hint: proxy, or wait until it appears on other sites if someone decides to record and upload it. the tv show is called 'horizon' so look out for the episode with todays date. it may be available in the future |
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blockchain does not reveal your birthname, homeaddress or anything else. thus privacy is not violated.
secondly, by linking a bitcoin address to your forum username is not breach either, as your forum username is not your real life birth certified name
thirdly if you doxx yourself by revealing your details which can then be linked to the forum name and or the blockchain.. transactions. then this is your fault
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bitcoin does not need sponsorship, just like dollar does not need sponsorship. its for businesses such as bitpay, coinbase, overstock that should sponsor sport events for their business benefits.
the only reason dogecoin done a sponsorship is not due to it being deemed as a useful 'currency' (lack of actual merchant acceptance), but most see dogecoin as holding a bag of crap. and those holding the bag of crap would do anything to try passing their crap onto anyone they can. and would do anything to get noobs to buy into their crap
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lol love the sales pitch "fixed return - 1.2% per month - extra 0.2% bonus"
so much easier if they just say "2.8% profit at the end of term"
and seeing as its only 2000btc they are playing with, i dont see much of an issue trying to get 2.8% in 60 days. after all the price is swinging upto 10% a week anyway.
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if any of you sell services, would any of you mention a competitor that can do something better, faster and cheaper?
its to be expected that you wont see pepsi advertising coke.
its to be expected that you wont see Apple advertising samsung.
what you need to learn is a more subtle way to mention it:
bad example
"i use openbazaar that is a better faster and easier auction site to use heres a link - "
good example
"i prefer ebay because its linked to my bank and my life, yet somewhere like openbazaar is fixed only to bitcoin"
(think reverse psychology)
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Any trust will need to have a beneficiary (at least one, but often more then one) and a set of circumstances under which assets held in the trust can be disbursed to the beneficiary.
If you create a trust that says the assets can not be used for your benefit, nor can they be disbursed to you, then......well you guessed it.....the assets cannot be used for your benefit, nor can they be distributed to you. The assets would need to be handled exactly as spelled out in the trust agreement.
Looking at your profile, it doesn't look like you are engaged in any kind of trading bitcoin for fiat or fiat for bitcoin so the regulations in NY would not apply to you.
What you are doing is creating a solution to a problem that you do not have but your solution puts you in the worse possible position that you could possibly be in.
Disclaimer: I am not claiming to be qualified to give legal advice, but am claiming to be qualified to have common sense.
this usename is a 'personal' username, completely separate from my 'business' activities.(all of which are lawful). but i was not thinking about family trusts, i was purely using that as that is the main form of trusts laymen know of. thus i used it as an example that they could theoretically understand. but i do know that corporations/charities can form trusts where funds can be used for a multitude of things, all for the 'benefit' of the corporation/charity and not a human individual. for instance even if the CFO of a company has authority to administer the finances of the company in anyway he wants (buy stock, pay other wages, pay himself a wage). if that CFO in his personal life got into debt or had to pay a court fine. the funds of the company wont be listed as his assets, as they are not 'owned' by him. he is just the administrator. i hope this helps you all understand the way of thinking and the point i am trying to make. inshort: the blockchain is the trust/company and we are merely administrators |
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the only thing that i find concerning is the 'new york residents' part
this does not mean only new york businesses. but any business around the world where a single new york resident does a fiat/bitcoin exchange, automatically makes that international business under the jurisdiction of new york and thus without a licence, that business would be sued, in essence.
this will cause all exchanges and all local bitcoin users to be more vigilant and require proof of ID even for a 1 btc transaction just to make sure who your trading with is not a new yorker.
Aint gonna happen. Only a fool would show ID. They will only catch the stupid. what i mean to say is, imagine Lawsky himself, as a new yorker went to bitstamp (UK based) and signnd up. 'Wham bam thankyou maam', bitstamp now needs a bitlicence for transacting with a new york resident. he then moves onto all the other exchanges. as a sting operation of sorts, purely to force businesses to get a licence due to using himself as evidence that these businesses are trading with new york residents. The smarter thing to do would be to allow brokerages to freely trade in bitcoins and let the old mtgox model of exchanges go extinct.
brokerages=localbitcoins (well in my opinion) this would be fun for lawsky too as every person localbitcoin trading that he comes into contact with, he would slap them with a bitlicence requirement notice. and he could repeat this a thousand times without ever having to leave the localbitcoin website. |
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the only thing that i find concerning is the 'new york residents' part
this does not mean only new york businesses. but any business around the world where a single new york resident does a fiat/bitcoin exchange, automatically makes that international business under the jurisdiction of new york and thus without a licence, that business would be sued, in essence.
this will cause all exchanges and all local bitcoin users to be more vigilant and require proof of ID even for a 1 btc transaction just to make sure who your trading with is not a new yorker.
