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After almost 4 years of fork drama - despite all the lobbying shenanigans, the doom scenarios, the colluding of corporations and of mining cartels, regardless the agreements, the conferences, the social media war, the rage quits - the sheer ineptitude amongst bitcoiners to reach new consensus is instating a clear status quo in regard to Bitcoin's rules. It may very be the time for bitcoiners to acknowledge that Bitcoin is as robust and immune to political pressure as its great inventor Satoshi - praise him be - intended to with the subtile genesis block: The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for bank Rejoy for immutability of the Bitcoin consensus rules is the most invaluable feature of the system if trust is at its core. Bitcoin is set in stone and anyone still delusional about breaking those rules is promoting nothing else than some altcoin. In any case, people are free to use Bitcoin. And they are free to leave it. Or hell they are surely free to fork off. But if people still want in, it may be the time to surrender and abide to its unequivocal - unprecedentedly apolitical - status quo. So the sooner bitcoiners give up the futile and useless divisions, the better. Bitcoin is dead. Long live Bitcoin! 
I'll leave two quotes for the heart broken forkers: There are lots of important improvements left to make to Bitcoin and it would be sad if they couldn't be made-- but Bitcoin's rules being shown to be truly immutable in practice would be a massive consolation and a great reason to feel confident about the system. I believe this will be the ultimate fate of Bitcoin, to be the "high-powered money" that serves as a reserve currency for banks that issue their own digital cash. Most Bitcoin transactions will occur between banks, to settle net transfers. Bitcoin transactions by private individuals will be as rare as... well, as Bitcoin based purchases are today.
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Announcement: We will withdraw support from February 21’s roundtable consensus, unless Adam Back gives us a reasonable explanation why he quietly changed his title from Blockstream President to Individual at the very last moment — without anybody noticed. We feel we’ve been cheated. I don’t know how we can trust Blockstream anymore in the future.
dont trust blockstream, dont trust core, dont trust coinbase, dont trust classic, dont trust obama. stop being the whiny little girl seeking for some daddy comfort, this is bitcoin. |
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"There is no universe where Bitcoin is democratic."
 Bitcoin, by design, is not democratic. No matter how many times you try and assert that it is, it is not, and it never will be. And it is also not socialist.
Removing all of the fascinating, revolutionary technical details, the core of Bitcoin is that it is voluntary and the transactions and ledger entries made with it are mediated by a computer programme. You choose, as a free human being, to download the required software, use Bitcoin and be bound by the nework’s fixed rules.
There is no voting involved, no coercion, no obligation, social or otherwise to use it. You are not even required to donate your CPU and bandwidth to the Bitcoin network in exchange for using it. When you use Bitcoin, you volunteer to use it. It is as simple as that. Whole read here: https://medium.com/@beautyon_/bitcoin-is-not-democratic-81f87158250a#.jijcvs56hThat is all.
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Keeping track and discussing our beloved Chief Scientist "Gavineries". Some referenced list would have included: - Meeting with CIA - Association with bankrupted "Bitcoin Foundation" and renown criminals amongst which Mark Karpelese, peados and other attention-cash-burning-whores. - Meeting with CFR - MIT eg. US Gov payroll - Mike Hearn wingman in contentious social engineered fork attempt branded as "Bitcoin XT" And the last to date: yet another Bitcoin fork branded as " Bitcoin Classic".. Note one of his new "partner in crime":  Spice it up with Cryptsy's unsurprising EXIT SCAM: Thank you Gavin, but no thank you.  |
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from: http://qntra.net/2015/12/the-false-dilemma-of-xt-versus-blockstream/Since the beginning of the XTCoin affair a substantial amount of social engineering has been directed into framing the Bitcoin blocksize as a polarized dispute between exactly two camps. One of these camps is the XTCoiners lead by former "Core" client developer and current United States Government Stooge Gavin Andresen working with Google washout Mike Hearn. The opposition is supposed to be lead by the current set of power rangers developing the "Core" Bitcoin client. This other side happens to be linked through a startup called "Blockstream" which also eventually wants to push through a heretical block size hardfork. The Blockstream difference is they don't want their hardfork until they sell miners on a number of less contentious "soft" forks to make Bitcoin safe for their hypothetical product. This framing, which is being heavily