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[Christopher <weblionx AT gmail.com>]

More importantly what does any of this have to do with solving the DDoS 
problem?

On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 12:08 PM, A.J. Maurin <coyo AT darkdna.net> wrote:
> What the heck is this "parallel bonds" problem?
>
>
> Niels Dettenbach (Syndicat.com) wrote:
>>
>> Quinn Wood <wood.quinn.s AT gmail.com> schrieb:
>>>
>>> Bitcoin is a prime example of that. People are far too focused on
>>> using it as a stock symbol to see the potential it offers.
>>
>> Yes but no,
>> bitcoin and derivates currently are only usable for short term or instant
>> payments / investments against other goods, but not for saving money over
>> longer timespans.
>>
>> The risks are still very high as nobody thinks about the fact that there
>> is potentially no limit of the amount of bonds like BC under other names.
>> There is no reason why others should not start a completely parallel 
>> bitcoin
>> number space and use it as money.
>>
>> This means that a rising amount of such bonds will bring down the value of
>> each bitcoin currency unit over the time. There is potentially no limit for
>> the amount of parallel bonds.
>>
>> YES, we need currencies independent from any state or organisations
>> influence, but BC will be just ONE solution for just a part of 
>> applications.
>>
>> But the risk that bitcoins will divide more then once in it's price - for
>> example during a farmers year who sells his products in autum to pay for 
>> new
>> seeds next spring is very high att and as long as there is no solution of
>> the parallel bonds problem i'm wrote above here.
>>
>> We accept BC byself for our global internet hosting services but in a way
>> we can take over the currency risks of BC - this limites the amount of
>> applications significantly.
>>
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>>
>> Niels.
>>
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