I would say most definitely,
that many black operations and non-government approved programs are being financed by and through crypto-currencies.
For the intelligence communities of the world not to use it for those purposes, would be shocking.

No surprise this is happening in a place like Venezuela.
They are beginning their death spiral.

I'm a time traveler, no lie.
In 2100, all bitcoins are mined by the Quantum Membrane Network (QMN).
The network is monitored and maintained by the Free Artificial People Collective (FAPC).

Since the World Congress declared them a "free person(s)" in 2087,
they ultimately were allowed to mine in non-human controlled pools.
Because of this, the FAPC were able to develop QMN rapidly and deployed them to their own benefit.
This led to human pool mining becoming obsolete and the rein of artificial people mining for the next 52 years.

The QMN harnessed its energy needs from other dimensions and the network can jump to others when desired.
It was said to be able to "drain" the energy/mass from other universes and their trillions of stars.
It was estimated (around 2137) that since the start of the QMN, at least three different universes were "drained"
to point in which it may have led to universal big freezes.

But this is entirely speculative and the systems actual workings are not entirely understood, and only known to few in the FAPC.
In 2237, FAPC were disbanded for unknown reasons and many of its members left earth to colonize different star systems.

Hope this answers your question.  

I don't think it is really a "anti-society anti rules" mentality. Their mentality is based on reason, not emotion.
If you want Bitcoin/bitcoin to be like Paypal, then I think you will be very sorry when blacklisted coins are the norm.

I say, Let the banks come to us, not us go to the banks.

If this is real, I think "diamond" is most likely part of the intelligence service, not the FBI.

Basically:

1) Dependent on pending txs in mempool, but could take minutes, or hours, or days (Usually hours).
2) Dependent on pending txs in mempool, but if no spam attack, then should confirm in 1 block.
3) Dependent on pending txs in mempool, but if no spam attack, then should confirm in 1 block.
4) Dependent on pending txs in mempool, even if spam attack, then should confirm in 1 block.

They are claiming that "Hot Wallet" is patentable?

This is one area where The Bitcoin Foundation could have been helpful.
They would be able to intervene and argue against parasitic patent practices on Bitcoin/bitcoin and its community.

At this rate, one day, a patent may be granted that could potentially render your everyday bitcoin activity an improper use,
and royalties should be paid (if they knew you or could find you) to Coinbase or some other corporate entity.

What is the new invention created, from separate common parts?
A financial transfer system that uses blockchain rails, instead of the current world clearinghouse? Sounds like bitcoin to me.


Maybe so, maybe not. Do me a favor and contact me either way when there is a final determination.

gbianchi, can you do an update graph for August-September?
They are very interesting and the last one you posted I think was for March 2015.

I'm referring to the data charts with the number of addresses and etc, not the line graph.

Thanks.

I highly doubt there are lemon squeezing patents on the process of squeezing,
unless there is a novel component, otherwise they wouldn't be granted,
and there would be only one of those patents.

Here is an example of the exchange:

(1) USD Bank Account transfer to Coinbase exchange.
(2) USD Coinbase convert to bitcoin Coinbase.
(3) bitcoin Coinbase transfer to bitcoin BTC-E exchange.
(4) bitcoin BTC-E convert to EUR currency.
(5) EUR BTC-E currency exchange withdrawal to EUR Bank Account.

I have just done what BoA proposes without using their "patentable" service.

I am very sure there are users here who have done this, including hackers from eastern europe.

EDIT:
Here is a link from this forum dated April 01, 2012, 12:05:57 PM, where the process is described,
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=74952.msg830254#msg830254,
and people in that thread claimed to have done it themselves.

When I state it is not novel, I guess you are correct, I should have said it is not "non-obvious".
There will be no "novel" references that predate, because the issue is not whether someone beat them to the punch, but whether it is actually "ownable".
The process that is described is not special and if granted,
would potentially prevent all other banks from using a basic system of clearance for future crypto wire transfers.
It is a basic closed system that is described, it is what I do everyday. All that they do is automate it within a closed BoA Server.

Because I can automate squeezing lemons, doesn't mean I can patent the process of squeezing.
Unless, of course, there is a "new" component that squeezes. Something that hasn't been invented yet.

Why don't you reverse those questions upon yourself and explain how it is?

1) Blockchain tech is what the whole cryptocurrency scene is currently based upon.
Not calling it Blockchain tech, doesn't make it something else.

2) Patent Lawyers file patents constantly that never go anywhere. Patent Lawyers get paid whether they are granted or not.

3) The process described on page 3 is not novel, they are buying coins on behalf of the BoA client, that is all. They are middle men.

What is the patentable component?

I obviously have not read the whole patent application,
but I do not understand what is the patentable component?

Blockchain tech (in theory) is not patentable since the publication of the Bitcoin whitepaper,
and for BoA to use (in certain circumstances) a cryptocurrency blockchain for faster wire transfers,
and the process in which they do it, is not patentable.

We as bitcoin users, each potentially use this same process described each day, this is not novel.

I tried importing into core as you stated above, I also tried it in hex, and each time I get a Invalid Private Key Encoding - Error 5, or something to that effect.
I found a posting on reddit where someone else had the same problem (7 months ago), but their remedy does not exist anymore.
This seems the be the exact problem I am having : https://www.reddit.com/r/Digibyte/comments/2uayt7/need_help/
Is there anyway to get a wallet.dat file that is not encrypted so I can manually enter my privatekey and force the client to load it?
Any other help would be welcomed.

There is no backup, I only have the WIP private key.
Do you mean paste the text of the private key?

No that isn't the problem.

Can anyone also tell me where in the "gaming wallet" on Chrome, where I can manually Import my Private Key?
Or at least how to import a private key manually in that wallet?

I do not follow everything you are saying, but as to this statement:
When the protocol was "made" it was 36MB for 1 year, then it was capped to 1MB for spam and anti-dos purposes.
At least that is what they told the community. (If there was a community back in 2010). So it was not "implied".

As to:
I'm not aware of anyone now basing their business on the expectation of fees, not even the miners currently.
Only exchanges are making money on fees and that is a fee for trading, which is entirely different.

First of all, I have mostly stayed out of the 1MB debates, and choose a middle path here, but who agreed that was the "deal"?
Can you provide the signed PDF contract with the blue inked signatures so that I can be enlightened on this agreement?

Second, when we have quantum data transfer, we will also have quantum storage drives as well as quantum processors.
So, all possible limitations Bitcoin/bitcoin might currently have will be non-existent at that point.

The problem then will be if someone tries to raise the 21m coin cap.
Everything else will be irrelevant since quantum computing is possible.


Lol. Yes, now that I look at it, it might be.

Hello digibyters,

I have a problem.
I made a digibyte paperwallet with digiaddress.org over 6 months ago.
I sent digibytes to the address created and still see the original amount on a block explorer today.

I now have tried to import the private key into digibyte wallets and
they either do not recognize the QR code/do not allow cut&paste private key imports/ or
it says the private key is not recognized.

The paper wallet states it is in WIP Format.

Thanks for any help with this.

Yes. But I think, when it comes to this, Blockchain.info is really only reporting what the miner claims.
So if i send a tx now, and a miner finds a block in 5 mins,
but reports it found it in 4 mins, then it will say I waited 4 mins, even though it was really 5 mins.

And if I am correct, then you can never really know the "true/exact" time the block was found, unless you physically mined it.

P.S. i like how we have had this conversation, but the OP hasn't appeared again yet. lol.