Wrong. He was 88.89% (rounded to hundredth) correct.

PirateBrowser is not "privacy-secure." It doesn't take measures to hide your identity. Your IP address, for example, is visible. It exists solely to access blocked sites, but you certainly wouldn't want to use this for anything sensitive. For this tradeoff, traffic isn't bouncing around nodes as much like with the standard Tor FF browser, which results in a much faster browsing experience, and lower strain on the Tor network.

(allegedly -- I'm just going off articles I read)

Almost definitely PirateBrowser.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57598287-83/pirate-bays-censor-thwarting-browser-snags-100000-users/

(note that was from the 13th)

Oh - my bad. Alright, people could've sent money to a just-established trading card exchange for BTC. 

ETA: Guess I did say easy, not confidence-inspiring.

This was before it was relatively easy to simply purchase coins, so new users, unless they begged or used a faucet, were practically required to mine BTC to use it. Making BTC more difficult to mine would've limited adoption.

SR's still up, and I think everyone trusts DPR to actively protect them like a magical father-figure enclosing them all in a dome while the world burns. Tor also fixed the problem in their FF bundle before it was exploited. Only outdated versions were vulnerable. Further, there are now established alternatives if SR fails -- they're no longer theoretical sites which may pop up overnight if SR fails.

I don't think the news and lack of movement shows resilience in the BTC price (nor lack of dependence on SR and clones) so much as it showed trust in DPR and the resilience of SR. (author mentioned this as a possibility)

Yeah, yeah - you're just terrified the hashrate will spike in two months when the BFL Dreamliners Monarchs are delivered.

"Warning! this transaction is a double spend of 86792084. You should be extremely careful when trusting any transactions to/from this sender."

Your transaction to 1QfhUBWQ7dqfJECPnAuBjt7jcX9FBaox4 confirmed, but the transaction to SDice did not (and will not). It will eventually be ejected from the block queue, and that'll be that.

Tx in OP is now confirmed. For faster confirmations, add a larger fee (.0005 is usually the minimum for relatively quick inclusion, .001 in some instances -- if the transaction's important, .01 is still a pretty cheap fee for inclusion in the next block) and make sure you're connected to many nodes.

Here ya go, bro -- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=264649.0

This is good advice. You should also consider the cost to just list the security somewhere (~2-10BTC a few months ago). There's a lot of regulatory risk you're exposing yourself, your business, and others to by offering an IPO (without country restrictions). You're risking a clusterfuck if the securities exchange should go offline, or if the operator runs off with funds. Offering something to the public generally comes with a lot of extra work you could otherwise be spending on development, especially if you have someone difficult to deal with. There are a lot of cons, but you can raise hundreds of BTC or more within a few weeks with solid stats, a long and reputable history, and a good plan.

I'd argue against it unless you're looking to raise hundreds of BTC and you're sure this is absolutely necessary to develop.

Oh.... I jumped to an assumption from the post in the other thread. You can safely disregard my email now, unless you don't want to... 

There are two addresses. Looks like it's a very short distance from each other, but not on the same block. I'm unsure which is more likely to contain Jered.

Living Space – 3491 20th Street
Working Space – 2415 Mission Street

Pretty sure. Their page was updated not too long ago. http://www.20mission.com/

Are there readily available alternatives to US AML compliance which don't involve scanning blood vessels and face-matching?

I'm stoked about this, but it really does send an "oh my God, no!" chill down my spine

Tradehill is likely very interested in a more intimate partnership with a CU which may allow them to bypass MSB licensing... It doesn't make sense for them to simply switch which institution they use for processing and not notify everyone, though.

Jered's not easy to contact. Best bet would probably be for someone curious to go to 20Mission and ask in-person.

I agree with this. Bitcoin has strong potential to strengthen the surge of the informal economy, which has been very strong since the depression 6-year-recession. BITCOIN isn't being (and cannot be) regulated by governments  -- registered businesses (like LR/e-gold) are.

If the government over-regulates businesses willing to comply, people will simply abandon them, and the government, in such a case, loses all control. I doubt the business would move to Canada (unless you take the likely-necessary additional step of dropping US customers altogether, which leaves you with a relatively tiny market). I think it'd just move to Tor. The Bitcoin Foundation, then, is effectively doing the work of governments, in trying to encourage compliance -- but this is not some exclusively pro-state thing. It's work necessary for the really BIG innovations which reach the masses. You can't have a ten-thousand person corporation hiding behind Tor.

If government doesn't reconsider their aggressive posture, they'll kill off those potential revolutionary innovations while losing more ground to the informal economy. The ball's in governments' court. (of law? Probably a joke in there somewhere... damn I'm tired...)

This behavior has been happening since almost the beginning of Bitcoin. This is the conclusion arrived at last time I saw a discussion on it (though it wasn't related to RNG flaw). It's difficult to really determine why it happens, though. AFAIK, they haven't been connected to thefts of coins from people who've ever received them. Other theories are more tin-foil-y. 

Bitcoin's a tool, not (necessarily) some soap box microphone.

Bitcoin can be used to change the world, and the change it brings is solely in the hands of the users. The change is not predefined, and it may not be something we want, so it's up to us to use the tools in a way we find to be "good."

Well - quit wasting your time. Create & post an essay, infographic or whatever for a whitelist. Good chance to really let people get to know you, too. Offer's still open though nobody's taken me up on it. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=271893.0

Could I be added since I'm getting a lot of referrals with John away for a bit? Free/tips unless Cas' three-party escrow tool is used, then a minimum of .1BTC or 1% of transaction, whichever's greater.

Escrow sheet w/ previous & current transactions @ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Ao892S4MOoDZdFFTc0tFbWVxUTZFVzVOMWxzV3pkclE&output=html

(BTC only, won't touch anything where a chargeback or account reclaim is possible, GPG available on request)