We all knew it .. doesn't make it right. They have been doing their damnedest by lying, denying, obfuscating, changing the laws and secret rulings etc to stay out of court about it. Now they have to face the music for what are criminal actions. They can stick their transactions graphs right up their backsides ... piss off with your snooping, who needs it in a free society? I agree with you. Anyone who has been reading the news has known that the NSA was monitoring transatlantic communication at the nodes of where the cables come into the US. Also, the NSA is not looking at the actual content of our communication. They were merely creating a network graph of who talks to whom. Yes, that IS an intrusion, but they were working on the assumption that if you know who someone's friends are, you know who they are. I am interested in Bitcoin because I want to make money, and because I believe that if there is a form of currency that makes trade between individuals and small companies in different countries easier, the world will benefit. Snowden violated his employment agreement. He also screwed his life. He made a very bad investment. I guess I'm the only one that thinks this guy is a nimrod. He throws away his life, all to tell us the profound news that the US Govt is snooping on our communications. ROFL Anyhow, I'll throw in a bitcoin... a bitcoin to whoever catches the rat.  |
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Tried namecoin-qt 3.56. The basic features seems to work. I will try the 3.57 also. So far is a good work and a great step forward in the Namecoin history. Thank you snailbrain. Is it intended to include the Domain registration features also or there will be two branches ? I think it will include eventually from the sneak preview. Recall you can go to the debug window (Help --> Debug window) and console tab opens up when you can see all the rpc calls ... type help ..  |
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He does not sound like a ChiCom to me:
The Guardian describes Snowden as intensely passionate about the value of privacy; his laptop displays stickers supporting internet freedom organizations including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Tor Project. In the 2008 presidential election, Snowden voted for third-party candidates. He said he "believed in Obama's promises," yet "he continued with the policies of his predecessor." For the 2012 election, political donation records indicate that he contributed to the primary campaign of Ron Paul.
So wtf was he doing at the NSA? Their sole purpose is to monitor comms. ... you must be particularly dense. His greater purpose was revealed to the world for all to see 3 days ago. Which part of that did you miss? Without his privileged position (and years of graft) his statements would have been worthless. As they are, they pop the bubble of arrogance and cut through the thicket of laws, secret court rulings and red tape being used to cover up the govt. criminality. He is now a genuine witness to their crimes. Keep trying to demonize the truth and you are looking worse and worse. Just think like Snowden that of all the crap you are going through in your life could actually be preparing you for a greater calling if you open your heart and mind to the truth and the good. |
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That... is, amazing...
How do you filter a malicious program from your network if it is encrypted?
Morphological A.I. intelligence, controlled awareness of functions in a robot?
Encrypted OpenSource data processing for safe delivery from Business to Open Source Research programs, people can outsource their private research to gpu farms without need of a security provider.. wow.
Homomorphic encryption is quite shocking.
Homomorphic enabled Open-Transactions server-operating AI autonomous agents roaming the web ... |
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Seems to me like USA is fast becoming one of the least free countries on the planet. Worse than that, their massive security/intelligence apparatus is exporting this crap almost as fast as they are exporting their fake paper money. They are clearly now Ground Zero for where all this rush to facism is coming from ... bullying other States into pacts of secrecy, lies, deception and illegal actions against their citizens.
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Browser plugins available now for chrome and firefox.
I think this is a real milestone.
Hey, good news, got a link for those? Thanks. |
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There exists a classified whistle blower process. Essentially, it allows someone inside a classified program to contact an investigative agency that has individuals cleared for access to the program. I think you are being naive if you think such a process would have given him protection in this case. He was basically exposing systemic criminality by the intelligence agencies and you expect them to offer him protection for doing so?... Get real dude, these guys are playing for all the marbles, which is exactly what he is saying and exposed to be true. |
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if they touch him, the public will go "WTF?". jailing him for telling all of us that the NSA is wiretapping everyone and their mother?
