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Spam and the Byzantine Empire: How Bitcoin tech REALLY works
Why does Bitcoin work? Fraudsters should have left it in cinders years ago, and might have done, if it wasn't for two things: spam and the Byzantine Empire. A Bitcoin is basically an entry in a ledger that is distributed across a network of computers. Bitcoins are transferred between parties by noting the transaction in the …
Nice... no mention of how the very first Bitcoins were minted though?
There was a recent Planet Money podcast that gave an entertaining layman's explanation of Bitcoin. It went into a bit more depth on how such a digital currency could be bootstrapped from nothing. Basically, at the start, anyone could generate their own Bitcoins once connected to the Bitcoin server, using their own computers. Like the Big Bang of the universe, at the beginning it was fast, then as more coins got generated it got progressively harder until it was easier to purchase them rather than generate new ones. Hence the 'Gold Standard' type concept - you just cannot 'print' new ones, even the founder of Bitcoin cannot.
Apparently there are some as yet unminted Bitcoins to be 'discovered' out there but the computational power and time needed to do it is getting phenomenally rare.
Re: Nice... no mention of how the very first Bitcoins were minted though?
Not strictly true. Bitcoin mining for the end user is still viable, providing you have an AMD graphics card. They are just miles better than Geforce for this task. There are ASICS boxes being shipped now which hash at more than 5GH/sec being priced at about $300 at present drawing about 5 watts. To give that some context, an AMD 7970 on the market for about $400 can do about 700Mh/sec drawing over 200 watts.
When these units flood the market in the next 6-12 months - it will make the end user using his graphics card for mining completely pointless. It currently takes about a month for a 500Mh/sec card to mine a single coin, which market prices currently retails for about $140, but in 12 months it will probably take 2 months to mine one.
This is because the "difficulty" to mine a coin increases exponentially to prevent the market flooding. It's possible that the bitcoin hash will change to give smaller users more power and to prevent large organisations with MASSES of GPU power from hoarding them all, because all they need to do is change the way the hashes are done, and all the ASIC and FPGA cards will be useless because they will have to be reprogrammed.
Re: Nice... no mention of how the very first Bitcoins were minted though?
Not strictly true either. The difficulty of mining Bitcoin doesn't increase exponentially. The difficulty of mining is automatically adjusted - either up or down.
Essentially, the next hash is computed from, amongst other things, the hash of the previous block's transactions - which can't be predicted ahead of time - so work on mining the hash which comes after the next one can't be done ahead of time.
That 'next' hash which is being mined needs to have a specific number of leading zeros. The number of these leading zeros that is required varies depending on, essentially, how much world-wide computing power is dedicated to the task of mining. If the protocol detects that megatons of computer power is applied, the number of leading zeroes is increased, making the mining operation much more difficult, and keeping the rate at which these hashes are found constant (at about one every ten minutes.
If the amount of computing power which is mining was decreased (meaning that it would take longer to stumble upon a hash that fits the requirements), then, after a while, the protocol will decrease the number of leading zeros required in the 'next' hash - making the mining operation easier.
All that effort/time/money people put into mining simply makes the mining difficult and much more expensive. The rate at which someone can find Bitcoins remains relatively constant. The number of Bitcoins found each time will be reduced as time goes on. After a while, mining operations will produce no more Bitcoins.
At that time, all these mining operations will stop, and the hashing requirements will be relatively easy.
Copy'n'pasting from the Bitcoin FAQ at https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ
== How does the proof-of-work system help secure Bitcoin?
== To give a general idea of the mining process, imagine this setup:
== payload = <some data related to things happening on the Bitcoin network>
== nonce = 1
== hash = SHA2( SHA2( payload + nonce ) )
== The work performed by a miner consists of repeatedly increasing "nonce" until the hash
== function yields a value, that has the rare property of being below a certain target threshold.
== (In other words: The hash "starts with a certain number of zeroes", if you display it in the
== fixed-length representation, that is typically used.)
Re: Nice... no mention of how the very first Bitcoins were minted though?
Its bad enough the stupid world financial system is already siphoning off our best minds to invent super complex financial instruments of mass destruction whose main purpose is to hide money from regulators, auditor, investors, etc. But now possibly a lot of the world's computing power will be diverted to a largely arbitrary useless task as well? We need those minds and computers to cure cancer, explore the universe, discover scientific breakthroughs, hell even finding energy sources is a more worthwhile endeavor for humanity. Typical game theory, personal greed over society prospering.
Re: Nice... no mention of how the very first Bitcoins were minted though?
>Like the Big Bang of the universe, at the beginning it was fast,
Understatement of the day: Rapid exponential expansion of the early universe by a factor of at least 10^78 in volume in a time interval that is at least 15 orders of magnitude smaller than the smallest time interval science has ever been able to measure. Basically a time interval so small that comparing it to a blink of eye would be greater than comparing the blink of an eye to the age of universe.
Re: Transaction fees
Transaction fees, which are what will power bitcoin mining after the initial distribution of coins are done, amount to 0.025% of the transaction value they are based on. That is not an excessive overhead for running a financial network. Miners, therefore, will not use more computing power and electricity than that 0.025%, because they would be losing money on the task.
As far as total power use, if everyone used ASIC type mining rigs, the entire bitcoin network would consume 820 kW. You can compare that to the 19 MW Apple uses for their North Carolina data center.
Re: Transaction fees
According to my (admittedly vague) understanding, transaction fees are paid to miners, and higher transaction fees get processed faster than lower ones. Transactors are responsible for setting the transaction fees. This allows a competitive marketplace to drive the current transaction fee lower if ample miners are operating or set it higher to get a quicker response if needed. This seems to me quite ingenious.
I derived this understanding from the statement on my first Bitcoin wallet (from bitcoin-Qt) that asked me to set what I wanted my transaction fee to be. In the Settings field, I find "Optional transaction fee per kB that helps you make sure your transactions are processed quickly. Most transactions are 1kB. Fee 0.01 recommended." Then, there is a field that I can set that says "Pay transaction fee [0.00000000]" -- the field allows 1 satoshi transaction fee. Up-down arrows controlling that field increment/decrement in 0.001B amounts. I can, however, set it lower or higher if I choose.
