On 2011-06-11 3:12 PM, James A. Donald wrote:
On 2011-06-11 1:58 PM, Peter Gutmann wrote:
I wouldn't call bitcoins digital cash. They're more like digital tulip
bulbs,
Misattribution, that was John Levine, not Peter Gutman.
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On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 02:16:55AM -, John Levine wrote:
In article 021ccba9-9203-4896-8412-481b94595...@cs.columbia.edu you write:
http://gcn.com/articles/2011/06/09/bitcoins-digital-currency-silk-road-charles-schumer-joe-manchin.aspx?s=gcndaily_100611
I wouldn't call bitcoins digital
BitCoin has only one problem: maintenance of the relationship between unit
BitCoin value and the material world (energy, as in KWh) is 'soft', it requires
some sort of a volatile communal effort, which sets it for failure (as a
counter example, the amount of Au atoms on this planet is rather
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 4:13 PM, John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote:
Unlike fiat currencies, algorithms assert limit of total volume.
And the mint and transaction infrastructure is decentral, so there's
no single point of control. These both are very useful properties.
Useful for something, but
;-)
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 4:13 PM, John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote:
Unlike fiat currencies, algorithms assert limit of total volume.
And the mint and transaction infrastructure is decentral, so there's
no single
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 3:13 PM, John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote:
(Anyone who thinks that a gold standard is better than what we have
now, or that the supply of gold is fixed in any but a purely
hypothetical sense, is either ignorant of economic history or shilling
for gold speculators.)
+1.
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:55:10AM -0400, Thierry Moreau wrote:
- Anybody has examples of source code distribution practical
arrangements for other specialized Linux distributions?
I don't quite see a problem with distributing source code for a
specialized Linux distribution. For example, we