Quote from: Colargol on August 28, 2011, 09:19:55 PM

Quote from: makomk on August 28, 2011, 08:03:51 PM

So, I was catching up with Twitter and I noticed that someone entirely unrelated to Bitcoin had linked this Wikileaked cable about Pattaya. Makes for very interesting reading, between the police corruption and murder of a reporter that covered it, the sex trade, the deaths of American citizens, etc...

Btw, isn't it the same group, The Cypherpunks, that are behind such things as pgp and bittorrent etc., who are the same people who are behind wikileaks and Bitcoin?

I remember back in the late 90's ( edit/ late 80s I meant ) checking out everything they were up to, with the re-mailers and pgp and all the rest... before there was even this new fangled thing called the World Wide Web. Or maybe I am just a child who happened to hear about that stuff back before I was born.

But anyway maybe this is their way of trying to point out how a Bitcoin conference in Pattaya is such a friggin bad idea, and this self-appointed spokesman for Bitcoin is becoming a liability. Or maybe it is a hoax perpetrated by a bunch of children.

The fact that over 3/4 of the readers of this thread voted "no" should've been enough for Bruce to rethink this whole idea. Let him and his followers leave to where they can moderate out all disagreement in their own private forum.

John Gilmore? Very, very interesting!