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Hey... I'm Fluttershy. I saw this site and made an account. I hope you don't mind...
Tuesday, 05-Apr-11 01:06:59 UTC from web-
Tuesday, 12-Mar-13 19:36:20 UTC from web
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@widget It hasn't, strictly speaking, failed as of yet. Leaving aside the hyperbolic claims issued by people trying to spike its value for their own gain, as a project it's coming along at a fairly reasonable rate. Even the blockchain glitch that happened was rolled...sideways according to the developers original plan.
Tuesday, 12-Mar-13 19:38:18 UTC from web -
@widget Yeah, in terms of its implementation, it's rock solid. It's just unfortunate that it has, as you have said, failed in regards of its lofty goals of reforming financial systems. (It is in fact, serving to prop up the systems it set out to replace because all anyone wants bitcoins for is to export them to "real money")
Tuesday, 12-Mar-13 19:42:20 UTC from web -
@widget I assume you mean "as an actual currency" rather than as a speculative investment. First, they need a "foundation" in the style of Mozilla, to promote advocacy, and help shed the image that it's basically for drug users and that guy who called red subliterate. A partnership with a real retailer would help. The software needs to be easier to use too. Bring in compressed blockchains and the ability to download the app without the resource intensive mining component so that simply having a bitcoin wallet doesn't MAX OUT YOUR CPU AND GPU by its mere presence. That seems like a start.
Tuesday, 12-Mar-13 19:53:19 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark I also dislike that my wallet can be wiped out by a hard drive failure. I'm guessing there are simple ways to protect against that, but the average user probably won't be bothered.
Tuesday, 12-Mar-13 20:04:29 UTC from web-
@pony Encrypt your wallet and put it in dropbox. You're done. There are also various services who will host a wallet online, but then you're trusting your funds to their security measures. If that's an acceptable trade, then you're done.
Tuesday, 12-Mar-13 20:07:30 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark I'll have to do that if I ever create a new wallet.
Tuesday, 12-Mar-13 20:20:15 UTC from web
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@ceruleanspark >and that guy who called red subliterate
Tuesday, 12-Mar-13 21:24:07 UTC from web-
@redenchilada He seems like the kind of guy who'd have a definite fetish for untraceable currency.
Tuesday, 12-Mar-13 21:25:05 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark Also may very fall under the "drug user" category already.
Tuesday, 12-Mar-13 21:25:47 UTC from web
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@widget Yeah. There are other clients, but it should be the job of the "official" client to lead the way.
Tuesday, 12-Mar-13 20:00:07 UTC from web -
@widget Yeah. Equally, if someone steals your unencrypted wallet, they have your bitcoins and you can't recover them.
Tuesday, 12-Mar-13 20:09:33 UTC from web -
@widget I think you'd need to ask an economist that one. I think it's covered by the infinite sub-divisibility of units of BTC. I think?
Tuesday, 12-Mar-13 20:14:56 UTC from web -
@widget Simple deflation.
Tuesday, 12-Mar-13 22:00:38 UTC from web
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