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.

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.

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.

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.

Color me confused!

Here, Phinn. I found him lol

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

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

5 pages of blah

*snip*

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

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?