-Title: Now acceting bitcoins - anonymous and distributed p2p crypto-money
-Tags: english, debian, 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">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
+speech</a>, 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 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
+<p>So, what is bitcoins, you probably wonder? It is a digital
crypto-currency, decentralised and handled using peer-to-peer
-networks. It allow anonymous transactions and prohibit central
+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 build just fine. Hopefully Jonas
+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 are 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). 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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