
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n/a | edmundedgar | June 02, 2013, 12:16:32 AM |
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Please do not change MAX_BLOCK_SIZE Development & Technical Discussion
What the world desperately needs is a better store of value. We need a way of co…
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n/a | edmundedgar | June 01, 2013, 11:23:48 PM |
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Please do not change MAX_BLOCK_SIZE Development & Technical Discussion
What the world desperately needs is a better store of value. We need a way of co…
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n/a | edmundedgar | June 01, 2013, 10:47:39 PM |
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Please do not change MAX_BLOCK_SIZE Development & Technical Discussion
Absolutely, and I'm glad to hear you are working on it. But essentially it lets…
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n/a | edmundedgar | June 01, 2013, 10:19:29 PM |
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New video: Why the blocksize limit keeps Bitcoin free and decentralized Bitcoin Discussion
Now we have exponentially growing bandwidth capacity that WE CAN'T USE. nice! Te…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 31, 2013, 10:09:21 PM |
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New video: Why the blocksize limit keeps Bitcoin free and decentralized Bitcoin Discussion
People have been calling for an end to moore's law for decades and been wrong. …
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 31, 2013, 07:03:11 PM |
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My bank account's got robbed by European Commission. Over 700k is lost. Economics
Actually they changed the laws so that it is no longer your money any longer, bu…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 31, 2013, 06:56:07 PM |
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New video: Why the blocksize limit keeps Bitcoin free and decentralized Bitcoin Discussion
We should only expand block size when there's a legitimate bottleneck. Satoshidi…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 31, 2013, 06:44:22 PM |
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Why does there need to be a limit on amount of transactions? Bitcoin Discussion
Personally I think the solution is more than one coin. Bitcoins for storing valu…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 31, 2013, 06:16:47 PM |
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Why does there need to be a limit on amount of transactions? Bitcoin Discussion
Given that expanding Bitcoin is somewhat like conducting maintenance on an aircr…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 31, 2013, 01:21:09 AM |
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Pegging the coin price.. Economics
If you were also prepared to take coins out of circulation by buying them if the…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 30, 2013, 12:00:26 AM |
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[OPINION] Despite being inherently deflationary, bitcoin supports spending.. Economics
...snip...The value of Bitcoin won't always be rising. Do you see why?The very i…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 25, 2013, 03:56:05 AM |
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Shardcoin - A Blockchain Partitioning / Sharding proposal Development & Technical Discussion
If I've got this right, since addresses are basically just key pairs, you wouldn…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 20, 2013, 05:00:09 AM |
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Shardcoin - A Blockchain Partitioning / Sharding proposal Development & Technical Discussion
When I saw this question about sharding, my initial reaction was "No, the blockc…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 20, 2013, 03:47:34 AM |
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Interest in a P2P Exchange Bitcoin Discussion
It's one of two things that would help mitigate the problems. The other is an al…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 19, 2013, 05:14:16 AM |
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Interest in a P2P Exchange Bitcoin Discussion
I don't see how an Alt-coins exchange would help. The problem isn't getting BTC…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 19, 2013, 04:50:32 AM |
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New video: Why the blocksize limit keeps Bitcoin free and decentralized Bitcoin Discussion
I think you're mistaking the kind of anonymity being talked about here. Say som…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 17, 2013, 11:10:10 PM |
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New video: Why the blocksize limit keeps Bitcoin free and decentralized Bitcoin Discussion
* Buying 10,000 ASICs will cost you substantially less than 10,000x the price of…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 17, 2013, 08:49:19 PM |
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New video: Why the blocksize limit keeps Bitcoin free and decentralized Bitcoin Discussion
I'm a bit puzzled why the people behind this video think that the _blocksize_ of…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 17, 2013, 07:16:33 PM |
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cvTokens - Stable currency without trust Development & Technical Discussion
Thanks, this is getting a bit clearer. Before we talk about Stacey, could you fi…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 16, 2013, 06:14:05 PM |
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For Public Consideration: [Marketcoin | MKC] A P2P Trustless Cryptocoin Exchange Development & Technical Discussion
But how does that work? The problem everyone has been bumping their heads agains…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 16, 2013, 06:07:43 PM |
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Which exchanges are registered as MSBs with FinCEN? Service Discussion
I don't understand how any bitcoin exchange can maintain that they are only cond…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 16, 2013, 05:50:41 AM |
