bitcoins are our way of making salt.

to me it looks like all the one guy did was run bitinstant, which committed the crime of being easy to use anonymously.  This is government cracking down on businessmen for not doing the governments job for them.  what a bunch of a holes.

event horizon is a good analogy.  I see bitcoin slowly swallowing up all fiat.

wasnt zipzap what bitinstant used to use?  I wonder how long till something like this comes back to the U.S.

omg im going to pittsburg tommorrow for the royal rumble!

when the guy from dell came to fix my neighbors computer he said bitcoins were only for drug money and terrorists.  My neighbor came over to my house to warn me. Not like i have any respect from a dell it guy, but thats the only tech person i could think of.

never use the same public key twice.

Privacy is a Fundemental Human Right
By Illegible Poet AMPYFnoD8oNBtKpwfWjmwnB1LxynzMFGij

     So with the onset of the 21st century those rascally governments have
really upped their game in the oppression business.  In The United States of America you can't even drive to the
supermarket to buy a gallon of milk without the state taking your picture 6 times.  There are now
hundreds of people getting paid better than most citizens to scour the internet for your "safety".
The good news is that the same technology they use to watch you with can be used to thwart their attempts.

   First thing you want to do if you are really interested in remaining private online is to go catfish.  Create a
person who you've always thought it woud be fun to be or make the type of person you've always hated it doesn't matter as long as this person isn't you.
Give them an address, date of birth, all those things.  We are not doing this to pick up high school girls or lesbians or commit fraud.
In fact using your catfish for affairs of the heart or criminal activity is really stupid and counterproductive, since it becomes infinitely more likely to
draw attention.  This is strictly for signing into the websites you like to go to, downloading software and what not.  It doesn't have to
be super detailed, just not your information. Also don't steal someone else's info, you'll get caught.  Make someone up.
   
   Second step is to download an ip router.  I'm not near tech savvy enough to go into detail of how these programs work exactly, but they f'n work.  
I like tor for this very reason. Its very easy to set up and use. Tor stands for The Onion Router, it can be found at http://theonionrouter.com/.  
As far as I know it connects you to a network all over the world and trades your ip address with someone
else's every few minutes.  All you do is install it then use the aurora web browser that the router opens up.  Tor is free and a damn good start to privacy.
The main drawback is that it can be really slow. You can speed it up a bit using a tweak located here: http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-articles/how-to-speed-up-the-tor-network-1084630.html
      
   But since masking your IP is ninety percent of remaining anonymous online, go balls deep into cyberghosting and get yourself a
Virtual Private Network, or VPN.  A VPN is a huge step up from tor.  For a fee, usually a small monthly amount, you can get your very own network of
ip addresses unrelated to you personally.  Another benefit is you can tell people you are now leet and not sound too much like an a-hole. VPNS are
also really really easy to set up and use.  Usually your provider will provide you a client that starts up with Windows and you just browse the innernet
like you would any other day, but this time the freedom hating jerkfaces can't identify you.  Here is a list of Vpn's:
http://www.vpncompare.co.uk/vpn-providers-that-accept-bitcoin/    

   I used the list of vpn's that accept bitcoin for a good reason.  To remain anonymous and still be able to do anything you want online you'll need
to get some cryptocurrency.   It is essential to be good with these because once you learn them you can buy and sell things without the paper trail.  
When you go to buy a VPN if you use a credit card or paypal to pay for the service every month the man can kick the doors down at the vpn providers office
and get your identity from their database.  If you fill out the registration forms with your catfish's info and use a cryptocurrency to pay with the man gets jack and poo.
Becoming good with cryptocurrency is a lot like learning to ride a bike; its confusing at first but once you get it it seems natural.  
Bitcoin is the most popular cryptocurrency, also the most expensive  and most looked at.  I recommend anoncoins because that wallet configures itself to your
method of ip masking therefore giving it another layer of BS for you to hide behind.  
   
   To obtain some cryptocurrency anonymously first try localbitcoins.org.  Find a reputable seller near you and set up a way for you to buy some bitcons with cash.  
Also try craigslist as i've seen more ppl selling bitcoins and even anoncoins on there.   Once you have set up a way to buy your crytpo with cash, set yourself up with
a crytpo wallet.  you can go to bitcoin.org for bitcoin.  Theres a few options on there but i'd recommend the multibit wallet because bitcoinqt takes a looong
time to download.
   
