tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81095626053416994092024-03-14T08:25:08.582+01:00Social Innovation !!We can change the system. Wake up !!!Michele1940http://www.blogger.com/profile/00757754796970803830noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8109562605341699409.post-40962715412464918392012-02-28T16:17:00.000+01:002012-02-28T16:17:42.578+01:00Google Wave: Flop Crunch - w3crunch<a href="http://w3crunch.com/google-wave-flop-crunch/#.T0zwAMVnrKw.blogger">Google Wave: Flop Crunch - w3crunch</a>Michele1940http://www.blogger.com/profile/00757754796970803830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8109562605341699409.post-88829772977392208722012-02-06T17:16:00.000+01:002012-02-06T17:16:09.690+01:00#UtilityNetwork : Merging Adjectives<a href="http://w3crunch.com/2012/02/06/utilitynetwork-merging-adjectives/">#UtilityNetwork : Merging Adjectives</a>Michele1940http://www.blogger.com/profile/00757754796970803830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8109562605341699409.post-42171154702483905552012-01-31T13:40:00.000+01:002012-01-31T13:40:32.678+01:00The Evolution : from Social Network to #UtilityNetwork.<br>
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Hi, this is the first of a series of posts which tend to explore the awareness of Social Network’s users in regards to the actual usefulness of the various type now into existence. I do not intend to minimize or to shade the actual functionality of your favorite social networks which surely have a lot of practical utility for those using them. Same for myself when using Twitter. I love it and wouldn’t cope without it. It is now part of my everyday life and this surely cannot be changed. I believe the same holds true for any of you whatever your favorite social network is.</div>
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Few months ago, however, my mind was invaded by some strange and alien thoughts. Surely I was engaged into a sort of cosmic brain storming by some distant entity coming form another planet !! It started to question me about the actual usefulness of social networks which it calls them in a different way : Social Distraction Networks ( or was it destruction ?!? Can’t really recall to mind the exact word it’s used ). My first reaction to this was really unpolite: “what the hell are you talking about ?? Millions of people using social networks every day on this planet, you know that ?? We are all enthusiastic of them and enjoy using them. What’s the problem with you ?!? ” This, more or less was my reply. Then the challenge started.....</div>
</div><a href="http://pointapp.blogspot.com/2012/01/evolution-from-social-network-to.html#more">Read more »</a>Michele1940http://www.blogger.com/profile/00757754796970803830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8109562605341699409.post-43749801829098123242012-01-22T00:05:00.001+01:002012-01-22T00:05:07.342+01:00Comment on Aarron Walter BlogDesigning for Emotions is an excellent book from Arron Walter with a lot of insight that will drive into a new dimension of thoughts. His <a href="http://aarronwalter.com/blog/" target="_blank">blog</a> is amazing!! My comment on one of his posts<a href="http://aarronwalter.com/2012/01/20/a-new-type-of-designer/#more-1452" target="_blank"> here</a>. Alas, still awaiting for moderation.......<br />
Signed: Twitter @Michele1940Michele1940http://www.blogger.com/profile/00757754796970803830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8109562605341699409.post-13811677978176348822011-07-27T15:41:00.001+02:002011-07-27T15:43:58.445+02:00ARTICLE FROM TNWhttp://thenextweb.com/insider/<br />
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<a href="http://thenextweb.com/">TNW HOME PAGE</a>Michele1940http://www.blogger.com/profile/00757754796970803830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8109562605341699409.post-41654282147094224392011-07-23T20:39:00.000+02:002011-07-23T20:39:48.253+02:00BASIC STAFF - PART FIVE ( Introduction )<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">There are many that think that a world without any sort of monetary system would be a much better world. This is the key concept of a <a href="http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy" style="color: #1fad26; text-decoration: none;">Resource Based Economy</a>. It is my opinion that the present monetary system is just a paradigm, a model. Therefore it is subjected to a<a href="http://pointapp.blogspot.com/2011/06/comment-to-bitcoin-uncensored-blog.html" style="color: #1fad26; text-decoration: none;"> shift</a>. And a Global Virtual Currency ( not necessarily Bitcoin ) could be a good entry point for the shift to occur. But it needs to be available for everybody for a Resource Based Economy to take place !!<br />
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I am working on this. Stay tuned. More to come soon, now I am tired !!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Signed: Twitter @Michele1940</span>Michele1940http://www.blogger.com/profile/00757754796970803830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8109562605341699409.post-4768909553218813362011-07-23T13:00:00.000+02:002011-07-23T13:00:39.964+02:00Isle of Utøya, Norway - 22nd July, 2011Too many people have died. Too many dreams have been broken. Too many life, of those who have survived, most probably, scarred forever.<br />
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</div><div> WHO did this ? </div><div><br />
</div><div>Apparently a young Norwegian man aged 31, managed to accomplish such a massacre. A man with a lucid mind, yet totally insane. He declared that a man with a believe is stronger that 100,000 people. </div><div><br />