As I have not yet actually "spent" any Bitcoins, I have not had to decide the transaction fee I am willing to pay, and have not yet really inquired of the Bitcoin community if my understanding is correct. It truly appeals to me, though, to have transaction fees set by market supply/demand (of transaction validation) rather than a rather arbitrary 0.025%. I am currently paying a much lower percentage for each of my Dwolla transactions, so .025% looks high - particularly in view of my initial BItcoin wallet recommendation (assuming the .01 in the wallet quote means .01% - this is a bit ambiguous).
Good explanation of the technical side
I now know how it works...
though I'm still unsure as to what it's for. Unless you attach some real money/goods to it
Re: Good explanation of the technical side
I had to use BitCoins to buy a subscription to an NZB index site that Paypal, Visa et al refused to process payments for them. I believe some filesharing sites also use them.
Then there's the Silk Road ....
Re: Good explanation of the technical side
I'd recommend looking up the original paper written - its concise and well written.
What I like about BitCoin (theory - I don't "own" any) is that it challenges you to think about what a currency is, and why, for example, the problems that immediately come to mind with BitCoin don't (or do?) apply to Pounds, or Dollars.
Re: Good explanation of the technical side
People exchange about US $30 million a day of real goods and services for bitcoin. As the article explains, bitcoin is just the ledger for tracking exchanges between people. The network of real items that people exchange back and forth is what gives a balance on the ledger value.
What it's for
Like any currency, different things to different folks.
It's the seed of a currency that is not under the control of a government or any other human agency. in that respect it's a hard currency like Gold. But physical gold is expensive to safeguard and validate and impossible to use for e-transactions, and "paper" or e-Gold is vulnerable to fraudsters (who basically sell the real gold out of whatever vault it's supposed to be in, leaving a hollow shell of un-backed paper gold.
As for who is using Bitcoins: all sorts of people, but I fear Bitcoins are of greatest utility to those with most to hide. Apparently there are shops out ther in cyberspace on the Tor network, that supply illegal substances. You buy using Bitcoins, untraceably, and a packet may later arrive in the post which may contain your choice of illegal drug. Buyer beware, but E-bay has proved that the straightforward sort of fraud is not profitable. You can't maintain a reputation while ripping off many of your customers. Especially not for low-value transactions that promise repeat purchases. It's better to cultivate the repeat business. What works for legal products appears to work for illegal ones. (All allegedly ... I have no idea beyond what I've read about it).
It seems to me that the more governments gain access to our transaction histories and employ "big data" computing, the more attractive the Bitcoin will become. I don't mind Tesco having a record of everything I've ever bought at Tesco (except the cash no card transactions!), but a world where the government's computers analyze every single purchase and financial transaction that I've ever made is not apealing. Enter many more Bitcoin users?
Which is one reason governments hate Bitcoins and would like to kill them off if they could. Their propaganda (with more than a grain of truth) is that Bitcoins aid money launderers and tax evaders. Their other reason is that if Bitcoins flourish, it will be at the expense of all governments' ability to print their own money, and thereby rob (or tax) us all by inflation.
We live in interesting times. (Smiley face just worked out that the circle on the inside of the empty envelope is the bit he's supposed to eat).
Re: What it's for
"Which is one reason governments hate Bitcoins and would like to kill them off if they could. Their propaganda (with more than a grain of truth) is that Bitcoins aid money launderers and tax evaders. Their other reason is that if Bitcoins flourish, it will be at the expense of all governments' ability to print their own money, and thereby rob (or tax) us all by inflation."
An old friend used to work at BACS.
They had a project to see how fast transactions could be made across the globe.
When the team did a presentation showing they could easily do it in under 20 seconds the project was pulled as there wasn't enough time to bounce the money around in order to generate sufficient profits.
It isn't the money but the movement of it that generates the swill for the trough.
Re: What it's for
[flameproof trousers on - I'm about to say something that genuinely isn't trolling but won't go down well]
I know it's fashionable to be rude about politicians. And there's a lot to be rude about.
But few governments are actually evil. And most are trying their best to do the right thing, incompetence permitting. For a given value of right, in that people do tend to forget that their own interest is different to their voters' interests, and end up doing stuff to suit themselves. Putting this caveat in to say I'm not a naive idiot, and realise politicians screw-up and both politicians and civil servants sometimes conspire against the voters.
But the UK government (for an example) isn't trying to rob us with inflation. Firstly 2.4% inflation isn't desperately high. In fact it's low by recent historical standards. What they're trying to do is to keep the economy from melting down, and a bit of inflation is a perfectly acceptable price to pay for that.
One of the problems of deflation, is what it does to debt dynamics. This is a major reason why there likely won't be a proper banking system in BItcoin. If economic growth/slump + inflation is lower than zero, then the value of an economy's debts compared to the size of the economy grows. This is what's happening to Greece, and is the reason that Japanese government debt has hit 250% of GDP. It's a disaster. Because eventually you have to default. So even when the economy isn't growing, a bit of inflation stops your debts getting bigger than your income. If on the other hand you have deflation money is getting more valuable than the things it can buy, so debt becomes harder to pay off. This would rewards savers, but not in the normal way. Because you don't need to lend your savings to get interest, you can stuff them under the mattress (or digital equivalent in the case of Bitcoin). Which is all well and good for you, but means the economy can't use that money in the meantime, and so can't do stuff with it. Like invest. Therefore you won't be able to take out a mortgage in Bitcoins, and as that's the largest transaction any of us is likely to make, that'll keep us trading in our own national currencies. Plus no investment = no R&D.
Finally, don't be so rude about taxes. Sure I'd like to pay as little tax as possible. But if we don't pay any tax, then when we have that heart attack, there'll be no nice ambulancemen to come along and jump up and down on our chests until it's going again. Just like bailing out the banks was the best of a bunch of bad options, a bit of inflation 'taxing us all' to save the borrowers is also better than writing that debt off and having to bail out the banks again. Or not bailing out the banks and losing our savings. The trick is to have higher interest rates in the boom, and governments not to spend more than they raise in tax - for which politicians are surely at fault, but so are voters.
Re: What it's for
few governments are actually evil. And most are trying their best to do the right thing, incompetence permitting.
