Wow the system works! Change can happen! 

For those suggesting going outside the forum to conduct business please consider the advantage of having all records of a transaction in the same place.

In the event of a dispute or fraud all of the evidence is authenticate by the same service providers. IRC and e-mail logs are easily forged but the forum creates a third party record that cannot be easily faked.

The implications is that bitcoins will be more valuable and the decimal will be moved over.

If you give up the idea of fractional reserve lending then a deflationary currency makes perfect sense.

Historically gold has increased in value during tough times, particularly economic collapse.

Personally it makes me nervous that it might get stolen. I am slowly trading my silver and gold for bitcoins. It is difficult to trade because once again I am worried about it getting stolen.


It certainly can. I often use gold and silver as a direct medium of exchange, and there are 6000 years of history of it being used directly for trade.

When fiat based currencies fail it will be the paper that cannot be exchanged, the metal will be in high demand.

For some reason I have the urge to wait 8 months and then post in this thread... 

If blockchain.info ever has technical difficulties then just go to the "paper wallet" section of the "import/export" tab and copy the private keys and import them into another client.

I say to use the paper wallet page because I have seen keys in the export section that are not compatible with the main client for some reasons, the same keys are presented in a more compatible format for the paper wallet.

True, but if you know what your password was supposed to be then it is trivial to make a dictionary that covers any transposed or double keys or missed characters. I have in the past made the same typo on a password and the confirmation window. It took me hours trying different typos to get it.

If you set up a dictionary based cracker you could feed every password you have ever used into a password fuzzer.

Amazon operates in Japan, Ireland  many places worldwide. All they can do is shutdown your site, they cannot trace it back to you.

If you want something that is "court order proof" then use a tor hidden service.

If you install a tor hidden service on a normal host then the host cannot tell what you are hosting and nobody can tell what host your website is on. You need to properly sanitize your server to no give up information though.

Blockchain.info has a "send to email" option.

It creates a wallet for them and mails them a link explaining that they have been sent bitcoins. When they first click on the link they set their password and are in their wallet.

I had a funny private key that the client would not accept.

I went to my blockchain.info wallet, then imported it as a private key. It worked, then I went to the "paper wallet" page and it gave me a normal private key that would import to the regular client.

If this works sent the bounty to: 1JNv6WZsh8rPfXYaKXXMnuKvsjZKhnoL5d

A tor hidden service is free and will break through any firewall/nat. Once it has any internet connection it routes the .onion address to itself.

It is great having ports open on arbitrary internet connections.

One already existing example of this would be in fund raising events where a person pledges how much money they will pay for every mile a person walks.

Get a visa gift card for cash, get a disposable cell phone for cash.

Sign up for Amazon EC2, it will give you a machine for cheap. You use the phone to sign up and the visa to pay. Their "micro" instances are only $7 a month.

Control EC2 and connect through tor. See: http://www.howtoforge.com/anonymous-ssh-sessions-with-tor

Neat.

Remember folks, don't use real bitcoin wallets in a development environment.

How about a simple "User review" subforum? Each user can create their own thread with their own name and all of the feedback can be in one place.

This is easier than collecting a series of links to show people feedback when they ask for references.

I appreciate the fast payment. May the postal Gods move swiftly to you mailbox!

SOLD! - These coins have found a happy new owner.

Dangit. Your Philharmonic is already on its way. If you want it anyways it has free shipping. I don't mind sending another package.

Your encrypted data is available in your page source.

This means you can copy it to your computer and run a dictionary attack on it offline.

This will allow unlimited guesses at a fast rate. I do not know of any software already made to do this, nor have I checked what method they use for encryption but I imagine it is just AES-256.

I could write it for the right bounty.

If you are using tails then the stock bitcoin client is probably not ideal. I would use electrum instead. There are some concerns that whoever is running the electrum server you connect to will be able to corralate your addresses to one wallet, so you want to take that into account regarding being anonymous.

I think there may be a way to tell it to use different servers for each address but I don't know how,

A blockchain.info account is also a good way to go, just store the uri with a good password on your encrypted persistence volume. If you don't want to be tie your addresses create a different blockchain.info account for each address, you can use "custom send" to make sure change always goes back to the same address.