From what I've noticed, this is a good thing. The movement is regulation and control, sure, but it's also more about setting out some certainty about the rules that businesses (including banks) can operate in. Without that, support from legal financial organisations is always going to be paranoid. Anyone that has seen exchanges like Intersango jump from bank account to bank account, or just try to get a startup loan, knows this kind of state move is needed to make Bitcoin legally-plausible.

Love buried treasure ideas like Masquerade and Perplex City, so hope this does well. Keeping an eye on the thread, wondering whether to cash in a Casascius in exchange..

What's the best way to convert from GBP <-> SLG? Thinking of seeing if anyone will take it here in Brighton for freelance jobs, etc.

Can confirm on spacedrop - "Sterlingcoin Spacedrop cannot be accessed via proxy." message in Firefox from UK, but no problem getting to it when going through a Japanese proxy in same browser.

Unless they have smartphones on a data contract More likely to hit issues with workplaces, Universities, etc, I'd have thought...

As mentioned earlier in the thread, Spencer from Sterlingcoin will be coming along to the next Bitcoin Brighton meetup on Tuesday 26th August for a Q&A session. We thought it'd be good to send him some questions in advance, which he kindly answered.

Check out the answers here: http://www.bitcoinbrighton.com/sterlingcoin-an-interview/

Meetup page for the event next Tuesday is here: http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinBrighton/events/199648102/

Paper wallet design is looking great BTW!

Watching this with interest, great to see some altcoin activity in Brighton - will get something up on http://bitcoinbrighton.com/ . Flawless are doing great things with Bitcoin here, good to see them getting involved.

For some reason I get a message "Proxy access not allowed" when going to http://spacedrop.sterlingcoin.org.uk/ - any ideas? Running laetst Firefox.

Also is there any reward for a kid born on the launch day? ;-)

Would be happy starting at 0.1 BTC, but am open to offers.

Bump in case anyone's still interested.

Bump to remind!

Just posted a thread for the next meetup on 22/7, but here's the link: http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinBrighton/events/192965392/

Cryptocurrencies by the coast, 8pm on July 22nd @ the Earth and Stars: http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinBrighton/events/192965392/

Check out our swish new website for updates and local mailing list too: http://www.bitcoinbrighton.com/

Oddly/coincidentally, sentence 51 of chapter 7 ties in with the riddle that the hatter sets ("Why is a raven like a writing desk?"):

If my counting's right:

48: “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
49/ 50: “No, I give it up,” Alice replied. “What’s the answer?”
51: ”I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter.

The answer to the riddle itself isn't in the book, but Lewis Carroll came up with an answer later: "Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is never put with the wrong end in front!"

(Or "nevar" backwords, in other words.)

But can't get anything from that to open the zip file. No idea if I'm on the right track or not.

I get "talking" as the 51st word in this chapter, but no jot opening the zip with it.

Wow, finally catching/caught up with this thread - good going.

Did I miss something? What was the bitly link in the end? I worked out up-up-down-down = bit. Don't get where the rest of the URL comes from though.

A couple of random thoughts:

There are 26 parts divided by orange dots before the blue dot (1 part is empty though). I thought this might relate to letters of the alphabet, but some parts are the same, so doubtful it's a direct key.

If red and green do represent bits, and each part isn't a set length, it's not clear why you'd start (or end, depending on direction) with a 0 bit in some cases only. Suspect they represent something else, like direction?

I'm assuming the dots run right-to-left, not top-to-bottom...

Could the red/yellow/blue colours relate to the colours in the Darkwallet logo's triangle? [Edit: The red/yellow/green/blue prism spectrum also turns up in the logo for the related Darkmarket project, e.g. http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Screen-Shot-2014-04-22-at-4.45.06-PM.png]

Bump. Extended to this Sunday.

Bump. Will extend the cut-off time if no offers received by midnight Friday.

Selling satoshi.co.in. Had this domain for a few years but never got round to doing anything with it. Expires 28th August 2014. Open to offers via PM or here in thread. Domain will go to highest offer at end of Sunday 2014-06-22 UK time (23:00 UTC+1). Will keep this thread updated with any higher offers received via PM.

Currently hosted at Easyspace, but no hosting package set up. Email me via the domain contact details if you would like to confirm ownership.

There will be, May's been a bit of a busy month with the festival and stuff. Definitely one due though. There'll also be a talk/discussion on Bitcoin and Businesses on July 1st somewhere.

Check out the group at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/brighton-bitcoin for when details get announced.