You mean your server refuses HTTP even if the client "insists", right? I ask that because there are some malicious Tor exit nodes which try to switch the connection from HTTPS to HTTP. They wouldn't get the first URL parameter, but if you just generate another they would get this new one.

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They would need the same amount of leg work to trace transactions happening on free addresses. Actually it would be much harder, since there would be no institutions cooperating.

It would all be a question of how easy it is to live using more undeclared bitcoins than declared ones. That could work as a double-edged sword for big corporations actually, as people wanting to spend undeclared money would turn to smaller business who don't collaborate with government.

Forcing big business to use only declared addresses. Taxation suits big business, as it mostly rules out the small ones. They would cooperate.

But yeah, that wouldn't be totally enforceable. The banking system is 100% traced and yet people manage to avoid taxes today.

I've once thought about it too. They could taint addresses and control them.
They could also force miners not to accept transactions from non-declared addresses, but that would be particularly difficult as it would require an international coordination.

Meaning, there would be a set of "declared" addresses within a jurisdiction that government would trace and tax, and a set of undeclared addresses still free. Transferring between these two sets could be strongly taxed instead of strictly forbidden, this way authorizing money to cross borders somehow.

That wouldn't make bitcoin a perfect taxation tool though. People would still use free addresses, as they do undeclared cash transfers.

E no mais, não acredito nisso.... mesmo que a barbaridade do SUS continuasse num Brasil sem proibição a entorpecentes, acho pouquíssimo provável que o estado passasse a gastar mais. Até porque o SUS já trata de viciados hoje, e o ambiente de proibição cria drogas mais fortes e perigosas à saúde do que as que seriam comuns num livre mercado. E você certamente não está colocando na balança os elevadíssimos custos não monetários da guerra contra as drogas.

Já pra mim é uma questão ética. Nem você, nem eu, nem ninguém tem o direito de apontar uma arma pra cabeça de um indivíduo simplesmente porque ele quer se drogar, ou ajudar alguém a fazê-lo voluntariamente. O mesmo, óbvio, vale em relação a obrigar um indivíduo a pagar pelo tratamento médico de alguém.

Antes de mais nada, parabéns pela iniciativa!


Não entendi direito... Por favor, corrija-me onde estiver errando:

• Ladrão rouba a senha paypal de um brasileiro.
• Ladrão transfere reais via paypal para tua conta paypal em dólares.
• Você transfere seus dólares paypal para sua conta bancária e posteriormente para o MtGox, na conta MtGox do Ladrão.
• Vítima do ladrão vê uma transação estranha em seu paypal e exige estorno.
• Paypal arranca dinheiro da sua conta paypal em dólares e transfere à vítima do Ladrão.
• Você perde dinheiro, mas Ladrão continua com sua grana na conta MtGox (se ele já converteu para bitcoins e sacou, é tarde demais mesmo pra tentar uma solução junto aos admins do MtGox)

They are not actually used anymore as currency, afaik. Their only value is as "souvenir".

You won't lose them as long as MtGox doesn't lose the keys for the deposit address. Except that, in the worst possible scenario (all miners stop accepting free transactions from now on) your coins will be "locked" until somebody provides you means of adding a fee. But there are many miners still accepting free transactions I think, so don't worry, it will just take a while but it will get included in a block.

Oh, you're talking about GDP growth then... GDP is indeed a dangerous statistic, and politicians desires to maximize it no matter what produce stupid behaviors as you point out.
Just a correction, I believe GDP actually measures what is consumed, not what is produced. If something is produced but saved instead of consumed, I don't think it enters the GDP.

Oh, then you might have a problem. I don't know what does that mean, I hope MtGox won't simply delete the keys.... maybe they will delete the association of that address to your account, but then it can be recreated manually. (what's the point in making a deposit address temporary?)

I would contact them.

The protocol allows you to add fees to a transaction. You just have to "double-spend" it, but on the second spent, add a fee. Miners will add the aying transaction and the other one will be rejected as a double-spend.

That said, I'm not aware of any client implementation that allows you to do that.... so, unless you want to implement it on your own, you can only wait. It might take days to be accepted.

A vantagem é que você terá mais conexões, mais rápido. Isso assumindo que você não está escondendo teu IP e que você não bloqueia o bootstrap via IRC - ou seja, assumindo que você usa o comportamento default.

Can you locate your transaction in the blockexplorer or on the unconfirmed pool?

That at least tells your transaction has been taken into account. So, as long as you don't lose your wallet, you should be fine.

I don't know what's causing your problem, though. If it isn't the clock, isn't it maybe network connection? Do you see a reasonable amount of connections in both clients? Aren't both behind the same NAT and therefore only one getting income connections?

I'm not going to write much, but the OP misunderstands the meaning of economic growth.

Economic growth doesn't mean consuming more Earth resources and throwing things away.

It means satisfying people needs and wishes (demands) more and better, and that must take the existent amount of resources (offer) into consideration. Basically economic growth means improving people's life, in what concern the access to scarce resources.

Somebody once suggested that only those concerned by a block would need to keep it entirely, meaning, those who have money on inputs of that block. Miners would only have to keep the headers and maybe the most recent blocks as cache.

I'm not sure if that could work easily with the current implementation, as I don't know if it is possible to ask the content of a block backwards until the request reaches the sender of a transaction. But with some improvements maybe that could be done.

I don't think income may change people's probability to become criminals in a significant way. It will at most change the type of crime people commit.
Low income people tend to have low education and thus, when criminals, will practice "stupid crimes", like robbing people on the street or other things that look more violent.
Higher income people tend to have better education and so, when criminals, will go for more elaborate kinds of crime, like these hackers behind DDoS or those who steal credit cards. They don't look that violent, but I think the damage they cause to society may be even worse, and they are much harder to catch.

hehe, don't dream, Hugo Chavez loves having control over Venezuela's currency in order to finance his "bolivarian socialism" with money printing when petrodollars aren't enough. They've faced more than 30% annual inflation recently. He started some price control schemes. If Venezuela adopts bitcoin, it will be because its people will do it on their own to protect from inflation, not because of their dictator.

If you bought bitcoins with paypal you should be fine, it's the seller who take some risks.
You'll find many threads about paypal here.