I suck at graphics, but hopefully this will serve as some inspiration for someone more graphically capable than me.  How about lots of little e's orbiting the big #B .... EDIT: little shiny, silver E's (quicksilver mercury like) orbiting big, gold blazing B# .... electrum alloy |
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Yankee: couple of questions regarding Bitinstant's card
i) who holds (owns, possesses, stores, has access to etc?) the centralised database that links the cardholder's identities with the UNIQUE bitcoin address-card number pairs?
ii) how many copies of the bitcoin private keys associated with the UNIQUE bitcoin public address on the card exist and where will they reside?
Thanks.
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Direct from the "Where there is money there are thieves file" - subtitle "How to steal $1 billion and get away with it" - Bitcoinica take notes. http://news.yahoo.com/no-one-charged-crime-mf-global-collapse-111056124--finance.html"Authorities are winding down their criminal investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the lack of oversight and the theft of more than $1 billion in customer funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal charges. " |
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JDBound: Here is a site that has collated together some good links to academic works on the monetary economics of free competition in currencies in general. You might need that kind of objective firepower to back the legal arguments, if it goes that far. http://monetaryfreedom.org/ click on "Resources" |
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I think you'll find that the claimed Standard Chartered figure is $250 billion, not million (3 orders of magnitude difference).
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Great. For me, this is probably the next most important project than bitcoin itself. Terminal whingers aside, any code that can do what you are proposing would be huge step forward, the enemy of function is perfection ... or something like that.
Big kudos to you "isis" for trucking along with OpenPay against the adversities. Too bad management couldn't get their heads out of the old ways of thinking to fathom the potential.
I'm doing a little investigation to see if I can bring some resources to bear on OpenPay.
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The dude hasn't ben active on the forums since August 1st so I doubt we will hear anything
Big deal, he hasn't said anything for 13 whole days ... he's been more than generous with everything else he's put up, considering the possibilities of what this stuff could do for bitcoin. Maybe you could put your spare code cycle time to good use and have a look at the github project? https://github.com/openpay/OpenPay(your signature says you are looking for java work ... go at it, dude.) I don't work for free pay me and I will work on it. It's Open Source. If you don't work for free then maybe you should have to pay to complain .... or you could politely stfu? |
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I am at peace and my insignificant opinion on this matter can fade into infinity ^^^ this one has definite signature material ... |
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The dude hasn't ben active on the forums since August 1st so I doubt we will hear anything
Big deal, he hasn't said anything for 13 whole days ... he's been more than generous with everything else he's put up, considering the possibilities of what this stuff could do for bitcoin. Maybe you could put your spare code cycle time to good use and have a look at the github project? https://github.com/openpay/OpenPay(your signature says you are looking for java work ... go at it, dude.) |
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Any limitations on the types of services that are permitted to be run on the VPS?
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.... and now you see a large reason why the "money laundering" ruse was trumped up to keep everyone using the creaking, groaning dinosaur rip-off called "international banking".
If people had a choice, they wouldn't ... all this KYC/AML crap helps keep out real competition .... mega banks=regulatory capture.
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watching ... like a hawk.
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I wonder if "DreadPirateRoberts" qualifies as identifying information?  etotheipi, what does your legal guru think? IMHO, people who think they can shoehorn bitcoin into currently regulatory structures are heading for fail ... it's got more facets than a diamond, trying to cover all the bases is futile ... but go ahead, futile efforts can sometimes be amusing. |
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What can you do with a bitcoin? Buy pizza, evidently. |
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So someone has now donated 100 BTC which in market values is around USD $1100 ... I wonder if they have to declare who they are now (as per the >$100 rule)? But if bitcoin is not really money, legally speaking then they probably don't since it is like donating glass beads, or interesting spam mail or some such ... not really money you see  Unless there is a court that is willing to recognize bitcoin as money somewhere ?? .... I didn't think so. Nice can of worms to open up on your campaign trail. Go monetary freedom. |
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This is great ... and not the least because it has potential for serious lulz written all over it. What happens if he gets some of Bitcoinica's stolen loot or god forbid an anon. donation from a Silk Road dealer, Pirate Bay, or etc? |
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It struck me that they don't really have much idea at all how bitcoin works. Some of the things they said betrayed their shallow understanding ... I expect they are somewhere between the "wtf?" phase and the "wow, how can this work," phase.
Give them another 3-6 months and it will be interesting to see what they are presenting. If this guy is some kind of "security expert" for JPM Morgan Chase he is probably first guy who has been officially tasked to get to grips with bitcoin (to me looks like he spends too much time in track pants in front of a bright screen eating cold pizza).
Monetary economics, crypto-financials and p2p networks is a steep learning curve for anybody let alone security consultant for a bank used to living lavish on govt. handouts.
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