pushed on social media and by the venture capital circus, completely ignores actual Bitcoin interests prepared to defend Bitcoin from hijacking, or it presents them as some part of the Blockstream camp. This happens in spite of certain Bitcoin interests being demonstrably not "in on" the larger Blockstream agenda. Forcing a narrative dichotomy is a social engineering strategy which has had great success herding "the masses" in the past. Its most notable success was transforming domestic politics in the United States from a thing which was contested into a theater piece appearing to be a contest. During elections in the United States candidates present wildly differing visions, yet if elected they would carry out nearly the same agenda as their opponent. There's occasionally some inconsequential measure taken to recognize the camp that turned out the most votes, but the actual impact of a US election is trivial. The mechanism working here along with the final outcome are exactly the same as they are in sports fandom. A surrogate tribal identity is cultured by marketing to a large mass of people. Despite the marketing they are fed, they are in fact irrelevant to and unaffected by the actual outcome. Their carefully manicured tribal identity however leads them to believe otherwise. The XT side of the blocksize debate counts numerous fiat/BTC interfaces and YCombinator backed startups desperately hoping microtransactions just might make them viable as supporters. They have been working to build a froth among people too poor to consider a Bitcoin network with any possible set of merits worthwhile should they ever have to spend so much as a whole dollar's equivalent in transaction fees. This powerless and impoverished mass is made to feel further aggrieved through Y Combinator backed social media outlet Reddit's /r/bitcoin "community" having a moderation policy in opposition to "their" team. What interest does it serve Y Combinator to have Theymos continue running /r/Bitcoin and "censor" marketing for other properties like Coinbase? It contributes to uniting the fandom through shared adversity, and this raises serious questions about who is actually DDoSing XT nodes. With one tribal identity solidified, everyone else is framed as "the opposition" to XTCoin. An emphasis goes on "the" so that the opposition might be treated in the "debate" as a singular other tribe. The XT opposition's only actual unifying factor is they don't want that stupid populist idiocy to succeed, but their face is framed as Blockstream, a different populist idiocy. Blockstream which "just happens" to employ many of the "Core" client power rangers is "conveniently" there to serve as the "face" of the opposition. As this performance continues, remember to consider the economic actors missing from various compromise hard fork proposals. These parties are withholding consensus essential to change and some possess the economic force to sink a hardfork. There is no actual serious blocksize "debate" at present, just an elaborate show creating the appearance of one. |
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http://trilema.com/2015/time-to-rehash-that-old-strategic-superiority-discussion/In an effort to provide better service to our expanding user base, BitPay will be adjusting our pricing plans October 1, 2015. Due to your volume and settlement preferences, we do not believe your account will be drastically affected, but we wanted to make you aware of the changes to our Free Plan. On October 1st, all Free Plan accounts will be migrated to the Starter Plan, which offers free, instant conversion for 30 transactions per month. If you process more than 30 transactions, a 1% settlement fee will be applied to the additional transactions. The Starter Plan offers weekly settlements in USD and EUR, and daily settlements in BTC. Your processing Tier will not be affected. The new Business Plan applies a 1% settlement fee and comes with unlimited processing, daily settlements for all supported currencies and additional features, such as Multi-User Organization and access to Premium Integrations. The new fee structure is designed to simplify bookkeeping and enable us to build more features and tools for Business accounts without changing how we price each plan. The addition of new services for Business and Enterprise plans is part of our continued effort to build the world’s smartest and fastest payment network. Your participation in this ecosystem is a critical part of that vision. We truly value your business and hope that you continue to use BitPay for your bitcoin payment solutions. You may adjust your settlement and plan preferences at anytime by visiting your Settings in the Dashboard. You can learn more about the new pricing model here: https://bitpay.com/pricing. For account-related questions, please contact support@bitpay.com. The BitPay Team Soooo.. just like VISA... With bitpay now, merchants will have to pay to use bitcoin as a payment processor.. + Lmao at this 30 transactions/month threshold.. So much for merchant adoption!  edit: otoh that would have been a lot of frappucinos to bay back teh VCs!
