I hope you're right but I don't see it happening. The republicans are chomping at the bit to regain control of the White House. Old people are the largest voting block and republicans know it. I think they'll be afraid to nominate him knowing the older generation would be afraid of his radical viewpoint. Old people live on social programs at least in part. The IRS funds social programs (Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, etc.) that the older generation needs to survive. That makes people like Rand Paul frightening to old people.
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So he is Ron Paul's son. I'm not from the USA. But accepting BTC for the Presidential Campaign it seemes a big thing to me.
Yes, Ron Paul is his father. He agrees with most of the things the radicals on this forum believe in. He is very much his fathers son which, unfortunately, means he has little to no chance of winning his parties nomination for president. 1. Rand Paul is More Compromising and Pragmatic Ron Paul often won acclaim for never voting for a tax increase or for any bill not specifically authorized by the Constitution. Rand Paul has indicated an interest in compromising on matters from immigration reform to health care. He has also made efforts to compromise within his own party by working with AIPAC and allowing some foreign aid to countries considered pro-American.
For our country’s sake, certainly for our soldiers’ sake, America’s mission should always be to keep the peace not police the world #VFW
2. Statewide Elections – Rand Paul Has More Appeal Across an Entire State In his first race, Rand Paul won the primary and general elections by 23 and 12 points, respectively, and has already won more statewide elections than his father. The only time Ron Paul ever won a popular vote was the US Virgin Islands caucus in 2012.
3. Party Politics Rand Paul endorsed Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in 2012 in a sign of party loyalty and pragmatism. Ron Paul has not publicly endorsed a major party candidate candidate since Ronald Reagan. In 2008, the elder Paul, a GOP officeholder, endorsed Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin for president.
4. Sanctions The real isolationists are those who choose to use force overseas to promote democracy, rather than seek change through diplomacy, engagement, and by setting a positive example. – Ron Paul Ron Paul has called sanctions “an act of war” and a “precursor to war.” While Rand Paul has voted for sanctions on Iran, he has fought to ensure that nothing in the language of the sanctions “shall be construed as a declaration of war or an authorization of use of force.”
5. Iran During his campaign for Senate, Rand Paul said it was “reckless” to take “nuclear weapons off the table in certain circumstances” regarding Iran.
"I think it equally unwise to say we will never contain a nuclear Iran." Rand Paul He has also couched his subsequent support for sanctions by saying “a nuclear Iran would be a threat on a global scale.” Ron Paul has said there was no evidence Iran was building a weapon with its nuclear program. The elder Paul also rhetorically asked, “Why wouldn’t Iran want a nuclear weapon” when so many of its neighbors have them. It was an indication that, although Ron Paul opposes nuclear weapons, he does not consider a nuclear Iran a threat to the US.
6. Rand Paul is More Likely to Talk About Religion
While Ron Paul has always identified himself as a Christian, he has doesn’t talk about his faith very often. He has also said activities like the Prayer Breakfast seem more about publicity than faith.
Rand Paul has spoken to numerous faith-based groups, often as a way of spreading his views about Just War. The younger Paul also expressed his antipathy to a strike on Syria by making a deliberate point about how it would affect Middle-Eastern Christians.
7. War on Drugs Ron Paul has said the war on drugs has been a “failure” comparable to the prohibition of alcohol. He has also supported a general de-criminalization of narcotics on a federal level.
During his 2010 campaign, Rand Paul favored states rights regarding drug prohibition while also telling an evangelical Christian group in Iowa earlier this year that he “does not support the legalization of drugs like marijuana.”
More recently, the younger Paul came out against mandatory minimum sentencing for drug possession. He also called for the restoration of voting rights for felons, an important issue in the drug war.
8. Income Tax Since at least his 2008 run for president, Ron Paul famously said that the national income tax should be “repealed and replaced with nothing.” Rand Paul as recently as this summer advocated for the “Fair Tax” with a rate of 17 percent for individuals and supports eliminating “most” of the Internal Revenue Service.
