maybe a dumb quesiton:

with very expensive bcrypt hashing with added salts, could a 6 digit pin maybe provide reasonable protection against bruteforcing?
so it would maybe take 5 seconds on a phone to calculate the correct decryption key, which is thrown away as soon as the app is closed.

yeah, austria!

what changes in society can we expect if a country is forced to adopt bitcoin?

as a thought experiment:
for example, if greece exits the euro, drachma hyperinflates and people turn to bitcoins, silver, gold. for practical reasons most transactions would take place in bitcoins..

lets assume the state or a an elected successor entity still exists how would the use of bitcoin shape society?

primarily because its a little more controversial and you will get critical questions afaik some bitcoiners oppose taxes heavily.

my questions are: [imagine me now putting my european-socialist hat on]
could bitcoin due to its transparency improve tax collection fairness in an all-bitcoin world?
could entity de-anonymisation be used to enfore a progressive wealth tax?

what kind of transactions will be taxable
could there be more automation maybe? something like a government-run API "sendmany" or TX fee to settle VAT instantly?
how many tax collectors could we fire once the government gets more efficient?

+1

the topics lonelyminer posted seem all very non-controversial to be honest.

two ideas:

-how taxes would work in a bitcoin dominated world
-why is bitcoin a fiat/not a fiat currency

So you think pirate is already trapped in his own short squeeze and will thus be bankupt soon?

Der wöchentliche Biertaucher-Podcast - diesmal mit einem 20 Minuten Bericht vom Berliner Hackathon - beginn Minute 16 bis 36.

http://spielend-programmieren.at/de:podcast:biertaucher:2012:061

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isn't this the first rule of journalism?

also, gawker article === bubble time. be wary

i think he is just trying to wake people up with some controversial quotes.

right at the start "there are only 5 people in the room who understand why [multicast issues on the internet] this so true"

when cleaning up some scarcasm from his text he says:
bitcoin is the best value transaction system in the world
the code seems extemely secure he could not point to any exploit

there are exactly 2 issues he is worried about:
1) scalability because it keeps all transaction history
2) bitcoin is not anonymous

so to counter this criticism:

1) the community is very aware of scalability and is developing fixes for it.
2) this is intentional

interestingly he claimed a bitcoin thief published a donation address somewhere with a different ID. what is the story here?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ2rb4pHH1g

go watch it - or at least the start it is quite nice.

Mein Wissensstand ist, das es zwar getrennt angegeben werden muss aber bei der Steuererklärung bekommt man dann normalerweise was zurück was im endeffekt dazu führt das man genausoviel steuer zahlt wie bei einem normalen geschäft. Aber den genauen finanzjuristischen trick dabei muss man ein steuerberater erklären.

i do not have a design suggestion but a practical one.

i think there should be self-printable bitcoins. those should secure the private key with a pin/password/pattern.
so if they get lost or stolen they are not as dangerous as "blanks". once a user wants to spend them he writes the pin on the bitcoin note, the reciever then uses this to redeem it.

of course, this only makes sense if the clients support it. but if you set the precedence im sure smart clients will follow.

i am now getting the media files together from the bitcoin hackathon. if anyone has pictures/video please tell me, and maybe share them with me so i can add them to the footage.

great succees! we had 91 hardcore bitcoin developers in our hangout. everyone was busy contributing ideas.

http://imgur.com/AXHiT

we were even trending on google+. next bubble imminent!

We are starting the Bitcoin Hackathon soon, everyone who is interested to join can do so at

https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/3719b18fe4993e33a60ba6e57c119892d25f7b25?authuser=0

we have set up beamer+loudspeaker so everyone can hear and see you.

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i am also sceptical the coinlabs model will work in the light of modern FPGAs, and possibly soon ASICS.
maybe it was a good idea 6 Months ago, but the coming massive diffculty increase with reward halving makes it look like a weak model.
unless you count people overpaying by 15x with their electricity for music/games.

aaand its gone..

from: https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/222759825526890496

Rick Falkvinge and others already pointed him to Bitcoin.
Given that he has some issues with frozen funds he has a lot of incentive to see Bitcoin grow.

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