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Which exchanges are registered as MSBs with FinCEN? Service Discussion
Shouldn't BitPay be registered? They're not an exchange so they're probably OK.…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 15, 2013, 05:57:24 PM |
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Your bitcoins if you die: time locked transactions? Bitcoin Discussion
Yes. * sigh * Not really ideal. Well, maybe someday. The devs will get old a…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 14, 2013, 01:10:17 AM |
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Your bitcoins if you die: time locked transactions? Bitcoin Discussion
What I'm saying (hopefully someone will jump in if I'm wrong) is that the Bitcoi…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 14, 2013, 12:24:14 AM |
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Your bitcoins if you die: time locked transactions? Bitcoin Discussion
It has to go into the blockchain because if it doesn't you need lawyers and comm…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 13, 2013, 11:45:30 PM |
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Your bitcoins if you die: time locked transactions? Bitcoin Discussion
Which means that the only way to do this effectively (and it really needs to be…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 13, 2013, 10:04:16 PM |
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Your bitcoins if you die: time locked transactions? Bitcoin Discussion
Here is a discussion about it. if you back up a few minutes they discuss the sc…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 13, 2013, 08:51:32 PM |
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Your bitcoins if you die: time locked transactions? Bitcoin Discussion
You folks aren't following. The transaction will be signed by the current living…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 13, 2013, 08:39:23 PM |
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cvTokens - Stable currency without trust Development & Technical Discussion
Thanks, this is getting a bit clearer. Before we talk about Stacey, could you fi…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 13, 2013, 08:10:08 PM |
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cvTokens - Stable currency without trust Development & Technical Discussion
Everything good so far? If so, I'll move on to Stacy the speculator.Sounds grea…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 13, 2013, 07:01:24 AM |
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cvTokens - Stable currency without trust Development & Technical Discussion
At least that's what I'm seeing from reading this thread. I'm not entirely sure…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 11, 2013, 10:23:52 PM |
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cvTokens - Stable currency without trust Development & Technical Discussion
edmundedgar, were you able to follow our modified example, or would it be better…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 11, 2013, 10:07:47 PM |
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Do we want to work with money regulators, or keep Bitcoin unregulated? Bitcoin Discussion
...which comes from the OP. (Sorry, it would have been clearer if I'd just quote…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 11, 2013, 05:58:33 AM |
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Do we want to work with money regulators, or keep Bitcoin unregulated? Bitcoin Discussion
Retep will correct me if I'm reading him wrong, but if I'm understanding the ori…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 11, 2013, 04:48:43 AM |
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Do we want to work with money regulators, or keep Bitcoin unregulated? Bitcoin Discussion
Retep will correct me if I'm reading him wrong, but if I'm understanding the ori…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 11, 2013, 04:17:25 AM |
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Do we want to work with money regulators, or keep Bitcoin unregulated? Bitcoin Discussion
please list the identities of the bolded quotes.OP should do this. He has more i…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 11, 2013, 02:22:27 AM |
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IDEA: a service that bind bitcoin receiving addresses to your email... Project Development
We need a service like a DNS, where a bitcoin client makes a request for the mai…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 11, 2013, 12:25:26 AM |
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cvTokens - Stable currency without trust Development & Technical Discussion
I realize this only part of the whole thing, i think you specified the need for…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 10, 2013, 09:11:23 PM |
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Reminder: zero-conf is not safe; $1000USD reward posted for replace-by-fee patch Development & Technical Discussion
Zero-conf replacement requires only a few miners to participate for it to make z…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 09, 2013, 09:47:59 PM |
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Reminder: zero-conf is not safe; $1000USD reward posted for replace-by-fee patch Development & Technical Discussion
And convincing miners to not mine the top block is going to cost you a $#!+load…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 09, 2013, 09:36:12 PM |
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Reminder: zero-conf is not safe; $1000USD reward posted for replace-by-fee patch Development & Technical Discussion
I agree this is not inline with the original intention of the software, but I do…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 09, 2013, 09:11:02 PM |
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cvTokens - Stable currency without trust Development & Technical Discussion
Looks interesting. I'm not sure that I followed it all - if you're trying to peg…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 08, 2013, 07:41:06 AM |
