We shouldn't even be talking to the government... This is none of their business and it should stay that way.
You have some reading to do my friend. Not only is money their business, it is their money. ALL COMMERCE IS REGULATED. No exception. Even if you find a gold ring on the street, technically you owe some of it to the government. Let's get past this foolishness about bitcoin not being regulated. IT IS being regulated while some bitcoiners hide their heads in the sand. The real question is do you want a voice in the regulation process? Or would rather let the government do it for you? It will be to late when you come here saying "the state took my money!!" The time to act is now, or maybe yesterday. Your head is in the wrong place. Do not ask for permission ... if it is not specifically expressed in law that it is illegal ... it is legal. Asking for regulations is like asking a rapist to do it gently. |
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Is there a way to see a list of every domain registered on the namecoin network?
How about a whois service? how do i lookup details on a certain domain?
... would be a good start for you I think. |
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From the "so fucked up it has to be true file" .... http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/inside-anglo-the-secret-recordings-29366837.htmlTAPE RECORDINGS from inside doomed Anglo Irish Bank reveal for the first time how the bank's top executives lied to the Government about the true extent of losses at the institution.
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The plan was that once the State began the flow of money, it would be unable to stop.
Mr Bowe is asked by Mr Fitzgerald how they had come up with the figure of €7bn. He laughs as he is taped saying: "Just, as Drummer (then-CEO David Drumm) would say, 'picked it out of my arse'."
He also says: "If they (Central Bank) saw the enormity of it up front, they might decide they have a choice. You know what I mean?
"They might say the cost to the taxpayer is too high . . . if it doesn't look too big at the outset . . . if it looks big, big enough to be important, but not too big that it kind of spoils everything, then, then I think you have a chance. So I think it can creep up."
Mr Fitzgerald, the Director of Retail Banking, is heard saying: "Yeah. They've got skin in the game and that is the key."
Mr Bowe's comments in the audio recording reveal that Anglo's strategy was to lure the State in, leaving taxpayers with no choice but to continue to provide loans to "support their money".
The recording also shows Mr Bowe and Mr Fitzgerald laughing as they say how there is no realistic chance of ever repaying the loans.
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... well that's pretty out there, but hey, extra-judicial drone strikes on US citizens who are a threat to "national security" are now legal according to Obama and Holder so who knows ... ? ... since "national security" can seem to mean anything you want it to mean for congress critters, judges, officials and sundry washington elites regarding 'legal spying' on Americans I suppose the same threshold is appropriate for extra-judicial killings for 'national security' threats ? |
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[...] I was actually thinking of the "sendtoname" facility in namecoin. You can attach a comment to these transactions that will show up in owner of name's wallet. sendtoname XX d/<name> "Hey is this name for sale?" [...] Does this really show up somewhere? Where? ... well on namecoin-qt you can just right-click on the transaction in the transaction tab and select "Show transaction details" and comment should be in there ... pretty sure I've done the same thing with an rpc command sendtoname test also. |
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LOL, so the DEA have a bitcoin wallet? will the DEA trade the bitcoin for fiat  No, now they can go shopping on SR for the good stuff .... |
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Absolutely, bitcoin is just play money. Everybody knows that, who said anything different?
Send me all your play monies ... if you win the game I'll send them right back.
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... just going to file here in the "Absurd" bin for posterity ... http://ktla.com/2013/06/21/exclusive-hastings-sent-colleagues-email-hours-before-crash/#axzz2X5MJsCFGhttp://ca.movies.yahoo.com/news/lapd-officially-confirms-michael-hastings-car-crash-victim-233000393.htmlhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2345332/Paranoid-Michael-Hastings-told-WikiLeaks-lawyer-investigated-FBI-hours-deadly-car-crash.htmlThe message read: “Michael Hastings contacted WikiLeaks lawyer Jennifer Robinson just a few hours before he died, saying that the FBI was investigating him.” Just wondering if it is possible to remotely hack a 2013 Mercedes C250 instrument system and set throttle to full? Or would a separate remote control device need planting on the vehicle to effect such an outcome? Hastings last piece on Buzzfeed, pretty chilling stuff: http://www.buzzfeed.com/mhastings/why-democrats-love-to-spy-on-americansIt’s unclear where a possible third leak investigation would lead. However, judging by the DOJ’s and FBI’s recent history, it would seem that any new leak case would involve obtaining the phone records of reporters at the Guardian, the Washington Post, employees at various agencies who would have had access to the leaked material, as well as politicians and staffers in Congress—records, we now can safely posit, they already have unchecked and full access to.
