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Yes. We hear this each time. All that i can respond to this is: log chart, log chart, log chart [1]! By looking at a simple log chart one can notice a repetitive cycle. One may even notice that now is actually the best time to buy. Following the pattern, the next boom is only 2-6 weeks away. Who knows what could cause the next boom? Russia pump, Ukraine banking shutdown, E.C.B. Quantitative Easing, USD weakening ? ...

[1] https://blockchain.info/charts/market-cap?timespan=2year&sho...

> They could've easily, easily taken on the Google/Facebook conglomerate.

Even better that any of these NSA-friendly conglomerates is the ChatSecure App:

"-UNBEATABLE PRIVACY: We keep your messages 100% private using state of the art Off-The-Record (OTR) encryption. Your conversations cannot be logged or intercepted by anyone.

-AD-FREE: We want your love, not your money" [1]

[1] https://guardianproject.info/apps/chatsecure/

I think one of the most overlooked aspects of Maidsafe's 'decentralized internet project' is:

"(...)application developers are called Builders and the network will reward use of these applications by paying the Builders in safecoin based on the application use by users of the system. This is possible since the application developer can insert their own network immutable wallet address in their application." [1]

This has huge implications for the future of application development and automatic 'crowdfunding'.

[1] http://www.safecoin.io/

Correct. More info on this here: http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/news/maidsafe-embroiled-safec...

From an outsider's perspective the 'IPO' did indeed look like a planned pump on Mastercoin: People were buying up Mastercoin to take advantage of the btc-msc arbitrage. This drove the Mastercoin price up by ~100%. Meanwhile certain people could potentially have offloaded tonnes of msc purposely bought the week before (for half the price). This may not have been intentional. But either way some people lost big money when Maidsafe stopped accepting msc for their 'IPO' - thus causing the msc price to collapse.

Your posts sound like Government sockpuppetry [1] [2].

> (...) until there is solid evidence that it won't work.

Why should we need evidence that such an Orwellian program will work? Of course it will work. It will work - for those in power - against the people.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockpuppet_%28Internet%29 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Earnest_Voice

and here lies the problem...

"(...) the cryptographic-decentralization Zeitgeist makes it an exciting time to have and use names"

Yes. Very true. For anyone interested in the above statment i'd highly recommend checking out http://twister.net.co/ - a decentralized micro-blogging spin-off of bitcoin. Unbelievable innovation is happening!

Well you sure don't read the news. This is not about some old missle crisis from last century. This is about greed and expanding global putocratic control. Very similar to what's going on in Ukraine, Syria, and Libya.

So much is changing in the tech world. I hope that by dec 2015 we have incentivised mesh networks, thus making centralized telcos obsolete.

More info please ...

So would the Strangecoin value be algorithmically controlled in any way to keep it at a constant 'fiat value' exchange rate? i.e. when the 'fait value' goes down, the % of Strangecoin confiscated during a transaction increases? (Fiat value tracked through distributed exchanges' data feeds).

I agree with your first answer. But not the second. Altcoins are an amazing testing ground that help cryptocurrency adoption, innovation, and expansion. This is especially true when "strange attractors" are added into "the mix".

I mean: how many people recently came to crypto through the 'ridiculous' Dogecoin idea? What of the recent national cryptocoin (Auracoin, Spaicoin...) wave? And what about Vertcoin, Namecoin, Devcoin? These were once all thought experiments with "strange attractors". They now exist, and are bringing a LOT of interest and experience to cryptocurrency.

I think the "Strangecoin transactions can be nonzero sum" idea is flawed. But did I understand correctly: Would this be a cryptocurrency with a money base that expands/disappears as the 'fait value' rate goes up and down? That would be cool!

I agree with what Jacob says about Jitsi. It's great, but just isn't user-friendly enough.

I assume that all my convos and cam chats on Skype are recorded [1] - so i try to push my contacts to jitsi. But every time it's so hard to walk people through setting it up correctly.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam...

Correct. But when the 'market' realizes how Quantative Easing is making them exponentially poorer I guess they might just switch to gold again - perhaps digital gold?.

