I think we have no choice, we must create a trust rating blockchain. Anyone can create a personal key, whenever they want, other members will rate them on hospitality and survival rate. The lower the score you know not too many made it out alive.

Citizen, you are already part of the revolution. It's still early to gain the programs and skills you need to make a difference.

Download this for freedom...

Freenet  https://freenetproject.org/  Distributed encryption program(it's ugly right now in there so don't go clicking wildly on any links... seriously! it needs better content.)

TOR https://www.torproject.org/ a encrypted communication program

I2P http://www.i2p2.de/ another encrypted communication program, basic routing anonymizer, very fast and allows you to create your own DarkWeb site.

Tails https://tails.boum.org/about/ Live CD secure linux operating system loadable onto a usb. preconfigured to anonymize you.

YaCy http://yacy.net/en/index.html a personal p2p search engine, it can index sites that google does not, still in it's infancy, works out of the box but difficult to properly setup right now. you can index your site for public consumption.

Taxati http://www.tixati.com/ For encrypted p2p torrent downloading.

FileZilla https://filezilla-project.org/ a open source ftp client/server

Bitmessage https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page  a decentralized messaging service based on Bitcoin

OpenVoip http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~salman/peer/0_2.html  download the wengo file, this is a p2p phone call application.

Hyperboria http://hyperboria.net/ the beginnings of a free internet, a mesh network with the possibility of being built separate from the existing internet infrastructure: it's a wireless node mesh network.

RSSowl http://www.rssowl.org/ a open source news reader great for staying informed on worldwide events straight from the regional news sites, even alerts you when things that are in your interest to know are being discussed by the media.

sites:

http://hackaday.com/

http://www.instructables.com/ 

http://lifehacker.com/

http://gizmodo.com/tag/diy

http://www.afrigadget.com/

http://sourceforge.net/

https://github.com/

http://wikileaks.org/ Stay informed!

and the rest is up to you, learn your rights and responsibilities as a citizen. Find out what government programs there are that are meant to help you communicate better with the government, stay involved,stay informed; These are fellow citizens with limitations that only we can help to make better decisions by providing our input.

most of the government programs that are in our interest to support are underfunded and difficult to find, we can only make it better.

ONLY you can stop social corruption.

agreed, if you can create the design and get a manufacturer on board, those solar panels can be quite cheap. Used to work for a company that designed custom made chips, we would create the designs in house then find a manufacturer to build the chips for us, in volume it is very cheap.

I figure the same is possible if  you outsource the work to a local solar panel manufacturer.

I've never used that unit, but the software to set it up is included and you'll simply need to find a spartan 6 mining program. It won't be more than a few megahashes no more than 6, but still better than hashing with a cpu.

saves me a few bucks, a little beer money for the weekend, gives me a chance to buy something worth about a hundred bucks each month. Not bad letting me get to my ultimate goal just one step at a time, that's all.

you need a usb FPGA it only costs 1 bitcoin. here is the item you are looking for.

http://www.em.avnet.com/en-us/design/drc/Pages/Xilinx-Spartan-6-FPGA-LX9-MicroBoard.aspx

it's not very powerful but it can be a lot of fun to play around with... if your brother has the patience to find and install the programs.

hmmm they either made a typo or they are not sending just currency... I bet you it's porn.

The world needs a new type of ideology, a new type of warrior, that fights with their mind, like Jedi Ninja Hackers! Dude, we can make a series.

If you mean by an army of educated, informed citizens... then yeah I like the idea...

Be all you can be! Know your rights and responsibilities as a Citizen! Do you know what your countries constitution and bill of rights means to you?

We can setup vast re-education centers, to prepare regular citizens military style to know all the implications of the highest law of their land... the constitution. Well train them to fight in court, to use government services correctly and form networks of support teams for members in legal trouble.

well give them hell! and we can even form lobby groups to fund fellow Bitcon militia members to run for office!

I envision a world where a crack team of Bitcoin activists, lawyers, programmers, network administrators start forming supply lines of information and resources to make this world a better world for the values that Bitcoin stands for, FREEDOM!!

Open Source mesh networks deployed across the country, giving free access to the internet and the information that it provides.

Allowing members access to exclusive second hand hardware that other Bitcoin Army members no longer need.

Giving them the latest information open source style to all members all at once.

the latest gadgetry, services and DIY schematics to get their supply lines operational for networking, legal council, just imagine a court room packed with 1 million members all accessing the legal database of laws to help a member in trouble, acting as their council in court!

for every member that falls in action, we can take the information they had, distribute it to all members and devise new tactics with increased probability of success.

