I have no idea how this could be exploited withing the bitcoin world or even if there is any use of this. I thought I should simply share it. My instinct tells me this could be useful for semi offline blockchain synchronization like hopping from machines to machines until there is one online. http://venturebeat.com/2013/11/19/apple-android-windows-fasetto-offline/This ‘impossible’ tech links Apple, Android, and Windows devices — even when they’re offline Here’s how Fasetto explains it: Smartphones, tablets, and laptops all have wireless chips that, theoretically, should enable them to communicate with each other without a router or some other networking device in the middle. But hardware vendors like Apple and Microsoft define how their devices are going to operate, so the reason they can’t communicate at that level is strictly a matter of software. What Fasetto has done is strip back that software. “We’ve gone right down to the hardware level and rewritten the transport layer, so we’re talking directly to the hardware chips on the device,” said Luke Malpass, Fasetto’s lead (and currently only) developer. “And then we’ve built a whole new layer on top of that that is standardized in our software — so an iPhone and a Windows Phone are going to know how to discover each other and communicate, because they’re using our standardized layer, as opposed to the incompatible standards that are out there today.” So while PDQ doesn’t require existing connections, it uses the existing wireless chips to send data across short distances, which could be useful during power outages or natural disasters. That means you can’t have your iPhone in airplane mode while using PDQ, for example, because then it wouldn’t be able to tap into its wireless chips. You shouldn’t need to jailbreak your device to make PDQ work; the app alone does the trick. (Whether Apple and other app store operators will allow PDQ on their marketplaces is a separate matter.) PDQ is nearly twice as fast as other methods of file sharing because of its lighter security layer, claimed Malpass. But that doesn’t mean PDQ is insecure, he stressed, explaining how every transaction uses a unique cipher that’s only ever used once. It’s also more difficult to intercept, because information doesn’t need to travel over a network or the Internet; information gets encrypted on one device and is sent directly to the other device, where it’s decrypted. Fasetto is testing its app primarily on devices with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chips, because they’re the most common wireless technologies. If devices have both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, PDQ can break the transfer into components and use both wireless technologies for even faster file transfers (although Bluetooth is notoriously slow, so how much it will speed things up is questionable). Practically, this means you could send a 100 MB file to the person sitting next to you in under a minute, according to Fasetto. “We’re doing something that’s completely allowed and completely available — just nobody’s done it yet,” said Christmas. |
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-lynch-edd/12-reasons-why-obama-is-o_b_4280675.htmlReason Number 12: "He is for entertaining the masses. If we have to listen to a president yakitty-yak about this or that for another four years, we might as well pick one with charisma and charm. If you can't find anything else appealing about Obama, you can't deny the fact that the guy is an amazing speaker with wit, fantastic comedic timing and an incredible intellect. In fact, I will go so far as to say that when the man does finally retire from politics, he has a rewarding and lucrative job as a stand up comic awaiting him if he so chooses. When's the last time you heard a president joke about drinking beer, belt out Al Green with poise and precision at a moment's notice and admit to watching the Kardashians? If these 12 reasons aren't enough to convince that president Obama is one of the best presidents ever, then you are not thinking objectively!" ============================= This is not the Onion But the Huffington Post.
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You know, they may just have learned their lesson. I'm sure they still want their big government "Democratic vision", even though they are being ordered onto the fascist bandwagon. Regardless, one interesting thing to mull over is this... Where does all this lead in 50 years? Seems to me it is rather unthinkable. Every science fiction movies got it wrong about how our Dystopian Megacities will be: they could not foresee Bitcoin nor dubstep music... So 50 years now feels like 1000 of years in the future. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near |
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Ridiculous, socialism has been proven time and time again to fail. People keep falling for the same mistakes, if you don't learn from history you are doomed to repeat it.
I agree. Plasma TVs are a terrible choice in 2013  Yeah, doesn't he know that Health Care is the new socialist chic? Doctor Ché as Surgeon General... |
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Sounds like you are the perfect candidate for the ObamaCoin  All you have to do is sit on you rear all day and collect CoinStamps so you can redeem them for ObamaCoins. If you are a minority you get additional ObamaCoins! Good luck!  HAHAHA! |
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with things going crazy, some people are bound to get hurt.
who will be the first person in history to die from bitcoin?
