The pool has been hacked.
Very sorry to hear it. What a pain in the ass! |
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Drunken quoting fail on my part.  |
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What about creating our own country?
I'm a-drinkin' anyway, but as long as we must suffer with states, there should be as many of them as possible. I'll drink to that! |
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I think an idea that should be considered is to take the collection of all Bitcoin-community people who have done media already, and invite them each to opt in or out. If Garzik, Maxwell, Luke et al. want to do "strategic messaging visioning" or whatever-the-fuck, let them do it by persuading the folks who are already talking to the media about Bitcoin, rather than just drawing exclusionary lines. There should be dozens of people on that list, not a hand-picked few.
At the same time, I think removing the list entirely is a profoundly bad idea. If doing this right is too difficult for the people at it now, the correct response is not to just abandon the effort, but to get people who can do it properly involved.
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The USA could kill Bitcoin rather easily today.
Then the dressed-up gang of thugs calling itself "the United States Government" needs to die in a fire, most expeditiously. |
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Exactly we don't need a foundation that wants to censor great people like Roger Ver and Jon Matonis, we need a foundation that will take bitcoin to the next level without worrying about politics.
See everyone the bitcoin foundation is already corrupting the newbies of the forum what next corrupt the media. They are hurting bitcoin. I don't like censorship. I don't like exclusion. And I will not support anyone who does it. We as a community should give Jon and Roger an opportunity to share their vast knowledge of Bitcoins with the world, but the foundation is not the platform for them to do so. We should construct another platform. I think the best place for Jon and Roger is a brand new institute/think tank like Ludwig von Mises that specializes in developing the economy theory necessary for academics to understand the Bitcoin. Speaking as a life member of the Bitcoin Foundation who joined it because Jon Matonis is a Board member, I'm getting a real laugh out of some of these comments. Run for the hills! Jon Matonis is censoring himself! etc. The foundation isn't censoring anyone. Those actions came from Luke-jr, jgarzik and gmaxwell... which is odd, because nowhere can I find a reason that those three should be able to come along and quash anything to do with the press center. |
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Gunpowder utterly changed the economics of warfare, in due course transforming the political landscape of medieval Europe. Cannons obsoleted city walls and did away with what used to be limited-size conflicts fought with mercenary armies. The scale of conflicts escalated and the nation state was born from the ashes of a landscape once populated with hundreds of independent city states.
Cryptocurrencies carry within them no fewer implications for political change than did gunpowder. For future historians looking back on the present day, the Internet and Bitcoin (whether in its current incarnation or an eventual improved one) will no doubt be seen to have been as transformative as were the printing press and gunpowder half a millennium earlier.
One hopes those historians also see the modern nation-state for the monstrosity it is, like most of us now view chattel slavery. |
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The fact that Roger Ver was/is a criminal also just boils down to politics. What he did wasn't hurting anyone and shouldn't be illegal. Now you are excluding him because of his political ideology.
Far be it from Luke to ever tolerate one who offends the King. |
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While it is true that my interest in Bitcoin is for the purpose of furthering the Tonal system, I don't pretend that Bitcoin's reason for existence is to promote Tonal.
Ah, right. This crackpottery again. Your analogy fails, in that talk of revolution and/or anarchism (or a lack thereof) actually matter. Matonis, at least, seems to be encouraging people to break the law almost every time he talks about Bitcoin. Every revolution is illegal. By definition. For whatever reason, you're finding yourself on the wrong side of this one. But Bitcoin is not a political revolution. Projecting such things onto Bitcoin is precisely why Matonis should not be included in the press center. Bitcoin is a technological revolution, like asymmetric cryptography or global networking. Go read the history of the cypherpunks, in their own words. Bitcoin is explicitly political. Heck, go read the genesis block, it's right there! I hate political correctness as much as everyone else.
Speculating here, I suspect what you really hate is the fear you feel when you contemplate the idea of a society without top-down control, without rulers and without a comfy hierarchy you can wed yourself to -- and this in your political as well as religious beliefs. There are cures for what ails you! |
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Why does everybody keep thinking governments can't tax bitcoins... on whatever you buy, the company you bought it from, still has to give 21% VAT (here in Holland, if customer in EU based only) whenever your salary gets paid in bitcoin, government is still going to grab the amount of tax they want, before you get your bitcoins in your wallet.
You seem to be making the assumption that people necessarily or generally want to be fully-regulated participants in the state-blessed "legal" economy. If that's so, why? |
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Her not paying taxes means we all have to pay more.
Damn. And here I thought it meant we'd just get less of neat things like bombing brown people all over the planet, jailing generations of minorities, bailing out the quadrillion-dollar fraud that is the financial sector, raising populations of authority-worshippers, IRS agents, &c., &c. Guess I was wrong. |
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Sounds like they're just being lazy.
And, what, laboring and paying to do a bunch of stupid, unnecessary, wasteful and dehumanizing government paperwork is fucking virtuous? |
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Matonis, at least, seems to be encouraging people to break the law almost every time he talks about Bitcoin.
Every revolution is illegal. By definition. For whatever reason, you're finding yourself on the wrong side of this one. |
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Who are the people behind BitLaundry. I do not like the systems where there is no privacy by design. We just have to trust them. If I was in FBI or CIA, i would start a service like BitLaundry and keep a record of everything.
app.bitlaundry.com and bitcoinlaundry.com are both mine. You can rest assured that I work for neither the Fucking Bavarian Illuminati nor the Cocksucking Illuminati Assholes. Both services try to keep only the minimum amount of information required to complete transactions and provide essential debugging should anything go wrong. For the moment, though, both depend on third-party-hosted services (Google's AppEngine and Dreamhost web hosting, respectively), and I can't control what logs they retain. Improvements coming soon! |
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Mt. Gox's archaic and poorly written trading engine is completely unacceptable
But but... PHP can do *anything* (MagicalTux's former tagline)  not including their recent failure in regard to the API "upgrade" which resulted in the sudden, unannounced failure of their Android Mt. Gox Mobile application, their classic website ( http://classic.mtgox.com), and the failure of other services relying on the data streams. Their websockets go down very often which makes monitoring of trade data highly difficult. Even after resuming the 12-hour trading halt there is over 15 minutes of lag time... Add to this that the main trading API was hard down during the selloff, which meant that a lot of regular liquidity providers were cut out of the market. MtGox's announcement that their trading engine froze is rubbish; people accessing their accounts via the website could still trade, at least until *everything* came to a screeching halt. I seriously doubt that anyone at MtGox was even aware there was a problem until many hours after things started to go wrong on their exchange. Or if they were, they yawned, rolled over and went back to sleep. Negligence, incompetence, or both. |
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Speaking as the Mike mentioned, I fully endorse the core of this sentiment, although I might not say "good riddance" with quite air that Comrade Joe does  |
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At my instigation, Bratislava, Slovakia's Institute for Economic and Social Studies, a registered non-profit organization (občianské združenie) has begun accepting Bitcoin donations:
What has this got to do with Bitcoin 100? You do know that it is very poor netiquette to advertise in a thread such as this? Are you high? The whole point is to motivate non-profits to accept Bitcoin. I did that, and here I am posting about it both to document it and to call the organizers' attention to it. |
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