83. http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/ I need to add more sources Most of the content has been picked up from other source. Please let me know so that I can(I need to) acknowledge them
Any form of currency accepted by government primarily for taxes is the legal tender, if the legal tender is not backed by any assets then it is a fiat
Zimbabwe
1970-2007...money supply growth is exponential in India
Post 2007 it wasn't getting any better. India's growth has never exceeded 10% during the period for a short period of time The real inflation no the one reported “central figures” is closer to 20-30 percent. Go out on streets and see for your selves
The “central figures” not only control supply of money but also can choose to block it if they are displeased.
Rupay is India's alternative for Visa/MasterCard etc actively encouraged by Indian “central figures” Now I need to find the desi version of Wikileaks exploits
Nerds to the rescue of humanity. Social media possibly rescued some of us from the “central” media The structure and character of the internet itself can and should be encouraged SOPA will be an inconvenience at best. We will beat it and keep the structure of internet alive. Using internet as the basis gives all of us an added incentive to protect the internet.
It can potentially go beyond internet transaction using portable USBs. So far internet has focussed on solving the information/democracy problems. Bitcoin is another use case of internet which can protect exploitation in democracy
Not really anonymous as cash. There are ways to make it harder to trace but not completely eliminate it Transactions are broadcasted and cannot be rolled back. This solves the asymmetric problem of people in power to manipulate the transaction on a backdate There is no central authority deciding on the supply and transaction proactively. Everything is retroactive. No increase in supply no infation. “ Inflation is a product of monetary policy i.e. supply”
The way email disrupted postal system i.e. People stopped writing letters. Bitcoin can and will disrupt the banking system. I banks are not needed to transfer money. Banks ability to make money on transactions will be eliminated. We can transfer money to anyone and anywhere at anytime almost instantly(matter of minutes) at almost zero cost and possibly for free unlike banks which are slow and rape us.
OMO – Other market operations. RBI by law is has limited powers to interfere in market. The use their liquidity injection i.e. Money printing to manipulate the markets for eg bond yields. As long as the interest yield from banks after taxes is less than real inflation...we are paying the banks and Central governments money directly to store our money. And banks get to charge additional fee for us to access our own money Internet has been a primary source of middle men elimination. How can this be applied to banking i.e. Payment gateways who dictate terms to us banker you rape us We are a bunch of suckers!!!
Critics have said Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme or a bubble. The reality is bitcoin is not ponzi scheme. Bitcoin has been in a bubble like any new things. Now it is entering its second phase like any other technology(internet included). This second phase is in a steady growth stage unlike the boom and bust cycles we see with the “real” economy
Individuals bitcoins i.e. Currency is stored in an encrypted wallet file. Loss of key and wallet file is loss of money and is not reversible Bitcoin has factored the smallest fraction of its unit aka paise as 10 power -8 of BTC unit Bitcoin gives advantage to ppl operating in black economy to conduct business freely this is definitely not as secure as cash but more secure than online transfers in the current systems which are prone to bribery and manipulations. A group of remote geeks can potentially track large scale black marketeers and their transactions
Banks will need to have super computers to have influence the bitcoin network The Bitcoin Mining pools are are already having a dominant computation share which is against the nature of distributed system. The community can use and should sanction DDOS as a legitimate way to keep them in line?
One way to keep identity anonymous is by using multiple randomly generated bitcoin addresses As the transaction volume increase the bitcoin network will tend to get more centralized This centralization and ease of use would warrant bitcoin network to be more bank like system This probably is way better than the current alternative as the community would have a chance to fight the bankers who misbehave The current system give us not such means
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