Just curious, how did it get seized.
As I understand it, seizing an onion domain involves compromising the private key associated with it - just like a bitcoin address. I guess they just raided the server in this case. But astonishing that they go all the way to upload their nice picture. They mark the conquested territory. |
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Sorry, but you are not addressing my point: it is not enough just to declare it is a "false dichotomy" - you have to show precisely why. Here is my point again:
To justify your disagreement, you must show precisely where my reasoning went wrong.
This is a very mechanical and sociopathic view on humans. Probably you've read too much Hoppe or Ayn Rand. Humans are not machines. They also have the capability to share things without involvement of a state. That is why it is a false dichotomy, very clearly. Or do you use currency in your own family to trade tit-for-tat? Similarly, ancient societies consisted of tribes, i.e. extended families. That's why the step to minted coinage is not as straightforward as you believe it to be. Still, they also had "division of labor" to some degree nevertheless. For larger tribes they were some kind of reputation systems in place, if you read anthropologists like Professor (and anarchist) David Graeber, who dispels many myths like Adam Smith's thought experiment (nothing else it was) about the origin of money from barter. At larger scale, things surely get more complex, but I mentioned that myself. Even then there are other approaches without requiring a state. Again, you should watch the linked documentaries to broaden your horizon, just a little. You have this reductionist view that is too typical for US Libertarians, it already has become a cliché. |
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sometimes I also believe the internet was designed that way, to be "insecure", it's a military invention after all. but then again I guess we can't take such things for granted. Communication technologies for the masses before were never anonymous at all. You always had to register your phone in one way or another, and communication was unencrypted of course, and you had to take the authorities' word that they follow the law and don't monitor everything without a reason and strong suspicion. Same with former data services like BTX, it was just self-evident that all communication data would be available for authorities on request. But in this new internet-www-thing it was at least new and (at least here in Germany) very unusual and anarchic that the providers of content (website owners etc) or e-mail would not really and necessarily know who you are. |
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and? AND? 'tis a conspiracy aye?
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you could argue though that self-sufficiency doesn't scale.
Or that top-down structures and hierarchies in human history had an evolutionary advantage after all.
People do like exotic goods after all which the kings and rulers indirectly provided when they issued currency which enabled trade along the (ancient) Silk Road.
So, not every invention by kings and rulers was bad. Some satisfied real demand. Money seems to belong into this category. Money is a tool to organize division of labor on a grand scale. Recognizing that fact, Bitcoin may be the first currency not issued by an authority, and the first without force behind it (to the gold bugs: no, gold was never free, was always mined on territory of rulers and thus initially belonged to them).
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vielleicht auch Glück und 21 Mio sind bereits fertig gemint bis die Gesetze da sind
Ein Wort: Transaktionsgebühren. |
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ok so, I think, in short, if he also invests, i.e. has a strategy for gambling and investing, and also has more coins than the house, then he practically controls it. He almost is the house then. But usually houses don't gamble. No wonder why people feel cheated.
Also because he gambles large amounts himself he has first-hand (or rather zeroth hand) knowledge about when to invest or divest, i.e. can react the fastest. It's like insider trading.
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welches Land ohne Sünde ist, werfe die erste Atombombe, nich wahr
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This is a good question. Primecoin finds prime numbers....
What does bitcoin do though? You cannot tell me that all that power is just going up in smoke....
then why do you think we expend a lot of energy and fuel to dig gold out of the ground? is it necessary? you can see mining like finding serial numbers for Bitcoins (although that is technically not entirely accurate, but may be a good short comparison or explanation for newcomers) in order to limit the money supply in order to make bitcoins valuable. Primecoin is a nice experiment, but it's yet unproven if those chains of prime numbers provide any additional value. I agree energy expenditure required by proof-of-work is not the nicest thing about Bitcoin, but the only alternatives known so far to reach consensus in a decentralized system are proof-of-stake and a web of trust. Both have other problems. In theory, a centralized digital currency and transaction system would require only a database and could be much more energy efficient, but I'm not so sure in practice when I look at the big banks and all their COBOL crap they're still running on inefficient, legacy mainframes in giant data centers. |
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right, I believe that's what Ripple's gonna do. American Granny has a PayPal account, logs in as usual and sends money to an email address grandson@in-australia.orgShe doesn't know or need to know that grandson doesn't even have a PayPal account. Grandson has a MtGox account however. Ripple does all the magic inbetween. |
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I think the north pole don't have a real estate bubble. I am not sure if Germany have any land in the north pole.
No, but at the South Pole, apparently.  |
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