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121  Bitcoin / Press / Re: 2013-06-23 Forbes - Bitcoin Foundation Receives Cease And Desist Order From Ca on: June 24, 2013, 01:24:43 AM
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/06/23/bitcoin-foundation-receives-cease-and-desist-order-from-california/

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Directly following last month’s Bitcoin 2013 conference event in San Jose, CA that brought good revenue into the state, California’s Department of Financial Institutions decided to issue a cease and desist warning to conference organizer Bitcoin Foundation for allegedly engaging in the business of money transmission without a license or proper authorization.

... Then, they fight us ...

They don't fight "us". They fight a despicable scam, in this case.

So if the foundation does file, pays the US$5K, and gets this license.  Do we all become "agents" or "affiliates" acting under this license?
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=fin&group=01001-02000&file=2000-2003


Very interesting take on the situation.
I wonder how many members are not registered.
Only 14 companies appear to be listed on https://bitcoinfoundation.org/members.
I'm guessing theyre getting a crazy influx of donations atm.
122  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: Bitcoin Foundation receives cease and desist order from California on: June 24, 2013, 01:05:14 AM
No news is good news, but there's no such thing as bad publicity.
Everything is going according to plan.
123  Other / Off-topic / Re: Transhumanist Surreal Number Quantum Sub-Satoshi Values on: June 23, 2013, 08:38:25 AM
don't forget to groudstrap before you install all that hardware. you might fry your memory bus
No risk no reward.
Whats teleknesis?

Does one install hardware?
124  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Capitalism. on: June 23, 2013, 07:22:36 AM
Capital misnomer.
Arbitrary syncopation.

Controvert insipid..
Fallacies.
 
National
Privacy
publicity
personality

 Secretive seed
125  Other / Off-topic / Re: Transhumanist Surreal Number Quantum Sub-Satoshi Values on: June 23, 2013, 04:44:05 AM
How long til I can be a meshnet ASIC catbot? 2045? Please?
Nah, I've got a better idea. I'm going to gradually replace pieces of my brain with ASICs, so that at no point during the process is my brain completely destroyed or exists as multiple copies, thereby conveniently avoiding the legal and ethical conundrums that that would entail. Then I'll transplant my ASIC-brain once my genetically-engineered fox body is ready. This way I get to become immortal while keeping all the "advantages" (if you know what I mean) of a wetware interface. Of course, if my past experience with the future is anything to go by, I STILL WON'T HAVE A DAMN JETPACK! Angry
Might run into some compatability issues there. A scalp or fingertip level modem might help on the interface front.
The patched sock paradox is a godforsaken sonovagun.
Seems like a onetime upload of select cultivated stem cells, transplant GMO brain cells, and transplant GMO nerve clusters to a prebuilt ASIC unit would be the way to go.
Preparing one's source material must be like buddhist mummification, though.
 We shall see.
In the meantime, the economic side of things begs the question, when you have a gogolplex of 9's past your decimal point mined (still not 21, of course), what sorts of things will we be spending the surreal integers of cash on?
Asteroid mining? Interstellar commerce? Bribing Xenu not to eat us again?
Perhaps trading hardware.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
126  Other / Off-topic / Re: List of disruptive technologies on: June 23, 2013, 01:53:14 AM
http://www.patreon.com/
Content creator funding. Like Devcoin or Yumcoin, only with Fiat. (So far)
127  Other / Off-topic / Re: Religious beliefs on bitcoin on: June 23, 2013, 01:41:16 AM
Judging by this thread, athiests are the most intolerant, hateful, and irreverent types of people to have ever walked the face of the earth, however I do not generally judge based on a vocal minority.

I think what you perceive as intolerant and hateful is actually you being judgmental. I prefer to think of athiests as rational and kind loving people who have an alternate sense of community, and who react negatively to being judged by irrational standards.

Although I would not so far to say that athiests are the most intolerant, hateful and irreverent types of people ever (it just depends on each individual person and to make blanket statements like that seems to be too big of a generalization)

I will ask this question:  Where are all the hospitals, schools, outreaches to inner city kids, homeless ministries, women's shelters etc... started by athiests?  If athiests as a collective group are more loving and kind and have a heart for others, why don't they join together and do these things too?

Personally, I feel the reason so many non-profit organizations are started by Christians is because God is love and he puts love in our hearts to go beyond ourselves and do these things.  With His help we become more focused on caring for others then ourselves.  That is why we see this.  Just my thoughts.
Firstly,
http://www.positiveatheism.org/mail/eml9553.htm

Secondly,
http://www.weareatheism.com/resources/secular-charities/

Thirdly, have you ever read any Dawkins? Libraries. Kick. Ass.
128  Other / Off-topic / Re: Religious beliefs on bitcoin on: June 23, 2013, 01:31:30 AM
Sounds like he's pretty bad at this whole "being a god" thing. One regrettable mistake after another  Tongue

Not A god, The God. He's not in a position to cater to everybody's idea of what He ought to be. My whole point was that nothing he's done was a mistake, it all reflects his circumstances and all serves a good purpose in the end.

