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Bitcoin reaches $200

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Re: Bitcoin reaches $200

#11

Post by hollerith »

camus wrote: post #7

Web devs , you are stupid sorry. JS is disabled on my browser and i get "Your browser sucks!" . Do you really think that makes me want to turn on javascript on your website ? no. My browser(chrome with js disabled) may suck , but if you cant provide at least a message like , 'please turn on javascript' instead of insulting me , then F. you . I'm not going to turn JS on on your website.

You're not missing anything :)

Re: Bitcoin reaches $200

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Post by andyhmltn »

camus wrote: post #7

Web devs , you are stupid sorry. JS is disabled on my browser and i get "Your browser sucks!" . Do you really think that makes me want to turn on javascript on your website ? no. My browser(chrome with js disabled) may suck , but if you cant provide at least a message like , 'please turn on javascript' instead of insulting me , then F. you . I'm not going to turn JS on on your website.

A) It's insulting your browser, not you. Don't take it to heart it looks like a joke.

B) Your browser DOES suck if you're not using javascript.

Re: Bitcoin reaches $200

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Post by pjurik2 »

aet wrote: post #2

Maybe bitcoin should split (like a stock).

There are rumors[1] that MtGox will be announcing Litecoin and Namecoin support this week, which may alleviate things. (Litecoin has four times the number of mine-able coins that Bitcoin has and its proponents refer to it as the silver to Bitcoin's gold.)

[1] Based on their API responding to LTC/USD requests (http://data.mtgox.com/api/2/LTCUSD/money/ticker) and some Twitter chatter.

Re: Bitcoin reaches $200

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Post by Mahn »

anonymouz wrote: post #8
Mahn wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or it's not, and Bitcoins reach a rate of thousands of dollars eventually. I guess it's 50/50 for the buyers now.

> I guess it's 50/50 for the buyers now. You need to retake basic probability.

Are you suggesting it's substantially more likely that it will crash?

Re: Bitcoin reaches $200

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Post by bitbubble »

Mahn wrote: post #14
anonymouz wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I guess it's 50/50 for the buyers now. You need to retake basic probability.

Are you suggesting it's substantially more likely that it will crash?

the crash will come, the question is at what price and what will be the floor after the crash. Is it a bubble if it goes to 100000 and crashes to 5000? yes, but still good for bitcoin I suppose

Re: Bitcoin reaches $200

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Post by Mahn »

camus wrote: post #7

Web devs , you are stupid sorry. JS is disabled on my browser and i get "Your browser sucks!" . Do you really think that makes me want to turn on javascript on your website ? no. My browser(chrome with js disabled) may suck , but if you cant provide at least a message like , 'please turn on javascript' instead of insulting me , then F. you . I'm not going to turn JS on on your website.

Honest question: why do you turn off js? it's usually very unlikely for js to be able do anything remotely malicious, specially with the sandboxed model of Chrome.

I used to use NoScript with Firefox, but at some point I realized it was completely pointless and more of an annoyance than anything else and ditched it. I've never seen js compromise my machine since then.

(Flash and Java are a different story though, I wouldn't be comfortable with those always enabled)

Re: Bitcoin reaches $200

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Post by brazzy »

Mahn wrote: post #6
brazzy wrote: post #3

At this rate, the crash is a single-digit number of days away...

Or it's not, and Bitcoins reach a rate of thousands of dollars eventually. I guess it's 50/50 for the buyers now.

Eventually, perhaps. At the current rate (doubling every few days), definitely not (for long).

Re: Bitcoin reaches $200

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Post by aet »

wladimir wrote: post #4
aet wrote: post #2

Maybe bitcoin should split (like a stock).

It is already possible to select mBTC (1/1,000) and μBTC (1/1,000,000) units in the client. That should be sufficient, at least for now. For nBTC (1/1,000,000,000) the 8 digits in the protocol are no longer enough, thus some more work will be necessary. But let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Thanks, didn't know that
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