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Awesome Bitcoin Marketplace/Auction site
« on: January 21, 2012, 10:52:07 PM »
I don't know if you are a bitcoin enthusist or not... but I sure as hell am -- though I have never used bitcoin. This is the best to date bitcoin marketplace/auction site I have ever seen and want to promote it as much as possible.

http://tinyurl.com/bitcoinmit

Not sure if anyone here really uses bitcoin, but I assume most people have heard of it. :P

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Re: Awesome Bitcoin Marketplace/Auction site
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2012, 03:18:16 AM »
cool its like a really sneaky ebay :)

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Re: Awesome Bitcoin Marketplace/Auction site
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2012, 03:58:07 AM »
If they can gain some momentum it will be great, but if they get stuck small it will, well, go nowhere.
off to bigger and better things - don't worry I will visit from time to time

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Re: Awesome Bitcoin Marketplace/Auction site
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2012, 06:27:26 AM »
Yeah, I think I am going to do whatever I can to help them out. :)

I've always wanted to get bitcoins, and I do like to sell things.
Win win.
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Re: Awesome Bitcoin Marketplace/Auction site
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2012, 11:43:02 AM »
given the overall hassles associated with acquiring bitcoins, I don't see this taking off. All that stuff can more quickly be purchased without those itinerant hassles.
Generally speaking, anonymity devices such as bitcoins, tor/onion, i2p, etc have a (serious) tendency to gravitate towards nefarious activity.
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Re: Awesome Bitcoin Marketplace/Auction site
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2012, 11:27:06 PM »
Yeah they do - for sure.
But I also think there are a lot of idealistic people out there who want to see bitcoin succeed for non-nefarious activities - such as myself.

Plus, it has various other benefits  that border on the line of nefarious, etc.





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Re: Awesome Bitcoin Marketplace/Auction site
« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2012, 01:53:16 AM »
I love the idea, and RAW wrote about virtual money in the Illuminati Papers back in 1978. Virtual currency was actually pioneered back in the early 1980's; and as an editorial columnist very astutely put it, if Bitcoin is the friendster of p2p currency, there will be a facebook.
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Re: Awesome Bitcoin Marketplace/Auction site
« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2012, 02:33:54 AM »
Wow love the way you put that!

Also - F. A Hayek - (Austrian economist) wrote, or gave a lecture about a  Free-Market Monetary System and the pretense of knowledge or something. He makes some very good points on why it would be better to have currency be part of the free market and not controlled by the government - that it would be good to have competing currencies, and so on...

So he makes a pretty good argument for bitcoin - but also talks about why a highly deflationary money - which bitcoin is... does not make a good currency as it is to some degree inhibitory to transactions... I.e no one wants to incur a debt in a unit that is going to be increasing in value.


The issue is actually pretty damn complex, and it is hard to tell to what extent bitcoin is going to succeed - but I think it already has a lot of work cut out for it.

The Pirate Bay founder I believe invested all of his savings into bitcoin.

So far bitcoin...
Can be used to purchase anything on Amazon.com
Can be used to purchase illict drugs online anonymously
Can be used to purchase gold/silver bullion
Can be exchanged for USD, Euro and other currencies.
Extremely protable – No regulations or much fees for transfering from country to country, etc...

One of the bigger downers is that the FBI has admitted to interfering with competing currencies and I suspect they might see bitcoin as a minor threat to the current system.
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Re: Awesome Bitcoin Marketplace/Auction site
« Reply #8 on: January 23, 2012, 11:56:37 AM »
electronic currency is a one of signs of the arrival of Dajjal.
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Re: Awesome Bitcoin Marketplace/Auction site
« Reply #9 on: January 23, 2012, 06:30:46 PM »
Ha, not sure what you mean, what do you mean? lol
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Re: Awesome Bitcoin Marketplace/Auction site
« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2012, 06:42:20 PM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpayDy4I1Lg

specifically 1 minute 50 second mark
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Re: Awesome Bitcoin Marketplace/Auction site
« Reply #11 on: January 23, 2012, 11:26:01 PM »
Bitcoin doesn't allow for that though. :)
Its essentially digital gold - but better. Bitcoin is limited and no more will ever exist after a certain point. It will be deflationary and it will not be subject to governments creating more. Its something Ron Paul would likely support.  ( I just bring him up as he was shown in the video nearing the time of 1:50-ish)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx16a72j__8


I think if you studied bitcoin, you'd understand that it actually liberates currency/sales/transactions etc away from bankers and governments.

