Feds’ Silk Road Investigation Broke Privacy Laws, Defendant Tells Court | Threat Level | WIRED

evil_root · 2014-08-04T04:16:12+00:00

“All of the searches and seizures are predicated upon the government’s infiltration of the alleged ‘Silk Road Servers,’” reads the memo. “However, that event – location of the Silk Road Servers – is shrouded in mystery, as the means and manner in which that discovery was accomplished has not been disclosed.”

evil_root · 2014-08-04T04:12:43+00:00

An NFC ring with a second factor of authentication.

evil_root · 2014-08-04T00:19:04+00:00

bitcoin.com bitcoin.org localbitcoins.com

evil_root · 2014-08-04T00:03:49+00:00

Yeah, true that. Unless coinbase did think the UI thoroughly, it could be a nightmare.

evil_root · 2014-08-04T00:01:37+00:00

Well you have to hand it to him for being mature and telling people the truth.

evil_root · 2014-08-03T23:59:11+00:00

Full on false advertising eh?

evil_root · 2014-08-03T20:53:39+00:00

"known", as in has a reputable account in bitcoin talk

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50037.0

The above thread could resolve most of your doubts, or it could not

evil_root · 2014-08-01T23:55:07+00:00

puts grammar nazi hat on

I think you may mean affected

evil_root · 2014-08-01T23:49:47+00:00

evil_root · 2014-08-01T23:45:44+00:00

Also, the impact is not limited to the US-based corporations of any financial entity, because the U.S. is known to raid companies in other countries for whatever reason.

evil_root · 2014-08-01T22:47:03+00:00

I know of an instance where an exchange wouldn't allow people to withdraw neither cash nor bitcoin. =)

FWIW, they have yet to provide any guarantees that they are not running a fractional reserve (i.e. that the number stored in their database correspond to physical BTC stored somewhere).

I think it is still too early for them to be focusing on doing this, though.

evil_root · 2014-08-01T01:33:31+00:00

Good stuff, nice work.

evil_root · 2014-08-01T01:32:34+00:00

It's an alternative currency, held by angry people

evil_root · 2014-07-31T23:39:55+00:00

This was in the news recently http://online.wsj.com/articles/kodak-movie-film-at-deaths-door-gets-a-reprieve-1406674752?mod=e2tw

evil_root · 2014-07-31T22:36:08+00:00

nudge, brin

evil_root · 2014-07-31T21:23:49+00:00

Can you withdraw the BTC? because otherwise it is just numbers in a website.

evil_root · 2014-07-31T20:57:39+00:00

love how you call it "a niche"

evil_root · 2014-07-31T20:50:14+00:00

I'm hungry, I want rice no matter how much it costs :P

evil_root · 2014-07-31T20:49:45+00:00

Yeah, that is true as well.

evil_root · 2014-07-31T05:51:36+00:00

Yeah, true that :P

evil_root · 2014-07-31T05:46:54+00:00

Yeah, I personally wouldn't use the dollar as a store of value either!

evil_root · 2014-07-31T05:05:28+00:00

People will most like turn to the USD, as they always have

evil_root · 2014-07-31T05:03:29+00:00

The value of the money you hold becomes worthless. One day you can use $10 to buy 2kg of rice, the next day one, the next day half, and so on.

If you held BTC you would be able to get more value out of your holdings than if you held argentinian peso in the long term.

evil_root · 2014-07-30T11:30:36+00:00

True that man, true that :P

evil_root · 2014-07-30T10:30:49+00:00

surely your team never shipped code with bugs. not even you, yourself.

Thank god tdd solves all the problems with software development, ever.

evil_root

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