Most of America speaks English. That obviously means that Great Britain has the right to march in its armies and take America back 


This is kind of what I was talking about btw: http://oleg-leusenko.livejournal.com/1361141.html

Soon as we finish polishing all the Local Trader things, we'll start on HD. It's apparently about 10% done (just the very basics). No ETA as of yet though.

Is Expected Time the time between initial trade request and Cash Received pressed, or Trade Accepted and Cash Received, or something else?

http://youtu.be/2_h9ZZwhwBg

The latest major Mycelium feature, called Local Trader, is finally out of beta and available to everyone.

With Local Trader, the development team at Mycelium sought to answer a question often posed by those new to bitcoin: Now that I have a bitcoin wallet, how do I get some bitcoins?

Local Trader lets those who already have bitcoins to offer them for sale, and those who are looking to obtain bitcoins an easy to use interface to find those sellers in their area. This allows sellers  to support their local Bitcoin economy and earn a little in the process.

Local Trader at a glance:

• All trades are person-to-person with cash for BTC.
• The servers mediating the trades hold no bitcoins or fiat.
• Bitcoin sellers create geographically pinned sell orders where they sell at a chosen exchange rate +/- a percentage.
• Bitcoin buyers can search for sell offers geographically, look for the best deals, and start a trade session.
• All trades use in-app end-to-end encrypted chat between the buyer and seller. Not even the Local Trader servers can read the contents.
• Buyer and seller can negotiate price and meeting place.
• As with the Mycelium Bitcoin Wallet, the source code of the Local Trader feature is open for review. You can compile and roll your own.
• The seller does not need to put funds into escrow; they are spent directly from his Mycelium Wallet.
• The buyer does not have to wait for confirmations - our revolutionary transaction confidence graph provides additional feedback on whether the transaction will in fact go through.
• A small 0.2% fee per side of the deal goes to supporting the infrastructure that we provide.

Initially, the trader options will be limited to standing sell offers and instant buy offers. Meaning only those who wish to offer to sell bitcoins for local currency will be able to create standing offers for buyers to search through. Later on, Local Trader will also add standing buy offers, for those who wish to offer the option of converting bitcoins to other currencies as well.

To enhance privacy, Local Trader eschews the login and password authentication method, and instead uses your wallet's private key to register and authenticate with the server, using the well established bitcoin key message signing feature. Also, all communication between buyers and sellers, such as when and where to meet, is encrypted using the traders' respective private keys. This means that the Mycelium servers that manage trades only know the bitcoin addresses, pseudonyms, coarse location, and trade history of the people involved, in effect making the system almost as pseudonymous as Bitcoin itself from the company's point of view.

Finally, when the traders meet and exchange cash, Mycelium's other new feature, the transaction confidence graph (currently limited to Local Trader) goes into effect, displaying the probability that the transaction that sends coins to the buyer's wallet will get included in the next block. To achieve this, Mycelium servers track the transaction as it propagates through thousands of nodes, as well as check it for possible double-spends, transaction malleability, long chains of unconfirmed inputs, proper transaction fees, and other possible issues. With this, traders can exchange cash and be on their way, fairly confident that the transaction was legitimate, without having to wait 10 minutes for a confirmation.

With the recent issues involving centralized exchanges shutting down or running away with money, and governments forcefully shutting down methods of getting money into exchanges, Mycelium hopes that this new feature will let anyone be a walking ATM, making exchanging bitcoins for other currencies much easier, and allowing traders to earn a bit of money in the process.

You can download the most recent verson from Google Play store here, or directly from mycelium.com.

Fore more info and HOWTO refer to: http://www.mycelium.com/lt/help.html

TL;DR: This is the most decentralized exchange you can use today. Decentralize ALL the things.

http://youtu.be/2_h9ZZwhwBg

The latest major Mycelium feature, called Local Trader, is finally out of beta and available to everyone.

With Local Trader, the development team at Mycelium sought to answer a question often posed by those new to bitcoin: Now that I have a bitcoin wallet, how do I get some bitcoins?

Local Trader lets those who already have bitcoins to offer them for sale, and those who are looking to obtain bitcoins an easy to use interface to find those sellers in their area. This allows sellers  to support their local Bitcoin economy and earn a little in the process.

Local Trader at a glance:

• All trades are person-to-person with cash for BTC.
• The servers mediating the trades hold no bitcoins or fiat.
• Bitcoin sellers create geographically pinned sell orders where they sell at a chosen exchange rate +/- a percentage.
• Bitcoin buyers can search for sell offers geographically, look for the best deals, and start a trade session.
• All trades use in-app end-to-end encrypted chat between the buyer and seller. Not even the Local Trader servers can read the contents.
• Buyer and seller can negotiate price and meeting place.
• As with the Mycelium Bitcoin Wallet, the source code of the Local Trader feature is open for review. You can compile and roll your own.
• The seller does not need to put funds into escrow; they are spent directly from his Mycelium Wallet.
• The buyer does not have to wait for confirmations - our revolutionary transaction confidence graph provides additional feedback on whether the transaction will in fact go through.
• A small 0.2% fee per side of the deal goes to supporting the infrastructure that we provide.

Initially, the trader options will be limited to standing sell offers and instant buy offers. Meaning only those who wish to offer to sell bitcoins for local currency will be able to create standing offers for buyers to search through. Later on, Local Trader will also add standing buy offers, for those who wish to offer the option of converting bitcoins to other currencies as well.

To enhance privacy, Local Trader eschews the login and password authentication method, and instead uses your wallet's private key to register and authenticate with the server, using the well established bitcoin key message signing feature. Also, all communication between buyers and sellers, such as when and where to meet, is encrypted using the traders' respective private keys. This means that the Mycelium servers that manage trades only know the bitcoin addresses, pseudonyms, coarse location, and trade history of the people involved, in effect making the system almost as pseudonymous as Bitcoin itself from the company's point of view.

Finally, when the traders meet and exchange cash, Mycelium's other new feature, the transaction confidence graph (currently limited to Local Trader) goes into effect, displaying the probability that the transaction that sends coins to the buyer's wallet will get included in the next block. To achieve this, Mycelium servers track the transaction as it propagates through thousands of nodes, as well as check it for possible double-spends, transaction malleability, long chains of unconfirmed inputs, proper transaction fees, and other possible issues. With this, traders can exchange cash and be on their way, fairly confident that the transaction was legitimate, without having to wait 10 minutes for a confirmation.

With the recent issues involving centralized exchanges shutting down or running away with money, and governments forcefully shutting down methods of getting money into exchanges, Mycelium hopes that this new feature will let anyone be a walking ATM, making exchanging bitcoins for other currencies much easier, and allowing traders to earn a bit of money in the process.

You can download the most recent verson from Google Play store here, or directly from mycelium.com.

Fore more info and HOWTO refer to: http://www.mycelium.com/lt/help.html

TL;DR: This is the most decentralized exchange you can use today. Decentralize ALL the things.

http://youtu.be/2_h9ZZwhwBg

The latest major Mycelium feature, called Local Trader, is finally out of beta and available to everyone.

With Local Trader, the development team at Mycelium sought to answer a question often posed by those new to bitcoin: Now that I have a bitcoin wallet, how do I get some bitcoins?

Local Trader lets those who already have bitcoins to offer them for sale, and those who are looking to obtain bitcoins an easy to use interface to find those sellers in their area. This allows sellers  to support their local Bitcoin economy and earn a little in the process.

Local Trader at a glance:

• All trades are person-to-person with cash for BTC.
• The servers mediating the trades hold no bitcoins or fiat.
• Bitcoin sellers create geographically pinned sell orders where they sell at a chosen exchange rate +/- a percentage.
• Bitcoin buyers can search for sell offers geographically, look for the best deals, and start a trade session.
• All trades use in-app end-to-end encrypted chat between the buyer and seller. Not even the Local Trader servers can read the contents.
• Buyer and seller can negotiate price and meeting place.
• As with the Mycelium Bitcoin Wallet, the source code of the Local Trader feature is open for review. You can compile and roll your own.
• The seller does not need to put funds into escrow; they are spent directly from his Mycelium Wallet.
• The buyer does not have to wait for confirmations - our revolutionary transaction confidence graph provides additional feedback on whether the transaction will in fact go through.
• A small 0.2% fee per side of the deal goes to supporting the infrastructure that we provide.