</div><div>YES, IDIOT, THAT IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE !!!!! BUT YOU WERE WEARING A XXXXX GUN TO DELIVERY YOUR BELIEVES TO OTHERS !!!!!</div><div><br />
</div><div>I have decided to change my blog title from "New World Economy" into "Social Innovation" in the hope that I would be able to give my humble contribute to the global change expected and desired by many with my future posts.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Signed: Twitter @Michele1940</div>Michele1940http://www.blogger.com/profile/00757754796970803830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8109562605341699409.post-78272807076954644792011-07-22T18:49:00.000+02:002011-07-22T18:49:10.179+02:00THIS IS FOR BITCOIN'S LOVERS<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Check <a href="http://twitpic.com/photos/Michele1940">this</a> out !!</b></span>Michele1940http://www.blogger.com/profile/00757754796970803830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8109562605341699409.post-42579372836353964372011-07-22T06:48:00.000+02:002011-07-22T06:48:02.258+02:00Discussion on Resource Based Economy - Causes & Effects<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"></span><br />
<div class="quoteheader" style="color: #476c8e; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 6px; text-decoration: none;">This is only an abstract. You can find the whole discussion <a href="http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=5373.520">here</a>.</div><div class="quoteheader" style="color: #476c8e; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 6px; text-decoration: none;"><br />
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</div><div class="quoteheader" style="color: #476c8e; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 6px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=5373.msg331846#msg331846" style="color: #476c8e; text-decoration: none;">Quote from: Rassah on July 06, 2011, 02:32:47 pm</a></div><div class="quote" style="background-color: #f1f2f4; border-bottom-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: black; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 3px; margin-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><div class="quoteheader" style="color: #476c8e; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 6px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=5373.msg331356#msg331356" style="color: #476c8e; text-decoration: none;">Quote from: Michele1940 on July 06, 2011, 11:21:32 am</a></div><div class="quote" style="background-color: #f1f2f4; border-bottom-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: black; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 3px; margin-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;">This discussion is dealing only with the effects of the actual global system. Anyone has taken into consideration the causes ? That would save me a LOT or reading....Thanks.</div><br />
Two words: misaligned incentives.</div><div class="quoteheader" style="color: #476c8e; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 6px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=5373.msg336043#msg336043" style="color: #476c8e; text-decoration: none;">Quote from: benjamindees on July 07, 2011, 11:55:02 am</a></div><div class="quote" style="background-color: #f1f2f4; border-bottom-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: black; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 3px; margin-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;">I have two better words: negative externalities.</div><br />
<div class="quoteheader" style="color: #476c8e; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 6px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=5373.msg336072#msg336072" style="color: #476c8e; text-decoration: none;">Quote from: 4v4l0n42 on July 07, 2011, 12:06:36 pm</a></div><div class="quote" style="background-color: #f1f2f4; border-bottom-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: black; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 3px; margin-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;">OK, I though a lot about the last posts, and I think it all boils down to this.<br />
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<b>Facts</b><br />
Every living system and living ecosystem on Earth is in a state of decline, due to our economic activities. There is <b>no</b> debate about that, every scientific paper published in the last 30 years confirms it. It's abundantly clear that a different approach is to be put in place.<br />
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I propose we try to approach the problems scientifically, evaluate what causes negative retroactions, try to prevent them through education, non violent and non coercive manners, strive for a dynamic equilibrium with nature, use a systemic approach and adapt our ways of lives so that they are aligned with what the planet can provide, in order to ensure our long term survival.<br />
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Free market advocates believe in individual freedoms above all, and that somehow an invisible hand, guided by god-like unprovable entity, will fix everything.<br />
