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481  Economy / Marketplace / Re: We accept Bitcoins on: July 09, 2010, 05:34:38 AM
Bitcoin 4 Cash has a real domain now. Tongue

http://www.bitcoin4cash.com/

(Thanks privacyshark!)

Now to make a proper site... the work never ends.. Cheesy
482  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin 0.3 released! on: July 08, 2010, 10:36:34 AM
I am happy to report that 0.3 compiles cleanly and runs fine on FreeBSD 7.2/8.0 with the usual makefile path edits. Smiley
483  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Social networks on: July 06, 2010, 09:40:34 AM
Look at what happened when Kaza was sued to find your answer.

484  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Bitcon OS on: July 06, 2010, 09:00:57 AM
Ahh, I was working from memory.. His name is "Shew".

Here's his site:

http://xqz3u5drneuzhaeo.onion/users/shew/

(Over the regular internet by proxy: https://www.awxcnx.de/cgi-bin/proxy3/nph-proxy.cgi/000000A/http/xqz3u5drneuzhaeo.onion/users/shew/ )

If only he included Bitcoin... Tongue Perhaps someone can nag him. I'll do my part. Cheesy
485  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Bitcon OS on: July 06, 2010, 04:50:01 AM
A guy on onionforurms who calls himself "shrew" has an OS called shrew OS. It is almost exactly what you are describing. It is FreeBSD based, rock solid, has I2P/Tor/Freenet on it. Someone needs to convince him to bundle Bitcoin with it and it will really rock.
486  Other / Off-topic / Re: The Money Masters/The Secret of Oz on: July 05, 2010, 11:36:57 PM
Those are some of my all-time favorite videos. Smiley
487  Other / Off-topic / Chris Martenson's Crash Course on: July 05, 2010, 07:00:15 AM
http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse/chapter-1-three-beliefs

A great video series about the interrelation between the economy, energy, and the environment. The parts that I found to be most shocking were how GDP was calculated in the USA. I already knew that the CPI was bogus (they exclude almost all of the necessities of life), but the GDP was nuts! haha

The video series was expressed without any hysteria or panic. It is too the point and very optimistic. (I like optimism.)

Enjoy!
488  Other / Off-topic / How fear is used to control people (video) on: July 03, 2010, 11:47:36 PM
"The Story of Your Enslavement"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbp6umQT58A

I find this video to be cynical, but factual. The parts about slavery and control of human labor through fear are excellent.
489  Other / Off-topic / Common Law Court Videos on: July 03, 2010, 12:42:05 AM
Want to see what happens in a de facto court when you have revoked consent to a de facto jurisdiction? Below are some court videos (they are captioned with audio).

Video #1:

http://www.raymondstclair.com/videos/english-freeman-challenges-authority-in-uk-court/

The interesting thing about the video above is that they issued a default judgment at a time when they weren't even in courtroom. They *purposely* invalidated their judgment because they knew they didn't have jurisdiction. You simply take that to a notary public with affidavits from your witnesses and fill out a statement of protest to invalidate the 'judgment'.

Video #2:

http://www.raymondstclair.com/videos/english-freeman-standing-court-gloucester-part-1/

Notice the word trickery in this video. Placing orders on a man under Common Law can be used to assume a de facto jurisdiction again. (An order is an attempt to contract. Just like how ordering a hamburger from a waitress is contracting with the establishment.) This stuff is very real.

Using conditional offers for every order works wonders. Tongue


490  Economy / Exchanges / Re: BuyBitCoins.com - Buy Bitcoins with your credit card on: July 02, 2010, 09:43:58 AM
That is a poor example. I'm sure joey.rich would open up a PayPal dispute in response to that customer opening up a credit card dispute with him.

If this kept happening PayPal might decide that he is performing "currency exchange" and freeze his account. After all, "currency exchange" is prohibited in their terms of use.

PayPal is notorious for freezing accounts over the slightest uninformed assumption. (Remember when Freenet had their account frozen because PayPal thought they were selling a proxy service? lol!)

A better example of fraud would be a someone who purchases Bitcoins with stolen credit cards, and he sells the Bitcoins to another exchanger for Pecunix or Liberty Reserve. The Pecunix/LR could then be transferred to a prepaid debit card and cash could be withdrawn from an ATM. A great way to 'cash out' stolen credit cards! :O
491  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Money Transfer Regulations on: July 01, 2010, 07:39:51 PM
I am on the sovereign lands of Alberta. It is a part of the Dominion of Canada.

You might be interested in this post:
https://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=227.msg1908#msg1908

Cheers! Smiley
492  Economy / Exchanges / Re: BuyBitCoins.com - Buy Bitcoins with your credit card on: July 01, 2010, 07:37:06 PM
You might want to check with authorize.net. A lot of credit card companies won't let you buy digital currency (or on your part sell it) because they consider it a cash advance, and higher fees typically apply to those transactions along with a lot more regulation.

Actually, it is the rules of the merchant number provider (called an acquiring bank) that you need to follow.
493  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Is bit coin legal in the US? on: July 01, 2010, 07:32:08 AM
What if you based your operations in Switzerland or some sovereign nation outside US jurisdiction?

I had suggested this a long time ago in a previous post as an option to those who absolutely insisted on incorporating.

De facto statelessness works much, much better. Wink And you don't even have to move! Tongue

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Stateless_person
(This article is lacking information, there is more to it.)

As a 'de facto' stateless person you are removed from all statutory obligations. You are still in a "country" (the land), but you remove the applicability of the corporate powers.

Most (commonwealth) countries of the world exist in two forms. They become "one" under the law (and in the courts) through a legal principal called 'joinder'.

