convore.json/groups/hacker-news/lets-talk-bitcoin/messages.json

[{"user_id": 33347, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35540, "date_created": 1305572989.266438, "message": "There's been a bit of commotion over this virtual currency http://www.weusecoins.com/", "group_id": 95, "id": 1073612}, {"user_id": 33347, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35540, "date_created": 1305573174.519804, "message": "this guy's already all over it http://youtu.be/FThX1cDg-tg", "group_id": 95, "id": 1073651}, {"user_id": 9178, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35540, "date_created": 1305573818.069037, "message": "Good overview here: http://launch.is/blog/l019-bitcoin-p2p-currency-the-most-dangerous-project-weve-ev.html  -- be sure to look at the resources section at the end, too, lots of good sources of information.", "group_id": 95, "id": 1073775}, {"user_id": 33446, "stars": [{"date_created": 1305577922.2301641, "user_id": 1175}], "topic_id": 35540, "date_created": 1305574215.1127231, "message": "That article is sensationalist at best, fraudulent at worst. Transactions are traceable unless you never make public any of your addresses. While yes it is possible to make it completely anonymous, by default it is only pseudonymous. Bitcoins being banned is possible, but it would be ineffective and would simply serve to make more enemies for government. I personally find it more likely that government will embrace bitcoin, as the technology is sound and it has many uses certain agencies might be interested in.", "group_id": 95, "id": 1073853}, {"user_id": 4935, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35540, "date_created": 1305578064.5120521, "message": "I should watch some Khan videos about it", "group_id": 95, "id": 1074521}, {"user_id": 1561, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35540, "date_created": 1305577675.293097, "message": "@gburgwardt It's very easy to launder bitcoins to make them untraceable, and you can receive money from a new address each time. You can also have multiple wallets, start new wallets at any time, and access bitcoins via Tor.", "group_id": 95, "id": 1074472}, {"user_id": 4935, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35540, "date_created": 1305577908.2877231, "message": "I bought 3 BTC for $3 a few weeks ago and sold mine for $18 the other day. #doingitwrong", "group_id": 95, "id": 1074494}, {"user_id": 2604, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35540, "date_created": 1305577922.607358, "message": "hi", "group_id": 95, "id": 1074497}, {"user_id": 4935, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35540, "date_created": 1305577959.362071, "message": "ohai", "group_id": 95, "id": 1074503}, {"user_id": 8195, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35540, "date_created": 1305577983.9531939, "message": "bat: where did you buy BTC?", "group_id": 95, "id": 1074508}, {"user_id": 4935, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35540, "date_created": 1305578012.5798769, "message": "this is silly but I don't remember where and I don't feel like looking it up", "group_id": 95, "id": 1074512}, {"user_id": 4935, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35540, "date_created": 1305578020.8204579, "message": "I sold it at Mt. Gox though :)", "group_id": 95, "id": 1074513}, {"user_id": 4935, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35540, "date_created": 1305578033.425581, "message": "now I have 18 dwollas", "group_id": 95, "id": 1074515}, {"user_id": 28472, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35540, "date_created": 1305578043.0261099, "message": "Welcome to basic investing", "group_id": 95, "id": 1074516}, {"user_id": 33347, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35540, "date_created": 1305580510.2352901, "message": "I think there's something I'm not understanding. I heard somewhere that as people mine bitcoins, the algorithm increases the computational difficulty of discovering them and that there can only ever be 21 million bitcoins in circulation. Can bitcoins be destroyed? Once they've all been discovered, where is the value? I feel like the only reason people are buying them now with bank notes is because they feel like they will become harder to come by in the future. So many questions...", "group_id": 95, "id": 1074951}, {"user_id": 33347, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35540, "date_created": 1305581180.0614879, "message": "A country's currency is based on the value of it's exports, or the things that foreign buyers would need to buy with that country's specific bank note.", "group_id": 95, "id": 1075029}, {"user_id": 33347, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35540, "date_created": 1305581083.3634889, "message": "What exactly is a bitcoin's value based on? I find it hard to think of as a commodity because it has no intrinsic use like a bushel of wheat or something.", "group_id": 95, "id": 1075017}, {"user_id": 28054, "stars": [{"date_created": 1305738430.1013169, "user_id": 26065}], "topic_id": 35540, "date_created": 1305735994.0297849, "message": "Cohen's answer on quora is compelling.  bitcoin certainly seems to have deflation properties and that seems problematic for a general purpose currency.   I'm unclear why bitcoin has this flaw given how well designed the crypto appears to be.  http://www.quora.com/Bitcoin/Is-the-cryptocurrency-Bitcoin-a-good-idea", "group_id": 95, "id": 1099903}, {"user_id": 7080, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35540, "date_created": 1305745463.3022809, "message": "Pyramid scheme?", "group_id": 95, "id": 1101634}, {"user_id": 7080, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35540, "date_created": 1305745764.3618431, "message": "The worst part is, that since there is a finite amount of bitcoins that can exist, it isn't hard to corner the market and make a boatload of money.  Given you have the funds available, you can accurately predict when it will fail and the government doesn't screw you before you bail.", "group_id": 95, "id": 1101758}, {"user_id": 6648, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35540, "date_created": 1305813173.060024, "message": "@supjeff: yes bitcoin can be destroyed. Simply buy a bitcoin, it will be transferred into your 'wallet' and then delete all traces of the files. The bitcoin wallet is a private keys where the bitcoin was transferred to in a public transaction. If you delete it, there is no way to determine what the endpoint of the transaction (the private key) was.", "group_id": 95, "id": 1111314}, {"user_id": 33765, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35540, "date_created": 1305853933.1626761, "message": "Okay, honestly, should we all quit our jobs and start bitcoin mining??", "group_id": 95, "id": 1118525}, {"user_id": 6648, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35540, "date_created": 1305869361.19748, "message": "No.", "group_id": 95, "id": 1120852}, {"user_id": 32680, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35540, "date_created": 1305889313.2413671, "message": "I lost all of my bitcoins. o_O", "group_id": 95, "id": 1124251}, {"user_id": 1217, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35540, "date_created": 1305953256.081269, "message": "@amackera only if you have 10 computers with 800Mhash/s ATI cards!", "group_id": 95, "id": 1132615}, {"user_id": 33982, "stars": [{"date_created": 1306187369.2124131, "user_id": 8327}], "topic_id": 35540, "date_created": 1306145860.6702781, "message": "@amackera Got an XSS for Facebook handy? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2566365", "group_id": 95, "id": 1150948}]