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We also play a good deal of Supreme Commander 2.No. Forged Alliance is undeniably better. Supcom 2 was designed to appeal to a larger audience with its dumbed down gameplay when compared to FA.
with a central authority? isn't that exactly what bitcoins were created to avoid? weren't they meant to be entirely peer to peer with nobody regulating them?The only reason the central management would be necessary would be to speed up transactions because using the current client requires time to validate the transaction. To maintain anonymity, it would still follow the principle of bitcoin, where you deposit and withdraw in/out of your account using bitcoin's key system, but the central system would just keep track of the amount of coins in your account. On the other hand, a central system could be avoided if the validation system prioritized similar IP addresses, which would greatly reduce the amount of time needed to validate the transactions.
bitcoins are a terrible currency
and there are still people who can't afford cell phones or data plans. do they get forgeted out of bitcoins too?If you think bitcoins are a terrible currency, then why would you even think that they could become mainstream enough for that to be a problem?
or a credit card type system with a central authority to quickly process transactions.The system could easily work this way too. There is no reason why anyone should not be able to use them, should bitcoins become a more accepted currency.
another thing i forgot to mention: this currency is completely computer based. what about people who can't afford computers? do they just get no money at all?The bitcoin system is currently not well suited to work like cash because it can take several minutes for your transaction to be verified, so its more suited for buying things online or currency exchange. But, there is absolutely no reason why the wallet program could not be ported to work on cell phones, which nearly EVERYONE has, or a credit card type system with a central authority to quickly process transactions.
you admit that it's unwieldy and hard to use. therefore, it is a bad choice as an economic system because the average person can't figure out how the forget to use it.Yep, that is true, but unlike real world currencies and economies it is far simpler and actually feasible to overhaul the system to make it accessible to the average person.
the bitcoin system is based on trickle down economics (the rich get the riches and it trickles down to the poor), yet a large amount of miners hoard their coins!The same is true about the real world economy. A VERY small minority hold most of the money that there is.
for an economic system to work, there has to be actual economic activity going on.
let's crunch some numbersPerhaps you should look at some actual market data before you start spewing random numbers.
this month was 1300
800 profit - 100 per month
oh wait, now it's 500 profit.
now it's 1000.
now it's 250.
etc
who the forget would spend that much stuff on BITCOINSUh I only spent $1200 a month ago, and have already made back about $800. At this point, even if I had to sell the hardware I would have made money. Its not as bad as the guy who bought some 40+ 5870's on the bitcoin forum right before the big crash.
seriously by the time you actually mine a useful amount they're gonna be down to a dollar per coin
280 Mhash/s with one 5830
GENTLEMEN
core overclocked to 900 mhz and memory to 1070