   Again you could be leet and go to anoncoin.net, download their fast/anonymous wallet, then use your catfish to set up a cryptsy.net account.  
Have the person you are buying bitcoins from send them to your cryptsy account then when you get home trade your bitcoins for anoncoins. Then send your
anoncoins on home to your computer that is connected to TOR/your vpn.  
   
   Once you have your cryptocurrency make sure you only ever give out a receiving address once. Generate a new address each time you are going to receive coins.
also immediately encrypt and backup your wallet.dat file.  here's a good link for securing your crypto: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Securing_your_wallet
A side effect of using cryptocurrency is that you just might get rich using it.  More people around the world are using them to protect their financial privacy.
As more people start using them, their buying power grows.  Cryptocurrencies aren't just great for online privacy, they can be used for almost complete financial
freedom.  Once you get just a little crypto savvy in theory you could hide one million dollars on a tiny flash drive that you could swallow if you had to.
By using google you can find a way to buy any product or service using cryptocurrency. Just type what you want to buy then bitcoin next to it.
 There are numerous services that will trade you gift cards to like Wal-Mart that you can use without kicking out your digits.      
  
   Finally the last ten percent and most important step in the big picture is discipline.  Start  assuming they are watching and how
they could use your movements/online activity to identify you.  By no means should you let a catfish change your personality, but you want to get in the
habit of using your catfish for signing up to sites/posting on forums/chatting with strangers.  Its not as easy at it seems, but after some practice
it becomes second nature.  Again I am strongly opposed to Fraud which is what your catfish becomes if you use it to steal/screw people. The minute
you start using your catfish in that nature a timer starts ticking. Its only a matter of time before the authorities or some psycho chick/dude you
catfished comes to get you.  If you use your privacy tools correctly and ethically however, you can remain invisible for a long time.

only 1 and half more hours before i can download the whole .txt file!

while i personally would love to see the fbi lose all those coins without making any money i think sending dust transactions with rick astley lyrics embedding in them is a much more effective form of protesting an oppressive and unjust government.

uh oh, somebody's going to court...

omg i love choclate!

yeah pretty much everyone has asked the btc-e/mtgox question when they first get into it.  many many ppl have tried to work out an arbitage situation but its very difficult.  There was a small window of time when you could easily get usd onto btc-e from the united states and also get bitcoins/usd off of mtgox easily/quickly and the price difference pretty much disappeared overnight.  Then bitinstant stopped funding btc-e.com and the price dif went back up.  then mtgox started defaulting/taking forever to wire money to the us and the price dif went drastically up.  The truth is its damn near impossible to get usd onto btc-e if you are a us citizen. Theres been much speculation that the btc-e admins do this intentionally bc they are afraid of uncle sam, and they should be. Mtgox's current problems are 100 percent due to us govt interference.  Whatever the reason, the difficulty is what drives the price on btc-e down and the price on mtgox up.  So there you have it. There are actually pretty decent arbitage opportunities now if you look towards the newer/smaller exchanges springing up that are us regulator friendly like coinmkt.com or litetree.com but to do it you have to have a good amount of btc/ltc already.

good luck! you can do it!

i bought a bunch of deer bologne and deer jerky from a guy in 2012 for 3 bitcoins.  He now says i get free deer meat for life (yay!)

i lol'd. definately one more guy who wants to look smart by poo pooing btc.

i bought my first bitcoin @ 2.37 usd and the majority of my hoard @ 4.14 usd but i still buy btc pretty regularly from miners. sometimes i buy it bc i'm selling some to ppl locally and don't wanna dip into my own stash and sometimes i buy it to trade for alt currencies. 

i wouldn't have any wealth it wasn't for bitcoin and litecoin so its kind of hard for me to branch out at all.i do have pretty nice silver coin collection so i guess that would count too, but its insignificant compared to crypto, really just a way to deal with impulse spending.

Fact: Irl satoshi is an al paca that shoots lasers out of his eyes.

just for lolz i loaded up my poopy wallet to admire my millions of shitcoins. it won't connect to the network. is the network gone?  or do i just have an old client or something?