Link to the whole declaration of FBI agent that lead the SR investigation http://ia700603.us.archive.org/21/items/gov.uscourts.nysd.422824/gov.uscourts.nysd.422824.57.0.pdf

TL;DR:
- CAPTCHA on SR site wasn't configured correctly with TOR and leaked the IP of the server
- Server was in Iceland, Icelandic authorities helped the FBI to get server backups etc
- In that backups there were IPs to other backup servers (some USA, some foreign) and FBI got that too
- At that point, Ulbricht was "only" the lead suspect
- They used pen registers (routing only, no contents) to confirm the identity by checking when he was online on the ISP + IPs/ports used and when he was online at the SR forum
- After that they arrested him

Misleading title. This is a third-party bookstore.

Bitcoin is definitely cross disciplinary intersecting the study of computer science, technology, finance, law, sociology all together. An astounding innovation and achievement: a digital-based public ledger on a globally decentralized p2p network

Blockchain.info iphone buggy as hell

Mycelium. New bitcoiners might want to check out "Getting Started With Bitcoins" at http://ccwvslaw.org/item/1814, especially section "2.3 Send/spend".

Big players selling so they can buy lower. No big deal (unless you are weak).

(talking out of my ass)

Why is this so funny to me? Is anyone else laughing? my god, i love it.

Mike Hearn is an incredibly talented and creative dev. He truly gets the wider reaching applications of the blockchain and has added tremendous value to Bitcoin. I find his level headedness refreshing and necessary. You don't have to agree with everything he says. Give the guy a break and more importantly some fucking respect. /rant

This isn't a bad idea. OP, I have some bitcoins I will sell you at a discount for only $1400 if you can make this happen.

"People purchase bitcoins and manage their accounts in privately-run online exchanges."

MSM coverage slowly improving, but still can't quite get it right.

Yes! One of the biggest misunderstandings people have about the financial services industry is the notion that somehow loans and credit are useful absent a fractional reserve banking system. They don't realize that if we just got rid of fractional reserve banking, no one would need to borrow money as everyone would be much wealthier.

I thought that during the time that BitInstant was operating that the federal government had not yet classified bitcoin as currency. I do recall that they introduced that idea at some point, then used that new classification to argue that existing bitcoin exchanges were suddenly illegal.

If there was a bitcoin central bank, all other bitcoin holders could have diluted the value of their own bitcoins in order to save a failing exchange. That way we could still have MT Gox. Perfect.

Google "Meridian Global Insurance Limited" Xapo's insurance company, see what turns up... http://help.xapo.com/questions/89743-Is-Xapo-insured-by-a-third-party-insurance-company

I recently got a friend to create a wallet and give me the address. Then I sent them some btc. Maybe not what you were after, but they thought it was pretty cool.

Actually something like this is working right now at https://www.coinprices.io

Here's a good discussion http://www.ted.com/talks/david_bismark_e_voting_without_fraud

You're just creating a rod for your own back
Millions of merchants you say.. well if true, are there customers to match? There are less than a million Bitcoin users, most of whom only have amounts totaling a handful of dollars - and how many of those remaining plan to cash in their Bitcoin for overpriced products anyway?

"Good god, I'm selling." 

a multisig where one key is trezor, another is on a secure, identity-verified web service, and the third is with the wallet provider
for my cold savings the trezor and its seed would go into a safety deposit box
my spending/income coins would also be handled by another trezor that stays at home in my home safety deposit, from which i transfer into my smartphone hot wallets on regular intervals. the seed for my home trezor would also go to the bank. income designated for savings would be shipped off to my ultra cold trezor also at regular intervals