Just watched the movie "The Imitation Game", now I understand your avatar. Man, if it wasn't for Turing we would not be chatting right now on bitcointalk. Does this gridcoin team do anything fun, like participate in challenges? Or is it just grinding out gridcoin?
Welcome to GRC, bones261. You sure hit the leaderboard with a splash. Well done! GRC entered some WCG challenges in the early days (as I remember it), but I think the challenge-team leader then (a user who offered his services) was accused of running bot farms or some such and left in a huff. I never saw any details about the underlying truth. Going still from memory - Team Gridcoin has never entered any BOINC challenges (just WCG challenges early on). There is some rather polarized discussion about the evolution of the team's role here: https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/29841-discussion-boinc-whitelist-monitoring/You joined at "an interesting time". |
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LOL, If all those other guys with the ASICS join in, it will be several billion credits per day. Kinda ridiculous. BU should just decrease the amount of credits they give, it is too disproportionate to other projects. |
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Yep, don't worry, no one can escape karma. So... turned into a scam?
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The bureaucrats can come up with all kinds of crazy definitions, what matters is the truth. If it has to be sold, so be it. Maybe honest people can sell info for very small amounts just to facilitate the exchange. Explain to us how Edward Snowden would be a traitor?
From the article: “When you’re selling information you’re not really a whistleblower under the legislative legal definition in almost any country” Selling state secrets and/or intelligence is considered treason pretty much everywhere, plus if you watch Snowden's interviews he talks about this, it was not about money or fame, it was public service. |
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Explain to us how Edward Snowden would be a traitor? Do you believe everything you hear on TV? Why is this a good thing? From the article: Edward Snowden and Julian Assange would be free men today. Why would they be free man? Edward Snowden would be a sell out traitor instead of a whistleblower and Assange whould not have fucked that chick? The other side of the coin, is of course the almost limitless amount of illicit material which will find plenty of buyers. How would you like to buy some nuclear weapon launch codes for Bitcoin How about people ISIS buying these type of information... What does that has to do with anything? |
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Do you believe everything you hear on TV? Why is this a good thing? From the article: Edward Snowden and Julian Assange would be free men today. Why would they be free man? Edward Snowden would be a sell out traitor instead of a whistleblower and Assange whould not have fucked that chick? The other side of the coin, is of course the almost limitless amount of illicit material which will find plenty of buyers. How would you like to buy some nuclear weapon launch codes for Bitcoin How about people ISIS buying these type of information... |
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I am in full agreement, the Bitcoin Foundation needs to go big time. http://www.btcfeed.net/news/bitcoin-foundation-must-dismantled/"""Is Bitcoin being corrupted right now? In some ways, yes. The Bitcoin Foundation is trying to establish itself as a central point of Bitcoin through which it can fund and steer development, while at the same time working together with the state and Wall Street. What’s going to happen, is that governments will use the Foundation to pressure Bitcoin development in certain directions.""" I saw it coming, people need to be careful about this bitcoin foundation, who decided to create it in the first place? why this need to always create a central governance? as time goes by i can clearly see where this is heading and it's bad news..they will try and create problems that bitcoin doesn't have and use this foundation to solve these problem we better move on to another cypto now, the freecoin  no foundation, no roundtable,no regulated exchange,no wallstreet nothing just math and decentalization |
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Are deposits working yet? |
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If this thing works as planned, I can imagine the type of crap that will start to surface. Can you imagine how many people are keeping theirs mouths shut for fear of prosecution. that dude is fucking brilliant.
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Would have been better in BU wasn't giving out so much credits, they could have made it like milkyway@home.
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Yep, those BitcoinUtopia guys are really boosting team Gridcoin. |
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The problem is they might lump in Bitcoin with the mixing services. Just like they lumped in marijuana with heroin. The government will press for more regulation only if it is unable to trace the origin of the funds.
If terrorists have used mixing services, expect a crackdown on them.
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Eventually they will probably get on board the bitcoin train like everyone else.
