Drugs .... drugs, hitmen payments, guns, weapons, money laundering, child porn, hackers, stolen credit card trading, tax evasion and lawyers. Haven't you been reading the nooz?  Bitcoin, doing God's work where noone else will. |
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On the other hand Leah provides a lot of FREE media attention for Bitcoin. That credit cards ads cost much more - priceless. As longs as Dorian gets compensated, win-win!
Ding, ding. |
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razor blades, a bicycle mirror, and 4 pounds of butter cookies....legendary. he's the man! |
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Would it be possible to extend this idea into a Tor-like mix-cascade payment network? Both Alice and Bob would choose their own CoinSwap 'circuit' to a rendezvous intermediary, each escrow tx is hash-locked to that of the next intermediary, so that Eva would have to compromise at least three intermediaries to know Alice has paid Bob.
Onion TX routing? |
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Let's put her on that bitcoin hitlist site 'assassination market', or is that too much? I hate selfish reporters who only think about their own scoops instead of the safety of a person.
Are you kidding me? It's a shitty thing to do, but it's legitimate journalism. Journalists exist to find out all sorts of stories. Sometimes they feel shitty to some people but they are the bedrock of a functional democracy. We need them. even if sometimes we don't like what they say. And there are just as many people who feel legitimately about wanting to know who he is then those who don't. It's horrible to even think about threatening someones life, just because they maybe did sloppy journalism. Even if it does affect him, it doesn't FOR SURE mean something will happen to him. If it's really him, he knew this day would come. Threatening to kill journalists is horrible. Like Michael Hastings and Stanley McCrystal you mean? I think Bitcoin is about to blow-up in yet another industries face, i.e. the lamestream media, blinded in its hatred of libertarianism is about to get a harsh lesson in the power of popular backlash, anonymous, internet style. She's awoken a sleeping beast .... and there are some un-nice people inside this particular beast. I think she can basically kiss goodbye any hope she had of having secure computing devices any more, Probably she's gonna get electronically assassinated at the very least. |
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Anything that needs cheerleaders is always the property of the government. Don't forget that fact.
Evidence is the internet didn't need cheerleaders. It grew viral without any well organized central point of promotion. |
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People have always gotten emotional, nationalistic, patriotic even over their money.
National and civil wars have been fought over what money to use. Reason and logic are just not going to work with some people. It will be greed and convenience (sloth) for them only.
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Is it either because many of you are too naive, or too stupid to understand the nature of Bitcoin. It's an anonymous virtual currency that's quite impractical and instable. As shown just this month with Mt.Gox, it's price jumped what, 30% in one day? I love how many of you are so against regulation, but without regulation is when there's a real problem. Illegal drug trafficking sites such as Silk Road made millions off people buying drugs through Bitcoin. There needs/will be regulation of a cryptocurrency in the future. The reason why the feds haven't bothered to regulate Bitcoin much in the USA, or completely ban it in other countries is because of it's price fluctuations, high transaction times, and high energy output to mine, which they know that after a while people will Move on to another more effiencet, more practical for daily use cryptocurrency . They know that in the future, a new cryptocurrency without all the flaws of Bitcoin will emerge, and WILL become mainstream which Bitcoin hasn't, still 5 years after it's release and never will become. Once that happens you can expect regulation no matter how "anonymous" you think it is.
Just giving you all naive suckers a heads up.
Pce.
Wow ... who let this spouting, opinionated asshole in? This place is going to the dogs, fast. |
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It's funny watching gov grasping at trying to define new revolutionary tech by applying old metrics. It's like trying to tax email by making people buy a stamp for every email. Good luck with that. LOL Nice analogy ...  I cant wait to see them try AML/KYC with zerocoin ... gonna be best helping of go fuck yourself this century to date. |
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bitcoin is like a new strain of bacteria released into a pristine, ripe, nutritious agar dish ... the size of this tasty dish??
$82 trillion Gross World Product
$55 trillion M2 Global money supply
$32 trillion in offshore bank accounts
$8.5 trillion value of Global gold holdings
... Bitcoin is right now the Premier security system for fast (<1hr) settlement/clearing of global transfers.
Forget about coffees, beers, sex toys and sheets ... microtransactions will be done by layer 2, BitPay, Open Transactions, ZipZap, Coinbase, VISA, etc who will agglomerate and settle using real bitcoin less frequently. I expect >80% of bitcoiners misunderstand the monetary nuclear fuel they are messing around with, its cute, exhilarating and terrifiying all at the same time watching the madness.
Security-wise the design of Bitcoin is not a POS, credit, debit national network class system, it is in the league of SWIFT, FEDWIRE, in fact it is already superior to them all as it does not rely on locale specific legal infrastructure for ultimate arbitration.
For anybody who is obsessing about bitcoin valuations ...
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Hi,
Im using Armory 0.9 Beta on OSX, it seems to sync up with the network and stuff OK, but in the bottom right where it either says "disconnected" or "Connected (288888 blocks)" it flashes very quickly between these two messages, like a couple of times per second.
Sometimes it is predominantly 'disconnected' but I can see it flashing, and sometimes it is 'Connected (288888 blocks)' and it flashes...
Anyone else experience this/able to help me troubleshoot this?
Thanks.