I'd tend to agree, except that they've convinved themselves that they are doing good in a circumstance where there may be nothing good to be done. We're now the subjects of an unprecedented experiment in economics. (If you think the 1930s were the precedent, remember that led to WW2, so I very much hope not). Power corrupts. Government is forever taking more power. We know what is proverbially paved with good intentions.
UK govt. has "printed" £375 billion by QE in recent years. That's over £6,000 per citizen. Some day, it will come flooding out into circulation. When that happens, I fear that the 1970s will be seen as a mere dress rehearsal for what is still to come.
I can remember the 1970s. I hope I'm wrong.
Re: What it's for
Well the official 2.4% inflation rate is no more than a guesstimate since it is actually very hard to measure the cost of "a basket of goods", not to mention the question of what gets included in the basket (housing costs?).
Mind you, even 2.4% is actually pretty high compared to the state of the economy; this is down to government and BoE actions over the last 4 or 5 years which have been aimed at keeping the financial industry zombies 'alive' rather than worrying about inflation targets that have now been exceeded for 40 months in a row.
Still not to worry; I see that one of the senior Fed Reserve board members has been telling the US mortgage industry that they should ease their qualification rules on how much to lend and to whom, so its all going to be tickety-boo again soon.
Re: What it's for
"I can remember the 1970s. I hope I'm wrong."
Probably not wrong. The incoming governor of the Bank of England has recently been quoted as saying that Europe faces a lost decade (or two) if it doesn't copy Japan's latest efforts to kick start the motor. And to be specific, Japan's latest effort has been deliberate attempts to ignite retail inflation, and to devalue the huge debts that hang around the Japanese economy's neck. The UK is not that far behind Japan in the ranks of Hugely Indebted Economies.
That's a big hint that he's all for more retail inflation. As you note, QE merely inflated asset prices, with the retail impact so far largely due to the depreciation of sterling. If he's setting out to cause inflation, then expect broad money supply inflation, exactly the scenario that Maggie inherited, and likewise the ultimate result of years of Labour party financial ineptitude and mismanagement. But who will undo the damage in future?
I ain't Spartacus - with all due respect
I ain't Spartacus - with all due respect, you're wrong.
As the monopoly currency issuer a Government doesn't need to borrow any money in order to spend.
The fact that they do so has its roots in the gold standard (whereby a King had to have gold in his treasury in order to wage war)
The Bank of England was set up by a private group of wealthy men specifically for the purpose of financing, at interest, the Government of the day.
Today the BoE is wholly owned by the Government, any interest gained by the bank on loans made to the Government are returned to the Government in the form of BoE profits.
The Government spends money into existence and taxes it out of existence (net neutral)
The inflation that you speak of is coming from the private banking sector, they create money in the form of credit/debt (credit from the word credo meaning faith). The bank creates £100 (at todays value) which it lends to you, there is now £100 extra in circulation and so the currency is devalued, the interest you are charged covers both the risk of not getting it back plus the reduction in value (otherwise the interest rat would be the inflation rate)
eg. the bank lend you 100 units to purchase 100 carrots but the increase in the supply of units means that each carrot increases in price to 1.1 units, in order to pay back the bank you must give them 110 units plus the insurance premium.
All that is missing from BitCoin is a credible futures market (paradoxically, gambling on the future price of a commodity creates stability)
Re: What it's for
>"I can remember the 1970s. I hope I'm wrong."
Yeah the late 1970s and early 80s were bad in the US as well (was a kid then but remember) not to mention the early 90s but honestly I think the combination of the Dotcom crash (and 9/11) and the Great Recession put it to shame in most of the Western world. This generation has seen things only their grandparents have seen in modern history (only buffered from far worse by making our grandkids pay for it). Not saying things can't get worst but if they do its going to be far worse than the 1970s stuff minus perhaps the oil embargos.
Re: @ST7
There was a nearly perfect testbed for this theory. Soviet Union.
Its government had nearly unlimited power over the financial system, and not just that - pretty much all the means of production were state-owned, or at least tightly controlled. There was no private sector to worry about. Especially no private banking.
The Iron Curtain was very effective against any foreign influences to the currency. Until the 70's, foreign trade was extremely low - most of the necessary goods were produced domestically.
And still, every time they printed money on the grand scale, it resulted in a heavy inflation:
- after WWII, which was obviously a difficult time
- before and after 1961 currency reform (this new currency was nearly destroyed by the inflation, which was one of the factors leading to the 1964 regime change)
- at the end of 70's, when war in Afganistan and Olympic Games needed financing
This last money-printing affair was so extensive that SU never really recovered from that. Inflation grew much worse during the 80's, ending with the true hyperinflation.
Of course, there were other factors to the economic collapse, but money-printing and excessive spending were definitely the worst culprits. And, to remind once more, in a relatively isolated environment.
Re: What it's for
"few governments are actually evil. And most are trying their best to do the right thing, incompetence permitting."
It's not the govts that worry me. It's the evil buggers in the background, controlling the govts.
Re: What it's for
Um so why haven't govs killed of notes & coins cash yet?
Re: What it's for
"Um so why haven't govs killed of notes & coins cash yet?"
Do you think they pay for those billion dollar projects in cash? Its an interesting exercise calculating the volume of currency required for <INSERT DEBACLE HERE>
Bitcoin isn't as stable or free as it's proponents claim
A major shortcoming is that the ability to change the protocol isn't as hard or farfetched as you mention in the article. It would, indeed, require "operators of the vast majority of the computing in the Bitcoin network (to accept) a new version of the protocol." But the operators of the vast majority of the computing power as it stands now are a few individual mining pools, and ASIC mining companies. And they are very likely to act in their own self interest.
I expect that in a few years, they are going to argue that deflation is damaging bitcoin, and that "for the good of community and the stability of bitcoin" it will be necessary to continue to mint coins at the current rate, and to disregard the scheduled block reward halving.
Or if those few ASIC miners and pool operators received a court order requiring that transactions from a certain bitcoin address should never be included in a block, you can bet they'll comply. They have no economic interest in fighting the order, or relocating themselves (and their controlling minds) offshore to avoid a contempt charge. Better to comply, and continue raking in the money.
Thus the centralisation of bitcoin computing power in such few places renders the purported stability and imperviousness to government regulation rather suspect.
Re: Bitcoin isn't as stable or free as it's proponents claim
As it stands, the miners are not the only users who have a say when it comes to changes in the system. The whole broadcast network, ie. most users, need to have a consensus on the rules.
