right

if this Mann guy really wanted to draw a line in the sand, he had a long period during this case to do so, and he essentially refused to take the opportunity, in a case he brought

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But still, I don't think everyone fighting over this issue helps. I find it very regrettable, as we are wasting our efforts fighting each other while powerful people get away with countless far more egregious unethical acts, I'm sure they're very pleased to hear the slaves are fighting each other while they get away with exactly what they want.

I'm massively sympathetic to the goals of the climate change people, and I know that more often than not, their intentions are good, even if I do not agree with their arguments. I fundamentally agree that cutting down on fossil fuel use is a good thing in many, many different ways and I'm keen on alot of the renewable energy technologies that are promoted as a part of that.


Independent, powerful individuals (and any groups those people form voluntarily) are, I believe, the most important class of culture to sponsor/promote in order to balance out the power struggles going on across the world, and if people begin to create all their own energy locally without relying on the crude-oil warlords, we will be an important step closer to a world like that.

in the end, tech just keeps making it easier for these people to do this stuff, despite it also making it easier to catch the dumber ones


what we really need is kids like this:

(this is the nutty kid from the 80's movie Mad Max 2 with the razer-edged boomerang )




and I'm almost not joking

Kids don't get taught to stand up for themselves, instead it's "go tell teacher if anyone does something bad", which is a fat lot of good once it's too late (or if the teacher is the pedophile )

these pedos need to actually fear that the kid will bite their fucking face off

well, they did report that transaction from exchanges were used to trace the money? I see what you mean, they could've made that an explicit positive aspect, but that's little different to if paypal or the banking   system was used. Arguably, they could have focused on people that were not caught, but maybe the FBI didn't release the full details. Not sure.

this is the sort of subtle editorial-based slant that corporate media like The Guardian use.


they could have covered any number of positive stories about Bitcoin, especially in their technology section. But instead, they choose articles with a negative connotation, then report on it in a dry and dispassionate way. Readers are left to draw their own conclusion, but when they've heard another 20 crime based Bitcoin stories already in the last 5 years, they will come to the conclusion that The Guardian's financial firm clients (who buy advertising in The Guardian) want: Bitcoin bad

no different when Bitcoin XT was covered in The Guardian, they used editorial bias to slant readers towards the corporate culture's preferences. They interviewed the attackers (who went on to work for Goldman Sachs invested firm Circle) and devoted a whole article to a dev-team takeover that the users (the normal everyday people The Guardian pretend to represent) did not want. And for the accomplished developers with decades of industry experience and contributions to open source software used all across the internet? They got no article, despite the fact that Bitcoin's users followed them. Guardian quietly kept it's mouth shut, that was their repetent response, disgusting behavior.


"The Guardian"? They only do one kind of guarding: their corporate buddies, whether they're attacking open source software projects (Bitcoin is not the only example), or whether they're deciding that Trump and Clinton (and Bill Gates, Katie Couric, Woody Allen etc etc) being connected to billionaire pedophile human-trafickers is too tabloid

hmmm, this is correct. Longest most work chain would still be the genuine chain subsequent to the last checkpoint. My bad, sorry everybody

right, but not everyone is necessarily going to do a search to find out what the origin of the torrent link is, or to find out whose PGP created the signature.

and the fact that it's hosted on bitcoin.org is a little meaningless on it's own, the admin/owner of that site started to behave a little strangely in public over the last few years, you should know that Bitcoin releases are released primarily through https://bitcoincore.org, as you know.

and was the checkpoint code not substituted for the assumevalid model of chain authentication? i.e. is it not possible for someone to download a genuine Bitcoin client from http://bitcoincore.org, be given a bootstrap dat for a fake chain that never reaches the assumevalid blockheight, then get conned into e.g. buying BTC and receiving outputs that would be invalid on the genuine chain?

maybe the government and the law enforcement agencies should do a better job of bringing their colleagues to justice?


there are countless stories now from 20th century about people in politics, the police, showbusiness or intelligence being involved in sexual abuse of children, some of the most egregious examples were going on right under their noses.

