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Also, why the hell do you keep changing your avatar randomly ?

A psychiatrist would probably suspect that you have some kind of mental disorder as you are so unstable that you cannot decide what avatar will reflect you best.

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Item 1: There is no presumption of free speech on a forum, unless and only if free speech is an enumerated rule of the board. Other than that it is a private discussion arena that has rules and policies that are governed and controlled by the arbitrary decisions of those that are in the position to moderate. There is no Bill of Rights that applies. There are standards of courtesy, but these are just courtesy and not binding rules, and can be changed at will by administration, because that is the very nature of their position.

Item 2: All Admins and Moderators have agendas, and often those agendas will be at odds with your thoughts or agendas. In this case a user has gone full tilt at various Authorities, but has done so without any concept of discussion or debate but with the intent to complain and hurl abuse and threats. If Goat had actually participated in a discussion, or presented his thoughts or even his outrage in a civil manner and then defended his feelings he would probably still be here cranking out posts at the rate of three per minute. Instead, he merely repeated the same bizarre ramblings and insults time and time again without displaying the slightest ability to learn from the conversation. As such he is functionally unable to participate in a conversation and the conversation losses nothing by his removal from it.

Item 3: Patience and Questioning Authority. Sorry kids, but this is not a constitutionally organized playground, and the rules are as fluid as the morals of the folks here. Administration was abundantly patient in this case (almost 5,000 posts worth of patient!) and yet one user refused to add anything meaningful to the conversation. There are plenty of others, including myself, who have challenged the GLBSE/BitcoinGlobal ownership group in the matters of the past several weeks, who have not been banned, suspended or warned. Our criticism has been constructive and part of the on-going dialog, and as such has been a valuable contribution as the bitcoin community feels it way through the minefield of business responsibility, trust and integrity. Demanding answers as to why another user has been banned is not germane to the discussion, and probably the outrage is better reserved for a private message to the Admins if your curiosity is really that great. If it is more of a matter of wanting to stir up shit and make a production to advance your side of a discussion, post your own thoughts in a thread of your own, don't use tired and inappropriate censorship dogma. Hitching your wagon to a sinking ship is just not effective.

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One day PayPal might adopt BTC as one of its currency choices, and see an enormous opportunity in doing so.

PayPal doesn't HAVE to be the enemy.

Remember, once upon a time, PayPal was the "cool" competition to eBay's old cumbersome homegrown payment method they called "Billpoint".  Instead of fighting it, eBay put their money aboard and jumped upon the train with it.

PayPal is in a unique position where they could offer the world the opportunity to transact in bitcoin units while maintaining, for a fee, the consumer protections that go along with the ability to do chargebacks, which aren't inherently evil, just costly (and there are times, like buying things from strangers over the internet, when that cost is worth paying).

What we really should be asking ourselves is: what are all the reasons PayPal would NOT want to offer BTC as a currency option (whether it's legal, technical, lack of experts, fear of reprisal, etc.), and work on attacking those, rather than attacking PayPal as the enemy.  Their forbidding of using PayPal to buy bitcoins makes business sense from their current perspective - that doesn't make them an enemoy.  PayPal and Bitcoin can co-exist in a win-win relationship one day, and it will be an awesome day if and when PayPal ever decides to make that sort of move.

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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=120536.msg1299951#msg1299951 (locked thread) (comment at bottom)

Does no one find it strange, that their google maps building has 2 things:

https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=2507+jefferson+st+kansas+city+mo&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x87c0f039ceff8e99:0x81b537045acc9dee,2507+Jefferson+St,+Kansas+City,+MO+64108&gl=us&ei=Qm2JUIzvO4O29QT824CgCw&ved=0CB0Q8gEwAA


1. Their name on the front, Image date May 2011
2. Hovered above, a business name, URL, phone number.
Spartan Foundation Repairmore info‎
2507 Jefferson Street
Kansas City, MO 64108
(816) 237-0017
spartanfoundationrepair.com‎

On site contact:
Spartan Foundation Repair
2507 Jefferson
Kansas City, MO 64108
[Contact By Phone] 816-237-0017

How do concrete experts make computers?

From the Mt Gox email leak last year, we know who that is:

35419,avleisides,andrew@spartanfoundationrepair.com,$1$...

On paper, that makes three Vleisides's involved with BFL: Chris, Sonny and Andrew. Chris, Sonny' s stepdad is president, Sonny is vice president, and I'm not sure of Andrew's position.

Sonny would be the one most versed in the financial aspect of Bitcoin, being that he was loosely involved with Laissez Faire City and very familiar with the Digital Monetary Trust.

Digital Monetary Trust was an anonymous internet banking system using electronic money.

It consisted of a three-layered computer system. Its function was to abstract the identity of the account owner from the accounts. That is, the account holders transfer money into the DMT network, which becomes the legal owner of the money. Then, the account holder can make a private DMT transfer to another account in the system,. The system is based on trust between the "bank" and the account holders, hence the name.

It was allegedly owned and maintained by James Orlin Grabbe and hosted on Dubai Internet City servers.