You are still entering into a binding contract.
The contract has nothing to do with you being guilty though. All the contact says is that you will appear in court to face the accusation that you committed a crime. The court system is the only institution that is able to make the conclusion that you committed a crime beyond a reasonable doubt Regardless of your guilt or innocence it entangles you into a contractual agreement that you do not willfully wish to enter into. If you do not you will usually be arrested in most jurisdictions. Any contract where you are forced to sign under duress is not valid, but in this case it has the full weight of contract law behind it in addition to any criminal penalties. A ticket is merely a summons to appear in court, and your signature is merely your acknowledgment of receipt of the summons. In the event that you refuse to sign the ticket, you are correct that you would likely be arrested, however when you are brought before a magistrate you would likely be released on your own recognize after the magistrate can document that you have been served the summons to later appear in court to face the charge. When you are summoned to appear in court you do not have a choice as to if you wish to appear or not, it is an order to appear. You are describing to me what happens according to policy during a ticket. It is a fact signing a ticket is a BINDING CONTRACT with a corporation, regardless of how many thousands of other ways you can also describe it. What exactly are you claiming that the contract is binding you do? From what I can tell a ticket is a summons for you to appear in court and your signature is your acknowledgment of you being served such summons. Can you give a different explanation as to what your signature means on a ticket? |
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Oh yeah, and could I please reserve a spot?  thanks. Paid upfront? escrow or no?
Are you receiving any actual responses to your posts? I am also fairly certain that macro will reject upfront payments and will say that he is "trusted" enough that he will not need to use escrow. |
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It appears that you now have a few spots open that you have kicked a few members out. Current post count: 121 1N9kf7KMD8iihwRXXFqg5ugT7oE1XvPFyD I have changed my signature. Please confirm that I am accepted so I can keep your signature up. |
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do OpenBazaar have any solution for child pornography or terrorism funding?
No. Although things like terrorism funding is not really something that would likely take place on a platform like OB unless entities like ISIS were to sell stuff on OB and use the proceeds to finance themselves, however I think they could use many other marketplaces to accomplish this if what they are selling is not illegal. I have seen a couple of teaser youtube videos advertising OB before the project was as far along as it is now and the videos were advertising that any buyer could use plausible deniability if the police were ever to intercept a package sent to them containing drugs. |
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How are they able to auction off his coins when he hasn't been convicted of anything yet?
Ross has consented to the sale of of the ~144k of bitcoin under the stipulation that the proceeds from the sale would remain under dispute. It was reported that he agreed to have his bitcoin sold shortly after the FBI was able to take the bitcoin from his laptop, which was a year ago, however they have been working out the details ever since. They apparently have finally reached an agreement only recently |
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Sure they can. People need to pay taxes with bitcoin related income the same say they need to pay taxes on fiat related income.
Taxes is only one method countries fund wars and one which will be increasingly difficult to collect if they don't control their currency. Sure States will still find ways to pay for wars with VAT and sales taxes even if income taxes are more difficult to obtain, but funding wars will be more difficult if they either have to raise taxes or sell bonds vs simply spending more. This is not true. Just look at the EU. The individual countries do not control the currency (the Euro) however they do not have any issues collecting taxes when it is due. |
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I wouldn't divulge too much information to them.
I don't see why you shouldn't "divulge" too much information to the government. Information as to how bitcoin works and it's usage is public information as documentation is available publicly on github, on here and on the blockchain |
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I disagree. Exchanges have higher volumes than local.
