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All the publicity about the Silk Road is definitely driving up the sales of bitcoins. In the last week, the listings on that site, and the orders, have more than doubled.
Whether you like the idea or not, bitcoins are benefiting from people who want to use them to buy drugs.
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I actually agree that drugs should be legal and one should be allowed to ingest anything they please. But what should and shouldn't be has little to do with what IS and ISN'T. Drug trafficking IS illegal in the united states. This rich and powerful man now sees drugs and bitcoins as indivisible and mining and trading bitcoins as a criminal offense. He is actively trying to convince his rich and powerful friends of the same directly because of silk road. Silk road is a thread to the bitcoin network and I personally want to see it exterminated.
I know there are forum rules, but at what point can I say mean things about this guy? Sounds like "buddha" can't remove his tongue from the bottom of the government's boot heel, and quite frankly, sounds a lot like them with his twisted morality. mjsbuddha, understand that you have ZERO say in what I, or anyone else chooses to put in their own bodies. The fact that you feel you somehow have a right or duty to impose your ideals of behavior on others is really sickening to me. You want to shut down a website cause you don't like it?!?! Why don't you work on yourself first? |
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If Schumer has a problem with Silk Road, just wait until someone builds a site based on Jim Bell's now infamous essay, "Assassination Politics". There'll probably be bids on his ass the first day its online.  |
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People are spending TONS of bitcoins on the Silk Road.
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same here. flushed and still can't access.
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Anyone willing to send me an invite for .1 btc?
got it..thanks!
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ok, Something I want to clarify.
I wasn't suggestion the bitcoin network should be policed. I was suggesting THIS FORUM should be moderated more strictly. This is naturally the first place new merchants come when they learn about bitcoin and they want to know more. If the owner of 'grandma's home made cookies' comes here and sees a thread titled "Buy your LSD here, Anarchy, Death to the government" they are going to go running for the hills, and merchants are what give the bitcoins used for your drug money most of its value. Start a site called LSD4BTC.com forums and advertise there to your hearts content for all I care.
"Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough." — Frédéric Bastiat |
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Here's my prediction:
Bitcoin will hit at least $40 by the end of June, and over $1000 by the end of the year.
..and that may prove to be really conservative.
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Smooth transaction...thanks bitcoinexchange!!
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+1 bitcoinexchange.cc
smooth, fast transaction using western union
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My site, www.freeworldmarket.com has a pagerank of 3. I have to reconfigure some things on it to take bitcoins (paypal froze the purchase account on there now), then you'll be able to buy from over 70 stores. What's that worth? Bounty and donations: 141hzfGXS8PS6RoyFZA63NGzEVhRTABAvW |
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This needs to be moved to SELLING: "the topic starter is selling items ($) for bitcoins. "
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I might be able to get a particular silver mint onboard with taking Bitcoins if the bounty is high enough. Anyone willing to donate to close the loop between bitcoins and silver currency?
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Your distinction between child porn and drug selling is based on your own moral. (and I personally agree with it). But it is not the distinction done by the laws. (both of them are crimes and punished by prison)
You say that a lot of people are libertarian (I'm myself somewhat libertarian but I don't think it does matter). That doesn't mean that all of them are nor that bitcoin is a libertarian tool. It could be used by libertarian. So what ? Was it the intended goal at the beginning ? It's just like saying Linux is anti-Windows. Linux is used by anti-microsoft people but it doesn't mean that it's the goal (and annoying anti-windows people are quickly banned from Linux forum, even if they don't say anything bad regarding the law. In your case, it's worse).
Trust me : never try two revolutions at the same time, never mix revolutions. Either you choose bitcoin, either you choose libertarianism, but mixing both at the same time is a recipe for failure. Just like communist people in a free software community.
So, I believe that bitcoin forum's moderator should choose :
1) Bitcoin is an economic/software experiment only. Discussing related politcs is of course good thing but everything should respect the law : no money laundering, no drug, no child porn. Remember : it's the image you give to any external viewer seeking information about bitcoin ! Do you thing that average Joe would trust a bunch of anarchist Junkies to do anything related with their money ?
2) Bitcoin is a libertarian/anarchist project. Your message then makes sense. The image you give also makes sense. But then, it should be advertized from the start so innocent people like me will know what to expect and assume that they are putting their foot in some trouble waters…
You should read "The Law" by Frederic Bastiat and get some principled morals in your life. Cause right now, you just sound like a typical boot-licker. |
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Bearbones,
I'm in Colorado and I'm looking for someone to trade silver for bitcoins with.
Do you 20-30 btc that I could pay for with cash or silver?
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I think Bidding Pond is more than awesome! What are you guys crying about? That its green? or that it isn't called something similar to ebay?
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I have some 1/4oz and 1/5oz Norfed Liberty Dollars that I'd like to trade for a small amount of bitcoins. Preferably with someone local. Anyone here near the 4 corners area (CO,AZ,UT,NM)?
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I'll be adding companies from my website - www.freeworldmarket.com. They already accept privately minted silver medallions, so its a warm market. EDIT (Nov 2018): Unfortunately, I had a partner in this endeavor and he had the domain. Since we have parted ways he redirected it to infowars. I don't approve. |
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