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WorldCommunity Grid seems ok, the other 2 should be able to update. Is this normal? [ { "Command" : "cpids" }, { "Project" : "poem@home", "CPID" : "760bc14e655df32cf161d11837af64ee", "RAC" : 13764.00000000, "Team" : "gridcoin", "Verified RAC" : 0.00000000, "Verified Team" : "", "Is my CPID Valid?" : false, "CPID Link" : " http://boinc.netsoft-online.com/get_user.php?cpid=760bc14e655df32cf161d11837af64ee", "Errors" : "Project missing in [Netsoft] credit verification node. Please contact Netsoft to add this project." }, { "Project" : "seti@home", "CPID" : "760bc14e655df32cf161d11837af64ee", "RAC" : 300.00000000, "Team" : "gridcoin", "Verified RAC" : 0.00000000, "Verified Team" : "", "Is my CPID Valid?" : false, "CPID Link" : " http://boinc.netsoft-online.com/get_user.php?cpid=760bc14e655df32cf161d11837af64ee", "Errors" : "Project missing in [Netsoft] credit verification node. Please contact Netsoft to add this project." }, { "Project" : "world community grid", "CPID" : "760bc14e655df32cf161d11837af64ee", "RAC" : 152.00000000, "Team" : "gridcoin", "Verified RAC" : 32.00000000, "Verified Team" : "gridcoin", "Is my CPID Valid?" : true, "CPID Link" : " http://boinc.netsoft-online.com/get_user.php?cpid=760bc14e655df32cf161d11837af64ee", "Errors" : "Verified RAC too low." } ] On almost 24 hours now. Should I wait longer? |
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And who would be stupid enough to do that? So you believe that the only way terrorist organization can acquire bitcoin is to buy it with us currency? very short sighted, no? LocalBitcoins? hacking? use your imagination. I don't think it's a matter of time.
You don't summarize the article so I will, the article identifies the concern that since governments can put monitoring control over large transactions they can keep tabs on the financial moves of terrorist organizations. The article also states that these monitoring controls don't exist for bitcoin, so bitcoin enables terrorist organizations to move and use money unseen from government.
What the article DOESN'T mention or acknowledge is that the only way for a terrorist organization to acquire bitcoin in large quantities is to us government controlled fiat to buy bitcoin. That transaction would be the trigger to the government that a terrorist organization is making some financial moves. It may force governments to act on suspected terrorist organizations earlier than usual, but I don't think bitcoin will enable terrorism any more than using dollars does. It's possible to counterfeit fiat...not bitcoin, which makes doing business (for a terrorist) more expensive.
i think you might find that when you rock up with your $1m at a coffee shop wanting to meet the "local bitcoin" trader that answered your add on local bitcoins, that you wont leave as free as you walked in. |
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Traced?? Tumblers, using intermediary cryptos like Darkcoin? using multiple exchange acc and shuffling the amounts. Lots of options to make blockchain analysis nearly impossible. So you believe that the only way terrorist organization can acquire bitcoin is to buy it with us currency? very short sighted, no? LocalBitcoins? hacking? use your imagination.
dude, local bitcoins still needs currency... but yea, theft/hacking is of course an option too. except the theft of any significant amount (like the bter hack today) is readily known, and the addresses involved are then known and can be tracked. |
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So you believe that the only way terrorist organization can acquire bitcoin is to buy it with us currency? very short sighted, no? LocalBitcoins? hacking? use your imagination. I don't think it's a matter of time.
You don't summarize the article so I will, the article identifies the concern that since governments can put monitoring control over large transactions they can keep tabs on the financial moves of terrorist organizations. The article also states that these monitoring controls don't exist for bitcoin, so bitcoin enables terrorist organizations to move and use money unseen from government.
What the article DOESN'T mention or acknowledge is that the only way for a terrorist organization to acquire bitcoin in large quantities is to us government controlled fiat to buy bitcoin. That transaction would be the trigger to the government that a terrorist organization is making some financial moves. It may force governments to act on suspected terrorist organizations earlier than usual, but I don't think bitcoin will enable terrorism any more than using dollars does. It's possible to counterfeit fiat...not bitcoin, which makes doing business (for a terrorist) more expensive.
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