This sounds like your bitcoin Qt has reached -maxconnections and won't allow Armory to become max+1. Maybe try launching Armory the instant that Bitcoin client is launched, as it could be that your router is limiting p2p network connections (this will give Armory the best opportunity to be allocated with one of the p2p connection slots) Even if that's not it, it would be useful to have some mechanism whereby Armory can take priority over other connections, as I've had this problem myself (solved by changing the network environment to allow more p2p connections to bitcoind). Possibly a point for core development, though. Carlton i think you might have hit the nail on the head here... I have modified my bitcoin.conf to only allow Bitcoin-QT to have 10 connections max, also I am usually letting it sync fully (maxxing out the connections to 10) before starting Armory, so I guess it sounds like what you have experienced... i do also have a slightly dodgey router though, even though it is supposed to be decent it needs a hard reset once or twice a day which I KNOW is not right but I have tried absolutely everythign to sort that out... Will try opening Armory quickly after Bitcoin-QT is opened to try and get it in a 'reserved' slot when I get home tonight If that is the case you can put a "connect=IP-of-armoury-machine" in bitcoin.conf ... maybe even a "addnode=IP-of-armoury-machine" will suffice, where IP-of-armoury-machine=127.0.0.1 for localhost. |
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Just think of all the extra randomness and de-linking you get from having coinz in limbo for so long .... |
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Sorry but iam not throwing up any of my personal information without knowing where it is going !!
Oh, I can tell you exactly where it will be going. Straight on to massive databases sitting on insecure govt. servers. Big fat, centralised ripe targets of personal ID information that criminals and espionage agencies (are they different?) salivate over and spend all their efforts changing/breaking laws and trying to hack into .... |
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FT. Knox == Mt. Gox
c'mon everybody knows that and has done for some time. The USA is busted ass, there is no gold, it's as obvious as the nose on your face.
Why else do they refuse audits? If they had the gold they would be showing great hordes around the place and charging for the viewings .... it's the oldest trick in the book, a liar sitting in front of an empty vault. C'mon, really? you think Ft. Gox has gold? Whadda ya smoking?
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There will be a window of opportunity to wrest value out of the hands of the entrenched before a new regime finds a way to entrench itself. I understand what you are saying and have considered that a possibility also but I really do think this time is different. Without wanting to derail this thread very much more I'll explain why ...  Software is just about as close as you will get to the realm of pure ideas made real. Clearly regulators, beholden to entrenched interests or not, cannot regulate free thinking and just as mathematics, philosophy, theoretical physics and other abstract sciences are true free markets software manifestations of these fields are also free to spring forth unhindered, except albeit by the dogma of their own fields. Now with bitcoin, the invention of new monetary products and abstract fields like mathematics have collided, manifest as a software product, ready to function in the physical world on the internet. There really is no future that I can envision where this genie can be put back in the bottle. Whatever regime holds sway will forever know that they are but one bright idea away from obsolesence, regardless of what congressman, or media conglomerate they have on their payroll. Money has now joined the realm of free thinking, the war of ideas is it new home, and battleground. This for me is the most fundamental shift that bitcoin provides, monetary science has become an applied science field and finds itself plonked down right between computer science and applied mathematics, the internet is its laboratory and programming geniuses skilled in cryptography are its practitioners. |
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Payouts may be approved until the end of the year. Unapproved payouts will be considered as donations after the end of the year. Would BTC-Central Paymium davout Boussac or whoever like to say how much of the unclaimed BTC ("unclaimed" being defined under the specific terms created by Paymium BTC-Central davout and boussac) awere considered to be "donations"?? They closed the window on claims after a short period and said "those BTC are ours now, fuck you for being slow." ... and followed up questions with abuse. |
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where did you read, that they "walk away" after release? they worked 1,5 years on that, would be a little bit strange if they would do this, its their baby.
Ah, I can't find the quote now, but it was from a video where he answered questions from the public. Basically he said "We are cryptographers and do this as a science project. Once the open code is out there, we will walk away from it and observe what the community does with it" To me it seems that they are more interested in getting publications in scientific journals than actually establishing a new competitive Alt-coin. I find the project very fascinating, so I hope I am wrong about this. Translation: Somebody else will have to take the heat when the feds come knocking with special requests. As long as it is in the interests of science ... free market experimentation driven by curiosity will only happen where the regulation boundaries end. A bit of a chicken and egg problem there. It will actually take a messy combination of subverting existing boundaries and creating new ones. Those boundary conditions you mention exist because it is a means to profit for some party or other. What has happened historically is the boundaries become evermore convoluted, gray at the edges and diffuse until eventually they just dissolve You know they are already fighting a loosing battle when the only true innovators are those in Universities doing it for 'fun' ... Goverments are stifling free market innovation and experimentation in the actual markets that most need it, this symptom makes it crystal clear. The corollary is that the massive problems that beset the financial markets is due to the obvious over-regulation of monetary products. |
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where did you read, that they "walk away" after release? they worked 1,5 years on that, would be a little bit strange if they would do this, its their baby.
Ah, I can't find the quote now, but it was from a video where he answered questions from the public. Basically he said "We are cryptographers and do this as a science project. Once the open code is out there, we will walk away from it and observe what the community does with it" To me it seems that they are more interested in getting publications in scientific journals than actually establishing a new competitive Alt-coin. I find the project very fascinating, so I hope I am wrong about this. Translation: Somebody else will have to take the heat when the feds come knocking with special requests. As long as it is in the interests of science ... free market experimentation driven by curiosity will only happen where the regulation boundaries end. |
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It seems like it would be easy to answer the simple questions asked by Marcus above.
...unless there is reason those 'haters' are correct. Lots of MtGox people used similar arguments when people challenged their solvency.
Did Phinn ever get his 1000 BTC returned?
Unless BTC-Central Paymium is running fractional reserve they should have no problem demonstrating the exact status of their solvency and the Instawallet coins using the blockchain. As has already been done recently by other reputable, transparent exchanges in wake of Mt. Gox debacle. |
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