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10th September 2014, 04:52 AM | #41 |
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Oh I see, so as long as we cut the graph at your arbitrary points, you can claim it's down, rather than looking at the actual long-term trend from its creation until now, where it's skyrocketed.
By the way, I'm not surprised at all that you ignored me asking to hold you to your claims. Because I found this, from you, in the old thread... http://www.internationalskeptics.com...&postcount=702 "Actually, it looks like it's spiked up pretty sharply in the last week or so, not really a steady increase. And this mini-bubble will only last till one of the early adopters dumps a couple thousand back on the market, then it'll go back to around $3 (which is where it's been for months, and where it will likely stay.)" Coupled with a nice, rude snicker not long after. Now, regarding what you said before, that Dell and ebay are "pushing the risk off on Coinbase," let's quote something I said 3 years ago in the original thread, responding to someone saying there were too many security issues for it to be largely adopted... http://www.internationalskeptics.com...&postcount=360 All you're saying is that it's desirable for someone to develop convenient security software or security sites to accompany the Bitcoin client. That's inevitable...and is probably so easy to implement that I wouldn't even be surprised if they're free and open-sourced." You, and several others, like the poster in my sig, owe the people who were respectfully and patiently explaining Bitcoin, an apology. |
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10th September 2014, 06:34 AM | #42 |
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I won't dispute it's a currency. But it doesn't work very well as a currency for reasons already discussed ad nauseum. So I would treat it as an investment commodity rather than a currency.
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10th September 2014, 06:54 AM | #43 |
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10th September 2014, 07:25 AM | #44 |
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Oh, I understand Bitcoin fully, make no apology for my previous comments, and stand by them. Bitcoin will inevitably be obsoleted by the big banks. It might take a year or two, but at least one of the bigs has already patented a virtual private lockbox (essentially the same tech as Bitcoin, with the added advantage of being denominated in USD). The market for such a thing is probably too small right now to justify the marketing expense, but when that changes Bitcoin will be relegated to the shadows from whence it came.
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10th September 2014, 09:12 AM | #46 |
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Here you go. It's JPMorgan Chase doing this, but the others are no doubt watching with interest.
http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/10/tech...coin-jpmorgan/ |
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Good thing the "big banks" have cheerleaders like you, they have fallen on hard times recently and need all the support they can get.
I'm sure all of the bitcoin supporters are simply waiting for the big banks to get their acts together and come up with a real solution that doesn't benefit the big banks. |
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10th September 2014, 07:07 PM | #50 |
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That doesn't seem to be "essentially the same" to me. There are two major differences between that and bitcoin. While you would be able to make and receive payments anonymously with this system, the ownership of the account itself would most likely not be anonymous. The bank (and any government or law enforcement service that can produce a warrant to look at the account) would still know who the money belongs to. Also, since it's being handled by financial institutions rather than being fully decentralized, the government can force them to freeze your account. With bitcoin, they have to get hold of your keys/wallet before they can do anything with your account. They can't freeze a bitcoin account without them. |
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10th September 2014, 07:43 PM | #51 |
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How one individual treats it is irrelevant. You don't use Yen or Marks, but that does not negate them as currency. Both would be speculative investments for you, but that is not what others are doing it with it. This is a strange kind of closed-mindedness. "I don't use it personally, therefore it isn't used by others".
They are using it as currency, whether you like it or not. |
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The security tech is the same algorithm. And I don't have a problem with a government or law enforcement agency knowing who owns my account, since I don't engage in any activities that would motivate them to come and seize it. It's the security that is appealing.
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11th September 2014, 04:13 AM | #54 |
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Ignoring 90% of the conversation, claiming you "stand by your previous comments," then try to quote something that has nothing to do with your previous comments, are classic evasive tactics.
