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  14      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  21     <h3>Entries tagged "bitcoin".</h3>
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  25         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Bitcoin_er_ikke_anonymt___f_res_Stortinget_bak_lyset_av_finansministeren_.html">Bitcoin er ikke anonymt - føres Stortinget bak lyset av finansministeren?</a>
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  28         22nd April 2013
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  31         <p><a href="http://bitcoin.org/">Bitcoin</a> er mye i mediene for
  32 tiden.  Jeg følger med via Mylder for å finne
  33 <a href="http://mylder.no/?drill=bitcoin">artikler som omtaler
  34 temaet</a>, og takket være dette oppdaget jeg at stortingsrepresentant
  35 Ketil Solvik-Olsen fra FrP nylig har spurt finansminister Sigbjørn
  36 Johnsen om hans syn på Bitcoin, og
  37 <a href="http://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Sporsmal/Skriftlige-sporsmal-og-svar/Skriftlig-sporsmal/?qid=57052">fått
  38 svar for noen dager siden</a>.  Jeg bet meg spesielt merke til
  39 følgende formulering fra finansministeren:</p>
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  41 <p><blockquote>
  42 «Det er også utfordringer ved at handel med Bitcoins er uregulert og
  43 at transaksjonene er anonyme.»
  44 </blockquote></p>
  45
  46 <p>At Bitcoin er anonymt er en myte som spres av både journalister og
  47 andre, så det er ikke veldig overraskende at også finansministeren har
  48 gått på limpinnen.  Det er dog litt rart, da jeg håper at
  49 finansdepartementet ikke baserer seg på rykter og myter når de
  50 besvarer Stortinget.  Men du trenger ikke bare tro på meg som kilde
  51 til påstanden om at Bitcoin ikke er anonymt.  Sondre Rønjom har
  52 <a href="http://blogg.nsm.stat.no/archives/3241">via Sikkerhetsbloggen
  53 hos Nasjonal Sikkerhetsmyndighet</a> uttalt følgende:</p>
  54
  55 <p><blockquote>
  56 «At [bitcoin] i utgangspunktet
  57 <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4524"><em>ikke</em> er anonymt</a>,
  58 kommer kanskje som en overraskelse på mange.»
  59 </blockquote></p>
  60
  61 <p>Enhver bevegelse av Bitcoin er offentlig tilgjengelig for alle på
  62 Internet, og en må legge svært mye innsats inn hvis en skal hindre at
  63 nettverksanalyse av transaksjonsloggene kan brukes til å identifisere
  64 brukerne.  F.eks. kan en enkelt se hva jeg har mottatt til min
  65 offentliggjorte mottaksadresse ved å besøke blockexplorer og slå opp
  66 adressen
  67 <a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a>.
  68 Det virker dermed på meg ganske klart at å påstå at
  69 Bitcoin-transaksjoner er anonyme strengt tatt er å føre Stortinget bak
  70 lyset.</p>
  71
  72 <p>Finansministeren er ikke den eneste som har latt seg forlede av
  73 medieomtalen.  I spørsmålet fra Hr. Solvik-Olsen skriver han at «For
  74 noen dager siden kom den første bitcoin-minibanken på Kypros», hvilket
  75 så vidt jeg har klart å finne ut ikke er riktig.  Det er annonsert
  76 planer om en slik minibank (fra
  77 <a href="http://www.bitcoinatm.com/">BitcoinATM</a>), men jeg finner
  78 intet tegn til at en slik minibank er utplassert noe sted.</p>
  79
  80 <p>Som vanlig, hvis du bruker Bitcoin og ønsker å vise din støtte til
  81 mine aktiviteter, så setter jeg pris på Bitcoin-donasjoner til min
  82 adresse
  83 <b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
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  89         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bitcoin">bitcoin</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget</a>.
