I read this article and was curious about the new anonymous money.

http://gawker.com/the-underground-website-where-you-can-buy-any-drug-imag-30818160

Yes, but bitcoins blockchain is less filling than other blockchains.

The oil belt doesn't tax Bitcoin. No sales or income tax at all. The UAE did announce they would implement a Value Added Tax but that doesn't kick in until 2018.

United Arab Emirates - VAT soon
Oman - 0
Bahrain - 0
Qatar - 0
Saudi Arabia - 0
Kuwait - 0

That's too bad. I'll miss you. Their aren't enough trolls here to keep me entertained anymore since Matthew and all of the My Little Pony characters left.

Do me one favor before you leave. Change your name to Fluttershy and bet everyone hundreds of bitcoins that Hashoceans cloud mining isn't a scam. That will kind of wrap up every fun time I've had on this forum in one package.

Not that your regular posts aren't entertaining. I especially liked the one where you make no sense at all, can't explain what you're talking about to anyone and then tell everyone in the thread to fuck off. Yep, that was a good one alright.

I have but not in years because of all the problems with LBC like police stings and what happened to BurtW scared me away from LBC exchange forever.

@ hilariousandco, each post is getting too long so I'm going to condense it some.

One thing you said really boils down the issue for me. "You can't babysit her forever either as much as you probably want to."

Yes I can. I can do it even after I'm dead by making sure laws are passed limiting bad peoples access to really dangerous things that are currently used to badly hurt other people. The example I gave of a bad person spiking a drink with rohypnol, then hooking them on heroin for a profit happens now with very difficult access to the drugs. You really want these predators to have unlimited access to every drug available in the world? I sure as hell don't.

I said that to BADecker because he's clueless and thinks he can just skirt the law based on the word of some internet preacher that says he can. My example was like saying, Well BADecker if I can just ignore the law with no consequence you're the first one I'm going to use it on and here's what I'm going to do to you. Of course I wouldn't really do that because there are laws against it, it's horrible, and I'm the one that wants the laws to become more strict concerning drugs to begin with. How does he know that one of those internet fools that are interpreting the law without a legal degree won't come and hurt him first. Or someone that believes the internet fools won't hurt him first. It's easy to argue a point when it's not happening to you.

Smoking, alcohol and legal pharmaceuticals are abused too. I agree. How can you not agree. It happens, right?

I don't agree with smoking. I think it's a filthy habit that should be outlawed. I voted for those laws in California, and now it's illegal to smoke almost anywhere you are in sight of another person including in your own car with a minor present. That's a really good law. Why hook the next generation on smoking when you don't have to?

Alcohol has been tried. They attempted to abolish it and it failed. Alcohol actually proves my point about majority rule. Just find enough support for your way of thinking and change the laws. But alcohol doesn't need to be illegal to limit access to it by minors.  There are already pretty strict laws in place to do just that. The punishments for giving alcohol to a mind and body still attempting to grow to adulthood should be a lot more harsh.

Pharmaceuticals are already regulated and controlled by medical professionals for the treatment of illness and disease. It's already illegal for doctors to prescribe medicines to people just to get high. Do bad people become doctors? Sure they do, and when they're caught breaking the law we should put them in prison. Does that mean we should make all prescription medications legal for anyone without the proper training to just take whenever they like? No, that's rediculous. Most people don't even know what those drugs do until they ask their pharmacist.  

Fast food again? Well, people need to eat food and drink water to live. I don't know what to say about overeating fattening foods except don't do it. People have to eat and because they're foolish they end up eating lots of stuff that's bad for them (Americans are really bad about it). What people don't have to do to live is take black tar heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, desomorphine, PCP, scopolamine, GHB, ketamine, opium, LSD, psilocybin mushrooms or any of the other really horrible substances sold illegally on Silk Road. And yes, I want to force them to not be allowed to purchase those drugs because, as you pointed out, they are too stupid to know how to eat right. I don't want to force everyone to shop exclusively at Trader Joe's like I do but I don't want them to have unlimited access to really harmful drugs either.

Ron Paul is a fringe nutter. I should never have used him as an example. The things he believes in will never happen as long as rational people run the country.

Yes, people are preyed upon now. It's wrong and I don't want it to get any worse than it is now by allowing things like Silk Road to exist.

