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JimmyRopes wrote: How long ago did you buy it? Do you remember the price?
Years ago*, less than five BC. That sounds like "Wow" when you consider the top-price BC had, but it was a major meh at the time. There wasn't an official price-quote as far as I know.
*) It wasn't an eternity ago; but it's been more than 3 times 8 months[^]
A few years ago you'd need either a credit-card or a PayPal account to order something from the US, and I didn't have either. It was cool to order "a lot" of shareware-applications and to pay using my own computer.
From a binary file.
It did not beat the coolness-factor of getting "real" dollars at your bank, add in a carbon-copy paper and some cardboard to prevent people from holding it up to a lamp to see what's in there, and to seal it with lots of spit. It would get special stamps reading airmail and Priority Shipment, and an extra label for some weird customs.
JimmyRopes wrote: I am a little confused about if it will act like national currencies You mean "fiat", and no, it's not.
JimmyRopes wrote: have it's own rules due to lack of central bank manipulation. ..and due to other features. I'm guessing that it'll be a combination of the merits and problems of the two extremes; fiat and gold.
One of the most important features of a currency is the trust that one can use it for trade. That's the habit that has keeping fiat alive; that's the argument to dismiss gold as money.
BC OTOH now has to compete with a host of new cryptocurrencies. If more currencies become available to me, each of them accepted in my habitat, where would one place their eggs? Perhaps it is impossible to generate more BC, but it is obviously possible to generate more crypto-currencies.
JimmyRopes wrote: I am thinking of trading Bitcoin on the FX markets BC is still being introduced, and will not behave like the traditional patterns. Small events, speculation and rumours have a large impact on the price; acceptance and price change by the day, and it'll be impossible to use an AI to predict what will happen. If a single state prohibits it's use (or accepts taxes in BC), things will change very quickly.
If you want historic data, try this[^] chart. Click on "Load Raw Data" for a nice table
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Thanks for the information.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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It's very useful when you need to pay for assassinations you order, illegal pharmaceuticals transactions, those kind of things.
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If money is your hope for independence, you cannot reach it.
Being loved gives you strength,
while loving gives you courage.
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Sign me up.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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You'll find more traces of coke on a dollar than on a BitCoin
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Jimmy, recently I had to explain that to a lots of people in my entourage.
I wrote an entire explanation on medium[^].
It contains what I told you, plus some additional background, and in a more polished way.
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Thanks for the information.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Bitcoin is absolutely useless for lighting cigars.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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Anyone noticed in movies no one seems to use Windows the most popular OS, no one use Google the most popular search engine, no one uses internet explorer the most popular browser. Fiction indeed
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I guess it should have been the most popular desktop web browser.
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Even there I suspect you may be wrong: Chrome is doing very nicely as a desktop browser, FireFox is also popular - I cannot think of anyone I know who is using IE by choice (as opposed to because it is company policy). I have it installed - but only for website testing, never for "proper" browsing.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I use it by choice. Works fine. Most 'normal' people will not be bothered to install a new web browser. Most people wouldn't even know what it meant.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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I too use it by choice (IE11) as it seems to be a lot faster than Firefox or Chrome on my PC.
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I'm using IE11 and Chrome, atleast onee of them are always working.
I never use Firefox, it's more unstable then my wife.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: I never use Firefox, it's more unstable then my wife.
That's just about signature material right there.
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It's a very good thing that my wife is totally uninterested in the Codeproject, or I would experience instability at the level of FOOF[^].
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I take it you're a calm and patient man then. Bloody hell, FOOF make organic peroxides look like the kind of things you'd give kids to play with, in comparison. It even manages to make anhydrous Perchloric Acid look rather pedestrian.
No thanks! (to the FOOF)
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enhzflep wrote: I take it you're a calm and patient man then
I used to be, nowadays I'm more of nervous wreck. It's just my cynicism that keeps me up.
You know what they say, can't live with them, cant live without them.
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OriginalGriff wrote: W3Schools http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp[^] and they have no axe to grind!
No they don't have an ax to grind but they are gathering statistics about people who are visiting W3C websites. These are technical people and not representative of users in general.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
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I'm on-line therefore I am.
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Very true - but they are one of the few sites I am aware of that publish "live" data on month by month trends.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: they are one of the few sites I am aware of that publish "live" data on month by month trends.
Yes they do.
You need to be careful when comparing the data from W3C to other data because they measure unique visitors and others don't bother to do so. The exception is Net Applications, they try to get unique data also.
What I mean by unique is that they don't count as 20 if you visit 20 times from the same IP address, they count it as one. Others would count it as 20 for that type of browser so comparisons are difficult.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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It's always a problem. I hate it when the news says "Blah blah is up 168% on last year! That's terrible!" as they did last week. Without some kind of base number it's worthless 100 -> 168 is trivial, 100,000 -> 168,000 is significant!
Or Laboratoire elephanting Garnier: 78% of women agreed! (sample size: 8) Bah! Humbug!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I just don't trust Wiki that much: I can edit it, you can edit it, Dalek Dave has been known to edit it... It's useful, but you need some backup - which is why I gave the W3Schools link as well.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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