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9241  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: WTF - Kiddy Porn in the Blockchain for life? on: April 30, 2013, 07:35:01 AM
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But if you’re worried about porn would it not be better to have a web wallet? ...

Seems just the opposite to me.  If that were a problem (which I doubt) then the wallet service is likely to be frozen along with your ability to use it for as long as the investigation takes.

Of course a well designed wallet service like blockchain.info will have work-arounds for that problem.  OTOH, some of the workarounds may be responsible for the rash of thefts that have plagued them lately.



I guess it’s better than having the porn at your house. I didn’t know about the blockchain.info thefts. I don’t use that service. Everything I read lately seems designed to keep new people from ever wanting to try Bitcoin.
9242  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: WTF - Kiddy Porn in the Blockchain for life? on: April 30, 2013, 07:12:01 AM
The average users (especially new users) do not need to run a full node. I think there are enough full nodes worldwide to protect against a 50% attack. If you have any fear over what's in the blockchain then don’t run a full node. This will all be solved eventually with tx pruning. What happened with ultraprune? I thought Pieter Wuille was going to implement that a while back anyway.

51% attacks are about mining, not full nodes. Ultraprune will be implemented, but more work needs to be done on working out how blockchain data will be distributed. Give it a few more months at least.

Running a full node is safer and more anonymous than SPV nodes, let alone web wallets and similar. For example when you run a SPV node you have to tell your peers what addresses you are interested in. Those addresses are obscured with bloom filters, kinda like telling your peer "tell me about addresses starting with 1bk, 1y4, 1z2 etc." but it will always be less anonymous than running a full node directly and will become even less anonymous as transaction volume increases and the specificity of your bloom filter increases.

But if you’re worried about porn would it not be better to have a web wallet? New users that see things like this might be dissuaded from using Bitcoin because they think they are required to take all the baggage that comes with it if they decide to use Bitcoin and that’s not true.
9243  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: A bitcoin user group that is open and expresses the will of the community on: April 30, 2013, 06:51:10 AM
Organizations exist to represent individuals working toward a common goal. There needs to be a clear cut agenda with solutions beyond the reach of the individual that require the efforts of the collective organization. The agenda needs to be more than “equal representation” and “caretakers of the organization's maintenance and internal finances.”

Why don’t you come up with a list of bullet points for the organizations agenda first and pitch organizational structure/membership dues later.

Go right ahead and help me make the agenda. I do not want to dominate the agenda or set "my" agenda.

Here are some of my ideas:

- Offer local chapter support for new bitcoin users
- Encourage bitcoin software development for a robust and diverse bitcoin software ecosystem
- Offer free classes, tutorials, after school programs and university guest lectures
- Create and promote bitcoin educational materials
- Offer local members as teachers, mentors, speakers for local events
- Coordinate community bitcoin events such as conferences, meetups and seminars
- Help local businesses adopt bitcoin with member technical and educational resources


Just off the top of my head.

Now you’re talking! Elaborate on these concepts by showing how they can be accomplished and ask for feedback on more ideas requiring a collective effort. Start a thread with a foundation set in your agenda and then setup the most amicable structure you can also using suggestions of the potential membership.
9244  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: WTF - Kiddy Porn in the Blockchain for life? on: April 30, 2013, 06:43:22 AM
I don’t understand why anyone today would ever run a full node like Bitcoind or Bitcoin-Qt. Do you just like waiting hours for the catch up every time you fire up your computer to send coins? The block chain porn pollution issue is nonexistent for users running an SPV node like MultiBit or no node at all, like blockchain.info or Electrum.

Either the problem of objectionably data in the block chain is non-existent for you if you were a peer, or it's a problem that when attacked will impact everyone relying on the infrastructure which are peers.  It may be a valid assumption that people with the wherewithal to be peers are more prepared to protect themselves against harassment than 'amateurs' though.  At least for now.

Accd to Hearn you don't need an up-to-date blockchain to send BTC.  It makes some sense that that would be the case, but I've not tried it first hand.  Accd to Garzik users can help the network by being peers.