As seen in the past, when mining pools start gathering too much power, users leave them and establish new pools. Further, there is also a P2P pool.
If a pool is regulated by authorities, you can be sure that people will establish a new pool perhaps in the Tor network that readily includes all sorts of transactions. It does not matter if a pool operator has economic interest in whatever, because they do not own the computing power.
Any sort of changes in the rules are generally very difficult to make. While in theory you can say that a majority agreeing is enough, even if a few percent of users disagree to something fundamental, it will deliver a huge blow to the network's credibility, because, what if the next day the majority votes for something that YOU don't agree on? Not a very nice system, is it - perhaps you should better leave it because you don't know what rules are changed next? It would crash the perceived security of the system. And this is why the sort of changes you talked about, are not likely to happen.
Re: Bitcoin isn't as stable or free as it's proponents claim
Most users mine via a pool. Much like how individual small shareholders delegate their vote to the chairman at AGMs, these miners are delegating their hashing power to the pool operators. This isn't a case of one pool becoming too strong and people leaving to balance things, it's a case of there being a small enough number of pools and mining companies for it to be feasible for a set of court orders to be delievered, or a consensus to be reached among them regarding block reward rules.
In your counterexample, anyone including 'banned' transactions would find their own blocks rejected and orphaned, so long as 51% of the network complied with the court orders. Call me pessimistic, but given my own understanding of human nature, I believe most people (especially those motivated to spend money on mining hardware in the first place) place aquisition of wealth over abstract notions such as maintaining the freedom for suspected terrorists and money launderers to operate. Which will no doubt be the excuse used for those court orders.
I guess time will tell which of us is right. But I maintain the centralisation of mining power into a countable and concentrated number of spots, rather than promoting hundreds of thousands of nodes solo-mining, is a weakness. And expecting people to 'do the right thing' if such spots begin to be attacked is being optimistic about how humans respond when principles and making money conflict.
Am I the only one who notices the flaw? It's all well and good to use progressively more difficult computational work to underpin bitcoin but that work uses not just real world time but energy.
We've just created an incentive to turn fossil fuels into nothing but hot air (literally). Is this an elaborate joke being played on us to teach us the futility of capitalism system? Why drive to work, develop ideas, make products in order to make money when you can get a machine to turn energy into money directly without all that complicated and confusing economic activity in the middle.
Sunshine -> Money
Well, you could always hook your mining rig up to a bunch of PV panels and turn sunshine into money instead!
Fossil fuels are made from once living things and burning them releases their joy back into the world.
Same as other curencies!
It's all well and good to use progressively more difficult computational work to underpin bitcoin but that work uses not just real world time but energy.
The main reason gold is a store of value, is that mining more of it is expensive.
As for government paper, what is the energy cost of all the enforcement mechanisms needed to prevent forgers and fraudsters devaluing the currency? (Fraud squads, auditors, bankers all consume energy). Much harder to quantify, but it would be fair to say that if it wasn't substantial, the currency would be sunk pretty fast.
@ Thing
A more philosophic answer to your question is two fold:
1) Bitcoin is a natural extension of capatilism as people attempt to increase the value of their possessions to give them greater security and options. It falls under the 'innovation' category 'try it and see if you get money'. I'm betting it won't work (due to vested outside interests and governments) but that too is a part of Capitalism.
2) Even if we lived in a Star Trek type environment where money wasn't necessary the vast majority of people would still go to work (of some sort). Having a mission is a pleasing mission to Humans. The difference being right now most people are forced to do jobs to provide lives for themselves outside of poverty. If Humans could work at what they enjoyed (instead of what pays bills & medical costs) the world would probably be much more effecient & happier place but you'd still go to work.
Re: @ Thing
Of course money is unnecessary in Star Treks universe as the entirety of it's society's economic activity and output is consumed by it's bloated military industrial complex and it's endless series of expansionist wars with people who are 'evil' and by complete coincidence also look a bit funny.
... but that's is a meta-economic discussion for another day :-)
Re: Sunshine -> Money
Like growing cabbages.
Except people can actually eat cabbages.
The problem with this whole mining idea is that it is not even a real mine. Some folks decided "let there be a virtual mine" with scarcity. We can mine it easy in the beginning and basically do a huge land grab.
What is there to stop someone else coming along and saying "well bitcoin was a bit of a scam. We've stated a new currency that does it slighty differently and more green/democratically/whatever." Bitcoin goes out of fad and the next one takes over.
"Fossil fuels are made from once living things and burning them releases their joy back into the world."
and their sorrow :(
@Sunshine -> Money
Many of the ideal locations for solar/wind/wave/etc. power are too remote to get power out of efficiently. While we still use non-renewable energy for power generation then bitcoin mining at those locations and using the funds to offset the non-renewable costs would be far more efficient. 100 miles of 1 gigawatt cabling could be replaced by a USB key.
This energy usage argument comes up a lot but the bitcoin network is already more powerful than the worlds top 500 supercomputers combined yet it uses only a few percent of the power used by the worlds ATM machines thanks to dedicated hardware.
The problem with real-world currencies is not governments
It's banks. Banks create money when they create loans, and they now create the vast majority of money (estimates range from 95-98%). Unless you are prepared to have 100% reserve banking, preventing banks from creating money, you cannot base an economy on BitCoin without completely debasing the currency. There are many sources for this, here's one: http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/dollar-deception.php
The fact is, fixed currency standards don't work; they cannot scale to the level of growth in the economy without increasingly mining an ever greater amount of whatever commodity you pegged it to, and having to store it. Gold was useful here because it doesn't obviously degrade, and has few uses (its use in electronics, of providing a tarnish-free and reasonably conductive coating to ensure good contact for connections made and broken repeatedly, was decades away when we went off the gold standard). Failing to keep up with economic growth causes deflation, which is generally considered a bad thing: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/why-is-deflation-bad/
Fiat currency allows the supply of money to approximately match the aggregate demand of the economy, without uselessly mining a resource that you're not going to use. Central banks can wield a few levers to try to keep the supply slightly ahead of demand, in order to get a little inflation, which helps devalue debts as well as savings. The problem we've had for a decade or so is that the economy is very imbalanced, with consumer electronics largely in deflation, cancelling out some very high inflation in house prices (not measured in the favoured 'consumer price inflation' metric) and other commodities.