So, he made an angel that became Satan, humans that would commit original sin, and all the pain and pestilence and sinners in the world on purpose? Then why do we need forgiveness if it was all his fault?

Try that defence with Him, what do you think he'll tell you? Where were you to tell him he's doing it wrong? What if he's working out the best possible configuration of the universe, the misery we see is the inevitable birth-pain of something much better, and though the Earth "is his footstool," he still went to great pains to show compassion to those who could receive it?

You go to lengths to reduce the equation until it's utterly materialistic (read: carnal, temporal). How can one explain God that way?
Schizophrenia is the automatic and persistent disassociation of the un/subconscious from the waking self.
Case in point.
129  Other / Off-topic / Re: Religious beliefs on bitcoin on: June 23, 2013, 01:28:00 AM
   Just alittle reminder- this thread is about bitcoin. I know it's easy to confuse bitcoin and the Most High, what with bitcoins splenderous glory and all, but bitcoin was created by Satoshi,  Satoshi was created by his parents who were created by the chain of evolution on earth which was created by the force of gravity pulling cosmic dust together which was created by...the hodge and the podge yeah pretty much whatever logical explanation or word we try to use to describe this is going to fall short. There have been many saints- if you want to know about this force that holds everything together you can look at what they have to say... Buddha, Mohammed, Jesus, peace be with them... Rumi, Hafiz, for the lyrically inclined, or stories about St. Francis, or the books of Ibn Arabi, the Tao, the Zen teachers, and so on... I always found these interesting ways of exploring the final frontier which is even vaster than space- within.
    Seek and you will find! Peace!
Ftfy.
You left out Eris you fnording twat.  Tongue
See: Discordianism
Also, you're prolly not actually a twat. In fact I like you.
130  Economy / Speculation / Re: Summer Prediction POLL: How Low Will She Go? on: June 23, 2013, 01:17:52 AM
$32-50 bottom
This.
Upon the instant it hits 30, Kraken will do the Harlem Shake into quads.
CHECK'EM.
131  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: [POLL] Help me decide which logo to use for Frog! on: June 23, 2013, 01:08:20 AM
The text of 3 and the graphic of 1.
Some color tweaking perhaps toward 2 and additional simplification of the graphic of 1 would be spiffy. The geometric design seems to take a lot of commitment, I feel it's worth it if taken to the extreme.
I'd also like to see the letters "rog" lined up with the "f".
The "o" from 2 is charming.
132  Other / Off-topic / Transhumanist Surreal Number Quantum Sub-Satoshi Values on: June 23, 2013, 12:16:43 AM
What'up with this 21 MBTC limit meme?
I was under the impression that atomic half lives are limited by measurability.
Quantum FUD is dumb.
How long til I can be a meshnet ASIC catbot? 2045? Please?

inb4 2deep4me
inb4 OP can't inb4
inb4 what is inb4?
133  Economy / Economics / Re: Uncapped coin vs capped coin supply on: June 23, 2013, 12:01:38 AM
The cap is MBTC20.9999999... ... ...
Or that many satoshis, or satoshisatoshis (BTC0.00000000000000001) and so on.
Like a halflife.
Not MBTC21.

Cap?
What cap? Poof.

Edit: Think transhumanist surreal quantum values.
Mining never stops. The big rewards just shrink into surreal numbers.
134  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Men on Strike: Why men are boycotting marriage, fatherhood, & the American Dream on: June 22, 2013, 11:40:20 PM
http://www.womynkind.org/scum.htm
<begin unpopular opinion>
Cismen are an obsolete evolutionary fluke, and are not strictly real people.
If I could pick a eugenic genocide, it would be the genocide of cismen.
Some of he half-ass feminism making its rounds these days is pandering to the inferior sex, and is as reactionary as this men's rights garbage that I've not bothered to consume.
"Womyn" is also reactionary. Chickenkind:rooster:hen::mankind:cisman:human
<end unpopular opinion>
135  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Capitalism. on: June 22, 2013, 11:32:48 PM
[...]
Lex mercatoria is not dead as evidenced by its use in bitcointalk.org (and most anywhere there is trade). [...]

Of all the examples to pick Roll Eyes  Please understand that this board is a monarchy.  It is fully owned & controlled by Theymos.  He makes the rules.  You follow them, or GTFO.
See how that works?
There's an interesting read here:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=238474.0 , where you'll find out just how well your example is working (SPOILER ALERT:  Shilling and sockpupetry turns out to be perfectly fine here.  How come?  'Coz Theymos said so.)
On this forum, most businesses fail, turn out to be scams, or both.  On this forum, mining bonds are sold to people who belive in other fairy tales but not in learning to maths. On this forum, Pirateat40, fully doxed, walked away with all of your money in broad daylight, and this hugbox, knowing *exactly who & where he was*, couldn't get its *millions* back.

Nice work, lex mercatoria, color me impressed. Smiley
Are you familiar with Salvador Dalí's Monarchichal Anarchism?
The origin of kingship in arbitration?
The structure of the Linux and Bitcoin fondations are both like this.
I'd rather have one point of failure for an evil regime than millions of landed politician capitalist with a presumed mandate.

Government-and it's siamese twin, Capitalism, as it is today, evolved from the ruins of Serfdom.
136  Economy / Speculation / Re: 512-qubit Quantum Computer on: June 22, 2013, 11:21:42 PM
"It grabs answers from another dimension."

I think that is as good an explanation as any. But I'm no a physicist.
What works for me is thinking of a quantum computer as an analogue computer with infinite signal/noise ratio.

Can you give some simple examples of algorithms for quantum computers?  What kinds of questions can I ask this magic ball?

Look like this magic ball can be able to answer question  "Here is public key. What is PRIVATE one ?"
Here's a very informative TEDtalk on quantum computing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cugu4iW4W54&feature=youtube_gdata_player
And this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk6LhMcVmwA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
And this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bLXHvH9s1A&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Quantum encryption will replace all encryption eventually.
Bitcoin is less vulnerable than anything else using SHA256.
137  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: A noob's idea on how to keep us noobs from destroying Crypto-currencies on: June 22, 2013, 09:01:25 PM
Just cause we have the power to do tax evasion, why should we... We should play by the rules so the government can't do anything to us, then when or if the situation calls for tax fraud and evasion we then have the power to do it. But instead you want to do it now, bringing heat on all of us, that are trying to be legal.
Yeah you just keep on believing that BS and leave the rest of us alone please.

Thank you! People like you have no idea what is happening in bitcoin or how we should be playing our hands.

You can't post a logical argument cause you know I am right, keep posting your images.


Am I supposed to answer a personal attack with logical arguments? No wonder your ignore button is shining.
Plz edit this post, TheKoziTwo.
Needs moar pictures. You're clearly and doubtlessly supposed to answer it with moar pictures.
What's the best trollspective on this case?
138  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: A noob's idea on how to keep us noobs from destroying Crypto-currencies on: June 22, 2013, 08:43:33 PM
I doubt I'll stop preaching my anti-authoritarian message, but I wouldn't mind hearing your arguments, link?

Well then your enemy of the community and that is sad, cause your hurting us!

Letmegogetsomepopcorn.gif

Smash the State.
Render unto caesar.
Do crimes? Good luck not getting arrested.
You're gonna get arrested, though.

EDIT: Holy christ, gweedo... I'm really trying not to ignorebutton you. I really am.
Throw me a bone, here.

I should care why you don't ignore me? Don't really care...

I doubt I'll stop preaching my anti-authoritarian message, but I wouldn't mind hearing your arguments, link?

Well then your enemy of the community and that is sad, cause your hurting us!

Just cause we have the power to do tax evasion, why should we... We should play by the rules so the government can't do anything to us, then when or if the situation calls for tax fraud and evasion we then have the power to do it. But instead you want to do it now, bringing heat on all of us, that are trying to be legal. Thank you! People like you have no idea what is happening in bitcoin or how we should be playing our hands.
Lost cause? No!
There is no playing by the rules.
There is no even knowing a tenth of the rules, unless you're an obsessed judge or something-even then, the laws are contradictory.
H&R Block will look at you crosseyed if you roll up in there talking about how you wanna pay taxes on your BTC.
Imma keep you off ignore for a sec.
139  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: A noob's idea on how to keep us noobs from destroying Crypto-currencies on: June 22, 2013, 08:23:13 PM
I doubt I'll stop preaching my anti-authoritarian message, but I wouldn't mind hearing your arguments, link?

Well then your enemy of the community and that is sad, cause your hurting us!

Letmegogetsomepopcorn.gif

Smash the State.
Render unto caesar.
Do crimes? Good luck not getting arrested.
You're gonna get arrested, though.

EDIT: Holy christ, gweedo... I'm really trying not to ignorebutton you. I really am.
Throw me a bone, here.
140  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Should I sell me 5ghz asic or mine with it? on: June 22, 2013, 08:18:06 PM
Sell it if you care even a little about ROI.
Eventually, it'll get to someone who doesn't care.
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