So I used this one line twice today not because I was planning on it but it just came out of my mouth.  It was VERY effective.  I had a whole conversation about 5 min with one person.  For the second person they asked for more information and I gave them three websites which I wrote down on a receipt for him.  The second person was a cashier and he saw my "bitbill".  I started explaining to him and what hooked him in was this line:

"Bitcoin is going to end all wars."

Yep, I know it's a shocker line but I believe in it and it just makes people curious about what it was.  Once he was hooked the final push was me mentioning how "bitcoin is controlled by the power of mathematics."

Use my one liners! Worked for me!  

May not be against the law but can be used against you in the court of law.

Seems like the old timers at the bitcoin forums can remember this clearly.  But, let's review the facts.  For me, this is one of the the smoking guns:

Using wayback machine no wording of "chargeback":

http://web.archive.org/web/20100730001213/http://www.dwolla.org/help/terms-of-use/

After the TH fiasco they added chargeback wording:

https://www.dwolla.com/tos  (Current tos)

And Ben Milne's lies:

"Most all merchants are well aware of the problem, which is why we’ve always had something in our terms of service about chargebacks since Day One. " - Ben Milne

Note Ben's uppercase use of "Day One".  Ben is a liar.  As a midwesterner, I am ashamed Ben is from Iowa.

From all of my experiences with Dwolla it seems like they act like a corporation, have no sense of humility, and resembles PayPal.

Many of us have been through the TradeHill fiasco last year.  From what I know about TradeHill they seem to have a lot of integrity since I've seen them in videos, in the forum posts, and in emails.

It is ridiculous that anyone would think they engineered their own downfall last year, waited for the $5 million investment in Dwolla, so they could sue them for $2 million.  This is defintely not a case of "sour grapes" as Dwolla's angel investor has said.

TradeHill posted some of their data on Dwolla, if I remember correctly.  Dwolla however has not said very much.

More Dwolla arrogance:

http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2012/03/06/bitcoin-exchanges-files-lawsuit-against-dwolla/

The base unit of Bitcoin (0.00000001 BTC) is sometimes called a Satoshi, after Bitcoin's creator Satoshi Nakamoto.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Vocabulary

You can voice your opinions at Dwolla's Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/#!/dwolla

Now I got this email saying I need to pay (but I already paid.):

A payment window has opened for a project you have reserved shares in:

Screw Banks, Use Bitcoins [THIS PROJECT ONLY TAKES BITCOINS TO PAY FOR SHARES]

You must log in to PirateMyFilm and pay for these shares before 2012-03-08, or they will be made available to others in the queue.

You can pay for your shares by logging in and going to the project page You will see a "Buy Now" paypal button, which will allow you to do so.

It's 'jimbobway', same as here.  Thanks.

When Diablo III comes out this year it is going to be HUGE.

I go to the project page and it doesn't look like it says I paid, although I did pay. I paid to this address 19WNo23dAsCzSQJkdMNM3piJBQ1bxqzYAc


I went here, http://www.piratemyfilm.com/projects/304

And it says:

Payment Info

This project is currently in the payment stage. No more shares are available to reserve.
You are currently subscribed to this project. You have reserved 1 shares
Depending on availability, your outstanding shares, if any held, may be available.
Failure to pay for your shares will result in them being given to another user in the share queue.
If you have paid for shares, the project owner will be in contact with you in due course.
Shares You Have Paid For

You have paid for a total of 0 shares in this project, amounting to $0.
Shares You Have Defaulted On

You have defaulted on a total of 0 shares in this project, amounting to $0.
Shares To Be Paid For

There are currently no shares available for you to pay for.
 

So I paid for my share, but I get this email:

A payment window has closed for a project you have reserved shares in:

Screw Banks, Use Bitcoins [THIS PROJECT ONLY TAKES BITCOINS TO PAY FOR SHARES]

Your shares have been moved to the back of the queue and you may get another chance to pay for them depending on availablitly.

So what will happen to my coins?

What is the feasibility on putting block chain on Google App Engine?  I would like to do this since my app relies on Google App Engine.  I just want to read out of the block chain.

zhoutong, thx for being part of the bitcoin community and being a class act.  I hope Linode provides you with all of the compensation.

Seems likely an attacker would have or has had a linode account as well...

 

Bitcoinica seems to be back up.

hxtop,

I don't know if you are aware of this but we have Chinese translations of Satoshi's paper in Chinese and Chinese Traditional format.

Chinese
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B1UsG65HCLkuOGNkMDZmMzYtZTQ0OC00OGVmLTk2MGItODBkNjA0MDEwYjkw&hl=en

Chinese Traditional
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B1UsG65HCLkuMTc5NjFjMzUtZjQxMy00ZTAzLWJkNjYtMmZhNTcyMzhmY2M1&hl=en_US

Or, you can access them at bitcoinblogger.com.

Agreed that this is an excellent review.  Donate to the Armory project and check it out!

Here is the completed Hebrew version:

https://bitcoil.co.il/bitcoin-hebrew.pdf