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Voila un blog que je trouve bien loquace: http://blog.lavoiedubitcoin.info/A propos de l'auteur du blog: "La Voie du bitcoin" exprime les considérations d'un historien qui a passé sa vie dans la finance sur ce que l'histoire, la philosophie ou la littérature peuvent suggérer comme réflexion face à cette nouveauté radicale qu'est le bitcoin. Je ne sais pas comment cela à pu m'échapper, mais je trouve les billets de tellement bonne facture que je me devais de lui dédier un fil à part. Bref, vous êtes les bienvenus pour en discuter ici. |
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By David François aka davout : https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3jhwi3/i_support_I support BIP000, the BIP that proposes not to change Bitcoin. Why? Because I believe Bitcoin isn't broken, I do not buy the false dichotomy that a choice "must be made" between different competing BIPs, or else the sky is going to fall on our heads without notice and "potential new users" are going to "leave ship". Because I understand that the security of the network has to somehow be paid for, and the current money issuance schedule is still in a phase where mining is heavily subsidized. I know that at the same fee levels, even with 100mb blocks, the miners would make nowhere near the current block reward. Because I conlude that therefore, blocks must necessarily be full for the Bitcoin network to be able to pay for its own security. Because I realize that the block space is a scarce resource that is sold, but not paid for, by the miners, especially with constant time block propagation proposed by IBLT and the like, which is why a "tragedy of the commons" situation can only be avoided by a block size cap. Because I compare this situation with how nonsensical it would be to declare that "people should be allowed to chop down as much wood as they'd like from the rainforest, because the market will magically sort it out and protect the trees". Because I am not scared by the constant fear-mongering of those who compulsively want to "fix" a system that isn't broken to ensure that they'll get rich while they sleep by allowing more people to "buy into Bitcoin". Because I don't buy the false sense of urgency that is manipulated upon us, I want to see if less costly solutions can be found, and I want to revisit once fees become more important than the block reward. This is why, my friends, I support BIP000. |
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That's it. Right here, right there: BITCOIN IS OURS.  Ph0rk?!  NOW ABIDE. |
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Just to make things clear... if you ever want to see +1000$/BTC.. and even moar!
It appears people seems not to grasp the complexity of the matter: it is mostly highly political. And of course politics have its way to cloud things up.
Mass adoption will not improve bitcoin's value, it is quite the opposite actually, it will likely flood and drown it.
But this mass thing is so not going to happen anyway, even if you "scale it" in advance. Sry but wake up, in its current form, bitcoin is out of the reach of regular sheeple.
People are too much anticipating, buying the fake dreams of them Antonopoulos, Gavin, Hearn et al., saving the planet with free insta-frappucinos.
But it's its scarcity both in cap and transactions that will allow it to surpass any regular investment.
I mean fuck look at the damned financial markets all around the world that are on the edge of a massive collapse!
We should be surfing that wave if it was not for the community tearing one another over technical things it does not even fully understand!
Stop worrying about scaling and all the technical fuss that you will never grasp anyway,
Patches, bug fix, or next gen 2nd/3rd/etc layers solutions, will come in due time and with fair testing.
For now, it is its robustness against human miscalculations, its decentralization, its permission-less-ness and its network's security that matters.
Why always this urge of Quantitative Easing everything?
That is so wrong on so many levels and in total opposition with bitcoin's fundamentals.
I do hope its antifragility would make bitcoin rise up from xt's hashes.
But for now, Gavin et al. had exactly what they wanted, that is dividing the community and induce the fear that it is not such a good investment.
The rules should be set in stone, and not subject to any major modification and by anyone, or that would create a precedent.
For example, just look at what them politicians are doing with the Euro and Greece! They rightfully fear to create that precedent of exiting that stinky zone!
But hopefully, not like the euro, bitcoin is an investment! not cash, not pocket money!
It is a Privilege, as in the privilege of securing your wealth from the banksters and bypass them!
So bitcoin is bound not to be free to transact with. The mining fee market should settle as the blocks gets filled.
That is what it takes for miners that will eventually see their block reward drop to zero to secure the system!
Anyway, nevermind, just HODL ffs!
Otherwise it will just be a pale copy of visa/mastercard/paypal and it will sink, because it simply cant compete.
Thats why its price is stalling now. You cant have both an investment and pocket money.
By definition it is not the same, and never will be: the investment you keep it.. the money you spend it.
So get your shit straight and tell them egomaniac forkers to gtfo of bitcoin! Starting with them two usg moles Gavin and Hearn.
It's time to be greedy and defend our safe-haven against these social attacks!
Hope i was clear, btw this is a self moderated thread, because i'm fed up arguing with the trolls and shills everywhere. It's your fault if bitcoin is loosing ground!
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Not going to mention all the the blatant fraud and usurping of a technology that is decentralized.
