Bitcoin press hits, notable sources - page 73.

Drifter

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Quote from: sirius on June 10, 2011, 03:12:33 PM

I guess this is noteworthy: Wikileaks: "Namecoin and Bitcoin will be revolutionary http://is.gd/8zKOTT see "Orwell's Dictum" http://is.gd/2hsOWh"

Been posted here 3 times now Tongue

. Still is nice to read that from Wikileaks though. Able to say that Wikileaks called Bitcoin revolutionary can mean a lot depending on who you talk to.

niemivh

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Quote from: niemivh on June 10, 2011, 04:42:33 PM

LOL. Just when you thought it couldn't get any more doochebaggeristic.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/230084/us_senators_want_to_shut_down_bitcoins_the_currency_of_internet_drug_trade.html

Gotta love their naiveté.

"The tone of the senators' letter comes off as though they themselves don't know what entity they want to destroy or how to go about it. Bitcoins, by nature and general practice, are harmless; they're merely an Internet-based alternative to traditional federal banks. Silk Road is what the U.S. government is really after. Whether it will choose to crush barely-related services along its way is now in the hands of the attorney general."

LOL, I just want to pat them on the head and give them a cookie and tell them to go back to watching their pokemans with gullibility such as this.

niemivh

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LOL. Just when you thought it couldn't get any more doochebaggeristic.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/230084/us_senators_want_to_shut_down_bitcoins_the_currency_of_internet_drug_trade.html

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I guess this is noteworthy: Wikileaks: "Namecoin and Bitcoin will be revolutionary http://is.gd/8zKOTT see "Orwell's Dictum" http://is.gd/2hsOWh"

Nesetalis

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a digital form of money that’s totally anonymous

another fail :|

Montpelerin

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Discover Magazine 6/10/11:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/06/10/everything-you-want-to-know-about-bitcoin-the-digital-currency-worth-more-than-the-dollar/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+80beats+%2880beats%29

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Quote from: JohnDoe on June 10, 2011, 08:19:24 AM

Some more goldbug hate:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/89471.html

One of the reasons I stopped reading that site a couple of years ago. There are a few great contributors (e.g. Walter Block), but the religious overtones and poorly constructed opinions of many of the other contributors are a big turn off.

JohnDoe

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Some more goldbug hate:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/89471.html

Dobrodav

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Wow! Bitcoin media myth`s - cool !

Nesetalis

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oh god Bitcoin is Skynet! D:

yossarian

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Quote from: FreeMoney on June 10, 2011, 03:34:35 AM

Quote from: yossarian on June 10, 2011, 03:06:28 AM

I just stumbled upon this "press release":

http://www.newsropa.de/index.php?id=115&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=16307&tx_ttnews[backPid]=7&cHash=e445c7eebc

It is poorly written, but imho there's some new information also.

It says that on June 14th/15th, Bitcoin itself [sic!] will talk about its strategy and backgrounds. A member of the main developers will have a Q&A at the "2b AHEAD Zukunftskongress" (future conference) in Brunswick, Germany.

So who is the developer that is gonna talk at the conference? I have no idea about the national impact of the conference, but the site makes it sound like this could likely cause some further media coverage in Germany.

Wow! Will it be the Bitcoin software answering questions or just a pile of coins?! This is amazing!

I wrote to http://www.2bahead.com/ asking for some clarification. I'll let you know about their answer. Or has bitcoin already evolved to some sort of AI, making the skynet prediction come true?

FreeMoney

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Strength in numbers

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-06/09/us-bitcoin-crackdown

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Such actions would be unlikely to harm Silk Road. It can happily shift servers at will, remaining accessible thanks to the Tor network, and could easily switch to an alternative payment method. It's more likely to hurt the burgeoning Bitcoin economy, the value of which some argue is artificially inflated by speculators. If those speculators get cold feet, that value is likely to crash.

I do wish they had elaborated on that. Roll Eyes

FreeMoney

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Strength in numbers

Quote from: yossarian on June 10, 2011, 03:06:28 AM

I just stumbled upon this "press release":

http://www.newsropa.de/index.php?id=115&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=16307&tx_ttnews[backPid]=7&cHash=e445c7eebc

It is poorly written, but imho there's some new information also.

It says that on June 14th/15th, Bitcoin itself [sic!] will talk about its strategy and backgrounds. A member of the main developers will have a Q&A at the "2b AHEAD Zukunftskongress" (future conference) in Brunswick, Germany.