We shall keep you thread active and create an official "Gabriella's Bitcoin Chart" for any future gory news. |
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The Asian lady behind Murck is pretty hot.
And she likes Bitcoin. "You don't think it was Al Gore do you?" My favorite moment was when this asian girl (aka Satoshi) exchanged a handshake with the chairman. YES! I believe the Chairman noticed her. Seriously I am a caveman and I offer zero excuses for being one. But I would love more women to be involved in bitcoin to the highest representation levels. All women of ages and origin. When women embrace bitcoin, $1000 bitcoin will look like a bargain in the future.... It will really become mainstream. |
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Does this mean we crash tomorrow?
Even if it crashes down to $100 even more people will buy in, including me. This is the new normal until big movers are rarer and rarer |
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I think it's Jinyoung Lee Englund... Director of Public Affairs BTCFoundation
I quickly looked for her twitter account's main page. It says "happily married". Translation: "OK people? Back off I am taken already!" I thought this hearing was VERY positive. For people not into child porn or buying drugs like myself I am not sure what exactly I should worry about beside stuff like CoinValidation schemes in the future. I enjoyed the hearing and nothing I got from it was a surprise. I actually heard believers involved with the fundation and found them very eloquent defending bitcoin. |
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You both miss the point entirely. This is the perfect example of a pyramid scheme in action. As early adopters, we all had the chance to buy several coins, but now its our duty to convince others they can still get in on the action, even if they can`t buy a full coin?
It`s just a shameless effort to profit off the backs of others. For a group of people who largely consider themselves freedom fighters against the scurge of bankers and government regulators, you are all beginning to sound like you`ve found good company. Makes me sick... I did not get into bitcoins to profit off of others via investment schemes. I wanted to see bitcoin succeed. But alas, human nature is a strong force to reckon with.
Who is forcing who to buy bitcoin? Who is setting the value of bitcoin? |
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Good.
People who don't even unterstand the basics of bitcoin should probably not invest in the first place.
A large influx of naive investors, who don't get the concepts behind bitcoin and only buy because "the price is going up", could be very damaging at this stage.
They are going to become panic sellers at the slightest sign of trouble, and we are going to see yet another massive crash.
Growth is good but it should be gradual and organic.
Everything happening to bitcoin is organic including people wanting to make a fast profit and leave. Just remember this experiment will face many many threats until the last bitcoin is mined, more than a century from now. Forget the scale of your own mortality and think in decades instead of days then you'll see that even if bitcoin goes down to 10 bux it will not matter as of now if the code is not compromised. |
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Finally revealed, today in congress we had speculation that the inventor of bitcoin is Al Gore. Good for the laugh of the day.
Funny indeed. This Democrat seems open to bitcoin. He represents Delaware so that was not surprising if you know how businesses love this State. |
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http://www.businessinsider.com/ben-bernanke-on-bitcoin-2013-11The beautiful thing about Bitcoin, digital currency enthusiasts will tell you, is that it doesn't have a central bank. So with eyes on today's Bitcoin Senate hearing, where does the world's most powerful central banker stand on the elusive cryptocurrency? Now we know. Ahead of the meeting, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has released a letter to help guide the senate. Quartz's Zachary Seward called it a "cautious blessing," with Bernanke acknowledging the Fed doesn't have the authority to supervise virtual currencies, but that they "may hold long-term promise, particularly if the innovations promote a faster, more secure and more efficient payment system.” Here's Bernanke's full letter (via Quartz): https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/835843-virtual-currency-hearings.html
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The Asian lady behind Murck is pretty hot.
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Could someone of you native English speakers sum up the speech for the ones not able to understand any word they say as he/she is not _that_ good at English at that level? Thank you sooo much!
