You don't forsake a bunch of your population to a crazy wannabe dictator just because a few in your population are rowdy vocal hooligans.


I don't really see a source for this. Is this just a Russian language web poll?


War crime? Where do you get that from? Those are still used by Russia and China, and are no different from carpet bombing.

When you sell throug Mycelium, you get TWICE the locations! 

(thanks for pointing that out)

Just for some perspective, let's compare the Maidan Protests to the Pro-Russian separatist protests.

	Maidan	Pro-Russian Protests
Goals	To free the country from a dictator-like corrupt government, and to integrate with the much more democratic countries of Europe, while maintaining government independence.	Full or partial occupation of their own country by a foreign, dictatorial, corrupt regime, and be swallowed up by an antidemocratic country with a total loss of their region's independence
Methods	During the course of the first months, strict non-violence, despite the use of force, even to the point of torture and killings, by the ruling force. Only after the ruling party broke promises on multiple occasions, and continued to use violent force against the protesters, did the protesters became violent themselves. Still, their main weapons were sticks and molotov cocktails. Firearms were almost entirely absent. Treatment of captured prisoners, though strict, was still mostly fair.	Use of violence from the very beginning, including capture of administrative buildings, law enforcement offices, military facilities, seizure of military weaponry (including machine guns and grenade launchers), and distribution of weapons to supporters. Murder, torture, violent beatings of unarmed protesters, capture of hostages, use of women and children as human shields, and abuse of captured prisoners.
The role of foreign allied countries	Verbal support - much later economic sanctions. Everything is done in the open.	Strategic and violent. Military occupation and annexation of Crimea using the already available and moved-in foreign troops, capture of buildings and objectives by foreign special forces, sending spies and saboteurs deeper into the country, and concentration of troops on the borders. All this done while hypocritically denying supplies to the rebels and army intelligence services of the country they claim to support.
National Ideology	Unity of the Ukrainian nation, including all ethnic groups and regions of Ukraine; absence of hatred and ethnic discrimination.	Splitting the nation and the state, hatred of all things Ukrainian, European, and American. Russian fascism and anti-Semitism.
The Language Issue	Official government language is Ukrainian, but no one objects to speaking in Russian. Russian language was frequently heard on Maidan. There is not a single case of abuse or violence against someone, just because they are speaking Russian.	Hatred and contempt for the Ukrainian language, lack of recognition of it as a "real language," unwillingness to hear or learn any language other than Russian.
Organization	Self-organization from below; official policies more hurt than help; proven that massive cases of payoffs by special interests were not happening.	Protests inspired by a foreign state; bystanders playing the role of pawns, extras, or human shields, governed by coordinators and fighters sent from abroad. There are numerous cases of people being paid off to act (although there are plenty of actors working for ideological reasons)
Support of the population (based on surveys)	More than half of the whole country.	12% in the whole country. Maximum support of 33% in Donetsk oblast, and 41% in Crimea (when questioned before the current occupation).
Intellectual, cultural, and creative level	In general, high. On Maidan there was its own library, art exhibitions, lecture readings, comedy skits, musicians, poets, etc. Hig creativity, with many ingenious slogans and posters, and ingenuity in combat conditions (catapults and fire barricades).	In general, low. Zero creativity, no own ideas, barricade tactics copied from Maidan. Many participants apparently with a criminal past.
Atmosphere	In general positive and polite, often even in relation to opponents.	Generally vicious and aggressive, with constant cursing, threats, and physical aggression.
Behavior in captured buildings	Maintaining order, attempt to minimize possible damage.	Vandalism and looting; piles of garbage.
Alcohol	Prohibited.	Actively used. Also cases of drug use.
Propaganda	Mostly truthful, except for the inevitable in a revolutionary situation, with regards to unverified rumors.	Almost entirely false, with the lies generated with all the might of a foreign state propaganda machine.
Attitude towards Soviet regime	Negative.	Positive.

Sadly, this says absolutely nothing about the quality or the truth of the news they report. I mean look at this:



And Fox News has been blatant about their propaganda and lies.

I don't watch BBC, CNN, or read bullshit textbooks. You guys should stop reading bullshit from rt.com and other Russian propaganda machines. It's nice that you think you have learned "knowledge," but it was likely just more made up bullshit, sorry to tell you. Mine is not faith, but your is likely myth and made up propaganda.


Could that have been due to the fact that Ukraine was forcefully occupied as part of the USSR, and any dissent got you a one way ticket to a Siberian gulag???

 
I suppose next you're going to tell me that Mexicans and Americans (east-coast colonial) are the same people?


That's the lie that Russia made up way in the 1700's. On Ukrainian lands was Kievan Rus. On Russian lands were Finish tribes, then a knyaz who had no allegiance to Ukraine, then a bunch more knyazy who were aligned with Mongolian khanate, NOT Ukraine. Did you even read this? http://oleg-leusenko.livejournal.com/1361141.html I had 4+ years of studying Ukraine's history, culture, and geography, but that is a good summary of the Russian counterpart. Sorry to disappoint you, but Russia doesn't have the glorious history they tried to write for themselves.


Really? NOBODY had any problems? Not even from the widespread corruption? Or during the Orange Revolution? And everyone was just fine with Yanukovich scrapping the constitution and trying to give himself dictatorial powers? That last one is the #1 reason that the Maidan revolution happened, and the #1 reason that people there, including my friends, were protesting and supporting the protests. Not because of some made up Nazi bullshit.