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  98         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Bitcoin_GUI_now_available_from_Debian_unstable__and_Ubuntu_raring_.html">Bitcoin GUI now available from Debian/unstable (and Ubuntu/raring)</a>
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 101          2nd February 2013
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 104         <p>My
 105 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_backport_bitcoin_qt_version_0_7_2_2_to_Debian_Squeeze.html">last
 106 bitcoin related blog post</a> mentioned that the new
 107 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/bitcoin">bitcoin package</a> for
 108 Debian was waiting in NEW.  It was accepted by the Debian ftp-masters
 109 2013-01-19, and have been available in unstable since then.  It was
 110 automatically copied to Ubuntu, and is available in their Raring
 111 version too.</p>
 112
 113 <p>But there is a strange problem with the build that block this new
 114 version from being available on the i386 and kfreebsd-i386
 115 architectures.  For some strange reason, the autobuilders in Debian
 116 for these architectures fail to run the test suite on these
 117 architectures (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/672524">BTS #672524</a>).
 118 We are so far unable to reproduce it when building it manually, and
 119 no-one have been able to propose a fix.  If you got an idea what is
 120 failing, please let us know via the BTS.</p>
 121
 122 <p>One feature that is annoying me with of the bitcoin client, because
 123 I often run low on disk space, is the fact that the client will exit
 124 if it run short on space (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/696715">BTS
 125 #696715</a>).  So make sure you have enough disk space when you run
 126 it. :)</p>
 127
 128 <p>As usual, if you use bitcoin and want to show your support of my
 129 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
 130 <b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
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 136         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bitcoin">bitcoin</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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 145         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_backport_bitcoin_qt_version_0_7_2_2_to_Debian_Squeeze.html">How to backport bitcoin-qt version 0.7.2-2 to Debian Squeeze</a>
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 148         25th December 2012
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 151         <p>Let me start by wishing you all marry Christmas and a happy new
 152 year!  I hope next year will prove to be a good year.</p>
 153
 154 <p><a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">Bitcoin</a>, the digital
 155 decentralised "currency" that allow people to transfer bitcoins
 156 between each other with minimal overhead, is a very interesting
 157 experiment.  And as I wrote a few days ago, the bitcoin situation in
 158 <a href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</a> is about to improve a bit.
 159 The <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/bitcoin">new debian source
 160 package</a> (version 0.7.2-2) was uploaded yesterday, and is waiting
 161 in <a href="http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html">the NEW queue</A>
 162 for one of the ftpmasters to approve the new bitcoin-qt package
 163 name.</p>
 164
 165 <p>And thanks to the great work of Jonas and the rest of the bitcoin
 166 team in Debian, you can easily test the package in Debian Squeeze
 167 using the following steps to get a set of working packages:</p>
 168
 169 <blockquote><pre>
 170 git clone git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/bitcoin
 171 cd bitcoin
 172 DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=1 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noupnp fakeroot debian/rules clean
 173 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noupnp git-buildpackage --git-ignore-new
 174 </pre></blockquote>
 175
 176 <p>You might have to install some build dependencies as well.  The
 177 list of commands should give you two packages, bitcoind and
 178 bitcoin-qt, ready for use in a Squeeze environment.  Note that the
 179 client will download the complete set of bitcoin "blocks", which need
 180 around 5.6 GiB of data on my machine at the moment.  Make sure your
 181 ~/.bitcoin/ directory have lots of spare room if you want to download
 182 all the blocks.  The client will warn if the disk is getting full, so
 183 there is not really a problem if you got too little room, but you will
 184 not be able to get all the features out of the client.</p>
 185
 186 <p>As usual, if you use bitcoin and want to show your support of my
 187 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
 188 <b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
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 194         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bitcoin">bitcoin</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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 203         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_word_on_bitcoin_support_in_Debian.html">A word on bitcoin support in Debian</a>
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 206         21st December 2012
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 209         <p>It has been a while since I wrote about
 210 <a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">bitcoin</a>, the decentralised
 211 peer-to-peer based crypto-currency, and the reason is simply that I
 212 have been busy elsewhere.  But two days ago, I started looking at the
 213 state of <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/bitcoin">bitcoin in
 214 Debian</a> again to try to recover my old bitcoin wallet.  The package
