http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/04/raid-of-medical-pot-school-theyre-going-after-industry-leaders.html


Edit:

It is legal in California and the citizens of California voted to legalize medial marijuana.  However, federal law trumps state law so the feds seems to have raided these state legitimized businesses.  This could be huge.

[Former Marine]

What should Jered say to Ben?  Ben is also speaking there.  Will there be conflict?

http://futureofmoney.com/moneyconference/
http://futureofmoney.com/moneyconference/attendees

Jered Kenna, TradeHill and Bitcoin.com, CEO
Former Marine, professional soldier in Afghanistan and early adopter of Bitcoin. Founder and CEO of TradeHill / Bitcoin.com. Currently residing in San Francisco. Follow Jered on Twitter: @jeredkenna

It can be argued he US has an illegal monopoly on money.  Your thoughts on this?  This could go to the supreme court.

I read this here to get started:  http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/565/how-can-one-download-the-bitcoin-client-securely

Jeff Garzik signs every release with his GPG key (also here). You can find release announcements (such as this one) on the SourceForge.net Bitcoin development list.

To verify the signature on a release, obtain the key from the link above. Obtain the release announcement from the link above. Obtain the download from any source. Then point GPG at the release annoucement (or the signature block from it, including the BEGIN and END lines). GPG will ask what file you want to verify, pick any of the ones listed in the signature certificate. It will then tell you if the release is identical to the release Jeff Garzik signed.

I downloaded GPG4Win and Kleopatra.  I install Jeff Garzik GPG key into Kleopatra. (Finger print looks ok '60B0 0235 B335 5D84 BF2A 4E35 DA1D C20F 2DBF 0CA8')

I download this file "SHA256SUMS.asc" located here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.5.3/

I right click "SHA256SUMS.asc", then select "Decrypt and Verify".  I select the bitcoin file "bitcoin-0.5.3.1-win32-setup.exe".

I get this message: "No signatures found."

What am I doing wrong?

I want to get the balance of a bitcoin address but the description of the web call on blockexplorer says this:

addressbalance - shows received BTC minus sent BTC for an address. Do not use this unless you know what you are doing: it does not do what you might expect.

This is the same as subtracting /q/getsentbyaddress from /q/getreceivedbyaddress.
Using this data is almost always a very bad idea, as the amount of BTC sent
by an address is usually very different from the amount of BTC sent by the
person owning the address.
/q/addressbalance/address

Why does it say that it is a bad idea?

What is the feasibility on putting block chain on Google App Engine?  I would like to do this since my app relies on Google App Engine.  I just want to read out of the block chain.

Thanks to Meni Rosenfeld of bitcoil.co.il we now have a Hebrew translated version of the original Satoshi paper!!!  Check it out...it reads from right to left!  You can access the paper using this link:

https://bitcoil.co.il/bitcoin-hebrew.pdf

Meni translated the document and put it in Word format.  I took the Word format and converted it pdf, added the charts, pics, and formatted it.  If you would like to translate the bitcoin paper for another language let me know and we can work together.  You can also access the Hebrew translation at http://www.bitcoinblogger.com/

Thanks! 

It seems like the U.S. is putting itself in a position to lose in the P2P banking revolution with all its regulations.  If it weren't for regulations there would be so many U.S. bitcoin exchanges now.  People are afraid to get in trouble with state and gov't laws.

Because of U.S. regulation people and companies in other countries are dominating the bitcoin businesses including, Mt. Gox and Bitcoinica.  Less regulation means more opportunity.

Which country has the least regulations to allow bitcoins to thrive?

Inspired by Phinnaeus Gage Chicago thread and adamstgBit Montreal thread, I want to form a list of San Diego bitcoin users who would like to go to restaurants accepting bitcoins as much as possible.  Once we have this list, I will start emailing and calling restaurant managers.  I am also thinking if I have your email and or signature it will be more convincing...sort of like a petition.  If a restaurant manager sees this list then it will be a no brainer to use bitcoin if the list is long enough.  Add your name to this thread if you live in San Diego and also your restaurant choice.  My choice is Stacked in Fashion Valley Mall since you can already order food via an iPad.

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It is hard to access silk road.  Would it be legal to have a website that caches silk road daily but u cannot buy anything from it?  It is just for curious people or for journalistic research.

Now might be a good time to buy more bitcoins.   Transferring money...

Thanks to Tuxavant, there is now a Vietnamese translation of Satoshi's original paper.  Here it is!  http://goo.gl/zuTjG

Please help this bitcoin paper be translated to other languages.  I am using the crowdin.net translation tool, but you are more than welcome to translate the text using your preferred methods:

The project is set up here:  http://crowdin.net/project/bitcoin/invite

Just click on the language and start translating.

I think this is important so I put it in the main discussion forum.  Thanks.

Umm, this might be big news.

"In response to coordinated attacks on the occupations and attacks on workers across the world:
Occupy Denver stands in solidary with our brothers and sisters who will be blocking the economic apparatus of the 1% by shutting down the ports of the world on Dec 12. Occupy Denver is calling for all land locked occupations to do the same with a coordinated shutdown of Walmart distribution centers throughout the United States on December 12th."

I want to develop a bitcoin app on Google App Engine (GAE).  However, I don't know if I can actually run bitcoin on GAE.  What I need is to be able to get total balance given a bitcoin address.  What is the easiest way to do this?  Thanks.

Here is the pdf!!! 

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B1UsG65HCLkuMjA3Mzk2ZTUtYjQ4Ni00MjEyLTgzN2ItMjI3ODU0M2Y4MGUx&hl=en_US&pli=1

Grazie per l'utente 'lamec'

Thanks to user "lamec" for the Italian translation of Satoshi Nakamoto's original PDF.  Here is the translation:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B1UsG65HCLkuMjA3Mzk2ZTUtYjQ4Ni00MjEyLTgzN2ItMjI3ODU0M2Y4MGUx&hl=en_US&pli=1

If you are Italian I need help spreading the word on this important document.  You can also access this document at bitcoinblogger.com.

Thanks!

If you would like to help out with translations pick your language by going here:

http://crowdin.net/project/bitcoin

Once the text translation is complete I can help converting it to PDF.

How can we let the Vatican know about bitcoin?

http://www.drudgereport.com/
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/24/idUS264245887020111024

I'm looking for a Chinese speaker who lives in San Diego.  I need this person to be able to translate the website.  This person has to be interested in bitcoins and will work for equity. 

[Also lawyers in France are using the bitcoin.org homepage against us.]

Can we relabel the front page of bitcoin to say crypto-commodity instead of crypto-currency?  After much thinking I believe that it is a commodity. Also lawyers in France are using the bitcoin.org homepage against us.

Can we please relabel it for the sake of bitcoin and because it really is a commodity?

Thank you.

I'm thinking about heading out this Saturday morning and spending the entire day at Occupy San Diego.  They are camping out indefinitely at the Civic Center.  Anyone interested?  I will make a sign.  What should the sign say?  The sign should mention bitcoin somewhere.