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I am seeing this wrong? (Of course you are going to say yes straight away, but think about it for a few days, then come back and tell me).</div><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Well here we have : misaligned incentives, negative externalities that cause negative retro actions. Can't the common cause of all this be called greediness ?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Seeking for a dynamic equilibrium with nature is definitely a good path to follow. Since from nature itself we can actually see that there are no misaligned incentives, no negative externalities and , therefore no greediness. Nature appears to evolve by itself in a way that the whole ecosystem is always in a state of development ( evolution ) rather than declining.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Economic activities are not a natural process. But, by all means, are perpetuated by Humans since " Illo Tempore ". </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Humans are surely part of the natural ecosystem of this planet. And surely denote a much higher degree of awareness as compared to any other natural kingdom. Also they denote a freewill that allows them, for example, to elaborate economic activities able to "alter" the whole ecosystem.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">In seeking for this "miraculous" to happen, that we can all live a sustainable life by better rationing all available resources and bla bla bla, we should not forget, in my opinion, that this freewill, is applicable also to the individuals. Therefore making each of us capable of taking different decisions. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The main problem than, melts down to a matter of awareness : if you are not aware that you are doing something wrong, how can you possibly decide to do it in a different way ?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The above is my attempt to give a sort of "scientific" explanation. But I would have preferred a more philosophical one <img alt="Wink" border="0" src="http://174.143.149.98/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif" /></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Open for discussion, if anybody wishes. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Thanks.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Signed: Twitter @Michele1940</span></div>Michele1940http://www.blogger.com/profile/00757754796970803830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8109562605341699409.post-28017895729028737792011-07-14T13:17:00.000+02:002011-07-14T13:17:10.030+02:00Micele1940 on Btc EconomyThis is an abstract from a Podcast.<br />
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</ul></div><div><ul><li style="text-align: left;">Full <a href="http://soundcloud.com/hashingitout"><b><span id="goog_1870559488"></span>Podcast</b><span id="goog_1870559489"></span></a></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;">"A politico named Charles Schumer wants to evaluate, regulate or shut down Bitcoin because “The only method of payment for illegal purchases is an untraceable peer-to-peer currency known as Bitcoins.” [<a href="http://www.viewshound.com/internet/2011/6/fear-the-bitcoin?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=wall&utm_campaign=article">Quoted</a>]</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: 300;">@ViewsHound</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">"Maybe you want to avoid bank interchange fees, or perhaps avoid tracking altogether because your payment is for something illegal, or because you're a particular private person. Or perhaps you just think that the world currency regime is going to collapse and you see Bitcoin as a technological salvation. " [</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><a href="http://www.quora.com/Bitcoin/Is-the-cryptocurrency-Bitcoin-a-good-idea">Quoted</a>]</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 300; line-height: 19px;">@bitcoinmedia (original article was different)</span><br />
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Now check this :<br />
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</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">In addition those key codes can be found for free easily. Looks more like a scam to me.</span></span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">I have nothing personal at all against bitcoinharbor, which I consider to be an excellent idea, but better check if the advertisers are actually doing this according to legislation or not. We do not want people to think like the two abstracts above. Do we ?</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">I might be wrong on my assumpion and, in case, I apologise with bitcoinharbor</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
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Many are arguing that virtual currency is a reality and that it's here to stay. I personally agree with this proposition but virtual currency shouldn't be used as an alternative store of value asset only.<br />
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<a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">Bitcoin</a> is probably the most known and talked virtual currency in these days. From what we can see in the <a href="http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/">exchange markets</a>, that have been created to trade Bitcoin, there is a lot of daily activity in the trading environment.<br />
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What we cannot see is a similar activity in the retail environment either for on-line or real world transactions. Aside from a few examples, this virtual currency does not seem to be taking off.<br />
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What are the reasons for this ? Well there are many.<br />
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First of all, aside from the early adapters , "mining" Bitcoin for the individual has become a difficult task.<br />
