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Why the fuck do we still use cash? Economics
Cash is elegantly low-tech It is simple to understand and does not require inter…
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n/a | Snowfire | June 25, 2014, 05:49:43 PM |
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NSA reform: lawmakers aim to bar agency from weakening encryption Politics & Society
NSA can effectively tell anyone else (Congress, executive, SCOTUS, etc) to go po…
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n/a | Snowfire | May 13, 2014, 05:13:39 PM |
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Graph showing how the banking industry has centralized for the last 20 years Economics
It isn't just banks, and this phenomenon does not necessarily have anything to d…
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n/a | Snowfire | May 11, 2014, 09:49:54 AM |
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If you can Teleportation............. Off-topic
To heck with other countries; I might use the ability to go to the Moon or Mars…
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n/a | Snowfire | May 10, 2014, 03:47:13 PM |
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Is the West gearing up to invade Russia once again? Politics & Society
I don't see anyone who matters taking the idea of direct military action against…
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n/a | Snowfire | May 07, 2014, 10:26:36 PM |
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How United are the States? Politics & Society
There are genuine fault lines in northern North America, both political and soci…
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n/a | Snowfire | May 07, 2014, 10:01:38 PM |
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Sir Richard Branson's vision for NYC to Tokyo in 1 hour Off-topic
Technically possible to build. But do you have to be as rich as Branson himself…
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n/a | Snowfire | May 07, 2014, 09:25:07 PM |
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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. WTF? Off-topic
Anyone knowing some basic physics and spectroscopy will laugh at GeoResonance's…
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n/a | Snowfire | May 04, 2014, 12:17:25 PM |
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Why isn't lobbying illegal? Politics & Society
It would be very difficult to outlaw lobbying completely without raising serious…
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n/a | Snowfire | May 04, 2014, 11:32:49 AM |
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Is College Worth it? So many graduates In Debt/Underemployed Politics & Society
Better educated people are better citizens; they are trained to think better; th…
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n/a | Snowfire | May 04, 2014, 11:06:54 AM |
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All Wars Are Bankers' Wars Politics & Society
There are documented wars between bands of prairie dogs and also chimpanzees. Do…
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n/a | Snowfire | May 03, 2014, 10:42:31 PM |
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Why isn't lobbying illegal? Politics & Society
It would be very difficult to outlaw lobbying completely without raising serious…
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n/a | Snowfire | May 03, 2014, 10:34:40 PM |
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Flight 370 Politics & Society
I'm still leaning toward the explanation's ultimately being some weird concatena…
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n/a | Snowfire | May 03, 2014, 10:29:33 PM |
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Is College Worth it? So many graduates In Debt/Underemployed Politics & Society
There are really two questions here. Whether college is "worth it" to the indivi…
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n/a | Snowfire | May 03, 2014, 10:12:11 PM |
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Alternative to Elections for Government? Politics & Society
Interesting...the Republican and Democrat parties would do all that they could t…
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n/a | Snowfire | May 03, 2014, 12:16:28 PM |
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Alternative to Elections for Government? Politics & Society
It is often lamented that the modern system of elections is broken, at least whe…
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n/a | Snowfire | May 02, 2014, 11:24:24 PM |
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The crazy regulations that keep American beer bad Politics & Society
Just stay away from the high-volume cheap adjunct lagers and there is plenty of…
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n/a | Snowfire | May 01, 2014, 01:05:30 PM |
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Top Saudi Cleric: The Sun Revolves Around The Earth… Politics & Society
For pete's sake, if you want to quibble about it, that Koran verse does not eve…
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n/a | Snowfire | March 18, 2014, 10:37:59 PM |
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Flight 370 Politics & Society
As news, this story is all but dead. There have been no new revelations recently…
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n/a | Snowfire | March 18, 2014, 10:30:06 PM |
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Giveaway threads are not allowed Altcoin Discussion
Another place you might consider posting what you cannot post here:https://www.b…
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n/a | Snowfire | March 07, 2014, 12:33:04 PM |
