Answering some questions left by a private inquirer:

Q. Does this include permission to build on the vacant land?  (Apparently in some countries the right-to-build may be separate)

A. In Wake County/NC/USA, a construction permit is required.  The purpose of the permit is an engineering evaluation, to ensure you are building a safe building.  As long as your submitted engineering plans conform to local building codes, you may build as you like, when you like.



Q. Are foreigners permitted to purchase this land?  Are corporations permitted to purchase?

A. Yes and yes.  The county's Register Of Deeds will require a name and mailing address for public records and property taxes.  Property taxes must be paid in USD, not BTC.

If people are interested in the "shareholder registry", enabling decentralized exchange, it could be written fairly quickly by myself.

No fee or bounty, though donations are always welcome.

Old news, duplicate thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=156215.0

Who said it has anything at all to do with the Bitcoin Foundation?

You conspiracy nuts are... nuts.

Well,

While having absolutely no idea what Vladimir is talking about,

I can confirm that very big, positive things for bitcoin are happening behind closed doors

Does the official cpuminer have the same problem?  Perhaps try avoiding an unofficial version.

     https://github.com/jgarzik/cpuminer/

Russian leaders love bashing Western countries.  It's catnip for the locals.

They even have an entire network, Russia Today (RT), created and funded for that aim.

So you want a "kill privacy" checkbox, in other words

Due to bitcoin's value volatility, the purchase price is indexed to the US Dollar, and would be converted a couple days before closing/settlement.

So at present market price, $70,000 is more like 953 BTC

Small request:

On the "Choose Your Wallet" page, put the name of each client underneath each icon.

It is annoying to hover the mouse over each icon, just to find the names.

I like the guys at Marginal Revolution, and try to toss them low-noise links every few months.

URL: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/03/u-s-government-regulations-for-virtual-currencies.html

They don't do much more than quote other links, but their audience are other economists and other readers of econo-blogs.

1) Possibly there are legal reasons they must.

2) ASICMINER has that power right now.

3) An issuer in general always has the ultimate power:  they can inflate their own shares, or simply stop producing useful revenue.

Some info about the area:

     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_County,_North_Carolina
     http://www.visitraleigh.com/

Wake County is a growing area, a good real estate investment according to some:
http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/02/23/2702528/california-billionaire-bets-on.html

Wake County was one of the areas relatively untouched by the subprime mortgage crisis, and its population continues to grow.

Only ~3 hours to the Atlantic Ocean, by car.

Yes.  Some legal juridictions may be required to manually check each trade, to make sure they have legally-required investor information.

If exchanges get into play, most changes to the shareholder registry will be boring:

(example)

• 2013-Mar-21 00:23:11 transfer 100 shares from FOO EXCHANGE to BAR EXCHANGE
• 2013-Mar-21 00:23:12 transfer 800 shares from FOO EXCHANGE to BIFF EXCHANGE
• 2013-Mar-21 00:23:14 transfer 1000 shares from BAZ EXCHANGE to FOO EXCHANGE
• 2013-Mar-21 00:23:19 transfer 18 shares from FOO EXCHANGE to Jeff Garzik

The core idea is simple:  Each company maintains their own shareholder registry.  Changes to the shareholder registry must be cryptographically signed and verified.  The registry must be published in a public medium on a regular basis for auditing/anti-cheating purposes.

Correct.


Shareholders don't need any robot code:

1) ASICMINER runs the "shareholder registry" robot.

2) Shareholders do not need anything but a bitcoin client with the "sign message" feature.

3) A person-to-person share trade looks like this:

     a) Alice sends 100 BTC to Bob
     b) Alice sends bitcoin address ABCDEF to Bob
     c) Bob emails ASICMINER robot, with signed message "transfer ownership of my 50 shares to address ABCDEF"
     d) The next time ASICMINER robot publishes a shareholder registry, it says "50 shares owned by ABCDEF"

4) If you want to run an automated share trading market, create a website that accepts bitcoin or ASICMINER share deposits, ....

Great job!  Looks nice, very informative.

pynode and assorted utilities dbck.py and mkbootstrap.py are essentially source code examples for python-bitcoinlib.  Unfortunately that's it.

Contributed examples are welcome in both projects, however.

Litecoin is about to become a botnet haven, as additional ASIC hashpower comes online.

How about this:  make it possible for users to create their own decentralized exchange.

• Register a bitcoin address for each shareholder, if not already.  This enables the ability to authenticate cryptographically signed digital messages.  See this stackexchange answer for a guide.  Most bitcoin clients support signing messages.  Registering a GPG key for each shareholder is an alternative, though that requires additional software beyond a bitcoin client.
• Publicly declare a bitcoin address and GPG key for official ASICMINER messages.
• Publicly declare an email address for emailing ASICMINER robot
• At the end of every day, ASICMINER robot produces a message listing all shareholders, by key and share count.  Attach bitcoin and GPG digital signatures.
• To trade ASICMINER shares, the seller sends a digitally-signed message "transfer N shares to bitcoin address FOO" to the ASICMINER robot.

That is all that is needed on the ASICMINER side:  maintain a shareholder registry.  changes to the shareholder registry may be both pseudonymous and secure.

Then anyone may build an exchange that trades shares.  Anyone may trade ASICMINER shares at any time, using this method.