Just like other digital replacements (think of Kindle/Ebooks .. nice to read, but hard to share and sell, but update instantly) there are speed bumps not yet resolved.
But when they are, BC may easily become the first internationally accepted currency. Or at least a node in the "money is fungible" pipeline. -- Owen On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Patrick Reilly < [email protected]> wrote: > Any really-existing government favors the interests of those who have > ownership "rights" within that insant society, and these "owners" > generally benefit by maintaining currency stability, except for periodic > spasms of orchestrated bank-thievery. > > But Bitcoin lacks the general predominance of influence of the dominant > class in generally maintaining value-stability. So I don't believe that BtC > will become a currency, but i do expect BtC to become a > "mainstream" asset. > > > On Sunday, December 22, 2013, Pamela McCorduck wrote: > >> We're agreed that currency is a consensual illusion, but I'm in the habit >> of relying on government backing it. I don't say it's any realer. Just my >> habit. >> >> >> On Dec 22, 2013, at 1:19 PM, cody dooderson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I don't think Bitcoins are any more fake than the rest of the currencies >> we use. A hundred dollar bill is just a slip of paper without the belief >> that it's worth something. >> >> Cody Smith >> >> >> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Patrick Reilly < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Well, BtC can't be a currency, that's for sure. >>> >>> >>> On Friday, December 20, 2013, Gillian Densmore wrote: >>> >>>> Greetings fellow technomacers >>>> In light of the puzles around dot coin mining such as bitcoin: >>>> There is a mining (big ass number making) technology that only >>>> Heizenberg would understand. Even then I'm not so sure . :P >>>> Called scrypt >>>> I've decided to upgrade my technomancer knowledge slightly and try it >>>> out. >>>> There's lots of mining consortiums around one that i'm trying out is at >>>> cryptologik <http://cryptologik.com/> >>>> >>>> cryptologik.com >>>> >>>> I'm wondering if someone with a head for math that wasn't bent with >>>> strange and wonderful notions of Nash Euiliberiumbs, and group philosophy >>>> that seem to say basicly: Humans are bat ass crazy: >>>> What i'm wondering is this: >>>> Is it me or does this Bitcoin thing seem like an enormous fad? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I also find it a little amusing that my macbook plays with coin mining >>>> software better than my winderz box. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> The information contained in this transmission may contain privileged >>> and confidential information. It is intended only for the use of the >>> person(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are >>> hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or duplication >>> of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended >>> recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies >>> of the original message. To reply to our email administrator directly, >>> please send an email to [email protected]. >>> >>> ============================================================ >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >>> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >>> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> >> >> > > -- > The information contained in this transmission may contain privileged and > confidential information. It is intended only for the use of the person(s) > named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby > notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or duplication of > this communication is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended > recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies > of the original message. To reply to our email administrator directly, > please send an email to [email protected]. > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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