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Concept proposal: opaque block chains Altcoin Discussion
Concern has been expressed that the transparent block chain of most first-genera…
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n/a | Snowfire | March 06, 2014, 10:57:17 PM |
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Mars One - What do you think? Politics & Society
Passive shielding alone will likely involve too much mass to be practical. A com…
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n/a | Snowfire | March 04, 2014, 10:23:39 PM |
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Do you believe in Aliens? Off-topic
Trivial answer:If the universe is infinite (we believe it is,) and if the probab…
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n/a | Snowfire | February 23, 2014, 10:18:07 AM |
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A cryptocurrency I'm working on... (IRCCoin) Altcoin Discussion
This is not only another cryptocurrency, it is yet another first-generation cryp…
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n/a | Snowfire | January 24, 2014, 10:05:46 PM |
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The NSA is reportedly able to access offline computers thanks to radio wave tech Politics & Society
A spookier technology, that has been around a while, monitors the radiated signa…
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n/a | Snowfire | January 16, 2014, 05:44:06 PM |
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What are the chances BTC is replaced by something better soon? Bitcoin Discussion
Proponents continue to state that Bitcoin can simply "evolve" to incorporate any…
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n/a | Snowfire | January 16, 2014, 05:17:16 PM |
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Cryptostates - Doing for politics what cryptocurrencies have done for economics Politics & Society
The term "cryptostate" is needlessly provocative and likely to push all the wron…
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n/a | Snowfire | January 12, 2014, 10:27:10 AM |
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Reddit’s science forum banned climate deniers. Politics & Society
The Earth is just plain not in thermodynamic equilibrium. Technically correct, b…
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n/a | Snowfire | January 11, 2014, 01:44:05 PM |
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Reddit’s science forum banned climate deniers. Politics & Society
But is there even such a thing as a 'global average temperature'?Are you asserti…
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n/a | Snowfire | January 10, 2014, 09:47:50 PM |
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Reddit’s science forum banned climate deniers. Politics & Society
No, this isn't the way it works.Antarctica always operates sort of in reverse: …
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n/a | Snowfire | January 04, 2014, 04:48:13 PM |
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Reddit’s science forum banned climate deniers. Politics & Society
Re the Antarctic phenomenon, the counterintuitive phenomenon of expanding ice wi…
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n/a | Snowfire | January 03, 2014, 05:00:58 PM |
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Market Driven Money Supply.. Economics
I played with some ideas like this in a post I made back in April:https://bitcoi…
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n/a | Snowfire | December 28, 2013, 10:45:04 PM |
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Solar variability has a small effect on climate change Politics & Society
But now if you were in fact a polar bear researcher, and you did in fact falsify…
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n/a | Snowfire | December 28, 2013, 05:46:50 PM |
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What to do about PRISM surveillance. A practical advice. Politics & Society
Bitmessage (though it could use improvement) does not have open metadata the way…
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n/a | Snowfire | December 26, 2013, 11:26:41 PM |
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volatility, can it really be overcome? Economics
The jury is still out on where it all goes; but for now, in every cryptocoin sys…
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n/a | Snowfire | December 26, 2013, 10:54:55 PM |
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Reddit’s science forum banned climate deniers. Politics & Society
Apologies for the faulty link posted earlier. The correct link is http://www.ske…
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n/a | Snowfire | December 18, 2013, 12:53:33 PM |
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Reddit’s science forum banned climate deniers. Politics & Society
QuoteNever in millions of years of cycles has temperature risen after CO2 does.…
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n/a | Snowfire | December 17, 2013, 11:20:16 PM |
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"Backing" - what does this actually MEAN? Economics
The reason for the confusion has to do with the fact that "backing" has been use…
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n/a | Snowfire | December 16, 2013, 12:45:05 AM |
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What is currency? Economics
Currency is a system of circulating tokens of standardized denominations which,…
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n/a | Snowfire | October 08, 2013, 10:18:41 PM |
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[ANN] AntimatterCoin - The rarest and most expensive substance in the universe Altcoin Discussion
Do you have to mine it with an anticomputer? That would be even more exotic.!
