Topic: Bitcoin press hits, notable sources - page 75. (Read 430946 times)

Venturebeat: Forget piracy, U.S. government is going after Bitcoin

Lol, that is pure win right there. 

sorry it's already been posted, but the other night Al Jazeera English picked up the Silk road story and briefly mentioned Bitcoin as a tool for 'anonymous' currency exchange.

http://thri.ca/archives/549/comment-page-1#comment-11714

LOL...people are really showing their ignorance today.  Whatever happening to fact checking before positng news articles...

From the article:


Hey guys, where can I sign up for a bitcoin account?

I like the subtitle: "Shock: people buy drugs with currency"

"Senators draw a bead on BitCoin" - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/08/bitcoin_under_attack/

LoL!!!  The article keeps mentioning "through an anonomyising site" but never mention what it's actually called, "TOR".

I heard somewhere that legislating morality and ethics does not work.

One cannot force a junkie to be clean. You can lock him up, but you won't force him to be clean.

One cannot force a cheater to be a loyal husband/wife. You can divorce him/her, but she/he won't be forced to be loyal and committed to his/her spouse.

We once tried to force alcoholics to be clean by prohibiting alcohol. We only drove alcohol and alcoholics underground.

When are we going to learn that a indecent person will not be forced or legislated into decency unless that person arrives at his or her own beliefs about the pros and cons of living a decent life?

See, shutting down Silk Road is not good enough, because BitCoin and Tor will allow the creation of a new one. Next, we are going to go after BitCoin, until BitCoin "The Sequel" emerges, if it hasn't already in another way shape or form as I have been reading/learning on this Forum.

Are we going to shut down the internet next in order to force responsibility on people?

Are we going to then put cameras and wiretaps on every phone in the USA to force people to be responsible?

The only reason I am driving this to an extreme is because FORCE does not work. LET PEOPLE BE IRRESPONSIBLE BEFORE THEY CAN GROW INTO RESPONSIBLE ONES. There is no SHORTCUT to responsibility - everyone has to walk the road to responsibility, bumpy and thorny as it may be, at least, so it seems to me....

Yes, I know it's tragic to have 13 year olds smoke marijuana or crack.... or is it more tragic that parents are so fucking absent from that kid's life that he will be drawn to marijuana and crack? Which do we put first - the horse or the cart? It's a catch-22.

Legislating ethics and morality never pays off. Allowing people to arrive at their own conclusions of whether something works or does not work - DOES work, while we protect ourselves in the process.

Do I say NO GOVERNMENT at all? fuck no. If someone rampages on streets with an Uzi - by all means, apprehend and kill him and I am willing to pay for that kind of protection 24/7, a cut from my paycheck - but leave it at that - MINIMAL government.

The libertarians are apparently going to get their way with BitCoin.

Long live BitCoin, Libertarians and all the people of the world, all 6.8 billion!

I finally get to post a new one...

http://www.fox2now.com/news/ktvi-missouri-lawmakers-want-to-shut-down-drug-dealing-website-20110607,0,2162224.story

Yes, 20min is incredibly good at being bad

Our little toy has grown up.  The cat is out of the box.   The big dogs are after us now   Welcome to the grown up world. 

Has this one been posted yet?  I can't find it if it has...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/08/us-financial-bitcoins-idUSTRE7573T320110608

RussiaToday again from the Max Keiser show...

Bitcoin: Currency of Resistance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so1x4hunlII

Alexa still thinks that http://ploum.net (my website) is a Dutch camping website. I own the domain since at least 2008 (might be 2007) and it was free at that time. I don't even remotely understand how it is possible.

But I admit that there might be a problem somewhere with my domain as it stays at PR 3 in Google, despite having a lot of backlinks and despite the fact that my previous URL (which now redirect to ploum.net) was PR 6 at the time of the switch.

Don't use Alexa, it's not very accurate.

A fair article, but I've seen better written ones on Ars.

This site is ranked 1,748 by alexa.  It's not extremely good.

www.alexa.com/siteinfo/arstechnica.com

Arstechnica just put up their article.  This is big.  Haven't even read it yet.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/bitcoin-inside-the-encrypted-peer-to-peer-currency.ars