You can maybe avoid taxes, but you're still legally obligated to pay them. If it's a significant amount, maybe they'll take unorthodox measures to find you.

Cash in-person can work, FedExing cash can work, maybe gift cards, whatever... It's important you don't transmit details of the transaction online. So, if someone's sending you cash for BTC, never say how much cash was sent or what the exchange rate was, and ideally, you'd just securely send them back a USB stivk with a privkey or wallet instead of transmitting any of that data online. The receiver of the USB stick would ideally not move the bitcoins to a wallet he controls, so it's not obvious an exchange occurred. You can later say it was for a higher or lower exchange rate depending on who's being investigated/prosecuted at the time. This requires a significant trust bond between the two conspiring transactors, of course. These are the same principles used in other tax scams. You sell a car for $5,000, but say the transaction was $2,000 so there's less tax burden. Some people do the same for land, airplanes, whatever.

Obviously, you don't want to deposit cash you receive, because you'd have to explain its origin in an audit. The burden of evidence is on you with the IRS. It's generally cheaper and involves less prison time to just pay what the gunmen say you owe than to try defrauding them.

Even if the hard drive is physically in pieces, it isn't necessarily impossible to recover the wallet.

Thanks to Adam's awesome help, proofreading will get done much faster. 9 finished (amazing work -- lowest FP score of any, by far), onto 30.

(PR queue still on pg10 and being updated. Bothered theymos about adding it to pg1 after qwk did -- feel free to bother him again for us. )

I doubt it. Because everyone's moving relatively slow and the road would be quite congested (four people in a car takes less space than four people on individuals bicycles, and then buses... freight would take multitudes more people...), road rage, I'd guess, would be much more likely to result in gunshots. People pedaling slow would probably just be shoved off. We'd all have eye patches and gauze over our faces (if we aren't just shot to death).

Plan on 3+.

Do any companies actually prohibit installing software outside the buggy Play store? (asked in earnest -- I honestly have no idea)

Okay. We had a goat not too long ago. She really needed another to keep her company, but I wasn't interested in putting more money in for a hobby which only returns milk I found myself unfond of (and she always found a way to break through the fencing...), so she went to a 4H student who has a fair collection of goats. Anyway, definitely understand it. Glad neighbor handles egg production for the area, though. 

Oh, cool - I totally missed the RSS feed (I kept looking through SoundCloud wondering which freakin' button I was missing). That seems to be working well, and it keeps it all in WinAmp, which is nice. Thanks!
ETA: Awesome! Downloaded the entire set overnight. 74/75 succeeded, and downloaded the failed one successfully this morning!

(-But Andreas was near a bunch of chickens, right? I didn't mishear that? I'm not crazy?)

Yeah, OP, that's fine (and no, you shouldn't need to update private keys unless maybe you create new addresses - Idunno if Multibit wallets are deterministic or not). Armory's safer and more convenient if you have the RAM (with the new version, you don't need 4GB+, but still 2GB+, I believe) and ability to keep up with the blockchain.

When you want to do a transaction, you'd plug a USB stick in the online computer (which has only a watch-only wallet), fill out the transaction info (saved as a file), move the USB stick with unsigned tx to the offline computer (with the real wallet), sign the transaction, move it back to the online computer and broadcast the transaction. Your hand is held throughout the procedure and it takes less than a minute, all without exposing your password online (unless you have some type of well-done virus on the USB stick, maybe).

Running obsolete hardware decreases the profitability of running newer, efficient hardware, preventing that efficient hashpower from going on the network.

It's a free market equilibrium thing where, long-term, the network isn't any more secure and you're losing money over a grid tie-in or from running efficient ASICs.

You might think "oh, well my hashpower isn't going to significantly impact others' decisions to purchase new mining hardware" - and to an extent, you're right. The impact's as insignificant as the security provided to the network.

/enthusiasm-quashing dick

A profitable alternative would be hosting others' efficient miners, who would be quite pleased to have access to cheap electricity (I'd guess you also have battery backup and the potential to use grid electricity if you had to, providing a relatively high level of redundancy, decreasing downtime).

It'd be quite easy, too (... well - for an existing ISP). Super-low maintenance compared to accepting cash. If there isn't payment on due date, the gateway user software simply locks the the user out. Pay monthly rate later, you're able to use the network again -- no fussing with CSRs.

Would be great with a WISP, and allow a dramatically more frictionless on-demand service.

As for needs, insurance is probably toward the top of the list. Insurance and an exchange serving the US which isn't always on the verge of being hacked or shut down. The cheap, easy-to-do reselling stuff is already covered.

Bitcoin has multiple different ways of preventing spam based on age (I don't recall age scheme off top of my head) and BTC value of tx. Maybe you could make an impact if you had 1M BTC.

Peers connected to you would simply reject your transaction if it doesn't meet the minimum fee (there are two potential minimum fees - a minimum fee to relay the transaction, and a minimum fee set by pools to actually include the tx in a block -- only in certain instances is the minimum 0BTC). Mining pools would likely never see them.

Hm. Triggered a memory. A year or so ago, didn't you propose that everyone should be given a horse, dank?

Need more rich trolls.

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Vanity address riddles costing many, many weeks of peoples' time in subsequent transactions. Eventually, it leads to a hosted, encrypted archive (password and URL found by solving all the riddles) with a .txt in it - "lol jk."

Would be (is?) government honeypot. Especially after DPR, I don't think anyone's stupid enough to try hiring an assassin online without a personal reference from a highly-trusted long-time friend.

Before FH shut down, there were all sorts of retarded assassin websites which looked like those old 199x Yahoo starter sites. They were good for a chuckle. If there are any real assassins out there, I don't know of them, and I occasionally like to see what's going on in the underground. Maybe for the best.

Your printer, generally.

Between Pirate and DPR, forum screenshots have appeared multiple times in court dockets. I don't think there are a bunch of government agents on the forum telling people to pay taxes, but governments, in some form, obviously look around the forum from time to time (or at least use sent screenshots as evidence).

They (FBI in particular) have a habit of discovering and contacting people in the community who are fairly private. Whether that's from being on the forum or somewhere else, it seems pretty plausible they've infiltrated the Bitcoin community to some degree, but probably only to get information on certain people.

Allow third-party apps to run in Android, download app to phone from website, install app. Problem solved.

ETA: I actually normally do this because Google Play is unreliable whenever I've used it (waits what seems like a completely random time to actually download the app, between immediately and 30m in some cases). It's much faster for me to grab the .apk off a site.

Another issue from newcomer on .89.9x

In his setup, QT is run by Armory, not run independently. When it syncs to 100%, Armory switches over to offline mode. If he restarts Armory, the same thing happens (syncs, then switches to offline mode). Trying to get more info (anything in particular which'd be helpful?), but that's what I have on it right now. Any ideas?

ETA: Nm, just didn't notice "Building database."

Freakin' beautiful. If only I were one of the Bitcoin millionaires....