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@theymos, are you obliged to give them these 'data' or not? Awesome. ![Cheesy](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif) Use PGP if you want privacy. ![Wink](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif) You are right, I can't imagine someone read a pgp encrypted message and he doesn't know what the hell is write in that message (because he doesn't have the key for decrypt it ![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftechforum.it%2Fstyles%2Fdefault%2Fxenforo%2Fsmilies%2Fasd.gif&t=665&c=S6TLyhcvth6UQQ) ). Subpoena is a court order, so yes he has to respond (either consent or fight it in court) or he can be jailed. And yes you should always use PGP or something else for sensitive communications. I hope they enjoy reading my pm's to Inaba warning him to stop trolling and derailing threads, and him whining about someone else starting it. When the investigators read the BFL threads they'll probably think everyone here is nuts. They might want to lock up everyone involved as a public safety measure. lol
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No, RodeoX is correct. A licensed exchange is the safest place to sell them now. Burt was a localbitcoins thing. That's what my joke was about earlier in the thread.
I happened to agree with Chef Ramsey though. This story is unbelievable.
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Can you comment on this: Source: https://bitcoinfoundation.org/forum/index.php?/topic/1284-the-truth-about-the-bitcoin-foundation/When I joined on my first Board meeting, Jim Harper and myself immediately put forward a vote to have the board meeting recorded. We followed Robert’s rules of orders, and everyone else basically shut us down and failed to follow procedures. There were “more urgent” things to discuss (as you will see later, the urgent pattern was an excuse to just continue on their course and shut us up). It was critical for us to vote on a plan that would save the Foundation. When I mentioned that such a critical vote is all the more reason to make sure the whole meeting gets recorded, I was ignored. The Bitcoin Foundation hates transparency. If they would have been transparent then everyone would know there is no money left. Something I think the members have a right to know, wouldn’t you think? Members have a right to know that the current board failed to tell them the truth, and that their way of running the organization resulted in it going bankrupt. But instead of taking responsibility, they want to find the next executive director, that will come up with another magic plan. Ironically, being transparent from the start might have prevented this whole thing to begin with.
Everyone has the right to know the truth:
- The Foundation has almost no money left, and just fired 90% of its people. Some will stay on as volunteers. - Core dev can no longer be funded by it, and Patrick Murck is trying to re-create a new Foundation just for core dev, because the current name is tarnished. Do not fall for this. - The current Executive Director (Patrick Murck), will be gone in 2 weeks, and they are trying to find the next person to blame everything on. - Jim Harper was threatened for doing a press release which was (barely) critical of the Foundation after he got elected. The Foundation tries to make sure we hide the truth by subtly threatening us on a regular basis. - If I get asked to leave the Foundation for telling the truth, so be it. The truth is being told.
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If you're in the USA, I hear the federal government buys large quantities of btc on localbitcoins. lol
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Is that normal? What are they protecting/hiding?
It's a little unusual. Not hugely unusual in the black-market cases I've looked at. It's routine for stuff to be sealed indefinitely and when they're unsealed, often they're boring procedural stuff with only the barest summary of the facts. For example, there was a recent OD in North Dakota linked to an Evolution buyer which resulted in the sellers also being arrested, which make up 3 or 4 different cases in PACER, and while many of the filings are sealed, there are enough unsealed complaints or plea agreements that in conjunction with news articles you can figure out most of what went on; on the other hand, there are sealed documents which turn out to be mind-blowing, like in the Ulbricht trial where we noted some interesting-sounding sealed documents filed in advance of the trial and which turned out to be about the DEA corruption/embezzlement scandal; and more usually in cases where there's informants or undercover agents, nothing gets released or the case itself is sealed/hidden - eg for the former, the digitalink case began ~Jan 2012 and he cooperated somehow and despite everyone starting to serve their sentences all the key filings are *still* sealed, while for the latter, we know from mentions elsewhere that there exist cases regarding 'dripsofacid', 'moveitnice', 'alllove', 5 NZ arrests, 'TrustusJones', 'Aspire28', Scout/'cirrus', 3 UK arrests for SR1, 6 for SR2, 'Dark_Mart' etc etc, but we know nothing about them and probably never will. In this case, the consistency of the sealing suggests that something interesting could be in them and the prosecutors are taking pains to make sure no hints leak. Or not. We'll know eventually. That stuff always leaks out. Usually, by the time its leaked no one cares.
