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sc4k
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United Kingdom5454 Posts
April 18 2013 15:52 GMT
#21
I thought I read a news article recently saying that the bitcoin market had crashed?
ZenithM
Profile Joined February 2011
France15952 Posts
April 18 2013 15:52 GMT
#22
On April 19 2013 00:34 Marradron wrote:
Bitcoins is a bit like a pyramid scheme. The ones that benefit most by it becoming popular are the early adopters. They made a shitload of bitcoins in the time it was easy to mine them. They are the ones that benefit from a high demand/price of bitcoins. Although the general idea of the coin is good, with the way it was set up, I will not use it.

It's also what it seems to me. That's probably a new "gold rush" or something.
Icapica
Profile Joined February 2011
Finland206 Posts
April 18 2013 15:52 GMT
#23
On April 19 2013 00:22 zdfgucker wrote:Money only is worth something because we trust it's worth something and therefor accept it as a form of payment, credit, and so on. Try paying your groceries with Bitcoins and see what happens.

I can't pay my groceries with a ton of other currencies either, including dollars or pounds. I need euros for that. On the other hand, I can actually eat in a restaurant here and pay with bitcoins.
scDeluX
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
Canada1341 Posts
April 18 2013 15:53 GMT
#24


I think Krugman put it best, we don't need Bitcoin. Money only is worth something because we trust it's worth something and therefor accept it as a form of payment, credit, and so on.


Bitcoin was created just after the 2008 crash. A lot of people around the world do not trust banking and governement. Go read about what happened to zimbabwe currency inflation. It seems that enough people trust bitcoin right now because it has a value.

I work in fraud prevention so to me it is only a matter of time before this system gets figured out. .


If you are talking about figuring it out as in tracking the money then no, it's not possible if it stays in the bitcoin system. Getting it out is another story. As for making it crash by an attack, computers hackers have been trying for 5 years now with 1 successful attempt.


Are any of you guys miners? Trying to get a sense of the computation power it takes to mine them.


Yes I mine. Graphic card mining is kinda out of the game now but if you want to check out litecoin it's a great alternative for gpu mining. Check out reddit.com/r/litecoinmining and the alternate cryptocurrency section on the official forum.


Bitcoins is a bit like a pyramid scheme. The ones that benefit most by it becoming popular are the early adopters. They made a shitload of bitcoins in the time it was easy to mine them. They are the ones that benefit from a high demand/price of bitcoins. Although the general idea of the coin is good, with the way it was set up, I will not use it.


That one is a valid concern for many. They feel like they've "missed the boat" so they don't want to get in. Some say early adopters should be rewarded (and have been now). It is worthy to note that only 30% of the "early" coins ever moved. Meaning that a lot of them have been lost or kept by early miners.
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Kimaker
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States2131 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-18 15:59:00
April 18 2013 15:55 GMT
#25
On April 19 2013 00:47 nadafanboy42 wrote:
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On April 19 2013 00:22 Kimaker wrote:
I would recommend zerohedge.com for anyone who really wants Bitcoin information.

Very heated debate typically, and the articles tend to be dense with financial language, but if you can wade through it you should get a good idea. Basically, these guys had the Bitcoin bubble predicted with a surprising amount of accuracy on top of being WAY ahead of the game in terms of financial information in general.

That being said, I strongly recommend that people without much financial know-how look into bitcoin (at least academically) as it will invariably lead to better understanding of what money is, how it's manipulated by Central Banks, and how detached our financial systems in the West are from reality.

Frightening actually.
On April 19 2013 00:22 zdfgucker wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/opinion/krugman-the-antisocial-network.html?_r=0

I think Krugman put it best, we don't need Bitcoin. Money only is worth something because we trust it's worth something and therefor accept it as a form of payment, credit, and so on. Try paying your groceries with Bitcoins and see what happens.

It's a gimmick, a toy, that you can play around for a while and some people probably made some good money off of Bitcoins. If they are smart, they don't gamble, though, and change it back to USD, EUR or whatever currency they prefer.

And you don't think the dollar or the Euro aren't equally "toys" detached from anything remotely imposed by natural scarcity? It's just a bigger game.

It's in the vested interest of the current money issuers (Central Banks) to stomp competition out (bitcoin). Really, they both function on the same premise and neither one is intrinsically superior to the other seeing as (in the case of the United States) the Federal Reserve is privately owned anyway.


One of the problems as Krugman pointed out is that one of the major benefits of paper money was to replace a currency (gold) which required sizeable infrastructure to produce, with a currency (paper) that required almost none, thus freeing up that infrastructure to produce other things. Bitcoin is doing the reverse, returning to a currency that (as time goes on) requires sizeable infrastructure to produce.

