In memory of Ross Ulbricht.
The Rise and Fall of Silk Road (the untold story)
Part 1:
http://www.wired.com/2015/04/silk-road-1/
Part 2:
http://www.wired.com/2015/05/silk-road-2/
''His lucky break came from a thread on Reddit: A user posted a warning that Silk Road’s IP address was “leaking”—visible to other computers. Dread Pirate Roberts (or DPR, as he was often called) had been alerted to the problem by a user but ignored the warning. Silk Road’s success was making DPR arrogant. He had let down his guard, confidently telling colleagues that the site would never be found.''
...
''This was what the team had been waiting for: a misconfiguration somewhere on the site that revealed the real IP address of Silk Road, which Tarbell proceeded to trace all the way to the state-of-the-art facility in Iceland.''
Topic: [ANN][DASH] Dash (dash.org) | First Self-Funding Self-Governing Crypto Currency - page 2154. (Read 9723849 times)
May 29, 2015, 07:35:56 PM
May 29, 2015, 07:07:56 PM
May 29, 2015, 06:50:10 PM
Dash is second generation or third generation ?
https://letstalkbitcoin.com/the-first-three-generations-of-bitcoin-mixing-technology/#.Uya-jc5GbIs
That article seems really outdated. I'd consider DASH to be at least 3rd generation, because it's denominated (so all coins are in the same amounts, so you can't match up inputs and outputs) plus it's ahead of time mixing. They didn't mention those points in the article unless I missed it? And like others have said, they don't even mention the masternode backbone system.
Ok, I'm too far behind, and I'll refrain from commenting until I catch up now, LOL
May 29, 2015, 06:48:14 PM
I don't know what the thinking is behind this. They obviously know he'll be made a martyr. Either it's been planned this way (in which case the subsequent agenda is unclear) or they're just plain thick.
I've no idea which it is.
I've no idea which it is.
Do you think people who have the power to force down the Bolivian version of Air Force One because they think Snowden is hiding under the seats give a shit what anyone thinks or are even mentally sane ?
May 29, 2015, 06:44:37 PM
Shouldn't we invite Gregory Maxwell and SF Devs to give up attempts of improving Bitcoin and work on Dash a little bit?
Having G Maxwell would be super cool, I am going to make this chart of the day , thanks
I don't think that would ever happen, he's a bitcoin snob
May 29, 2015, 06:40:24 PM
My jaw is on the floor.
Looks like Ross Ulbricht is the new Nelson Mandela. All we need now is a new Bob Marley to start the 30 year campaign to get him out.
Looks like Ross Ulbricht is the new Nelson Mandela. All we need now is a new Bob Marley to start the 30 year campaign to get him out.
I don't remember Ross Ulbricht illegally drone bombing entire countries on a daily basis,stealing the worlds fiat savings via Libor/HFT(AKA the Fed/Wall street), couping over 60 countries(most democratically elected), irradiating Iraq with millions of years of fallout from over 1 million DU shells causing thousands of deformed births, forced vaccines that don't work and cause autism, forced Monsanto seeds onto farmers or pumping the fossil water table with a secret fracking fluid that melts rock (hydrofluoric acid) and causes multiple health problems for people nearby.
+1 Great list. (In fact so great I need to bookmark his page).
I don't know what the thinking is behind this. They obviously know he'll be made a martyr. Either it's been planned this way (in which case the subsequent agenda is unclear) or they're just plain thick.
I've no idea which it is.
May 29, 2015, 06:35:16 PM
My jaw is on the floor.
Looks like Ross Ulbricht is the new Nelson Mandela. All we need now is a new Bob Marley to start the 30 year campaign to get him out.
Looks like Ross Ulbricht is the new Nelson Mandela. All we need now is a new Bob Marley to start the 30 year campaign to get him out.
I don't remember Ross Ulbricht illegally drone bombing entire countries on a daily basis,stealing the worlds fiat savings via Libor/HFT(AKA the Fed/Wall street), couping over 60 countries(most democratically elected), irradiating Iraq with millions of years of fallout from over 1 million DU shells causing thousands of deformed births, forced vaccines that don't work and cause autism, forced Monsanto seeds onto farmers or pumping the fossil water table with a secret fracking fluid that melts rock (hydrofluoric acid) and causes multiple health problems for people nearby.
