The original Namecoin GUI client is pretty basic. Work is being done on an updated GUI client, though. See this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=236375.0

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certainly not transmittable.

I've been working on a new peer-to-peer exchange that employs WebRTC for the past few weeks. 

It's pretty unique because it fully complies with FinCEN's regulations around exchange because all communication in the platform is conducted directly peer-to-peer and subsequent exchanges are conducted physically by the respective exchangers (I'd love to employ an online transfer in further iterations, but don't have a good solution yet). 

I just went live with an early alpha tonight if others would like to try it out and give feedback. 

My primary goal with the platform is give as much anonymity as possible, meaning that I self-host all files (no external js).  I'm stuck using an external tile-server (which means mapquest logs some data, including IP + timestamp), but I hope to get some capacity soon to bring that in-house as well so no external logging of users occurs (beyond ISPs).

The site is elqnt.org (pronounced eloquent).

Best,
Stephen

Jeff Olson, the 40-year-old man who is being prosecuted for scrawling anti-megabank messages on sidewalks in water-soluble chalk last year now faces a 13-year jail sentence. A judge has barred his attorney from mentioning freedom of speech during trial.

According to the San Diego Reader, which reported on Tuesday that a judge had opted to prevent Olson’s attorney from "mentioning the First Amendment, free speech, free expression, public forum, expressive conduct, or political speech during the trial,” Olson must now stand trial for on 13 counts of vandalism.

In addition to possibly spending years in jail, Olson will also be held liable for fines of up to $13,000 over the anti-big-bank slogans that were left using washable children's chalk on a sidewalk outside of three San Diego, California branches of Bank of America, the massive conglomerate that received $45 billion in interest-free loans from the US government in 2008-2009 in a bid to keep it solvent after bad bets went south.

The Reader reports that Olson’s hearing had gone as poorly as his attorney might have expected, with Judge Howard Shore, who is presiding over the case, granting Deputy City Attorney Paige Hazard's motion to prohibit attorney Tom Tosdal from mentioning the United States' fundamental First Amendment rights.

There seems to be strong consensus that the tools are in place to dismantle the largest banks and most of the congress people are urging the regulators to use them.

http://www.fincen.gov/news_room/rp/files/sar_tti_09.pdf

Pages 6 and 7 you will see "cash or equivalent" as a separate instrument from stocks, bonds and most anything else of a monetary nature.



They're all called cryptocurrencies for a reason. But because they have miniscule buying power they are well below regulatory radar, at present.
Bitcoin can't be a super-currency or "gold 2.0" for buying stuff, but also monopoly and sea-shell money for regulatory purposes.

Now, I know it can't be regulated in any traditional sense, as it stands, but regulators will always try because they need to justify their salaries, and preserve their bureaucratic empires.

“No new rules, no new regulations. We issued the guidelines to say how we see virtual currencies within the Bank Secrecy Act and record-keeping [and] reporting responsibilities,” says the director of FinCEN, Jennifer Shasky Calvery. “Virtual currencies are subject to the same rules as other currencies. … Basic money-services business rules apply here.”

Yes, it does.  FinCEN's March guidance makes this clear.

World of Warcraft and Second Life, along with bitcoin, were also mentioned specifically in another report from the GAO.

What the hell do you mean by "they militarized the internet" -- the "internet" STARTED as as a military project. ARPANET was a US Defense department project of a network of trusted US universities and national research labs. It was Senator Albert Gore Jr. who managed to pass the 'High Performance Computing Act' (the "Gore Bill) in 1991 (and signed into law by Bush Senior), which opened up this technology to private actors. Only then did the internet take off. It was a state-made invention that later became an economic and social success in private hands. Similarly, the TOR-network started as a defense project that was later privatized. 

Great movie(!), but perhaps a bit OTT suggesting we have it as bad as people did in East Germany.

Asked about US surveillance programmes in an earlier interview with a Spanish technology news site, FayerWayer, Wozniak said: "All these things about the constitution, that made us so good as people – they are kind of nothing.

"They are all dissolved with the Patriot Act. There are all these laws that just say 'we can secretly call anything terrorism and do anything we want, without the rights of courts to get in and say you are doing wrong things'. There's not even a free open court any more. Read the constitution. I don't know how this stuff happened. It's so clear what the constitution says."

He said he had been brought up to believe that "communist Russia was so bad because they followed their people, they snooped on them, they arrested them, they put them in secret prisons, they disappeared them – these kinds of things were part of Russia. We are getting more and more like that."

The latest revelations about the NSA, show that judges have approved orders allowing it to make use of information "inadvertently" collected from domestic US communications without a warrant, according to top secret documents submitted to the court that oversees surveillance by US intelligence agencies.

Here you go:

Downfall of TBF: Hitler receives cease and desist order from California.

At the G8 meeting in Northern Ireland last week ..... Largely unnoticed, an interesting advert appeared in a handbook accompanying the G8, placed by a company that was until recently known only to a small number of technology entrepreneurs and early adopters. The advertiser was Mt Gox,

Alec Ross is a former senior adviser on innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; Jonathan Luff is a former international affairs adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron