Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP.

[Miz4r]

But in general the more responsibility you give away, the more complacent and less adaptable you become.

Wise words. People have become complacent and apathetic due to this and are busy consuming their own culture. Real life news has become a form of entertainment you watch lying on the sofa with a beer in your hand.

[Wekkel]

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

[rocks]

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

That's a great quote, where/who is it from?

[Adrian-x]

I was going to post and say thanks for the last 2 quotes, they are awesome, so Thanks, re-quoted for posterity.  

But in general the more responsibility you give away, the more complacent and less adaptable you become.

and

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

In other news Canadian Bitcoin exchanges dropping like flies, CAvirtex going dark, this time I get a hint at what it's like to have coins on an exchange.

there must be an imminent rally coming on or something

[explorer]

I was going to post and say thanks for the last 2 quotes, they are awesome, so Thanks, re-quoted for posterity.  

But in general the more responsibility you give away, the more complacent and less adaptable you become.

and

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

In other news Canadian Bitcoin exchanges dropping like flies, CAvirtex going dark, this time I get a hint at what it's like to have coins on an exchange.

there must be an imminent rally coming on or something

Something must be up.  I guess I'll scrape my $0.07 and BTC0.06 out of there, lest it dissappear   
To think I used to hold some coins on there.... what's left for Canadians?

[msin]

what's left for Canadians?

Maple Syrup

[explorer]

what's left for Canadians?

Maple Syrup

Excellent.  I'm well stocked.

[tabnloz]

"The Telegraph’s recent coverage of HSBC amounts to a form of fraud on its readers. It has been placing what it perceives to be the interests of a major international bank above its duty to bring the news to Telegraph readers"

https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/peter-oborne/why-i-have-resigned-from-telegraph#.VOOCLwagd5Y.twitter

[rocks]

so sad:

AT&T charges $29 more for gigabit fiber that doesn’t watch your Web browsing

http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/02/att-charges-29-more-for-gigabit-fiber-that-doesnt-watch-your-web-browsing/

A good VPN is about 5 euros/month.

Take the $29 discount, route 100% of your traffic through a VPN, and you still come out ahead.

but how can you know that the VPN won't watch you?

you pay with bitcoin and it doesnt matter if they watch you. they won't know who "you" are.

^Horrible advice.  The VPN sees your IP, which is exactly what you're trying to obfuscate by using a VPN.

Exactly, in the end if you use a centralized service (such as a VPN) you have to trust that that service is not compromised somehow.

This is why P2P solutions, such as tor or bitcoin, are superior at maintaining anonymous traffic.

For example, with bitcoin if you run a full node, connect to the P2P network and send a transaction directly from your IP address, even if you are connected directly to an attacker trying to determine the source of that transaction they still could not determine your IP as the transaction's source, because your node is most likely a relay node for that transaction.

Now if you keep sending transactions to the the same node, then they could statistically determine your IP as the source. But if your node has a policy to always send new transactions to a different initial peer, then this attack becomes hard to impossible. Tor works the same way, if you route through 3 peers, then as long as one is honest you should (in theory) be fine.

A great application for bitcoin is to provide a funding model for tor P2P relay nodes. WIth bitcoin there can be a market for those willing to pay for anonymous traffic. This is not possible with fiat, because it is easy to trace the source of funds, but bitcoin provides a fully anonymous solution from payment through the end service. So lebing's point on using bitcoin was partially right, you just can't do so with a centralized service.

[uki]

Gold Collapsing. Bitcoin bottoming.

this time gold got a punch again. If that is BTC-positive, that is another question.

[marcus_of_augustus]

A great application for bitcoin is to provide a funding model for tor P2P relay nodes. WIth bitcoin there can be a market for those willing to pay for anonymous traffic. This is not possible with fiat, because it is easy to trace the source of funds, but bitcoin provides a fully anonymous solution from payment through the end service. So lebing's point on using bitcoin was partially right, you just can't do so with a centralized service.

This is the logical outcome, eventually there will be no such thing as ISP's, it will back to the truly distributed architecture original envisaged. The medum term outcome has been distorted by the lack of a resource allocation mechanism, i.e. internet money, for the market to correctly price and pay for network traffic, private or otherwise. If the packets encoded their own transport payments within them, so to speak, then the relays do not need this massive out-of-band billing and payment contraption that has globbed onto the internet and created opportunities for all the corpro-facist mahem we witness today, AT&T, WorldCom, ComCast, NSA, Google, etc.

[bucktotal]

I was going to post and say thanks for the last 2 quotes, they are awesome, so Thanks, re-quoted for posterity.  

But in general the more responsibility you give away, the more complacent and less adaptable you become.

and

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

In other news Canadian Bitcoin exchanges dropping like flies, CAvirtex going dark, this time I get a hint at what it's like to have coins on an exchange.

there must be an imminent rally coming on or something

Something must be up.  I guess I'll scrape my $0.07 and BTC0.06 out of there, lest it dissappear   
To think I used to hold some coins on there.... what's left for Canadians?

at first glance this is terrible news. the pre-emptive closing is weird. i had nothing there, so no worries, but i was an avid user for past couple of years. a big whole is left in the market now.

[explorer]

I was going to post and say thanks for the last 2 quotes, they are awesome, so Thanks, re-quoted for posterity.  

But in general the more responsibility you give away, the more complacent and less adaptable you become.

and

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

In other news Canadian Bitcoin exchanges dropping like flies, CAvirtex going dark, this time I get a hint at what it's like to have coins on an exchange.

there must be an imminent rally coming on or something

Something must be up.  I guess I'll scrape my $0.07 and BTC0.06 out of there, lest it dissappear   
To think I used to hold some coins on there.... what's left for Canadians?

at first glance this is terrible news. the pre-emptive closing is weird. i had nothing there, so no worries, but i was an avid user for past couple of years. a big whole is left in the market now.

And what will they do with the reams of personal financial information they demanded? 

[uki]

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

That's a great quote, where/who is it from?

I bump this question, as I am also interested to know who was the author.

[meh32123]

[cypherdoc]

up 19.2%.  gold sub 1200:

[uki]

-snip-

Thanks for the answer and the picture. It goes to my book with quotes.

[cypherdoc]

what stagnation?

[cypherdoc]

Full node FUDsters, please note:  PRUNING

[rocks]

-snip-

Thanks for the answer and the picture. It goes to my book with quotes.

Yes, thanks for the reference. Will have to check out some of Alvin's work.