Its odd that an encyption company would jump out of the frying pan into the fire,
http://cointelegraph.com/news/114415/eris-industries-leaves-uk-after-orwellian-bill-reintroduced
May 29, 2015, 04:44:43 PM
Hasn't Evan and the team already done this?
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/20618/blockstream-starts-development-lightning-network/
“The key revelation of the paper is that we can have a network of arbitrarily complicated transactions, such that they aren’t on the blockchain (and thus are fast, cheap and extremely scalable), but at every point are ready to be dropped onto the blockchain for resolution if there’s a problem,” he said. “This is genuinely revolutionary.”
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/20618/blockstream-starts-development-lightning-network/
“The key revelation of the paper is that we can have a network of arbitrarily complicated transactions, such that they aren’t on the blockchain (and thus are fast, cheap and extremely scalable), but at every point are ready to be dropped onto the blockchain for resolution if there’s a problem,” he said. “This is genuinely revolutionary.”
Not at all. Evan did a decentralized 2nd tier network. BTC's lightning network is utterly centralized.
May 29, 2015, 04:40:54 PM
Life
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-29/silk-road-mastermind-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-drug-bazaar
*Live Coverage by World Crypto Network
https://plus.google.com/u/0/hangouts/onair/watch?hid=hoaevent/cdkhevn2jgj48voj3ojri5ro09k&ytl=5fTE8O86BP8&wpsrc=yta
*edit typo
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-29/silk-road-mastermind-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-drug-bazaar
*Live Coverage by World Crypto Network
https://plus.google.com/u/0/hangouts/onair/watch?hid=hoaevent/cdkhevn2jgj48voj3ojri5ro09k&ytl=5fTE8O86BP8&wpsrc=yta
*edit typo
My jaw is on the floor.
Looks like Ross Ulbricht is the new Nelson Mandela. All we need now is a new Jerry Dammer to start the 30 year campaign to get him out.
May 29, 2015, 04:32:14 PM
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Very good, so this thingy (name) is aimed at the idiots and simpletons. (I get the irony, but simpletons who are the target of the detergent name might not)
Now I wonder, who of all these simpletons (in brokerage houses, big retailers, all of which "might adopt Dash for Darkcoin was ah so dark and so dangerous and so fill in the blanks once the name is changed" for it was the main mantra leading to the said change) have actually adopted it and are now accepting it? The name change had happened on March 12th I think, two and a half months ago.
The advocated for the name change MUST, IMHO, show who, among those that previously were rejecting Darkcoin, ONLY because of its name, had accepted DASH since the name has changed. Otherwise, their argument was a shitty one as it was a shitty one when it was a leading force behind the change.
Categorically disagree. There's a wide range between outright rejection and complete acceptance.
Agreed.
As long as Scarlett Johansson is not fucking me I'm in the wide range between her outright rejection and her complete acceptance. (in my own deranged mind; and even if we move on from our dear Scarlett fantasies to my next door neighbor, "no" usually really means no, even though it all depends on the meaning of the word "no")
I mean, fucking fuck - who is accepting Dash after the name has changed, among those that were not going to accept Darkcoin SOLELY because of its name?? None thus far. Therefore, the name argument was the shitty one as much as the current name is the shitty one - and as such - a very dangerous for its future.
Wozzek23 I have to respectfully disagree with your view. And I say this respectfully. Prior to this name change...NOT A SINGLE member of our chamber of commerce and rotary club was even remotely interested in even hearing about a money medium called called Darkcoin...NOT ONE....since the name change...I have 3 brick in mortar business in our area ready to take on both Dash and BTC once we get a package to them on how it all works(people, unlike us do not want to read forums and nerd out figuring out how to download a wallet etc etc, they want it to be as easy as debt/credit card for setup). This has taken a vast amount of work from myself and others. Unless our target demographic is "head" shops and comic book stores or fringe type business like maybe sex shops or something...there would be no chance of adoption by mainstream brick and mortar business.
Dash maybe associated in the US to a soap brand...but no where else have I've ever heard of it till I saw that reference made here...in this forum.