Imho its time we voice our opposition to be represented by these scammers and usurpers.
They represent nothing but themselves.
Bitcoin would be better off without it.
What you think?
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post the names of xt shills i got several already, once we got enough ima compile a nice list so you could easily ignore their altcoin BS and FUD. meono
Litecoinguy
knight22
sAt0sHiFanClub
also, mods, please put newbie jail back on, this forum is just infested with scammers & shills, its even worst than reddit sometimes.its cleaning time, imho the same IP shouldnt have more than 3 accounts, or else be banned. |
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Petit copié collé d'utilité publique et mis en forme de http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/loi-renseignement-la-bo-te-a-outils-pour-apprendre-a-proteger-votre-vie-privee-en-chiffrant-vos-donnees-et-communications-39818894.htmN'hésitez pas à ajouter des petits conseils de grand mère.   Pratique : Maintenant que la Loi Renseignement est votée, et en attendant la suite du processus législatif, apprenons à résister à la surveillance de masse avec quelques outils cryptographiques plus ou moins simples, mais efficaces et légaux.Nous sommes le soir du mardi 5 mai, et c’est un jour funeste pour la démocratie. La France s’était autoproclamée « pays des Lumières » parce qu’il y a 250 ans notre pays éclairait l’Europe et le monde grâce aux travaux philosophiques et politiques de Montesquieu, qui prônait la séparation des pouvoirs, et de Voltaire et Rousseau. À dater d’aujourd’hui, jour du vote en première lecture du projet de loi sur le renseignement, à cause d’une classe politicienne d’une grande médiocrité, s’enclenche un processus au terme duquel le peuple français va probablement devoir subir une loi dangereuse, qui pourrait s’avérer extrêmement liberticide si elle tombait entre de mauvaises mains. Même si la loi doit encore passer devant le Sénat puis peut-être revenir en seconde lecture à l’Assemblée Nationale, même si une saisine du Conseil Constitutionnel va être déposée par une soixantaine de courageux députés en complément de celle déjà annoncée par François Hollande, mieux vaut se préparer au pire, en imaginant que cette loi sera un jour promulguée. En faisant un peu de mauvais esprit, j’ai imaginé un nom pour le dispositif qui sera chargé de collecter nos données personnelles afin de détecter les comportements suspects : « Surveillance Totalement Automatisée via des Systèmes Informatiques » et bizarrement l’acronyme est STASI !
Dès lors, à titre préventif et sans préjuger de l’avenir, il me semble important d’apprendre à protéger sa vie privée. Ceci passe par le chiffrement de ses communications, qu’il s’agisse d’échanges sur Internet ou via SMS, et cela peut se faire au moyen de différents outils à la fois efficaces et légaux. Bien évidemment, les « vrais méchants » que sont les terroristes, djihadistes, gangsters et autres trafiquants connaissent et utilisent déjà ces outils : vous vous doutez bien qu’ils n’ont pas attendu ce billet de blog pour les découvrir…. Une boîte à outils pour protéger votre vie privée:
Anonymat sur Internet
Pour protéger votre identité sur Internet et notamment sur le web, vous pouvez combiner l’utilisation d’un réseau privé virtuel, ou VPN, et de TOR, un système d’anonymisation qui nécessite l’installation d’un logiciel spécifique, TOR Browser. Je ne vous donne pas de référence particulière en matière de VPN, car l’offre est pléthorique. Pour faire votre choix, je vous engage à consulter les sites spécialisés UnderNews et VPNblog qui vous donneront une vision exhaustive de ce qui est disponible. MAJ : un lecteur m’a indiqué l’existence de La Brique Internet, un simple boîtier VPN couplé à un serveur. Pour que la Brique fonctionne, il faut lui configurer un accès VPN, qui lui permettra de créer un tunnel jusqu’à un autre ordinateur sur Internet. Une extension fournira bientôt aussi en plus un accès clé-en-main via TOR en utilisant la clé wifi du boîtier pour diffuser deux réseaux wifi : l’un pour un accès transparent via VPN et l’autre pour un accès transparent via TOR. Chiffrement des données