The average users (especially new users) do not need to run a full node. I think there are enough full nodes worldwide to protect against a 50% attack. If you have any fear over what's in the blockchain then don’t run a full node. This will all be solved eventually with tx pruning. What happened with ultraprune? I thought Pieter Wuille was going to implement that a while back anyway.
9245  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: A bitcoin user group that is open and expresses the will of the community on: April 30, 2013, 06:35:11 AM
Organizations exist to represent individuals working toward a common goal. There needs to be a clear cut agenda with solutions beyond the reach of the individual that require the efforts of the collective organization. The agenda needs to be more than “equal representation” and “caretakers of the organization's maintenance and internal finances.”

Why don’t you come up with a list of bullet points for the organizations agenda first and pitch organizational structure/membership dues later.
9246  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: WTF - Kiddy Porn in the Blockchain for life? on: April 30, 2013, 06:11:08 AM
I don’t understand why anyone today would ever run a full node like Bitcoind or Bitcoin-Qt. Do you just like waiting hours for the catch up every time you fire up your computer to send coins? The block chain porn pollution issue is nonexistent for users running an SPV node like MultiBit or no node at all, like blockchain.info or Electrum.
9247  Other / Off-topic / Re: CornedBeefHash on: April 30, 2013, 05:50:31 AM
Is he still around possibly under a different pseudonym?

Here, Phinn. I found him lol

ROTFL

This is your best troll yet! I'm laughing so hard I'm pissing myself.

Signed
Your faithful follower,
CBH



Yep, that's me and Matt is so full of shit his eyes are brown. LOL

Color me confused!

It’s a treasure hunt. Find the post that the above quote came from and you won’t be confused.
9248  Other / Off-topic / Re: CornedBeefHash on: April 29, 2013, 09:37:56 PM
Is he still around possibly under a different pseudonym?

Here, Phinn. I found him lol

ROTFL

This is your best troll yet! I'm laughing so hard I'm pissing myself.

Signed
Your faithful follower,
CBH


Yep, that's me and Matt is so full of shit his eyes are brown. LOL
9249  Other / Off-topic / Re: Corned Beef Hash on: April 29, 2013, 09:35:08 PM
I love to eat CornedBeefHash because I heard that fat people are harder to kidnap.

9250  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [18/4/13] bitcoin shuts down. Lol.. (News.com.au Australia) on: April 29, 2013, 08:22:49 PM
Geeze, someone forgot to turn off the block chain, I can still send coins! Those guys over at BitCoin can't even suspend operations correctly. Sad

Ha! We know it was you that picked the block chain padlock, Holliday. I think you'll find you wont get away with your evil plan quite so easily.

Err... CornedBeefHash made me do it! He called me yellow. No one calls me yellow. I think he took off though, haven't seen him around! Whatever you do, don't question the authorities!

Claiming you are being mentally controlled by a food product does little to lend credence to your claims of innocence.

LOL
9251  Economy / Goods / Re: Selling Negro for BTC on: April 28, 2013, 08:14:11 AM
Damn - it's candy. I was looking for someone cheap to paint my house. Please change the name of this thread!
9252  Other / Off-topic / Re: Boston Marathon Explosions on: April 27, 2013, 06:26:28 AM
What about emergency response teams, paramedics, fire departments, police forces, local and state and university, dispatchers, event planners, marathon runners, spectators, office workers in the buildings, all the media organizations (CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, newspapers, magazines), investigative reporters, residents in Watertown, gas station owners where the hijacked man escaped, insurance companies, the boat owner, your supposed crisis actors, hospital personnel, the wounded, mortuaries and funeral planners, funeral attendees...

Let's assume it was just the 1st bomb that was staged to account for the 'real victims', I haven't seen proof of that but many claim they exist..  the last 100 meters to the finish line was reserved for VIP's and invited guests, that takes away concerns of spectators being too close to get better footage of what's taking place behind the barrier.  The first responders probably aren't real police or paramedics, an example of that is the Craft International guys who were dressed as police at Sandy Hook.  If you take a look at the most played video of the event, the camera man just doesn't seem to want to pan down below the fence line - it seemed too consistent to be simply bad camera work.

The vast majority of media organisations are owned by a small number of Jews who are in bed with the government - they get fed exactly what they are to report on, notice the only reporting of the marathon runner saying that they announced that they were running a drill was a local station.