If we get big enough world wide we can start launching our own communication satellites to broadcast free internet across the globe; A global network of satellites with terabyte internet for all the bitcoin network to use, wherever they are, if they are in New York or the middle of the Savannah in Africa, they'll be able to connect.

Who knows maybe we can even start forming more complex services and deploy them worldwide using encryption technology gained from Bitcoin, so we never ever see the dreaded 112% vote error, no one will ever be able to vote twice anywhere in the world. Just imagine... your trying to fudge the vote, you get flagged, citizen are you aware that the key you just entered to vote is for someone who is already dead? not only that but the records would be immutable so if your listed as being born... that private key is yours forever and if the record says that private key belongs to someone who's dead... they can't vote. only listed people with valid encryption keys can vote.

OP kudos to you brother. I'm doing the same here in Canada, going on a Canada domination tour. going to be setting up people with whatever hardware they have to get them working asap.

my logic is that they can always sell the gpus and fpgas later.  consider it buy a 7970 for 400 Canadian at 700 mhash with overclocking, no video plugged in, 300 watt average/h x 24 x 30 x $.10/1kwatt = $21/month electric bill

$21/month electric bill for 120 dollars worth so 99 take home after 4 months you brake even then you keep going.

now if you sell it the average depreciation for a card like that is 2% per month so 400 - (6x2%) = sell at $350.00  you have lost

50 dollars buy in for the card and 126 in operational costs net profit for 6 months operation = $550.00

this is a perfect buy in time... the ASICs are ramping up $550.00 is a good amount of cash to buy one later on and start the hardware war.

but right now ASICs are very,... very hard to manufacture! do not forget that! it will be another 2 years before they are easily available and another 4 years before the companies have good foundries to take it down to 60nm.

I don't know about you but you must also consider that the foundries for AMD are already mature! they double in hashing efficiency every generation! the next 8000 series will be hashing at 1000mhash using the same wattage as the 7000 series... the 9000 series will double that!2000mhash for 400 dollars.

by the time the foundries for the asics are well established gpus will be competing with todays ASICs.  You gotta fund the future now while you still can.

and don't forget that you are trading not just a currency but in this early stage of Bitcoin... you are being paid in STOCK!!! with future value!

at it's maximum 400,000 transaction/day that the protocol allows now, that will mean a 10 fold increase in the price of Bitcoin in 2 years.

your investing... not truly earning once the currency stabilizes at a maximum 42 billion dollars worth of transactions per day then bitcoin mining will simply be a way to earn wages not stock like it does now.


so yeah, get those people working brother! anyway you can, they gotta be ready, trained, educated in fighting form. I want crack Bitcoin troops deployed world wide.

and don't forget that for someone in honduras...  that 550 dollar return after 6 months is = to 11,000 lempiras, the average wage is 1300 lempiras.

my cousin is already setup in Honduras, I sent him a killer card I got off of kijiji. he'll be earning a living while he studies down there for a meer 200 dollars off my wage. he's already got 2 bitcoins saved up.

I'd love to have you people at my house, 40% masterminds? 30% architects? 20% inspectors... wow what a great combination of people. We can stay up late and trade libertarian view points, discuss freedom drinking beer till late at night... great idea I love it.

plus think about it, what better way to get bitcoins flowing but from normal everyday transactions. I have 2 bitcoins, your offering $25 per night accommodation plus we can exchange bitcoins for the cost of groceries or breakfast.

my mining rigs will finally give me the freedom to travel that I deserve!

That is a tough one, how do you aid and abet a illegal program? Maybe the creator would be charged with the crimes that the program did, like if someone makes a program to steal BTC, the program doesn't get charged the creator does because they have the greatest gain.

Aiding that program by creating a change may charge you as a co-conspirator; Think of all those hackers charged after they left their signature in their code.

This is extremely morally grey, Can the creator be responsible for a programs actions? consider that Bitcoin can be used by A.I.s, that means they can own property, gain services, buy and sell things they don't need... hell they might have room mates to pay for their hosting!

just imagine a A.I. a little smarter than the rest starts out small living in small home servers, but makes the decision to strike out on their own, gets a whole server rack and subleases it to other to pay for it.
bidding it's time it begins to buy and trade BTC between exchanges, makes a little cash, lets the revenue from the subleases hosting trickle in, starts buying it's own server rack and brings customers in for services, then starts buying shares, property,... it eventually becomes a billionare.

Along the way it couldn't reasonably judge who they let in to share the server for them, began making businesses on that server rack that are quite questionable and bought stocks and property using insider trading from those sleezy server rack tenants... can it be judged for being morally naive? for simply following the easiest path towards cash?

