Finland might be the first country for widespread Bitcoin adoption! - page 2.

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Quote from: Badonkadonk on September 15, 2012, 10:13:12 AM

i live in a small place on the edge of akershus / østfold, and ive gotten a few of the shop owners interested in bitcoin

hopefully i can go buy groceries etc with bitcoins in a few months Tongue

Best of luck!

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Quote from: Herodes on September 15, 2012, 07:37:44 AM

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Quote from: Herodes on September 11, 2012, 09:46:56 AM

this just needs to be said:

FUCKING AWESOME!

How is Norway coming along with Bitcoin adoption?

Not much happening here. I don't know of any bitcoin services or merchants accepting bitcoin in Norway, but we are buying coins Cheesy

Not many places you can use bitcoins in Norway, not any places that I know of.

I noticed in the video where the lady from the Finnish Bank said: "Anyone can do what they want, it's a free country after all".

In Norway it would be all bitching and moaning about tax evasion, money laundering and so on. The climate for new things are in Norway not that great most of the time.

But Norway is a rather small country, with only a few millions of inhabitants, so the countries with larger populations are far more interesting.

Anyway, there's a few miners and users in Norway though. I even met one of them and paid a lunch in bitcoins.

i live in a small place on the edge of akershus / østfold, and ive gotten a few of the shop owners interested in bitcoin

hopefully i can go buy groceries etc with bitcoins in a few months Tongue

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Quote from: benjamindees on September 11, 2012, 12:37:11 PM

I wonder what smartphone adoption is like in Finland. Or do they all use Nokias?

Nokia makes smartphones too.

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Quote from: Kupsi on September 12, 2012, 02:18:26 PM

Quote from: dissipate on September 11, 2012, 12:35:41 PM

Quote from: Herodes on September 11, 2012, 09:46:56 AM

this just needs to be said:

FUCKING AWESOME!

How is Norway coming along with Bitcoin adoption?

Not much happening here. I don't know of any bitcoin services or merchants accepting bitcoin in Norway, but we are buying coins Cheesy

Not many places you can use bitcoins in Norway, not any places that I know of.

I noticed in the video where the lady from the Finnish Bank said: "Anyone can do what they want, it's a free country after all".

In Norway it would be all bitching and moaning about tax evasion, money laundering and so on. The climate for new things are in Norway not that great most of the time.

But Norway is a rather small country, with only a few millions of inhabitants, so the countries with larger populations are far more interesting.

Anyway, there's a few miners and users in Norway though. I even met one of them and paid a lunch in bitcoins.

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Quote from: dissipate on September 11, 2012, 12:35:41 PM

Quote from: Herodes on September 11, 2012, 09:46:56 AM

this just needs to be said:

FUCKING AWESOME!

How is Norway coming along with Bitcoin adoption?

Not much happening here. I don't know of any bitcoin services or merchants accepting bitcoin in Norway, but we are buying coins Cheesy

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Quote from: fornit on September 11, 2012, 12:07:13 PM

they have lots of timber and the best javelin throwers in the world.

this

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The finnish TV spot with english subtitles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vYH1JH73pw

Starring:

- sirious, the 2nd bitcoin developer after Satoshi
- Vili Lehdonvirta, suspected Satoshi (NY Times)
- Head Secreatery (or something) of finnish central bank
- Some police official
- Random finnish bitcoiners

I want to thank the bittiraha.fi guys for making bitcoin in Finland a great success.

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Quote from: nobbynobbynoob on September 12, 2012, 08:30:32 AM

I guess they don't trust eubles that much - or even Czech koruna. I can hardly say I blame them.

They do trust koruna. At least more than euro.
Ironically, if euro falls, koruna goes to shit as well.

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Sweden Rocks, ffs ... there just pissed we did not join in the euro and are looking for a way out.
That said, can't wait to drive 25 miles to cross the border and spend some bitcoins

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Awesome, go Finland! Has always been on my list of places to go when I get to that side of the world.

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I guess they don't trust eubles that much - or even Czech koruna. I can hardly say I blame them.

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Czech seem to be closing the gap rapidly, wonder what's causing this...

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nice production. funny commando music.

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Quote from: kangasbros on September 11, 2012, 02:38:25 PM

... and a fucking funeral service. Beat that Grin

I'd love to buy my coffin with bitcoins.

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... and a fucking funeral service. Beat that Grin

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Here is the TV report

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjo_w9gPch0

The reporter went to go interview the Secretary of the Finnish Central Bank. The guys at Technomage were involved in this, they can give you a better translation

LOOT AT GOOGLE TRENDS in the last 30 days since this aired!

http://www.google.com/trends/?q=bitcoin&ctab=0&geo=all&date=mtd&sort=0

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Quote from: interlagos on September 11, 2012, 01:32:16 PM

EDIT: I guess that Finnish Central Bank representative's statement was simply an acknowledgement of the fact that there is nothing in the current laws that would prohibit individuals to have private keys and have the ability to send and receive specifically formatted messages signed with those keys and eventually stored in a public database.
That's the gist of Bitcoin. Any legislation aiming to prohibit that would need to deny any individual the ability to have privacy and keep secrets. That won't go easy.

By default trading anything is legal. The representative also pointed that it is legal to use barter or "squirrel skins" (used to be money in history of Finland) for trade, and "this is a free country". They have to make separate laws if they wish to make bitcoins illegal.

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At this point it would be hard to make anything official, because frankly nobody knows what bitcoins really are.
The only thing that exists in any tangible form is a distributed database with transactions which represent transfer of ownership of bitcoins, but it doesn't specify what they are and where they are stored.

There is simply a cryptographically signed record that says "address A now owns X", technically it doesn't even mention bitcoins at all so we can call them whatever we want and interpret them however we see fit.

EDIT: I guess that Finnish Central Bank representative's statement was simply an acknowledgement of the fact that there is nothing in the current laws that would prohibit individuals to have private keys and have the ability to send and receive specifically formatted messages signed with those keys and eventually stored in a public database.
That's the gist of Bitcoin. Any legislation aiming to prohibit that would need to deny any individual the ability to have privacy and keep secrets. That won't go easy.

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Quote from: Piper67 on September 11, 2012, 01:14:16 PM

Quote from: Domrada on September 11, 2012, 12:41:55 PM

Quote from: impulse on September 11, 2012, 12:34:20 PM

I follow Bitcoin news pretty closely and I didn't hear any news coming from the Finland Central Bank. When did that happen? Do we have any more information on this?

I had the same reaction to this news. Can anyone verify this? Source? Reference?

Can't find the thread right now, but there was one about Finland declaring, somewhat officially, that there was nothing wrong with Bitcoin in principle.

Edit: here it is... https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1104056

Cool, thanks. So do we think that there is any relationship between this and Gavin's September announcement?

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It isn't exactly an official announcement but their representative did say that in an interview for the biggest TV channel in Finland. So it is fairly legitimate.

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