Woah guys, the problem is bigger than rap music. I mean, if a couple of dudes own a prison, they own the people in it, and I don't know how you call somebody owned by somebody else, but I call that slaves.

Do you have forced labor in American prisons? Or work under the minimal working conditions(like salary under the minimal salary)? If so, those prison owners just found a loophole to get themselves the cheapest labor on earth. Usually, the law is made that if you break it, you go to prison to repay your debt toward society. But wow, if you break the US law, you become the property of somebody for a certain amount of time. That's completely insane!

Unless of course nanotube IS pirate.  You'll note a shocking lack of pictures of nanotube on the internet.  I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't even exist as we know him, instead a sock puppet, even satoshi himself.

Yup. 

What the f*** are you doing with private prisons in the first place?

This makes me wish I could post there even more! That statement would cause so much angst!

BS &T?

I was thinking to myself, why bitcoin and similar crypto-currencies seem to be so hidden in obscurity that nobody knows about it, apart from a small number of us here. I thought to myself, the media may not always portray things accurately, but in the internet age alot of websites have sections where you can post comments. I decided to try it out and posted to several news articles which were relevant to economics/business and put short messages about Bitcoin. I was wondering whether anyone thinks this is a good idea, and whether more of us should do this, after all we do all have a stake here if we own coins or are invested in the community here...

Let me know what you think and what your opinion is...

I'd like to get out, so I can post in the technical forums, where all the interesting threads are. For example atm there is a thread on Base58 encoding in C#, to which I could contribute a bit of code.

I'm a programmer with special interest in cryptography, and I've also contributed a bit to bitcoin.stackexchange.com.

Bitcointalk.org, whitelist me please.

Hacked again?

My money's on Grenada.

Got it. So you have plenty of money to bet, and yet you still won't take the bet with me. I'm so shocked.

 

Instead of trying to make the world come to you and explain it all in baby-talk, why not do some of your own original research?

Basically, taint is the problem where part of your coins are mixed with stolen, laundered, or illegitimate coins. It will eventually be a huge problem for bitcoin, as exchanges and merchants will refuse to take coins above a certain taint %. We may also find trading freezes up, people are stuck with coins they cant use, and bitcoins lose a lot of their worth.

Dropping the price to 45$

Sorry, corrected post.

I am nothing of the sort, I was going to remove my signature ages ago as it was very old...

Serious thread became unserious when you were outted as an litescammer. 

But seriously, I'm curious as to how you don't see that the only "success" LTC could hope for is to sink both BTC and LTC.

Not my identity :-) Using a PO Box ftw.

I just funded my card with intersango - easy and fast.