"Hi, I'm in need of some money, but I'm looking for ways to get it that doesn't involve spending money."
Good luck!

What makes you think they are "disallowed" somewhere?

People, stop saying that scalability is not a problem and writing about how cheap hard drives are.
The scalability is the number one problem stopping Bitcoin from becoming mainstream.
It doesn't matter how fast the drives are growing, right now the blockchain keeps all the old information which is not even needed, and grows indefinitely, how hard is it to understand that it is a non-scalable non-future-friendly scheme?
I am sure the devs know this and are doing their best to address it and I am grateful for that. But saying that it's not a problem is just ignorant and stupid.

I can't see how anybody is even arguing against this. I mean, it's even in the wiki: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability

It seems you hear what you want to hear, translating other peoples messages etc...
Once again:
Is a wrong statement. It has basic deficiencies in understanding what money laundering or crimes are. That's all my post was about.


Now, since you have now brought up that other stuff, just some notes about it: PRISM and similar programs in other countries (like it was unknown before Snowden that governments were spying on their citizens) don't really have anything to do with tax information. The tax information about your legitimate income is already known to the governments, they don't have to spy for it. In some countries this information is even public (well at least the statistcs of your taxes, not individual transactions, deals etc...) and accessible to everyone. This is how it already works and while some people may think it's pain in the ass to have their incomes public, it doesn't seem to cause any real problems.

You had allegations that since your taxes are known to the government, this could somehow leak secret information to your competitors that is essential to stay secret for your business model? Do you have any examples when this is an issue? It's very far-fetched that this is ever a problem. Your income is not "trade secrets", it's not patented technologies or business choices, or addresses of your partners, etc...

Also, by your definition, your competitors' information could be leaked to you as well (since the government has their information as well), so it should be fair play for everybody?

You did write this, didn't you?

My post was about money laundering being a crime by definition. I am not sure where you got all that last stuff you wrote but it doesn't sound like it was an answer to my post... What does PRISM and all that crap have to do with anything here? Did I say I like PRISM or US spying on everybody?

Situation would get much worse if Zerocoin was implemented in it's current form. The scalability would get worse, not better. Customers would compete much more for space in blockchain, not less, because all the space would be taken by only a few zerocoin transactions.

Real zerocoin transactions just can't be used inside the blockchain in their current form.
People should either read the paper carefully or read it's analysis by others who understand it before making these comments about zerocoin being awesome and bashing on the bitcoin devs for not including it.

If you are not a criminal, it's not called money laundering. If all your money sources are legit and taxed, you can't or will want to launder the money, you will just use it and nobody will have any problems with it. Earning money and not paying tax on it, while still living in the country that needs those taxes and using the services it provides for those taxes is a crime though.

What do you mean by "available" and why do you want to know this?

What huge problem? FinCEN said they are now regulating bitcoins, so all companies need licenses. Get the license and you are set...

It has been. A LOT.

"release the hash ala satoshi dice before hand" IS provably fair. You are the ingnorant one here, not him

There isn't really any practical reason for this. Even if the unpredictability of block hashes is probably very high, the random bits are just produced very slowly from it. It depends on how fast you need the bits, but for any real cryptographic applications it will surely be to slow. And most OS provide faster facilities for this, like recording exact times of hardware interrupts or using specialized hardware which is built into some newer computers. Your solution would require a constant internet connection for a very slow stream of random bits which are not available on demand, but depend on when the network produces a new block. For what advantage?


Hash functions are NOT random. Hash values of each block of bitcoin are because they are based on the block data which depends on the behavior of the whole network.
Your "research" about hypothetical prediction of hashes is just nonsense, it would mean that the hash function has a vulnerability, and finding a vulnerability in a known trusted cryptographic hash is VERY big news. It's like you were saying you found a way to break RSA (not as big, but you get the magnitude). So either provide proof or I call bullshit.

That basically means that your coalescing groups don't provide any useful information.

It's just a matter of hashing those values with a salt. It would not provide anyone any possibility to predict the effect of those random values in his application. And since the values are still random, it would work. It's just not practical, there are too few bits generated...

It almost feels like it's time to make a new child board for the scalability questions/propositions. The search function just seems too difficult for these people...

Boy, this just get's more and more hilarious, I love this shit! There is just no way for this topic to be serious now.
Conclusions, presuppositions? The OT lacks basic comprehension of how reality works, economics, mathematics or even logic and here we are, trying to get some clear arguments.
- "Bitcoin sucks because bread can't be divided to molecules"
- "What are your conclusions? Presuppositions?"

There are no exe's on linux, it is a windows binary format. It wouldn't bother me much, it's just the way your whole post is: no basis for anything that you write, but you do surround terms like auto-update with apostrophes for some reason, I guess to strengthen your point and make up for claims which have no grounds?

So yeah, different linux distributions are located in different countries. Which government has the auto update backdoor into them? Maybe all goverments? Or even aliens?

Nice try, NSA 

I see, well that's much more reasonable.

So you announce a conference with 2 weeks warning time? Real professional...

Is it correct that the ticket prices is 25.000 mBTC, ie, 25 BTC, ie, by current prices about 5500 USD?

Hell no

no

a lot

it wouldn't be profitable

hell yes.

(As an extra, look up ASICs and the current/projected difficulty, and also see how much an average CPU produces).