This means that if you want to have some of this Bitcoin , you can exchange them for your fiat currency on the exchange markets. So you have to take some of your stored "real money" and use them to store them again into Bitcoin. Unless, of course, you have a real intention to use this Bitcoin to buy something that you like and you need/want to buy.<br />
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Second, why do you have to convert your "real money" into Bitcoin if you need/want to buy something ? Because Bitcoin allows you and the seller to have a cost free transaction in the same way you would have if you would hand over your cash money to the vendor. In addition handling cash money is also a cost both for you and the vendor.<br />
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Third, is the vendor giving you any additional advantage if you pay in Bitcoin like, for example, a small discount ? Not that I am aware of. But might be possible that same are doing it. What I know for sure is that if you pay with real cash money instead of your credit card, you have a very high possibility to get a small discount if you dare asking for it.<br />
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Fourth, there are the exchange markets that makes the conversion rate change and it is difficult for you and the vendor to forecast its future value. You may exchange your "real money" into Bitcoin today or you can accept a payment in Bitcoin as a vendor today at a fixed current rate and find out a few days later that the value of Bitcoin has dropped. Or it has increased. This uncertainty, surely complicates the matter even more. Unless you see into Bitcoin a form of investment in the hope that its value will go sky high someday.<br />
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Many might argue that even your "real money" are subject to the same process described above.<br />
All <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money">fiat money</a> of course are subjected to inflation and deflation. And the conversion rate between them vary daily. Some might also argue that fiat money might collapse and that you would end up having a bank account filled up with numbers that have no purchase value at all.<br />
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So, it seems that what we need for a virtual currency to become a usable currency is a sort of stability of its value. In order to accomplish this, we have to reduce the trading and increase the actual use of our beloved virtual currency.<br />
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There are many that think that a world without any sort of monetary system would be a much better world. This is the key concept of a <a href="http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy">Resource Based Economy</a>. It is my opinion that the present monetary system is just a paradigm, a model. Therefore it is subjected to a<a href="http://pointapp.blogspot.com/2011/06/comment-to-bitcoin-uncensored-blog.html"> shift</a>. And a Global Virtual Currency ( not necessarily Bitcoin ) could be a good entry point for the shift to occur. But it needs to be available for everybody for a Resource Based Economy to take place !!<br />
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I am working on this. Stay tuned.<br />
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Signed : Twitter @Michele1940Michele1940http://www.blogger.com/profile/00757754796970803830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8109562605341699409.post-11536720527083031642011-07-03T20:54:00.000+02:002011-07-03T20:54:51.743+02:00CAN BTC SURVIVE WITHOUT FIAT CURRENCY ?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">My provocation is as follows:<br />
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Mining does not bring any sort of benefit for the individual. Therefore you need to buy using fiat money BTCs and at the end of the game someone needs to sell BTcs for fiat money. This is far from being an ecosystem that can survive outside today’s economy which is based on fiat money.</span>Michele1940http://www.blogger.com/profile/00757754796970803830noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8109562605341699409.post-31109191122956616042011-07-01T19:33:00.000+02:002011-07-01T19:33:25.119+02:00BASIC STAFF - PART FOUR - USERS AS A RESOURCE BASED ECONOMYInspired by : The Venus Project <a href="http://www.thevenusproject.com/">http://www.thevenusproject.com</a><br>
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In Part three, I have presented how the ecosystem of the web currently works. Of course in a very broad fashion....<br>
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Here, I would like to move a bit forward explaining how the whole system could be changed.<br>
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Any new product, app, partnership that is being presented to the public by the Big Guys, is nothing else but a way to attract more users, keeping the existing ones from migrating to other web based platforms, with the sole intent to generate more and more traffic on their sites. Thus attracting more Ads.<br>
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This is absolutely normal for a big publisher like Google or Facebook & CO. They are constantly looking to generate more profit. They need to do this. Among other reasons, they surely need to generate an up trend profit in order to pay the salary to the many thousands of people working for them.<br>
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The actual Resource they are benefiting from are, obviously, the USERS of the web !! So Humans.<br>
