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  13      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  21       <div class="title">Now accepting bitcoins - anonymous and distributed p2p crypto-money</div>
  22       <div class="date">10th December 2010</div>
  23       <div class="body"><p>With this weeks lawless
  24 <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/06/wikileaks/index.html">governmental
  25 attacks</a> on Wikileak and
  26 <a href="http://www.salon.com/technology/dan_gillmor/2010/12/06/war_on_speech">free
  27 speech</a>, it has become obvious that PayPal, visa and mastercard can
  28 not be trusted to handle money transactions.
  29 A blog post from
  30 <a href="http://webmink.com/2010/12/06/now-accepting-bitcoin/">Simon
  31 Phipps on bitcoin</a> reminded me about a project that a friend of
  32 mine mentioned earlier.  I decided to follow Simon's example, and get
  33 involved with <a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">BitCoin</a>.  I got
  34 some help from my friend to get it all running, and he even handed me
  35 some bitcoins to get started.  I even donated a few bitcoins to Simon
  36 for helping me remember BitCoin.</p>
  37
  38 <p>So, what is bitcoins, you probably wonder?  It is a digital
  39 crypto-currency, decentralised and handled using peer-to-peer
  40 networks.  It allows anonymous transactions and prohibits central
  41 control over the transactions, making it impossible for governments
  42 and companies alike to block donations and other transactions.  The
  43 source is free software, and while the key dependency wxWidgets 2.9
  44 for the graphical user interface is missing in Debian, the command
  45 line client builds just fine.  Hopefully Jonas
  46 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/578157">will get the package into
  47 Debian</a> soon.</p>
  48
  49 <p>Bitcoins can be converted to other currencies, like USD and EUR.
  50 There are <a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/trade">companies accepting
  51 bitcoins</a> when selling services and goods, and there are even
  52 currency "stock" markets where the exchange rate is decided.  There
  53 are not many users so far, but the concept seems promising.  If you
  54 want to get started and lack a friend with any bitcoins to spare,
  55 you can even get
  56 <a href="https://freebitcoins.appspot.com/">some for free</a> (0.05
  57 bitcoin at the time of writing).  Use
  58 <a href="http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/">BitcoinWatch</a> to keep an eye
  59 on the current exchange rates.</p>
  60
  61 <p>As an experiment, I have decided to set up bitcoind on one of my
  62 machines.  If you want to support my activity, please send Bitcoin
  63 donations to the address
  64 <b>15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</b>.  Thank you!</p>
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