Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Arbitor] CFJ 3541 assigned to grok

2017-07-18 Thread V.J Rada
The difference is Shinies are unstable (remember, we'll lose them all when we pass nichdel's amendment), and don't have the security and "mining" that were attractive features that made bitcoin go. Also agora has shown no sign of growing to millions of people thusfar and only players can use them.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Arbitor] CFJ 3541 assigned to grok

2017-07-18 Thread Owen Jacobson
I keep finding myself thinking about the 1 BTC Pizza incident - at the time, bitcoins were basically a curio, with no effective market whatsoever; now, paying a whole bitcoin for something as trivial as a pizza would be foolhardy. -o > On Jul 18, 2017, at 7:51 PM, V.J Rada wrote: > > I still

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Arbitor] CFJ 3541 assigned to grok

2017-07-18 Thread V.J Rada
I still think Shinies and dollars are not equivalent. There is no official exchange rate for apples and US dollars, but you can pay dollars for apples. The same is clearly true with CB's payment of 20 dollars. It's like paying 20$ for monopoly money. If I did that, monopoly money would not start ha

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Arbitor] CFJ 3541 assigned to grok

2017-07-18 Thread Quazie
I just thought that Nichdel and Nickle were fun words to use together. I do hope I succeeded in paying em something, if I failed, i'll likely do something else to pay em for eir time. On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 2:42 PM Alex Smith wrote: > On Tue, 2017-07-18 at 17:34 -0400, Owen Jacobson wrote: > >