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+               <title>A word on bitcoin support in Debian</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_word_on_bitcoin_support_in_Debian.html</link>        
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+                <pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 23:59:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;It has been a while since I wrote about
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bitcoin.org/&quot;&gt;bitcoin&lt;/a&gt;, the decentralised
+peer-to-peer based crypto-currency, and the reason is simply that I
+have been busy elsewhere.  But two days ago, I started looking at the
+state of &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/bitcoin&quot;&gt;bitcoin in
+Debian&lt;/a&gt; again to try to recover my old bitcoin wallet.  The package
+is now maintained by a
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-bitcoin/&quot;&gt;team of
+people&lt;/a&gt;, and the grunt work had already been done by this team.  We
+own a huge thank you to all these team members. :)
+But I was sad to discover that the bitcoin client is missing in
+Wheezy.  It is only available in Sid (and a outdated client from
+backports).  The client had several RC bugs registered in BTS blocking
+it from entering testing.  To try to help the team and improve the
+situation, I spent some time providing patches and triaging the bug
+reports.  I also had a look at the bitcoin package available from Matt
+Corallo in a
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/bitcoin&quot;&gt;PPA for
+Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;, and moved the useful pieces from that version into the
+Debian package.  &lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;After checking with the main package maintainer Jonas Smedegaard on
+IRC, I pushed several patches into the collab-maint git repository to
+improve the package.  It now contain fixes for the RC issues (not from
+me, but fixed by Scott Howard), build rules for a Qt GUI client
+package, konqueror support for the bitcoin: URI and bash completion
+setup.  As I work on Debian Squeeze, I also created
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-bitcoin-devel/Week-of-Mon-20121217/000041.html&quot;&gt;a
+patch to backport&lt;/a&gt; the latest version.  Jonas is going to look at
+it and try to integrate it into the git repository before uploading a
+new version to unstable.
+
+&lt;p&gt;I would very much like bitcoin to succeed, to get rid of the
+centralized control currently exercised in the monetary system.  I
+find it completely unacceptable that the USA government is collecting
+transaction data for almost all international money transfers (most are done in USD and transaction logs shipped to the spooks), and
+that the major credit card companies can block legal money
+transactions to Wikileaks.  But for bitcoin to succeed, more people
+need to use bitcoins, and more people need to accept bitcoins when
+they sell products and services.  Improving the bitcoin support in
+Debian is a small step in the right direction, but not enough.
+Unfortunately the user experience when browsing the web and wanting to
+pay with bitcoin is still not very good.  The bitcoin: URI is a step
+in the right direction, but need to work in most or every browser in
+use.  Also the bitcoin-qt client is too heavy to fire it up to do a
+quick transaction.  I believe there are other clients available, but
+have not tested them.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Now_accepting_bitcoins___anonymous_and_distributed_p2p_crypto_money.html&quot;&gt;experiment
+with bitcoins&lt;/a&gt; showed that at least some of my readers use bitcoin.
+I received 20.15 BTC so far on the address I provided in my blog two
+years ago, as can be
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://blockexplorer.com/address/15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;seen
+on the blockexploer service&lt;/a&gt;.  Thank you everyone for your
+donation.  The blockexploer service demonstrate quite well that
+bitcoin is not quite anonymous and untracked. :) I wonder if the
+number of users have gone up since then.  If you use bitcoin and want
+to show your support of my activity, please send Bitcoin donations to
+the same address as last time,
+&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&amp;label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
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                <title>Piratpartiet på opphavs-retrett?</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Piratpartiet_p__opphavs_retrett_.html</link>