Jeffrey Epstein is the most blatant example recently. This guy was a billionaire hedge fund associate, hung out with Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Kevin Spacey, Bill Clinton and dozens more powerful world figures. He got an 18 month sentence in 2008 for having sex with a 13 year old girl, and spent most of it on "office leave" flying his private jet to his private island in the Caribbean (where he regularly trafficked teenage girls to sexually abuse, and where alot of these celebrities, corporation owners and former world leaders seemed to enjoy visiting )

Out of that 18 month "sentence", Epstein served 13 months. For good behavior . He slept in prison, then went straight out after breakfast to the airport where his private plane was housed, on "business". He donated several million dollars to the low category prison he slept at too, but they took a little time and gave it back. Presumably they thought that whatever corrupt deal he was trying to get from them wasn't worth a few million dollars.


The "justice" system and the "prison" system let that happen. The newspapers knew, but because it embarrassed very powerful people, they kept their mouths shut till summer 2019 (almost 10 years too late), then did a quick expose at the time of the year (summer) while most people quit reading the news because there's no serious stories (politics, finance and sport are out of season all summer long)


Not 1 Bitcoin involved, and the US justice system did everything they could to cover it up and help the people involved look as good as possible. And the newspapers made one of the most corrupt scandals ever look like it was important for 5 minutes, when they knew about the whole thing for 10 years. The Trump-haters are the biggest hypocrites here; Trump was significantly involved with this guy in the 2000's, and it's hard to believe that someone as well connected as Trump (especially as Trump's daughter was a teenager at the time) did not know he was a sex trafficker of teenagers. And yet the Trump bashing media said ZERO about it, when all the facts were available to them the whole time, and very likely because of Bill Clinton and other Democrat siding people's involvement too (one of Epstein's co-conspirators was a guest at Clinton's daughters wedding, after Epstein was finished with prison, and while still a part of Epstein's staff )



So don't give me this "government good, Bitcoin bad" crap, they give zero fucks when it's their friends that are the pedophiles

great, but then all the outputs can easily be identified as a Coinjoin.


this is a better scheme (a more current method that defeats another form of analysis)


2 participants, A & B:


A: 0.40
A: 0.20 \               ----= 0.60
               \           /
                 -------
               /           \
B: 0.30 /               ----= 0.60
B: 0.30

(fees ignored to simplify, imagine they both paid 1000 satoshis and each received 0.59999 if it makes you happy )

Now, with only 2 outputs, analysis cannot make a reliable suppostion that this was a Coinjoin, it might have been, but it's not beyond doubt. 1 person making a transaction typically only uses a payment output and a change output. You can say "oh some people are more sophisticated than that, simply having 29 outputs that are 1 BTC each doesn't mean it's a Coinjoin". And that's completely irrelevant; if some chain analytics outfit deems it a Coinjoin, it is a Coinjoin, and it's then not difficult to convince someone unsophisticated (who might be playing some important role in relation to a particular transaction) that it's a Coinjoin either.

If you do a transaction like you suggest above (dozens of equal sized outputs), send it to some do-gooder merchant or an exchange, and they report you to the "Bitcoin Police" for being suspicious, what are you going to say then?

calling Bitcoin a "safe-haven" is somewhat misleading in the context....


Political instability leads to instability (i.e. falling in value) of the local currency. British people are in that situation as a consequence of Brexit (but sterling is not dropping like the bolivar or the turkish lira, a little perspective is in order)

In those circumstances, buying Bitcoin is a smart thing to do, as you are no longer exposed to exchange rate risk from your local currency (sterling in this case), and more importantly, it's quick and easy to do. British people cannot so easily set up a Euro (or USD) bank account, despite still being in the EU (or being the 51st US state ). It's not impossible, but it takes time, effort, and risks the bank saying "we don't think you need this EUR bank account"; Bitcoin can't tell you you're not allowed to open an account.

But Bitcoin is simply the "cleanest dirty shirt", even if the British pound or the Turkish lira is falling through the floor, BTC does not have a stable exchange rate either. Don't be confused, Bitcoin only falls upwards, but it's a bumpy ride, and too much so for most people's nerves to take.


Bitcoin is a safe haven because of how difficult it is to take from the owner (i.e. impossible, if the owner is smart), not because of it's exchange rate. 100% guarantee of an unstable currency (BTC) is better than an 80% guarantee of a stable currency (GBP); if a GBP bank goes bust, you risk getting 0 anyway. When the currency with the 80% guarantee becomes unstable too, keeping 100% of something similarly risky looks decisively the better deal.

real court cases do not run out of time, you're making that up, aren't you?

he lost the case, when he could've proven how true it was by just presenting the data.

oh The Guardian have been like this for years


Guardian.com always tries to appear as if they're liberal. They publish stories idealizing liberal values, as long as it's not actually happening in a real world example. The Guardian will tell you endlessly that bottom-up liberalism with people controlling their own lives is great, as long as we're just thinking about it.

