Q: Do you support sending PGP/GPG - encrypted emails ?

They are afraid. Good.

1. Clearly, the technology is not open source
2. It is not decentralized.

End of story. This is in no way competition to Bitcoin at all.
It only may be useful as a suplement to Bitcoin.

(Well i guess I'm not used to people giving up so quickly in long discussions, but that's OK too)

1. You completely ignore sociological & geopolitical aspects of such an event. Such a large operation would be a direct proof that Bitcoin is a danger for current establishment, which could cause MASSIVE surge in publicity for Bitcoin, which would bring a lot of new people into mining business.

Every action has a reaction, you simply CANNOT ignore that.

Let's consider a scenario. Let's assume that FBI/CIA/Other US govt agencies start a new supercomputer, and gain 60% in one day.
But there is no action without reaction. China & other countries who don't like USA immediately assume, that Bitcoin is probably a danger to US dollar and because China really wants to get rid of dollar, they put one of their newly built supercomputers into mining Bitcoins, so dollar will fall even more quickly.
Also, other "wild" miners join the game - some (ideological) to protect Bitcoin, but most because USA admitting that Bitcoin is dangerous confirms that is it valuable. So not only the attacker's network share drops below 40 or even 30%, but Bitcoin value skyrockets.

2. Increasing inflation by sunsetting old coins is in no way solution to this.
So your entire reply is decidely not on topic (as is mine, unfortunately).

Perhaps some ad servers are supplying unencrypted content.
Using adblock might help.

Also check out the fingerprint. Correct is 7D.3D.6A9495E4EE23C7A7C590BE1B3750BA84.D3.34 - SHA1 (i added the dots)

Works for me ?

But there is _NO_ problem. And there is _NO_ hard evidence that it will become a problem.

51% attack won't destroy the blockchain...
Also 51% is actually not enough to perform massive scale attack. You should have few percent more, which is highly unlikely (for example, if deepbit became the adversary, large percent of users would stop using it instantenously).

And we already have a contermeasure against 51% attacks - decentralized mining pools. If only people used them more often.

So increasing inflation by any means is not necessary. What kind of solution is that ? This is common thievery, nothing else.

We will return to this topic in 30 years, when it will be possible to verify these claims.

For now, stick to the matter at hand. And the matter is, we don't need any fix for a problem that neither does exist yet or it is certain it will ever exist.

I see yuur point, but you are not entirely on topic.

The topic author is not suggesting to "sunset" coins for security reasons, but for some bullshit semi-inflational reasons, which is plainly wrong and destroys the sancrosanct rules of Bitcoin as Gavin said.

Once the cryptography behind Bitcoin gets broken, I am sure that majority will agree that something needs to be done about old, insecure coins. In that case, i suppose it would be possible to re-hash the old coins somehow with new algorithm by sending them to a upgraded address using upgraded client.

But that is a matter for completely different discussion.

But we need to protect the children ! TOR is a tool used only by pedophiles. So TOR should be banned & deep-packet-inspection filtered out of the internet.
Don't you want to protect the children ? Or perhaps you are some kind of pervert ?

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Oh, i forgot to add that using cryptography should also be banned alltogether (for the common man at least).
Specialised organs willbe providing licenses for using cryptography only for people who are thoroughly tested against pedophilia, perversion, schizophrenia and other mental disorders.

After all, if you are a good person, then you have nothing to hide, don't you ?

[/irony off, in case somebody didn't get it]

So unless some serious event on a massive scale happens, we're doomed.
Are people of the world going to become slaves of a new generation of world-wide fascism ?

The future doesn't seem very bright for personal freedoms. Can anything at all be done about it ?
Will we be telling our children that once wa had the thing called "internet" where everybody could share stuff and communicate freely ?

"The news lies"

In other news: water is wet and fire is hot.

Yes, I seriously believe that when you make something good, and it is free and open source, people will come and support you.
That is the way Free Software works, it always has been this way since the dawn of GPL and Linux. This time is not different.

So just make a better currency, advertise it, publish a whitepaper like Satoshi did, and repeat the success of Bitcoin. If your conception is worth it, people will follow. It is that simple.

But perhaps the problem is, that the conception is not worth it, and this is why stealing other people's money through "wallet heartbeats" or some inflationary bullshit will fail.

I am pretty sure they don't.

However I am also assuming that CIA/FBI/Political Establishments/Whatever already have agents on the forum (after all they openly admitted their interests in Bitcoin) who will (probably) use every occasion to spread FUD, misinformation & propaganda.

You never know who are you talking to or how many of them is already here. So it is important to stop inflationist lies sooner than later.

+∞

The moment someone starts to mess with my savings, I'm leaving this boat - and so will do many big players (Assuming of course that chain split wouldn't occur first).

I seriously invite all those who want change the rules to make their own currency. I actually think there is a need for another inflata-coin in parallel to normal Bitcoin. But chainging the rules of this environment is absolutely out of the question.

Correct.
To compete with Bitcoin, any new virtual currency needs to open its sources first.

Not opening sources immediately means that we cannot trust the currency creator. The conclusion is that this is another fiat money produced by another government, but this time it looks that they want to create a fully digital currency.

However it will be a lot of fun to observe as they get reverse engineered by hackers/cryptographers around the world and fail.