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  10                 <title>Now acceting bitcoins - anonymous and distributed p2p crypto-money</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
  14                 <description>pPublish: 2010-12-10
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  16 &lt;p&gt;With this weeks lawless
  17 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/06/wikileaks/index.html&quot;&gt;governmental
  18 attacks&lt;/a&gt; on Wikileak and
  19 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.salon.com/technology/dan_gillmor/2010/12/06/war_on_speech&quot;&gt;free
  20 speech&lt;/a&gt;, it has become obvious that PayPal, visa and mastercard can
  21 not be trusted to handle money transactions.
  22 A blog post from
  23 &lt;a href=&quot;http://webmink.com/2010/12/06/now-accepting-bitcoin/&quot;&gt;Simon
  24 Phipps on bitcoin&lt;/a&gt; reminded me about a project that a friend of
  25 mine mentioned earlier.  I decided to follow Simon&#39;s example, and get
  26 involved with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bitcoin.org/&quot;&gt;BitCoin&lt;/a&gt;.  I got
  27 some help from my friend to get it all running, and he even handed me
  28 some bitcoins to get started.  I even donated a few bitcoins to Simon
  29 for helping me remember BitCoin.&lt;/p&gt;
  30
  31 &lt;p&gt;So, what is bitcoins, you probably wonder?  It is a digital
  32 crypto-currency, decentralised and handled using peer-to-peer
  33 networks.  It allows anonymous transactions and prohibits central
  34 control over the transactions, making it impossible for governments
  35 and companies alike to block donations and other transactions.  The
  36 source is free software, and while the key dependency wxWidgets 2.9
  37 for the graphical user interface is missing in Debian, the command
  38 line client builds just fine.  Hopefully Jonas
  39 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/578157&quot;&gt;will get the package into
  40 Debian&lt;/a&gt; soon.&lt;/p&gt;
  41
  42 &lt;p&gt;Bitcoins can be converted to other currencies, like USD and EUR.
  43
  44 There are &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bitcoin.org/trade&quot;&gt;companies accepting
  45 bitcoins&lt;/a&gt; when selling services and goods, and there are even
  46 currency &quot;stock&quot; markets where the exchange rate is decided.  There
  47 are not many users so far, but the concept seems promising.  If you
  48 want to get started and lack a friend without any bitcoins to spare,
  49 you can even get
  50 &lt;a href=&quot;https://freebitcoins.appspot.com/&quot;&gt;some for free&lt;/a&gt; (0.05
  51 bitcoin at the time of writing).  Use
  52 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/&quot;&gt;BitcoinWatch&lt;/a&gt; to keep an eye
  53 on the current exchange rates.&lt;/p&gt;
  54
  55 &lt;p&gt;As an experiment, I have decided to set up bitcoind on one of my
  56 machines.  If you want to support my activity, please send Bitcoin
  57 donations to the address
  58 &lt;b&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/b&gt;.  Thank you!&lt;/p&gt;
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