Really, money is just a medium of exchange: something that has wide acceptance in exchange for other things. It's just our IOUs to each other: I owe you a day of software development, you owe me an Xbox. By assigning numbers to these IOUs, I can transfer your IOUs so that Samsung owe me a TV. You have to think of money's value being in terms of what it can buy. Instead of thinking that a sandwich costs £2.50, you say that a pound is worth 4/10ths of a sandwich.
The major problem for government is that politicians do not understand how money is created, and how differently it behaves under a fiat currency system compared to a pegged system ('gold standard'). Too many economists - and, unfortunately, the ones that the politicians are listening to - still make their predictions based on ideas from the gold standard era - that there is a finite amount of money.
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The trick is that people have to TRUST the money for it to be useable. Inflation degrades that trust because it diminishes the value people have on hand. If inflation grows too high, you start a vicious cycle towards hyperinflation which inevitably removes trust in the currency. That's why many people liked pegged or 100% reserved currencies: there was a surety of the money being backed that you can't get with floating or fiat currencies.
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The trick is that people have to TRUST the money for it to be useable.
An oversimplification. A currency is used, and valued, to the extent that people believe it's a reservoir of value. That means trust isn't required; what's required is the belief that return will tend to outweigh cost, where cost is a function not only of risk ("trust" here being the absence of risk) but of convenience, opportunity costs, etc. In practice, people will use a currency even when it's clearly not trustworthy, if they think it's cheaper to use it than to seek an alternative or do without.
That's why people continue (reluctantly) to use currencies even when they're suffering hyperinflation, and why Somalia's currency came back into circulation even when there was no central bank or effective government to guarantee it.
For ordinary users, the value of a currency is basically (nominal value at the moment for goods I want) x (how much I expect it to lose value before I spend it on those goods) x (likelihood I can exchange it for those goods) x (1 / cost of finding an alternative acceptable to my trading partners). Then of course there are currency speculators, who also figure in their estimate of the likely rate of return, versus the likely returns for other investments.
The issuer of a currency does try to promote trust in it, or at least a high degree of confidence, because that helps make the currency popular and relatively stable. But plenty of people use currencies they don't trust, either because they have enough confidence in it, or because it's cheaper and more liquid than the alternatives.
My point is that "trust' suggests an absolute attribute of a currency, and in reality that's not how things work. Sure, with a major, stable currency, most users likely don't even think about whether they trust it. But when things start to fall apart, history shows that even ordinary users become quite canny at evaluating how they can use a currency as a medium of exchange while preserving as much value as they can.
@ Mike Dimmick
"The fact is, fixed currency standards don't work; they cannot scale to the level of growth in the economy"
and what if the economy doesn't grow ?
"Banks create money when they create loans, and they now create the vast majority of money (...) Fiat currency allows the supply of money to approximately match the aggregate demand of the economy"
Correct, except that you are missing here the interests : when a bank creates money by making a loan, the amount of money created is equal to the amount of principal of said loan, but the amount of money corresponding to the interests is not created. So how are you supposed to pay something that hasn't been created ?
Duh !
Therefore, in such - our - monetary system, the amount of money must always grow, but when the economy cannot grow (because of the physical limits of resources for example), the system gets out of control. The interest should then become negative, but it cannot because then all investors take their money out of the banks and keep cash, and the fractional reserve banking collapses for lack of deposits.
This is the root of what we are witnessing today: a giant (150 years old !) Ponzi scheme unraveling.
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Seems to me you failed to understand the article you quoted. Somalia's currency came back into circulation precisely because there was a limited amount of it and no more could be printed. The whole argument in favor of a quite rigid supply of money is beautifully articulated in von Mises "Theory of Money and Credit" - Krugman's nonsense to the contrary notwithstanding.
The article asks "Why, then, are Somali shillings, issued in the name of a government that ceased to exist long ago and backed by no reserves of any kind, still in use?"
It answers:
"One reason may be that the supply of shillings has remained fairly fixed. Rival warlords issued their own shillings for a while and there are a fair number of fakes in circulation. But the lack of an official printing press able to expand the money supply has given the pre-1992 shilling a certain cachet. Even the forgeries do it the honour of declaring they were printed before the central bank collapsed: implausibly crisp red 1,000-shilling notes, with their basket weavers on the front and orderly docks on the back, declare they were printed in the capital in 1990."
This is precisely what von Mises articulates in his book. The real key is the money supply is STABLE. It is the "LACK OF A PRINTING PRESS ABLE TO EXPAND THE MONEY SUPPLY" that does the job.
Money isn't the bank - neither should bitcoin
The services that were hacked had nothing to do with the infrastructure of the bitcoin network, or really bitcoin itself. Just as any service can be hacked, they were, and it just happens that they were targeted because they hold sums of BTC, and thieves love money.
What needs to take place to stabilize things (and they are more or less stable at $111-$130USD/BTC right now) is for exchanges to put into place some market manipulation protection.
If the average price of bitcoin is $100 and someone tries to sell volume through the exchange at $20/btc, it drives everyones wealth down. This should not be allowed by the exchanges. Wells Fargo was involved in exchanging for a short while, but banks quickly realize this currency is designed to circumvent them, and their fees.
Digital currencies are a way to fight back against the banking system, my money is MINE - I should NOT have to keep my money in your box, pay you a fee for it while you make money off of it, then pay you more fees to transfer or spend it. Banking fees should be going down, not up - theres nobody at the counter anymore!
Re: Money isn't the bank - neither should bitcoin
Someone offering to sell at $20 isn't selling bitcoins at $20, that's merely the price they're indicating they're prepared to accept. Any existing bid orders will be matched first... so first they'll sell a chunk at $120, then a chunk at $119.95, then a chunk at $119.92. Unless they have so many bitcoins that they can exhaust the exchanges entire order book, the price won't go anywhere near $20.
And if it did? Everyone who bought low would immediately relist their cheaply aquired bitcoins back at $120, probably while laughing at the sucker who just sold a chunk at such a silly price.
What the exchanges actually need right now, is some infrastructure (Gox is a joke) and regulatory stability. Pretty hard to have confidence in a currency, if you're living in constant fear of the exchange having its servers yanked in response to a money laundering investigation.
