Is there a standardized namespace for publishing documents yet?  I'm seeing posts on /r/bitcoin about cryptographic time-stamping, and this just seems like the perfect thing for namecoin.  Like "doc/" or "pub/" namespace for publishing documents, and then the name values can be the hash, and a location to download, and the author's name and stuff like that.  So it's useful info, and then even if the name expires, it's still in the blockchain and can serve as a time-stamp proof if needed in the future.

Bitcoin is showing us the way to the Future and 100 years form now they will write this story as a great peace of advancement for the Human Race at least technologically speaking. Although more advance digital currencies will come into play they will all probably be linked to Bitcoin just like U.S dollars are mostly linked to the world currency prices and a marker for exchange. Remember also that BTC is not just an exchange of money it has so many other intrinsic values attached to it. I can easily see the price of BTC going towards the Million USD mark within the next 10 years as the market cap keeps increasing and the demand, services and companies grow using BTC as their primary currency of exchange or service.

My last email from davout during December's email exchanges pertaining to my 1,132.xxx BTC claim ended on the 22nd, whereupon he stated that he'll get back with me at the first of the year.

At the moment, I'm still patiently waiting.

~Bruno Kucinskas

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has decided to revise a controversial fact sheet that declared its primary mission to be "national security," following criticism that the agency seemed to be moving away from its longstanding role as the nation's preeminent law enforcement agency.
The change emphasizes that stopping terrorism and battling more conventional domestic criminal activity are both "primary functions" of the FBI. The lightning-fast revision should dispel any notion that large bureaucratic organizations can only operate at a snail's pace: The fact sheet was updated less than 48 hours after a report on it in Foreign Policy went viral last week. An FBI official confirmed that the change was a direct result of the article.
"It's most accurate to say our primary functions are law enforcement and national security and that's probably what it should've said all along," FBI spokesman Paul Bresson told FP. "We've always been both."
The changes come after FP reported Jan. 5 that that FBI fact sheets declared "the primary function of the FBI is national security."

Two days later, on Jan. 7, the language changed to "the primary functions of the FBI are national security and law enforcement."

"That has to be some kind of a record," said Kel McClanahan, a Washington-based attorney who alerted FP to the original fact sheet revisions. "Doing this so quickly and so obviously cover your ass-y seems beneath them."
For some critics of the U.S. national security state, the FBI's creeping advance into counterterrorism since the 9/11 attacks has come at the cost of investigating other illegal activities such as mortgage fraud, financial fraud, violent crime, and bank robberies. Those critics seized on last week's report as evidence of the FBI's further drift toward counterterrorism.
"If the FBI's primary mission is ‘national security,' what's the Department of Homeland Security's mission?" asked the Government Accountability Project's Jesselyn Radack.
Others accused the agency of rebranding itself in order to extract more funding from Congress. "How many terror plots are there in this country? Not that many, but that's where the big bucks are," said Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks webcast. The article was also picked up by the Drudge Report and the massive link-sharing site Reddit.
Bresson said critics were wrongly confusing a small change on a fact sheet with a substantive change in priorities.
"You're talking about a fact sheet, not a change in policy," he said. "The FBI's mission today, and throughout the course of our history, has been law enforcement and national security."
This may not be the final word on the issue. The fact sheets accompany every response the agency gives to Freedom of Information Act requests. The latest change was discovered by FOIA expert Shawn Musgrave who has already filed a public records request for the internal memos related to the fact sheet revisions. We'll keep you posted.

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/01/17/in_reversal_fbi_now_emphasizes_role_in_law_enforcement

I like this thread because it suggests a good way to estimate when the logistic curve tips over, i.e. a parametric model.

My impression is that roughly 30% of mined coin get sold.  That number will go up as the price curve inflection becomes obvious, and tend to 100% in the limit.  Suppose it is 50% at the inflection.
The long-term value will be stable when the issuance equals the organic growth of the economy.   The bitcoin economy is some percentage of the total human economy.

G = global GDP, ~42tln USD2012 / an.

E_btc = P_btc * Q_btc = P_btc/tot * E_tot = G * r_growth^n_years  for an exponentially growing global economy.

M_btc = P_btc * Q_btc / V_btc

E_btc(y_i+1) - E_btc(y_i) = I_btc * M_btc * N_btc =  P_btc/total * G * (exp((y_i+1-y_0)*ln(r_growth))  - exp((y_i-y_0)*ln(r_growth)))

I_btc = delta(E_btc,i,i+1)/(M_btc*N_btc)

THEREFORE

Price stability occurs when the annual block reward reaches P_btc:total * G * r * (r - 1) / M_btc * N_btc

Now we have enough data to fit a logistic, except for one thing:  We don't have a good estimator of P_btc:total, the proportion of the human economy denominated in BTC, at the equilibrium time.

Well, that and the exponential growth of the underlying economy is probably not a good axiom going forward.  But at least it is enough to model the scenario topology parametrically, and find the catastrophe lines.

Anyway, enough with this silly bike-shedding; lets get some work done.

Rules are what bitcoin need to complete his grown, rules don't mean taxes but just traceability and safety.

That's because all the card processors in the world put together don't use 1 billion dollars worth of electricity, do they?  Which is what would happen to the Bitcoin network, if price rises to 1 million dollars per Bitcoin.

btw sx supports new stealth address payments:

https://wiki.unsystem.net/index.php/Sx/Stealth

still waiting for others to finalise the address scheme, but the basic kit is there.

many thanks jeremy spillman, peter todd and others!

My thoughts on my stealth addresses should be called stealth addresses:


I'm very against the name "reusable addresses" and strongly believe we
should stick with the name stealth addresses.
.....

This concept is awesome, but needs some PR reworking. Can we consider renaming this to something like "restricted," "confidential," "personal," "private" or "nonpublic" . "Stealth" has an off-the-books connotation that doesn't fit what govs. want to see in Crypto right now.

while the authentication part of ssl would have to be dealt with separately through some pgp stuff or x509 or whatever?

If that is true (am UK based) I will definitely up my investment, I already have CGT issues as it is, but one investment without being taxed on gains will give it the edge, and put it more on a par with art investments for me.

It sounds likely, since Germany has done this and the UK likes to be relatively open-minded on financial markets to support London's position in the world financial system (we don't export much else), so this is good news and will affect Europe generally too.

It's not happened yet, but it sounds like it will.  I will definitely be increasing my exposure and I will not be alone, I am sure.

The next best thing after not talking to them at all would be luring them into a false sense of security.