How do you even know that there are Nazi parties there? What's the difference between a Nazi, and a Ukrainian who, after being forcefully subjected to 70 years of Russian Soviet rule, and 20 more years of Russian-supported communist political leaders, now distrusts Russians? My friends and relatives from Ukraine don't see many Nazis. Maybe a small insignificant group at best (just like USA has KKK, but they are insignificant). The most they see is severe distrust of Russian government and their propaganda.

The... Uh... Pro-ukraine Ukrainians started seizing Ukrainian government buildings? What's wrong with that?



It's only in discord with Russian historians, because Russia was the one who made it up. For example, why is it that the Golden Horde, which attacked and destroyed anyone who resisted them, attacked and destroyed Ukraine, but completely ignored Moscow for a hundred years? The only explanation, which actually has evidence to support it, is that the monarchy of Moscow acquiesced to and subjugated itself to the Hun. Russian origins are Mongolian, with the khanate controlling Moscow and what is now Russia for centuries, completely separate from Kievan Rus, which Moscow repeatedly attacked.

Do you actually believe that if USA completely pulls out of Ukraine, that Russia will stop spreading propaganda about scary Ukrainian Nazis, that freaked out Russians will stop trying to seize government buildings and try to break free, and that Ukraine will just stop defending itself and let extremists take over buildings and anex its territories that still have Ukrainians living in them?

This is actually a lie created by Russia's ruling monarchs in the 1700's. The part about Kiev region being a gift from Russian tsars in the 1600's is especially laughable, considering Kievan Rus/Ukraine had already existed independent of Russia for about 800 years by that point. Ukraine was Kievan Rus for centuries, while Moscow was part of the Golden Horde empire. It was only much much later that Moscow renamed itself Russia, to try to fit with Kievan Rus, and secretly wrote a whole bunch of made up history to male it seem as if Russia's origins came from Kievan Rus as well. Russia and it's history had nothing to do with Ukraine or Kief outside of it invading and occupying parts of Ukraine, most recently as part of USSR. Ukraine was always it's own country, though parts of it have been occupied by its neighboring countries, such as Tatar and Communist ruled Russia to the East, and Poland to the west. Some of the outskirts on the borders have been desputed though.
If anything, it's Russia that is a failing state, always ruled by totalitarian despots, in a perpetual state of emperialist expansion followed by inevitable collapse. Ukraine has existed for over 1,000 years, with idiots claiming that it's a failed state, or actually belongs to someone else constantly. But history is hard to change when contrary evidence keeps surviving.

*Sigh* I'm really disappointed to even see antiwar.com getting swept up in this. Why in the fuck would pro-Kiev activists attack and storm their own government building, and why would pro-Russian outside attack a building full of pro-Kiev activists inside?
Oh wait, that actually happened. So even in this example, the pro-Russian attackers would be in the wrong.

"Glory to the heroes" is translated as "Seig heil?" What the fuck kind of bullshit is this?

By the way, Jan has been working hard on a neat new feature: http://www.mycelium.com/lt/m/

Now you can see the map of all the bitcoin sellers on LocalTrader in a convenient Google map in your browser! You can use it to look around and find people in your area, or if you are going to travel somewhere, you can check what kind of sell offers you can find at your destination. This also shows off the capabilities of our API, which we will continue to develop and expand to bring you more LocalTrader features.

Bitcoin100 is set up to convince charities to accept bitcoin. This charity is already accepting bitcoin, so they may not qualify. How long ago did they add the bitcoin donation option?

Bitcoin donation option was added to their site, and donation sent: https://blockchain.info/tx/ece6799e1a6211ebaf13ba633075e662fb557ef14876ff9532c001a229fc2553

Another list to review:


Note, they contacted me a while ago, and just recently added a bitcoin donation option.

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We never got back to these guys, or even checked them I don't think...

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I asked, and they only started accepting Bitcoin donations recently.

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That's the next thing after LocalTrader.

And one is the cute one

Yes, you are wrong. One is a group of anti-theist anarchists, the other is just a group of billionaires who like to go to conferences where they can hang out with like-minded people. If money was Star Wars or Dungeons and Dragons, Bilderberg Group meets would be the equivalent of nerd conventions, where people who can't relate to anyone else in their real life, go to meet like-minded souls.
I suspect bitcoin millionaires will eventually end up going to those meetings as well.

If you look at the hashing power and subsequent difficulty increases at the time that BFL started shipping their ASICs, you'd see that their burn testing was insignificant in comparison to the difficulty increase from ASICs actually shipped by them and their competitors. I think they do less than 24 hours of burn testing, on a tiny fraction of the available mining hardware. So I wouldn't get too upset about it.
Also, Josh allows (or used to) for some people to keep their hardware with him and offered them the service of doing the mining for them, instead of shipping the hardware and doing the setup and mining themselves.  I suspect he used his own pool for that purpose. Though I don't really get what the issue is with Josh owning and selling BFL a mining pool.

Hahahahahaha! So USA set up Ukraine as a trap by destabilizing it, and idiot Putin completely fell for it by attempting to invade it, just as USA planned? What a moron XD

And DEAR GOD, do you read any sources other than Russian propaganda bullshit? Based on all these news reports, you would think that Ukraine is on the brink of civil war, with fascists taking over the government, and everyone else freaking out and trying to escape the imminent fascist rule. While the actual news, coming from the people actually living there, is more along the lines of the people currently in power are helpless to do anything, and everyone in Ukraine is just worried about Russia invading them, and thinking they may have to fight off Russians.