Topic: wikileaks: Google CEO shows interest to bitcoin - page 2. (Read 3096 times)
so google will dominate btc also now?
Schmidt: "If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place."
and
“The only way to manage this is true transparency and no anonymity. In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it.”
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“The only way to manage this is true transparency and no anonymity. In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it.”
Schmidt is the guy who wants to make personal ownership of drones illegal.
Authoritarian from the word go.
Google + Bitcoin is not a good fit. Western Union makes sense - even Amazon. But not Google.
Authoritarian from the word go.
Google + Bitcoin is not a good fit. Western Union makes sense - even Amazon. But not Google.
i think google can introduce a totally new coin, G-coin 
this transcript is from 2011.
Since then Eric Schmidt already has said he was aware of Bitcoin on some occasions. But indeed maybe JA was the first one to introduce it to him.
Since then Eric Schmidt already has said he was aware of Bitcoin on some occasions. But indeed maybe JA was the first one to introduce it to him.
Sounds like they JA is tossing ideas around very similar to namecoin ... and something like Ricardian contracts (Open Transactions) for important censorship resistant documents.
I thought this bit was salient also and should be stashed in memory for later use
... right here is all the reason you need to get into bitcoin.
I thought this bit was salient also and should be stashed in memory for later use
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Eric Schmidt: The average person does not understand that RSA was broken into and an awful lot of private keys involving commerce were taken.
... right here is all the reason you need to get into bitcoin.
"I think we should study this quite a bit more so we generally understand it..."
That's Google-se for "Get out of my office before I call security"
Google CEO shows interest to bitcoin:
http://wikileaks.org/Transcript-Meeting-Assange-Schmidt#688
Google CEO Eric Schmidt:
"I think we should study this quite a bit more so we generally understand it..."
http://wikileaks.org/Transcript-Meeting-Assange-Schmidt#688
Google CEO Eric Schmidt:
"I think we should study this quite a bit more so we generally understand it..."
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