It's not the bureaucrats' feat, but that of the revolutionaries. Bureaucrats wanted to maintain the status quo, revolutionaries wanted to change(read: impose their ideals of Utopia upon common folks) something, thus the tragedy.

The real problem is: if he is really gonna do something, why Hungary?

And no, it's naive to think that Zuck is stupid enough to spend millions just to screw the Winkleviis, or that he doesn't know that anything he can do will only have temporary effect on Bitcoin and if it backfires it will benefit the Winkleviis hugely.

No, you simply did not carefully read my original post. I said Satoshi was a Windows programmer, while Ashish is a thorough Linux progrmmer(and a very ideological one), so they may not be the same person.

Ashish is obviously a thorough and thorough Linux/FOSS hacker with a strong ideological leaning if you check the materials provided by Bruno.

I think it's quite the other way around, millions of people coming up with millions of supposedly "revolutionary" ideas each day(just check how many are out there in this forum), there is simply too much noise in this whole mess, so instead of following the information stream everyday, he somehow decides, like many who has done before him, to rely on people he considers smart to introduce him to the "real deals", and from the transcript it seems to be be exactly his purpose of visit to Julian Assange(both Schmidt and Assange were both good computer scientists and programmers, FYI), now Schmidt has recognized Bitcoin's technical merits and called it a "tour de force".

Also what must be pointed out is Bitcoin's mathematical brilliance is out of the reach of normal human beings who do not normally follow the progress of cryptography(which Assange does), so Schmidt needs Assange to "digest" it a bit to explain to him.

He does now.

I like the ads, actually I would like to see more, it's not possible to follow up on every new Bitcoin business, so the ads are a way for me to know what's going on in the economy.

Why don't exchanges start accepting Webmoney payment? Wait...you can just buy Bitcoins on Webmoney itself...

One counter-evidence: Satoshi seemed to be a Windows programmer, rather than a Linux programmer(which I don't think is an identity he needs to hide, after all there too many out there fit this stereotype)

In other words, why do poor loosers believe that if it had really been a worthwhile investment, people who are much more resourceful than them could only watch helplessly as the s**ers becoming rich, rather than taking over the market?


Intersango is dodgy, but it stands in shame at the sheer level of dodginess that Ripple manages to achieve.

Another piece of new for you: the Ripple server/validator program called rippled, whose source code is withheld from release, is not available for downloading, instead the binary is provided on a "invited-only" basis.

tl;dr No need to use Ripple, just stay with banks/exchanges.

Yeah, tell me more why should I stop using IOUs issued by at least somehow legally regulated corporations, and join the happy lawless Ripple family.

What does it offer more than a WDC(instant confirmation) with all coins mined in the genesis block(XRPs and no need to worry about discarded blocks) and colored coins implemented into the client(IOUs) can do?

I would say their biggest concern is probably to be able to reverse or hide anything they have done so they can away, thus they still refuse to implement digitally signed proof of transfer.

One noble and honored tradition that comes from the original Bitcoin design is the maximal paranoia principle, development which following this principle should be encouraged, after all you can never eliminate the possibility that the local guy selling you BTCs is an informant of FBI.

I get an urge to get everyone to see it....

Thanks OP, I will definitely take a look when I am free, and will donate if it work as expected.

Thanks again.

For a highly resilient/sufficiently paranoid exchange system, the bank transfer must be carried out between buyers and sellers, rather than service providers and buyers/sellers, too many activities on a single account(personal or business) and you will be suspected.

Or probably they should have designed differently, at least making a valid attempt at fairness so that people can be confident that they are in for the betterment of the network, rather than "pump and dump", right now it just look dodgy in every way.

If a train is about to leave, it would be fair enough for the train operator to put the timetable at somewhere publicly visible, they have no duty to pay big bucks to the post office to have the table mailed to everyone's home, in fact, I doubt if they had done that, you would probably still had thrown it into the trashcan, consider it spam-mail.

"Fairness" is about you do as much as you can, with your current resource, to get the access to your currency out to as many people as possible, Opencoin can at the blink of an eye start giving away all of their XRPs(or even better, sell them!), yet they refuse to do that.

You know what, you could have mined all those 1 million bitcoins, and leave not even bread crumbs to Satoshi, this is called "fairness".

And I don't hate XRPs, I just think it's a suckers' investment, you can ask any investor out of this community if they are going to invest in something which a single entity controls 10 times more than everyone else combined, they will call you crazy.