Heh, this is where the red herring was thrown in. I added a wink emoticon and someone had to start a major troll over it. I fell for it because I was bored and I was on my mobile.
There was no "major trolling" done by anyone in this topic... Except maybe by you. You brought up crime and trolling and silk road and even Atlas... Take a breath...
Topic: Is it good to have one currency across borders ? Friedman says No. (Read 2884 times)
April 29, 2012, 12:38:13 PM
Heh, this is where the red herring was thrown in. I added a wink emoticon and someone had to start a major troll over it. I fell for it because I was bored and I was on my mobile.
There was no "major trolling" done by anyone in this topic... Except maybe by you. You brought up crime and trolling and silk road and even Atlas... Take a breath... April 29, 2012, 02:17:22 AM
Can you *prove* the identity of any Bitcoin transactions?
There's plenty of published addresses. For example, my firstbits are in my signature. You can see I've sent a few transactions with that address.https://blockchain.info/tx-index/4401755/cd7f8895d2a3ad006972105f596fd7cd4661f1f81a6ae370bf7d14f79ef7db03
This transaction links a bunch of my addresses and clearly contains a donation to Armory.
He could sign a statement with the addresses' privatekey to verify himself.
bitcoin *is* a local currency. It's the currency of a niche of nerdy crypto-anarchists so far.
You forgot drug dealers, human traffickers, and assassins. 
can you prove that?
April 29, 2012, 12:35:05 AM
Can you *prove* the identity of any Bitcoin transactions?
There's plenty of published addresses. For example, my firstbits are in my signature. You can see I've sent a few transactions with that address.https://blockchain.info/tx-index/4401755/cd7f8895d2a3ad006972105f596fd7cd4661f1f81a6ae370bf7d14f79ef7db03
This transaction links a bunch of my addresses and clearly contains a donation to Armory.
He could sign a statement with the addresses' privatekey to verify himself.
April 28, 2012, 10:42:36 PM
Can you *prove* the identity of any Bitcoin transactions?
There's plenty of published addresses. For example, my firstbits are in my signature. You can see I've sent a few transactions with that address.https://blockchain.info/tx-index/4401755/cd7f8895d2a3ad006972105f596fd7cd4661f1f81a6ae370bf7d14f79ef7db03
This transaction links a bunch of my addresses and clearly contains a donation to Armory.
He could sign a statement with the addresses' privatekey to verify himself.
April 28, 2012, 10:33:11 PM
Can you *prove* the identity of any Bitcoin transactions?
There's plenty of published addresses. For example, my firstbits are in my signature. You can see I've sent a few transactions with that address.https://blockchain.info/tx-index/4401755/cd7f8895d2a3ad006972105f596fd7cd4661f1f81a6ae370bf7d14f79ef7db03
This transaction links a bunch of my addresses and clearly contains a donation to Armory.
He could sign a statement with the addresses' privatekey to verify himself.
April 28, 2012, 10:23:33 PM
Can you *prove* the identity of any Bitcoin transactions?
There's plenty of published addresses. For example, my firstbits are in my signature. You can see I've sent a few transactions with that address.https://blockchain.info/tx-index/4401755/cd7f8895d2a3ad006972105f596fd7cd4661f1f81a6ae370bf7d14f79ef7db03
This transaction links a bunch of my addresses and clearly contains a donation to Armory.
April 28, 2012, 09:25:05 PM
Can you *prove* the identity of any Bitcoin transactions?
There's plenty of published addresses. For example, my firstbits are in my signature. You can see I've sent a few transactions with that address.https://blockchain.info/tx-index/4401755/cd7f8895d2a3ad006972105f596fd7cd4661f1f81a6ae370bf7d14f79ef7db03
This transaction links a bunch of my addresses and clearly contains a donation to Armory.
April 28, 2012, 07:40:09 AM
Can you *prove* the identity of any Bitcoin transactions?
There's plenty of published addresses. For example, my firstbits are in my signature. You can see I've sent a few transactions with that address.https://blockchain.info/tx-index/4401755/cd7f8895d2a3ad006972105f596fd7cd4661f1f81a6ae370bf7d14f79ef7db03
This transaction links a bunch of my addresses and clearly contains a donation to Armory.
April 28, 2012, 02:19:55 AM
Can you *prove* the identity of any Bitcoin transactions?
There's plenty of published addresses. For example, my firstbits are in my signature. You can see I've sent a few transactions with that address.https://blockchain.info/tx-index/4401755/cd7f8895d2a3ad006972105f596fd7cd4661f1f81a6ae370bf7d14f79ef7db03
This transaction links a bunch of my addresses and clearly contains a donation to Armory.
April 27, 2012, 09:49:35 PM
Can you *prove* the identity of any Bitcoin transactions?