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n/a | Snowfire | May 16, 2013, 03:18:29 PM |
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Conspiracy Law and Bitcoin Legal
According to that link they are still supposed to be minting gold eagles!
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n/a | Snowfire | May 15, 2013, 09:44:26 PM |
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What if the government... Legal
Everyone is talking as if Bitcoin is essentially and primarily a US phenomenon.…
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n/a | Snowfire | May 15, 2013, 09:38:49 PM |
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Department of Homeland Security Shuts Down Dwolla Payments to and From Mt. Gox Legal
Question is, why is this DHS's remit? Doesn't the FTC usually handle this kind o…
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n/a | Snowfire | May 15, 2013, 09:23:26 PM |
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Just got an S4... any must-have apps? Off-topic
Flashlight.Opera MobileAstro File ManagerAPK InstallerGVoice CallbackSipdroidKin…
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n/a | Snowfire | May 13, 2013, 07:03:14 PM |
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What if you had infinite food? Politics & Society
Infinite food=infinite mass=the universe collapses into an infinitely large blac…
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n/a | Snowfire | May 13, 2013, 06:42:45 PM |
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Speculators and Alt-Chains Speculation
I notice some stabilization in value in the last two weeks, very welcome after…
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n/a | Snowfire | May 13, 2013, 02:32:34 PM |
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Will another currency overtake bitcoins? Speculation
Bitcoin is a beta, not the paragon of eternal perfection. It may well be good en…
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n/a | Snowfire | May 13, 2013, 02:27:38 PM |
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Can Bitcoins and Litecoins (or other alt currencies) co-exist? Economics
It is surprisingly hard to kill a block chain once and for all. Look how easily…
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n/a | Snowfire | May 06, 2013, 09:52:33 PM |
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The Most Exciting Video of Nothing Happening Off-topic
There is a clone of this demonstration in the Purdue University chemistry buildi…
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n/a | Snowfire | May 06, 2013, 09:43:49 PM |
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Florida schoolgirl Kiera Wilmot facing felony charges for science experiment Politics & Society
As I understand it, the whole thing was witnessed by school staff, who stood by…
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n/a | Snowfire | May 06, 2013, 08:31:19 AM |
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Florida schoolgirl Kiera Wilmot facing felony charges for science experiment Politics & Society
Society has gone mad in the present culture of surrender to fear and paranoia. B…
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n/a | Snowfire | May 05, 2013, 10:32:33 AM |
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Salary in Bitcoin, is it a good idea? Economics
..and that's different from getting a cheque how!?If someone writes you a bad ch…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 30, 2013, 07:58:27 PM |
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if 10,000 libertarians moved to Nauru, ron paul could be president Off-topic
Nauru? Check it out on Google Maps, and read about it Wikipedia. The place is a…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 29, 2013, 09:05:38 PM |
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FeatherCoin Giveaway #2 - 1 FTC per account Altcoin Discussion
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n/a | Snowfire | April 29, 2013, 08:58:54 PM |
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Salary in Bitcoin, is it a good idea? Economics
No contract denominated in Bitcoin is legally enforceable, because Bitcoin is no…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 29, 2013, 08:41:36 PM |
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Bitcoin: Believer, or not Politics & Society
Do the Inebriati drink single malt, or cheap rotgut?
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n/a | Snowfire | April 29, 2013, 08:37:29 PM |
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Bitcoin legal tender. What if... Politics & Society
There can usually be only one legal tender currency in a nation. A cryptocurrenc…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 28, 2013, 09:36:49 PM |
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Ripple Giveaway! Altcoin Discussion
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n/a | Snowfire | April 28, 2013, 04:02:44 PM |
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Why I think Feathercoins will be a succes Altcoin Discussion
P.S.Gold/Silver are regularly bought and sold.... who the hell buys and sells Br…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 27, 2013, 07:45:33 PM |
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= Grand Unified Solution to Lost Coins, Hoarding, Deflation, Speculation = Economics
Re Freicoin or any other system with Wörgl-style demurrage: Such an instrument…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 27, 2013, 06:23:05 PM |
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Will Bitcoin encounter the same problems as the Euro? Economics
"One world currency" is nonsense anyway. It will not happen. Bitcoin will always…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 27, 2013, 06:00:29 PM |
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Send people to live on Mars donate with bitcoin Off-topic
The vision is an interesting one, but there are problems associated with that le…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 24, 2013, 11:09:15 PM |
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Concept: Distributed Cloud Storage and Utilities based on p2p Model Off-topic
Aha- so if one could take a pre-existing protocol such as Storage@home and graft…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 24, 2013, 10:52:17 PM |
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Concept: Distributed Cloud Storage and Utilities based on p2p Model Off-topic
Tahoe-lafs seems a similar idea, though it apparently runs only on servers (not…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 24, 2013, 04:45:29 PM |
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Concept: Distributed Cloud Storage and Utilities based on p2p Model Off-topic
One of the most popular ideas these days is cloud storage--online storing of dat…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 24, 2013, 02:03:53 PM |
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The ultra-stable price-validated adaptive cryptocurrency: qbit³ Altcoin Discussion
If the majority of the speculators who drive the price are not miners (which I b…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 21, 2013, 07:41:00 PM |
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Imagining a Next-Generation Cryptocurrency Altcoin Discussion
First-generation cryptocurrencies (FGCs) such as Bitcoin, Litecoin, Namecoin, an…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 20, 2013, 04:02:55 PM |
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Meshnets with weather balloons? Politics & Society
A better bet is to embed node clients into common devices: cell phones, tablets,…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 19, 2013, 03:09:12 PM |
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Bitcoin's Dystopian Future Bitcoin Discussion
Most of these scenarios are only plausible if national currencies completely dis…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 19, 2013, 02:40:02 PM |
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Stop cloning scamcoins! Altcoin Discussion
The market will decide which are good and which are not--not a bunch of pundits…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 17, 2013, 04:00:25 PM |
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A less volatile cryptocurency, what would it take to regulate its own market? Economics
The way a currency peg works is that the pegged currency is backed by some suppl…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 16, 2013, 05:25:08 PM |
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Why do people think one Bitcoin will be worth $1000 (or more) Economics
Bitcoin IOUs already exist, as does a small market for them. You can go on Rippl…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 14, 2013, 01:04:33 PM |
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Alt-chains starting to track BTC? Altcoin Discussion
I noticed something interesting during the latest BTC crash, looking at charts o…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 11, 2013, 08:42:25 PM |
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A less volatile cryptocurency, what would it take to regulate its own market? Economics
Which likely would have worked out better:a) the chaotic explosive growth intern…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 10, 2013, 08:45:13 PM |
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Gold vs. Bitcoin Economics
But you can't make tooth fillings or electrical contacts out of Bitcoins.
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n/a | Snowfire | April 09, 2013, 11:21:51 PM |
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A less volatile cryptocurency, what would it take to regulate its own market? Economics
There is a supply and a demand for a currency just like anything else. Currency…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 09, 2013, 11:19:14 PM |
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A less volatile cryptocurency, what would it take to regulate its own market? Economics
The ideal graph for a currency would be a flat line, achieved ASAP after genesis…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 09, 2013, 08:51:13 PM |
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I'm a Central Bank trying to keep Bitcoin from being adopted Economics
OK, I'll have a crack at this one (in fun, mind you, I'm not really expecting th…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 08, 2013, 08:47:46 PM |
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Ripple-like systems a threat to Bitcoin? Economics
Ripple is still very new, and its complexity makes it not terribly user-friendly…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 08, 2013, 08:05:33 PM |
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Bitcoin soda machine no? Off-topic
OK if you don't mind standing in front of the machine for 10+ minutes while the…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 07, 2013, 12:22:39 PM |
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Economists have it dead wrong... bitcoin will cause inflation Economics
If you buy goods and services for BTC, you are indeed withdrawing an increment o…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 07, 2013, 11:49:13 AM |
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CRASH?! (not) For all the 'nay sayers' Economics
The value doesn't matter.What matters to bitcoin a bubble or not is NOT the pric…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 07, 2013, 11:36:25 AM |
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Why Bitcoin is over-ambitious Bitcoin Discussion
Also it isn't decentralized. ... Once again, it did not. Some people took quick…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 07, 2013, 11:20:54 AM |
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Something's Got to Give Economics
Something has given. It is the mainstream resistance to bitcoin. Not. This will…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 03, 2013, 08:48:27 AM |
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Does Anyone Else Find it Ironic That We Express the Value of Bitcoins in Fiat? Economics
It is a better known benchmark than, say, a ton of salt (though salt may be a be…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 02, 2013, 11:46:14 PM |
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This bubble reminds me of something.. Economics
To highlight the absurdity, at the current rate, the "market cap" of BTC would e…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 02, 2013, 11:42:42 PM |
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Is Satoshi actually Richard Stallman? Bitcoin Discussion
I still think the triumvirate of Neal King, Vladimir Oksman, and Charles Bry is…
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n/a | Snowfire | April 02, 2013, 05:34:49 PM |
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What happens if blocks are generated faster than they can be downloaded? Bitcoin Discussion
You cannot fit an infinite amount of data into 1Mb. If the system continues to g…
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n/a | Snowfire | March 12, 2013, 08:51:39 PM |
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What happens if blocks are generated faster than they can be downloaded? Bitcoin Discussion
This may be a concern more future than present, but it would seem to be possible…
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n/a | Snowfire | March 12, 2013, 07:42:40 PM |
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LTC is going insane! Remember when BTC was 50 cents? Well LTC is now! Altcoin Discussion
Rapid appreciation in unit value (a/k/a hyperdeflation) is an obstacle to curren…
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n/a | Snowfire | March 12, 2013, 05:15:43 PM |
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The Uncommanded Fork Problem Altcoin Discussion
Most of you have probably heard about the shenanigans in the Bitcoin block chain…
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n/a | Snowfire | March 12, 2013, 05:11:57 PM |
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Gateway capacity trouble at Coinbase? Service Discussion
So far, no luck. Same error message no matter how many times I try. Coinbase is,…
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n/a | Snowfire | March 08, 2013, 12:07:35 PM |
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Remittance and Ripple Service Discussion
Is the balance to be kept in BTC or immediately swept out at the destination int…
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n/a | Snowfire | March 07, 2013, 09:33:20 PM |
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Gateway capacity trouble at Coinbase? Service Discussion
The last few times I have tried to use Coinbase to get BTC, I have received mess…
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n/a | Snowfire | March 07, 2013, 12:17:51 PM |
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The price of a shovel during a gold rush Economics
It's not as simple as that. Gold is not just an abstract benchmark; it is a comm…
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n/a | Snowfire | March 06, 2013, 08:21:28 PM |
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FORUM REQUEST: Ripple Sub-category Meta
It is a pragmatic matter, a question of traffic. Ripple-related posts have been…
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n/a | Snowfire | March 06, 2013, 07:32:18 PM |
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The Quantum Conspiracy: What Popularizers of QM Don't Want You to Know Politics & Society
"Zero worlds" is just another name for solipsism, which philosophers have debate…
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n/a | Snowfire | March 06, 2013, 06:51:23 PM |
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Using Ripple as a Front End for Accepting Bitcoin Trading Discussion
I assume there are two ways to do this:1) Have payer send Bitstamp (or comparabl…
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n/a | Snowfire | March 05, 2013, 10:49:06 PM |
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Opinions on Jitsi? (VOIP software) Off-topic
I can't get it to run on my machine.
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n/a | Snowfire | March 05, 2013, 10:10:17 PM |
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How a Bitcoin attack could play out Bitcoin Discussion
It is hard to eradicate a block-chain currency completely; even dormant ones can…
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n/a | Snowfire | March 05, 2013, 05:58:09 PM |
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