Ugh. The thought makes me shudder. Back then this forum was a more innocent place, full of dreamers discussing what at the time felt like improbable scenarios out of a William Gibson novel. I was really taken by surprise how soon this fantasy became reality, how soon this whole bitcoin experiment became serious fucking business. Very surreal to read this thread in retrospect. At least it's nice to see that my predictions were right  |
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You don't need a centralized website to do achieve what Silk Road achieved.
Apart from Bitcoin and Tor, all you need is:
1) A secure p2p messaging system
2) A p2p identity management and rating system
3) A p2p data store for storing pictures etc.
4) A distributed escrow system
All those things already exist to some extent.
1) can be achieved by Bitmessage.
2) can be achieved by a combination of Namecoin and PGP web of trust.
3) can be achieved by Freenet, Bittorrent, Rapidshare etc.
4) can be achieved by multisig transactions in combination with 2)
Now it's only a matter of packaging those building blocks into a user friendly application. Sooner or later someone is going to do it.
We have reached an age where online black markets are pretty much inevitable, so we may as well stop worrying and learn to live with them.
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I bet that in a few years we will hear about the first scandals involving lost or stolen government bitcoins. Wallet security is not a trivial task for a large organizations, and government agencies have a track record of data security blunders.
One positive effect of this is that government agencies will now be forced to fully understand how bitcoin works, whether they want to or not. That will help campaigners such as the Bitcoin Foundation in their efforts of educating governments.
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This version is failing to connect to Tor network through SOCKS proxy (IP: 127.0.0.1 Port:9050)
Previous version worked fine.
OS: Windows 7
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Cancelled my SEPA withdrawal after 35 days. I'm giving the international withdrawal a try now.
let me know about the fees for international , thx Fees for international withdrawal were a total of about 60 USD (mtgox fee + my bank's fee). |
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Cancelled my SEPA withdrawal after 35 days. I'm giving the international withdrawal a try now.
Update: International withdrawal only took 3 business days! |
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Home made handguns are boring. They are not that much more effective than a knife or an axe. But handguns are only the beginning.
When people start to print armed helicopter drones, things are going to get interesting.
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Yes, I am aware of this problem. I too believe in "Trade not Aid" but that doesn't mean I need to be a fundamentalist about it. I am also against governments giving out aid, because them being governments, they tend to give it to other governments, which in poor countries are often not more than glorified criminal gangs. Giving to private charities with a local presence is a different story though. There is nothing wrong with aid in certain situations, eg. when a real emergency is being addressed. |
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Giving money to africa= throwing money in a black hole. Local war lords will use it to buy moar tanks, rifles, weapons etc  According to ICCF Holland's website, they invest the money directly in local infrastructure like a clinic, rather than sending it indiscriminately to some dubious middleman. It's good to be skeptical, and it's true that a lot of corruption goes on, but that does not mean you should dismiss every single Africa charity by default. |
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6. Hold and transfer VALUE, not just IOUs. (With Cryptocurrency this is easy... With fiat? Not so much.)
Ripple CAN do this. All you need to do is limit your trading to "full reserve" gateways who back their IOUs with a bank balance and promise withdrawal on demand. Well yes, they are still IOUs, but it's no different to a USD balance on Mtgox or Paypal, which is technically also nothing more than an IOU. Even your proposal relies on temporary IOUs. As long as bank transfers are not instant it will be impossible to get around using them. |
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Cancelled my SEPA withdrawal after 35 days. I'm giving the international withdrawal a try now.
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You reach a point where you fundamentally can't make things any simpler without compromising security. This applies to bitcoin just as much as physical possessions.
When securing physical possessions, people DO put up with lots of inconvenience and complexity, so it's unrealistic to expect bitcoin to become both ultra-simple and ultra-secure.
A hardware wallet that works a bit like an online banking security token is probably as simple as it gets.
Even 'stupid' people have learned how to use security tokens so why can't they learn to use hardware wallets?
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I'm still waiting. SEPA withdrawal on 2013-04-10.
Same reply from support about queued withdrawals.
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Can it not be prevented? maybe not for old records, but isn't there a way to block text from being stored in the chain?
Not as long as the text is being stored steganographically. Example: If someone sends a transaction of 1.495438 BTC, there is no way of proving whether the digits after the 1 are being used to encode text. |
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Child porn links can also be encoded into bank transactions.
Does that mean that banks are legally obliged to delete such transactions from their database, once they find out about them?
Somehow I doubt it.
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I don't know what you mean by "acceptable".
Just because the forum moderators don't delete certain posts doesn't mean that they approve of them.
I don't think that the majority of users on this forum find antisemitism acceptable. There are a handful of antisemitic conspiracy theorist nutters here. The more extreme ones have already been banned, not for "hate speech" but for trolling and repeated off-topic posting.
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Would a permanent 50BTC block reward have changed the discussion? Yes, I would not be part of it. Aren't you being a bit petty? |
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