In short: any so-called credible DOJ/FBI leak investigation, by its very nature, would have to involve the Obama administration invasively using the very surveillance and data techniques it is attempting to hide in order to snoop on a few Democratic Senators and more media outlets, including one based overseas. |
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regarding the upper case:
you can register any case you want although for .bit domains only lower case will work.. for other uses (prefixes) it might be useful?
can maybe add a check for just d/<names> with any capital letters (later) .. for now could probably just add some text under the new name box with a warning about d/<names> should be lowercase yeah you can register any name you like ... it is just some poeple might be disappointed to find only the lower-case is .bit browseable and they think they have registered a legitimate .bit name. So, yes and yes. A check to see any d/<names> have any upper-case along with warning "Do you really want to do this?!" .... but for now a warning about d/<names> should be lowercase and only include hyphens, underscores, whatever it is ... (I don't recall off top of my head the spec for allowed symbols in .bit browseable names.) |
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There is no question that US authorities are ramping up enforcement of existing law. FinCEN has only recently released their interpretation of the law ... which is a questionable action at best and not tried in any court AFAIK. Law enforcement "rulings", "guidelines" and other edicts only carry as much weight as the guy on the street corner in sandwich boards, until they have legal precedence from court cases. Although over-reach and general throwing weight around of egotistical LE could ruin many lives until a real legal case is settled. IMHO, USA is definitely going to be an unfriendly place to do bitcoin business. The banksters own the politicians and the spooks have got the goods on everyone ... why the hell would an innovative monetary/finance system be allowed to flourish? Lord Camden was the author of a principle that says anything the state (or a state agency) does must be expressly authorised in law - but an individual may do anything except that which is forbidden by law. Is bitcoin transacting expressly forbidden by the law? |
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Wtf kinda reply is that that a yes? A no? Just a placeholder ... the best one to fit was undecided. You should be happy  that I'm even watching this thread.  , it means it has a smidgeon of relevance. |
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Hey OP, any way we could apply some sort of extra fee/penalty to people who just horde .bit domains without using them? I strongly believe this would aid in the adoption rate of .bit, because sofar everything i have looked up has been taken but isn't in use.
not something you should be asking me.. i'm a tiny part of the puzzle best thing is to post your thoughts on the dot-bit forum there is on going discussions about fees etc.. and things like this will hopefully be addressed sooner rather than later (maybe a renewal fee would help your problem) it may also be possible to send a message to the owner of a domain that you are interested in (i believe Khal has a none released version which has the ability to do this).. could be wrong.. Yes, I think there is a sendmessagetoname facility that will end up in the wallet client of the current owner of the name you are interested in .... I'm sure you can buy any name you wish for the right amount of NMC ? Also, many names that are parked have email contact details associated with them in the database. EDIT: I was actually thinking of the "sendtoname" facility in namecoin. You can attach a comment to these transactions that will show up in owner of name's wallet. sendtoname XX d/<name> "Hey is this name for sale?" where "XX is some token amount above dust tx limit ... snailbrain ; good work with the namespace JSON forms. Also someone noticed that people are registering names with upper-case letters that are not recognised so maybe a filter on that for the existing QT "Manage Names" form also? |
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are you guys all still worrying about some criminal that broke his oath? General Keith Alexander's oath to uphold the Constitution? |
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These protocols all include a "Bank" (third-party) with blinding signature schemes, so are nothing like bitcoin. They are however like the Open Transactions layer that is proposed to go on top of bitcoin and provide privacy and instant clearing settlement via off-chain transactions.
Not Satoshi, on this evidence at least.
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USA is at a cross-roads. Snowden is the signpost, he clearly points out in no uncertain terms that if America wants to go down this path facism, tyranny, authoritarianism and lots of well-known bad things will come from it ... and also points to the another way. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/general-keith-alexander-cyberwar/all/From here on, there can be no excuses, no-one can say "we didn't know". The devil is sitting at the cross-roads too, deal in hand waiting for America's signature. Do you want to sign off on this? The choice is now crystal clear and no abdication of responsibility can be had from what happens from here on in. Choose wisely. |
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Cool, that's good news ... this could be really important for namecoin/.bit.
Wonder if there is a path towards getting into default firefox/chrome packaging?
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Update 2: He claims to have a ton more super seekrit NSA files held in some sort of escrow if he's shot in the face/ricin poisoned/polonium spiked drink lol spies. I think is just about a given ... a spook learns early to keep an ace up their sleeve. It is how the corruption proliferates, they all hold the goods on each other. It is why secret societies, secret govt. is incompatible with open, liberal democracies since you never really know what the agenda of any individual or sect is behind the public actions. The off-hand comment he made in his first interview about analysts being able to monitor anyone, including the president is maybe a message that he has something on Obama .... drone spike absurd? |
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Have a problem compiling it on Linux: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_system
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_filesystem
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_program_options
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_thread
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_chrono
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb_cxx
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lssl
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcrypto
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [namecoind] Error 1
All needed .so files are installed and are located in /usr/lib (Boost is version 1.50). Tried to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/lib but no success. Bug or am I doing something wrong? oh lord, I've had that problem so many times with compiling bitcoin as well. I forget what I did, but I recomend following a bitcoin compiling tutorial that specifically addresses this issue- the boost problem is always driving me crazy. Yes I had searched a bit here in the forums and the suggestion I read was to install all -dev / -devel packages (what I did) or set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the directory with the required libs. But I had no success with this  If someone knows a tutorial addressing the issue, I would be happy with a link It is most likely platform specific and perhaps related to the way that qmake produces the linking commands for the compiler in Makefile ... so very difficult to debug for someone not on your machine without more info than ... "it doesn't work". First things first, what OS are you one? (linux is too broad an answer ... also post your Makefile that should be in same dir as namecoin-qt.pro and produced when you run "qmake"). NB: if you went on #namecoin irc and asked for help to get it debugged in real-time is much easier than a painfully extended back and forward on forum which is most likely going to end up in "Forgot" or "Who-Cares?" baskets. |
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