 215 is now maintained by a
 216 <a href="https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-bitcoin/">team of
 217 people</a>, and the grunt work had already been done by this team.  We
 218 owe a huge thank you to all these team members. :)
 219 But I was sad to discover that the bitcoin client is missing in
 220 Wheezy.  It is only available in Sid (and an outdated client from
 221 backports).  The client had several RC bugs registered in BTS blocking
 222 it from entering testing.  To try to help the team and improve the
 223 situation, I spent some time providing patches and triaging the bug
 224 reports.  I also had a look at the bitcoin package available from Matt
 225 Corallo in a
 226 <a href="https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/bitcoin">PPA for
 227 Ubuntu</a>, and moved the useful pieces from that version into the
 228 Debian package.</p>
 229
 230 <p>After checking with the main package maintainer Jonas Smedegaard on
 231 IRC, I pushed several patches into the collab-maint git repository to
 232 improve the package.  It now contains fixes for the RC issues (not from
 233 me, but fixed by Scott Howard), build rules for a Qt GUI client
 234 package, konqueror support for the bitcoin: URI and bash completion
 235 setup.  As I work on Debian Squeeze, I also created
 236 <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-bitcoin-devel/Week-of-Mon-20121217/000041.html">a
 237 patch to backport</a> the latest version.  Jonas is going to look at
 238 it and try to integrate it into the git repository before uploading a
 239 new version to unstable.
 240
 241 <p>I would very much like bitcoin to succeed, to get rid of the
 242 centralized control currently exercised in the monetary system.  I
 243 find it completely unacceptable that the USA government is collecting
 244 transaction data for almost all international money transfers (most are done in USD and transaction logs shipped to the spooks), and
 245 that the major credit card companies can block legal money
 246 transactions to Wikileaks.  But for bitcoin to succeed, more people
 247 need to use bitcoins, and more people need to accept bitcoins when
 248 they sell products and services.  Improving the bitcoin support in
 249 Debian is a small step in the right direction, but not enough.
 250 Unfortunately the user experience when browsing the web and wanting to
 251 pay with bitcoin is still not very good.  The bitcoin: URI is a step
 252 in the right direction, but need to work in most or every browser in
 253 use.  Also the bitcoin-qt client is too heavy to fire up to do a
 254 quick transaction.  I believe there are other clients available, but
 255 have not tested them.</p>
 256
 257 <p>My
 258 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Now_accepting_bitcoins___anonymous_and_distributed_p2p_crypto_money.html">experiment
 259 with bitcoins</a> showed that at least some of my readers use bitcoin.
 260 I received 20.15 BTC so far on the address I provided in my blog two
 261 years ago, as can be
 262 <a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">seen
 263 on the blockexplorer service</a>.  Thank you everyone for your
 264 donation.  The blockexplorer service demonstrates quite well that
 265 bitcoin is not quite anonymous and untracked. :) I wonder if the
 266 number of users have gone up since then.  If you use bitcoin and want
 267 to show your support of my activity, please send Bitcoin donations to
 268 the same address as last time,
 269 <b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
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 275         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bitcoin">bitcoin</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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 284         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_European_Central_Bank__ECB__take_a_look_at_bitcoin.html">The European Central Bank (ECB) take a look at bitcoin</a>
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 287          4th November 2012
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 290         <p>Slashdot just ran a story about the European Central Bank (ECB)
 291 <a href="http://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/virtualcurrencyschemes201210en.pdf">releasing
 292 a report (PDF)</a> about virtual currencies and
 293 <a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">bitcoin</a>.  It is interesting to
 294 see how a member of the bitcoin community
 295 <a href="http://blog.bitinstant.com/blog/2012/10/30/the-ecb-report-on-bitcoin-and-virtual-currencies.html">receive
 296 the report</a>.  As for the future, I suspect the central banks and
 297 the governments will outlaw bitcoin if it gain any popularity, to avoid
 298 competition.  My thoughts go to the
 299 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wörgl">Wörgl experiment</a> with
 300 negative inflation on cash which was such a success that it was
 301 terminated by the Austrian National Bank in 1933.  A successful
 302 alternative would be a threat to the current money system and gain
 303 powerful forces to work against it.</p>
 304
 305 <p>While checking out the current status of bitcoin, I also discovered
 306 that the community already seem to have
 307 <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/27/3271637/bitcoin-savings-trust-pyramid-scheme-shuts-down">experienced
 308 its first pyramid game / Ponzi scheme</a>.  Not very surprising, given
 309 how members of "small" communities tend to trust each other.  I guess
 310 enterprising crocks will try again and again, as they do anywhere
 311 wealth is available.</p>
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 317         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bitcoin">bitcoin</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>.