<a href="http://pointapp.blogspot.com/2011/07/basic-staff-part-four-users-as-resource.html#more">Read more »</a>Michele1940http://www.blogger.com/profile/00757754796970803830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8109562605341699409.post-6967751601800996502011-06-30T21:55:00.000+02:002011-06-30T21:55:26.714+02:00Do you really think BTC is all about economy ?? MY COMMENT ON BITCOIN FORUM<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"></span><br />
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</div><div class="quoteheader" style="color: #476c8e; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 6px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=5373.msg306883#msg306883" style="color: #476c8e; text-decoration: none;">Quote from: 4v4l0n42 on <b>Today</b> at 02:47:02 pm</a></div><div class="quote" style="background-color: #f1f2f4; border-bottom-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: black; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 3px; margin-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><div class="quoteheader" style="color: #476c8e; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 6px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=5373.msg306688#msg306688" style="color: #476c8e; text-decoration: none;">Quote from: bittersweet on <b>Today</b> at 01:52:58 pm</a></div><div class="quote" style="background-color: #f1f2f4; border-bottom-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: black; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 3px; margin-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;">1. There is nothing wrong with seeking profit.</div><br />
Errr, there is.<br />
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<a href="http://goo.gl/DP977" style="color: #476c8e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/DP977</a><br />
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<div class="quoteheader" style="color: #476c8e; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2em; margin-left: 6px; text-decoration: none;">Quote</div><div class="quote" style="background-color: #f1f2f4; border-bottom-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: black; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 3px; margin-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;">It's part of human nature and people fighting with it are plain dumb.</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #476c8e; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 12px;">Quote</span><br />
Human nature?<br />
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I studied human behavioural biology, evolutional biology and neuroscience, and I could not find any scientific peer-review publication to support such a claim.<br />
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Can you enlighten me and redirect me to the relevant research that suggests such a thing?</div><div class="quote" style="background-color: #f1f2f4; border-bottom-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: black; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 3px; margin-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><br />
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<b>Answer by Twitter @Michele1940:</b><br />
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"Human nature" is a phrase that is probably been misunderstood, in this contest at least. Studying Human nature by scientific means only , definitely shuts down the door to real knowledge. Science should be used to determine the anomalies of human behavior in order to bring them to the surface and therefore allowing us to :<br />
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1) be aware of them<br />
2) overcome them<br />
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In addition, it is not correct to state that something that is part of human nature cannot be fought. In order to understand this, you should start noticing how your emotions differs from what you actually think to be correct. Emotions are actually driving our existence and we are totally unconscious of this process. This is way we are not satisfied with our own life.<br />
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You might be unlighted by the reading ( and understanding ) of this book, to begin with.<br />
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<a href="http://www.forgottenbooks.org/info/9781605064901" style="color: #476c8e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.forgottenbooks.org/info/9781605064901</a></div><div class="quote" style="background-color: #f1f2f4; border-bottom-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: black; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 3px; margin-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><br />
</div><div class="quote" style="background-color: #f1f2f4; border-bottom-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(208, 208, 224); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: black; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 3px; margin-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;">Signed : Twitter @Michele1940</div>Michele1940http://www.blogger.com/profile/00757754796970803830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8109562605341699409.post-58598200839164372822011-06-30T13:22:00.001+02:002011-06-30T13:24:42.031+02:00You Can Now Buy Facebook Ads With AmEx Rewards Points<div>Facebook & Economy : The big guys "moving the other way".</div><div><br />
</div><a href="http://mashable.com/2011/06/29/amex-facebook/">You Can Now Buy Facebook Ads With AmEx Rewards Points</a><br />
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</div><div>Signed : Twitter @Michele1940</div>Michele1940http://www.blogger.com/profile/00757754796970803830noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8109562605341699409.post-42590613767768601382011-06-29T17:22:00.000+02:002011-06-29T17:22:29.346+02:00VERY MUCH RELATED TO PREVIOUS POST<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><br />