Am I the only one that thinks (a) he deserves to be jailed (rightly or wrongly, it's part of the job he signed up for), and (b) of course the NSA is gathering data! I for one will never assume I have absolute privacy online or anywhere else. People like you are part of the problem, not the solution. There is a difference between right and wrong ... that is what the Nurenberg trials were about. Just because you are following orders does not make it right. Many of the US govt employees are now well outside constitutional law and they know it. So they are using secret courts and kept politicians heading the 'oversight committees' to cover it up. You should also be advocating for putting those people in jail, that is what THEY signed up for, to protect the constitution ... yet you want to persecute the whistleblower? .... wtf kind of person are you? |
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<3 MzkyUxTvvQzzBaBwxGeGSosSmUF1Ctk34i
much appreciated
Bounty paid, tx c9dd9f1074b40c049ebc53c804377e1200201792dd6473a002a0059712eff98d nelisky : so I just wanted to check that you're satisfied that your requirements have been fulfilled and tested for the namecoin-qt client, extra functions, open source, no hidden code, etc? If so I've agreed to put 500 nmc for namecoin-qt client code to get in to this state which I will happily pay. Also I have another 250nmc for this namecoin-qt to get merged back into official namecoin/namecoin github repository and another 250 nmc for it to rebased on top of the v0.8.2 bitcoin-namecoin compatability (i.e. leveldb, etc) mods that khal is currently working on. Thanks for all your work so far snailbrain, this is excellent |
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He has stood and faced down the dragon. We should ask no more of him. It is on us to hold the dragon down and kill it. He deserves to ride off into the sunset. I can agree with that. He's done his job ... |
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If he is in hiding (not stashed in some hotel in Hong Kong), sending him bitcoin will potentially out him.
what are you talking about? if he posts an address and ppl send him coins, so what? since when is that illegal? and since when would that reveal an ip address? any spending out of his address would be unknown as to its purposes or usage since you wouldn't know the identity of anyone associated with those receiving addresses. he could buy alpaca socks for all you know. The spend will have an IP address associated with it. The alpaca sock vendor will be located somewhere and have shipping records of who bought what and how the goods were delivered. You want to send him money, it is less trackable to mail him fiat. He can be anonymous as he likes using bitcoins, if he knows what he is doing. Something tells me this guy could keep his bitcoin activity entirely anonymous if he chooses. TOR sticker on his laptop is a good clue. Guy is running from NSA. He would be better served to go totally off grid. If he was coward maybe.... seems like USA has too many of them and needs brave guys like this to stand up for what they believe in. "For evil to flourish requires simply that good men do nothing." - Edward Burke "The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality." --Aleghieri Dante (1265 - 1321) "In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up." --Martin Niemoeller, German Lutheran Pastor “One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this.” I think that maybe it is better to fight the windmills rather than submit to the darkness. "Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught." -- J.C. Watts, Oklahoma Congressman |
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If he is in hiding (not stashed in some hotel in Hong Kong), sending him bitcoin will potentially out him.
what are you talking about? if he posts an address and ppl send him coins, so what? since when is that illegal? and since when would that reveal an ip address? any spending out of his address would be unknown as to its purposes or usage since you wouldn't know the identity of anyone associated with those receiving addresses. he could buy alpaca socks for all you know. The spend will have an IP address associated with it. The alpaca sock vendor will be located somewhere and have shipping records of who bought what and how the goods were delivered. You want to send him money, it is less trackable to mail him fiat. He can be anonymous as he likes using bitcoins, if he knows what he is doing. Something tells me this guy could keep his bitcoin activity entirely anonymous if he chooses. TOR sticker on his laptop is a good clue. |
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My measured reply to the author: Where to begin with this rather oblique article. First the author implies some deficiency with Bitcoin being valued in other currencies, instead of making the obvious connection that Bitcoin, like Gold, is valued in the sovereign currency of the buyer or sellers choice, and is much superior to fiat in general.
The real problem is that flawed sovereign currencies still exist in their easily printed forms, either digitally or physically. Then there's a bit of a rambling segue that attempts to link the bond market makers dissatisfaction with Bitcoin's free trade principles.
Bitcoin isn't a debt instrument, it isn't issued in the Trillions, and it will most certainly be around way after the debt market you speak of is a dessicated husk, much in the same way we consider natives trading with shells and beads to be quaint and ridiculous.
The world is going to undergo a rather alarming change (for those that have vested interest in ever-inflating currencies ruling the show), and Bitcoin is the catalyst. As the old financial dinosaurs like the author bray and shout about how "odd" and seemingly inconsequential Bitcoin is, they're just repeating the same obtuse logic that will leave them stuck in the tar pits, to be found by future financial archeologists.
Good one. I opted out after the rego pop-up. FT sucks in that regard. Pity that their quality reporters have to get lumped in with some of the scumbags that run the joint. |
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The Guardian said Snowden had mostly remained ensconced in his Hong Kong hotel room since boarding a flight on May 20, stepping outside for only about three times during his entire stay.