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 326         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_thoughts_on_BitCoins.html">Some thoughts on BitCoins</a>
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 329         11th December 2010
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 332         <p>As I continue to explore
 333 <a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">BitCoin</a>, I've starting to wonder
 334 what properties the system have, and how it will be affected by laws
 335 and regulations here in Norway.  Here are some random notes.</p>
 336
 337 <p>One interesting thing to note is that since the transactions are
 338 verified using a peer to peer network, all details about a transaction
 339 is known to everyone.  This means that if a BitCoin address has been
 340 published like I did with mine in my initial post about BitCoin, it is
 341 possible for everyone to see how many BitCoins have been transfered to
 342 that address.  There is even a web service to look at the details for
 343 all transactions.  There I can see that my address
 344 <a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a>
 345 have received 16.06 Bitcoin, the
 346 <a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3">1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3</a>
 347 address of Simon Phipps have received 181.97 BitCoin and the address
 348 <a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt">1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt</A>
 349 of EFF have received 2447.38 BitCoins so far.  Thank you to each and
 350 every one of you that donated bitcoins to support my activity. The
 351 fact that anyone can see how much money was transfered to a given
 352 address make it more obvious why the BitCoin community recommend to
 353 generate and hand out a new address for each transaction.  I'm told
 354 there is no way to track which addresses belong to a given person or
 355 organisation without the person or organisation revealing it
 356 themselves, as Simon, EFF and I have done.</p>
 357
 358 <p>In Norway, and in most other countries, there are laws and
 359 regulations limiting how much money one can transfer across the border
 360 without declaring it.  There are money laundering, tax and accounting
 361 laws and regulations I would expect to apply to the use of BitCoin.
 362 If the Skolelinux foundation
 363 (<a href="http://linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/donations.html">SLX
 364 Debian Labs</a>) were to accept donations in BitCoin in addition to
 365 normal bank transfers like EFF is doing, how should this be accounted?
 366 Given that it is impossible to know if money can cross the border or
 367 not, should everything or nothing be declared?  What exchange rate
 368 should be used when calculating taxes?  Would receivers have to pay
 369 income tax if the foundation were to pay Skolelinux contributors in
 370 BitCoin?  I have no idea, but it would be interesting to know.</p>
 371
 372 <p>For a currency to be useful and successful, it must be trusted and
 373 accepted by a lot of users.  It must be possible to get easy access to
 374 the currency (as a wage or using currency exchanges), and it must be
 375 easy to spend it.  At the moment BitCoin seem fairly easy to get
 376 access to, but there are very few places to spend it.  I am not really
 377 a regular user of any of the vendor types currently accepting BitCoin,
 378 so I wonder when my kind of shop would start accepting BitCoins.  I
 379 would like to buy electronics, travels and subway tickets, not herbs
 380 and books. :) The currency is young, and this will improve over time
 381 if it become popular, but I suspect regular banks will start to lobby
 382 to get BitCoin declared illegal if it become popular.  I'm sure they
 383 will claim it is helping fund terrorism and money laundering (which
 384 probably would be true, as is any currency in existence), but I
 385 believe the problems should be solved elsewhere and not by blaming
 386 currencies.</p>
 387
 388 <p>The process of creating new BitCoins is called mining, and it is
 389 CPU intensive process that depend on a bit of luck as well (as one is
 390 competing against all the other miners currently spending CPU cycles
 391 to see which one get the next lump of cash).  The "winner" get 50
 392 BitCoin when this happen.  Yesterday I came across the obvious way to
 393 join forces to increase ones changes of getting at least some coins,
 394 by coordinating the work on mining BitCoins across several machines
 395 and people, and sharing the result if one is lucky and get the 50
 396 BitCoins.  Check out
 397 <a href="http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/bitcoin-pool/">BitCoin Pool</a>
 398 if this sounds interesting.  I have not had time to try to set up a
 399 machine to participate there yet, but have seen that running on ones
 400 own for a few days have not yield any BitCoins througth mining
 401 yet.</p>
 402
 403 <p>Update 2010-12-15: Found an <a
 404 href="http://inertia.posterous.com/reply-to-the-underground-economist-why-bitcoi">interesting
 405 criticism</a> of bitcoin.  Not quite sure how valid it is, but thought
 406 it was interesting to read.  The arguments presented seem to be
 407 equally valid for gold, which was used as a currency for many years.</p>
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 413         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bitcoin">bitcoin</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>.
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 425         10th December 2010
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 428         <p>With this weeks lawless
 429 <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/06/wikileaks/index.html">governmental
 430 attacks</a> on Wikileak and
 431 <a href="http://www.salon.com/technology/dan_gillmor/2010/12/06/war_on_speech">free
 432 speech</a>, it has become obvious that PayPal, visa and mastercard can
 433 not be trusted to handle money transactions.
 434 A blog post from
 435 <a href="http://webmink.com/2010/12/06/now-accepting-bitcoin/">Simon
 436 Phipps on bitcoin</a> reminded me about a project that a friend of
 437 mine mentioned earlier.  I decided to follow Simon's example, and get
 438 involved with <a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">BitCoin</a>.  I got
 439 some help from my friend to get it all running, and he even handed me
 440 some bitcoins to get started.  I even donated a few bitcoins to Simon
 441 for helping me remember BitCoin.</p>
 442
 443 <p>So, what is bitcoins, you probably wonder?  It is a digital
 444 crypto-currency, decentralised and handled using peer-to-peer
 445 networks.  It allows anonymous transactions and prohibits central
 446 control over the transactions, making it impossible for governments
 447 and companies alike to block donations and other transactions.  The
 448 source is free software, and while the key dependency wxWidgets 2.9
 449 for the graphical user interface is missing in Debian, the command
 450 line client builds just fine.  Hopefully Jonas
 451 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/578157">will get the package into
 452 Debian</a> soon.</p>
 453
 454 <p>Bitcoins can be converted to other currencies, like USD and EUR.
 455 There are <a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/trade">companies accepting
 456 bitcoins</a> when selling services and goods, and there are even
 457 currency "stock" markets where the exchange rate is decided.  There
 458 are not many users so far, but the concept seems promising.  If you
 459 want to get started and lack a friend with any bitcoins to spare,
 460 you can even get
 461 <a href="https://freebitcoins.appspot.com/">some for free</a> (0.05
 462 bitcoin at the time of writing).  Use
 463 <a href="http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/">BitcoinWatch</a> to keep an eye
 464 on the current exchange rates.</p>
 465
 466 <p>As an experiment, I have decided to set up bitcoind on one of my
 467 machines.  If you want to support my activity, please send Bitcoin
 468 donations to the address
 469 <b>15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</b>.  Thank you!</p>
 470
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 475         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bitcoin">bitcoin</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>.