<div class="tweet-row" style="clear: left; display: block; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="tweet-user-block" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">This is a post by Lightrider on Twitter:</div><div class="tweet-user-block" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div><div class="tweet-text tweet-text-large" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important; font-size: 21px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 8px; word-wrap: break-word;">Thanks for sharing Frank !!</div></div>Michele1940http://www.blogger.com/profile/00757754796970803830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8109562605341699409.post-67374307221474284552011-06-28T22:10:00.000+02:002011-06-28T22:10:56.063+02:00A FIGHT FOR FREEDOM !!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br />
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There it goes. You are a member of a cult/sect, you just demonstrated it with the "there's no freedom" sentence. BTW:<br />
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There's no scientific theory on whether you should use nuclear power plants or solar panels. You are comparing science with politics and morality and that's absurd. You might think that you haven't entered the realms of morality and politics but you HAVE. Maybe you will disagree on this subject, but then I must conclude that your reasoning is blocked by you sect/cult.<br />
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Science says something like: nuclear power plants harvest a lot of energy per mass of uranium, and create nuclear waste. Solar cells are created through a process that contaminates a lot of liters of water and releases a lot of CO2, and harvest energy from the sun with a 15-20% efficiency. Science, and the scientific method, does NOT tell you which option to choose. Science just shows you how nature works, and it's you that have to decide how to apply that knowledge to fullfill your dreams/objectives/morality.<br />
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Science doesn't tell you if you should gun somebody. Science just tells you that the bullet will hit that person at a certain velocity and it will probably provoke his death. Should you shoot that somebody? should you build that bridge? Should you use currencies or a resource based economy? Should you create prisons? Should you live in a planned economy society? Science won't decide any of that for you. Science will (maybe) make some predictions on the result of your decision, but making the decision is absolutely out of the realms of science, and of the scientific method.</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><br />
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Well, from one extreme to the other.....what a fight !! <img alt="Undecided" border="0" src="http://174.143.149.98/smf/Smileys/default/undecided.gif" /><br />
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"There is no freedom"----------->"You are a member of a cult/set". I am not going to comment on this dispute.<br />
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"We all are subject to the laws of nature and the common reality we share"------------>"Science just shows you how nature works, and it's you that have to decide how to apply that knowledge to fulfill your dreams/objectives/morality" .This I like and I am going to comment.....<br />
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Of course we are all subject to Nature laws, everybody can agree on this. We, as individuals, are part of a whole and contribute, with our thoughts that generate emotions and feelings that transforms into actions, to a much greater plan of which we are not even able to perceive its existence.<br />
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The common reality we share, is thus created by the interactions of our thoughts and, our thoughts, are related to our own "little Worlds". Therefore we all have different thoughts that are linked to the reality we have lived in and continue to live right now. Of course not all the thoughts are different. This is easy to understand<br />
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To understand how nature works by means of scientific methods, is very important and meaningful. And It is true that this knowledge, if properly applied, would be useful to fulfill your ambitions.<br />
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But, what are these ambitions that we have ? Surely all of us have different goals and different levels of personal satisfaction, but if we scream off all the surface and go deep into the real meaning of our ambitions, we would see that we are all searching for the same thing : Loved.<br />
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This might sound strange to most of you but try to suspend your judgment for a while in order to follow this little piece of knowledge that I am sharing with you.<br />
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In order to be Loved, we should first learn how to Love. This is a "spiritual law ". Actually the most important one. References can be found in the New testament when Jesus said to his disciples : " I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another". John 13:34. There are others of course.<br />
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The word Love, does not have to be misunderstood as a term that describes a "sentiment", this is not the case. By Love it is intended a total let go of our material interests in order to follow the Universal Evolutive Plan.<br />
