For those of you who don't already know; Epassporte is in trouble with Visa.

Today's press release on AVN:

http://news.avn.com/articles/ePassporte-Visa-Situation-Should-be-Resolved-Next-Week-410832.html

I've heard these words before. Reminds me of when IBill went into the crapper.

I think that payment methods on the markets should be negotiated by the buyer and seller directly.

Payment providers vary a lot between countries, continents, and even languages. Having the market railroad everyone into using the payment methods they prefer is wrong. I mean, how exactly is that a free market?

Well, under Common Law you have societies. Societies can have their own language. (Ask the Law Society about their creation: legalese.)

Those who use Bitcoins could join/create a separate society. They could, in theory, define money/wealth/currency/person/corporation/dog/cat/apple to mean whatever they want. They could even have their own dictionary that their society uses to interpret from.

The problem lies in tacit consent and assumption. Those who are part of the "other" (de facto) society will assume that the words that are being used are already defined (and can be redefined) by them. They can also trick you into tacitly agreeing with their definitions as well. Or trick you into granting them jurisdiction in situations where they normally wouldn't have it.

The best way to operate is to not cause conflict. Those who flagrantly mail out nutty looking paperwork to government officials will find themselves under abnormal scrutiny.

I hide in plain sight. I keep my politics within my group of friends. I refuse to obey laws that enslave me. I live modestly and don't make extravagant purchases or flash money around. I try to stay off of the radars of the so-called authorities. I am completely free this way.

I hope the owner of GSF would do the same. I'm not saying that he should give up. He shouldn't. He should keep a lower profile, and tone his politics down. They have no place in business.

Cheers!

He should try to leave his politics out of business; or tone them down at the very least. The average layman will perceive him as insane. Would you trust a man that you perceived to be insane with your money? I certainly wouldn't.

That being said, a lot of the things about law that he has on his site are correct 'in theory'. He will find that the legal system will steam roll him with statues 'in practice'. Theory and practice are totally different things.

He claims to have a corporation in Panama setup to handle things. (Probably for bank wires.) Which means that he's under the jurisdiction of Panama. (Or at least the part of GSF that handles fiat currency is.) He has a clause that states that he has a backup trust to take over should a statute/act of Panama violate "The Law of the Land".

I see an obvious problem: Panama never had (or has) the "Law of the Land" (which is synonymous with Common Law, btw). Sure, you could just say that Panama must follow English Common Law. That is like telling the USA to adhere to the law system of Zimbabwe -- OR ELSE! (Or else *what*? Exactly!)

I don't know how he expects that to work. Perhaps he will just abandon the bank account/corporation and give Panama the finger when something goes wrong? Lol!

In the end he's holding your money and you have to trust him. After this current monetary system completely breaks down, trust will be the biggest issue. As long as we have electricity and some kind of a network Bitcoin is a better system for running our ledgers.

I 'know of' the man who runs GSF. He's not a bad guy. He's jaded and pissed off at the current monetary policies. But, who isn't?

A super geeky way to do subscription payments is with the console client and cron.

If the EFF had a Bitcoin address I'd donate often.

This blog post might be of interest. It lists a few exchange sites with reviews.

http://www.bitcoinblogger.com/2010/08/bitcoin-exchange-review-my-experience.html

Hello all,

When you buy $200 USD or more worth of Bitcoins (per trade); I'll give you a 1% discount on the trade. That's a service fee of -1%!!!

This is a limited time offer. Offer valid for the next 30 days.

Cheers!

Same here. Put me down for 100 provided the final product is 100% accurate.

I'm not much of an artist...

v0.3.6 works on FreeBSD/i386 7.2,7.3 and on FreeBSD/amd64 8.0

Compiles cleanly without any warnings, and appears to be working fine.

(Not sure who you are asking)

Here's my experience:

I sent them Bitcoins on the 9th, and then I emailed them to let them know the name of the domain I wanted. I also sent them the IP that I wanted it DNS'd to.

The very next day it started working.

I suspect that they do everything by hand over there because I did have to email them after I made a payment.

Yup. I've dealt with privacyshark.

I purchased my domain with them on the 9th of July and it was working the following day.

Hmm... I implemented digest auth into a custom webserver I wrote a decade ago. From what I remember, it was fairly easy. However, client support back then was rather shoddy. It has improved a lot since then.

Perhaps we could document a simple stunnel + bitcoin configuration on the wiki then? Under a section called "Securely using bitcoind from remote"?

Just offering my 2c as usual.

Hmm.. shouldn't it be using digest auth instead of basic auth?

I usually wrap everything into SSL or IPSec anyway, but digest auth might keep noobs from getting pwned so easily.

If you are using PHP+JSON+CURL you can easily specify the user/pass with a curl_setopt() line. The parameter is "CURLOPT_USERPWD".

Thanks for the basic auth patch. Before the patch I was using uid/gid firewall lines to limit the bitcoind to only my special users/IPs that ran various scraps of code on crontabs. I'll likely still leave those protections in and just add in the basic http auth as well.

Strange. I use my bitcoind almost every day from PHP, and I haven't encountered that.

Try taking the "http://" out of your fsockopen(). The JSON-RPC server isn't really HTTP.

I've had the best luck with the curl+json php extensions, myself.

Even easier: I have the AUD (as well as Euros and CAD) rates in Bitcoins on the front page of my site (see sig).

The rates are updated every 15 minutes.

Hello,

I have a 10 Euro PaySafe Card for sale at cost. PM me if you are interested.

Cheers!

Actually, that was me. Seriously.