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Re: What do you guys think of recent Gov. acceptance of Bitcoin?

States are creatures of monopoly power. If they don't have it, they can't do anything people don't already want to do.

Decentralized tech is immune to monopoly, but it's also REALLY inefficient compared to an efficient centralized system.

Of course, where you have monopoly you have the opposite of efficiency and so we have very inefficient centralized systems.

So there just isn't much that can be done about it outside of trying not to say anything too stupid or be so early as to attract the ire of the rest of the world.

Just a matter of time...

Display Ads on LetsTalkBitcoin.com!

@steven How about this.

1000 LTB coin for each of 3 banners.

Only one would be bitcoin packaging

@robmitchell 1100 LTB for an ad for Bkeychain.com

Current High Bids

Slot 1 Bitcoin Keychain

Slot 2 Bitcoin Packaging

Slot 3 Steve's Second Choice

We're auctioning the top three 155x155 spots on the left hand side of the front page. This auction will be held weekly for the time being. Once you bid for the first time I'll let you know if your project is approved or disapproved. You are responsible for providing a 155x155 image, and I have editorial veto over it (and will refund you).

Here's [the stats](http://letstalkbitcoin.com/resources/files/weekly stats/jun22to292014.jpg) for letstalkbitcoin.com over the last week. As I've mentioned, we've always been a much stronger audio platform than display, which we hope to change by engaging and growing our community with the LTBCOIN rewards program.

Please place your bid in LTBCOIN and specify the number of slots

Minimum bid is 100, this auction will close Friday the 4th of july at 8am pacific time. Your week will run Sunday to Sunday.

Re: SEO: posting on LTB forums VS my own blog

@steven why is it that ltb never shows up on the google news feed?

We're looking into that, was just talking with @cryptonaut and @bcohen about it the other day

Re: Design work for LTBcoin

@robmitchell @cryptonaut I think there's a setting for that?

Rob - that's fine, thanks!

Re: Podcast Download Issues

Yeah in trying to fix it we seem to have broken it more, our numbers are way down and its all the subscriber side.

@cryptonaut? Time for Plan B? Grab a single copy of the soundcloud and link to it on our own servers using our own bandwidth as a static file? I'm getting concerned.

Re: Print Ads

Yep! I guess we can get that started, i'll get 'er going.

Re: Podcast tracking

@pgrous Adam,

I download all of the LetsTalkBitcoin podcasts via the iPhone Downcast app.

Downcast and other podcast apps allow you to enter login credentials on a per feed basis, mostly for premium / protected podcast feeds. You could use this credentials feature to keep track of who is downloading LTB podcasts for purposes of issuing LTBCoin. The login username would be the LTBCoin address of the user. That way, you'd be able to account for who downloads and when.

Thanks for considering. And, thanks for all the great podcast content!

-Paul

This is one option we've been talking about - Basically let users associate their accounts with other services like soundcloud or downcast, and when we see those users have listened (which the account allows us to see) it would associate with their LTB account.

Really the problem is the podcast space is TOTALLY non-standardized, and apple has made things worse by splitting podcasts into a less functional app aside from itunes. This is why we are going towards a "Network Apps" model on all mobile devices, it allows us to use the same accounts on the site and on mobile and we have a consistent delivery mechanism for the majority of users who just want it to work.

Re: Design work for LTBcoin

Hey Rob,

What would you ask for these two banners?

http://letstalkbitcoin.com/forum/post/accepting-ltbcoin-for-advertising-spots-on-btcblue http://letstalkbitcoin.com/forum/post/728x80-leaderboard-advertisement

Content should be something like "Join the thinkers and do-ers at the LTB network, and earn LTBCOIN for your contribution! " with the lets talk bitcoin bubble logo

That is probably terrible, any ideas?

Re: Politics

@thedon Let's imagine Bitcoin starts to replace fiat. Some governments may be in favor of virtual currencies and some may not. Let's assume the US government isn't in favor but sees its power threatened and wants to ban bitcoin. What steps could they undertake? Would these stop bitcoin in the US or would bitcoin just be unstoppable?

They can make it illegal, which would make any business that accepts de-facto an illegal business. This would lead to the vast vast majority of businesses stopping accepting it.

It would not kill bitcoin, but it would sure slow things down and make way for a co-opted "just-as-good-as" tech.

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