Your bad behavior and demonstrably false claims are not going to disappear until you own up to them. By the way, that statement I made from 3 years ago? Bitcoin wallet Coinbase returns to the App Store via company-endorsed open-source iOS app I just went to the App Store also. The one that came up for "Coinbase" is listed as free too. So yup, that's right. The Coinbase app that you yourself pointed to as some kind of excuse for why eBay was integrating Bitcoin is both FREE and OPEN-SOURCED. Which is EXACTLY what I said would inevitably appear to trigger this. http://www.internationalskeptics.com...&postcount=360
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You were dead-wrong on your predictions and you and others were highly immature and rude and inappropriate on top of it. Own up to it. |
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I am not "ignoring" anything. eBay, Overstock.com and the other retailers (with a few trivial exceptions) do not accept Bitcoin; they accept USD from Coinbase, who accepts BTC from purchasers. The volatility risk falls on Coinbase, not on eBay or Overstock, which is how the retailers want it, I'm sure. Until some retailer accepts BTC directly, there's nothing new under the sun.
And I'll make an avatar bet that Coinbase is hacked before the end of the year. It's just too tempting a target for the scammers. If you want a source for my "one in eight" claim, I listed the major thefts in the previous thread. Including Mt. Gox, the total was something around 1.5 million BTC, or about one in eight of all BTC ever mined. |
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Here you go; it wasn't my post but the numbers are the same.
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11th September 2014, 11:13 AM | #59 |
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. You aren't doing yourself any favors by living in denial or moving goalposts.
Bitcoin will probably be replaced eventually as the main crypto currency but that's not different than many new products. Someone puts the first one out there, issues are discovered, others get into the market, improvements are made, and someone else becomes #1. |
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I'm not sure where you get the idea that I've moved the goalposts; you just said pretty much what I said in my posts about the VPL. The encryption tech is the appealing thing; that's what the big banks will coopt and roll out as the VPL or similar. BTC will go back to being the currency of choice for drug dealers and child-porn purveyors, and the would-be get-rich-quick speculators who got burned in the various thefts will go on about their way, poorer but hopefully wiser in the ways of chasing rainbows.
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That article (which is referring to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=576337) classifies every bitcoin loss as "theft" regardless of how the loss incurred. Even forgetting your encryption password is counted as a theft. It is meaningless.
Trusting larges sums of bitcoins to third party repositories of unknown reliability is a separate issue from bitcoin itself. ie MtGox is a MtGox issue - not a bitcoin issue. You have raised nothing new. The fact remains that if you take sensible precautions with the storage and trading of your bitcoins, the risks are no higher than with any other form of money (whether it be a currency or not). |
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I have. All i can do with it is speculate. That's not really a product or a share or a currency, any more than lottery tickets with winnings in krusty dollars.
With some work, it seems a viable technology though. Which anyone can put to use. |
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Remember? I was the one who explained what happened in How To Use Bitcoin – The Most Important Creation In The History Of Man - post #4765.
Of course you are confirming that this is a MtGox issue - not a bitcoin issue. I haven't heard of any other exchanges being stupid enough to fall for transaction malleability type scams since but no exchange is totally secure. |
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Maybe you missed post #37.
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BTC can be used us a currency, but it is not well suited to the purpose because its value fluctuates so wildly. That's why retailers who want to be "hip" and "edgy" are saying "We accept Bitcoin*!" with the asterisk being "What we mean is, we accept USD from a company that deals in Bitcoin. We don't want BTC on our balance sheet, ever."
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Yes, if enough people accepted it. Hot dogs doesn't seem to be very practical though.
So the problem isn't that you can't use it as currency, but that it doesn't fit some specific definition of currency? I don't care what you call it, it's a medium of exchange, a token used for money, hence justifiably called a currency. You know, like crypto-currency. |
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In other news, the Bank of England has now co-signed the idea of the Bitcoin concept, and the related technology, labeling it as "revolutionary."
http://www.businessinsider.com/bank-...bitcoin-2014-9
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After you *snip* 90% of my post to leave only the part where I say you're doing exactly that. You're now falling into self-parody. It's very clear at this point that you DON'T want to be participating in this discussion anymore and are only doing so in vague attempts to save face. Which won't work because I have a long memory, a search function, and a strong desire to hold you and others accountable. You were dead-wrong in your behavior, your claims, AND your knowledge. Admit it. |
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