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For Public Consideration: [Marketcoin | MKC] A P2P Trustless Cryptocoin Exchange Development & Technical Discussion
One place where it would help with the USDBitcoin problem would be in combinatio…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 08, 2013, 05:53:01 AM |
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For Public Consideration: [Marketcoin | MKC] A P2P Trustless Cryptocoin Exchange Development & Technical Discussion
As a first step in this direction at some point in the future I'd like to start…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 08, 2013, 02:36:11 AM |
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For Public Consideration: [Marketcoin | MKC] A P2P Trustless Cryptocoin Exchange Development & Technical Discussion
I didn't read the full post, but I wanted to comment on trustless P2P exchanges.…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 07, 2013, 10:23:27 PM |
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WARNING! Bitcoin will soon block small transaction outputs Bitcoin Discussion
I fully understand all of the issues involved and from my own point of view Gavi…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 05, 2013, 10:07:30 PM |
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WARNING! Bitcoin will soon block small transaction outputs Bitcoin Discussion
Fortunately, some of the more obnoxious abuse these days looks categorically dif…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 05, 2013, 08:17:16 PM |
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Scaling BTC - transaction fees and times cf demand Development & Technical Discussion
It was ~40 mins total. I was watching blockchain.info and local wallet, no diffe…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 05, 2013, 10:27:45 AM |
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Bitcoin Blocksize Problem Video Bitcoin Discussion
The reason why even an oppressive government like China tolerates the internet a…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 05, 2013, 09:21:46 AM |
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Bitcoin Blocksize Problem Video Bitcoin Discussion
Don't think Tor is totally unblockable. The Chinese government has had a lot of…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 05, 2013, 07:07:48 AM |
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Bitcoin Blocksize Problem Video Bitcoin Discussion
The decision that it's safe to raise the 1MB limit won't be one made on technic…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 05, 2013, 07:00:40 AM |
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Bitcoin Blocksize Problem Video Bitcoin Discussion
Anonymous network bandwidth is especially fragile: look at how Japan's national…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 05, 2013, 06:24:06 AM |
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Scaling BTC - transaction fees and times cf demand Development & Technical Discussion
I'm seeing really slow transactions.. 20mins for the 1st and 30mins for the 2nd…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 05, 2013, 05:21:20 AM |
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Im fairly confident the NSA (US Gov) Can 51% Any Coin At Any Time Bitcoin Discussion
They're the NSA. If they wanted, they could spend
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 04, 2013, 03:13:05 AM |
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Im fairly confident the NSA (US Gov) Can 51% Any Coin At Any Time Bitcoin Discussion
Paranoid much? Get a grip guys, the US Gov doesn't give 2 shits about bitcoin. …
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 04, 2013, 03:25:55 AM |
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FED refuses to return back Germany gold after an failed audit Economics
just an innocent question, why fuck would sovereign state store its national tre…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 03, 2013, 12:01:38 AM |
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Preventing double-spending attacks with semi-trusted 3rd parties Development & Technical Discussion
The problems with this approach (if i understand correctly)1. You still have to…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 02, 2013, 10:09:20 PM |
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Do we want to work with money regulators, or keep Bitcoin unregulated? Bitcoin Discussion
The OP's post is very slippery. It's written as if it's describing the situation…
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n/a | edmundedgar | May 01, 2013, 09:46:18 PM |
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Bitcoin Blocksize Problem Video Bitcoin Discussion
One thing that video script is missing is a simulation of how high transaction f…
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n/a | edmundedgar | April 29, 2013, 08:32:08 AM |
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P2P Cryptocoin Exchange (P2PX) Project Development
I propose a mechanism in this thread. I fail to explain myself clearly, but Deat…
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n/a | edmundedgar | April 27, 2013, 02:46:15 AM |
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The RealCoin Idea Altcoin Discussion
You cannot enforce a peg of $1 without a centralized warchest of US dollars. I t…
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n/a | edmundedgar | April 27, 2013, 02:43:17 AM |
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Would a permanent 50BTC block reward have changed the discussion? Economics
Obviously a FedCoin would not need hashing at all. They could just release new…
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n/a | edmundedgar | April 26, 2013, 12:20:02 AM |
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Would a permanent 50BTC block reward have changed the discussion? Economics
Addendum to the GollumCoin:-Designed to resemble golds annual real inflation rat…
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n/a | edmundedgar | April 25, 2013, 10:29:20 PM |
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Would a permanent 50BTC block reward have changed the discussion? Economics
so when the price increases it automatically starts "printing more bitcoins" to…
