Beating. Head. Against. Wall.
What can you mean by saying that it’s irrelevant? The point is that the US government is trying to criminalize wikileaks, and bitcoin helps wikileaks to fight back. Without the financial blockade set up by the US government to choke off donations to wikileaks, they wouldn’t have much use for bitcoins, but because they’re beating treated as criminals, bitcoin is very handy.
I definitely agree with you about the terribleness of Apple restricting what you can do with products you own (which is why I’m already on android).
On the bitcoin front though, what do you mean that it’s difficult to turn your local currency into something of value that you want? What legal products are easier to buy with bitcoin than with conventional currency? Again, I’m not saying that there’s anything wrong with using bitcoin to buy things the government doesn’t want you to have, but I have yet to see any evidence, including in your google search, that there’s much other use for it.
Not really sure what the deal is with post limits and needing new accounts and all that. I haven’t commented on BoingBoing that much, but you’d think such a tech savvy operation would have a less bizarre discussion system.
I’m really not even trying to put bitcoin in a bad light. There are plenty of situations where defying government power is a good move, especially in the less free parts of the world. Maybe the use of the word criminal was a bad choice - I mean it just in the sense of someone who is in conflict with the authorities. A lot of people were sent to jail during the civil rights movement, they were criminals who had broken the law, but that obviously doesn’t mean that they were in the wrong.
I think you’re underestimating how bad the remittance market is. Using MoneyGram, it looks like it’d cost $10 in fees to send $100 over to Kenya. It also looks like they take another 3% on the exchange rate. The fee is $30 via BoA, WF, or Citibank and takes 3-6 days. There is already a Bitcoin to M-Pesa bridge, btw, so I think you may also be overestimating the technical requirements as well: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/one-third-of-kenyans-now-have-a-bitcoin-wallet
Since these funds are being converted from fiat to well, whatever M-Pesa is (payment service?) currency risk is minimal and the transaction savings (time and money) is speaks for itself.
Look at all the shills and sockpuppets who registered today just to comment on how brilliant bitcoin is and how you should buy some
Huh? I did look-- I count one new user who posted “pro” bitcoin at the time you posted that - Daen, who clearly said he was a new user and created a 2nd, similar name to get around the 3 post limit. And the posts by Daen were well worded, polite and informative. Unlike what you posted----On your first and only post under this name!
Sockpuppeting/astro turfing/driving trollies is a real thing, but—sometimes people actually do see an article of interest to them on a site they don’t normally contribute to and register right then to post.
What other one’s do you count? Am I missing something? Do you just make stuff up often?
And if they doesn’t happen, it’ll be: APPLECOIN.
Seriously. If there’s no competition in their walled garden for a cryptocurrency, they’ll be clear to start their own.
I got fed up of them and made a podcast taking a skeptical view.
Not one substantive response so far. They are all ‘go read the code’ or re-statements of the Randian awesomeness of Bticoin.
Meanwhile, two more arrests of Bitcoiners in Florida.
I would like to watch that video, but it’s an hour long. Certainly this point could be condensed down.
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