As much as it must hurt for Americans but they are not the only players in the field. Sure if the so feared MiB are the only ones interested in taking over the entire network we'd be in trouble, I therefor suggest making Bitcoin a Project of interest to other nations as well. Should it ever become important enough I can see coalitions of agencies keeping a close eye on what the others are doing in the system and out balancing each other.

So the options are really twofold: keep under the radar or become prominent enough to gain vetting from multiple parties with comparable investment powers :-)

So now the question is what kinds of central authorities can be replaced by this type of quorum?

Since more and more of these ideas to uniquely acquire some virtual resource appear, why not abstract away the entire, domain specific, logic and just create a service that does p2p proof of work all day long, on which the services can be implemented? It might help strengthen the main chain, by basing multiple applications on it, and might reduce the repetitive work for each system, since the basis is already there.

Ich finde zwar die Idee neue Benutzer zu "kaufen" indem man ihnen ein starterkit gibt nicht schlecht, aber leider seh ich das Potential fuer Missbrauch. Sobald es auch mehr services gibt die Bitcoins auszahlen wird das ganze Huhn-Ei Problem auch in den Hintergrund geraten, aber bis dahin muessen wir uns mit dem Faucet zufriedengeben.

Und als programmierer und early adopter find' ich es ausnahmsweise sehr angenehm dass meine Arbeit auch mal "bezahlt" wird :-)

Just for reference, the discussion on IRC starts here http://bit.ly/9qjLL5

I'm pretty interested in having a good URI schema for Bitcoin addresses. I think the most fitting would be somthing like this:
Why? The address is clearly the only really important thing about these URIs, everything else is just cosmetics it is therefore comparable to the authority in URLs. Everything else is just additional (optional) parameters. Some common ones should include:

• dn: descriptive name, a name for the address, so that it is easier to recognize in the address book
• amount: only really interesting when actually having a payment (think about an invoice)
• ref: a URI to the resource containing details about the transaction (only in combination of amount). For example to point to the invoice

Of course I'm open to suggestions :-)

How did you arrive to this result?

This is great news. Time for me to dip my toes into OpenCL mining :-)

+1

The request is certainly reasonable and we would get a leaner, cleaner, main stream client, with less dependencies and easier to distribute, also the modularization proposed by some people (Wallet manager separate) would be desirable for people trying to implement their own network, wallet or mining clients as long as the communication interfaces are well documented.

Still working on it but 2 jobs and my studies are taking their toll on free time to spend on Bitcoin related projects. People offering to help understand the protocol are always welcome: http://code.google.com/p/pybitcoin/wiki/BitcoinProtocol

Damn Oracle, I started to hate that company...

Anyway, I guess we're better off with the FSF for now.

I think the main problem is that currently we have a single client that can be used. This puts a lot of trust in the developers of this client. So what I think tentative is alluding to is the possibility that the developers may become greedy and release a modified version of the client that plays unfair and gives them a certain advantage. The problem with proving this is that users are not forced to update to the latest version if they do not trust the developers, in fact (except for bug fixes) people could run their current client endlessly, since the protocol itself seems to have solid foundations.

As soon as we have multiple implementations the trust that we have to put into the developers of any of those clients is reduced, but sincerely I don't see satoshi turn evil anytime soon

We are philatelists, only that we collect signatures :-)

Bitcoins are a way to trade without intermediary on the Internet

According to http://www.ccc.de/de/office:

Incredibly bad idea, as suggested above microformats is the way to go, since it's standard compliant XHTML 1.0 strict and it is easy to process.

Ok, I created a regular expression to replace IPs so they should not appear anymore. If the replacement does not work, please tell me and I'll fix it as fast as possible

Oops, I'm incredibly sorry, I will ofcourse remove the ips. I've forgotten about them, but since the logs are not indexed by the search engines it shouldn't have too many repercussion.

It's more like:

The rest sounds pretty solid

Ok, I'll be releasing the logs starting from October 1st, I have them from 1st September but since it was undecided then I'll leave them out as a grace period

So here you go: http://veritas.maximilianeum.ch/bitcoin/irc/logs/

Comments and requests are always welcome