They did have a Dos attack to contend with, but I've also been waiting 3 weeks for a response on verification

Fixing bugs in bitcoin is THE FUTURE , like transaction malleability for example, included in the segwit core update.

P2SH transactions are the future, helped greatly by segwit

easily upgradeable bitcoin script is the future, enabled by fixing transaction malleability, enabled by segwit

new signature types are the future, enabled by the segwit patch

sidechains are the future, allowing free experimentation without messing with the main chain, enabled by segwit

allowing high throughput sidechain networks is also a good thing to have in future, enabled by segwit

These are some reasons among many others why the community at large particularly the more knowledgeable in the sector is on the side of the Core upgrade.

It's only the miners who want to earn from a fee market that are on a propaganda mission to convince the turkeys to vote for Christmas.

Panama

In the interests of a balanced discussion this month has been a real record breaker in terms of bitcoin deaths in the media.

http://bitcoinobituaries.com/2015/

Always a bullish signal :-)

LOL you've got it! the solar flare could wipe out the whole internet!! panic!!

I agree with this sentiment.

Everyone wants off the petrodollar

US will do whatever they can to maintain the status quo but economic power is shifting east and they can't stop the inevitable.

It might take 20 years for big governments to realise that bitcoin is a great global trading currency, and various bannings in the mean time will take a while to roll back. I believe they will all come around to the realisation eventually though. I think this will be driven by gras roots adoption due to various inevitable currency failures in smaller countries like Argentina.

Small countries that are either imcompetent at running their economies and or have been targeted by the economic hit man http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man are not rare. These practices of hegemony will probably never go away.

In short, the more governments and banks commit economic crimes against populations, the more opportunties bitcoin has to rescue people.  I genuinely believe this.

Now the challenge really is just education. Because most of these victims don't have chance of getting bitcoin when basic literacy is probably a main concern.

Hilarious rant!

Oh he could have invested in it 4 years ago and made 100s of millions of dollars, oh yeah, yeah sure.

Wait till he hears about the wiki weapons project!

Any real implications for bitcoin yet?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2011/05/17/d-wave-announces-commerically-available-quantum-computer/

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This is war!

Well for that matter there's also Javascript implementations ! :-P

I've added this question to the stackexchange site which is asking what the security considerations are for running an electrum server.

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/8214/what-are-the-security-considerations-for-hosting-your-own-electrum-server

I'm also curious whether anyone has run this code on a JVM in say Jython or something like that? I'm interested in a Java based implementation.

I was thinking of this with the date and the converted value in BTC. The idea being that going forward as the value of BTC more than likely goes up, and people should cotton on and buy!

Really like this idea, could be a nice thing to have on a business card CDROM. I don't suppose you chose any kernel secure RAM options? If remember well there's a few things in there that greatly improve the security.

I'm going to be travelling to the US soon. I'm hoping I can use bitcoin to make my foreign exchange more efficient and I don't want to use my GBP visa card. I've heard there are a few bitcoin chargeable debit card options available. I see that OKPay do this but they charge 5.5% which is very high, higher than a bank would charge and way higher than a foreign exchange broker.

Any other options?

This doesn't seem very competitive even with traditional currency exchange methods

Was wondering about something like that, can you post a reference ?

just blasted through to £9 , like 23% over the mtgox value!

12:57 16.06.2012