BTW: Speaking of stupid people, how do you feel about Ross Ulbrich running a drug flea market from inside the USA at a public library over government wifi? Is it possible to be any more stupid than that? How about burning candles on the hood of your car while filling it up with gas, is that worse or better than what Ulbrich did? LOL

America is a corrupt corporately controlled country. Tell me something I don't know. I can't change that. I can't change global warming either but that doesn't mean I'm going to want my next door neighbor to shoot up heroin and then talk to my kid in my front yard. That has nothing to do with our conversation.

Am I a socialist? Kind of but I never really thought much about it. I don't believe random people can be trusted to get together and agree to build the infrastructure of a country.

Why don't you force theymos' hand. Go to meta section and start a thread asking theymos to contact you concerning MnWs debt collection in public in the thread, no PMs and no hiding. Post the link to the thread saying theymos is handling it. He will surely contact you there because mods that see the post will tell him about it.

Wow BADecker, is it painful when you think too hard? Those online ways to usurp tax law and criminal law are bogus. Try one and I'll send you some vasoline in prison. You really should try a university education instead of the school of hard knocks.

There is one thing I'd like to try though. I'd like to try legally hooking you on heroin (available on Silk Road). I'd drug you at a party with rohypnol (available on Silk Road). Take you to my crib and shoot you up with Black Speedkitten (heroin mixed with Ketamine and crystal methamphetamine, all available on Silk Road) to make you're memory turn to mush. Then start having people come over and rape you, for a small fee of course. When you're so used up and fucked up that I can't charge top dollar for you, I'd turn you out on the street to bring me whatever little bits of money you can until you die or can't earn enough to buy any more of my Dr. Feelgood.

Here you are after a few years of Dr. Feelgood

You just told me more about feminists than I ever really wanted to know. I prefer to hide from all of the sordid details that make democrats what they are. It makes it easier for me to "cubbyhole" people. Thanks though. LOL

Your name is Shenzou which is the name of a Chinese spacecraft so I assume you're Chinese. Do you realize the Chinese day traders are playing with Bitcoin right now like it's a game of Pai Gow? Eventually some big Chinese whale is going to play another game and dump all his coins. Money with its value based only on speculation instead of industry is too volatile. Be careful buying into the Chinese gambling hype or you could lose what little money you have (assuming you're not a whale trader waiting to get rich off of the desperation of the poor).

Actually, the fact that he appreciates a good pussy kind of makes me like him a little more. At 70 years old he's surrounded by beautiful women. What's not to like? (Unless of course you're a feminist or a gay or what's that other word for them - um - um oh yeah, democrat)

hilariousandco, you're so "all over the place" in you're responses that I barely even know how to respond to you. Most of your arguments are nonsensical and based on rationalizations. A drug racketeer is equal to Martin Luther King? A fast food restaurant is equal to a pusher getting someone strung out on heroin? You know what a rationalization is, don't you? A rationalization is where you tell yourself your hungry because society won't give you the tools to get a job but instead of stealing food you steal a Lamborghini. You rationalize stealing several hundred thousand dollars because you're hungry.

Nonviolent resistance and protesting work within the legal system to change the laws that are unjust. That's what Ron Paul stands for, not just breaking any law you want to break. Libertarians and anarchists to me seem like people that have a couple of laws that they want to break, like drug laws, so instead of working to get support to change the laws they don't like they just want to chuck out the whole system. That's very short sighted.

Yes, Ron Paul does support no taxes of any kind. I can't support that because I've become accustomed to street lights, paved roads, public education, fire departments, running water, electricity and all those silly little things that make my life more comfortable.

I guess the next time a 16 yo kid cuts in front of me to steal my parking space at the mall I'll just just break the law and baseball bat all the windows in his car because that would be justice, right? It wouldn't be legal but it could be considered civil disobedience to gain justice.

Laws exist because we can't just let anyone do anything they want. If we did the weak people in society would be preyed upon by the strong. I don't want my daughter to be strung out on drugs by some some guy for profit and forced to be raped by perverts to pay for her heroin habit. I don't want to live in your world. Fortunately for me, I'm in the massive majority and you are in the minority.

