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+               <title>Now acceting bitcoins - anonymous and distributed p2p crypto-money</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Now_acceting_bitcoins___anonymous_and_distributed_p2p_crypto_money.html</link>        
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+                <pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>
+&lt;p&gt;With this weeks lawless
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/06/wikileaks/index.html&quot;&gt;governmental
+attacks&lt;/a&gt; on Wikileak and
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.salon.com/technology/dan_gillmor/2010/12/06/war_on_speech&quot;&gt;free
+speech&lt;/a&gt;, it has become obvious that PayPal, visa and mastercard can
+not be trusted to handle money transactions.
+A blog post from
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://webmink.com/2010/12/06/now-accepting-bitcoin/&quot;&gt;Simon
+Phipps on bitcoin&lt;/a&gt; reminded me about a project that a friend of
+mine mentioned earlier.  I decided to follow Simon&#39;s example, and get
+involved with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bitcoin.org/&quot;&gt;BitCoin&lt;/a&gt;.  I got
+some help from my friend to get it all running, and he even handed me
+some bitcoins to get started.  I even donated a few bitcoins to Simon
+for helping me remember BitCoin.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;So, what is bitcoins, you probably wonder?  It is a digital
+crypto-currency, decentralised and handled using peer-to-peer
+networks.  It allows anonymous transactions and prohibits central
+control over the transactions, making it impossible for governments
+and companies alike to block donations and other transactions.  The
+source is free software, and while the key dependency wxWidgets 2.9
+for the graphical user interface is missing in Debian, the command
+line client builds just fine.  Hopefully Jonas
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/578157&quot;&gt;will get the package into
+Debian&lt;/a&gt; soon.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Bitcoins can be converted to other currencies, like USD and EUR.
+There are &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bitcoin.org/trade&quot;&gt;companies accepting
+bitcoins&lt;/a&gt; when selling services and goods, and there are even
+currency &quot;stock&quot; markets where the exchange rate is decided.  There
+are not many users so far, but the concept seems promising.  If you
+want to get started and lack a friend without any bitcoins to spare,
+you can even get
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://freebitcoins.appspot.com/&quot;&gt;some for free&lt;/a&gt; (0.05
+bitcoin at the time of writing).  Use
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/&quot;&gt;BitcoinWatch&lt;/a&gt; to keep an eye
+on the current exchange rates.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;As an experiment, I have decided to set up bitcoind on one of my
+machines.  If you want to support my activity, please send Bitcoin
+donations to the address
+&lt;b&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/b&gt;.  Thank you!&lt;/p&gt;
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