Pour chiffrer le contenu de vos données, stockées sur les disques durs de vos ordinateurs ou dans les mémoires permanentes de vos smartphones, vous pouvez mettre en œuvre des outils tels que LUKS pour les systèmes Linux ouTrueCrypt pour les OS les plus répandus : même si TrueCrypt a connu une histoire compliquée, son efficacité ne semble pas remise en cause par le dernier audit de code effectué par des experts. Je vous signale aussi que l’ANSSI – Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information – signale d’autres outils alternatifs comme Cryhod, Zed !, ZoneCentral, Security Box et StormShield. Même si l’ANSSI est un service gouvernemental il n’y a pas de raison de ne pas leur faire confiance sur ce point . Chiffrement des e-mails et authentification des correspondants
GPG, acronyme de GNU Privacy Guard, est l’implémentation GNU du standard OpenPGP. Cet outil permet de transmettre des messages signés et/ou chiffrés ce qui vous garantit à la fois l’authenticité et la confidentialité de vos échanges. Des modules complémentaires en facilitent l’utilisation sous Linux, Windows, MacOS X et Android. MAJ : un lecteur m’a signalé PEPS, une solution de sécurisation française et Open Source, issue d’un projet mené par la DGA – Direction générale de l’armement – à partir duquel a été créée la société MLState. Messagerie instantanée sécurisée
OTR, Off The Record, est un plugin à greffer à un client de messagerie instantanée. Le logiciel de messagerie instantanée Jitsi, qui repose sur le protocole SIP de la voix sur IP, intègre l’outil de chiffrement ZRTP. Protection des communications mobiles
A défaut de protéger les métadonnées de vos communications mobiles, qu’il s’agisse de voix ou de SMS, vous pouvez au moins chiffrer les données en elles-mêmes, à savoir le contenu de vos échanges : RedPhon est une application de chiffrement des communications vocales sous Android capable de communiquer avec Signal qui est une application du même fournisseur destinée aux iPhone sous iOS. TextSecure est une application dédiée pour l’échange sécurisé de SMS, disponible pour Android et compatible avec la dernière version de l’application Signal. Plus d’information à ce sujet sur le blog de Stéphane Bortzmeyer. MAJ : un lecteur m’a indiqué l’application APG pour Android qui permet d’utiliser ses clés GPG pour chiffrer ses SMS.
Allez vous former dans les « cafés Vie Privée » Si vous n’êtes pas geek et ne vous sentez pas capable de maîtriser ces outils sans un minimum d’accompagnement, alors le concept des « cafés Vie Privée » est pour vous : il s’agit tout simplement de se réunir pour apprendre, de la bouche de ceux qui savent le faire, comment mettre en œuvre les outils dont je vous ai parlé plus haut afin de protéger sa vie privée de toute intrusion, gouvernementale ou non. Tout simplement, il s’agit de passer un après-midi à échanger et à pratiquer la cryptographie. Pour cela sont proposés des ateliers d’une durée minimum de 1 heure, axés autour de la sécurité informatique et de la protection de la vie privée. Et comme le disent avec humour les organisateurs, « les ateliers sont accessibles à tout type de public, geek et non-geek, chatons, poneys, loutres ou licornes. ». Bref, le « café Vie Privée » est à la protection de la vie privée ce que la réunion Tupperware était à la cuisine. Voilà, vous avez je l’espère suffisamment d’éléments pratiques pour commencer à protéger votre vie privée… en espérant vraiment que le Conseil Constitutionnel abrogera les points les plus contestables de cette loi et nous évitera d’avoir à déployer un tel arsenal sécuritaire. @PierreCol + Bitcoin |
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I dont know if someone actually made a similar poll since search engine is down so here we go.. Bitcoin fork proposal by respected Bitcoin lead dev Gavin Andresen, to increase the block size from 1MB to 20MB. Interesting read about it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=919629.0 (locked  ) Feel free to discuss it further. |
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*noob here anyone kind enough to explain to me how to display bitcoin live data such as USD price or the global hashrate on an HTML website? i've been trying to code by myself lately yet i am having trouble fetching data from external sources (such as blockchain.info). not sure what to use..  here my current code from the index.html, the price being fixed at 326: <div class="span3"> <div class="milestone"> <div class="milestone-content"> <div class="milestone-description"> <span>USD Price</span> </div><!-- end .milestone-description --> <span class="milestone-value" data-stop="326" data-speed="2000"></span> i'm thinking i should use blockchain.info's API ( https://blockchain.info/fr/stats?format=json ) but i am not sure how to do this.. thanks in advance! |
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this is how you do it. |
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