Buy things like well , we are the Internet generation , you can transfer money from anywhere in the world with the ease of use is a friend of decentralization
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Re: IF the NSA wanted to take control over Bitcoin, how would they do it?
Burt, have you thought of moving to Somalia? No intrusive regulations, no civil forfeitures, guns are legal, everyone loves bitcoins and plenty of pirate treasure coves. Your family would dig it.
This year my daughter's class has an assignment "decide where to reside" where the students were asked to research other places (states or countries) they might want to move to and then make a presentation on the place on why they picked the place, etc. She is taking this assignment very seriously.
Did she pick Somalia, land of the free? Or still thinking?
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Previously they had an assignment to discuss an important issue and present it to the the class. Most of the other students picked things like "animal cruelty". My daughters presentation was more interesting and you can find a link to it (the first link in the first paragraph) on this page:
Err, "Final 4th Grade Presentation on Civil forfeiture.mp4"? Look, I'm again civil forfeiture, it's a scary and often misused thing, but I also know forth graders. If Daddy got jailed for stealing from the collection plate, Jesus would be a berry berry bad man. BTW, consider not begging for donations, that's a bit off-putting.
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Re: IF the NSA wanted to take control over Bitcoin, how would they do it?
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JaneEverycunt
on 08/05/2016, 14:39:51 UTC
Burt, have you thought of moving to Somalia? No intrusive regulations, no civil forfeitures, guns are legal, everyone loves bitcoins and plenty of pirate treasure coves. Your family would dig it.
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Re: IF the NSA wanted to take control over Bitcoin, how would they do it?
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JaneEverycunt
on 07/05/2016, 16:49:22 UTC
^^USD is a world reserve currency, and NSA can just ask their bankster puppet masters to print up as much as they need right out of thin air?
The problem is always broke down to just a few issues for Countries like this. They lack internet connection or they lack places to buy/sell bitcoin in a manner that would replace the current set up. Cell phones seem to be the only way to get around both those issues but do not know how you can create a internet network this way.
The problem is poor countries are poor, as in average person living on less than $1.50 US a day. It doesn't matter what you use for money -- poor is poor.
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Re: IF the NSA wanted to take control over Bitcoin, how would they do it?
The internet access requirement is BS.... I travelled to most of these countries and they are using mobile phones. We have seen people linking Sms's to Bitcoin and sending Bitcoin via emails.
Yeah Zimbabwe is very technologically up to date. Actually, there are parts of the US that are potentially more derelict and poverty stricken than the roughest towns in Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe GDP per capita (yearly): $475.26 US. That's less than $1.50/day. Can't put much of a spin on that
These numbers are hogwash
Don't believe everything you read.
K. Ignoring lameass mainstream hogwash; trusting only you, random guy from the interweb
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People in Detroit literally have muddy water coming out of their kitchen and bathroom taps.
People in Zimbabwe literally have no water coming out of their bathroom taps. Because no bathroom taps. Or bathrooms
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Re: Would Bitcoin not have been a better option for Zimbabwe?
The internet access requirement is BS.... I travelled to most of these countries and they are using mobile phones. We have seen people linking Sms's to Bitcoin and sending Bitcoin via emails.
Yeah Zimbabwe is very technologically up to date. Actually, there are parts of the US that are potentially more derelict and poverty stricken than the roughest towns in Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe GDP per capita (yearly): $475.26 US. That's less than $1.50/day. Can't put much of a spin on that
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Re: So, why do we need to use Bitcoin?
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JaneEverycunt
on 06/05/2016, 16:42:18 UTC
Why do we need to use Bitcoin? What a silly question. Y'all have signature ads, of course you need to use bitcoins.
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Re: Would Bitcoin not have been a better option for Zimbabwe?
- Find dirt on devs; offer laughably small sums of money to put on jackboots. Alternative: fed time. - Offer Chinese miners actual IRL money > 12.5 BTC after the halvening to solve blocks. - Block port 8333 at provider level. - Be like Russia and Iceland, make BTC illegal.
Maybe you're just not looking?
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Re: IF the NSA wanted to take control over Bitcoin, how would they do it?
- Read through the connection data (phone,email etc) from key figures of the Bitcoin community to gain insider knowledge - Infiltrate core development and replace Bitcoin key figures with NSA staff - Discredit respected members of the community - Kill people, if they don't corporate.
Are core devs discussing this possiblility of a large scale infiltration and how to avoid?
- Find dirt on devs; offer laughably small sums of money to put on jackboots. Alternative: fed time. - Offer Chinese miners actual IRL money > 12.5 BTC after the halvening to solve blocks. - Block port 8333 at provider level. - Be like Russia and Iceland, make BTC illegal.
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Re: Craig Wright relents aka Satoshi (air quotes) in Public Apology!
Besides, even if we ignore everything, Gavin does not need to have commit access anymore. While I do not understand the exact 'process' which was used to determine the set of people who will have commit access,
Satoshi gave him access.
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Gavin is no longer a part of them. People who have stopped contributing to the project should not retain access.
Self-fulfilling prophesy if access is taken away. Is there a mechanism for taking away such privileges? 95% super-majority consensus, something like that?