Not saying this was the BEST choice....but from a business owner and someone on the front lines of trying to get this mainstream....the name Darkcoin was and IS a dead horse. I'm on the record over a year and a half ago saying this...and finally the core Dev's got the closed door I got when talking about this. I think there has been alot of banter about this...but this dialogue does not help our cause. I hope you can respect People such as myself self have spent thousands of dollars or more out of our own pockets to help promote this forward.
May 29, 2015, 04:24:27 PM
Agreed.
As long as Scarlett Johansson is not fucking me I'm in the wide range between her outright rejection and her complete acceptance. (in my own deranged mind;
As long as Scarlett Johansson is not fucking me I'm in the wide range between her outright rejection and her complete acceptance. (in my own deranged mind;
LMFAO !
May 29, 2015, 04:19:48 PM
Hasn't Evan and the team already done this?
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/20618/blockstream-starts-development-lightning-network/
“The key revelation of the paper is that we can have a network of arbitrarily complicated transactions, such that they aren’t on the blockchain (and thus are fast, cheap and extremely scalable), but at every point are ready to be dropped onto the blockchain for resolution if there’s a problem,” he said. “This is genuinely revolutionary.”
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/20618/blockstream-starts-development-lightning-network/
“The key revelation of the paper is that we can have a network of arbitrarily complicated transactions, such that they aren’t on the blockchain (and thus are fast, cheap and extremely scalable), but at every point are ready to be dropped onto the blockchain for resolution if there’s a problem,” he said. “This is genuinely revolutionary.”
May 29, 2015, 03:39:57 PM
Looks like there were 2 meetings this week in Barcelona,
http://bitcoinagile.com/2BDB86/new-frontier-of-bitcoin-cybercrime-explored-at-barcelona-event_stream
''Haslhofer, who presented findings from the Bitcrime project, suggested that there were several methods available to "deanonymise" users of bitcoin, a subject that has been hotly debated by the cryptocurrency's community.''
http://bitcoinagile.com/2BDB86/new-frontier-of-bitcoin-cybercrime-explored-at-barcelona-event_stream
''Haslhofer, who presented findings from the Bitcrime project, suggested that there were several methods available to "deanonymise" users of bitcoin, a subject that has been hotly debated by the cryptocurrency's community.''
May 29, 2015, 03:08:31 PM
May 29, 2015, 02:41:05 PM
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Very good, so this thingy (name) is aimed at the idiots and simpletons. (I get the irony, but simpletons who are the target of the detergent name might not)
Now I wonder, who of all these simpletons (in brokerage houses, big retailers, all of which "might adopt Dash for Darkcoin was ah so dark and so dangerous and so fill in the blanks once the name is changed" for it was the main mantra leading to the said change) have actually adopted it and are now accepting it? The name change had happened on March 12th I think, two and a half months ago.
The advocated for the name change MUST, IMHO, show who, among those that previously were rejecting Darkcoin, ONLY because of its name, had accepted DASH since the name has changed. Otherwise, their argument was a shitty one as it was a shitty one when it was a leading force behind the change.
Categorically disagree. There's a wide range between outright rejection and complete acceptance.
Agreed.
As long as Scarlett Johansson is not fucking me I'm in the wide range between her outright rejection and her complete acceptance. (in my own deranged mind; and even if we move on from our dear Scarlett fantasies to my next door neighbor, "no" usually really means no, even though it all depends on the meaning of the word "no")
I mean, fucking fuck - who is accepting Dash after the name has changed, among those that were not going to accept Darkcoin SOLELY because of its name?? None thus far. Therefore, the name argument was the shitty one as much as the current name is the shitty one - and as such - a very dangerous for its future.
May 29, 2015, 02:12:27 PM
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Very good, so this thingy (name) is aimed at the idiots and simpletons. (I get the irony, but simpletons who are the target of the detergent name might not)
Now I wonder, who of all these simpletons (in brokerage houses, big retailers, all of which "might adopt Dash for Darkcoin was ah so dark and so dangerous and so fill in the blanks once the name is changed" for it was the main mantra leading to the said change) have actually adopted it and are now accepting it? The name change had happened on March 12th I think, two and a half months ago.