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In order to do this, Freedom is essential. Cannot be otherwise. Saying that there is no freedom and that we are all subject to the law of nature, my dear Ligthrider, it is not possible since one thing exclude the other ! But I might have missed your point on this and if this is the case, I apologize.</span></div></span>Michele1940http://www.blogger.com/profile/00757754796970803830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8109562605341699409.post-45057908254124330742011-06-28T07:56:00.000+02:002011-06-28T07:56:53.788+02:00A COMMENT ON THE VENUS PROJECTThis is taken from the Venus Project at <a href="http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy">http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/a-new-social-design/resource-based-economy</a><br />
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"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #403e4a; font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 13px;">Money is only important in a soci</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #403e4a; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">ety wh</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #403e4a; font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 13px;">en certain resources for survival must be rationed and the people accept money as an exchange medium for the scarce resources. Money is a social convention, an agreement if you will. It is neither a natural resource nor does it represent one. It is not necessary for survival unless we have been conditioned to accept it as such."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #403e4a; font-family: 'Lucida Sans';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">Absolutely True ! In the article the author advocates that in a Resources Based Economy, all the Earth Resources become a common heritage for all humans, this making the monetary system no more needed and thus allowing a generalized growth for all people that would experience a better ( enhanced ) life - style. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #403e4a; font-family: 'Lucida Sans';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">In addition, he states that : "</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #403e4a; font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 13px;"> our practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter productive to our survival." [Quoted]</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #403e4a; font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">This rationing comes from the unproper use of the available resources that must be rationed since we are wasting them.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #403e4a;">What else could be more appropriate for our world survival ? My hat off to you, Author.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #403e4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">Now, H</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #403e4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">uman</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #403e4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"> Intellect is also a natural </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #403e4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">resource. Most of the times it is , unfortunately, rationed through money and wasted even thought Human Intellectual is not a Scarce Resource.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #403e4a;">Could be argued that Human Intellect is not a resource for survival, but I think this is a far fetched hypothesis.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #403e4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">The whole thing is therefore addressed to a better use of the available resources promoting thus a MUTUAL BENEFIT for all people.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #403e4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">My previous post (Basic Staff - Part Three) goes exactly on the same direction. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #403e4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">I haven't deepened my knowledge of the Venus project to such an extend that I can see if they have a starting point for the whole project, any entry. Most probably they have and they are already operating it ( would be glad if someone points my in the right direction about this matter so that will save me a lot of time ).</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #403e4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">My project, instead, has a very clear starting point : the world wide web and more specifically the USERS of the web. All of us.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #403e4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">Good Theories are always welcome, but they need to be practical and applicable, possibly in the Near Future.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #403e4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">As I have already said, I am working, with a very restricted team of people, on a new web based project that would involve actively the Users. The project aims, at first , to gain control of the web by the users by </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #403e4a;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">re balancing the economy of it. Than goes on and on...... </span></span><br />