They will try to regulate it for the good of the children. But their tools are fine tuned for centralized targets, so... |
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I really don't get what is going on in Venezuela. What are the government actors playing at? It seems that most of the population there is mind-bogglingly stupid. They want to raid all the markets and retailers with no concern who supplies them the next day. Surprising, but still conceivable. But I can't really make sense of the government playing along. Looting shops has such a fast negative feedback that it should be a politically worthless move -- and this Maduro guy became president only this year. From what I understand, the election victory was narrow. Even assuming the government's goal is solely to redirect funds via corruption, this isn't even close to an effective strategy. How do the players profit from this scale of economic devastation? Or did they somehow manage to get actual "crash and burn" mentally ill people into the leadership? It looks like a lossy game for everyone, which is weird. Usually there is someone who profits if there's this scale of damage. Even in Thailand's rice madness, a significant portion of the population gets a net benefit, even if at absurd costs to everyone else.  Logical thoughts are not needed. That's the president Mad-uro way... |
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Thus far I've only used my bitcoin to:
A:) Donate to charities/non-profits (Anti-war.com, Sean's Outpost, Shire Sharing, victims in the Philippines)
B:) Pay for services rendered (graphic design)
So, to me, use of bitcoin leads to being more charitable, and compensating people for the value they provide with actual value.
THE HORROR!
CoinValidation will love your wallet... |
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Anecdotal examples. Russians have stricter gun control and a lot less guns than Sweden, but their murder rates are more than double compared to the US and 10 times compared to Sweden's. I'm not saying that gun control is good or bad, but a more thoughtful discussion must be had on the issue, than just pointing on the map and saying: "Hey look, this country has tough gun control and low crime rates, hence gun control = low crime rates". There's what's on the books and what actually happens. If you read Russia's Constitution during the Soviet era, it contained most of the same freedom of speech and other civil liberties guarantees as the U.S. Constitution. But it was just on paper. None of those rights actually existed in practice. By contrast, as flawed as the U.S. system is, you can go into a court and argue that a law violates the First Amendment, or Second Amendment for that matter, and if you can convince a court of that, the law gets struck down. Also, re the OP, the story seems more than a bit overblown. No, the Cops Aren’t Banning Protesters From FacebookIt should come as no surprise that police departments monitor social media. After all, as a speaker revealed during a panel at last week’s International Association of Chiefs of Police conference, roughly 96 percent of law enforcement agencies utilize social media, and more than 86 percent for “investigative purposes.”
At least, that’s according to Kenneth Lipp, the Philadelphia-based investigative journalist at the center of what Chicago Police Department Lt. Steven Sesso calls a “headache.”
Since the IACP conference’s closing, Lipp has been posting photos and videos from the event’s panels and showroom floor, along with blog posts highlighting the available police swag and attending heavy-hitters. It was essentially a who’s who of modern law enforcement, the massive conference having filled every bit of the PA Convention Center’s 679,000 square feet for a solid five days.
The headache to which Lt. Sesso refers, though, comes not from any helicopters or armored personnel carriers that were for sale, but a statement from an unnamed, unscheduled speaker from the Chicago Police Department indicating an apparent relationship between the agency and social media giant Facebook. According to Lipp’s original blog post, the nature of that relationship—allegedly built through Facebook’s chief security officer, Joe Sullivan—was to “block users’ from the site by account [person], IP, and device … if it is determined they have posted what is deemed criminal content.” Additionally, Sullivan was listed as a speaker for that same panel. tl;dr the police can read Facebook. Just like anyone else can. And they can click the "report" button. Just like anyone else can. I agree that sensationalism sales papers, online clicks and thread baits. It was meant for people here to still be aware of their privacy and property and create a conversation, back and forth... ...Until you will be forced to have a facebook account linked to your bitcoin wallet and THEN... DUN! DUN! DUUUNN!!!!!!! |
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President Nicolás Maduro ordered a military "occupation" of the company's five stores as he continues the government's crackdown on an "economic war" it says is being waged against the country, with the help of Washington. So, this is impossible? Is it possible the CIA is trying to destabilize Venezuela? Is it possible the CIA tried to poison Chavez and succeeded by creating his cancer? All those could be true but... Occam's razor: when faced with competing hypotheses, select the one that makes the fewest assumptions. |
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