I have a feeling the exact opposite is happening... everything is moving to 'the cloud', traditional p2p filesharing services get shut down, people are moving from torrents to download sites or to usenet. And the list goes on...

Related radio show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nghugzGybNY

Some radio show report spreading a lot of crap.
This almost looks intentional....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nghugzGybNY


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Discussion going on here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=130992.0

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This again...?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=128413.0

and many other topics...

Maybe not, but if Pirate or some other guy with huge funds decides to become a (multi)millionaire (or just dump a shtload for the fun of it) you'll see it will have a huge impact on the value.

There's still a HUGE amount of bitcoins in the hands of a few people that completely control the market in essence.
Hopefully these coins are slowly being spread out while the economy is growing, but you never know...

And the next day your money has halved... or doubled...
But 'average'  people will never risk that.

I tried this too with single full bitcoins, nobody wanted them -.-
I figured nobody would take it if it were just pennies, but even full bitcoins or 2 or 5... nope, nobody...
It was a while ago though...

Primarily i'd like to see more webshops accepting bitcoin and just regular people for general trading. If both of these get feet on the ground, more and more 'normal'  business will start accepting them i think.

Bitcoin in it's pure form can't (yet)... if only for waiting on confirmations...
If we use companies that guarantee the transactions instantly it's very possible, then again, what prevents anyone from making up new non existing bitcoins that they can spend at shops if that shop accepts this specific companies bitcoins...? They will be bitcoins, but not really, or really not.

Both Bloomberg and Reuters have had coverage on Bitcoin... Seems it's just a non-reason to tell us to piss off, i wonder who's behind that... I bet they got nice money for refusing it for whatever made up reason.

Prima werkend moederbord met geheugen.

Prijs voor moederbord: 36 EUR / 3.5 btc
Prijs voor 2GB RAM kit: 18 EUR / 1.75 btc
Prijs voor 4GB RAM kit: 36 EUR / 3.5 btc

Prijs voor alles samen: 78 EUR / 7.5 btc

Bitcoin prijzen zijn ter indicatie! de daadwerkelijke prijs zal vastgesteld worden bij de verkoop op basis van MtGox koers.

Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-USH2 Rev:1.3 (info: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3396#ov )
Het clipje van het PCIe slot mist.
https://i.imgur.com/dmTb1.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/Sn7Sd.jpg

4GB (2x 2GB kit) Kingston ValueRAM DDR2 800MHz - KVR800D2N5K2/4G (top)
2GB (2x 1GB kit) Kingston ValueRAM DDR2 800MHz - KVR800D2N5K2/2G (bottom)
https://i.imgur.com/3OUaF.jpg

So, say i find 3 confirmations acceptably safe. That's exactly 3 confirmations in litecoin too for the same safety?
That's 30 minutes vs 6 minutes (it was 2min/block iirc)... on average.
Why are we still using bitcoin instead of litecoin again? because it's most accepted?

So, does this mean that litecoin and the like are way more secure against these double spends compared to bitcoin? assuming it would have the same hashrate backing it....

Clean setup in win7_x64
Still syncing the blockchain (over 15 hrs now)
Barely any CPU usage, but using 1.3GB memory. Also seems to have a lot of disk activity making the system a bit slow.

Filesharing in a 'blockchain'?

Oh.. you mean a distributed datastore?

It has DHT yes, but that's nothing new i think, the nodes are not visible, just shows the number of RS nodes and the total number of DHT nodes.

If they want to post something it could be one of your friends, or you, or one of your friends friends, or one of your friends friends friends...  etc.

RS is built as an internal friend2friend network, so anonymity only goes to some extent.
Tor is created mainly to provide anonymous access to the internet, which it is quite good at, the hidden services however are horribly slow compared to I2P.
I2P is built as an anonymous internal network and uses a zero-trust philosoply, which is great i think. It can have high speeds but people don't seem to be interested in it somehow, it only has a few active users i think. However it's impossible to tell the amount of users or usage.
Then there's FreeNet, which is also a great tool, they claim to have a fairly big user base (about 20k i think?) but the community also seems very dormant.

I think we're just not getting spied on enough yet for people to look for alternative ways of communicating and sharing information. But that goes for Bitcoin too i guess... Until the shit hits the fan... Then it's too late

Anyway i'll leave the node running for a while see if i can get me a small network.

Soo, is this bitcoin-retroshare group still alive somewhat?

I lost my gpg key a while ago and i finally got a new retroshare version (thats not f*cked up with failing gpg integration) and a new key.

I'll add everybody above and see who's still alive on there.

I'm a little surprised as how their site shows tens of thousands of downloads, but the DHT network shows only ~750 retroshare nodes... anyone have a theory about why the number is so low compared to the downloads?

Anyway,
My new key is:

Fairly neutral indeed, but still a considerable amount of just false information about bitcoin.
Specially in an analysis like this you just can't make even small mistakes imho.

None, i'll just patiently wait till they drop under 3 or 2 usd... expecting that to happen before the halving of the reward.

I wouldn't be surprised if a big number of those were just gone because the user trashed his wallet or lost it in some other way, remember that btc weren't always worth 12 bucks....
my friends trashed a few thousand bitcoins too in the early days...