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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin commercial
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on: November 12, 2011, 04:00:32 AM
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I think the key point here is that stealing money would require coercion of the wallet's owner with Bitcoin, whereas it has only required physical access to the money up to now. Bitcoin makes it not impossible, but HARDER to commit burglaries.
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin commercial
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on: November 12, 2011, 03:30:49 AM
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IMHO the biggest strength is not anonymity, but transparency. Privacy is great, and should be protected, but we live in a culture of laws we create. Law enforcement can be given the tools to make every Bitcoin transaction transparent and traceable. No more money laundering, no more incentive for organized crime. Don't give me the Big Brother bullshit, that boat sailed long ago. Police state for the winz. Privacy should be protected by using the Police to snoop in on every transaction. Yeah no Orwellian double speak there. The second best attribute of Bitcoin is security. It can't be stolen if properly stored and backed up. No FDIC needed. Mugging would be rare for people that don't wear jewelry. That is just nonsense.  If the authorized user has access to his funds then an unauthorized user can have access to the same funds by "convincing" that user to release them. "Transfer the contents of your wallet to this QR code or I blow her fraking brains out". Pretty much the same thing as today except numbers instead of pieces of paper. In that case, you could have a fake wallet in a public truecrypt volume and an actual wallet in a small hidden volume. The burglar would never know. |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin commercial
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on: November 12, 2011, 02:23:51 AM
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They can't be stolen when properly stored. Keywords being PROPERLY STORED.
People will google bitcoin and find out that it has indeed been stolen countless times.
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin commercial
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on: November 12, 2011, 02:19:07 AM
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I would like to see mock-up software and devices that show the real strengths of Bitcoin. IMHO the biggest strength is not anonymity, but transparency. Privacy is great, and should be protected, but we live in a culture of laws we create. Law enforcement can be given the tools to make every Bitcoin transaction transparent and traceable. No more money laundering, no more incentive for organized crime. Don't give me the Big Brother bullshit, that boat sailed long ago. In fact, so much money would be saved in law enforcement that because crime would decrease, prison population would decrease, and folks would save a fortune in taxes. The social benefits of Bitcoin are numerous.
The second best attribute of Bitcoin is security. It can't be stolen if properly stored and backed up. No FDIC needed. Mugging would be rare for people that don't wear jewelry.
The next attribute is obvious. Obscure securities based on credit and margins could not be bailed-out by printing fiat money.
Please add to the list.
May be we can mix this with the ATT progression of lifes idea..... First it shows old western times with police investigators trying to track down crime, mean while it displays a sense of thriving trading and bartering going on. Then it fast forwards to the 80s with police tracking down with a fancy gear compare to the old west days. Mean while showing people bartering and trading with credit cards and major banks. Then it shows modern day era where police are using the internet along with scanning the Bitcoin network to track down an in-progress Hugest Bitcoin bank heist.... Mean while showing people all tied bound and gagged being kept hostage. It depicts the robbers trying to "Steal Bitcoins" and fail EPICLY! Swat team pops in takes down the criminals arrests them and as they are being loaded up they the chief of swat can say something catchy like.... "Didn't you know Bitcoins can't be stolen?" Or somthing along those lines....... That'd be so fail when people who watched it google it and find out all about allinvain, or the bugged 0.4.0 encryption, or ... |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Mined 3 BTC, now how to cash out?
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on: November 12, 2011, 01:38:59 AM
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I have checked the Account Settings page, but there's no section which displays this information. Click on "Dashboard" it will show your USD/EUR & BTC balances but dont' use deepbit man. Keep the network strong. Use a smaller pool and one with low or no fees. Deepbit argument in 3,2,1... |
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