Topic: Block 105000 just generated, 25% of all bitcoins now mined (Read 3977 times)

Does the US government expect every private corporation to replace all of their routers to handle these authenticated packets? At whose expense? This won't happen. (See: IPv6)

Some examples of failures that "they" are still trying to implement:

- Look at the migration to IPv6. It's a disaster! Unless IPv6 is designed as a backwards-compatible extension to IPv4, migration will never happen.

Cheers!
The Madhatter

Yes. If the government requires ISPs to only transmit authenticated / approved packets (i.e. "deep packet inspection") to only government approved destinations, then we have something to worry about. At that point, there would be no way around it and the government could shut down bitcoin easily.

I'm personally worried because in recent news we have both parties supporting a measure requiring ISPs to retain records for a specified number of years.

Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one, apart from the sender and intended recipient, suspects the existence of the message, a form of security through obscurity. The word steganography is of Greek origin and means "concealed writing" from the Greek words steganos (στεγανός) meaning "covered or protected", and graphein (γράφειν) meaning "to write". The first recorded use of the term was in 1499 by Johannes Trithemius in his Steganographia, a treatise on cryptography and steganography disguised as a book on magic. Generally, messages will appear to be something else: images, articles, shopping lists, or some other covertext and, classically, the hidden message may be in invisible ink between the visible lines of a private letter.

The advantage of steganography, over cryptography alone, is that messages do not attract attention to themselves. Plainly visible encrypted messages—no matter how unbreakable—will arouse suspicion, and may in themselves be incriminating in countries where encryption is illegal.[1] Therefore, whereas cryptography protects the contents of a message, steganography can be said to protect both messages and communicating parties.

Steganography includes the concealment of information within computer files. In digital steganography, electronic communications may include steganographic coding inside of a transport layer, such as a document file, image file, program or protocol. Media files are ideal for steganographic transmission because of their large size. As a simple example, a sender might start with an innocuous image file and adjust the color of every 100th pixel to correspond to a letter in the alphabet, a change so subtle that someone not specifically looking for it is unlikely to notice it.

I don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but I've been hearing consistent rumors about this:

http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/internet_fed_researchers_want_to_scrap_net.htm

Federally Funded Researchers Want To Scrap The Internet

The projects echo moves we have previously reported on to clamp down on internet neutrality and even to designate a new form of the internet known as Internet 2.

Google is just one of the major companies preparing for internet 2 by setting up hundreds of " server farms " through which eventually all our personal data - emails, documents, photographs, music, movies - will pass and reside.

2 million dollar market cap is really nothing. However, it's a great start.

2 million dollars seems a lot of money compared to the still relatively small number of goods and services you can buy with bitcoins...

Haven't heard of such a crazy idea.   Anyway, imo unless we're talking about a name-address style authentication, there is nothing to worry about.

I've heard rumors about an internet2 where all packets require authentication.  Is this something to worry about, especially for bitcoins?

I've heard rumors about an internet2 where all packets require authentication.  Is this something to worry about, especially for bitcoins?