Websites which fail to stop children accessing pornography will have payments to them blocked by banks and credit card companies as part of a government plan to help clean up the internet,

Purveyors of explicit images will be starved of paying customers under the proposals, even if the material itself is not illegal. It is thought to be the first time banks have been asked effectively to police the internet in such a way.

Why yes, you're right of course. Just this morning I bought my usual cup of coffee with a gold doubloon.

If you like to think of current day usage of gold as non-niche, that's fine by me. That's just terminology. My prediction is that the current financial system might undergo subtle changes as the result of bitcoin saturation, but that I don't buy the idea that we're going to live in an inflation free, zero-taxation utopia of Randian proportions. In that sense bitcoin's current purpose will remain "niche", even if it will be widely adopted.

But Mt Gox's money was located in the US.  As the world financial hub and the issuer of the world reserve currency, The US and its regulations will carry significant weight globally.

There's also the problem that bitcoin transactions are far from "anonymous", which is the premise from which the entire argument starts. In reality, I believe, governments' reactions to bitcoin saturation will be similar to their reactions to Internet saturation: accept (mostly) the overall increase in freedom and citizens' possibility to circumvent certain laws, but pour substantial resources into detecting (and prosecuting) violations that they (and perhaps their electorate as well) consider especially grave, example: child pornography.

Applied to bitcoin this could mean that low level tax evasion will become easier in a Bitcoin environment, and might become more prevalent, but those who try the same with much larger sums will probably be surprised by the creativity governments can develop when they feel threatened at the core. Personally, I don't even expect government size to shrink substantially as a result, just that the *possibility* will exist to more easily avoid taxes, of which only a minority will make use in most countries.

Not sure what you mean, I was making a joke about the typo in the name of the thread.

And so it begins...

PM me and let me know what you think you can help us with.  By default, we will be trying to do things ourselves with already-paid labor, and that's how we learn anyway.  But if especially if we're bogged down and it's a compact and measurable task we'll consider outsourcing.

We might need help with the Windows build system.  But we also might have figured it out already.  Linux packaging could use some help, but we have a hardc0re linux nerd coming in at the end of the month so I will assume he's got that covered

We actually have some money bookmarked for outside help, like what Red Emerald has done in the past.  If we need something that no one on our team knows how to deal with, we may simply offer them some short-term funding at a reasonable hourly rate to help out.  I don't expect us to be doing a lot of that, but it's definitely a "tool" we're keeping in our back pocket.

That's right, I forgot.


You like to watch MSNBC and get that chill up your leg every time they mention what a great job Obama is doing.

Go back to your basement ya douche!

Can one not pay his taxes in cash?

They want you to avoid using Tor. They also use Tor themselves.

Matthew Green, an assistant research professor in JHU's department of computer science, was asked to remove a blog post from the university's servers on Monday. The entry linked to classified government documents published by the Guardian, the New York Times and ProPublica and summarised what Green called "bombshell revelations" of how the NSA is able to unlock encryption used to protect emails and other data.

JHU found itself criticised for abusing academic freedom after Andrew Douglas, who has served as interim dean of the university's engineering school since July, asked Green to remove the post from the university's servers.

More like, if you have to ask, you are trying to divert us from looking at secp256k1.

It would be cool if the engineers of the agency will mine altcoins for fun!

Are there ways to earn this coin without mining, maybe by writing?

Or that's the one they dont care about if you know it, since apparently its used pretty much nowhere.
I also dont see how that would fit in to this quote from the guardian article:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security

I dont think anyone would be gobsmacked if they found out an obscure, slow, suspect, almost never used psuedo random generator was hacked.

I dont know what to trust anymore right now, but on the top of things I no longer trust, is Tor;
http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-US-Government-Funds-60-Percent-of-the-Tor-Project-381195.shtml

Is that what they cracked in 2010? Who knows.But I doubt they would fund 60% of a project which sole goal is precisely to make it virtually impossible for NSA and others to snoop on its users, unless there was a tangible benefit to it.

Ah, very interesting! I never bothered to check that (and I bet a lot of other people didn't, either). Wouldn't it be hilarious if Satoshi managed to choose one of the few standard curves that was not backdoored?