One part of a country under joinder is is the physical land, the other is a corporation. The physical lands are under the rule of the king/queen with whom I invest (and others, unknowingly) my sovereignty. This jurisdiction is 'de jure'.

The corporate entity (with the same name as the land(s), or usually very similar anyway) exists for commerce and statutes only. This jurisdiction is 'de facto'.

Definitions:

de facto in law, it is meant to mean "in practice but not necessarily ordained by law" or "in practice or actuality, but without being officially established".

De jure is an expression that means "concerning law".

By becoming de facto stateless, in essence, it renders the contracts (statutes/bylaws) null and void 'ab inito' and everything in court has to be dealt with under Common Law. (Also called the 'law of the land'. I'm sure you've heard that term before in various sworn oaths. It is called this for good reason. It is literally the customs of the people who live "on land". lol!)

Commerce with fiat currency is regulated in the 'de facto' arena by the use of statutes. Take a dollar bill into Common Law (de jure) and it is just piece of paper. Quite literally. It has the value of paper. Whatever a sheet of paper goes for in gold/silver/"insert barter item here" is what it is worth. In my opinion you can't even write on it, so I'd rather have blank paper.

More food for thought: Who actually owns the paper? Is your signature on it? Is there a copyright on it? When they demand payment in dollars are you just returning their property? Should you even take these demands personally? Wink

Gold/silver coins that are "minted" (I could go on and on about what minting really is and means in law) actually work in both jurisdictions. They have a legal face value (de facto), and a lawful real intrinsic value (Common Law / de jure jurisdiction). More examples of dual jurisdictional things (if you want to research more on your own) are: bills of exchange (precursors to the modern "check" or draft), bills, demands, and notices.

Anyway, I could drone on and on and upload document after document to prove all of this but I do have job and limited time. Maybe I should start a school and charge tuition in Bitcoins. Tongue
494  Economy / Exchanges / Re: BuyBitCoins.com - Buy Bitcoins with your credit card on: July 01, 2010, 07:19:06 AM
You get an A+ for convenience, but selling an irrevocable currency for revocable credit is fundamentally a bad idea.

:/
495  Economy / Marketplace / Re: We accept Bitcoins on: June 29, 2010, 07:12:12 PM
Bitcoin4Cash is now available on Freenet, I2P, and TOR.

Eventually the site will have automated ordering and an internal communication system.

I don't think Freenet will work out once I reach that point, but I figured I'd try Freenet out. I've never inserted a freesite before so it was a good learning experience. Cheesy

I2P: http://yetyfc7wo57pjhq7ekk37kflm34pos2jhxx2cifzub7up5nd7m7q.b32.i2p/

TOR: http://vms43o4cqysakvyb.onion/
496  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Money Transfer Regulations on: June 29, 2010, 04:23:49 PM
If you ended up in court under full force of statute, you have probably already lost. They will expand existing statutes (like the "unlicensed stock broker" point) to get you. The usual route is to hire a lawyer, have him/her argue and reduce the sentence. The state gets paid, the lawyer gets paid, you get incarcerated. Everyone makes money, except for you. Fun times, no? Tongue  

The way to do it is to assert claim, state your intentions, form an estoppel, declare a societal association, and go the Common Law route. In my country they don't even bother to take you to court when you do this. There is NO profit in it for them. Remove the profit motive and a lot of the harassment seems to disappear.

Common Law is the law of substance.

Statutes (sometimes called "codes") are contracts. You can revoke consent in my country. Once you do that, they have to use Common Law. Proving that I injured someone by selling them Bitcoins, would be quite difficult.

Licenses evidence the acceptance of a CONTRACT (aka statute). If you are operating under Common Law and do not have a license the statutes do not apply. As long as fair warning of your intentions has been provided. (Those who want LLCs, Incs, Corps, etc should re-read the first sentence again.)

So as I stand, I am an unbonded/unlicensed man operating in a Common Law jurisdiction with my own society under full liability for the benefit of Huh ... Bitcoin, I suppose. Tongue

Peace! Smiley
497  Economy / Marketplace / Re: We accept Bitcoins on: June 29, 2010, 03:23:26 PM
Yes. I'm attempting to "level out" my reserves first. I'd like to see 1/2 of those 50,000 coins go out the door before I start buying Bitcoins. I'd likely charge a small fee (to cover postage).

I have a couple of pending orders already, so I don't expect it to take long.
498  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Money Transfer Regulations on: June 29, 2010, 03:15:23 PM

Technically you are only an exchanger if you call yourself one. The Bitcoins themselves are the product you are selling. What the customer does with the Bitcoins is really none of your concern, nor are you liable.

Now for the age-old analogy regarding liability: If someone buys a hammer from Home Depot and kills someone with it is it Home Depot's fault? Is it my fault that someone purchased something illegal with the Bitcoins I sold them? The answer is a resounding "NO".

Also, for a court to rule that you are engaging in currency conversion they have to *recognize* Bitcoins as a currency. If that did happen, it would open a whole new can of worms. (I can elaborate here upon request.)

All the best,
The Madhatter Cheesy

Running an exchange is only dangerous because it is likely to attract the "wrong" customers, sooner or later.

The government isn't going to crack down on your exchange just for the sake of it. 
499  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Money Transfer Regulations on: June 29, 2010, 02:58:43 PM

Quite simply: you're not responsible.

how are you responsible if two other people make a transaction and you just put them in touch with each other? Smiley
500  Other / Off-topic / Re: Life in prison for running a payment processor? on: June 29, 2010, 02:42:56 PM
I'm not surprised at all. And I should be. Have I been conditioned? lol Tongue
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