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Of course they're natural. You can tell by the spread of the areola as they sag. Fake tits are huge, don't sag and have perfect round areola. They look unnatural!
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You have your own forum, go back there and cheerlead. If you want to drum up new contributors/donors to TBF have a bake sale. Most of the people on this forum are Bitcoin users and enthusiasts not businessmen looking for a quick buck. TBF has been too polluted and too U.S. centric since its formation. If Mahatma Gandhi crawled out of his grave to run TBF I still wouldn't have anything to do with them.
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It could just as easily be argued that filling the thread with so much unrelated garbage was protecting BFL, by hiding any real relevant information. "Anyone not willing to sift through the 'unrelated garbage' is not worth the information" is also a way to look at it. I know most mods/admins (you're the third, and counting, in this topic alone) have difficulty looking past their binary true/false logic and even more difficulty grasping human/social interactions... But sorry, "we normal" (<- big wink) people like "our small-talk" (something Bruno obviously understood better, together with the notion of "entertaining an audience"). Neither viewpoint is entirely correct, the best position is somewhere in between. Agreed. So you also agree that a lock is way too excessive? EDIT: and how is publicly discussing BFL senior staff (mis-)using the legal (and tax) system by issuing bogus TRO's (and false IRS 1099-MISC forms) to people intimidating them away from exposing their practices considered "unrelated garbage"... ![Huh](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/huh.gif) If you seriously think that's the kind of posts anyone is referring to, then there isn't much point in having this conversation, you've made up your mind already. See point above... And still no need for a 5 day ban... All in all still seems to me BCT did BFL a huge favour by locking the original thread and banning their "biggest opponent"... ![Embarrassed](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/embarrassed.gif) EDIT: especially considering the timing; where BFL is scrambling for sales by renewed aggressive marketing at this very moment... If you look back at Bruno's ban history I've warned him every time a day or two before he got banned. I've tried to gently tell him he's over posting but he doesn't always get it. Sometimes he stops. He just gets on a roll and spams the crap out of a thread and can't seem to stop. He hasn't been permanently banned. He'll be back in a few days and if you really need to talk to him he always goes to Reddit and spams the shit out of a few threads there while he's waiting out his ban. Any other forum in the world would have permanently banned him two years ago. That thread has been a complete mess of unadulterated useless garbage for more than 100 pages and it was in the wrong section. Cheech and Chong, chicken, goat and little girl anime images add useless noise that so completely cluttered that thread that it became a joke thread. If you want to have something available to read that shows the progress of the legal case then post a pure information thread that's moderated. That way if someone posts a picture of a giant rooster and starts posting about chicken choking or random strings of profanity aimed at Josh or Sonny it can be deleted in favor of court dockets. The regular posters in that thread made it a worthless joke.
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I'd be interested to see a prototype.
You'd have to show up at a conference in Europe that Mycelium attends. There aren't any prototypes in US unfortunately. Please share a link to a video meanwhile. I hope this doesn't end up being MatthewNWrightWare. ![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FFctcs.jpg&t=665&c=z6PouRVulNjzhg)
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Welcome to the fully regulated legal Bitcoin. Prepare to be unimpressed.
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Click the link on the right hand side of my signature for my opinion on gambling.
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Very sad. The more scams like this happening worldwide the more likely the uninformed regular guy will see "crypto currency" and mentally replace it with the word "scam".
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CIYAM, how possible would it be for a spy network (government or otherwise) to communicate using messages hidden in the blockchain? You could essentially be anywhere in the world and update the last 24 hours to see today's messages and no one would know it. All they would think is you use Bitcoin as money.
Sure you could expensively embed messages in Bitcoin txs (I even developed a method of encoding the data into sigs) but it would be a ridiculously expensive way to send messages when you could just use stego and put them in images for no cost at all (with pretty much the same level of obscurity). Thanks, I was more thinking about the aspect of a permanent record of the conversation.