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New York is filled with douchebags (present company excluded, of course), can't we just collectively ignore any IP in their jurisdiction? Let's ignore their miners and transactions. Can't we just force them to use TOR and other dark technologies?
Your question is a good one. How can anyone prove any transaction of another? Courts tend to just claim everything and make you pay legal fees to prove otherwise. America has the best legal system money can buy. Stop expecting justice. You always have to fight for justice. The question is should you fight on their terms or yours?
edit: let's say hypothetically you trust your father to keep a copy of your private keys in his safe deposit box because you are going overseas and you know that if you keep it in your own safe deposit box it will go to probate if you die. Any bank or probate officer could make said bitcoins disappear with plausible deniability. Then also hypothetically, your father unexpectedly dies instead. You move your bitcoins and then his probate court claims you stole his bitcoins because they now have your old paper backup.
The fact is, there is no precedent because there has never been a virtual asset like bitcoin before. The best thing to do is protect your own fourth amendment right using cryptography.
i understand every point you make and fully agree. but i would say that bitcoin would only go into probate if you 'declare' it as being yours (your the beneficiary/owner) where as by bitcoins nature the blockchain is the beneficiary as the blockchain is the only place that 'receives'/'holds'/'possesses' bitcoin. (it never touches a persons pulsating hand or an account registered in their name). thus unless declaring yourself as beneficiary(registering bitcoin as being yours), then by bitcoins very nature we must be the executors/administers of the fund and never the holder/possessor. having the private key does not mean that someone is the recipient (beneficiary). it purely means they have access to administer the funds put it another way. if a father(administrator) sets up a trust fund for his children(beneficiaries) the father can move the funds from one child to another any way he seems fit. yet because his children are the ones that will ultimately hold/possess the fund, the father is not liable for when the kids refrain from acknowledging license fee's later in life. (bitcoin is always the child that holds/owns the value, no human is ever the bitcoin child/beneficiary). and as for the 4th amendment. my paper wallet is mixed in a 500 character string. even if they find the paper, good luck figuring out which order it goes in. im more concerned with removing humans as being 'beneficiaries' thus avoiding any probable cause to even need to utilize 4th amendment rights or even have to enter a court due to bitcoin use. thus not having to fight on their terms just like how karpeles managed to separate himself from the funds he 'administered' and then appointed someone else to be the administrator of the mtgox property |
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is there any way we can legally protect our bitcoins by declaring that we are not the beneficiary/recipient (beneficiary/recipient of bitcoin is technically the blockchain) but where we are purely the executor/administrator of the bitcoin funds.
where by bitcoin transactions cannot be used as evidence against the administrator or any bitcoins be seized as they are in trust as opposed to directly owned by a person
i ask this in response to the whole bitlicence saga of the near future, where by people will be looking for different ways to keep new york away from just taking coins. either due to the blockchain declared as a private trust, or out of new york jurisdiction.
we cant simply let other countries make laws for us, we need to know what common law or legal statutes exist to protect us from them automatically and from the beginning
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I must admit I'm disappointed with you Charlie. If you are truly innocent then you must not plead guilty to *ANY* charges that you did not commit. We cannot permit the Federal Mafia to simply threaten everyone into submission. This sets a very bad precedent for the future and other Bitcoin users.
guess u dont know how the system works.. if they have proof of communications btween the two parties then that alone is enough for 'conspiracy". then theres proof of FIAT bank transfers. these days saying "i didnt know" is not enough. thats what government are trying to push, for people to learn everyones life story before moving money to be 100% sure its not used for illegal activity. so if there was even the smallest indication shrem knew any illicit possible uses of the funds, then pleading innocent wont help. he would have to have lots of documents and proof of no knowledge, which is harder to prove. so why plead innocent if they have any indication that is provable against him, meaning a lengthier sentance due to basically lying under oath.. or plead guilty and get a light sentance for the things he did actually do and maybe get a deal to have other charges he didnt do thrown out, due to him being honest and above board |
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Just simple supply and demand.