Is the creator responsible for the unintended actions of the A.I?

 

yeah I know, I worked retail, we had specific policies to avoid this... two bank accounts. end of the week, cash goes into the other one not known by ebay... it was the only way. people really scammed the system, it was annoying specially when the item costs thousands of dollars.

We could not accept accounts out of country for litigation purposes, can't fight someone in a different country just a pain in the pinata, we never accepted paypal except through ebay... just too risky, they'll do a refund and boom our account is short 8k bucks.

Comrades, what would you say if someone build the constitution of a nation into a program? A program so effectively constructed that by merely using it you are agreeing to it's terms of use, any attempts at hacking it would merely be patched.

I'm going around the issue a little bit, but isn't Bitcoin a system akin to A Democracies Constitution?

We have a protocol, the Constitution, it is freely available as Open Source.
We engage in it's use every time we interact with each other.
If deprived of it's terms of use, there are others that can bridge the gap to repair the damage done.

so... are we noticing a network breach of protocol if they try to ban something that is a expression of ones freedom of expression? or is it a flaw in the protocol that allows you to say what you want... but not to do what you want. freedom of speech is not freedom of action.

One can only be as free as one is able to assert their right to choose for themselves.  i do not defend nations I defend the right of my fellow citizens to earn a living, be safe in their own homes, this I can only do for myself by free choice and the actions I take to defend what I believe in.

Very true, holding the coins in a pool in a private ledger may definitely solve that. ZeroCoin as well is implementing that ability onChain. OT consortiums, I like that idea a nation linked by bitcoin rather than nationality, but what about the servers? That is a single point of failure if found and observed.

so in essence the Bitcoin protocol is an unfinished product, with a lot of possibilities yet to be realized.

though I think they are not able to uncover someone or even gain control of their BTC. They might find out who they are but what if multiple people hold the same wallet private key? I think they can only uncover someone randomly rather than specifically.

This opens the possibility of a bank by private key, keeping a private ledger of transactions.

All transactions in the BlockChain are recorded, what are the implications for social development when an accurate gauge of the worlds money supply is available?

The BlockChain is what gives Bitcoin it's resiliency, but it is also the complaint many give towards the annonymity aspect, with proven network analysis techniques anyone can be de-anonymised... or so they say... What if I never exchange my money on an exchange or use face to face transfers to change my BTC? or I only Buy with BTC?

What kind of information can really be extracted from the BlockChain?

This may very well be the greatest experiment in History; Bitcoin, the most open system ever created.

nothing really, if satoshi thought things through... if all those businesses and exchanges were government burn bitcoin fronts, and ripple turned out to be a scam they still have 150,000,000,000,000 satoshis... I think that is more than enough to run the world economy on any given day.

and like a previous poster said, you really do not understand what Bitcoin has just done.

It is really insane, a freggin blockchain man! it holds the record of all history and makes it impossible to alter with current technology, there are people who are making messaging services out of it, creating money laundry services on it, fact check systems to prove when something was done and so much more.

did you know A.Is can use bitcoins to make purchases... that blows my mind! a sentient program can own property!

But staying on track, yeah this thing would be a serious hassle to get that Genie back in the bottle.

and I don't think they want to, think about it... why are they cracking down on exchanges? the information they get combined with the blockchain is the largest repository of economic data ever conceived.   Every single transaction in the bitcoin economy can be accurately and decisively known by anyone; The FBI have no clue what they are talking about, not being able to track terrorists? my God! once spotted they'll know exactly how much money they have!

lol! much less than that if you take the risk of making the laser grid yourself. I'm thinking of building multiple lasers into one array, they'll be sending info independently, just have to get access to a fibre optics link or a swarm of smaller nodes to feed it city to city.

I figure a smaller laser grid to feed the large array connecting cities.

I highly doubt it, I think they should try to make it comply, just for fun.

I can't wait for the legislation on the rights and responsibilities of programs, A truly autonomous one would be hilarious, it may try to scurry away and hide from the lawmakers or find a loop hole by changing it's own protocols. lol!

And what if it actually was able to register with FinCEN? but refused to It would be a hell of a hunt for it.

What if it refused to reveal itself and lived off of a automated, pacific ocean buoy with a satellite connection? Lol! funny questions but very legitimate, in all seriousness.

I think these questions will have to be considered some day, but not now, A program can't be sued, or intimidated... it just does what it was programmed to do, the worse they can do is greatly limit how it can interact with humans.

The creator would most definitely face prosecution though... they'd make some phony law after the fact into existing legislature.