Cryptocurrency: Your Total Cost Is 01001010010 Shawn Powers 2012-05-09 http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/cryptocurrency-your-total-cost-01001010010... The number of places that accept cryptocurrencies are extremely limited, so it's not any easier to buy a gallon of milk with a Bitcoin than it is with a lump of gold, but many think that day is coming. What about you? Do you think cryptocurrency has a future, or do you think it's a geeky fad that will fade away? Send an e-mail with "CRYPTOCURRENCY" in the subject line to shawn@linuxjournal.com, and I'll follow up with an article based on your feedback. ... |
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I've also not been able to send money. Testing on a family members iPhone. (not jailbroken - iPhone 4 I think)
It just hangs. I've only ever left it for about 5 minutes - then need to switch phone off and on to recover.
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(2) The idea of brokers "stealing" from clients is ridiculous. If your broker is stealing from you, you should take them to court and get a new broker.
I don't know what it's like in other parts of the world - but in Australia about the lowest cost for a trade appears to be around $10 Now that's trivial to most people who are trading - but it's an entry barrier tax on the small player for which I can see little excuse in an age of electronically mediated trades. Still - I don't really see how Bitcoin is going to help with that in any reasonable timeframe even if it does grow significantly, so I did find it a somewhat strange inclusion in the video. |
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The media picks up on the 'FBI' bitcoin april 2012 report. Notably absent is any real scrutiny as to whether the document is genuine (although based on the nature of the content, it seems plausible) see : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=80114.0 |
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I think Matthews 'troll' shrieks with dubious reasoning were a bit of a red herring.. however, he may be onto something as far as who the uploader is.
Matthew may be right for mostly the wrong reasons.
I didn't notice at first that it was 'tradebitcoin' who uploaded it (though it's in plain view). Clearly the OP Andrew Bitcoiner knows something about the source.
If this is fake, it makes far more sense as an attempt to gain hits/eyeballs to a commercial operation (Andrew Bitcoiner's tradebitcoin.us or bitcoinadvertisers.com) than as a mere 'troll'.
This is another case of the word 'troll' being bandied about in a timewasting fashion.
Andrew Bitcoiner - please either come clean about this as a fake, or make some statement about how it is you came to upload it to scribd.
...and (if applicable) by coming clean sooner rather than later - avoid my requests to forum mods to have you labelled as a scammer.
I've met Andrew, and he joined us outside the Future of Money Summit for a Bitcoin chat, super nice guy. When this paper was leaked by him last night, he emailed it to a number of undisclosed recipients. He also privately emailed me and said "the fbi report was forwarded to me by a trusted source  " That, and based on the thorough analyses by SgtSpike and myself I strongly agree this is authentic. My legal team is making inquiries and going over it as well, will update as I get more info -Charlie Thanks Charlie... It struck me as a little odd that the 1st release should appear to be from a bitcoiner - but as I mentioned in earlier posts, I totally agree that the content itself is extremely plausible. |
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I think Matthews 'troll' shrieks with dubious reasoning were a bit of a red herring.. however, he may be onto something as far as who the uploader is.
Matthew may be right for mostly the wrong reasons.
I didn't notice at first that it was 'tradebitcoin' who uploaded it (though it's in plain view). Clearly the OP Andrew Bitcoiner knows something about the source.
If this is fake, it makes far more sense as an attempt to gain hits/eyeballs to a commercial operation (Andrew Bitcoiner's tradebitcoin.us or bitcoinadvertisers.com) than as a mere 'troll'.
This is another case of the word 'troll' being bandied about in a timewasting fashion.
Andrew Bitcoiner - please either come clean about this as a fake, or make some statement about how it is you came to upload it to scribd.
...and (if applicable) by coming clean sooner rather than later - avoid my requests to forum mods to have you labelled as a scammer.
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I do however find the 'bitcoinadvertisers.com' in the metadata of the scribd posting suspicious.
Matthew is right to point this out.
OP - care to clarify?
edit: It's not clear to me whether this indicates anything to do with who posted the doc to scribd - or if it's just scribd software matching keywords to post the bitcoinadvertisers.com ad in the sidebar.
edit2: oh.. though it seems 'tradebitcoin' uploaded the doc. Well that is pretty sus.
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I assess with a medium confidence level - that this is a genuine leak.
The overall tone,scope and language used are suggestive to me that it's the real deal.
Trolls are seldom so understated, nor do they have such attention to detail.
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Portuguese article on a major Brazilian tech site |
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