Got it.

Position has been filled.

I have a drupal site weekly.co.nr, which is going to be used for the bitcoin weekly. You can see that it... looks terrible.

I am willing to pay real, cold, hard bitcoins for someone to make it look like a magazine.

Get rid of the drupal logo and replace it with something simple, something to do by bitcoin and I don't know, use your imagination.

Logo design can be done by someone else, so that's two ways to earn some bitcoins for two people, if one person can do it then thats great.

I also want to have one or two spaces to put an advert or two.

I don't care if you you use some publicly available template, it just has to look ok.

Name your price, but don't go crazy.

I disagree with the need to embrace government regulations. But I think there will be two sides to the bitcoin economy. Some will want to follow government regulations and registrations etc. and they can do that. But there is also the side of the economy that will operate outside of government controls, and because of the nature of bitcoin, these two sides, legit and otherwise will be able to operate seamlessly with each other.

Also investors would not just be using bitcoin for growth, but as a store of value. Yes there is hot money going into bitcoin in the heavy growth phase, and when growth is not so quick that money will leave for better opportunities.

However, in the meantime a number of investment opportunities that are only denominated in bitcoin should become available allowing those investors looking for growth to stay within the bitcoin ecosystem. So as long as the bitcoin economy evolves and develops (things like profit making companies etc.) it will continue to grow , and is not likely to be a bubble.

This post I made before.

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3176.msg45221#msg45221

I'm worried about two things, the exchanges being shut down by the authorities, and there not being enough goods and services offered for bitcoin.

Problem 2 is easier to solve and once it does it will guarantee that the value of bitcoin will continue to rise, after all there will always be an increasing number of goods and services in a growing economy.

Problem 1 is going to be more difficult, I've already proposed a solution but there doesn't seem to be much enthusiasm for it.

I have a friend who uses that site, I'm chatting to them. What is the link and title and I will get it posted.
I think the same can be done for reddit. So link please.

That is true but these cases are few and far between and are merely meant to be used as a scare tactic, these methods clearly do not scale. But p2p downloading has grown exponentially despite all the "dangers", the truth is, if it's easy to use people don't care, they don't feel like they are hurting anyone, they don't notice any risk (there is risk but it is relatively small, just like there is a risk you will die every time you leave home).

This can all be solved by moving the bitcoin network over to a darknet (such as onion or i2p), in which case the government(American) can only block people using those services (which it currently can't do).

No the real target when the authorities want to clamp down on bitcoin will not be the network itself, but the exchanges. It is the exchanges that give bitcoin a lot of it liquidity, and it's exchange value gives people more confidence in it's usage as a currency, right now there are far too few goods and services that can be bought with bitcoin so the exchanges are crucial to it's healthy growth in use.

Shut down the exchanges and you kill bitcoin, it also doesn't help that the exchanges themselves are very vulnerable to authority action.

You seem new to the party (forum), so I think you have just learned about bitcoin and are very excited about it. Welcome to the forum. In answer to what you said, yes bitcoin is worth whatever we think it is, and the collective belief of everyone buying or selling bitcoin is the market value.

Yes it doesn't really mean anything that we have hit dollar parity but it is a mental thing, I think more of a mental barrier that has been broken. Bitcoin is bitcoin.

Jimbobway: I LOVE THAT PICTURE

I'm wondering what I should do to celebrate?

Also I just checked Mullvad VPN price, they have dropped it again, now down to 8BTC for a month. They really keep up with the priced deflation.

One method to allow for much greater precision in sub 1.0 btc transactions without losing the fraction is to do it on an accounting system. Like mybitcoin.com, you can send very tiny amounts between accounts if they are both mybitcoin.com accounts then there will be no loss.

So you can expect a number of mybitcoin type systems where users can perform micro transactions between each other, and these systems can tie into each other so that a user on mybitcoin.org can send tiny btc amounts to someone on another system like mybitcoin-competition.com as long as both systems reconsile the account transactions.

Yes, as long as there is an index( is this the right word?, a table of contents?) that is.... at the bottom of the page for geeks then that is enough for them, they care more about the details than the cover. I think #3 should also be the main target of the homepage.

Did you say they ARE keeping logs or they CAN?

One is speculation, the other is an accusation.

I've got an idea for a couple of, what I hope will be interesting articles over the next few days.

Where do I start.

Firstly the article about the data center in China, it is a data center, there is demand for them here because services and websites are growing very quickly, there are a lot of people here you know, and more every day are getting internet access. It's just a big data center, not to force everyone to use it as a server, even if it was so, it would fail because it would not be nearly powerful enough for a small country, never mind China!

Secondly again about this article, it's very poor. It says "China is building..." What is this China? Is it the entire country, with government, citizens and corporations enlisted to build this monster? It doesn't say. Maybe it is the government (probably), which part of the government? In Beijing? at provincial or city level? if so it will be a failure even as a simple data center. If not the government then a company, and it is doing this for profit.

And finally who is going to give up their home computer for a .... TV? Anyone would want to use this would probably have both. Can you share the medicine that you are taking with the group it seems like some good stuff.

I'm in China by the way.

Keepass is a good solution, and there are portable versions available for usb. But I would not recommend this, any untrusted machine you connect it to can copy the password file(it is encrypted) and then get your password when you type it to open the file to use.

There are also a number of ports for java mobile phones, iphone, android.

I would recommend getting mykeepass for the iphone. Your passwords will be stored in an encrypted file, so when you sync with iTunes the synced file will be the encrypted one.

The keepass file that stores the passwords and usernames (data really) can usually be shared. You can have keepass on your home pc, and have it sync the file to.... dropbox. Then your mykeepass on your iphone can sync from that on the move. Or you can always sync the file using iTunes.

So a combination of MyKeepass on iPhone and keepass on the desktop, keeping the password file synced. That should solve your password issue.

I want an iPhone.

Yes this has also been my experience, they were quick to respond and I am happy with the price. I don't really care about honeypots as I use Mullvad to get around the Great FireWall of China.

This is why it being backed by bitcoin wouldbe a good thing, it would allow the islands to transfer between each other.

I mention ripple because as far as I know they have some good point of sale systems.

Use bitcoin as a backing for say some other digital currencies, say ones like that in the ripple system that already have POS software and systems.

Bitcoin then becomes a kind of gold standard of the digital world?

Good idea or bad?