BrokenPipe

You know, open source. I can decide not to take the new version or I can even fork it. The majority decides, democracy like.

Right, and that is the point: even if you accept Gold payments, you still need to eventually get Euro. Ultimately, this is why I believe that Gold cannot survive with the Gold exchanges.

the only issue with them is that little by little they lose more and more of their purchasing power so you should either invest or use all immediately

Well said. I've had enough of this inflation. The poorer you are, the less likely you have money in any investment that is yields better results that inflation. The richer you are, the more likely you have your money both diversified and invested with good ROI.

If bitcoin is going to be here in 2 years then I think it's undervalued. In some exchange it has reached past $111

Sure, but it doesn't make it any less usable for the others, it fact it increases everyone else's purchasing power

this is the effect of the scarcity of bitcoin. there's a tremendous network effect, more and more online shops accepting them as well as AFK. it allows much lower fees and risk than credit cards with their 3% plus chargebacks, up to 5-10% better margins for sellers.

You can now use bitcoin to pay for services and even fines at some municipalities, cities and what not http://www2.egovlink.com/press-release-bitcoin.cfm

You can buy things on amazon via bitspend as well as other services.

And if you still don't trust bitcoin value to not go down, you can use services like bitpay that will convert for you instantly in whichever currency you want.

There's even some VISA prepaid you can top up with bitcoin for the places that don't accept them.

And you can now use bitcoin to pay for expenses and contractors http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/27/expensify-now-offers-suppor...

And while all this happens, the USD keeps getting printed at a far superior rate.

It has a place on hacker news, I guess OP can just not read it ?

fees are being adjusted as we speak (at least the default) but you should know that the fee is optional

well there are more and more ways to spend them. in the usa soon you'll be able to pay for city services and you can already top up your phone worldwide as well as pay electricity in southafrica. You can buy stuff over amazon or with bitspend anywhere else.

an inflating currency ? Why would I ever get into it if my government wasn't to force me like they did in the states before it was backed by gold ?

it's amazing. I got tipped a few month ago something like $2 and it is now $6.

What doesn't kill bitcoins makes it harder.

I love bitcoins, easy to use, no middle man, quick. I can travel with them yet nobody can take them from me.

I also think a government could make it illegal and if it's a key government or even more than one it will impact the bitcoin market tremendously.

It's not unheard of for a government to do something like this, my understanding is that it was done with gold at some point.

The will use an excuse such as terrorism, money laundering (because it competes with HSBC and similarly too big to fail banks), drugs, or whatnot.

How can they enforce it ? block the protocol ? ban tor too ? I think it is more likely they'll use any mean available to stop bitcoin from becoming mainstream. In particular, all the payment processors are a bit iffy with bitcoin, instead of embracing them.

Seems like Paypal, Visa, Mastercard, AMEX, diners and the various banks are to bitcoin what mpaa, riaa, GEMA and what not are to copyright, some sort of MAFIAA imposing their dead business model.

Do you know how many governments have acknowledged bitcoins ? Is it legally a currency or just some collector's trading of post stamps and things like that?

I think that's called hole punching http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hole_punching

Agreed.

When the code gets cranky, its time to refactor. Piling shit on top of it just makes it worst.

I'm not talking about NIHS or rewrites, I'm talking about refactoring.

And lots of edge cases and special things are not a good thing in law or software I think.

Mostly lawyers. Which shouldn't be necessary. But they are because there is no way for normal people to fully understand the law. How can we even be expected not to break it regularly?

I see lawyers as some sort of bad kind of software developers but for humans.

They write the shittiest code possible (in my view on purpose) such that each time it can be interpreted slightly differently depending on who's being accused.

This code is very hard to refactor, it calls various routines from libraries that have been long abandoned yet amended in other routines or functions that 'decorate' and change behavior.

And then when there's something to understand or change they pretend lots of money to give you their interpretation and or provide changes.

Law's are not bad intrinsically but it should be taught in school and be as simple as possible, or in other words, it should use the KISS principle.

In my view, just because 'usually' they don't seek maximum penalty it doesn't mean he doesn't get it, as suggested itself by her office the final call is not hers.

I'm glad more and more people are coming out on this issue.

He forgot the rapping but he did give thumbs up!

Sorry I wasn't aware, I've read a quite a bit about Aaron but didn't come across this. I didn't imagine actual physical pains either. It must be terrible.

Apparently read your IMEI and other identifying information, which then can be sent anywhere without further permission (assuming it has network access as this app has)

It requires two permissions:

-Phone calls Read phone status and identity

-Network communication Full network access

I can understand the latter, in particular if in android you can't specify exactly what hosts you need to access but the former I can't understand, or better, I can't stand. I do not want to give every app my identity, not for ads, not for money.

Why does it need permission to read my identify? Sorry, uninstalled.

thanks for the link, interesting.

True. You know what I was thinking ? homomorphic encryption

I understand is possible to do operations on encrypted data (which results in an encrypted result) all without having the key to the data (or the result), and maybe there's a way to do this to allow the duplication.

If there is it could (but shouldn't ?) be used.

The issue here, to me at least, is that someone malicious that has exactly the same data could encrypt it and then verify the above.

Well encryption changes this. Assuming the key is in the hand of the user (which if it isn't kind of breaks the full point of encryption in this case) then each file will have a different digest and won't be detected as a duplicate.

Is there a way to store files encrypted with different data and detect they are the same file ? If there was, wouldn't this allow LEO to verify this and issue DCMA notices ?

The american system is one of the worst in western society, granted, but the British one is not that much better at all. Some claim is worst. I never had the misfortune of having to try that on my skin but heard from friends and family.

How's the system in Iceland ? Or Norway ?

Yeah, no more crazy law and no bargaining on future lives.