So who is the developer that is gonna talk at the conference? I have no idea about the national impact of the conference, but the site makes it sound like this could likely cause some further media coverage in Germany.

Wow! Will it be the Bitcoin software answering questions or just a pile of coins?! This is amazing!

yossarian

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I just stumbled upon this "press release":

http://www.newsropa.de/index.php?id=115&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=16307&tx_ttnews[backPid]=7&cHash=e445c7eebc

It is poorly written, but imho there's some new information also.

It says that on June 14th/15th, Bitcoin itself [sic!] will talk about its strategy and backgrounds. A member of the main developers will have a Q&A at the "2b AHEAD Zukunftskongress" (future conference) in Brunswick, Germany.

So who is the developer that is gonna talk at the conference? I have no idea about the national impact of the conference, but the site makes it sound like this could likely cause some further media coverage in Germany.

LightRider

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I advocate the Zeitgeist Movement & Venus Project.

http://www.marcstevens.net/articles/469-gangsters-seek-crackdown-on-bitcoin-good-luck.html

Marc responds.

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/09/senators-call-for-crackdown-on-bitcoin-as-drug-traffickers-take-hold/

huzzah huzzah, the raw the raw.

JeanLucPicard

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Quote from: technotarian on June 09, 2011, 08:27:05 PM

Quote from: em3rgentOrdr on June 09, 2011, 11:22:54 AM

Quote from: srb123 on June 09, 2011, 06:01:09 AM

Here's Gavin talking to ABC Radio's excellent PM Show in Australia.

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2011/s3240179.htm

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GAVIN ADRESEN: Bitcoin is really a pure money. It's a store of value and a means of exchange and that's all it is. It's almost a plutonic ideal of what money is, in that there is nothing backing it beyond the fact that it's useful as a money.

+1. Very insightful. Indeed, bitcoin is the ~~plutonic~~ platonic ideal of what money is...

correction: I just realized that I just copied abc.net.au misspelling of "platonic"...

Not quite. The platonic ideal of money would keep private transactions between individuals private NOT make them explicitly a matter of public record.

Very big difference.

What about transactions that are criminal in nature, designed to deceive and rip off people?

I'm not necessarily talking about paying for drugs, hookers or extra-marrital love children here - all of which is a sin solely against God more than anything else (morality), but what about pure larceny and deception between humans (ethics/legality)?

Are you sure you want to keep ALL transactions private? That's the dubiousness of BitCoin's benefit.

There's nothing WRONG with Bitcoin in and of itself - much as there is nothing wrong with money or with sex in and of itself - but rather than with the DESIRE of any one of these items/activities in order to compensate for something that is missing at the core of all humanity. What do you think that is? Cause once you have enough money to live and a partner to have sex with - what more do you really need that money or sex or drugs can fill?

technotarian

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Quote from: em3rgentOrdr on June 09, 2011, 11:22:54 AM

Quote from: srb123 on June 09, 2011, 06:01:09 AM

Here's Gavin talking to ABC Radio's excellent PM Show in Australia.

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2011/s3240179.htm

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GAVIN ADRESEN: Bitcoin is really a pure money. It's a store of value and a means of exchange and that's all it is. It's almost a plutonic ideal of what money is, in that there is nothing backing it beyond the fact that it's useful as a money.

+1. Very insightful. Indeed, bitcoin is the ~~plutonic~~ platonic ideal of what money is...

correction: I just realized that I just copied abc.net.au misspelling of "platonic"...

Not quite. The platonic ideal of money would keep private transactions between individuals private NOT make them explicitly a matter of public record.

Very big difference.

JeanLucPicard

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Quote from: dacoinminster on June 09, 2011, 06:33:53 PM

This has been posted in a lot of other threads, but I haven't seen it in this thread:

Senator Schumer Says Bitcoin Is Money Laundering
from the apparently,-he's-unfamiliar-with-cash dept

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110605/22322814558/senator-schumer-says-bitcoin-is-money-laundering.shtml

I love that subtitle!

Not like I expect this to happen - but if Schumer was to see how Congress/Federal Reserve/our banks have caused the rise of an "illegal" hard digital currency like BitCoin, by pointing the finger at the man in the mirror rather than at someone else, perhaps he might have a different idea about BitCoin and its potential benefit...

So here's the deal Chucky.... you can crucify BitCoin.... but you won't kill it.

stic.man

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yeah these forums are getting a little too spammy already, it's a shame because there are a slew of really insightful people on here.

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