Re: Money isn't the bank - neither should bitcoin
Indeed, regulatory stability is a requirement. And regulatory stability is one thing I would love to be able to expect from our government.
As long as MtGox keeps to the legislation under which it operates, the government will prosecute a crime any attack on it. After all, there is real money involved.
The recent impounding of the cash held by the transfer agent between MtGox and Dwolla appears to have been that it allegedly failed to comply with FinCEN rules regarding registration as a money exchanger (if I got it right). If so, it seems to me likely that the outcome is going to vindicate MtGox, Dwolla, and the transfer agent.
Creating stable and local money is easy
Making it suitable for more than 2% of the economy is harder but should be possible.
I spend and earn some local money every month. Nothing to do with Bitcoins. In addition to UK Pounds a small amount of my (currently all post tax because it's not regular) income and expenditure is in Covs. We (Coventry LETS) are a group currently of about 50 people who support each other and trade and keep score, though we've had about 400 people in and out using our books over the 20 years we've been in operation. We don't need complex cryptography either. We started paper based, and now use a web application to keep score. The currency is issued by those creditworthy enough within the community for trading partners to be happy to hold a negative balance. It's all double entry bookkeeping. It stays local because that's how far good reputation extends. It stays stable because the money is as good as the reputation of those issuing it. Money earned on our system 20 years ago is spendable today based on our agreement that 1Cov is nominally equivalent to £1.
Why we need unconventional competition for global money, other than for criminal or gambling networks, is something I don't figure, because conventional money works quite well at preferring global trade to local trade. Those who trade globally don't pay taxes, those who trade locally do. Consequently the global trading space isn't where the real gaps in the economy exist. Becoming less dependant upon money as a national monopoly system where people think there can only be one kind of money requires a mechanism allowing local moneys to multiply and expand into taxable areas of income and expenditure, while retaining boundaries giving these currencies advantages in the trading contexts where local currencies can do well. These boundaries (like cell walls) require taxes on income/profits/value added in respect of local currencies becoming payable to the local authority or charities and exempt from taxes due in conventional money - with taxes on local money paid as transaction taxes and as an inherent function of the transaction occurring on the books where the local money exists.
Once currency exchange requires taxation as an inherent feature of the transactions, a more stable boundary between pairs of currencies is created because speculation and arbitrage can only occur based on genuine end-user requirements and never as an activity in its own right unconnected with such.
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What is the advantage of this system if it is pegged to the pounds value though? appreciate it keeps the currency between the small group of traders but you could easily do the same thing with any currency even the pound.
The article is a bit lacking in places. There are sights to borrow and lend BTC (bitfinex is one) which allows trading on margins or borrowing at various intrest rates. It was quite fun during the last bubble cashing out and then lending the $ at 400% intrest. You can lend in pure BTC as well but the liquidity is smaller.
Looked at from the right point of view, in the long term Capitalism is theft. It keeps moving around, but the over the 300-odd years of its history, the successful countries have succeeded for a while by skimming the cream off a flow of wealth. So Britain made huge amounts of money by moving wealth through the City.
Yes, there is the industry which can be built as a side effect. Capitalism started as a way of sharing risk. Whether capitalism is the only way of organising a society to do that is still open to debate. Communism failed, but can we seriously claim it was the only alternative?
Bitcoin isn't a good answer, for various reason enumerated in the article, but does it need the mechanisms of capilalism to be useful? The bank is older than capitalism, and Islamic practices have found alternatives to interest. The speculator, buying and selling on a market, is far older than we might think, and doesn't depend on the instruments of the modern financial markets.
E-bay, and the importance of reputation, have been mentioned above. The City and modern banking sometimes seem to be making "My word is my bond" into a hollow jest.
What next is a very good question.
@Dave Bell - Interesting opinion
As a person who had the (mis)fortune to spend what could be the half of his life under a communist regime and the rest in a capitalist society, I find your post pretty much on the spot. I always believed each of the two systems has a good and a bad part and that maybe a right combination of the two would move humanity towards a better era. Unfortunately I strongly believe the human race is running out of time.
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Little known fact: Mt Gox isn't named after a mountain, it originally stood for "Magic: The Gathering - Online eXchange".
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This is a pretty great list of links to recipes of things to make instead of buying them. We already make some things that we used to pay someone else to make for us. Growing up and into my adulthood it never occurred to me that I could just make it myself!
My interest in this kind of thing started in missionary training when I realized I could make my own 'cream of' soups, and in more recent years we've started to make our own laundry detergent, ranch dressing, mayonnaise, toothpaste, household cleaners, fly spray for horses. We do it not only to save on the budget but also because we don't want the harmful chemicals that are in many of these items that are commercially made.
Here is a link to my post that shares my laundry detergent recipe.
Do you make any items that you used to purchase?
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- Debbie said...
Great link! I will pin this. I make some of the stuff on the list, but there are items on there that I have been planning to find recipes for. I'm even saving old jars to store them when I do. I just haven't yet.
What I do make? Hmm. My own cleaners (household and laundry), bath salts, linen sprays, potpourri, face masks, dressings, and probably more but I can't think of them.
- August 22, 2014 at 11:11 AM
- Vee said...
What I find is that I am buying a lot of product to make a product. That doesn't make sense to me UNLESS it is for better health. Very interesting!
- August 22, 2014 at 11:21 AM
- Lorrie said...
Missionary life is great for learning to make do and do without. There hasn't been a can of soup in my pantry for many, many years, even after returning to Canada. I can taste the chemicals.
For the past couple of years I've returned to baking our own bread. I'm going to take a look at this list after commenting.
- August 22, 2014 at 11:46 AM
- podso said...
Yes I could agree with you and Lorrie. In Ghana I learned how you can make just about everything. And I do make a lot of things but haven't returned to making laundry detergent yet, and not fly spray for horses :-) … I like to make things especially if I have the time. Now off to see the 50 things.
- August 22, 2014 at 2:36 PM
- Theresa said...
I don't make any of these items but I sure should:) Thanks for the list! Have a blessed weekend dear friend, HUGS!
- August 23, 2014 at 8:22 AM
- Cheryl said...
