It's a race. It was always a race. If we can reach critical mass before the crackdown we win and they'll have to adapt.
It's not a race. The only thing governments can do is regulate the exchange of cyber currencies with fiat currencies. As long as people are exchanging BTC directly for goods and services without involving USD (or EUR or whatever) then there's nothing government can do about it. |
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OP I have one simple question for you: why tha eff are you poking the bear?
It's not "poking the bear." The government isn't out to get us; I'm sure they would have done more to try and prevent Bitcoin trading if they were. You must be young because you're quite naive. |
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OP I have one simple question for you: why tha eff are you poking the bear?
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I am using China Telecom's network, until now at least network traffic related to Bitcoin is OK.
Keep in mind that law in China works differently from that of West, in two ways:
1.Anything not explicitly permitted by law is technically prohibited;
2.No one will enforce the "not permitted yet not explicitly prohibited" part of the law until someone sees a chance to make money or directives are received from "relevant organs".(so yes we break laws everyday)
In this case, I guess it's China Telecom's management's own idea, not sure at which level the decision is made, but there must be some interest groups related to CT already feeling the threat of Bitcoin.
Wow. Thank you for sharing that cultural insight. I'm rather sheltered as an American, and I know I take a fair amount for granted, but wow. I'm surprised how arbitrary the government can be and the people put up with it. Think of the beauty of a system where everyone is breaking the law everyday; anyone can be arrested at any time arbitrarily and can't deny they've broken the law. |
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Good point. Let's keep an eye on that. It's also interesting for the OS stats from various countries. Who's using Macs the most? Who's using Linux the most? It's just cool. |
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...It will be name and social security number in the not too distant future for anyone trying to open a Bitcoin account... What a "bitcoin account?" |
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I second the scammer tag. The altered link for "zerohedges" is a malware site.
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They may not be referring to BTC. Keep in mind that electronic payment with cell phone is a growing tech area and those payments are based in whatever the local currency is.
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Damn dood you're one fast talker. Hopefully no one gives you the secret key to their wallet address.
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I was able to solve most of these in under 12 minutes.
For instance:
Address: 1Daemonb1WiQvd9Ho1zfV2VsoYW7umdWrm
Key: 5J9bQwsH15hTqhPj5c4ETPLTJsttuB6WVqrs48GtPKRRjUANKc8
Address: 1DoucheeEP1FeX4jnH9vEcpRBnWRkxXrnp
Key: 5K7817gjFjvVV72unMSyczfDyWugDU5zB7SFArz1e3Qtz3gg6zP
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Is that anything like the cyber police?
Consequences will never be the same!
I never did learn to backtrace someone. Well then ya dun goofed. |
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Is that anything like the cyber police?
Consequences will never be the same!
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That's good IMO, I had a bad feeling about 5Ghash+ password crackers being released into the wild with no oversight.
Oversight? You're sounding like a statist. I say release 5 Gh/s password crackers into the wild and let the chips fall where they may! |
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I've run into the same thing. I find it galling that the fee is so high.
One thing that might be pushing up the fee is how many transactions make up your balance. I've mined all my LTC on p2pool so it's alot of small transactions. This drives up the Tx fee when you try to send it.
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There's an urban legend that one of the early miners (maybe Satoshi himself) bought a pizza for some crazy amount of BTC (1000?). How's that for price theory?
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No. In the absence of a fiat currency exchange reference, buyers and sellers of goods and services would have arrived at pricing for their goods and services in BTC completely independently.
Look up auction theory and price theory.
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...actually has value. Value? What's that? |
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Dwolla said to contact Gox. Some folks here have reported getting Gox to reverse the transfer and getting the funds back in Gox at least.
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On what authority can the dept of homeland security do this?
Terrorism. That's what they'll claim when they finally make a statement about this (If they ever do). sheds more light on the reason. Apparently the feds consider MtGox to be a "money transmitter" without a license. Recall the recent flap about regulating the conversion of BTC to USD. This is the first fallout from it. |
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