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So it is no more vulnerable that any other P2P network (as you can just spread your virus information via torrents if you want to hidden in images or other files using steganography).
IMO it would actually make much more sense (and cost nothing) to use torrents over Bitcoin so the fact that the article focuses on Bitcoin and not other (free to use) data storage P2P networks is rather odd.
CIYAM, how possible would it be for a spy network (government or otherwise) to communicate using messages hidden in the blockchain? You could essentially be anywhere in the world and update the last 24 hours to see today's messages and no one would know it. All they would think is you use Bitcoin as money.
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I think they still do.... M-pesa rely on centralized telecommunication services and a central point of failure. Bitcoin is a much better alternative and more transparent for corruption and bribes, that are common in areas in Africa.
Would they leapfrog the traditional banking system..? Well at first I thought so....but I reckon, they still need to convert to fiat for most things, with limited merchants accepting Bitcoin now... So for a while... they would have to rely on some banking functions, until more merchants accept Bitcoin.
Um, what? The only electronics device these people own is a cheap cell phone. They have little to no infrastructure. No cable TV, Internet, paved roads - hell, in some places they don't even have electricity or running water but they do have a shitload of cell towers. If cell services are down how exactly is Bitcoin supposed to work? This is 100 % correct. I have a friend who lives in Tanzania and another in the DRC. They laugh at the idea of Bitcoin getting any sort of foothold in Africa for the next 10 to 15 years. Yeah, I was in the peace corp in Africa. Most people don't realize how fucked Africa really is until they go there. Sure, there are big modern cities but they are few and far between. Leaving a big city and driving to the next small town isn't like driving to a first world small town. It's like driving off the face of the earth and ending up on Mars.
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Education is always better than dumbed-down services. Bitcoin's killer apps for Africa may (should?) come from Africa or Africans.
They most probably will. m-Pesa is a classic example of something which developed in Africa. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa#HistoryIn 2002, researchers at Gamos and the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation, funded by Department for International Development UK (DFID), documented that in Uganda, Botswana and Ghana, people were spontaneously using airtime as a proxy for money transfer. Africans were transferring airtime to their relatives or friends who were then using it or reselling it. Gamos researchers approached MCel in Mozambique, and in 2004 MCel introduced the first authorised airtime credit swapping – a precursor step towards M-PesaM-Pesa use on the entire continent of Africa was about $300 million (Sh26.5B) last year. Bitcoin's market cap is $3.6 billion with a B. If we took every single customer away from M-Pesa today it wouldn't help us that much. Obviously, Africans don't need it because they have M-Pesa. I think they still do.... M-pesa rely on centralized telecommunication services and a central point of failure. Bitcoin is a much better alternative and more transparent for corruption and bribes, that are common in areas in Africa. Would they leapfrog the traditional banking system..? Well at first I thought so....but I reckon, they still need to convert to fiat for most things, with limited merchants accepting Bitcoin now... So for a while... they would have to rely on some banking functions, until more merchants accept Bitcoin. Um, what? The only electronics device these people own is a cheap cell phone. They have little to no infrastructure. No cable TV, Internet, paved roads - hell, in some places they don't even have electricity or running water but they do have a shitload of cell towers. If cell services are down how exactly is Bitcoin supposed to work?
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Education is always better than dumbed-down services. Bitcoin's killer apps for Africa may (should?) come from Africa or Africans.
They most probably will. m-Pesa is a classic example of something which developed in Africa. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa#HistoryIn 2002, researchers at Gamos and the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation, funded by Department for International Development UK (DFID), documented that in Uganda, Botswana and Ghana, people were spontaneously using airtime as a proxy for money transfer. Africans were transferring airtime to their relatives or friends who were then using it or reselling it. Gamos researchers approached MCel in Mozambique, and in 2004 MCel introduced the first authorised airtime credit swapping – a precursor step towards M-PesaM-Pesa use on the entire continent of Africa was about $300 million (Sh26.5B) last year. Bitcoin's market cap is $3.6 billion with a B. If we took every single customer away from M-Pesa today it wouldn't help us that much. Obviously, Africans don't need it because they have M-Pesa.
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