Anyone who does business with this guy would be highly unethical. He has used the law (which exists to protect customers) as a commercial weapon. He has a conflict of interest. It is when companies (and large corporations) use the law in this manner that a society becomes corrupt. This guy is a promoter of corruption.

http://bitcoinmedia.com/bitcoinica-legal-complaint/

paraipan needs a scumbag steve meme

I think bitcoin using floats/doubles is frankly stupid.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4086.0
http://bitcoinmedia.com/merchant-developer-tutorial/

kiba, you wanna write something for bitcoin media? either about your adventures with this game or about your thoughts on bitcoin gamedev in general? email me 'myusername'@riseup.net

Thank you It is nice to know people appreciate my works. Feel free to suggest things you want to know about or what type articles you like best in this thread.

Also people should give me a poke if they want to write something. I'm dominating this a bit too much :p

You think that's a good idea? I didn't want to annoy people by spamming that thread because it seems more geared towards mainstream news. Even this thread I was worried might be spammy but the moderators told me it was fine.

This is a cool story. This guy went around African embassies to promote Bitcoin:

Our next adoption phase
Much has been talked about the early adopter advantage while in fact we are not even in that stage yet. We’re at the beginning of the innovator stage in the technology adoption lifecycle now. The early adopter phase is next. So we still have some say in who those future early adopters are going to be who are going to realize the early adopter advantage. I argue that the early adopters should be some of those who so far have been systematically disadvantaged, specifically people of small, poor nations, many of which can be found on the African continent.

well the iranian government doesnt give a fuck. the point of the sanctions is to make the people angry enough to overthrow their government:
http://bitcoinmedia.com/irans-dire-straits/

im of the opinion that the government is already too brutal and people would overthrow them if they could. that instead it just makes people weak, shut-off and easier to repress.

Electrum 0.38 – aliases and signed URIs
Electrum is a lightweight client written in Python. The design is an improvement over Bitcoin-Qt because the user interface and core code are split into a client and a server. This means you can run an Electrum server instance, and use the same bitcoin from a wide variety of devices. Server instances are analogous to email servers, and the Electrum client with email clients.

BBC 5 live investigates Silk Road and Bitcoins
I wish more Bitcoin proponents would embrace the Silk Road, and what it stands for, as a positive social force; both for Bitcoin’s growth and success, but also more generally as a new tool for the safe disobedience of unjust laws. Instead it seems they more often try to downplay the size and influence of Silk Road (falsely too), in an attempt to distance themselves, and the rest of the Bitcoin community, from the “illegal activity” going on. This is a strategy from Bitcoiners that I honestly don’t understand.

Tim Schafer raised $800,000 in 24 hours
Tim Schafer is a legend within the game designers community. Although his video games are not massive commercial successes, they are critically acclaimed. In particular his use of level design for gameplay elements and well written dialogue make his work an example to follow for budding game designers.

Sorry you feel that way, but 3 days is totally usual for bank withdrawals in the UK. For example PokerStars takes 3-5 business days for withdrawals.

I know CryptoXChange is a competing exchange us, but you deposited with the wrong code, and it has just been a weekend. I would give them a message on IRC- I suspect they have to do these kinds of transfers manually (maybe a couple of people have to be around and free to authorise this) so it slipped through the cracks.

It's best to go through proper support channels rather than emailing the CEO personally. Lots of people sending me forum PMs, emails, IRC messages, Skype messages, telephone calls and I keep telling people to email support - if it is not in one place, then your message may get lost. Especially when me and Ken are not a support people.

EDIT: I'm not from CryptoXChange. I'm genjix / Amir Taaki from Intersango.

They were already done today so not sure what this post is about. If you did not receive your payment then email support@intersango.com

Facebook privacy
Critics of bitcoin ask why privacy is important. An ongoing discussion about the role of personal privacy in digital contexts polarises. It is a debate that will forever change the fabric of our shared online culture.

I had this idea too. It would encourage people to trade more, and encourage people to hold bitcoins. I'm going to ask the others why they decided against this (can't remember).

We will be switching to a new bank soon. Banking with Lloyds is not a sustainable situation. We have 2 bank accounts ready, and we're going to go ahead with those. The Lloyds account will be closed by the end of this month. More details once I know more.

I think Bitcoin Media is the correct avenue for that:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=62849.0

That's exactly how it's done. Every morning I get up, type in my PIN on a card reader to get 10 PIN numbers which I give the CTO.

As for withdrawals, some banks allow you to upload Xml whereas other banks (UK banks are the worst banks) you have to have some javascript and a person pasting it into the address bar, then enter a pin after every xfer. With 2 people, it can be done really efficiently and do a few hundred in a couple of hours. One person presses enter, alt-tab to browser, F6, ctrl-a, paste, enter, type in pin, press enter, repeat. The other person is checking for errors and giving the pin codes. We could have it more automated, but that's risky and more effort because the banks like to change small details with their site every so often.

UK banks:
- High overhead.
- Difficult to keep open.
- Lengthy/poor service & interface.
- Time consuming (spend so much time dealing with UK banks- by contrast EU bank has never caused us a problem).

There are no UK banks with an API. They deliberately hide the API for security reasons (security through obscurity). UK banks are socialist organisations and ridiculously inefficient- a bit of a joke for one of the financial centres of the world!

Hey,

Bitcoin Media has 3 aims:

- Grow bitcoin. This means encouraging 'mainstream' uses of bitcoin to legitimise the economy. Particular exciting new things only bitcoin can be used for.

- Decentralise the network by promoting alternative client softwares, exchanges, pools and services.

- Spread the knowledge. Our group (Bitcoin Consultancy) has a ton of knowledge just from day to day living in bitcoin on legal, technical, finance .etc Small things that if they aren't written down will go extinct.

I'm looking for people who want to write about things they are doing- bitcoin businesses, services or interesting projects.

- Should be something tangible that exists. I don't like big statements and hand waving about vapour-ware.
- Cool things.

If you register on Bitcoin Media then email me (email is on the about page) your username then I'll make you a submitter so you can write articles. Please non-spammy articles! Talk about why you or running the service, why you believe in bitcoin and what you exist for. Want to hear about the spirit, adversity and things you learnt from your projects. Not just a bullet list why your X is better than their Y.

Catherine is a fan of bitcoin, and she was innocently asking a question. What I took for her talk was about what our individual decisions should be and how they influence bitcoin's development. We don't exist in a bubble, and our individual ethical decisions help push bitcoin as a cause for good.

She wasn't arguing in favour of an authority. Not at all.

BTW is Irdial lonelyminer? He should email me if he wants to write an article. Or anyone for that matter.

My reply there:

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You make a good point, and I can totally understand what you’re saying. But ethics is more than ‘being good’. Ethics is about helping good people make good decisions when the best decision isn’t always clear.

There are hundreds of small ethical decisions everyday that build up to outcomes. Catherine wasn’t talking about bitcoin’s anthropomorphic morality, but about the people driving bitcoin forwards. The community.

There are many small decisions now about bitcoin’s future that can have massive future ramifications if bitcoin becomes big. Computing, the internet and web itself are an empowering tool simply because of those early engineers who had the prescience to design it that way, understanding the future impact such tools would have.

Their ethical decisions are a gift to us today. And a valuable and humbling example to follow.