Stanley Kubrick is known for being a filmmaker and not a cryptographer. However, Kubrick’s films have hidden “fractal” narratives with coded messages that Rob Ager has been deciphering through his amazing film analysis on his website Collative Learning and on Youtube. In “Mazes, Mirrors, Deception and Denial: Chapter 15: This is our Gold Ballroom” Mr. Ager puts forth his theory that there is a sub-plot in The Shining that revolves around the gold standard... More: http://letstalkbitcoin.com/why-your-alt-coin-is-no-good-here/ |
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lol wasn't a request for the source --- rather this was the source of the CD article ... or Reddit same diff  |
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A Bill (act to amend Section 107 of the Corporations Code, relating to business associations) introduced by California State Assembly member and Chairman on Banking and Finance Roger Dickenson on January 15th “AB-129 Lawful money: alternative currency” (PDF) as Amended January 23, 2014 specifies that “current law which bans the issuance or circulation of anything but lawful money of the United States does not prohibit the issuance and use of alternative currency http://bitcoinmagazine.com/10159/california-bill-legalize-bitcoin/ |
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A Bill (act to amend Section 107 of the Corporations Code, relating to business associations) introduced by California State Assembly member and Chairman on Banking and Finance Roger Dickenson on January 15th “AB-129 Lawful money: alternative currency” (PDF) as Amended January 23, 2014 specifies that “current law which bans the issuance or circulation of anything but lawful money of the United States does not prohibit the issuance and use of alternative currency. More: http://bitcoinmagazine.com/10159/california-bill-legalize-bitcoin/ |
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interesting, NewEgg/USPTO also just published this patent on 1/30 20140033310 System and Method of Active Remediation and Passive Protection Against Cyber Attacks "Moreover, with practically almost every network capable computer, resource, or device connected to the internet, malware developers have found new ways to utilize the interdependence of networked computers, resources, or devices to aggregate their network capacity and computing power into a botnet, or a network of compromised resources or devices each individually known as a robot or bot and each executing malicious software that are under the control of one or more entity for a variety of purposes. These botnets can then be remotely controlled for purposes such as, for example, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and/or rental services relating to DDoS attacks, distributed decryption of stolen encrypted data, bitcoin mining, email spamming, and/or web crawling. " http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20140033310--- completely unrelated World Bank and Gates Foundation Sponsored CGAP Gives Bitcoin Thumbs Down http://letstalkbitcoin.com/cgap-bitcoin-not-helping-the-poor/ |
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volatile as compared to a major currency.
Adopt it in Somalia and price everything in Bitcoin and it becomes less volatile.... no?
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On January 23rd, CGAP or “The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor“ issued a report on Bitcoin entitled Bitcoin vs. Electronic Money: Digital But Different. Concurrent to the report’s issuance, Chief Executive Officer of CGAP Tilman Ehrbeck Blogged on Huffington Post: “Bitcoins and Financial Inclusion: Not Much of a Link for Now.” In Depth Article Here http://letstalkbitcoin.com/cgap-bitcoin-not-helping-the-poor/ |
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Alcatel-Lucent files Bitcoin Patent Application: Vault to Wallet Transfer System Alcatel-Lucent filed for Patent Application WO2013127713 A1 “Decentralized Electronic Transfer System” with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on Feb 25th, 2013 and it was published on Sep 6th, 2013... "...The essence of the patent is a system whereby a decentralized currency such as Bitcoin is stored in a secure environment known as a Vault (i.e. secured repository) and a smaller unsecured portion of funds are stored in an unsecured Wallet (i.e. unsecure repository). An unsecured wallet would be on a mobile phone for example. Funds are doled out from the secure vault to the less secure wallet to provide the wallet holder with less cumbersome and frictionless experience when spending bitcoin in day to day transactions..." http://letstalkbitcoin.com/alcatel-lucent-files-bitcoin-patent-application-vault-to-wallet-transfer-system |
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Is there any reliable and ideally measurable way to recognize faked volume or price data?
Alex at BitcoinAverage
I wonder if Patrick Byrne of Overstock.com would be interested in discussing this? He is a strong advocate against naked short selling which is essentially counterfeiting of a company's stock http://www.overstock.com/naked-short-selling.htmland of course http://www.overstock.com/bitcoinsimilar but not exactly the same situation |
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" Tricky IPO for GeoCitiesCraig Bicknell Email 08.06.98 Boost From Oprah...GeoCities was born in late 1994 when founder David Bohnett, a former marketing executive at software company Legent, started looking to cash in on Internet fever. He built a Web site with links to other Web sites grouped by topical interest -- sport, hobbies, finance -- and called them neighborhoods. In January 1995, Bohnett posted live camera shots of a bus stop in Beverly Hills. Oprah Winfrey got wind of it and interviewed him for a show about online snooping. A gush of traffic followed, and GeoCities was off..." http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/1998/08/14266 |
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This has me thinking ..couldn't the Chinese Gov't Use the exchanges as pawns and put through fake sell orders? Reminds me of precious metals markets where there are claims of naked short selling to manipulate the market. This could be a reason Chinese Gov't Keep Markets alive...so they could manipulate it? Nothing like a good conspiracy theory on a Sunday Afternoon.  Perhaps there should be a filter to exclude markets that are not truly liquid? Like the old Mt. Gox Filter? |
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Gift giving during the holidays just took on a whole new meaning. eBay, the parent company of PayPal, filed patent application 20130339188, “Gift Token” with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on June 18, 2012. The USPTO published the application on December 19, 2013. The technology was invented by its engineers from Tamilnadu, India and assigned to eBay Inc. of San Jose, California. “…Products can be specified for which the token cannot be used to purchase. For example, a limitation upon the use of the token can specify that the token cannot be used for the purchase of alcohol or cigarettes. Rather than not allowing such items altogether, a limit can be placed on the amount of such purchases in a given time period. For example, $20 worth of beer and $10 worth of cigarettes can be purchased in one week…” http://bitcoinmagazine.com/9218/ebay-files-patent-application-programmable-money/Originally posted Here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=392337.0 |
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