But what it really all comes down to is that all value is subjective. What a person is willing to pay for something is always based entirely on their subjective opinion on what they need or want. No currency or even a return to barter economy is going to change that.

Precisely.

It's simply that Central Banks have done a good job of convincing everyone that there are NO other alternatives. This clearly benefits the Financial Manipulators unfairly over everyone else as people come to see them as necessities rather than a CHOICE. Merely one available option in a wide marketplace of currency "producers".

It's things like Bitcoin which convince me that corporate territories replacing Nation-States is a viable future (if it already hasn't occurred seeing as I've heard a number of strong arguments to this end).

People don't realize, what we live under is Financial Mercantilism. Within a given geographic area the "Financial Colonies" of the "Mother Bank" may only trade through the Imperial Center of Trade (w/e the de facto currency is in your area). To pretend otherwise is to display your ignorance of modern finance.
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dudeman001
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States2412 Posts
April 18 2013 15:55 GMT
#26
Bitcoin is one of the most fascinating creations I've ever seen. Someone just made up a currency and a model for creating it and suddenly people are accepting it as having value. Personally I think the entire currency is silly, but my opinion doesn't matter. What the market thinks matters, and right now the market thinks a Bitcoin is worth 94 dollars.
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wozzot
Profile Joined July 2012
United States1227 Posts
April 18 2013 15:56 GMT
#27
As someone who's been following Bitcoin for a while, what I can say is that Bitcoin is both a excellent source of comedy and a great way to part gullible idiots from their money.

Only in Bitcoin can you have a 17-year-old run a currency exchange, shut it down, run away with hundreds of thousands of dollars, pretend to have gotten hacked, blame a mysterious Chinese jade collector, and have people actually believe him
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BrTarolg
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United Kingdom3574 Posts
April 18 2013 16:00 GMT
#28
Bitcoin speculation is indeed the fact that early adopters reap the rewards (like all technology)

However it's purpose isn't as a speculation vehicle, it's purpose is as a limited electronic currency that runs on mathematical principles, of which it's purpose is served very well for money launderers and the online black market (and as a good way to convert currency if you have the appropriate algo)

---

That of course, doesn't stop me speculating and doing crazy arbitrage everywhere lol

Hilarity ensued with the most gross mispricing of the binary options on IG that i've ever seen lol, arbitrage at it's best

I was also lucky(?) enough to be an extremely early adopter of a bunch of coins
ToT)OjKa(
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Korea (South)2437 Posts
April 18 2013 16:03 GMT
#29
I swear my friend spent like 2 days "researching" bitcoin and then spent ~£600 on a decent PC miner (he clocks ~660mhash/s). Then the market had a big ol' crash. He pool mines (many PCs break down a block) and says he'll probably make 1 coin every 22 days.

I did a bit of pool mining myself at an amazing 65mhash/s but I figured it won't be worth the electricity. It is kinda fun though, even though you're not actually doing anything as you run your graphics card to 100%, you get to see how long a block takes to break down and it's pretty cool seeing 4 blocks being broke in under 30 minutes each.

I read that the ASIC miners are gonna smash the market but none of them have been shipped yet?
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Erik.TheRed
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1655 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-18 16:08:06
April 18 2013 16:06 GMT
#30
Gonna have to agree with Krugman on this one. At best, bitcoin is an interesting social experiment but an extremely dangerous investment option. Most of the hardcore supporters that I've met have been anti-Obama libertarians that are under the impression that America has basically become totalitarian and that a "free" currency like bitcoin will empower people against the overwhelming pressures of gitmo, obamacare, gun control, and socialism. So I think a lot of the hype is political rather than practical (this may be different for people who actually use bitcoin to purchase things they can't buy with traceable money)

Remember in the first place why we trust the government with printing our money, setting a target interest rate, selling us bonds, and collecting taxes. Not only do they have the means to avoid a conflict of interest, but It's part of a social contract that everyone who lives here abides by-- otherwise they are welcome to move to Somalia.
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Sbrubbles
Profile Joined October 2010
Brazil5776 Posts
April 18 2013 16:16 GMT
#31
You'd probably be better off buying gold. At least you can make gold into something pretty at the end of the day.
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sob3k
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States7572 Posts
April 18 2013 16:19 GMT
#32
On April 19 2013 01:16 Sbrubbles wrote:
You'd probably be better off buying gold. At least you can make gold into something pretty at the end of the day.


yes, this is wonderful financial advice.