Worried about being spied on, he has lined the door of his hotel room with pillows and places a large red hood over his head and laptop when typing passwords so that any hidden cameras can't record them, the newspaper added. Sounds like a bitcoiner .... Edit: Electronic Frontier Foundation is in another stoush shows why what this guy has done is so important. Basically, they have set-up a legal labyrinth that allows for operation without oversight and widespread Fourth Amendment violations. Without whistleblowers there is no way to break the legal blockade that is allowing for a full totalitarian State to develop in secrecy. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/06/justice-department-electronic-frontier-foundation-fisa-court-opinion |
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Edward Snowden is a modern day hero and deserves support for everyone who wants to preserve basic liberties, democracy and privacy. Do not let them demonise this guy. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillanceIn footage shot by The Guardian newspaper, Edward Snowden said he packed his bags for Hong Kong three weeks ago, leaving behind a "very comfortable life'' in Hawaii, a salary of $200,000, a girlfriend, a stable career and a loving family.
"I'm willing to sacrifice all of that because I can't in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building." Snowden said. But he believed that the value of the internet, along with basic privacy, is being rapidly destroyed by ubiquitous surveillance. "I don't see myself as a hero," he said, "because what I'm doing is self-interested: I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity."
Once he reached the conclusion that the NSA's surveillance net would soon be irrevocable, he said it was just a matter of time before he chose to act. "What they're doing" poses "an existential threat to democracy", he said. We just need to snag a BTC address for him . |
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Probably read the OP of the original idea will bring you up to speed. BM is just for P2P price discovery, not settlement, escrow or clearing functions. I have a couple newbie questions. Sorry for my English and non-techie jargon. I apologize if my questions make little sense. Please do not shoot me. 1. What will be the price and time (event) format of the data feed of the decentralized exchange? Date,Time,Price,Volume e.g. 2013-06-08,14:50:17 (what about milisecond or microsecond timestamping?),120.7676598765 (number of digits down to Satoshi denomination?),150000000 (volume traded in Satoshis?) The reason I ask is I would like to find out which charting platforms can be hooked to the data feed. There is going to be a historical and real-time data feed available? 2. Who will aggregate and transmit historical and real-time trade tick data (is low latency possible)? After a few years the database can be many gigs of data for one symbol / instrument alone if transactions via Holly Grail are frequent. As far as I'm aware those details are yet to be determined. So far the tech has only just been established to negotiate asset-pair/clearing-server discovery on secure, unspammable broadcast (P2P) channels. Detailed protocols for negotiating on those channels are in development ... sounds like there might be an opening for your input? Since the broadcast requires proof-of-work (around 3-4 mins on regular modern desktop) it will hinder bots broadcasting millisecond bids (unless they get some serious CPU crunching behind them)  |
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On further thought it seems to me that operating an Open Transactions notary service is a well-suited application for an autonomous agent. It requires renting friendly hosting space and can collect an income by way of API usage tokens. If for any reason it needs to move locations or spawn other OT server operations then it needs to take it's server signing keys with it and the collection of last-signed receipts of users as a minimum (maybe state of it's markets and outstanding smart-contracts, escrows, etc also), i.e. it's wallet and server data. It will probably need to keep upgrading the server s/ware as well (might need some rules to protect against vulnerabilities in the s/ware dep. stack for this) ... on top of this you could then get fancy with evolution algos for child servers, etc.
Frankly though I would be amazed if a bot could navigate the average initial negotiation required for establishing hosting for more than one fixed location ...
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US govt is just a lame joke now ... "... land of the free, home of the brave." ... complete with widespread surveillance, press intimidation, IRS bully-boys, militarised police forces, detention without charge, suspension of - presumption of innocence - trial by jury - secret courts - due process - speedy trials. Unenforced financial crimes by powerful, two systems of justice ... we all know how this ends just that no one wants "to go there" yet. Wait I think I saw a terrorist sneaking up that alley, didn't you see him too? I mean really you fell for that old line? |
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Direct Bitcoin transactions would always be available for big ticket items, a HD TV or a House or Business to Business purchases, even small web purchases.
But a layered service could practically exist on top of Bitcoin like a Credit/Debit Card for your smaller purchases, (Groceries, coffee entertainment, meals etc) and would happen much like your credit card, a trusted service provider could hold your coins securely for you and you could spend on the there payment network. (Daily settlement happen in Bitcoine B2B at the end of the day) If those services are needed and wanted then they will develop on their own without needing any extra encouragement. Bitcoin should not be intentionally limited in order to promote or make room for those kinds of systems. But there are risks involved with taking bitcoin outside its design scope that need to be acknowledged. If bitcoin cannot be all things for all people those facts need to be revealed and accepted. Touting an all bells and whistles solution without appreciating the limitations of the existing technology is dangerous. No one can see the future. |
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