The saying goes, you get what you pay for...  |
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To me morality is very simple. If you use violence, you are immoral (other than self-defense in the 1st and 2nd degree).
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Another chart! This one is posts per day, with a exponential y-axis. The moving average shows avg, posts per 31 days (month) / day.  |
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I'll put 100BTC @ 5 BTC per top 20 Players... so the Number 1 gets some bitcoin also. I'm happy to promote something... just don't have anything to promote.  |
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This is borderline psychological experiment.
you could do this next semester... however team up with the psychology people in your uni! could kill two birds with one stone. |
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Freenet accepting donations!
Sent coins to address!
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I have pledged to donate 200 BTC once the freenet project decides to take donations.  |
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Seriously, counseling services for BTC is a great idea! Maybe even set it up so you can do face2face with skype. |
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Thanks for the tip, but I did that. Considering the only place whatsoever that mentioned it was urbandictionary, it only had 26 up votes, and "define:wobber" on google came up with nothing, I skipped it  I guess urbandictionary is more of a dictionary than I thought to some people. noun: a semi-erect penis verb: to wobber, to be slapped in the face with a semi.  ROFL |
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the shutting down of the bitcoin forum (in 6 or so months,) will probably be the best thing that ever happened to bitcoin. Many, many times in history when a group is prosecuted, they decentralize and spread out.
Providing we get the bitcoin foundation strong enough to survive an attack before then, the bitcoin community will emerge much, much, much stronger and hardened.
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I don't think it is in the spirit of the project I envisioned to be able to pay a bitcoin buddy 10 BTC to provide you food and transportation. That's almost a worse outcome for the project than if you were to buy a pre-paid Visa. the project funding would just be going to your friends and not to real bitcoin merchants. This isn't a project about going on a sweet bitcoin roadtrip culminating in a bitcoin meetup in some Euro-accepting bar. You can do that in a different thread. I'm talking about buying food and shelter from REAL bitcoin merchants, almost starving and freezing to death, living off of coffee and herbal tea driving around in an Australian '84 Lemon with an empty tank.
How is one going to find these 'BitCoin merchants' if not from within the BitCoin community? Having a so-called 'euro-trip' that happens to promote the bitcoin merchants in Europe is a great Idea IMHO! Maybe not as wicked as freezing to death... but who know what crazy stuff one can get up to on a euro-trip and some good quality BTC! |
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I was having a look at that, looks 'ok' project. However a fully distributed system (such as freenet), involves lots of protocol issues that I'm wanting to avoid. I'm trying to design a forum system that will work on the normal internet, TOR, or even on top of freenet. However just getting it to work on the normal internet is a big enough challenge. A centralised system can be much faster than and distributed system, (avoids all the distribution issues). In the long run, there isn't any real reason why the system I have designed cannot be placed on a distributed layer. Just at this point I want to get it working in the first place. Read up on group certificates. This system is the only system that allows you to use your real pgp for signing on the forum level, however the server has no idea who made the each post (other the poster is a valid member of the forum) and is resistant to spam and malicious users. |
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I'm in for 500 BTC or so... Sounds like a good idea! |
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da2ce7, if your just looking to protect future posting for a period of time then the firefox plugin on a regular forum application would work fine.
I'm trying to do a few things at the same time: - Forum that uses pgp signatures to verify the author's identity
- Forum where the server can not understand the posts or know who it's users are
- Forum where the server can easily be backed up and forked
- Forum where the server can check you are a member of the forum, without knowing who you are.
The entire system hinges upon the group membership system. Group membership allows the server to stop spam from non-resisted members, without needing to keep a list of public keys. When a member misbehaves, the group membership opener can reveal who owns that membership, and expel that user. The server remains completely indifferent to the content or the members of the forum's it hosts. Protecting future posting for a period of time is a side effect of the system I'm intending to build. It may be useful for small groups, however in larger groups it is largely irrelevant. (somebody is going to leak the key one way or another). |
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This would require a client, you couldn't do this with a web based interface directly to the server. If the main issue is to keep the content a secret from the server then all the clients can just use the same AES key to encrypt/decrypt.
The main reason of th the AES keys is only to keep the content hidden from the server. For large forums it would be safe to assume that the key would be leaked very quickly. However I image that there will be many forums, for small forums (say 10 members), it quite feasible that the ASE key will be kept secret for an extended period of time. The latest AES key will encrypt an archive of the previous key. Having the latest key will gain one access to the entire history of post within that forum. When the key is changed, only the new posts are no longer available. This would require a custom client and is kind of p2p in nature. So the only reason the server is there is to host the content and nothing else, this would make the server very easy to implement and the client would be more difficult.
The server's role is to check that a member posting is doing what the 'forum owner' declares a member enrolled in that group can do. For example, a member of a 'user' level group can add new content, however cannot remove other users posts. A member of the 'moderators' group can remove 'users' posts. A member of a 'admin' group can do virtualy anything to the database. A plugin to Firefox would be the most natural way to implement this sort of forum, the client software should ask for a private pgp key, that key will be used generate all the other private keys used within the forum. The server can contain an file that contains a encrypted archive of all the private information generated by each user's client. This archive is used so that when the user clears her computer history (other than her private pgp key), she can still recover all her forum memberships. |
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