Initially, the trader options will be limited to standing sell offers and instant buy offers. Meaning only those who wish to offer to sell bitcoins for local currency will be able to create standing offers for buyers to search through. Later on, Local Trader will also add standing buy offers, for those who wish to offer the option of converting bitcoins to other currencies as well.

To enhance privacy, Local Trader eschews the login and password authentication method, and instead uses your wallet's private key to register and authenticate with the server, using the well established bitcoin key message signing feature. Also, all communication between buyers and sellers, such as when and where to meet, is encrypted using the traders' respective private keys. This means that the Mycelium servers that manage trades only know the bitcoin addresses, pseudonyms, coarse location, and trade history of the people involved, in effect making the system almost as pseudonymous as Bitcoin itself from the company's point of view.

Finally, when the traders meet and exchange cash, Mycelium's other new feature, the transaction confidence graph (currently limited to Local Trader) goes into effect, displaying the probability that the transaction that sends coins to the buyer's wallet will get included in the next block. To achieve this, Mycelium servers track the transaction as it propagates through thousands of nodes, as well as check it for possible double-spends, transaction malleability, long chains of unconfirmed inputs, proper transaction fees, and other possible issues. With this, traders can exchange cash and be on their way, fairly confident that the transaction was legitimate, without having to wait 10 minutes for a confirmation.

With the recent issues involving centralized exchanges shutting down or running away with money, and governments forcefully shutting down methods of getting money into exchanges, Mycelium hopes that this new feature will let anyone be a walking ATM, making exchanging bitcoins for other currencies much easier, and allowing traders to earn a bit of money in the process.

You can download the most recent verson from Google Play store here, or directly from mycelium.com.

Fore more info and HOWTO refer to: http://www.mycelium.com/lt/help.html

TL;DR: This is the most decentralized exchange you can use today. Decentralize ALL the things.

Aww dangit! They beat Mycelium Local Trader with this release by a day or two. Ours will be out in a bit, will work globally, and won't need an account at a third party... Still sucks that they may have stolen a bit of our thunder, BUT yay for competition

EDIT: Got to the end, and it says Picaso ATM has been out for a few months already. So, why was it only announced today?

Some new applicants:

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We initially got this request some time early in March, but it took a while for me to get back to them. Not sure if December is too long of a wait.

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We'll take any help we can get. I want to change the site a bit to make it a resource for Bitcoin-accepting charities. Ideally I would like to have ALL charities that accept bitcoin on our list, with our Bitcoin100 accepted&donated ones marked with some sort of a seal (like BTC100 approved or something).

It is with GREAT delay that I announce, $1,000 has been sent: https://blockchain.info/tx/6748f3944c2074bfcfcc9e00e5e72b41e6b8c5a0712190ba398ef1299d786fcb



$1,000 sent https://blockchain.info/tx/ab2b1690491dc39dfc084b97c72bc9ab3dab271fa5f652f562e7bc3dd43b985c


another $1,000 sent: https://blockchain.info/tx/14306f0a91a6d01f5e9e6745f7ad2f572c98e126c9c9413dba637133b3e7998f

Not disparaging, on the contrary, i'm a huge fan of SQRL, and was hoping for something  that with bitcoin ever since #bitcoin-otc implemented message signing for logins.

Is this basically this https://www.grc.com/sqrl/ but with bitcoin keys instead of PGP?

The results of this are rather interesting, considering the number of people who took the quiz
http://www.nolanchart.com/surveytotals.php

I wonder how representative the sample is of the general and US population?

That's the propaganda that the church and the government at the time were spreading about Illuminati, but absolutely not what they were for, historically. Illuminati comes from the word "to illuminate," and their goals were specifically to illuminate minds in regards to "dark," mind-closing things like religion, bigotry, and government subjugation. Of course, as governments and those in power have often demonstrated (and 2004 presidential elections and Fox News continues to demonstrate), the way you destroy a thing that is trying to bring down your power is by incessantly claiming that the thing is exactly the opposite of what it is. The Illuminati were exactly the opposite of power-hungry shadow government.

USA, Middle East, and Canada didn't collapse after crude oil prices nosedived, so it wasn't just that. It actually collapsed when its military spending ended way higher than the badly planned economy could handle. At some point, USSR just couldn't afford to pay for itself any more (I believe the final straw was a new experimental football sized submarine they built and couldn't afford to pay for)


Why? Are the people currently in power NOT the same exact people who used to work for the KGB and such? Who in russian government is not an old soviet government member or old soviet oligarch? (I suspect of those at the top, it's a very small list).