Arbitrage opportunities keeps price manipulation in line.
lol so you think btc-e's database platform which does bot trading and fractional reserve trades with a volume of on average less than 20k coin movements a day, which are normally just 2000 coins at most going back and forth upto 10 times a day... you really think that people should base bitcoin true value on this type of day trading..?? or would you prefer to trust a platform where each trade is a result of a real bitcoin vs a real bank account transfer. personally i just values of localbitcoin and OTC trades averages and dont even look at php/mysql database exchanges. Do you have any proof that btc-e uses fractional reserves? or is this just speculation? The prices of trades on LBC are based on the price on bitstamp, at least those that trade on their escrowed platform. It is also much easier to "trade" with yourself (eg. make up trades/prices) on LBC then you can on other "traditional" exchanges as it does not require actual movement of bitcoin or money (contrary to your claim) |
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I guess the lesson is that anti-virus is going to be useless for many bitcoin related malware :/ Can you possibly sign a message from an old address (for the paranoid) or have you not posted any? EDIT: P.S. sorry about your 2 BTC loss; it is strange that the attacker took less then the entire balance, especially considering that what was not taken was not dust |
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I wounder how this little experiment will look like in 5 years...
Forbes did a similar experiment early last year and another one early this year. The comparison between the two experiments was crazy. (in the forbes experiments the author tried to live on bitcoin for a week). The author had a much easier time living on bitcoin the second time around then the first and when she asked people if they could take bitcoin many more people knew what she was talking about |
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Proof of snake algorithm for herpetologists and parselmouths.
False. No further discussion is needed, PoS is a POS.
changetip could be the first lets wait and see, but in 1 setence predict the next bitcoin killer app, how do you improve on changetip?
I have read a few threads saying that they think changetip will be a "killer app" however I think the recent spike in tips is merely due to people who are trying to get more people to buy up reddit accounts with the hope of getting more "tips" |
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Great! Well, buy my coins then. More than happy to sell some I'd be willing to settle for $900000. Hell, make it $800000! But no less, I don't want to be screwed over here! But honestly... Who knows where we will be in a couple of years. We could also be at $0.10 again... But I don't think it is very probable. Watch the interview and add substance to this discussion instead of replying compulsively like a 13 year old. Some people do not like wasting time on useless things as that. If it is worth that sum, I'd happily sell some for half the price, right now.  He is predicting the long term potential value/price of bitcoin, not something that anyone would realistically pay today; the price that buyers would be willing to pay today is around the "market" price plus or minus ~10% depending on a number of factors |
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Karpeles has long been deemed to be incompetent well before the implosion of gox (very long before). I am really not 100% sure why so many people were trusting it with their money.
Now that his incompetence has been even further "confirmed" by gox, I would highly doubt that anything he says will ever be taken seriously
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I don't specify a fee because that depends on many things but clearly I will charge a fee.
I would suggest quoting a "base" price with the disclaimer that you can negotiate so people can get an idea as to how much they would get for their codes. It would likely end up with you wasting less time discussing specifics with people only for the deal to fall apart when price is discussed |
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Regarding the monitoring software on a phone I would consider it a weapon that can be used against you involuntarily
Cell towers already do that to an extent but I guess the difference is that if your phone is stolen and the police aren't after you its not going to be traced with the alternative of everything is logged and traced back to you whether you want it to be so or not.
this is a very good argument as to why this feature should not be implemented. However I would think that the phones would be disabled via the cell towers regardless so if they have no connection to the towers then the phone company would have no way of disabling it (for example if the phone was kept in airplane mode) Well if they are dedicated enough someone can still get the phone to send a transmission via forcing the tower to geolocate it even in Airplane mode. 7. Police Can Activate Phone GPS Location Tracking Can police access the GPS data on your phone? According to a recent court ruling, they can not only access it, but activate GPS location tracking if it's disabled. That's one takeaway from last week's U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruling in a case involving Melvin Skinner, who was convicted of drug trafficking--and sentenced to 20 years in jail. Skinner argued that the GPS data tracking, which DEA agents used to track a motor home he was driving that was filled with 1,100 pounds of marijuana, violated his Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search. In addition, according to a close reading of the court ruling, it turns out that police may not have merely tracked Skinner, but actually instructed his prepaid phone provider to activate the GPS functionality. The court, however, ruled that the DEA had acted lawfully. http://www.darkreading.com/risk-management/7-facts-about-geolocation-privacy/d/d-id/1105877?http://www.informationweek.com/mobile/lose-the-burners-court-okays-prepaid-phone-tracking/d/d-id/1105814?Appeals court rules law enforcement agencies don't need a warrant to "ping" and track prepaid cellphone locations. Prepaid cellphone users may be tracked by law enforcement agencies at any time, without police first having to obtain a probable-cause warrant. WTF this is ridiculous. I would say this is likely some kind of vulnerability at the phone level, not the tower level, so in theory phones could be jailbroken to disable this ability (or google/apple could start using better morals and prevent this from happening at the hardware and/or OS level). On somewhat of a side-note I would think this would be overturned via the supreme court as your phone's location is not public information and is very different from "metadata" that has generally been held that people do not have a reasonable expectation of keeping private. Not only that but if the phone was in airplane mode then it would be even more clear that the defendant did not want his location disclosed. |
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It's a lot more complicated than that. I've basically been working 24/7 for segvec the past few weeks, and he expects me to take 100% of the risk. I ask him to wait a night for a PayPal to go through and he tries destroying my rep. I sold over 100 Bitcoins to the guy and never had a bad transaction, this is all for show.