I haven't taken a look at the list yet (will return to it soon...when I have a bit of time to peruse), but I am quite inclined to make my own food items. Like Lorrie, I can taste the "fake" stuff after years of cooking from scratch. I am sure I could learn a lot in the areas of cleaning products and health and beauty aids.
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Next week, all eyes will be on the U.S. Supreme Court as the highest court in the land does something very unusual according to legal scholars. It will consider striking down a piece of federal legislation – the health care law known as the Affordable Care Act, which 26 states charge is unconstitutional.
"I feel great about the Supreme Court argument," Deputy Chief of Staff Nancy-Ann DeParle, told a group of reporters and me at a roundtable this week in the West Wing. Still, it was clear the White House was trying to get the message out about "what's at stake," according to DeParle, in this election year with Republicans vowing to repeal every aspect of President Obama's plan if they're victorious in November.
"The things that we've gained and the changes that have been made for women and for families and for all Americans but especially for women and families would all be taken away and we'd be going in a very different direction," said DeParle, who's been involved in every aspect of health care reform for the Obama administration.
How does this law affect you?
How does it impact women and families? DeParle and Jeanne Lambrew, Deputy Assistant to the President for Health Policy, rattled off a number of ways you might not be aware of: how 40,000 people with pre-existing conditions who couldn't get coverage now can; how it will be illegal for insurance companies to deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions in 2014; how 105 million people are benefitting from no lifetime limits on their coverage; how 2.5 million young adults are now covered under their parents' plans; how 3.6 million seniors with Medicare saved an average of $600 each on the cost of their prescription drugs in 2011; how 45 million women got free preventive services last year; how additional benefits for women go into effect this summer such as a coverage for a well woman's visit, breastfeeding support and free contraception coverage (you've no doubt heart about that!) and how, in 2014, women will no longer be denied coverage or pay more if they have breast cancer, a history of domestic violence or are pregnant.
"This law is far from perfect," said DeParle, "but it's an incredible start, an incredible path forward and we're just anxious to get on to the next phase of it."
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Still, polls show Americans are split along party lines when it comes to supporting the law, and even men and women who back it don't necessarily know how the legislation, signed into law two years ago Friday by President Obama, affects them. I asked DeParle and Lambrew that very question – do they wish they did more to educate the public about the parts of the plan that are improving their lives?
"We'll continue to try to work on the education part of it, that obviously matters for the political support of the bill but in terms of what this law (means) to people on the ground, I mean 105 million no longer have a lifetime limit, 54 million people nationwide have had their preventive services improved by that," she added. "Those are our metrics at the end of the day, have we made a difference in people's health, in people's lives."
"There's been a sustained campaign against health reform to make people think it's a bad thing," said DeParle. "We have not done a soup to nuts public education campaign about this… We haven't tried to get out there to say, health reform is good, health reform is good, maybe we should have but we've been focused on trying to implement it."
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The individual mandate, the provision kicking in two years from now requiring everyone to have insurance, remains the most controversial, lacks wide popular support and is at the heart of the Supreme Court case. "I think a lot of people think that the so-called individual mandate is a huge new imposition on their liberty based on what they heard from some when In fact for many, most, I suppose, Americans, nothing is going to change, they'll just check a box that says yes, I have insurance," said DeParle. "Nothing will change except that over time their cost, the cost growth of their plan should decline."
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A group of researchers made the announcement Sunday. The girl was treated at this children's hospital in Jackson, Mississippi.
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She's been "functionally cured." That's when the virus' presence is so small that the patient won't need lifelong treatment.
That news is providing hope for patients right here in the Tennessee Valley.
Kimberly Boling is a mom and a HIV patient. She's lived with the virus for the past 24 years.
"If you don't understand the HIV or the AIDS, then you're not getting the right information. Being put on meds, that's just to save your life. Otherwise, you're taking your life in your own hands," says Boling.
Bolling was diagnosed with HIV in 1998 after the birth of her fourth daughter. After living with the virus for over 2 decades, she's learned how to cope. And the news of the Mississippi toddler's possible cure keeps her pushing forward.
"That's the only hope we have. Too many people say theres no cure. There's even doctors that say there's no cures. But never give up hope. There's always hope," says Boling.
Hope is what keeps Jerry Evans with Chattanooga Cares thriving.
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"Just because this baby's getting cured, yeah that brings hope to us, but you never know how long it's gonna take for it to get to us. Never stop playing safe," says Boling.
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I love slouchy hats! In fact in my pre-crochet days, when I was designing my friend's crochet web site a few years back (you can read more about that here), she paid me partly in crochet goods… and my first request was, "Can you make me a slouchy hat?" I think they are so fun and they tend to look great even on girls who are convinced that they don't look good in hats. (Yeah, I'm one of those.)
I originally created this slouchy hat for my little sis. I also took a dozen of them to a college artisan fair in November. They sold out! Now, you can have one of your own.
Slouchy Hat Crochet Pattern
One Size Fist Most (Preteen – Adult Woman).
Hat measures 9" across at band, and is 10" tall.
- Hook sizes K, H, G
- Yarn needle
- Worsted weight yarn (approx. 3oz; I often use I Love This Yarn or Vanna's Choice)
- Stitch marker (a bobby pin works great)
5 HDC x 3 rows = 1.5" square
Stitches Used
MC (magic circle)
CH (chain)
SS (slip stitch)
SC (single crochet)
HDC (half double crochet)
DC (double crochet)
CRDC (crossed double crochet, see Special Stitch)
Special Stitch
CRDC – skip one stitch, DC into next stitch, DC in skipped stitch to form an "X" from the two DC. Be sure to skip an empty stitch with each new CRDC so that the Xs do not share stitches with each other.
This hat is worked in a continuous spiral. Do not join at the end of each round and do not chain at the beginning of rounds unless instructed. Use a stitch marker to mark the last stitch of each round.
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Using K Hook, begin with magic circle.
Round 1: 10 HDC in magic circle (10)
Round 2: 2 HDC in each ST around (20)
Round 3: 2 HDC in each ST around (40)
Round 4: (2 HDC in next, 1 HDC in next) around (60)
Round 5: (2 HDC in next, 1 HDC in next, 1 HDC in next) around (80)
Switch to H hook.
Round 6: CRDC around (you will complete 40 CRDC for a total of 80 ST)
Round 7: Skip 1st stitch (this will stagger your CRDCs, which gives your hat a diagonal look). CRDC around.* (You will complete 40 CRDC for a total of 80 ST) *Because of skipped stitch, your last CRDC will go one stitch into the next row.
