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Bitcoin is an experimental, decentralized digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network. The original Bitcoin software by Satoshi Nakamoto was released under the MIT license. Most client software, derived or "from scratch", also use open source licensing. Bitcoin is one of the first successful implementations of a distributed crypto-currency, described in part in 1998 by Wei Dai on the cypherpunks mailing list. Building upon the notion that money is any object, or any sort of record, accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts in a given country or socio-economic context, Bitcoin is designed around the idea of using cryptography to control the creation and transfer of money, rather than relying on central authorities.

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The Bitcoin Foundation is TOXIC and must dissolve, plus a call to action 19 May 2013 by Mike Gogulski Posted in activism , people | 1 Comment » [ *** If you like this, please click through to Reddit here , upvote the post, and post a reply either there or on bitcointalk.org. Thanks. *** ] My apologies for the length of this post, but I believe that it sums up what is broken with the Foundation, shows it is essentially unfixable, and includes at the end a call to action to form a new, democratically-constituted umbrella organization for the advancement and defense of cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin first and foremost among them. I also believe you will find it valuable reading, if you’re not already closely familiar with the matters at hand.

Mental Mind Chess | A Blog For Psych Majors States of Consciousness The Interpretation of Dreams Consciousness is the quality or state of being aware of an external object or something within oneself.[1][2] It has been defined as: subjectivity, awareness, sentience, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind.[3] Despite the difficulty in definition, many philosophers believe that there is a broadly shared underlying intuition about what consciousness is.[4] As Max Velmans and Susan Schneider wrote in The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness: “Anything that we are aware of at a given moment forms part of our consciousness, making conscious experience at once the most familiar and most mysterious aspect of our lives.”[5]

Prediction for a future event: “The Spike” « Real Virtual Currency Lately the Bitcoin price hasn’t been moving much, at least by Bitcoin standards, and has provided a nice respite from the price parroting that we witnessed in the last big run-up. In it’s place has flourished renewed exploration and discussion regarding the technology itself, how it can be incorporated, implemented, and improved. But don’t think for a minute that Bitcoin is going to plateau long-term around the $100+ mark. Observing the last two years, we can see that Bitcoin has two basic modes: steady-as-she-goes, and have-you-seen-my-beachball-bonkers.

Dynamic Designz Web-Development Log AppNexus.com Advertising – Spying on YOUR Internet Activity? Overview: AppNexus.com is to my understanding the second largest online advertising and marketing company next to Google’s famous “Adwords”. But how has AppNexus managed to obtain this statue in the world of advertising? ECC2013/Money Stream Stream 4: Money, Markets and Value Coordinator: Ludwig Schuster General overview Full description Documentation Discussion Group Blog posts UNIQ74732d74a78cbcb-feed-00000000-QINU Money, Markets, Value and the Commons - detailed stream description (DRAFT) The Day We Fight Back - February 11th 2014 Davos Elites Worried About Bitcoin and Other Disruptive Technologies » Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin News, BTC Trading Analysis, Chat and Forum As global elites converge on Davos for another grandiose international summit at taxpayer expense, one topic seems to be preying on their minds: disruptive technology. This article by Bloomberg’s Matthew Campbell, reporting from Davos, compares the emerging technological threats to various megacorps with the Internet’s historic challenge to record labels, travel agents and dead-tree media. We all know how that ended – and it seems even the 1% are scheduling some time away from the buffet tables and ski-slopes to fret over the situation. The $170 million InterContinental Hotel in Davos, Switzerland. Complete with barbed wire, motion sensors and security cameras, it is a true mountain fortress. The Bloomberg article quotes Dominic Barton of consultancy McKinsey & Co. as saying that CEOs of major corporations worry that “technology is moving three to five times faster than management.”

Showcasing the best of Bitcoin Bitcoin has arrived… and with it a new financial paradigm. The Bitcoin story has never been more compelling – nor its future brighter – yet, Main Street adoption remains elusive. Unlocking Bitcoin’s potential means educating the masses; it’s up to the Bitcoin community to tell its story in an effective, reliable, and creative way. A free print and digital guide to the Bitcoin ecosystem, yBitcoin showcases the best of Bitcoin to a global audience of businesses, financial leaders, investors and enthusiasts. yBitcoin demystifies the cryptocurrency revolution by delivering informative content side-by-side Bitcoin’s most innovative companies, eloquently showcasing Bitcoin’s utility and value proposition.

Ceci est le wiki en langue anglaise du Bitcoin, un site avec une interface simple, créé grâce à MediaWiki par Martti Malmi l’un des développeurs du Bitcoin, dans lequel une communauté d’utilisateurs collabore à la publication et à la modification de contenus autour d’un sujet, ici le Bitcoin. Il existe en plusieurs langues et les ressources y sont très nombreuses. On y trouve par exemple des liens vers des canaux IRC pour échanger en direct avec la communauté. Martti Malmi est aussi le fondateur du forum Bitcointalk qui vaut tout autant le détour. by joualy_groupec Feb 22

Ce site est une encyclopédie exclusivement dédié à Bitcoin, fournissant des articles plus complet, des liens utiles, un forum et des chatrooms permettant de bien assimiler le fonctionnement, les risques, etc. by gundert_groupeg_info Mar 2

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