But the laws don't say "don't give children gay sex," they say "don't expose children to gay things, period." It's like banning showing a bottle of wine, or a beer, to any children, on TV or otherwise. If I held hands with another guy, or kissed him in public, where children could see, I would be breaking the law. If I was drinking a beer in public, even outside a restaurant, that's still legal. That's why that law was attacked.

The pro-regulation side?



Then the question is, who pays for the NSA (or rather how does it earn money), and why would someone pay them (or buy their services) if they were private? (personally, I'm not as worried about someone trying to spy on me to find out what they could sell me, as I am about someone spying on me to see if they should send me to jail).



This may actually end up being an intrinsic part of the anarchy capitalyst system, anyway, simply because for security and insurance, it is cheaper to keep people fed and housed, than to prevent them from using weapons to steal such necessities. NY did a study a short while ago where they found out it cost the government about $600 a month in police and medical expenses to manage each homeless person, meaning it would be easier to just give them $600 worth of food and housing.

*facepalm* It's sad to see people continuing to propagate illuminati conspiracy theories, without bothering to do a simple google search or reading the wiki entry on the subject. If the Illuminati still existed, they would be completely in support of bitcoin and all its goals.

My current political view, for anyone interested (fron a different thread)


I'm not saying tweaking is a bad idea, I'm saying it's impossible. Whoever has the most interest in power will put the most money and effort into controlling the monopoly on power. Voters simply don't have as much of an incentive to change and control things as those who's goals are to control things. I wouldn't call that a very good system. At most it's a system with oligarchs in complete control, where, like kings, they understand that the general population should be kept fairly pacified to prevent a full scale uprising. But they're starting to fail miserably, and I think 2008 was just the beginning.

The way I finally came to this conclusion is by examining the way the incentives are structured in our government, regulatory, and financial system. And the outcome, with the way the incentives are set up now, is always the same. Government and corporations working closely together (fascism) is like the equilibrium point, or the point of lowest energy in this system, with a constant energy input required on behalf of voters to keep the system in check. As soon as the voters become apathetic and content, the system collapses into what we have now.

So the only viable solution I am aware of is to get rid of the central power incentive altogether, and distribute/decentralize it among the people. Though simply getting rid of the current power is not enough, as it will simply create a power vacuum that some other power hungry psychopath will step into. The solution is to make power nearly impossible to grab, by making finance, transactions, and contracts distributed, decentralized, and as anonymous as needed (a central power can't impose currency controls, or tax, or restrict whom people deal with and for what, if it can't pysically stop the process from working, or even find out who is involved), and as an extra measure, put a negative cost on amassing power by creating a distributed bounty system that, like bitcoin, doesn't exist anywhere in particular, can't be shut down, and anyone can anonymously fund and take payments from (so anyone who considers taking centralized power for their own means, will have to take into consideration that their life and property may be threatened if they do).

In this way, the incentives are to produce as much of what people want as possible - free trade will be inevitable, since there would be no way to prevent it, and the only way to make money will be by getting people to give it to you voluntarily. And do as little of what people don't want as possible - negative actions put a real cost on you that can not be legislated away or gotten rid of in any way.

Oh. We never heard of it before, are not affiliated with it in any way, and we have been working on Local Trader, and calling it by that name, since at least last summer. So, at best, this is a case of "Great Minds Think Alike," and at worst it's someone trying to ride on the coattails of our announcement.

"Mobilization of everyone under 55" is rather different that what actually happened, "Ukrainian parliament passes bill raising military age to 55."

Am I supposed to assume any article with .ru or rt in it is as trustworthy as Fox News or Soviet Pravda?


Putin may have made Ukraine a much more unified country by trying to break it up and claiming it's part of Russia:
http://news.yahoo.com/conflict-russia-galvanizes-ukraines-identity-105124073.html



In Ukraine they went from a totalitarian "democracy" to a constitutional republic, so it's at least a little bit of a revolution.


Um, I think you missed the entire 20th century, when Russia honed its skills at proclaiming the "truth" to be the exact opposite of what it was. Remember all that Soviet propaganda and fake news that they did for decades? Why do you think that changed?



Um, how so? I don't get it :/