-<p>As I continue to explore
-<a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">BitCoin</a>, I've starting to wonder
-what properties the system have, and how it will be affected by laws
-and regulations here in Norway. Here are some random notes.</p>
-
-<p>One interesting thing to note is that since the transactions are
-verified using a peer to peer network, all details about a transaction
-is known to everyone. This means that if a BitCoin address has been
-published like I did with mine in my initial post about BitCoin, it is
-possible for everyone to see how many BitCoins have been transfered to
-that address. There is even a web service to look at the details for
-all transactions. There I can see that my address
-<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a>
-have received 16.06 Bitcoin, the
-<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3">1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3</a>
-address of Simon Phipps have received 181.97 BitCoin and the address
-<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt">1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt</A>
-of EFF have received 2447.38 BitCoins so far. Thank you to each and
-every one of you that donated bitcoins to support my activity. The
-fact that anyone can see how much money was transfered to a given
-address make it more obvious why the BitCoin community recommend to
-generate and hand out a new address for each transaction. I'm told
-there is no way to track which addresses belong to a given person or
-organisation without the person or organisation revealing it
-themselves, as Simon, EFF and I have done.</p>
-
-<p>In Norway, and in most other countries, there are laws and
-regulations limiting how much money one can transfer across the border
-without declaring it. There are money laundering, tax and accounting
-laws and regulations I would expect to apply to the use of BitCoin.
-If the Skolelinux foundation
-(<a href="http://linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/donations.html">SLX
-Debian Labs</a>) were to accept donations in BitCoin in addition to
-normal bank transfers like EFF is doing, how should this be accounted?
-Given that it is impossible to know if money can across the border or
-not, should everything or nothing be declared? What exchange rate
-should be used when calculating taxes? Would receivers have to pay
-income tax if the foundation were to pay Skolelinux contributors in
-BitCoin? I have no idea, but it would be interesting to know.</p>
-
-<p>For a currency to be useful and successful, it must be trusted and
-accepted by a lot of users. It must be possible to get easy access to
-the currency (as a wage or using currency exchanges), and it must be
-easy to spend it. At the moment BitCoin seem fairly easy to get
-access to, but there are very few places to spend it. I am not really
-a regular user of any of the vendor types currently accepting BitCoin,
-so I wonder when my kind of shop would start accepting BitCoins. I
-would like to buy electronics, travels and subway tickets, not herbs
-and books. :) The currency is young, and this will improve over time
-if it become popular, but I suspect regular banks will start to lobby
-to get BitCoin declared illegal if it become popular. I'm sure they
-will claim it is helping fund terrorism and money laundering (which
-probably would be true, as is any currency in existence), but I
-believe the problems should be solved elsewhere and not by blaming
-currencies.</p>
-
-<p>The process of creating new BitCoins is called mining, and it is
-CPU intensive process that depend on a bit of luck as well (as one is
-competing against all the other miners currently spending CPU cycles
-to see which one get the next lump of cash). The "winner" get 50
-BitCoin when this happen. Yesterday I came across the obvious way to
-join forces to increase ones changes of getting at least some coins,
-by coordinating the work on mining BitCoins across several machines
-and people, and sharing the result if one is lucky and get the 50
-BitCoins. Check out
-<a href="http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/bitcoin-pool/">BitCoin Pool</a>
-if this sounds interesting. I have not had time to try to set up a
-machine to participate there yet, but have seen that running on ones
-own for a few days have not yield any BitCoins througth mining
-yet.</p>
-
-<p>Update 2010-12-15: Found an <a
-href="http://inertia.posterous.com/reply-to-the-underground-economist-why-bitcoi">interesting
-criticism</a> of bitcoin. Not quite sure how valid it is, but thought
-it was interesting to read. The arguments presented seem to be
-equally valid for gold, which was used as a currency for many years.</p>
+<p>Det nærmer seg lansering av NUUGs
+<a href="http://www.fiksgatami.no/">Fiksgatami-tjeneste</a>, og siste
+finpuss på kategorisering gjøres i disse dager. Jeg har konkludert
+med at ideen om
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fiksgatami_tar_form___snart_klar_for_test.html">å
+ta utgangspunkt i eksisterende kommunale tjenesters kategorisering</a>
+er en dårlig ide da det er viktigere å kategorisere fra et
+brukersynspunkt enn å kategorisere ut fra hvordan kommunene er
+organisert internt. Måtte dermed starte på nytt med
+kategoriarbeidet.</p>
+
+<p>Nå har jeg kommet opp med følgende forslag til kategorier, basert
+på de som er i bruk på den britiske originalen, innspill på
+IRC-kanalen til NUUG og folk rundt meg. Tar gjerne imot innspill på
+kategoriene til epostlisten for prosjektet,
+<a href="http://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/fiksgatami">fiksgatami
+(at) nuug.no</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Av tekniske årsaker kan kun bokmålsoversettelsen av det engelske
+ordet 'Other' brukes som fellesbetegnelse for andre kategorier,
+dvs. at også nynorsk-kommuner ender opp med 'Annet' som samlekategori.
+Oversettelse av applikasjonen til nynorsk og nordsamisk får vente til
+noen sponser den utviklingen som trengs for å få det til.</p>
+
+<p>Her er så lista med kategorier jeg tror vi går i produksjon
+med:</p>
+
+<ul>
+
+ <li>Hull i veien</li>
+ <li>Gater/Veier</li>
+ <li>Fortau/gangstier</li>
+ <li>Veinavn-skilt</li>
+ <li>Sykkelvei</li>
+ <li>Glatt vei</li>
+ <li>Snøbrøyting</li>
+ <li>Gatelys</li>
+ <li>Dumpet skrot</li>
+ <li>Forsøpling</li>
+ <li>Parkering</li>
+ <li>Grafitti/tagging</li>
+ <li>Hundedritt</li>
+ <li>Gaterydding</li>
+ <li>Trafikkskilter</li>
+ <li>Forlatte kjøretøy</li>
+ <li>Trær</li>
+ <li>Trafikklys</li>
+ <li>Park/landskap</li>
+ <li>Ulovlige oppslag</li>
+ <li>Buss- og togstopp</li>
+ <li>Offentlige toalett</li>
+ <li>Vannforsyning</li>
+ <li>Tett avløpsrist</li>
+ <li>Oljesøl</li>
+ <li>Annet</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p>Er disse forståelige? Er det noen uforståelige overlapp? Noen
+kategorier vi mangler som burde skilles ut fra 'Annet'? Er det noen
+av disse kategoriene som ikke skal varsles til offentlig myndighet?
+Gi tilbakemelding innen midten av kommende uke hvis du vil ha et ord
+med i laget når det gjelder kategorisering.</p>
+
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