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It will be difficult to make any change in this to open up for alternatives like Google; there's so much entrenched interest/power among cable MSOs and telcos. Hence, the best shot…

I'm suggesting that if you believe in the model, and even the most obvious ramifications of such an economy, the value of participating in the system is to be as far upstream as po…

It's not the same as taking early risks; this is a very constrained and artificial environment in which bitcoins are generated. One can be pretty certain that if one generates coin…

There have been attempts to fix the value of gold for currency purposes, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Gold_Pool but these tend to simply prove the silliness of bothering wit…

This would be a significantly better project than bitcoin, and it would be possible, it just wouldn't serve the same purpose. What it would do is value time and effort; what it wou…

Since bitcoins are inherently deflationary, it's hard to argue that they make a poor investment vehicle. However, it's the inherent long-term lack of liquidity that dooms this usag…

superfluid has functionality for commercial (with IRS-reporting, per jambo) and non-commercial efforts. So it handles both the barter exchange and favor-bank sort of model. -The IR…