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 487 <h2>Archive</h2>
 488 <ul>
 489
 490 <li>2013
 491 <ul>
 492
 493 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/01/">January (11)</a></li>
 494
 495 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/02/">February (9)</a></li>
 496
 497 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/03/">March (9)</a></li>
 498
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 500
 501 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/05/">May (9)</a></li>
 502
 503 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/06/">June (10)</a></li>
 504
 505 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/07/">July (7)</a></li>
 506
 507 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/08/">August (3)</a></li>
 508
 509 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/09/">September (5)</a></li>
 510
 511 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/10/">October (7)</a></li>
 512
 513 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/11/">November (6)</a></li>
 514
 515 </ul></li>
 516
 517 <li>2012
 518 <ul>
 519
 520 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/01/">January (7)</a></li>
 521
 522 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/02/">February (10)</a></li>
 523
 524 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/03/">March (17)</a></li>
 525
 526 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/04/">April (12)</a></li>
 527
 528 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/05/">May (12)</a></li>
 529
 530 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/06/">June (20)</a></li>
 531
 532 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/07/">July (17)</a></li>
 533
 534 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/08/">August (6)</a></li>
 535
 536 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/09/">September (9)</a></li>
 537
 538 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/10/">October (17)</a></li>
 539
 540 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/11/">November (10)</a></li>
 541
 542 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/12/">December (7)</a></li>
 543
 544 </ul></li>
 545
 546 <li>2011
 547 <ul>
 548
 549 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/01/">January (16)</a></li>
 550
 551 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/02/">February (6)</a></li>
 552
 553 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/03/">March (6)</a></li>
 554
 555 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/04/">April (7)</a></li>
 556
 557 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/05/">May (3)</a></li>
 558
 559 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/06/">June (2)</a></li>
 560
 561 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/07/">July (7)</a></li>
 562
 563 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/08/">August (6)</a></li>
 564
 565 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/09/">September (4)</a></li>
 566
 567 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/10/">October (2)</a></li>
 568
 569 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/11/">November (3)</a></li>
 570
 571 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/12/">December (1)</a></li>
 572
 573 </ul></li>
 574
 575 <li>2010
 576 <ul>
 577
 578 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/01/">January (2)</a></li>
 579
 580 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/02/">February (1)</a></li>
 581
 582 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/03/">March (3)</a></li>
 583
 584 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/04/">April (3)</a></li>
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 587
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 589
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 591
 592 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/08/">August (13)</a></li>
 593
 594 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/09/">September (7)</a></li>
 595
 596 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/10/">October (9)</a></li>
 597
 598 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/11/">November (13)</a></li>
 599
 600 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/12/">December (12)</a></li>
 601
 602 </ul></li>
 603
 604 <li>2009
 605 <ul>
 606
 607 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/01/">January (8)</a></li>
 608
 609 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/02/">February (8)</a></li>
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 616
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 620
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 622
 623 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/09/">September (1)</a></li>
 624
 625 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/10/">October (2)</a></li>
 626
 627 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/11/">November (3)</a></li>
 628
 629 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/12/">December (3)</a></li>
 630
 631 </ul></li>
 632
 633 <li>2008
 634 <ul>
 635
 636 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/11/">November (5)</a></li>
 637
 638 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/12/">December (7)</a></li>
 639
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 641
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 660
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 662
 663  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian (90)</a></li>
 664
 665  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu (142)</a></li>
 666
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 668
 669  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/docbook">docbook (10)</a></li>
 670
 671  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/drivstoffpriser">drivstoffpriser (4)</a></li>
 672
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 674
 675  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami (21)</a></li>
 676
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 678
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 681  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freedombox">freedombox (5)</a></li>
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 684
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 694
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 698
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 712
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 715  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/reprap">reprap (11)</a></li>
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 717  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/rfid">rfid (2)</a></li>
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