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Excuse me if this has been talked about before, but I'd like to get peoples thoughts about how, as a community, we will protect/insure that our assets are secure as "possible". 

Mainly, I'd like to focus on how we communicate with each other.  Bitcointalk.org , solely in my opinion, is the main source for updates/conversation about BTC and it's future in our lives.  A few friends and I were discussing BTC and we tend to jump from subject to subject about any topic we are talking about.  We got into the subject on how the Bitcoin community needs a more secure way to communicate with each other in-case of a organized assault on the community.  By organized assault, we meant a government / corporations attempt to disrupt the day to day flow of information with the users/developers of bitcoin. 

First off, Is bitcointalk.org technically able to mitigate a DDOS for a prolonged period of time.  Do you have plans, if need be, to change Domains?  What I'd like to see is bitcointalk.org to be as/more resilient than pirate bay.  I know they have been brought down for some periods, but you have to admit, the site admins are fantastic to reacting to attacks against the service, and adapting to maintain service throughout an attack. 

Is bitcointalk.org being pen-tested by a professional company?  As even the best plans can be laid, you never know if they will work until you test them.  Any/all  plans should be checked/tested frequently in my opinion.

Secondly, has bitcointalk.org discussed how a organized effort could affect it's operation?  A topic that was brought up is, if the government wanted to get rid of Bitcoin, all they would have to do create a history on this forum with a user name, mainly one that is a extremist, publicly buy some questionable thing from other fake users, and than transfer BTC to a terrorist account that NSA would happen to just be monitoring that account for incoming bitcoin payments.  As I even smiled at this idea because of how radical it is, you can't deny the fact that the government could launch a massive PR campaign against Bitcoin and rally the uninformed US citizen to turn against Bitcoin, at least in the US.  I know, as we all do, that bitcoin is world wide, but you can't think that our governments couldn't pull off a push worldwide if they really thought Bitcoin was a threat to their fiat currency.  It's a interesting subject that needs thought about if it already hasn't been.

Thirdly, more of a idea, but couldn't we develop a chat platform that would utilize bitcoin's network/cryptography to send/recieve messages from a "ID."  That ID can be discussed later, but wouldn't that serve as a secondary form of communicate in the event that a government seizes/blocks any domains that is used for bitcoin communication?  It would work on a already self-regulated network that is supplied by it's users, and would allow a certain amount of resiliency for communications to be delivered. 

Just some idea's we've talked about, and I'm interested in your thoughts about these.  Thanks!

Do you have any idea what that means??  Please tell.

You're exactly right, while also completely missing the point.

You're operating under the assumption that a business that works on the interface between fiat and bitcoin needs to touch it in order to operate. This is not the case. It's a matter of being creative and challenging your assumptions of what a business is and what it takes to operate one successfully.

If you think of a business as an organization that requires an office, and a corporate charter, and a bank account, you start off excluding a great many possible solutions to the problems due the way you're unconsciously limiting your imagination.

Think of a business a being simply a group of people who are all working together to earn an income by solving problems.

What tools does a group of people who are working together to solve problems need to organize themselves? What are all the possible approaches they could try in order to overcome the obstacles getting in their way? Do they all need to be located in the same city, or even the same continent?

Entire universes of possibilities present themselves if you set aside preconceived notions that were formed in previous centuries and instead remain open to fully employing the capabilities we have today.

Because it's always wise to take advice from people that have no idea what they're talking about but like telling other people what to do.

I'm putting your spam on ignore. See ya.

franky1

Love your enthusiam, but could you please stop posting your opinion about things you not nothing about.  It is really not helpful. 

BTC price will SKYROCKET as soon at the First Fully regulated exchange comes on line.

I'm taking bets.

+1.  Every dollar spent having to comply with regulations is one less dollar spent on providing bitcoin products and services, and one less dollar's worth of BTC in the bitcoin economy.