> the IRS ruling, while onerous, does not really affect the "fungibility" of bitcoin.

But it's going to be another hard blow to US tech innovation, which will simply move abroad - far from the IRS and NSA.

Very well said. This, and the EU's encouraging the fascist overthrow of the democratically elected Ukrainian president has made me strongly opposed to the current form of European 'Union'.

It sure doesn't. And the USA is so 'democratic' : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeHzc1h8k7o

This is great, but will only be of use when much more liquidity is bought to bitcoin. Right now, the Mt Gox and Newsweek debacles are the only things artificially pushing btc prices below their upwards paths. Why - is something that remains to be determined. Perhaps someone BIG needs to buy into bitcoin before the next rally ?

Then use Twister [1]. Twister is NSA-proof, censorship reistant, and based on the bitcoin protocol.

[1] http://twister.net.co/

And here lies the problem

In a democratic society free from fear of surveillance the real conversation would be: "what the USA doesn't yet know about Bin Laden" [1]

[1] http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_lavello_050503_bombs.ht...

I have read that thread, and there is no direct proof that the wife of the op actually saw Dorian. Just someone on HN talking about someone else story of an early encounter with a shy asian-looking bitcoin guy.

The only proof put forward was that the address that was 'probably' used was funded by a very early address linked to Gox. Gox isn't Satoshi (for what we know so far!), so NO.

I can't believe how potentially disruptive Twister is! Haha and I love its system of mining for promoted tweets.

As I have always said, bitcoin (the invention) means the end of FB, Twitter, and all similar centralized corporate entities.

I agree with you. The amount of pro-Monsanto sock-puppets [1] in this HN thread just goes to show that Monsanto's evil extends far beyond what the general public should be 'allowed' to discuss freely. I really recommend watching the documentary about Monsanto's evil [2].

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010... [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6_DbVdVo-k

So you think people will prefer to use worthless plastic/paper currencies that are continuously deflated by governments to fund war and oppression? Cryptocurrencies will streamline the new digital economy - which encompasses all of our lives. Hardware wallets will soon allow people to secure their money with ease. Cryptocurrencies will revolutionize the world in ways that we don't yet understand. It's hard to conceptualize, but bitcoin the 'currency' is so insignificant compared to bitcoin the 'invention'.

> " All you have to do is turn the knob to “ON” and you are protected. " The Wall Street Journal.

Haha - No thanks. The fact that TunnelBear rely on reviews from the MSM, who are gvt mouthpieces defending the NSA spying through sneaky wording techniques, this just puts me off. I mean come-on, they're getting Yahoo to vouch for them? With the amount of hacks Yahoo have had recently! Yahoo didn't even use SSL between their severs for christ's sakes... and not to mention the NSA are all over their users' data!

I like the idea, and the interface is attractive. But only a solid review from the likes of TorrentFreak (or a similar 'forward-thinking' media outlet) would reassure me enough. Does TunnelBear even accept cryptocurrency?

> That's like saying the US independence war was only a power struggle between France and the UK

It's not at all the same. Your example is from the ages of monarchies fighting each other through open warfare for control of land, trade routes, and slaves.

Now we live in the ages of obscure plutocrats playing a tug of war to control lucrative energy markets using discrete paramilitary tactics (CIA activities) and tight media control (MSM fear-mongering, sock puppets, 'grass-root' campains...) to rally the masses behind them.

The title should be "US Propaganda War [1] In Full Swing Over Ukraine"

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OBeYg8KdtY

Reason why the US has funded fascist 'protestors' in Ukraine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFpKwEm43n0

This is no different than the 'uprisings' in Libya [2], Syria[3], and the current ones in Venezuela [4]. These 'revolutions' are all part of a larger energy struggle ( of which the oppressed peoples of each respective country will not see a single cent )

[2] http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27760.htm [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA%E2%80%93al-Qaeda_controvers... [4] https://twitter.com/Jimmy_Olano/status/441742382719959040/ph... [4] http://www.popularresistance.org/is-us-supporting-oligarch-c...