Today's NYT piece on BitCoin: h ttp://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/12/21/into-the-bitcoin-mines/?_r=0
-TJ On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. 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