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41  Other / Off-topic / Re: Revealed: NSA's PRISM, mass digital surveillance; direct access to your data on: June 10, 2013, 01:08:10 PM
Question is where does this leave Bitcoin?  The NSA made SHA-2 sitting right at the heard of it and having a natural back door build into it.
42  Other / Off-topic / Re: Revealed: NSA's PRISM, mass digital surveillance; direct access to your data on: June 10, 2013, 11:22:58 AM
Is the NSA limited to collecting data from servers based in the US only, or servers owned by US owned companies no matter where they are based?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/jun/09/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-interview-video
I think by what the whistleblower said in this video, they are not limited to anything. He said he could even wiretap Obama if he wanted.
43  Economy / Speculation / Re: Would you encourage your friends or family to buy BTC? on: June 10, 2013, 11:11:57 AM
My mother has a 5BTC cold wallet, bought at ~30$.
44  Other / Off-topic / So just exactly what is NSA's PRISM, more than reprehensibly evil? (R Falkvinge) on: June 10, 2013, 12:05:52 AM
http://falkvinge.net/2013/06/08/so-just-exactly-what-is-nsas-prism-more-than-reprehensibly-evil/
45  Other / Off-topic / Re: Revealed: NSA's PRISM, mass digital surveillance; direct access to your data on: June 09, 2013, 09:51:48 PM


I can highly recommend the dub tribute to that album.
It's quite nice.
46  Other / Off-topic / Re: Revealed: NSA's PRISM, mass digital surveillance; direct access to your data on: June 08, 2013, 10:58:55 PM

PRISM
47  Other / Off-topic / Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? on: June 08, 2013, 10:53:47 PM
Ashish Gulhati is more probably the Dread Pirate Roberts than Satoshi. Or he's both.
I don't think he's any of them.
I don't think so either.
48  Other / Off-topic / Re: Is Ashish Gulhati, et al., Satoshi Nakamoto? on: June 08, 2013, 07:18:36 PM
Ashish Gulhati is more probably the Dread Pirate Roberts than Satoshi. Or he's both.
49  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say) on: June 08, 2013, 06:54:02 PM
and recent leaks should let you know at least part of their capabilities.

Reminder. EFF accepts bitcoin donations.
Yea, even guardian is full of NSA shit now...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jun/07/uk-gathering-secret-intelligence-nsa-prism
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/07/prism-tech-giants-shock-nsa-data-mining
etcetera
Of course me as a bit of tinfoil hat kind of guy never had any doubts, I use torchat or pgp if I want to keep it private.
50  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin gloom and doom quashing Price boom is boon for Bitcoin bargain hunters. on: June 08, 2013, 06:35:45 PM
I just bought again, don't care about price, just want BTCBTCBTC
51  Economy / Speculation / Re: SlipperySlope's Bubble Collapse Journal on: June 06, 2013, 10:21:46 PM
57 days after the April 10 peak
The bubble collapse pattern now looks less like the June 2011 collapse and more like a damped oscillation consolidation centering on $120.

In the illustrated chart, I circled the mild August 2012 bubble-correction. Note that prices did not crash back to levels of June-July, but rather proceeded sideways and upwards.

I now believe that bitcoin prices could progress sideways for much of the rest of the year until the long term support line approaches. Observe that the long term trendline I drew suggests that bitcoin prices are generally increasing 10x every 14 months. Accordingly, I expect sharp pullbacks towards the support and slower recoveries upwards as is typical of a long term rally.

Do you believe we could go below 100$ again in the medium term?
52  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Should mBTC become the default unit now on: June 06, 2013, 09:55:51 PM
I'm using it for a few weeks now in my wallet, but I'm switching back to BTC as the default unit. mBTC only makes sense when 1BTC is worth more than 1000 us dollars in my opinion.

