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You can use blockchain.info via Tor. So if you create a wallet this way, it would be next to impossible to prove it's yours. After that, with several addresses and if you're smart, all your transactions will be very private. But everything depends on what you do. If you order a pizza, the company which delivers it to your door will know your street address.
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No, I'm doing it quite often, and it's definitely useful. I'm talking about what BTC can do, and most people hearing me seem quite interested. Older people are harder to convince though. When I say I've invested more than 1,000 €, they think I took a lot of risk.
It's useful talking about it. After that, if people hear something about BTC in the news, they'll think they know someone who uses it.
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The u.s. has become a corrupt dump. It getting more and more difficult for any type of communication. Between the search engines, the scam that is modern media, and other Internet problems, only the corrupt trash elite are able to get any message accross.
So, what's the difference with the other countries? Do you think it's any better in Europe? In Russia? In China? In Iran? In many countries, all press and media are under the control of the government. It might be a bit more diverse in America, with big corporations sharing with the government some of its powers. |
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I'd love to hear the experiences of those who have thrown in their citizenship. That must be a very strange feeling being just another foreigner in your own land. Maybe there should be a sliding scale of how welcome you are. It probably starts off as a great idea but if you can't get back in to see your old dears croak you may have preferred to swallow the paperwork.
I believe most of the people who do that are over 60, and they haven't been in the US for years, if not decades. They don't feel like Americans anymore. I know that feeling when I'm looking at my passport. I left the country of my birth in 1988. I guess I still have friends back there, but they belong to the past. |
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Of course, it's possible to make a coinless blockchain. Just don't expect to have many miners. Several large companies are looking into this as a way to store and share their data among many servers around the planet. The blockchain is mostly seen as a giant public ledger, but that's a database.
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Someone should make statistics. How many ransoms were paid in US dollars, how many in Russian rubles, Swiss francs, Euros?
I doubt BTC is the most widely used currency for this activity. When you pay taxes, which is some kind of a ransom for the right to keep on living the way you do, BTC isn't accepted yet.
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Yes, I remember reading an article on that subject in a Swiss newspaper. I also remember they gave the number of 1200 people. They were Swiss-American people, they're only Swiss now. I understand those people very well. An American passport is worth money for sure, but why pay for it if you have no plan to ever go back there.
I think Boris Johnson still have an American passport.
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He has not been nominated so far. His name has only suggested to the committee. I don't think he could be. I'm not totally sure about that, but I think there needs to be some exchange between the people nominated and the committee before the award taking place. Satoshi Nakamoto would have to reveal himself if he wants to be nominated.
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I hope the truth will be known. Nothing has disappeared in the deep of an ocean. All the parts are in the desert, waiting to be picked up by analysts, so I'm surprised we still don't know what happened. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that someone is hiding facts.
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I see no sign that Russia wants to fight with the US. They're both fighting the same enemy. They're not very good fighting together, like a team, but that doesn't mean they want to fight each other. The US, Russia and Israel are all against IS. Russia shows some support towards Assad, but he plays a second role here. If IS is crushed tomorrow, we would see US and Russia quickly going home.
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This is money that countries could have used for public services, healthcare or schools.
This is money that countries would have used to pay hookers for government ministers, turn children into socialist puppets, promote homosexuality, build mosques, give tax breaks to oil companies, build lavish houses and buy fast cars for police officials and high-ranking civil servants... This is what governments do. |
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I think the timing is wrong for such a question. It's going up fast lately, haven't you seen?
BTC will never go down to a dollar. I really mean never, and I mean that if BTC ever goes down to $100, I and many other people I know, would jump at the opportunity and buy so many BTC that it would make the price rise again.
I am guessing you aren't paying attention to what is happening? It has gone down $100 dollars in the last hour alone and is still going. I wouldn't say it won't ever go down to that I am also saying it will, I am just curious if it did. Oh, yeah! Wow! Well, I'm barely checking prices once a week. I did it more often these past few days as there were plenty of action, but this doesn't change anything if what I've written a bit earlier. I'm here for the long run. I don't pay much attention to fast movements. |
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There are also many hackers from China and the United States. The russian hackers will not care, most of them are clever enough to bypass any bullshit restrictions Russia puts in place.
Yes, no doubt about this. The people who will most suffer from this will the poor. They could have got a cheap way to keep some of their savings outside the eyes of the mighty government but that mighty government don't want that. It just want its citizens to remain poor and docile. |
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Do any retailers sell this here in the us?
Yes, I'm sure I've seen it already. But hurry, it's a weekly published every Friday. Back to the subject, I have no doubt this cover page was a cause for the actual surge. I guess we should all have bought some BTC on Friday morning. I certainly regret I didn't. |
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I'm not sure there's anything wrong with "crypto". Crypts are old and robust, most have been built several centuries ago, and I like the idea of "long-lasting". There's also some mystery and secrecy with crypts, so that's quite attractive.
Virtual currency is very bad, as it doesn't sound real. Maybe we could say "computed currency".
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I think the timing is wrong for such a question. It's going up fast lately, haven't you seen?
BTC will never go down to a dollar. I really mean never, and I mean that if BTC ever goes down to $100, I and many other people I know, would jump at the opportunity and buy so many BTC that it would make the price rise again.
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It's getting worse and worse. It's one thing I hate when I'm at an airport when a guy checks everywhere I've been before. The guy looks back at me, then he looks back at my passport, because somehow traveling a lot like I do, makes me suspicious of I don't know what.
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I think it is a reason of btc price increase,but nobody will tel that loudly
No, I don't see a relation between the Yuan and BTC, but I believe the Yuan could become reserve currency status, if China would allow it. It's not possible at this time because it's not fully convertible. Investor trust is the real criterion. If you think the US has printed and borrowed too much money, you haven't seen China. The huge pile of official dollar reserves is impressive, but all those dollars are backing yuans already issued, much of it at a much higher rate of yuans per dollar than today. The economy is simply flooded with money and debt. (There is a reason Chinese citizens like gold and Bitcoin!)
It's true that a lot of this capital is controlled by the state, so capital flight can be controlled more easily. But that's also part of the problem, since state capital tends to slow down growth, and growth is the only thing that can really cure financial pollution.
People like the greenback, sterling, euro and yen because they can get out of them easily. For this reason the issuers of these currencies also tend to be careful not to create too much money and debt. (The financial pollution is evident only looking across decades.) Yuan transactions are under all kinds of state control, and there's no telling when the Chinese Communist Party will decide to issue a massive amount of assets to save its own skin.
Ultimately, finance and money are a highly political issue, despite all the economic spin that the elites put out to justify this or that action. The yuan's problem is that it's dictatorship money.
This is quite correct, but you forgot one thing: there's no large bills in Chinese currency. The Yuan would gain hugely if China could introduce 1,000 and 2,000 Yuan bills. It matters. Many people (like me) love to have banknotes which are worth a lot in their pockets. It just means the country is rich, some people need large bills. |
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If next time, kidnappers ask a ransom in US $, will Taiwan ban that currency. This is stupid, and it's sad because Taiwanese are smart, educated hard working people. BTC had huge opportunities in Taiwan, so I hope this will not pass into law.
Russia did it, but most Russians are poor and uneducated, Taiwan deserves better.
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Unaccompanied children? I have yet to understand how a lonely child could be able to successfully venture thousands of km outside of his home, in foreign countries where people speak unknown languages, all by himself. I guess those children were following others, so the best should be to keep on following them. Or could it be that those people, those friends, the child was following, would turn out to be criminals, who would later exploit him or her?
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