I stopped using it when I realized how impractical it is that messages expire so quickly (after a couple of days). Unfortunately that meant I'd basically have to 'call ahead' via some other medium, to remind my recipient to open their bitmessage client. The only reasonable use case for Bitmessage is that is it runs as a daemon in the background and you use some other means for receiving messages instead of their GUI, such as using a regular email client. |
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There's an entire industry devoted to professional trolling, and their job is to basically to astroturf and to disrupt online communities.
Whenever somebody calls them on it, they'll immediately hide behind "free speech" and cry "censorship", but that's just another aspect of the disruption - injecting self-doubt into the honest members trying to maintain the usability of the forum and thus neutralizing the community's defenses.
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Why does the name of this service remind me of a proposal Mike Hearn floated last year in the Bitcoin Foundation forums?
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Armory sometimes gets into a infinite loop of connecting and disconnecting from the node.
It's triggered after a node loses Internet connectivity (maybe it's set up to connect through a proxy and the proxy goes down for some reason).
When connectivity is restored and the node starts to catch back up with the network, Armory will start connecting and disconnecting 1-2 times per second, with the GUI showing a "can not connect to node" error message.
Closing and reopening Armory (while doing nothing at all to the bitcoind node) resolves the problem.
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The "Address Key Information" dialog box that shows private keys in various formats is missing QR code format.
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that sounds way too complicated! and who needs a middleman? I'm planning a trip down there myself ~ i want to meet the farmers myself and work out a deal where they send me the coffee and i showcase it and distribute it here via our sustainable bitcoin center/cafe!... Then i send them the BTC and they have an exchange for whatever down there! ;-) ~easy!!! The difference between the two is not complexity, but volume. Your way is how you'd involve bitcoin in a trivial amount of international commerce. The way I described is how you're start moving a single shipping container at a time and eventually scale up to the entire ship. |
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Hint: 1. Make some contacts in one of the Latin American countries where they export coffee, and where capital controls and inflation are a problem. Find largish holders of local currency who want out of their native currency and would prefer to get into Bitcoin and bring them in as underwriters. 2. Use the local currency from the underwriters to pay coffee wholesalers and suppliers, and export the coffee to the US. 3. You don't actually need the US importer to accept Bitcoin, or know anything about it. You can invoice them in USD via Coinvoice. 4. Pass the received bitcoins to the underwriters minus your fee. 5. Repeat as many times as desired. |
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I don't know why, but suggestions to delete the alt cryptocurrency never go anywhere.
Maybe a suitable alternative would be to add this forum area to the ignore list of all new account. That way they have to opt in to seeing that section by going to their profile and removing the ignore.
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The "New forum software" sub-forum did not exist when this thread was created.
Maybe it can lead to a discussion about the best way to handle old threads that fins themselves miscategorized after a new sub-forum has been added. I think the process of reporting miscategorized threads should be as streamlined as possible, because in the case of countering spammers and trolls the defenders are always outnumbered. So maybe every thread has a javascript link for reporting a miscategorized post. When clicked, this list could show the path the poster took through the FSM, and the reporter can click on the erroneous decision. Then they answer the classification questions from that point on and when they arrive at a new end point the report is queued for moderator review and approval. This process works both for maliciously and retroactively miscategorized posts, but the algorithm should not penalize a miscategorization if the new forum area is newer than the original post. |
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Every single "rule" this forum has is openly broken, spam, massive bumping, disruption of threads, you name it. Pretty much this applies to the entire forum. Bitcointalk is almost completely unusable now, as the resources available to the attackers exceed the resources available to the moderators . |
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The US Government now oversees all possible entry points into Bitcoin from US Dollars, even localbitcoins / peer to peer sales over $300. (see: florida bitcoin sting). They now legally have access to the identity of everyone who purchases over $300 worth of Bitcoin with US Dollars.
The US Government also now requires you to report every Bitcoin transaction as a capital gain or loss.
So every time I spend bitcoin, I need to:
1) Keep track of how much fiat I used to buy the bitcoins originally
2) How much the item costs in fiat
3) Figure out when I bought what bitcoins and when
4) Calculate the capital gain based on the difference between the item and the purchase price of the coins
5) Repeat steps 1-4 every time I spend Bitcoin
6) Calculate my total gained / lost from every transaction at the end of the year.
7) Report this amount on my tax form, including proof of every transaction in the event of an audit
If this procedure is not followed, you are subject to being locked in a cage.
So to buy a $2 coffee, I need to expend more effort than the coffee is worth.
Where is the outrage? What many have feared is currently taking place, and it's like nobody gives a damn. They are stopping Bitcoin in its tracks before there are enough people outraged by it to create any backlash.
Let this be noted by everyone calling for "more regulation", and to "ignore the libertarians". We are losing. Badly.
Bitcoin is bigger than the USA. The people who you're complaining are not giving a damn are quietly setting up shop elsewhere. |
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This is after all an electronic "smart currency"...it seems to me that there will be electronic solutions to this problem which will make the necessary record keeping required for most Bitcoin users rather invisible. Oh yes. The same Silicon Valley companies who were overjoyed to sell their customers' privacy down the river will be rushing to solve this problem too. |
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Never mind, I think I may have answered my own question. Slickage is a apparently US company, and US companies should be expected to consistently sabotage strong encryption and user privacy.
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and sensitive info like password reset links and things of the like can be sent with GPG if the users opt into it.
Am I reading this correctly that you'd only encrypt "sensitive" emails from the forum if the user opts in to encryption? Why not all emails the forum sends? |
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Users should have the option to upload a GPG public key that the forum uses to encrypt all notification emails.
Alternately or in addition to this, the forum should have native Bitmessage capability. This means letting users register with Bitmessage addresses and sending notifications through the Bitmessage network. Note that routing the notification through a honeypot gateway like bitmessage.ch doesn't count because the primary purpose of Bitmessage is to not have monitoring chokepoints with access to plaintext.
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It's crazy. Why would a high-volume forum, that uses a hierarchy of topic-specific sections, care about making sure that threads are properly classified?
It's almost as if some users appreciate being able to actually use the forum to find the information they are looking for without it being hidden under a deluge of mis-categorized clutter.
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Is Bitcoin attracting enough concern trolls to create its own singularity?
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