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n/a | edmundedgar | April 25, 2013, 09:23:23 PM |
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Democratic vote is held; Bitcoin limit is lifted to 900Million. How do you feel? Bitcoin Discussion
The vote power in bitcoinland is proportional to the mining power. If the majori…
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n/a | edmundedgar | April 24, 2013, 04:12:30 AM |
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Bitcoin should not be a currency, but a payment system Bitcoin Discussion
What Gollum is describing is a different thing to what Bitcoin does now, and wha…
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n/a | edmundedgar | April 22, 2013, 08:00:45 AM |
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Bitcoin should not be a currency, but a payment system Bitcoin Discussion
I agree, this doesn't make much sense to meIf it's not worth n , how do you give…
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n/a | edmundedgar | April 22, 2013, 07:39:37 AM |
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Bitcoin should not be a currency, but a payment system Bitcoin Discussion
I need money tomorrow so I sell the IOU to another friend, this practice is lega…
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n/a | edmundedgar | April 22, 2013, 07:01:19 AM |
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Bitcoin should not be a currency, but a payment system Bitcoin Discussion
There might be a use for a peer-to-peer database for tracking contracts between…
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n/a | edmundedgar | April 22, 2013, 06:28:27 AM |
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My bank account's got robbed by European Commission. Over 700k is lost. Economics
Just A and B.The discussion up until there was about Greece and Cyprus, so I'm t…
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n/a | edmundedgar | April 21, 2013, 04:35:34 AM |
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My bank account's got robbed by European Commission. Over 700k is lost. Economics
myrkul, that's why I asked if you were talking about growth in the money supply.…
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n/a | edmundedgar | April 21, 2013, 04:12:32 AM |
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My bank account's got robbed by European Commission. Over 700k is lost. Economics
Inflation is a rise in the general level of prices of goods and services in an e…
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n/a | edmundedgar | April 21, 2013, 02:51:59 AM |
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My bank account's got robbed by European Commission. Over 700k is lost. Economics
No, it seems odd that the various member states have different rates of inflatio…
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n/a | edmundedgar | April 21, 2013, 02:17:24 AM |
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My bank account's got robbed by European Commission. Over 700k is lost. Economics
Still seems odd... It seems odd that shops in Greece have different prices than…
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n/a | edmundedgar | April 21, 2013, 01:19:06 AM |
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My bank account's got robbed by European Commission. Over 700k is lost. Economics
Wait, I was under the impression that a Euro is a Euro is a Euro, are you tellin…
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n/a | edmundedgar | April 21, 2013, 12:53:36 AM |
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My bank account's got robbed by European Commission. Over 700k is lost. Economics
Country A is failing fast. Country B is not doing so hot, but far from failing j…
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n/a | edmundedgar | April 21, 2013, 12:36:47 AM |
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A less volatile cryptocurency, what would it take to regulate its own market? Economics
Bringing the above together, here's how you could peg an alt-chain to the USD:1)…
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n/a | edmundedgar | April 17, 2013, 05:25:26 AM |
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A less volatile cryptocurency, what would it take to regulate its own market? Economics
But you're right, that doesn't solve the problem of decreases in demand.Thinking…
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n/a | edmundedgar | April 17, 2013, 01:49:31 AM |
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A less volatile cryptocurency, what would it take to regulate its own market? Economics
The difficulty change would get cancelled out when the price went back to target…
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n/a | edmundedgar | April 16, 2013, 11:38:21 AM |
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A less volatile cryptocurency, what would it take to regulate its own market? Economics
Personally I think it would be enough to just prevent the price from rising too…
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n/a | edmundedgar | April 16, 2013, 10:44:25 AM |
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A less volatile cryptocurency, what would it take to regulate its own market? Economics
but I can't figure out how to measure BTC value in a decentralized way that coul…
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n/a | edmundedgar | April 16, 2013, 09:42:28 AM |
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A less volatile cryptocurency, what would it take to regulate its own market? Economics
According to me, it's because Bitcoins have been designed to increase greatly in…
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n/a | edmundedgar | April 16, 2013, 09:07:12 AM |
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A less volatile cryptocurency, what would it take to regulate its own market? Economics
One thing you could do if you wanted a payment system with a lot of the properti…
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n/a | edmundedgar | April 16, 2013, 07:53:43 AM |
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