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Some thoughts on BitCoins
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2010-12-11 15:10
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As I continue to explore +BitCoin, 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.

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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 +15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b +have received 16.06 Bitcoin, the +1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3 +address of Simon Phipps have received 181.97 BitCoin and the address +1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt +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.

+ +

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 +(SLX +Debian Labs) 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.

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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 show 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.

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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 +BitCoin Pool +if this sounds interesting. I have not had time to try to set up a +machine to participate there yet.

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+ + + + Tags: bitcoin, debian, english, personvern, sikkerhet. + +
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Pornoskannerne på flyplassene bedrer visst ikke sikkerheten
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Lenny->Squeeze upgrades, apt vs aptitude with the Gnome and KDE desktop
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I'm still running upgrade testing of the -Lenny -Gnome and KDE Desktop, but have not had time to spend on reporting the -status. Here is a short update based on a test I ran 20101118.

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I still do not know what a correct migration should look like, so I -report any differences between apt and aptitude and hope someone else -can see if anything should be changed.

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- autopoint bomber bovo cantor cantor-backend-kalgebra cpp-4.3 dcoprss - edict espeak espeak-data eyesapplet fifteenapplet finger gettext - ghostscript-x git gnome-audio gnugo granatier gs-common - gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio indi kaddressbook-plugins kalgebra - kalzium-data kanjidic kapman kate-plugins kblocks kbreakout kbstate - kde-icons-mono kdeaccessibility kdeaddons-kfile-plugins - kdeadmin-kfile-plugins kdeartwork-misc kdeartwork-theme-window - kdeedu kdeedu-data kdeedu-kvtml-data kdegames kdegames-card-data - kdegames-mahjongg-data kdegraphics-kfile-plugins kdelirc - kdemultimedia-kfile-plugins kdenetwork-kfile-plugins - kdepim-kfile-plugins kdepim-kio-plugins kdessh kdetoys kdewebdev - kdiamond kdnssd kfilereplace kfourinline kgeography-data kigo - killbots kiriki klettres-data kmoon kmrml knewsticker-scripts - kollision kpf krosspython ksirk ksmserver ksquares kstars-data - ksudoku kubrick kweather libasound2-plugins libboost-python1.42.0 - libcfitsio3 libconvert-binhex-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl libdb4.6++ - libdjvulibre-text libdotconf1.0 liberror-perl libespeak1 - libfinance-quote-perl libgail-common libgsl0ldbl libhtml-parser-perl - libhtml-tableextract-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl - libio-stringy-perl libkdeedu4 libkdegames5 libkiten4 libkpathsea5 - libkrossui4 libmailtools-perl libmime-tools-perl - libnews-nntpclient-perl libopenbabel3 libportaudio2 libpulse-browse0 - libservlet2.4-java libspeechd2 libtiff-tools libtimedate-perl - libunistring0 liburi-perl libwww-perl libxalan2-java libxerces2-java - lirc luatex marble networkstatus noatun-plugins - openoffice.org-writer2latex palapeli palapeli-data parley - parley-data poster psutils pulseaudio pulseaudio-esound-compat - pulseaudio-module-x11 pulseaudio-utils quanta-data rocs rsync - speech-dispatcher step svgalibg1 texlive-binaries texlive-luatex - ttf-sazanami-gothic -

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