PS: I've had to explain this several times in the past so I should probably put it in my sig line. My name in society isn't QuestionAuthority. I have a real name that I use for the real world. My name in Bitcoinland is QuestionAuthority because I question the authority of people here that are passing themselves off as authorities. That started about the time that Zhou Tong was fucking everybody blue while little follower drones were singing his praises. Time and time again I've found examples in bitcoinland of so called "authorities" being nothing more than thieves and scammers (DeathandTaxes, Cypherdoc, Mike Hearn to name a few). My name is QuestionAuthority because I don't just believe the bullshit spouted by devs, Bitcoin business owners, pool operators and all the long con bitcoinland rep builders that everyone loves so much here. Satoshi didn't fuck Bitcoin up, the authority figures are doing that.


Rick, let me start by telling you that before the zombie apocalypse I was a libertarian. There's going to be laws but only a few and the first law is I can do whatever the fuck I want.

 

Yeah, that's going to happen. America can't wait to free Ross. If you give money to this effort you may as well just flush it down the toilet. ROFL


Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/30/nyregion/ross-ulbricht-creator-of-silk-road-website-is-sentenced-to-life-in-prison.html?_r=0

I think when you have kids you change your opinion about drugs a little. I don't know if you read this but Ross Ulbrich started Silk Road by selling his own home grown magic mushrooms. It really has nothing to do with my opinion or anyone else's opinion, he broke the law and he's a criminal.

I also don't know if you know that the politician Ron Paul is a libertarian. I've never heard Ron Paul say, "break any law you don't like because we're libertarian and laws don't apply to us". Being libertarian isn't an excuse for being a criminal.

There are lots of laws that exist to keep stupid people from killing themselves. If people want to take heroin on the streets legally then they should vote to make it legal but I don't think you're going to find a lot of support for passing that law.

Ross Ulbrich is a U.S. citizen and as such was an accessory to murder for every death that occurred from the heroin he facilitated in selling just as drug lords are.

That right there keeps him from being a scammer. Scammers don't even attempt to repay their debts.

Try asking Eric Voorhees to give you back your share of the 2600 btc he stole from FeedZeBirds or SatoshiDice. He won't even try to pay back a few people but he sure has plenty of money to travel all around the world. I sent a letter to the IRS telling about his little windfall for FeedZeBirds. I'm trying to get him extradited for tax evasion on a million and a half stolen dollars .

No, he's on a different list of mine. He's on the silly dumbass list. He's not really a crafty scammer like Eric Voorhees or Zhou Tong that made us all feel warm and fuzzy while they walked away rich with our money. MnW made a silly bet for tons of money that he lost, couldn't pay and walked away broke. That's different.

You're right, he broke the law and ignored the rules of society for a profit. He did it without regard for the lives he helped destroy just as a drug lord would. That doesn't exactly scream "humanitarian". People say that he only ran a website so he wasn't responsible but that argument kind of breaks down when your websites design and only job is to allow illegal trade in drugs and contraband. That same argument has been used by drug lords like Pablo Escobar. He only ran the company, he never sold drugs to anyone himself.

You're also right about law enforcement. No one knows how to break the law more effectively than those enforcing it. There's a special level of hell reserved for dirty cops.

Life is all about the journey bro. He might want Bitcoin to succeed more than he wants fame or money.

“A leader is best
When people barely know he exists
Of a good leader, who talks little,
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
They will say, “We did this ourselves.” ― Lao Tzu

It's really hard to tell how far the Asian markets will push Bitcoin before moving on to something new. I live in a suburb of Beijing (San Francisco). I know more Chinese people than any other group. I really hate racial profiling but I've never met a larger group of gamblers in my life than the Chinese. They seem to live for it. I think Bitcoin seems like a huge game of Pai Gow to them. They're gambling with Bitcoin right now and seem to be winning. As long as they're winning they'll probably continue doing it.

The most important asset any company has, regardless of the industry that company is involved in, are its records. From real estate to high tech to banking your database is your lifeblood. A businesses database holds a record of every action that company has ever performed from its core business to its payroll processing and everything in between.

Companies are always looking for a better and more secure database. One sloppy or malicious employee, virus, hacker or equipment failure can ruin a company. Information technology departments religiously backup data and ensure that company employees have unfettered access to the information they need to keep the company moving forward.

The research into Bitcoins Blockchain happening all over the world has nothing to do with any anarchistic/libertarian wet dream. Companies are not looking to be on the forefront of a new world order or a government destabilizing new money. They simply want to find out if this new distributed database system can keep their records safe and accessible. The research into "Blockchain technology" will have no positive or negative effect on Bitcoin whatsoever. It may however make the companies that use it stronger than they have ever been before (that includes banks and governments too).