Hospital personnel, well the FBI could have easily come in and said that they're taking over a section but that may not needed since it was an Israeli hospital.

The same goes for any co-ordination of the hunt for them, which reminds me - I listened to a police scanner recording, someone said that they're firing rubber bullets - another guy came on sounding annoyed that was mentioned and said to switch to the other channel, hmmm.

The funerals were private - despite all the community support.

I don't want to address all you've listed, it takes too long but I think it can all be explained without too much of a stretch.


here's another odd scene for you viewing pleasure:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvOyyoCoV6A


Damn Freemasons and their Jewry. Freemasons are Jewed-up with all their Jewy Jewness.
9253  Other / Off-topic / Re: [WTS] My soul, 21BTC. on: April 27, 2013, 05:57:45 AM
If I buy your soul would you mind if I lock it in a closet and rape it for a few years, then get it hooked on crack and force it to do perverse sex acts in the street for traveling business men?
9254  Local / 한국어 (Korean) / Re: Off-Topic - Picture of hot Korean girls on: April 27, 2013, 05:47:19 AM
Bitch is so fine I'd suck her daddy's dick to get a piece of her pussy ~ Richard Pryor
9255  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin/Litecoin Miners - What are you doing with your coins? Sell?Hold? on: April 27, 2013, 04:56:42 AM
I save for the future. I don’t really have a fiat savings account so I use mining as a kind of long term savings plan. Also you should move this to the mining sub forum. You will get a better response.
9256  Economy / Economics / Re: Bitcoin the Bubblecoin on: April 27, 2013, 04:51:20 AM
I understand and it’s a good idea but not at this stage in the game. Bitcoin cannot be or act like a currency yet.
9257  Economy / Economics / Re: Bitcoin the Bubblecoin on: April 27, 2013, 04:32:23 AM
Bitcoin is not a currency it’s a steak. My corner grocer had T-bones on sale last week for $5.99 a pound, this week they’re $10.99 and next week they might be $6.99. You are never going to know the exact price of btc or steak until you check the price today. Welcome to the world of commodity trading; glad you could join us.
9258  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: FinCen preparing to prosectute some Bitcoin users on: April 27, 2013, 04:11:56 AM
5 pages of blah

*snip*

rule 10
if you don't want to follow the rules. don't touch FIAT

But BTCBuy was not exchanging directly for fiat they were doing gift cards in fiat denominations. If I can't even get a gift card with btc why should I mine. I don't want drugs off of SR so I guess I'm left with just trading with scammers in the Marketplace section of this forum, right?
9259  Other / Off-topic / Re: who likes smoothie (troll`) on: April 26, 2013, 05:28:44 AM
I voted +1 for Smoothie because he makes me laugh in the BTC-e troll box and because he likes to piss off little pussy girls like you.
9260  Other / Off-topic / Re: You know what I find the most disturbing about the bitcoin community? on: April 26, 2013, 05:17:11 AM
Bitcoin was created in 2009, the year where president Obama was first inaugurated. The recent rally also coincided with Obama's re-election. None of this is exactly surprising when you take a look at the demographics of the bitcoin userbase. The presence black president no doubt represents the deepest fears of the paranoid, fearful, and delusional libertarians/survivalists/conspiracy theorists/other assorted weirdos and kooks who make up the vast majority of the bitcoin community. Hence the creation of bitcoins and it's sudden rise in demand when Obama was elected and re-elected.  

So on top of bitcoins having nearly no practical uses outside of buying drugs, money laundering, and other highly illegal activities unsuited for proper currencies, the bitcoin userbase is also made up of bigots, racists, fearful gun nuts, paranoid survivalists, economically illiterate nitwits, delusional libertarians, and profiteering scumbags.

Not really helping to prop up bitcoin's facade of legitimacy, is it?  Roll Eyes

So you mean to say this forum is made up of a representative cross section of society. Yeah, I agree with you.

Thank you for relaying this bit of insight; so few people actually post here to be truly helpful. Without your brief synopsis we would all have just wandered around in a dark oblivion of uncertainty. God bless you.
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