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  12        <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  20   <div class="title">Now acceting bitcoins - anonymous and distributed p2p crypto-money</div>
  21   <div class="date">2010-12-10 09:00</div>
  22   <div class="body">pPublish: 2010-12-10
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  24 <p>With this weeks lawless
  25 <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/06/wikileaks/index.html">governmental
  26 attacks</a> on Wikileak and
  27 <a href="http://www.salon.com/technology/dan_gillmor/2010/12/06/war_on_speech">free
  28 speech</a>, it has become obvious that PayPal, visa and mastercard can
  29 not be trusted to handle money transactions.
  30 A blog post from
  31 <a href="http://webmink.com/2010/12/06/now-accepting-bitcoin/">Simon
  32 Phipps on bitcoin</a> reminded me about a project that a friend of
  33 mine mentioned earlier.  I decided to follow Simon's example, and get
  34 involved with <a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">BitCoin</a>.  I got
  35 some help from my friend to get it all running, and he even handed me
  36 some bitcoins to get started.  I even donated a few bitcoins to Simon
  37 for helping me remember BitCoin.</p>
  38
  39 <p>So, what is bitcoins, you probably wonder?  It is a digital
  40 crypto-currency, decentralised and handled using peer-to-peer
  41 networks.  It allows anonymous transactions and prohibits central
  42 control over the transactions, making it impossible for governments
  43 and companies alike to block donations and other transactions.  The
  44 source is free software, and while the key dependency wxWidgets 2.9
  45 for the graphical user interface is missing in Debian, the command
  46 line client builds just fine.  Hopefully Jonas
  47 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/578157">will get the package into
  48 Debian</a> soon.</p>
  49
  50 <p>Bitcoins can be converted to other currencies, like USD and EUR.
  51
  52 There are <a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/trade">companies accepting
  53 bitcoins</a> when selling services and goods, and there are even
  54 currency "stock" markets where the exchange rate is decided.  There
  55 are not many users so far, but the concept seems promising.  If you
  56 want to get started and lack a friend without any bitcoins to spare,
  57 you can even get
  58 <a href="https://freebitcoins.appspot.com/">some for free</a> (0.05
  59 bitcoin at the time of writing).  Use
  60 <a href="http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/">BitcoinWatch</a> to keep an eye
  61 on the current exchange rates.</p>
  62
  63 <p>As an experiment, I have decided to set up bitcoind on one of my
  64 machines.  If you want to support my activity, please send Bitcoin
  65 donations to the address
  66 <b>15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</b>.  Thank you!</p>
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