-Title: Bitcoin - anonymous and distributed p2p crypto-money
-Tags: english, bitcoin, personvern
+Title: Now accepting bitcoins - anonymous and distributed p2p crypto-money
+Tags: english, debian, bitcoin, personvern, sikkerhet
Publish: 2010-12-10
-Date: 2010-12-10 09:00
+Date: 2010-12-10 08:20
<p>With this weeks lawless
-<a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/06/wikileaks/index.html">govermental
-attacks</a> on Wikileak, it has become obvious that paypal, visa and
-mastercard can not be trusted to handle money transactions.
-<a href="http://webmink.com/2010/12/06/now-accepting-bitcoin/">A blog
-post from Simon Phipps on bitcoin</a> reminded me about the project
-that a friend of mine mentioned earlier. I decided to follow Simons
-example, and get involved with
-<a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">bitcoins</a>. I got some help from
-my friend to get it all running, and he even handed me some bitcoins
-to get started. I even donated a few bitcoins to Simon for helping me
-to remember bitcoins.</p>
+<a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/06/wikileaks/index.html">governmental
+attacks</a> on Wikileak and
+<a href="http://www.salon.com/technology/dan_gillmor/2010/12/06/war_on_speech">free
+speech</a>, it has become obvious that PayPal, visa and mastercard can
+not be trusted to handle money transactions.
+A blog post from
+<a href="http://webmink.com/2010/12/06/now-accepting-bitcoin/">Simon
+Phipps on bitcoin</a> reminded me about a project that a friend of
+mine mentioned earlier. I decided to follow Simon's example, and get
+involved with <a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">BitCoin</a>. I got
+some help from my friend to get it all running, and he even handed me
+some bitcoins to get started. I even donated a few bitcoins to Simon
+for helping me remember BitCoin.</p>
-<p>So, what is bitcoins, you probably wonder. It is a digital
-crypto-currency, decentraliced and handled using peer-to-peer
-networks. It allow anonymous transactions and prohibit central
-control over the transactions, making it impossible for governments and
-compaines alike to block donations and other transactions.</p>
+<p>So, what is bitcoins, you probably wonder? It is a digital
+crypto-currency, decentralised and handled using peer-to-peer
+networks. It allows anonymous transactions and prohibits central
+control over the transactions, making it impossible for governments
+and companies alike to block donations and other transactions. The
+source is free software, and while the key dependency wxWidgets 2.9
+for the graphical user interface is missing in Debian, the command
+line client builds just fine. Hopefully Jonas
+<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/578157">will get the package into
+Debian</a> soon.</p>
<p>Bitcoins can be converted to other currencies, like USD and EUR.
-There are companies accepting bitcoins when selling services and
-goods, and there is even currency "stock" markets where the exchange
-rate is decided. There are not many users so far, but the concept
-seem promising. If you want to get started and lack a friend without
-any bitcoins to spare, you can even get
+There are <a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/trade">companies accepting
+bitcoins</a> when selling services and goods, and there are even
+currency "stock" markets where the exchange rate is decided. There
+are not many users so far, but the concept seems promising. If you
+want to get started and lack a friend with any bitcoins to spare,
+you can even get
<a href="https://freebitcoins.appspot.com/">some for free</a> (0.05
-bitcoin at the time of writing).</p>
+bitcoin at the time of writing). Use
+<a href="http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/">BitcoinWatch</a> to keep an eye
+on the current exchange rates.</p>
-<p>As an example, I've set up bitcoin and will be accepting donations
-to the address <b>15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</b>. If you want
-to support me, send me some bitcoins. :)</p>
+<p>As an experiment, I have decided to set up bitcoind on one of my
+machines. If you want to support my activity, please send Bitcoin
+donations to the address
+<b>15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</b>. Thank you!</p>
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