Though, I could be wrong.. I don't know - look into it more, let me know what you think?
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Re: Awesome Bitcoin Marketplace/Auction site
« Reply #12 on: January 24, 2012, 04:18:51 AM »
you can only "buy" bitcoins with actual currency. so it's worthless like the rest of money.

Only way for society to prosper is a resource based economy. Bitcoins are not a resource.

Idealism is good conversation, but reality is reality.
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Re: Awesome Bitcoin Marketplace/Auction site
« Reply #13 on: January 24, 2012, 05:07:14 AM »
yea, and "credit", "interest" and "equity" aren't resources either. let's not talk about what's "reality", that's highly debateable. by your reasoning, inflation isn't real either, but unfortunately it's a fact of life we have to deal with.
society as a whole  can't prosper from a resource-based economy, or else there wouldn't be such a disproportionate allocation of resources. the few have control of the vast amount of resources, free market systems are an illusion, and true democracy is a nice thought, but not "reality". those concepts epitomize idealism, yet  they're more like the systemic mindwashing the US gov't has pounded into the psyches of youngsters since the early 50's, eager to hump the american dream.

 the 'reality' is, yesterday's science fiction is today's science. while you're stuck on materialism, more abstract/nonlinear concepts are pondered and tested by forward-thinkers.  that's 'virtual reality'.
virtual funds are not unlike using electronic funds from bank routing, except centralized banks can't collect interest from it.. but of course people fear or shun what they can't understand, so what else is new

the resources are computing resources, the money is backed by an algorithm. that may be too much for you to wrap your head around, but that's basically how it works.

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Re: Awesome Bitcoin Marketplace/Auction site
« Reply #14 on: January 24, 2012, 05:46:21 AM »
wow, you sure are angry. And misguided about others intellect. Explain; how it helps somehow for you to feel like you know it all...

Somehow I struck a chord. Feel free to lay down on the couch and tell us more about yourself.

Don't worry, you wont hurt my feelings ; )
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Re: Awesome Bitcoin Marketplace/Auction site
« Reply #15 on: January 24, 2012, 06:00:25 AM »
Neither of you better start or continue this potential flame war.
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Re: Awesome Bitcoin Marketplace/Auction site
« Reply #16 on: January 24, 2012, 12:15:22 PM »
apologies for anything unproductively written in the heat of a response.
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Re: Awesome Bitcoin Marketplace/Auction site
« Reply #17 on: January 24, 2012, 01:01:06 PM »
not angry at all, apologies if it seemed like I was. there's no shortage of naysayers who just can't fathom the concept of interest-free currency that isn't backed by a physical standard. Fine... but electronic currency is here, and we're only going to see more forms of it.
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Re: Awesome Bitcoin Marketplace/Auction site
« Reply #18 on: January 24, 2012, 01:42:36 PM »
not angry at all, apologies if it seemed like I was. there's no shortage of naysayers who just can't fathom the concept of interest-free currency that isn't backed by a physical standard.

I can handle the backing free currency but what I have trouble handling is the idea of a complete and utter market crash due to the ease of counterfeiting said currency. Think of how simple it is to produce a fake of something that lacks any and all water marks and security features that a bill has. Im sure there are some measures in place to prevent counterfeits but I question if there good enough.... because in the end, security features to prevent fakes are NEVER good enough.

In a system where money is being printed fakes do damage but the system recovers, if there is a limited amount like those of Bitcoins then fakes would crash the entire market at a rapid pace.
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Re: Awesome Bitcoin Marketplace/Auction site
« Reply #19 on: January 24, 2012, 02:37:06 PM »
what value do bitcoins have if our current currencies falter and fail?

and if electricity becomes relatively hard to come by, what then?

I am not arguing that the electronicalization (yes that's a new word I just made up) of currencies is happening. I just believe its a sign of the end times.
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