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Er zitten meerdere interessante tussen.
Over energieverbruik:
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Ironic if we end up having to choose between economic liberty and conservation.
Unfortunately, proof of work is the only solution I've found to make p2p e-cash work without a trusted third party. Even if I wasn't using it secondarily as a way to allocate the initial distribution of currency, PoW is fundamental to coordinating the network and preventing double-spending.
If it did grow to consume significant energy, I think it would still be less wasteful than the labour and resource intensive conventional banking activity it would replace. The cost would be an order of magnitude less than the billions in banking fees that pay for all those brick and mortar buildings, skyscrapers and junk mail credit card offers.
Hé, een Nederlander:
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Martien van Steenbergen Martien at AardRock.COM
Thu Feb 12 08:40:53 CET 2009
Very interesting. Is this akin to David Chaum's anonymous digital money? His concept makes sure money is anonymous unless it is compromised, i.e. the same money spent more than once. As soon as it's compromised, the ‘counterfeiter’ is immediately publicly exposed.
Also, in bitcoin, is there a limited supply of money (that must be managed)? Or is money created exaclty at the moment of transaction?
Succes en plezier,
Martien.
Over de waarde per unit:
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My choice for the number of coins and distribution schedule was an educated guess. It was a difficult choice, because once the network is going it's locked in and we're stuck with it. I wanted to pick something that would make prices similar to existing currencies, but without knowing the future, that's very hard. I ended up picking something in the middle. If Bitcoin remains a small niche, it'll be worth less per unit than existing currencies. If you imagine it being used for some fraction of world commerce, then there's only going to be 21 million coins for the whole world, so it would be worth much more per unit. Values are 64-bit integers with 8 decimal places, so 1 coin is represented internally as 100000000. There's plenty of granularity if typical prices become small. For example, if 0.001 is worth 1 Euro, then it might be easier to change where the decimal point is displayed, so if you had 1 Bitcoin it's now displayed as 1000, and 0.001 is displayed as 1.
Over Ripple:
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Ripple is interesting in that it's the only other system that does something with
trust besides concentrate it into a central server.
(...)
As
trust systems go, Ripple is unique in spreading
trust around rather than concentrating it.
Over de term "cryptocurrency":
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Someone came up with the word "cryptocurrency"... maybe it's a word we should use when describing Bitcoin, do you like it?
Deze mail heeft wat aandacht gekregen vanwege het gebruik van "retarted" en het reconstrueren van een tijdlijn om de identiteit van Satoshi te achterhalen:
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I know this sounds really retarded, but I still haven't been able to get the sourceforge login page to load, so I haven't been able to read it either.
https://sourceforge.net/account/login.phpHal isn't currently actively involved. He helped me a lot defending the design on the Cryptography list, and with initial testing when it was first released. He carried this torch years ago with his Reusable Proof Of Work (RPOW).
I'm not going to be much help right now either, pretty busy with work, and need a break from it after 18 months development.
It would help if there was something for people to use it for. We need an application to bootstrap it. Any ideas?
There are donors I can tap if we come up with something that needs funding, but they want to be anonymous, which makes it hard to actually do anything with it.
En nog meer informatie over de tijdlijn (deze mail is van 16 mei 2010):
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I've also been busy with other things for the last month and a half. I just now downloaded my e-mail since the beginning of April. I mostly have things sorted and should be back to Bitcoin shortly. Glad that you've been handling things in my absence. Congrats on your first transaction!
Over "unix snobbery"
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I had been wondering why everyone keeps harping on no-UI, when already you can run it with only a small icon on the tray, which is common for server services on Windows. So I guess this is why. I had chalked it
up to unix snobbery if they couldn't abide a tiny little icon on a desktop they never see.
Over een eerste donatie:
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BTW, it's looking like I may be able to get us some money soon to cover web host costs, back your exchange service, etc, in the form of cash in the mail. Can you receive it and act as the project's treasurer?
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I got a donation offer for $2000 USD. I need to get your postal mailing address to have him send to. And yes, he wants to remain anonymous, so please keep the envelope's origin private.
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I take it you haven't received anything from that donor yet? He seemed pretty certain he was going to send it, maybe more. (if you get anything, we need to keep private for him the fact that we got a donation)
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I will try to think of a polite way to ask the donor if he sent it, but right now there are other higher priority things that are going to bump even that for a few days.
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Good news: I received the donation of $3600. At least the hosting costs are no problem anymore.
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That's great! I'll let him know it was received and thank him.
It might be a long time before we get another donation like that, we should save a lot of it.
Spend what you need on hosting. Email me a simple accounting when you take out money for expenses, like:
-$60 rackspace monthly
$2540 balance
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I deposited the donation to a bank as euros. The donation was actually not $3600 but 3500$. I miscalculated it as it was packed in (18 + 17) * $100 instead of (18 + 18) * $100.
$3500 made 2608.28¤.
-750¤ to back up BitcoinExchange.com
-28.92¤ for the hosting in July
1829¤ balance
Over anonimiteit:
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I think we should de-emphasize the anonymous angle. With the popularity of bitcoin addresses instead of sending by IP, we can't give the impression it's automatically anonymous. It's possible to be pseudonymous, but you have to be careful. If someone digs through the transaction history and starts exposing information people thought was anonymous, the backlash will be much worse if we haven't prepared expectations by warning in advance that you have to take precautions if you really want to make that work. Like Tor says, "Tor does not magically encrypt all of your Internet activities. Understand what Tor does and does not do for you."
Also, anonymous sounds a bit shady. I think the people who want anonymous will still figure it out without us trumpeting it.
In versie 0.3 van Bitcoin zat al een Nederlandse vertaling:
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- German, Dutch and Italian translations (thanks to DataWraith, Xunie and Joozero)
Xunie lijkt ook een Nederlander te zijn:
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(I don't know Xunie, but he hasn't posted for months and he was a goofball)
Satoshi schuift iemand anders (Gavin Andresen) naar voren om de pers te woord te staan:
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> Satoshi, I assume you don't want to
> deal with press/PR/interviews ?
True
> We could decline to talk to the press-- Satoshi, I know you've
> expressed concern about bitcoin growing too big too fast, and being
> unable to keep up with traffic/attacks/feature requests/etc. But I
> don't think ignoring the press will make them go away; they'll just
> talk to somebody else. I think it is better to give a realistic
> impression of bitcoin (it is cutting-edge, beta software that is still
> being developed, it is not poised to replace PayPal or the Euro
> anytime soon, etc) rather than let somebody over-enthusiastic become
> "the unofficial bitcoin spokesperson."
You're the best person to do it.
Over een conferentie op 4-6 april 2011 in Amsterdam (uitnodiging van ene Douwe Lycklama):
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Looks like an excellent opportunity to reach an important audience that doesn't follow Slashdot or Reddit. I'd recommend this job for Gavin or Bruce Wagner. Or maybe there can be two attendees. S3052 from the forum also seemed potentially competent.
Gavin, would you be interested in organizing this?
I make it a thing, to glance in window panes and look pleased with myself.