~sipa says (on the dev irc channel) that the registrant 'Martti Malmi' is ~sirius.

Wasn't ~sirius the guy who ran it when the zero-day cosbycoin hack happened and he handed it over to ~theymos who had somewhat better sys-admin skills?  I wonder if he decided he wanted it back?  Presumably it's worth some bucks.

Noted also that ~theymos did an AMA on reddit recently.  Almost as if he wanted to gain some support for retaining a userbase or something.

I wonder if the course relationships (seemingly) demonstrated by ~vess and ~magicaltux are rubbing off?

Another line:

Coinlab realized (after the FINCEN guidance came out which, iirc, came the announcement but not by much) that it was going to be costly and risky since it was clearly just some opening volleys in the abuse yet to come.  Mark and Peter still needed to give their investors/friends something and what these people want are BTC (being late to the party and finding themselves sucking hind tit to a bunch of geeks and garden variety criminals.)  So they engineer a bubble collapse calculated to shake out the highest number of BTC.  The rather questionable figure of $75M seems a bit pulled from the air which lends some strength to the admittedly far-fetched hypothesis.

Does this end with ~vess going up the river to Tokyo and hacking ~magicaltux with a machete?

Changed my mind (but to lazy to change my vote.)  The guy is costing me money.  Take a hike ~vess!

And as for the update, thanks for nothing!

"Bearpocalypse Now"  Good one!

While I'm here, I'll call the bottom as in the $40's within a month (absent an external calamity.)

I claim no insight, knowledge, interest, or skill in such things as price picking though.  And I'm certain not putting my money where my mouth is!

Maybe he's one of those "have money, will send to strangers" type folks?  He seems a veritable gold-mine for a certain class of participants in the ecosystem.

I glanced through the ZH thing and didn't see any evidence that 'Satoshi' did any particular thing for any particular reason.

You would not, by chance, be projecting your beliefs onto the actions of someone you don't know would you?  If so, it's probably not as helpful to your cause as you might think it is.  Lotsa people would probably think it makes you look like a jackass.

You mean with Mark and Peter yuck-yuck'ing about engineering an earthquake which shook a lot of BTC out of the weak hands in yokel-land?

I'm in the US also.  Using chromium everything about the cert looks in order.

It would be interesting to know if anyone from outside the US (and our territorial possessions like Canada) is having the same issue.

Interestingly I just tried to log in to my Mt. Gox account and nothing happens.

I don't often log in since I don't do any trading, but I've used this same machine before without problems.  I guess it's off to the 'service' board to see if others are having similar difficulties.

Certainly not if they are indigent.  "Can't get blood from a turnip" so they say.

Yet another lawsuit involving Mr. Ver.  There go some more of my tax dollars to support Bitcoin participants.  I'm not complaining per-se...but sheesh.  Can't these guys just shoot eachother or something?

<chuckle> ya...um...you guys go ahead and feed money into that thing first.  I'll stand by and enjoy the show.

I think whoever was manipulating bitcoin.org fucked up and dropped the ball on this one.  Now it's time to pay the piper.  That means to me either:

 1) drop the entire page (and move toward a tech-only posture.)

 2) re-instate name from those of 'all stripes' with some reasonable construct which would mitigate against foot-in-mouth semi-accidents.

I happen to end up being somewhere between repulsed and horrified when many of the Libertarian stripe pull stuff from deep within their minds, but I

 - always felt that Ver and Matonis have exercised a reasonable degree of restraint in public and have served 'the cause' well, and

 - plenty of those who are more naturally on 'my side' have equally horrific thought patterns bottled up inside and waiting to get out.  Myself included.

I'd hope that option #1 is chosen and worked towards.

The trouble(*) is that at this time, and possibly for some time to come, for every '1' in the real world who is turned off by such things, there will be '10' who will think they sound great(**).  Their response will be 'Count me in.'

(*) Of course "One man's trash is another man's treasure." so 'trouble' may not be the right word exactly.

(**) I'm not standing by and exact 1/10 ratio.  Just making a point as I see it.

Maybe with the following modification:

  "Work (for me) together, not against each other.

I anticipate that it is almost inevitable that alternate crypto-currencies will be issued by different organizations to further different goals.  This unless free communications are clamped down on to an extent that I don't believe is probably possible.  This process will take some time however, and it will likely be possible to milk the shit out of Bitcoin in the interim.  That's why "I agree with this message."

I only spout off on this forums (and usually do so with a high degree of honesty) because I believe that it ultimately has little influence on anything.

My rough translation would be:

  "STFU and be happy.  There are things you don't need to know right now."

I'll go ahead an '+1' but neglect to explain my rational.

Hmmm....or would it?

If the 'proof of work' is truly plug-able, most of the system would not care a whit about what miners do.

I liked the 'simplicity' of just having solid equivalence in all ways between PCN and BTC.  But there may be a role for a coin which consisted of a 'basket' of crypto-currencies!  Hmmm...

It also occurred to me that it might be possible to derive nourishment from multiple sources simultaneously.  'poly-paracoin'? 

Probably not worth the extra complexity.  The end-goal would be something valuable enough to stand on it's own (and potentially support other worthwhile efforts in fact.)

I thought of that when I was showering this morning.  It would just (potentially) add some other niceties that were important to some people.  So, that would be great!

Edit: bolded a highly important observation in the quoted text.  In short, it is probably doable!