In Hungry Hungry Hippos there are no such constraints—one can constantly attempt to collect marbles with one’s hippo, limited only by one’s hippo-levering capabilities.
Sbrubbles
Profile Joined October 2010
Brazil5776 Posts
April 18 2013 16:21 GMT
#33
On April 19 2013 01:19 sob3k wrote:
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On April 19 2013 01:16 Sbrubbles wrote:
You'd probably be better off buying gold. At least you can make gold into something pretty at the end of the day.


yes, this is wonderful financial advice.



Yup, AND I didn't even charge for it.
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YouthSC
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United Kingdom355 Posts
April 18 2013 16:21 GMT
#34
Well anything that is transferable will see changes in its value through time and as offer and demand change. So everything we could use is going to be "polluted". The only way is to stick with it and bear with the consequences. Even if we went back to exchanging items, some would be "worth" more than others depending on their popularity (offer & demand).

Humans by nature want to get as much as possible, even if they don't need, so that's why finances are "polluted" and why communism doesn't work.
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c0ldfusion
Profile Joined October 2010
United States8293 Posts
April 18 2013 16:25 GMT
#35
On April 19 2013 00:53 scDeluX wrote:
Show nested quote +

Are any of you guys miners? Trying to get a sense of the computation power it takes to mine them.


Yes I mine. Graphic card mining is kinda out of the game now but if you want to check out litecoin it's a great alternative for gpu mining. Check out reddit.com/r/litecoinmining and the alternate cryptocurrency section on the official forum.


Thanks, I'll check it out. Another poster mentioned ASIC. Are you using any specialized hardware to mine now? And when you used to do GPU mining, did you have to write your own CUDA mining algo? What I'm trying to ask is what's in the mining algorithm that makes it parallelizable.

SpeaKEaSY
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States1070 Posts
April 18 2013 16:30 GMT
#36
I run a modest litecoin operatoin between a 7950 and 5750. Trade BTC and LTC on BTC-E.

I view bitcoin as an experiment, but I like the idea of competing currencies. The less centralization, the better.
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bonifaceviii
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada2890 Posts
April 18 2013 16:34 GMT
#37
As someone who works in AML, I'm obviously not Bitcoin's target market. I don't have anything against Bitcoin in principle, but there's some obvious implications to the whole anonymity thing.
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Kimaker
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States2131 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-18 16:40:00
April 18 2013 16:38 GMT
#38
On April 19 2013 01:06 Erik.TheRed wrote:
Gonna have to agree with Krugman on this one. At best, bitcoin is an interesting social experiment but an extremely dangerous investment option. Most of the hardcore supporters that I've met have been anti-Obama libertarians that are under the impression that America has basically become totalitarian and that a "free" currency like bitcoin will empower people against the overwhelming pressures of gitmo, obamacare, gun control, and socialism. So I think a lot of the hype is political rather than practical (this may be different for people who actually use bitcoin to purchase things they can't buy with traceable money)

Remember in the first place why we trust the government with printing our money, setting a target interest rate, selling us bonds, and collecting taxes. Not only do they have the means to avoid a conflict of interest, but It's part of a social contract that everyone who lives here abides by-- otherwise they are welcome to move to Somalia.

The Government doesn't print our money. The Fed is a private bank with a charter to print our national currency, which refuses to be audited, and has the entire country by the balls.

Imagine, if the Congress actually passed a law which put the power to print currency back in their hands?

1. It wouldn't happen because of the political power the Fed wields.
2. You'd need a volume of currency on standby equal to and globally as acceptable as all of the Federal Reserve Notes in circulation, AND a way to dispense it. This can never occur as it sets a bad precedent on multiple fronts. Other Central Banks will refuse to recognize the currency (fast enough) resulting in lost growth. They would claim that the new currency displays unstable characteristics because of the way it was changed resulting in lower exchange rates that it deserved hurting the whole geographic area utilizing the USD in terms of purchasing power.

Essentially the Fed cannot be removed wholesale and only through gradual decentralization of currency can their monopoly be broken.
Entusman #54 (-_-) ||"Gold is for the Mistress-Silver for the Maid-Copper for the craftsman cunning in his trade. "Good!" said the Baron, sitting in his hall, But Iron — Cold Iron — is master of them all|| "Optimism is Cowardice."- Oswald Spengler
Snorkle
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States1648 Posts
April 18 2013 16:39 GMT
#39
I wrote a paper on bitcoin for an upper division econ class that focused on international trade and currency. Although I don't own any I find them fascinating. So did the prof. Anyway if you are looking to invest you should probably look for something with utility outside of being a currency like precious metals. If you are looking to participate in an uprising against centralized banking or purchase items on a black market anonymously then gogo bitcoin.
Yuljan
Profile Blog Joined March 2004
2196 Posts
April 18 2013 16:40 GMT
#40
Never buy something that features in regular newspapers.
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