I think mb300sd must be right, and I must be wrong.  Makes perfect sense that a mining pool would let you join in through tor.

Yes, definitely solo mining, so it would take a while.  But assuming all subsequent transactions were conducted similarly, it would be pretty ironclad, as far as untraceabilty/deniability goes, as far as I can tell.  Certainly there is a lot of much lower-hanging fruit out there...

Yes, people keep talking about rational actors, but you can't think sensibly about rationality until you've pinned down the goals.  The implicit goal when someone talks about rationality in this forum is fiscal acquisition, but that is a bit silly.  There are people who are going to mine bitcoin even if the exchange rate is 1c/BTC, because they like the idea.  On the other hand, such people are less likely to dump all the BTC they mine into an exchange for fiat currency.

I'd be grateful for pointers to the following:

• Good discussions of the specific security threats posed by the currently disabled Script operands and the prospects for enabling them in the future.
• Good discussions of extensions to the scripting language, their utility, the security threats they pose, and the prospects for their future implementation.
• Good discussions of how and why to implement the currently disabled operands.
• Good discussions of the speed of adoption of updated clients and mining software.

My understanding is that the trick here is to hook up a miner through tor.  Any bitcoins it mines will be anonymous, to the extent that they cannot be authoritatively associated with any IP address.

Yeah, the financial industry has economic political discourse so tightly sewn up at this point that there probably won't be any sane policy decisions until there have been a few threatening food and housing riots.  Just like in the Great Depression.

Looks like what you get with pylab/matplotlib, in particular the imshow function.

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/image_tutorial.html#applying-pseudocolor-schemes-to-image-plots

Can you summarize the outcome for those of us who don't speak French?

Thanks.  This is very exciting.

  Oh, nonsense.  The econometric data from Calculated Risk is far more useful, and the predictions more considered and accurate over the last few years.

Step 15 in the OP.  I notice that there is also a wget of a python-jsonrpc at step 8, so perhaps it's redundant.

Their jaws didn't drop at his prediction, but at his callousness.  His advice was on a par with "Let them eat cake."

"Goldman Sachs rules the world."  Jesus Fucking Christ.

And moments later, she foreshadowed Schwarzenegger's political rise!!!

This is extremely interesting.  What is missing from the bitcoin protocol that prevents implementing it as described?

Um, what are we looking at here, exactly?

(BTW, I love pylab.imshow, too.  It makes beautiful pictures.  Do you like this pretty graph I made recently?)

This is explained very clearly in Debt: The First 5,000 Years, which I highly recommend to anyone who wants to really understand economic life (as opposed to just swallowing the prevailing theoclassical theory).

The imposition of taxes, which must be paid in government currency, is precisely what gives government currency its worth.  Even if you conduct your business entirely in bitcoin, if you live in the US or are a US citizen, IRS will still want its share of your income paid in USD.  This creates great demand for an object which the government is ultimately the sole provider of, which gives it a great deal of power.

Yes, but that mentality just means there's even more downward price pressure.  As soon as the price rises, people holding on to their coins in anticipation of a higher price come out to sell.

So what's it good for/why will demand for BTC increase in the future?

Huh.  Just looked this up on bitcoincharts, and it looks like the hashing rate has dropped precipitously, too.

Not very informative.  Wikipedia has an explanation which is much more relevant to this discussion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#Hidden_services