The advocated for the name change MUST, IMHO, show who, among those that previously were rejecting Darkcoin, ONLY because of its name, had accepted DASH since the name has changed. Otherwise, their argument was a shitty one as it was a shitty one when it was a leading force behind the change.
Categorically disagree. There's a wide range between outright rejection and complete acceptance.
May 29, 2015, 01:54:48 PM
I traveled for about a week only to see BitShares, Stellar and Dogecoin all (significantly) surpassing (in market cap) this sadly mis-branded coin of ours. Would someone bother to kindly summarize what has happened with BTS, STR and DOGE, why such a big spike in prices?
To me it is hard to understand too. I think it was Minotaur who said that it was a Chinese pump and that most volume was over there. Really weird.
It is specifically a BTC38 pump with nearly 80% of the volume since the beginning of the pump, for those three assets STR, BTS and DOGE there was no fundamental change. Ask yourself why exclusively BTC38 as a common denominator and not other exchanges? They must be in on it.
This has nothing to do with Dash, it has preserved its price range, it is actually quite impressive the stability Dash shows, this has happened at different stages like when when we where at the 600K satoshis range. We just need to keep working like Evan is doing.
It is hard to say what will happen, but honestly with these pumps if you are not part of it from the beginning you should stay out, if not you are the one giving liquidity for others to exit.
Thank you guys. I personally could not care less for any of these coins - I have 100% of my crypto assets in the most idiotically mis-branded asset in the history of the world (f.k.a. the best fucking name ever, Darkcoin), a grave mistake that does not let me sleep for I fear it might kill the best technology in this space.
Yes, the world is that stupid and I am a part of that stupidity as well.
When this idiocy came about, I was happier than a pig in shit. I still have a crazy smile on my face, and I will keep having it when our tech led by its ludicrous name slowly starts to become a dominant means of exchange for all of the simpletons everywhere.
Cheers,
Tao
Very good, so this thingy (name) is aimed at the idiots and simpletons. (I get the irony, but simpletons who are the target of the detergent name might not)
Now I wonder, who of all these simpletons (in brokerage houses, big retailers, all of which "might adopt Dash for Darkcoin was ah so dark and so dangerous and so fill in the blanks once the name is changed" for it was the main mantra leading to the said change) have actually adopted it and are now accepting it? The name change had happened on March 12th I think, two and a half months ago.
The advocated for the name change MUST, IMHO, show who, among those that previously were rejecting Darkcoin, ONLY because of its name, had accepted DASH since the name has changed. Otherwise, their argument was a shitty one as it was a shitty one when it was a leading force behind the change.
May 29, 2015, 01:14:46 PM
I traveled for about a week only to see BitShares, Stellar and Dogecoin all (significantly) surpassing (in market cap) this sadly mis-branded coin of ours. Would someone bother to kindly summarize what has happened with BTS, STR and DOGE, why such a big spike in prices?
To me it is hard to understand too. I think it was Minotaur who said that it was a Chinese pump and that most volume was over there. Really weird.
It is specifically a BTC38 pump with nearly 80% of the volume since the beginning of the pump, for those three assets STR, BTS and DOGE there was no fundamental change. Ask yourself why exclusively BTC38 as a common denominator and not other exchanges? They must be in on it.
This has nothing to do with Dash, it has preserved its price range, it is actually quite impressive the stability Dash shows, this has happened at different stages like when when we where at the 600K satoshis range. We just need to keep working like Evan is doing.
It is hard to say what will happen, but honestly with these pumps if you are not part of it from the beginning you should stay out, if not you are the one giving liquidity for others to exit.
Thank you guys. I personally could not care less for any of these coins - I have 100% of my crypto assets in the most idiotically mis-branded asset in the history of the world (f.k.a. the best fucking name ever, Darkcoin), a grave mistake that does not let me sleep for I fear it might kill the best technology in this space.
Yes, the world is that stupid and I am a part of that stupidity as well.
/facepalm
May 29, 2015, 12:57:24 PM
eddu live on Barcelona bitcoin meetup. Very interesting, thanks
We want a video ;-)
May 29, 2015, 12:38:59 PM
some fun,this was shot in one take with no special effects but took many trys over weeks to get it just right 
https://youtu.be/nHlJODYBLKs
https://youtu.be/nHlJODYBLKs
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