My stateless status doesn't make me special. I'm certainly not immune to subpoena.

One thing I forgot to mention about this quick thing I hacked together: Once the system remits the payment minus commission to the destination address, it forgets as much of the transaction information as Bitcoin currently allows.

When I create an address to handle a transaction, I associate it with an account (formerly label) which contains a JSON object. That object includes the destination address, the amount to be paid and the commission. After sending the payment minus commission to the destination, that account/label information is deleted from the wallet.

I would like to be able to obliterate the address generated for the transaction as well, but that's not currently supported.

Well, as a single operator with a single wallet on the back end there's only so much I can do.

What would you like? Multiple addresses generated for input and delivery? Transaction splitting? Deferred delivery? All doable...

Sure!

You visit the site and tell it you want to launder a certain number of bitcoins. You provide that number, along with the bitcoin address to deliver to.

The site generates a fresh new Bitcoin address and presents it to you with instructions to pay your desired amount to it.

You send the requisite number of Bitcoins to that address.

Once that transaction gets 1 confirmation, the site sends the address you provided the same number of Bitcoins, minus the commission.

Make sense?

http://bitcoinlaundry.com/

The Bitcoin Laundry will accept your payment, deduct a small commission, and then forward the balance on to a Bitcoin address you designate.

The current commission rate is 1%.

Launder today!

Meh, I'm first to market

Great idea! http://bitcoinlaundry.com/

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The Center for a Stateless Society (http://c4ss.org/), the leading market anarchist media center, now accepts Bitcoin donations to address 1N1pF6fLKAGg4nH7XuqYQbKYXNxCnHBWLB.

This address is also published at http://c4ss.org/support-the-center/

Disclosure: I handle the Center's IT, and I'm its Bitcoin treasurer.

I posted my max hash rate for my Core i7 on Windows 7 at https://www.bitcoin.org/wiki/doku.php?id=bitcoin_miners#khash_rate_reports just now. Maxes out around 2,450 khashes/sec.

Something odd, though:

• Start Bitcoin (GUI or headless mode) with no CPU limit
• After connect, performance goes to about ~2400khashes/sec
• After about 10 seconds, performance drops to ~1350khashes/sec, and stays there
• Change CPU limit to 1, then back to unlimited
• Behavior above repeats itself

Anyone else seeing this? I tried shutting down other programs, but it didn't make any difference.

Sure, and then the aggregate performance would be about 112Mhashes/sec.

Okay, point proven. Similar performance when using a single device, so the payoff factor is more like 13.5x rather than 27x, at least on this hardware.

@forever:

Part of the background idea is that, absent a state, any kind of enforcement of forcible sanctions against victimless "crimes" would be prohibitively expensive.

To blow up your example, would you voluntarily contract with an entity that demanded compliance-or-death as part of their contractual terms? I wouldn't.

In any case, the whole seatbelt thing goes out the window in a voluntary society. The professed reason for seatbelt laws is to protect people. The real reason for them is to defend the privilege of the medical establishment/insurance against having to provide care under overbroad conceptions of insurance, coupled with state must-treat mandates (which themselves are a feeble attempt to balance the aforementioned privilege). If you're an operator of a roadway network in a free society, what possible motivation do you have to compel your customers to wear seatbelts? Okay, maybe some of your client base dies as a result of stupidity, and you lose revenue, but I doubt those costs come anywhere near the audit and enforcement costs.

Mind you, in a real free market you'd probably have a hell of a time getting medical insurance as a driver who habitually didn't use the seatbelt. But that's a matter in which your insurance carrier simply drops you as too risky or penalizes you via your premium. Again, no motivation to shoot you.

@Gavin:

Seatbelt law: Fail to wear a seatbelt, you're fined. Fail to pay: http://www.nostate.com/116/the-penalty-is-always-death/

Smoking: You run a restaurant in a district that bans indoor smoking in "public" places. You're fined. Fail to pay: http://www.nostate.com/116/the-penalty-is-always-death/

Vaccination: You refuse to have your child vaccinated. Vaccination is required for school. School is compulsory. You fail to deliver your child to school. You are cited. Fail to comply: http://www.nostate.com/116/the-penalty-is-always-death/

Sure, we all want good outcomes. But the paths we take to get to them is of overriding importance.

They are worth *something*. Different somethings, to different people. The question is who sets the value? The state model dictates that the state -- and, by extension, whatever groups control the state, most often not really a democratic electorate -- decides the relative values of each, and what items shall be valued and what not.

I personally assign zero value to a "subsidy" to start one's own company, if that means a state subsidy. Why should someone establishing a "company" to employ multiple people be privileged over sole traders?

Someone with their own car might assign a high value to good roads, but zero value to public transport. Why should people who never ride the bus pay for the bus?

Neither of those preferences can be respected or satisfied under a one-size-fits-all state system of provision via taxation. And taxation is theft, backed up by the threat of murder.

There's certainly a lot of overlap, but I look at the difference like this: Left-libertarianism is a bunch of values which seek expression. Agorism is a revolutionary strategy for realizing at least some of those values.

The answers go:

Your body, your decision.

The restauranteur's property, their decision.

Your body, your decision.

Tried this out for fun on Amazon EC2, on a GPU instance described as:

Cluster GPU Quadruple Extra Large 22 GB memory, 33.5 EC2 Compute Units, 2 x NVIDIA Tesla “Fermi” M2050 GPUs, 1690 GB of local instance storage, 64-bit platform, 10 Gigabit Ethernet

For $2.10/hour. Fought like hell to finally get it working.


With -v it runs at about 32Mhash/s.

http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator.php tells me that generating a block is going to cost about $378 at this rate, and take a week on average.

Needless to say, I shut it off If something 27x faster becomes available, that's breakeven.

Very nice work on the project, though, m0mchil.

@Gavin:

Your #2 objection is right on. Not much to say on that score.

To #3... well, that's problematic. Two items: Is that a use case that demands heavy attention (in comparison to embedding links on pages where the page owner has full control of the rendered HTML)? Also, here's a link to an SMF mod to handle ed2k: links: http://mods.simplemachines.org/index.php?mod=96

On #1 at least for Windows and Mac OS X I've determined this is not a per-browser setting but can be done at the OS level.

• Windows: Registry key (see link above to how NSIS scripting is used to install URI scheme handlers in Pidgin)
• On Mac OS X Tiger or later there's an API functioned called LSSetDefaultHandlerForURLScheme for registering handlers.
• For Gnome desktop it appears that gconf can be used to set /schemas/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/(whatever)/(command|enabled): http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/file/1849f0c8ec3f3ea583476f1a13cdd83e3abff25f/libpurple/gconf/purple.schemas.in ... Not really sure how that works.

In Soviet Russia, coin bit you!

(sorry)