There's plenty of published addresses. For example, my firstbits are in my signature. You can see I've sent a few transactions with that address.https://blockchain.info/tx-index/4401755/cd7f8895d2a3ad006972105f596fd7cd4661f1f81a6ae370bf7d14f79ef7db03
This transaction links a bunch of my addresses and clearly contains a donation to Armory.
April 27, 2012, 09:40:38 PM
Can you *prove* the identity of any Bitcoin transactions?
There's plenty of published addresses. For example, my firstbits are in my signature. You can see I've sent a few transactions with that address.https://blockchain.info/tx-index/4401755/cd7f8895d2a3ad006972105f596fd7cd4661f1f81a6ae370bf7d14f79ef7db03
This transaction links a bunch of my addresses and clearly contains a donation to Armory.
I'm gonna call that a yes.
I'm not. I'd call it a fail, or at least a dodge. I asked if he could prove that those afore mentioned criminal activities have occurred. It was a loaded question, of course, because the only way that he could prove any such thing would be to have access to the private computers of those afore mentioned criminals. Which, most likely, would mean that those computers belong to himself or someone he personally knows quite well. Anyone who would use a publicly posted bitcoin address to send funds to a publicly known criminal either doesn't know the criminal part & didn't buy criminal services or is an idiot, and it would be hard enough just to prove one or the other, much less an actual crime.
I meant a yes to the question I quoted, not your question. I agree with you there.
April 27, 2012, 09:29:57 PM
Can you *prove* the identity of any Bitcoin transactions?
There's plenty of published addresses. For example, my firstbits are in my signature. You can see I've sent a few transactions with that address.https://blockchain.info/tx-index/4401755/cd7f8895d2a3ad006972105f596fd7cd4661f1f81a6ae370bf7d14f79ef7db03
This transaction links a bunch of my addresses and clearly contains a donation to Armory.
I'm gonna call that a yes.
I'm not. I'd call it a fail, or at least a dodge. I asked if he could prove that those afore mentioned criminal activities have occurred. It was a loaded question, of course, because the only way that he could prove any such thing would be to have access to the private computers of those afore mentioned criminals. Which, most likely, would mean that those computers belong to himself or someone he personally knows quite well. Anyone who would use a publicly posted bitcoin address to send funds to a publicly known criminal either doesn't know the criminal part & didn't buy criminal services or is an idiot, and it would be hard enough just to prove one or the other, much less an actual crime.
April 27, 2012, 09:22:15 PM
Can you *prove* the identity of any Bitcoin transactions?
There's plenty of published addresses. For example, my firstbits are in my signature. You can see I've sent a few transactions with that address.https://blockchain.info/tx-index/4401755/cd7f8895d2a3ad006972105f596fd7cd4661f1f81a6ae370bf7d14f79ef7db03
This transaction links a bunch of my addresses and clearly contains a donation to Armory.
I'm gonna call that a yes.
April 27, 2012, 09:11:37 PM
Can you *prove* the identity of any Bitcoin transactions?
There's plenty of published addresses. For example, my firstbits are in my signature. You can see I've sent a few transactions with that address.https://blockchain.info/tx-index/4401755/cd7f8895d2a3ad006972105f596fd7cd4661f1f81a6ae370bf7d14f79ef7db03
This transaction links a bunch of my addresses and clearly contains a donation to Armory.
April 27, 2012, 08:48:57 PM
bitcoin *is* a local currency. It's the currency of a niche of nerdy crypto-anarchists so far.
You forgot drug dealers, human traffickers, and assassins. can you prove that?
April 27, 2012, 08:38:19 PM
bitcoin *is* a local currency. It's the currency of a niche of nerdy crypto-anarchists so far.
You forgot drug dealers, human traffickers, and assassins. can you prove that?
April 27, 2012, 08:35:55 PM
bitcoin *is* a local currency. It's the currency of a niche of nerdy crypto-anarchists so far.
You forgot drug dealers, human traffickers, and assassins. 
April 27, 2012, 03:15:06 PM
bitcoin *is* a local currency. It's the currency of a niche of nerdy crypto-anarchists so far.
should it become a "global" currency, I also believe it will be alongside many other concepts of money (p2p or b2b credit, see ripple) that would over-all complement each other well. Bitcoin definitely is a strong force in the liberation of the idea of money.
should it become a "global" currency, I also believe it will be alongside many other concepts of money (p2p or b2b credit, see ripple) that would over-all complement each other well. Bitcoin definitely is a strong force in the liberation of the idea of money.
April 26, 2012, 11:32:41 PM
Remember, the term "dollar" and the term "pound" was just two different units of gold mass, pretty much like kilogram and ounce.
Silver actually, just to nitpick.
Jump to: