3.3 Almost all respondents to the call for information commented that digital currencies can offer a degree of anonymity to users, and that this factor could be a driver of criminal activity. Contributions also noted that the use of specific digital currencies, and anonymising services can increase the degree of user anonymity. However, stakeholders diverged in their assessment of the overall significance of the risks here. Some banks and payment scheme companies characterised digital currencies as anonymous and untraceable, but many of the submissions from users, digital currency firms and consultancies challenged this view and termed the technology ‘pseudonymous’ rather than anonymous. They noted that the publically visible ledger (or blockchain) of historical transactions makes digital currency payments less opaque than traditional payment methods, especially cash. Stakeholders saw that this ledger of historical transactions could potentially prove helpful for regulators and law enforcement.

BREAKING: UK's Plans to Regulate Bitcoin Revealed in Treasury Report

The United Kingdom's Treasury has published its report on digital currencies in conjunction with the Chancellor of the Exchequer's budget speech today.

The report recommends that anti-money laundering regulation be applied to digital currency exchanges in the UK and that HM Treasury will consult on the regulatory approach in Parliament.

The government will also work with the British Standards Institute and the digital currency industry to develop a "best practice" framework for consumer protection, according to the report.

   the government intends to apply anti-money laundering regulation to digital currency exchanges in the UK, to support innovation and prevent criminal use. The government will formally consult on the proposed regulatory approach early in the next Parliament

the government will work with BSI (British Standards Institution) and the digital currency industry to develop voluntary standards for consumer protection

    the government is launching a new research initiative which will bring together the Research Councils, Alan Turing Institute and Digital Catapult with industry in order to address the research opportunities and challenges for digital currency technology, and will increase research funding in this area by £10 million to support this

The United Kingdom's Treasury has published its report on digital currencies in conjunction with the Chancellor of the Exchequer's budget speech today.

The report recommends that anti-money laundering regulation be applied to digital currency exchanges in the UK and that HM Treasury will consult on the regulatory approach in Parliament.

3.3 Almost all respondents to the call for information commented that digital currencies can offer a degree of anonymity to users, and that this factor could be a driver of criminal activity. Contributions also noted that the use of specific digital currencies, and anonymising services can increase the degree of user anonymity. However, stakeholders diverged in their assessment of the overall significance of the risks here. Some banks and payment scheme companies characterised digital currencies as anonymous and untraceable, but many of the submissions from users, digital currency firms and consultancies challenged this view and termed the technology ‘pseudonymous’ rather than anonymous. They noted that the publically visible ledger (or blockchain) of historical transactions makes digital currency payments less opaque than traditional payment methods, especially cash. Stakeholders saw that this ledger of historical transactions could potentially prove helpful for regulators and law enforcement.

The United Kingdom's Treasury has published its report on digital currencies in conjunction with the Chancellor of the Exchequer's budget speech today.

The report recommends that anti-money laundering regulation be applied to digital currency exchanges in the UK and that HM Treasury will consult on the regulatory approach in Parliament.

The Most Ancient Grand Hotel Corporation

The Grand Hotel Corporation minted 15 special coins in 1600 to commemorate the coming of the new age. 

The registered stock holders at the time of the minting are gifted 1 each of these precious coins as a thank you to support over the years.

HG The Bishop
HH The Duke of New Liberty
Ale of Nassau
Dame Roopatra, The Countess of
HE The Prince of Soul
HH The CEO, Prince of Forte Spagnolo
HE The Prince of North Face
Lord iluvbitcoins
The Marquess of Tavastia
Master Quentin Moon
Sir Heimo, The Earl of Sarajas
Thud
Lord noms


One coin is also gifted to the original Architect of the buildings since he is no longer a current shareholder.
His Majesty 

Here's a little blast from the past for perspective. There was a time (for those who weren't around to remember it) when 0.0035 XMR/BTC was considered cheap coins.

XMR is about to pass NMC's market cap. Passing PPC is also possible in the near-term. It should raise some eyebrows and increase XMR's visibility.

I mine with a single quadcore CPU and Radeon 7970 - probably generates 1 XMR every 2 days and costs me more than it would to buy them. Just like running SETI@Home or other distributed computing projects, not all actions need be profit motivated although I acknowledge that the network effects are significantly higher for those that are.

To me the rally is due to the fact that there is very little people willing to sell at current prices.
Many, including me, are still underwater and we do not intend to sell at loss nor even profits that represent peanuts.
I am personally willing to see how this saga ends.
Will I become a millionaire or will I continue poorer than I would be if I would not invested into this.

You need to look at this. We are a long way a way from the all time high of this coin. Even at current pump price it is still undervalued.

On GNU/Linux (Kubuntu 14.04) bitmonerod takes 6,263,272 K so 8GB should be enough barely.

Thank god the "bit" part was removed from Monero near the launch. I think Monero has the best name out of all the currencies both crypto and government based, and that extra "bit" part was just eww.

I meant it this way: if DarkCoin crashes now to (basically) zero.

We have to give up (todays long-term) sub-goals like:
- getting to 50% DarkCoin marketcap
- getting to 66% DarkCoin marketcap
- getting to 80% DarkCoin marketcap
- getting to 100% DarkCoin marketcap

Because they wont matter anymore. We would need to find new goals/target marks.

Monero is being pumped at the moment, trade carefully

Any reason for the price increase?

Here, clear answers:
https://github.com/jwinterm/lightWallet
Short story (not really):
Go to the Documents\lightWallet folder, open the CONFIG.file file with notepad and change the node to:

What's with lightWallet GUI? Not synchronized... As far as I understand, blockchain from  http://xmr1.coolmining.club:5012 may be not workinking, No daemon connection report me my wallet.. Is this true?

This pool is closed, not enough miners who are dumb enough to concentrate hashrate on 2 or 3 big pools.
Too stupid and too bad.
I would like to thank all the miners who supported this pool so far, i can count them on my left hand

lightWallet can work with a full node. In fact it is distributed together with the node and blockchain bootstrap as a convenient single-download torrent