Do you think that the change to a different order of magnitude could help BTC cross $1,000 sooner?
I don't think so, but it's possible. What I was saying is that if it crosses 1000$, it makes complete sense to use mBTC as the default unit.
53  Economy / Securities / Re: H.I.M bubble? on: June 06, 2013, 09:13:58 PM
Who runs Havelock investments? I was looking at their VirtEX shares, they're trading at ~0.42BTC, they IPO'd at ~0.39.
The thing is, they don't pay dividends, but they say they're real shares.
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This is not a separate fund; buying shares in VTX will entitle you to actual equity ownership in VirtEx. You can even be listed on the notice of shareholders with the registered Alberta Corporation, please contact us for details.
But they're not paying dividends. I don't know much about Virtex
54  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Should mBTC become the default unit now on: June 06, 2013, 06:46:05 PM
I'm using it for a few weeks now in my wallet, but I'm switching back to BTC as the default unit. mBTC only makes sense when 1BTC is worth more than 1000 us dollars in my opinion.
55  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Big f*cking problem with Mt. Gox payment platform on: June 06, 2013, 04:17:20 PM
I got a refund. Guess I'll stick with fiat for what I was going to buy. Topic locked
56  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: FBI wants backdoor to all software on: June 06, 2013, 04:06:24 PM
there is still time for the US people to stop this nonsense and petition to their politicians, create organisations who will remind US government and its departments that they are going wrong way. You cant just sit and watch wtf they are doing. Take Turkey as example.

The terrorist filled us with terror.  We are acting scared, giving up hard won freedoms.  


That shit is older than life. In Europe we know it very well. Just check what Strategy of Tension means - the US Government has used that tactic forever.

Just a hint on Wikipedia:

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The strategy of tension (Italian: strategia della tensione) is a tactic that aims to divide, manipulate, and control public opinion using fear, propaganda, disinformation, psychological warfare, agents provocateurs, and false flag terrorist actions.[1]
The theory began with allegations that the United States government and the Greek military junta of 1967–1974 supported far-right terrorist groups in Italy and Turkey, where communism was growing in popularity, to spread panic among the population who would in turn demand stronger and more dictatorial governments

And now they are doing it over and over again, blowing up their own towers and killing their own citizens.

True this. But at the moment, if you even hint this, you're treated as a tinfoilhatnutjobwacko.
57  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: Big f*cking problem with Mt. Gox payment platform on: June 06, 2013, 03:53:21 PM
Yes. I was using the Mt. Gox merchant tools for payments last year and it was quite a pain to deal with.  You will get refunded though so you don't have to worry about that.  Contacting the vendor will do no good as they don't receive the coins until 6 confirmations and they won't since it was canceled.  Their system will cancel orders if anyone else tries to visit your payment page also.

I've sent plenty of complaints in about it but they've never listened.
Hmm, But does it refund automatically? It should have already, judging by what was written in the payment page.
58  Economy / Service Discussion / Big f*cking problem with Mt. Gox payment platform[Solved] on: June 06, 2013, 03:22:57 PM
I'm really pissed. I just bought something in an European site that uses Mt. Gox payment processing. It is similar to BitPay, but it's much more stupid. I just lost ~0.97 BTC. The payment page redirected me to the Mt gox payment processing, which said I needed to pay 90€ in bitcoin to the following address https://blockchain.info/address/1B7iH3ZjMrxp3E5MkbHxFz75FiKuop9BMy
The page said that as soon as the transaction was detected, I would be redirected to the vendor's page. What happened was I sent the 0.97 btc to the address, and about 5 minutes later the checkout page said :
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The transaction was cancelled.

You will be redirected to the merchant's website within 5 seconds.

If you are not redirected, Click here.
I was redirected to the site's page, and contacted them. So far no response. I also contacted checkout@mtgox.com with no response so far.
I never used anything to do with Mt. Gox until this day, and will never use it again.
Has this happened to anyone?
 Angry Angry Angry Angry Angry Angry

Cheers everyone. I hate Mt. Gox

EDIT: I realized now that it's midnight in Japan. When they open up at 10 am JST, It's 3 am my time.
59  Economy / Speculation / Re: Trading Hours on: June 05, 2013, 06:31:20 PM
Shutting down exchanges during certain periods is, in my opinion, greater manipulation than slow period sell-offs/buys.

I don't get all this concern over "manipulators". If it is that obvious then bet against them and they will lose money...
+1
60  Economy / Speculation / Re: [poll] - quick sentiment poll on: June 05, 2013, 06:22:06 PM
Well actually I only care about the long term, what bitcoin does between now and about 1-2 years from now is not so important to me.
1-2 years from now is long-term in these times. Bitcoin will hyper-deflate in 2 years from now. Bitcoin world in 10 years  Smiley 
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