And yes, no more moneypak. My fault for being involved with him in the first place. If he is frequently trading with you and sufficient time has passed for most of the moneypaks to no longer be reversible then IMO there is little risk for you to continue to deal with him in this way. (see below). If you have sold over 100 BTC to him then I would imagine that you would have made enough from him from your spread to not need to worry about him scamming $1,000 as it would simply wipe out a portion of your profit from dealing with him. He tried hacking my computer and stealing my Bitcoins btw, so that says a lot about him.
If this is true then I would suggest not trading with him anymore (despite what I said above) |
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The WHO hasn't published status reports for many days now. Anyway, no reliable data is available for both Liberia and Sierra Leone, where entire villages are being wiped out from the map due to Ebola.
This is because data is not available as these places do not have the reporting mechanisms that are available in the developed world. |
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Except it doesn't just go away. It either remains as the "new normal", in which the IRS punishes and threatens political enemies/ideologies/opponents of the one in power or the Democrats (which is yet to be determined and might vary) or the IRS is forced to in no uncertain terms stay apart from partisian politics.
Seems the latter would require something like what I proposed, impeachment of officials, but would be a far superior outcome than the former.
The issue could easily go away. All that would need to happen is congress to stop investigating the scandal and the MSM would likely stop reporting on it (as there would be nothing/very little to report. If the situation were to "go away" then the IRS would be able to continue what they were doing and he democrats would be able to have a political advantage as their opponents would be able to be silenced |
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Can the mods not lock the threads...? Not that I do, but if I wanted to post on an old thread - I would... That's the nature of forums.
Mods lock them or it will keep happening... :/
Why should it be locked, if the thread doesn't break the rules? There are tons of discussions that started in 2012 and have been active since. New threads get started to discuss older events. Although some responses might be outdated, I don't see any major reason why old threads should be an exception and get locked just because a user hasn't posted in said thread for X amount of days/months/years. Agreed, plus we can't be expected to lock every thread as it would be a ridiculous workload. The easiest and better solution is to just delete pointless necrobumps as and when they happen. In theory it could be an automated process in which topics are automatically locked after "x" amount of time since the last post. The problem with this is that some old topics will become relevant again when some new piece of information/news comes out (causing a need to either create a duplicate thread or to manually unlock old threads that are now relevant) |
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So we will either have a higher and higher bitcoin price or a higher and higher transaction fee in unit of btc, as block reward halves, right?
Or unprofitable miners shut off their mining equipment, and we have lower mining difficulty (resulting in higher revenue for those that continue mining). You forgot to point out that the network difficulty is much higher then it needs to be right now in order for the network to be sufficiently secure so miners shutting off their equipment in semi-mass would not be a huge problem for network security EDIT: another scenario is that we see a higher overall level of bitcon transactions so more people pay the same fee, resulting in overall higher revenue for the miners (this is what satoshi envisioned) |
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