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BitCoin, WTF?
    #14571063 - 06/06/11 07:22 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

So am I understanding this right?
Bitcoin is like Folding@Home, but instead of doing good for humanity, you get paid in droogz?

:awetrippie:


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Re: BitCoin, WTF? [Re: Doc_T]
    #14571068 - 06/06/11 07:23 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

i thought bitcoin was just a way to pay people online that is ultra mega secure


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Re: BitCoin, WTF? [Re: Doc_T]
    #14571071 - 06/06/11 07:24 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

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Doc_T said:
So am I understanding this right?
Bitcoin is like Folding@Home, but instead of doing good for humanity, you get paid in droogz?

:awetrippie:




Well, kinda. Yes. You can buy all sorts of things with BitCoins though. Let's not draw attention to the cool things. :smile:


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Re: BitCoin, WTF? [Re: ifoundwaldo]
    #14571079 - 06/06/11 07:25 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

Yeah, but unless you set up a big bitcoin mining farm then you will make about 30 bucks a year.


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Re: BitCoin, WTF? [Re: Caine]
    #14571104 - 06/06/11 07:31 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

BitCoins will never succeed in the long term. It's already slowly beginning to gain a terrible reputation with its link to online criminal activity.

It may seem like a good idea but there's already been a whole range of anonymous payment methods available online.


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Re: BitCoin, WTF? [Re: Doc_T]
    #14571156 - 06/06/11 07:47 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

Theyre going through a temporary spike. I think you can make something like 16 bucks a day from mining.


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Re: BitCoin, WTF? [Re: MisterMuscaria]
    #14571161 - 06/06/11 07:49 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

How much you make really depends on what kind of parallel processing power you can put together.

Some guy in my ethical hacking class had put together something like 4 top-of-the-line graphics cards running in parallel.
Initially expensive, but he will eventually make his money back and then some.


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Re: BitCoin, WTF? [Re: MisterMuscaria]
    #14571164 - 06/06/11 07:50 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

mining what?

mining minerals and vespene gas?

or do they use your comp for data-mining purposes, and you get paid for that?

http://tinyurl.com/42hh9qb

i'm interested, i could use some extra money fo dr00gz


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Re: BitCoin, WTF? [Re: I AM SWIM]
    #14571288 - 06/06/11 08:14 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

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mining what?

mining minerals and vespene gas?




you gave me some starcraft loll's there.  thanks!


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Re: BitCoin, WTF? [Re: memes]
    #14571296 - 06/06/11 08:16 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

data mining


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Re: BitCoin, WTF? *DELETED* [Re: I AM SWIM]
    #14571298 - 06/06/11 08:17 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

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Re: BitCoin, WTF? [Re: Oldgregg]
    #14571321 - 06/06/11 08:21 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

We should start our own shroomery pool.


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    #14571362 - 06/06/11 08:27 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

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Re: BitCoin, WTF? [Re: Oldgregg]
    #14571394 - 06/06/11 08:33 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

Not a chance you're making 16$ a day, for most computers you'll spend more in energy bills than you would make out of it.  Not particularly efficient :shrug:


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Re: BitCoin, WTF? [Re: bbl337]
    #14571406 - 06/06/11 08:37 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

yeha, if you could just build computers and mine all the money, then companies would be set up to do it.  the ease of mining varies depending on the amount of processing being used to mine at taht point in time.

The number of bitcoins in existance is on a logarithmic scale, and will approach 21,000,000 over time

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/File:Total_bitcoins_over_time_graph.png


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Re: BitCoin, WTF? [Re: memes]
    #14571413 - 06/06/11 08:39 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

Quote:

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The number of bitcoins in existance is on a logarithmic scale, and will approach 21,000,000 over time





But you can have less than one bitcoin right? Kinda seems like a loophole there.


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Re: BitCoin, WTF? [Re: Caine]
    #14571419 - 06/06/11 08:40 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

Thus the advent of the bitpenny.


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Re: BitCoin, WTF? [Re: bbl337]
    #14571422 - 06/06/11 08:41 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

Quote:

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Not a chance you're making 16$ a day, for most computers you'll spend more in energy bills than you would make out of it.  Not particularly efficient :shrug:




But if you run it in background you could make something rather than nothing.


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Re: BitCoin, WTF? [Re: MisterMuscaria]
    #14571454 - 06/06/11 08:48 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

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Thus the advent of the bitpenny.




Well not even the bitpenny, it's a separate concept, to compare the bitcoin to the abstract idea of the dollar: you can have less than a dollar. It should be possible to have .0001 dollars even though the fact that we have no physical tender to represent it makes it impossible. But with bitcoins that physical tender doesn't exist to limit your ability to have less than 1 bitcoin.

Doesn't it seem like that possibility would nullify the 21M bitcoin cap then? I mean eventually 1 bitcoin would hold so much face value due to inflation and bitcoin hoarding that even fractional amounts would have financial weight. But if you can keep moving down decimal places then it eventually displays asymptotic behavior.


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Re: BitCoin, WTF? [Re: Caine]
    #14571492 - 06/06/11 08:58 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

Its a weird concept.  Since i dont unerstand it enough - i wont use it for monies.


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Re: BitCoin, WTF? [Re: memes]
    #14571503 - 06/06/11 09:00 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

For every $15 you make, your electric bill will probably go up by 20.


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Re: BitCoin, WTF? [Re: memes]
    #14571508 - 06/06/11 09:00 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

pretty much you can "mine" bitcoins using your video card as a processor that trys to guess a really big and complex password.
    if it gets it right then you (or your mining pool splits) get 50 bit coins, theres only a limited amount of bit coins that can be found in any one week. The bitcoins can be used to pay for thangz on various series of interconnected tubes.


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Re: BitCoin, WTF? [Re: kintos]
    #14571710 - 06/06/11 09:35 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

Are they hackable?


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Re: BitCoin, WTF? [Re: Doc_T]
    #14571949 - 06/06/11 09:35 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

This thread has been closed.

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