thats so high school level education... you migt aswell also say that sex is just about a penis entering th vagina.. just liek they teach in high school.. what you forget is the psychology part bitcoin: greed, smart investment, belief to safeguard against fiat failure sex: attraction, desire, lust, love you forget about the usefulness part bitoin: faster than wire transfer, irreversible, deflationary, rare sex: fun, procreation, help hormone control sex is not simply about boy demand a girls vagina. and girl supplies it.. bitcoin is not simply about investor demands coin. and miners supplies it.. i truly hate sheeple that only graze on the green grass provided to them and not try to dig their own paths into different fields of input to ingest |
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arbitrage - people make profit via the different exchange spreads, bigger gap = bigger profit so gaps close quick.
arbittrage is only 10% at play.. its more 90% sheeple panic as proven by the china spike, where trying to move american dollar to chinese exchanges and chinese yuan to american exchanges is not a fast process.. and also proven by the mtgox saga, where mtgox closed its banks and was crashing below the $650 price of other exchanges in spring 2014 (down to $100) and other exchanges began following it down. (well untill a group of people were literally copying and pasting in all trollchats and irc's to 'wake up and not follow gox as its separate and closed off') |
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id expect the 'market street' address just to be a mail forwarding service.
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One thing that disturbed me about this company from the start is that they are trying to be a financial powerhouse, and yet they couldn't afford an adequate number of customer service people.
A few months ago in their email newsletter they made a big deal of the fact that they had hired some cs people (an inadequate amount, judging by the difficulty in finding a live chat person most of the time).
Amazing that people will accept almost non-existent cs.
you seem to lack any knowledge of bitcoin. i have seen your post history and you have been complaining that blockchain.info doesnt confirm transactions i have seen your post history and you have been complaining that coinbase doesnt confirm deposits i have seen your post history and you have been complaining that coinbase doesnt finalise withdrawals either your doing something wrong, or your just spouting fud to try and cause a panic crash so that your gambling addiction on betting websites will pay off |
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there has been a fuss around the fact that many think its not him writing the "im not dorian nakamoto"
any news on that ?
also, do you think nsa has the ability to know who is satoshi nakamoto if nsa really wanted to know it ?
the username that was talking in 2008 and inventing bitcoin was the exact same username that said ' i am not dorian nakamoto', but no one can of course confirm or deny the face behind the keyboard that typed it. but anyone spouting fud that it was a mis-spelled username and not the username.. is simply wrong. bitcoin is open source, the white paper is public record and all correspondence are in the publicdomain (forum messages have been logged) so there are no secrets about bitcoin. if the NSA wanted to go after anyone it would be gavin andressen. and if anyone wants to know more about bitcoin and stuff gavin would know it all. so whats the point in trying to find 'satoshi' |
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until the origin (wallet 1) has confirmed then all transactions after that, will sit there waiting
you wont get a confirm from an unconfirmed source.
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some people call me a pessimist, sceptic, etc. yet i call myself a realist. so lets get real and think up the plausible scenario
scenario 1
70k leaflets hand delivered to each house, with brief explanation of what bitcoin is, a link to where they can download a phone app and message that tells people to go to a beach location with their leaflet and someone from coinapult will send them bitcoin to the phone app that amounts to maybe $1.
part of the leaflet would most probably mention that they can also redeem the coin for FIAT by walking to the aspen assurance tent right next door.
scenario 2
70k leaflets littered on the streets due to an actual air drop from a plane, with brief explanation of what bitcoin is, a link to where they can download a phone app and message that tells people to go to a beach location with their leaflet and someone from coinapult will send them bitcoin to the phone app that amounts to maybe $1.
part of the leaflet would most probably mention that they can also redeem the coin for FIAT by walking to the aspen assurance tent right next door.
i truly hope that the explanation has something like:
"what to do if not interested: these bitcoins are valued between 98c and $1.02 so do not throw it away, instead speak with neighbours and friends to see if they wish to buy it from you as they may be more interested"
to atleast get some local exchanging happening between the people
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lol
the silk road seizure is small fry
we have for instance. the bitcoin foundation now in the UK (hundreds of thousands of coins)
we have a couple private exchanges based in the UK. (with over 100k coins in cold store(international customer owned but UK stored))
we have a couple public exchanges (bitstamp) in the UK with over 100k coins
we have richard branson grabbing a load of coins.
we have apple, facebook and google messing with coins(financially registered in the UK for tax evasion)
we have a belief (due to writing style and UK newspaper in genesis block) that satoshi isin the UK.
so americans are not really hoarding that much. after all
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