But as soon as someone actually does something to let people control their lives, The Guardian switches into authoritarian mode, scolding their readers in advance for even considering making a choice that empowers them against the powerful by concentrating on how normal people abuse any power they do get (as in this case).

It's like a psychopathic cult leader personified in print.


And when the Goldman Sachs backed takeover of Bitcoin failed (which The Guardian published a very positive article about), suddenly they changed their editorial stance on Bitcoin and only ever published the worst stories they could find. Supposedly there are still a fair few commercials for banks in The Guardian's pages



and they can also read what I'm going to say now and see "The Guardian"


In the 1970's, The Guardian were part of the "sympathy for pedophiles" movement, along with a bunch of UK politicians. This went on for several years, until when the organisation (which was literally called Pedophile Information Exchange ) that was running this bullshit got busted for being, guess what, crammed full with child abusers using it's charity status to organise child abuse together.

The Guardian? Totally innocent of course, despite helping to popularise the sympathy.

it's easy to forget how steep the learning curve is just to use Bitcoin. We were sufficiently motivated that it didn't feel like a chore, but a huge amount of people would feel lost from step 0. Working out XMR would feel like trying to hack into a military mainframe to those people (I think you've literally still got to run the full blockchain, and use the command line for everything with XMR).



it's like a gun, people can use powerful tools for good reasons and reprehensible ones


and then the most reprehensible people will say "only we should have the right to use guns"

@magic byte

you're replying to the wrong post


(I predict more confusing replies from Magic Byte to follow )

it's pretty obvious, although I am guessing when saying that


note to everyone: WindFURY will take something from a private message and tell everyone about it

dpkg's error output is telling you the package names you need

python
python-qt4
python-psutil

so


will help you overcome this part of the unsatisfied dependencies.

But, I get the feeling you have not installed any other dependencies either. see the linux install instructions at https://btcarmory.com for a complete list.

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I'm a little surprised also that the python package is not pre-installed in ubuntu, don't understand that. but just installing it will rectify that.

it could be that python2 is not pre-installed in you super newest ubuntu, but python3 is. Armory 0.96.5 uses python2, so you need python2, not python3

I think sipa and jl2012 implemented a (your) solution to this: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/16902

not yet merged however.

the climate scientist who produced the original hockey stick graph lost his libel case in court a month ago.


he claimed a skeptic was libeling him. the judge asked him to present the datasets he used. He refused.


judge threw his case out, and ruled that he pay the supposed slanderer's legal fees.


he was afraid of presenting the data, and showing how he used that to produce the well-known temperature chart.


Real (credible) scientists present a far more complicated trend for global temperatures over the C20th, where the average temperature does indeed increase from the 1950's up to today. But that's not the peak, the peak was in the 1930's.

The whole Koch Bros thing is a reverse psychology trick, oil industry people actually stand to gain alot from IPCC recommendations. You shouldn't trust a single word coming out of their lying mouths, the oil producers have been a very important part of every war (and the overall resulting genocide) for the last 100 years.

totally disagree

• Trezor is $69
• Google Auth encourages people be lazy and use their phone to handle it, which kinda screws everyone's anonymity by default
• PGP is free, and has gui versions for those who don't like command lines

and whichever way you go with authenticating with user handled cryptography, weird text strings are always involved.

there's no good reason not to offer PGP, at least if you care about decentralisation and letting people have the most choices how they control their own life.

And PGP is a powerful ID system too, so if you want to get a decentralized "blue tick" you can forego anonymity and use PGP to do it, Trezor and Google Auth cannot do this, whereas PGP already has a network of people using it as ID

what conference is this, and who are the organizers?

the organizers are the real villains here, it's impossible to feign ignorance about the facts concerning such a cast of questionable speakers, Tone Vays in particular

agree on what? do they agree on why? (they do not)



I see data that says most of the data you're seeing is cherry-picked or otherwise exaggerated

are we both willfully blind?