In during crash. Got out at 115.

Ok, I didn't read the whole thread, but I think it would definitely be possible for USG to close down SR. Just pump a lot of traffic at it and see where traffic increases. You will have a lot of noise so do it a whole lot of times. Eventually you will see that everytime you pump traffic at SR,   165.54.43.21  gets a lot of encrypted traffic. GG

More money looking for a home.

It will only work if you have a smartphone, article says. Why might this be? Because what they are making is a payment app. They are not even making a public api. (my speculation)

Story time:

The year is 2016. Bitcoin has been a massive success, and is adopted far and wide. The success naturally lead to an influx of new users with different values from the old timers. Eternal September set in slowly, but surely. New voices were heard, questions were being asked. "Pedophilia is horrible and must be banned", "We can't go fund some terrorists", "Is is it really fair that 10% of users own 90% of bitcoin?". At first they were few enough that the community could point and laugh. They were written off as trolls. But the tides of history swept in mercilessly. They grew in strength. One day it was announced on the forums: "50% of bitcoins are to be redistributed to disadvantaged groups". A long explanation of privilege and of how some people had not had a fair chance at securing coins followed. People were upset. Can they really do that? The early adopters were most upset of all, both because of the theft, but also because they very truer believers. Forum post after forum post were written to talk some sense into the dev team. Banwave after banwave rolled in. Of course it didn't make them disappear. But it hid them. Safely away from the large hordes of users that didn't really care and just wanted to buy stuff online. The crowds network effects are made of. A fork was created where the redistribution had never taken place. The ideologues used it, but it never really caught on. Most users were to lazy to type in a new chain configuration. And besides, wasn't it right that everyone got a fair chance in the new age?

The End

Suppose someone accidentally the whole dev team? Or suppose it is infiltrated? Or suppose they are bought off?

How should we as a community react? Probably fork right, but what fork? It is easy to imagine a dozen forks springing up before things stabilize. In a worst case they could be so weak, the original, comprised chain becomes the favored one, simply because it is easier to stick with the status quo.

Maybe we could benefit from a chain of command or something?

My heart sank when I heard it would have a control. I had hoped it would use a BCI like necomimi.

So happy I paid the 5$ dollar premium to get out now...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-QTmfTVVEs#t=2m52s

I see it as bearish. These were not small services, but large ones, and noob friendly. People will be more cautious. "Which program is next?" "Are there more holes lurking?". I don't think it is catastrophical though.

I read it. Can't come up with anything clever to say at this hour though.

I disagree. I would rate it as, in descending intelligence

reddit
facebook
bitcointalk
pol

Facebook is of course special because your experience will vary a lot depending on who you know.

Edit: Seems to be better info downthread, so removed

Just speculating now, but:

MysteryMiner, the reason your post was deleted was not that you advocated for the murder of homosexuals. The reason was that you pointed out just what the holy cow of crypto-anarchy could actually lead to.

How fast?

If freenet is still as slow as I remember, then it wont work. What are the speeds nowadays?



I am thinking that the content should exist on hubs like diaspora does it (except that it should be encrypted).

It is my belief that we need a mass-adopted social network that is resistant to mass-surveillance. I have tried to check on the current alternatives, but they do not seem promising. The gripe I have is that they make it possible to let a central server handle your stuff, stored unencrypted (please correct me if I have misunderstood this point, as it is central). This means you risk all your friends data, and that is unacceptable.

If the govt, wants to find your status updates, it will probably be quite easy for them to trojan one of your friends. Hence it is probably very hard to protect against pointed attacks. But we can protect against non-specific attacks, like "SELECT user FROM comments WHERE body like '%terrorism%' ". Potentially, we could maybe make it hard to connect a profile with the person who owns it.
Finally it is supposed to be user friendly and fast, so that people also actually use it.

Anyone interested in helping me develop this?

So you are saying we should give her some bitcoins to play with?

Housewife discovers way to make money online with this crazy old trick the central banks don't want you to know.