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  10                 <title>Now accepting bitcoins - anonymous and distributed p2p crypto-money</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
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  15 &lt;p&gt;With this weeks lawless
  16 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/06/wikileaks/index.html&quot;&gt;governmental
  17 attacks&lt;/a&gt; on Wikileak and
  18 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.salon.com/technology/dan_gillmor/2010/12/06/war_on_speech&quot;&gt;free
  19 speech&lt;/a&gt;, it has become obvious that PayPal, visa and mastercard can
  20 not be trusted to handle money transactions.
  21 A blog post from
  22 &lt;a href=&quot;http://webmink.com/2010/12/06/now-accepting-bitcoin/&quot;&gt;Simon
  23 Phipps on bitcoin&lt;/a&gt; reminded me about a project that a friend of
  24 mine mentioned earlier.  I decided to follow Simon&#39;s example, and get
  25 involved with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bitcoin.org/&quot;&gt;BitCoin&lt;/a&gt;.  I got
  26 some help from my friend to get it all running, and he even handed me
  27 some bitcoins to get started.  I even donated a few bitcoins to Simon
  28 for helping me remember BitCoin.&lt;/p&gt;
  29
  30 &lt;p&gt;So, what is bitcoins, you probably wonder?  It is a digital
  31 crypto-currency, decentralised and handled using peer-to-peer
  32 networks.  It allows anonymous transactions and prohibits central
  33 control over the transactions, making it impossible for governments
  34 and companies alike to block donations and other transactions.  The
  35 source is free software, and while the key dependency wxWidgets 2.9
  36 for the graphical user interface is missing in Debian, the command
  37 line client builds just fine.  Hopefully Jonas
  38 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/578157&quot;&gt;will get the package into
  39 Debian&lt;/a&gt; soon.&lt;/p&gt;
  40
  41 &lt;p&gt;Bitcoins can be converted to other currencies, like USD and EUR.
  42 There are &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bitcoin.org/trade&quot;&gt;companies accepting
  43 bitcoins&lt;/a&gt; when selling services and goods, and there are even
  44 currency &quot;stock&quot; markets where the exchange rate is decided.  There
  45 are not many users so far, but the concept seems promising.  If you
  46 want to get started and lack a friend with any bitcoins to spare,
  47 you can even get
  48 &lt;a href=&quot;https://freebitcoins.appspot.com/&quot;&gt;some for free&lt;/a&gt; (0.05
  49 bitcoin at the time of writing).  Use
  50 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/&quot;&gt;BitcoinWatch&lt;/a&gt; to keep an eye
  51 on the current exchange rates.&lt;/p&gt;
  52
  53 &lt;p&gt;As an experiment, I have decided to set up bitcoind on one of my
  54 machines.  If you want to support my activity, please send Bitcoin
  55 donations to the address
  56 &lt;b&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/b&gt;.  Thank you!&lt;/p&gt;
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