Round 8: CRDC around. (You will complete 40 CRDC for a total of 80 ST)
Rounds 9-16: Repeat Round 8
Switch to G Hook.
Round 17: CRDC around, skipping one stitch after every 2 CRDCs until you reach end of round (you will complete 32 CRDC for a total of 64 ST)
Round 18: SC around (64)
Rounds 19-26: Repeat Round 18
When you complete Round 26, make 5 slip stitches (SS); fasten off and weave in ends.
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so, here I am all new and shiny! I'm excited to join this sewing group because I love all things creative, but creative things you can wear best of all. I'm very new to sewing and I'm slowly learning. I hope to be able to master some of the dresses on this website (I've been salivating over the 1950's party dress *sigh* some day). Any helpful tips and encouraging words would be greatly appreciated!
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Thanks for your patience! Sorry it took me a while to approve your posts. Haven't had a moment to get on the forum lately. Welcome to our little community!
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Welcome! So glad you're here! Having made (so far) six dresses from the 1958 Party Dress pattern you referred to, my advice would be to go for it! There's no better way to learn than just jumping in and doing something. The instructions are very thorough and clear, and it's quite simple to construct with just easy darts in the front and back and a totally straightforward skirt.
I look forward to seeing what you come up with!
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Welcome! I'm a new sewer too, and I second the advice to just jump right in – you can always ask questions here if you get stuck.
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It's so great to see other new sewers on here – I was afraid I would be the only one! I've been eyeing that pattern as well. I've always loved that silhouette. It's so flattering on so many people!
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Thanks everyone! So to get started with the basics do any of you more experienced sewers have suggestions on easy patterns I could practice on? Either from this site or from other sources?
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Do you have children you can sew for? (either your own or someone else's) I find sewing for children is a bit quicker, and they're not going to see any mistakes you might have made! Generally, you're looking for a smallish number of pieces and mostly straight seams. Also, you probably want something that doesn't take too much fabric, just in case!
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Colette Patterns has several easy vintage-inspired patterns. I found the instructions to be very clear and the website has great picture tutorials (linked on the sidebar) for specific skills.
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Joy Scrogum is an Emerging Technologies Resource Specialist and has been with ISTC since 2001. During that time she has worked on web site maintenance, content development and coordination; writing for multiple blogs, marketing, newsletter editing, and responding to information requests for the Great Lakes Regional Pollution Prevention Roundtable (GLRPPR). She has also served on committees for the Pollution Prevention Resource Exchange (P2Rx), and assisted with web site content development and marketing activities for the ISTC web site and Greening Schools. She earned a B.S. in Liberal Arts and Sciences (Biology) and an M.S. in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (NRES) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Ms. Scrogum has worked on the Sustainable Electronics Initiative since its inception under the direction of former ISTC Associate Director, Dr. Tim Lindsey. She has also served as a teaching asistant for a course on sustainability and e-waste issues taught by William Bullock, a professor of Industrial Design in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Art and Design. Ms. Scrogum developed and taught a course in Spring 2014 in collaboration with the UI College of Engineering and the Technology Entrepreneur Center (TEC) entitlted, "Sustainable Technology: Environmental and Social Impacts of Innovations." This course used electronic devices as a case study, examining impacts of electronics throughout their product life cycles. The International Sustainable Electronics Competition began as a local event associated with the aforementioned class taught by Professor Bullock. Ms. Scrogum has been involved with coordinating that competition since it evolved to the international level, and is currently the project director for the competition. Contact Ms. Scrogum regarding general SEI inquiries, the UI Sustainable Electronics Campus Consortium, the SEI blog and web site content coordination, and the International Sustainable Electronics Competition at 217-333-8948.
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More fantastic 25th century uniform additions! Great work my friend! Nice one!
I'm curious, Blackavaar...what would you say is your favourite Starfleet uniform out of all Star Trek media (i.e. TV, movies, books, games, etc.)? Feel free to have more than one favourite btw.
Thanks! Glad you like them.
And that's a good question. It's hard to answer because really, I love them all. Yes, even the oddly pajama-like TMP uniforms. I suppose I would have to say that my all time favorites would be the TOS uniforms. They're so simple and yet so striking. It's hard to top that. But I can't dismiss the wonderful utility of the Enterprise uniforms either. So, they would have to be my runner-up.


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offsideSaltos de línea: off|side
Definición de offside en inglés:
adjetivo& adverbio
Pronunciación: /ɒfˈsʌɪd /
(Of a player in some sports) occupying a position on the field where playing the ball or puck is not allowed, especially (in soccer) in the attacking half ahead of the ball and having fewer than two defenders nearer the goal line at the moment the ball is played: [as adverb]: the attacker looked offside by several yards figurative his radicalism caught him offside with the law
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- They managed it by surviving the first scrum and forcing their opponents offside, allowing O'Gara to kick them ahead from short range.
- As coach, he dragged players who ignored his leads, even if they were kicking goals, and put many players offside.
- I thought both times they had players offside and the officials felt the same.
sustantivoVolver al principio
1The fact or an instance of being offside in soccer, rugby, etc. the goal was disallowed for offside
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- They'd start shouting for offsides or a penalty claim.
- This sluggish play up front was emphasised by the large number of unnecessary offsides given.
- Threats to sue the Football League and create a new competition with no offsides or draws were just farcical.
2 (usually the off side) British The side of a vehicle furthest from the kerb (in Britain, the right): [as modifier]: the rear offside wheel Compare with nearside. See also off side at off (sense 1) of the noun).
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- The black paintwork of this car was in very good condition, the only marks being a small scuff on the rear bumper plus a slight dent on the off side rear wheel arch.
- When the vehicle came to a stop they saw the front off side wheel was at ninety degrees to the other.
- He had been driving along the A350 towards Melksham when his car collided with the offside of a yellow goods vehicle travelling in the opposite direction.
2.1The right side of a horse.
Example sentences
- If the ball is at the middle of the horse, hitting on the off side, your left shoulder needs to be brought toward the ball, allowing your shoulder, elbow or wrist to drop over it.
- He guided the horse around and took a closer look at the off side of his mount.
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