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Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: bitcoins with homomorphic value (validatable but encrypted)
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on: November 28, 2013, 08:50:59 AM
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Ouch .... but it crossed my mind also.
So Sergio are you ever going to publish? Have you looked at the arguments regarding fungibility? If you truly have an idea that is possibly the best money humanity can have,
I don't have the best idea. No one can claim to have the best idea. But I'm unsure if I'd like to be remembered as the guy that facilitated global crime. Already done. So you can't be remembered as such, because somebody already did it (or will do it soon) ! Do you get the logic ? CoinSwap. CoinJoin. CoinControl. ZeroCoin. BlockChain info's CoinJoin implementation. Hello ? Sergio ? You there ?
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Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: bitcoins with homomorphic value (validatable but encrypted)
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on: November 27, 2013, 10:22:39 AM
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All these problems, like hiding the transfer amount , and anonymization, etc were solved (*) by my Appecoin protocol. (...) The fact that I didn't publish it (for a year) is that I still have moral doubts of enabling a completely anonymous payment system. Somebody has to proof that the benefit of such system outweigh the costs of its illegal use.
Actually since CoinControl, CoinSwap, CoinJoin and even ZeroCoin are already coming i think that your invention is not so of a big deal anymore. However obviously everybody would surely welcome yet another way(tm) to anonymize their wealth. EDIT: What I meant to say was that releasing it today would not mean much because we soon will have other means of gaining complete financial privacy.
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Bitcoin / Press / Re: 2013-11-21 Bloomberg: China will not increase dollar reserves anymore
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on: November 26, 2013, 10:00:25 AM
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Twelve Trillion USD invested in BTC with a 12 million BTC supply would be a $1 Million bitcoin. ...And that's without any user adoption by the people on the street; not even a single merchant accepting them. WHAT IS STOPPING THIS AND HOW DO WE DESTROY THAT?
Nothing needs to be done really except improving Bitcoin clients & websites so Bitcoin becomes more scalable, easy to use, secure and anonymous. If we do so, it will just happen. This is an unstoppable force of nature (or force of mathematics).
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Other / Meta / Re: [! LINK-SCAMMERS !] We seriously need outgoing link verification
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on: November 23, 2013, 09:09:47 AM
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It takes you to a login screen that looks like this forum, so they can get your name and password.
Honourable member of Staff, we welcome you ! Any idea if we could have outgoing link verification on these forums ? (You know, it would really help to mitigate attacks like this one)
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: [LEAKED] Private Bitcoin Foundation Discussions On Blacklisting, more (ZIP dump)
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on: November 17, 2013, 12:43:21 PM
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- if govnm't XYZ wants to track bitcoins by blockchain analysis, we cannot avoid it anyway, and they do it anyway, that's for sure. Whether some make national laws using such data is also outside our influence (but it would weaken the country's competitiveness) But that is exactly why the bitcoin development should put much more focus on improving anonymity. Tracking coins via blockchain analysis is the most important issue that ought to be addressed by the developers - but it hasn't been. Ever since Satoshi is gone, no actual privacy improvement have been made in bitcoin. Actually, wrong aaaand... WRONG again. What about CoinControl, CoinJoin and Coinswap ? The first one is being merged into Bitcoin-QT, second is being worked on and avaiable already at blockchain.info's wallet, and third is at the concept stage. These are all new ideas, give it time.The people in charge who he left the project to have obviously sold it to corporations and are now busy not developing bitcoin, but a surveillance system around it. Am I the only person who actually sees it?
Actually AFAIK for now it's just Mike Hearn from core devs, do you have proof that other core devs are also working on it ?
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Other / Meta / [! LINK-SCAMMERS !] We seriously need outgoing link verification
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on: November 17, 2013, 12:23:49 PM
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Look at the PM I just received : [ WARNING FOR NOOBS: DO NOT CLICK THAT LINK BELOW ! ] Be careful where you mine and exchange bitcoins for money. Most mining pools are a scam, bitcoin exchanges too(they will hold your money for months), look in the scammers section and see for yourself bticointakl.org/index.php?board=83.0This is a scammer, trying to harvest Bitcointalk forum's logins & passwords. We should act immediately - perhaps an automatic external linking protection (like youtube) or tagging algorithm adding extra description to every outgoing link (like slashdot) should be added to the forum. Algorithm such as this is easy to write and will save many noobs and people who misclick and don't read website URL's. Also: Somebody please ban this motherfucker (and others like him) before they do a lot of harm.
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