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-NO ASSHOLE, I AM WEARING A CRASH HELMET SINCE I AM A POWER RANGER !!Michele1940http://www.blogger.com/profile/00757754796970803830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8109562605341699409.post-50749419127680786902011-06-27T06:01:00.000+02:002011-06-27T06:01:39.965+02:00A CLEVER DISCUSSION ON ECONOMY<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is an abstract from a discussion taken from forum.bitcoin.org</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is not my intention to endorse BTC but it seams to be the closest thing to our project up to a certain point. My interest in BTC is merely focused on the way it has managed to spread in such a vast community, creating even speculative trade markets.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;">"The money comes from the effort of their mining and the value in the blocks they've mined. It's the same as when someone mine's gold -- the value comes from the effort of their mining and the rarity of gold. BitCoins don't need to be backed because they're scarce. You only need to back something that's not scarce. (That's why gold itself doesn't need to be backed.)" [Quoted]</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px;">My poo is scarce. There is a limited supply of it produced over time. Therefore my poo is a valuable currency that need not be backed by anything. <img alt="Smiley" border="0" src="http://174.143.149.98/smf/Smileys/default/smiley.gif" /></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px;">Realistically, Bitcoins have value not because they are scarce, but because there is demand for them. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px;">This demand is created because Bitcoins are cool, and you can have fun buying things with them, and playing with all the Bitcoin-related Web charts and the open source software and the crypto.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px;">You could fork Bitcoin right now, and have your own identical system, and the coins in it would be just as rare and difficult to produce as Bitcoins are. They would also be worthless, unless you could make them cool, and make it possible for people to have fun doing things with them.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px;">Bitcoins, like stocks, are a "psychological market." When stock is issued, the company gets its money from the initial sale, and no matter what happens to the stock value, the company never has to give the money back.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px;">You can't do anything with the company, unless you have control, so for the average stock owner having less than 51%, the stock trades in its own little world, supported only by the belief that its value bears some relationship to the value of the company whose name is printed on the financial statement.</span></span><br />
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The Mutual Benefit mentioned above, is the actual link with Economy which I have alluded to in the previous posts of this series.<br>
<a href="http://pointapp.blogspot.com/2011/06/basic-stuff-part-three.html#more">Read more »</a>Michele1940http://www.blogger.com/profile/00757754796970803830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8109562605341699409.post-79820183240237979802011-06-25T08:10:00.000+02:002011-06-25T08:10:12.539+02:00An answer given to bitcoingdude.blogspot.com<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">You are absolutely right when you say<br>
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"We must increase the 'efficiency' of the key systems enabling "civilization"".<br>
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And surely the system would gain efficiency from replacing conventional banking.<br>
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But can Bitcoin actually achieve this goal ?<br>
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I have nothing against BTC but I see it has serious limitations to perform its function(i.e. a p2p version of electronic cash able to allow online transactions without going through a<br>
financial institution)on a GLOBAL TRADE scale.<br>
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hind Bitcoin, it is addressed to find an alternative way of payment for COMMERCE ON THE INTERNET that would cut off double-spending on transactions. Therefore BTC is just a mechanism "to make payments over a communications channel without a trusted party".<br>
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This sound very nice but to me looks applicable only to certain kind of trades. I cannot possibly see this mechanism being applied and a global trade scale.<br>
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One limitation of course is a good escrow for buyers. Once the BTC transaction is made, it is irreversible. The higher is the amount of the transaction, the more you as a buyer need a good escrow in case the goods or service you receive is not up to what it was supposed.</span><br>
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First of all , I would like to address you guys to my previous posts NEW WORLD ECONOMY - PART ONE & Bitcoin Paradigm.<br>
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Now, what is the main purpose of BTC ? Satoshi Nakamoto, presenting the project, writes as follows:<br>
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Abstract. A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online<br>
payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a<br>
financial institution. Digital signatures provide part of the solution, but the main<br>
benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required to prevent double-spending.<br>
We propose a solution to the double-spending problem using a peer-to-peer network.<br>
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