BOYCOTT all businesses associated to Alex Waters, Matt Mellon, and Yifu Guo!

[yayayo]

Replicated here for discussion:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/11/13/sanitizing-bitcoin-coin-validation/

This service is extremely dangerous as it undermines one of the key characteristics of Bitcoin as a MONEY: their complete fungibility. Further, since all Bitcoin transactions are public and pseudonymity given by opaque addresses is our ONLY financial privacy protection, services like this should be considered a direct and malicious attack on Bitcoin system.

I suppose the CORRECT response of the community should be to BOYCOTT any business that even remotely associates itself with this evil spynet.

By now, you should probably know enough about Avalon's dishonest and deceptive business practices to boycott it on its own merits, anyway...

Boycott all businesses associated to the people on this picture:





Expel them from the bitcoin community!

Remember their names and faces!

Compile all information necessary to execute total boycott of any current or future business of these people and any entity associated with them!



With outmost disgust...


ya.ya.yo!



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Information on Alex Waters, Matthew Mellon, and Yifu Guo
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Alex Waters (pic)

Companies: Coin Validation LLC, CoinApex LLC

Organizations: Lifeboat Foundation, General Assembly

People: Brendan Diaz (alleged corporate associate)

Web: Linkedin, Twitter: xH2Os, +...



Matthew Mellon (wiki, pic, background)

Companies: Coin Validation LLC, Mediant, Hanley Mellon, BNY Mellon / Bank of New York Mellon Corp.

Organizations: New York Republican Party, Republican National Committee, The Bank of New York Mellon

People: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellon_family, +...

Web: matthewmellon.com, Linkedin, Twitter: asliceofmellon, +...



Yifu Guo (pic)

Companies: Coin Validation LLC, Avalon Project - BitSyncom LLC (founder)

People: tbd.

Web: bitcointalk.org: BitSyncom, Twitter: DataTranslator, press@avalon-asic.com, support@avalon-asic.com, +...


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Information to be extended... please contribute!
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[flyguy]

Add Bruce Wagner to the mix also.  That c*cks*cker got me for 10BTC earlier this year.

[corebob]

If you read it closely its not a bad idea.

If I get it right, someone who has a hard time with computers can use this service to get help doing "safe" transactions.
The rest of us opts out obviously.

These guys are probably hoping for a NSA contract to reveal addresses, but that was going to happen anyway. There should be ways to avoid that

[xan_The_Dragon]

what happened?

[yayayo]

what happened?

Bitcoin will be "sanitized" according to these guys:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/11/13/sanitizing-bitcoin-coin-validation/


ya.ya.yo!

[bbit]

Add Bruce Wagner to the mix also.  That c*cks*cker got me for 10BTC earlier this year.

Hey literally is a co#cksucker!

[Patel]

Fuck these guys

[yayayo]

If you read it closely its not a bad idea.

If I get it right, someone who has a hard time with computers can use this service to get help doing "safe" transactions.
The rest of us opts out obviously.

These guys are probably hoping for a NSA contract to reveal addresses, but that was going to happen anyway. There should be ways to avoid that

It severely damages the privacy of BTC mass use.


ya.ya.yo!

[Patel]

Remember a couple of years ago all the conspiracy theorists were talking about one world currency, one world government, chips, all that stuff? Every day Bitcoin looks more and more similar to it. Sometimes I think we have been tricked into using a currency that offers us no privacy at all.

Yeah we may become insanely rich, but there is a price we pay for it.

[btcash]

I was thinking about something similar. I thought it is only a matter of the till some (us) government creates a database where a exchangers and merchants have to submit their addresses.

while providing a red-flag system for businesses who have customers trying to use Bitcoin that’s associated with illicit use.

This will be interesting. At some point (probably already now) most Bitcoins will have some blood on them.

[Raoul Duke]

Yifu can sanitize my dick, with his tongue. Not quite sure if sanitizing is the right word when Yifu's tongue gets added to the mixture, tho...

[LiteCoinGuy]

tainted coins... 

shit on that.

[corebob]

If you read it closely its not a bad idea.

If I get it right, someone who has a hard time with computers can use this service to get help doing "safe" transactions.
The rest of us opts out obviously.

These guys are probably hoping for a NSA contract to reveal addresses, but that was going to happen anyway. There should be ways to avoid that

It severely damages the privacy of BTC mass use.


ya.ya.yo!

Isn't privacy one of the most important features that the foundation will not compromise?

If anonymity is compromised, a better alternative will be developed. The technology is still young after all.
Those who have invested a lot in bitcoin has every reason to keep it anonymous if you ask me.

Then again, you never know with the Winklevosses, they have failed before...

[StarfishPrime]

I'm suspecting their business model will be something like the "equifax" of bitcoin - i.e. pay a fee to check how 'clean' they are..

Not likely this will go anywhere. Would businesses subscribe to a service to check US banknote serial numbers for their past history? No.

There are undoubtedly already large blockchain-mapping projects underway at various agencies. Seems pretty obvious as the silk-road related arrests continue.

 

[adamstgBit]

this is a bad idea.... very bad idea.

I stand by the boycott and would like to know the specific services i should be boycotting

this must be stopped.

[corebob]

How about zerocoin?

[BitcoinBarrel]

It's an interesting idea, but I'm curious how many people will want to share their transactions with them.

[yayayo]

this is a bad idea.... very bad idea.

I stand by the boycott and would like to know the specific services i should be boycotting

this must be stopped.

Alex Waters -> Bitinstant
Matt Mellon -> don't know
Yifu Guo -> Avalon


Please feel free to contribute additional information from public sources!


ya.ya.yo!

[Piper67]

Meh... as soon as these guys are up and running some other smart guys will come up with a system for "de-sanitizing". Those who care will end up throwing money at them, those who don't (like, say, the rest of the world) quite simply won't.

[corebob]

It's an interesting idea, but I'm curious how many people will want to share their transactions with them.

Gavin Andersen was talking warmly about it at the conference this year though