from this: http://themonetaryfuture.blogspot.com/2011/05/thoughts-on-bitcoin-laundering.htmli was wondering about the reliability of this theory do you guys think it's true? For a start, those laundering transactions are exactly the kinds of things intelligence services are good at figuring out. They can put supercomputers to work analysing the global transaction stream (all available in ONE place; no need to talk to lots of banks - or worry about infiltrating uncooperative foreign banks). Some value that goes into an account then buzzes through a self-contained pool of accounts for some time then zooms out to somewhere else can probably be traced through analysing the timings of transactions and the like; the pattern of automated laundering will be different from actual spending, if you have enough computer power to find the patterns. Imagine drawing a diagram with a blob for each address you know something about (eg, can tie to a person or organisation), and drawing arrows for all the transactions between them. Any single-use addresses can just be chained together as part of the same arrow. Any unknown addresses can be given small blobs on the diagram. Colour the arrows with the magnitude of the amount transferred, on a log scale. Arrange the diagram so the minimum of arrows overlap. Do this for the transactions in each day, and then make a movie of them changing over time. Take a given known-suspect transaction and treat it like a drop of dye, colouring it strongly, and mixing it with the light grey of other money flowing through the system as it dissipates, and see where that dye spreads to. Then get computers automating the analysis even further."
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maybe what we need to create is some kind of Bitcoin "gift package". the weusecoins video is still not good enough for the 'everyman'. We need something that says "THIS is what it is, here's (generally) how it works, and hey, here's a few free coins and an easy-to-understand app".
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how about a facebook app, or does facebook specifically forbid alt. currency apps like apple (and if that's true, doesn't zynga have an alt currency built into all of its apps?)
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this is a GREAT resource, but could you kindly add date-stamps to your RSS feed so that all articles do not simultaneously appear in my reader?
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i'm sure there are other threads touching upon this, but I want to ask again:
what methods have you guys found effective to get family and friends interested, and beyond that ACTUALLY USING (installing a client, going to the faucet), Bitcoin?
my best one so far:
"HOLY SHIT IT WENT FROM LIKE 75 CENTS TO $6 IN HALF A YEAR!"
this has indeed turned some people :-)
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i'd love to speculate as to how this might be dealt with, especially in the united states.
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Okay fair enough but with regard to networks such as Bitcoin, or any of the P2P file sharing networks... ?
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Have any countries had any success stopping this -- ever? -- at the routing level?
And what would it mean for Bitcoin if "P2P" were essentially banned?
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Mascots, especially the examples given, are fucking lame. Please don't.
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Does anyone know of one?
If not, does anyone want to start one?
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technically speaking, what would be all of the steps involved in making a "bump two phones together to initiate a money transfer" platform work with bitcoin?
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are there any (reasonably) pre-packaged solutions for this yet?
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hey guys I want to implement a "donate with bitcoin" button into my site. what is the current most easy-for-user way of doing this?
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Simple question, and I am by no means well-rounded in my knowledge of quantum computing. But what I have read indicates that it is a massive hammer to all crypto algos currently in existence. Could the sudden existence of quantum computing mean the sudden uselessness of Bitcoin as a currency?
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hi all, first time poster, long time reader i was thinking about how a lot of early adopters are probably quite interested in the anonymous money idea. how about bundle that packages i2p and bitcoin together (pre-configured) with one executable/script to start them together? the tor project does something similar with it browser bundle series.
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