diff --git a/blog/After_6_years_of_waiting__the_Xreset_d_feature_is_implemented.html b/blog/After_6_years_of_waiting__the_Xreset_d_feature_is_implemented.html
index e53c67bdf0..9165c1cb68 100644
--- a/blog/After_6_years_of_waiting__the_Xreset_d_feature_is_implemented.html
+++ b/blog/After_6_years_of_waiting__the_Xreset_d_feature_is_implemented.html
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ similar to how they use the Xsession.d framework today.
diff --git a/blog/Anonym_ferdsel_er_en_menneskerett.html b/blog/Anonym_ferdsel_er_en_menneskerett.html
index b098a7e599..8a8d59eac9 100644
--- a/blog/Anonym_ferdsel_er_en_menneskerett.html
+++ b/blog/Anonym_ferdsel_er_en_menneskerett.html
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ kollektivtrafikken i Oslo. Jeg synes det er hårreisende.
diff --git a/blog/Automatic_Munin_and_Nagios_configuration.html b/blog/Automatic_Munin_and_Nagios_configuration.html
index 42b9b3d5b2..984faacdce 100644
--- a/blog/Automatic_Munin_and_Nagios_configuration.html
+++ b/blog/Automatic_Munin_and_Nagios_configuration.html
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ everything is taken care of.
diff --git a/blog/Avisene_i_endring.html b/blog/Avisene_i_endring.html
index 9e2bf6627d..bc5979b438 100644
--- a/blog/Avisene_i_endring.html
+++ b/blog/Avisene_i_endring.html
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ eksisterer. Det blir spennende å se hva vi ender opp med.
diff --git a/blog/Bilkollektivet_vil_ha_retten_til____se_hvor_jeg_kj__rer___.html b/blog/Bilkollektivet_vil_ha_retten_til____se_hvor_jeg_kj__rer___.html
index f8a2fa629a..3d7fde39f4 100644
--- a/blog/Bilkollektivet_vil_ha_retten_til____se_hvor_jeg_kj__rer___.html
+++ b/blog/Bilkollektivet_vil_ha_retten_til____se_hvor_jeg_kj__rer___.html
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ eller bare ser meg om etter alternativer.
diff --git a/blog/Broken_umask_handling_with_sshfs.html b/blog/Broken_umask_handling_with_sshfs.html
index 531318802f..44ba1baae3 100644
--- a/blog/Broken_umask_handling_with_sshfs.html
+++ b/blog/Broken_umask_handling_with_sshfs.html
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ script so useful that he created a GIT repository and stored it in
diff --git a/blog/DND_hedrer_overv__kning_av_barn_med_Rosingsprisen.html b/blog/DND_hedrer_overv__kning_av_barn_med_Rosingsprisen.html
index fd79d74cb5..79e3472311 100644
--- a/blog/DND_hedrer_overv__kning_av_barn_med_Rosingsprisen.html
+++ b/blog/DND_hedrer_overv__kning_av_barn_med_Rosingsprisen.html
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ lese alle de tre bøkene.
diff --git a/blog/Datatilsynet_svarer_om_Bilkollektivets___nske_om_GPS_sporing.html b/blog/Datatilsynet_svarer_om_Bilkollektivets___nske_om_GPS_sporing.html
index ff19afa7ac..b5c752e575 100644
--- a/blog/Datatilsynet_svarer_om_Bilkollektivets___nske_om_GPS_sporing.html
+++ b/blog/Datatilsynet_svarer_om_Bilkollektivets___nske_om_GPS_sporing.html
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ dagene, eller om jeg bare finner et annet alternativ.
diff --git a/blog/Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Lenny_released__work_continues.html b/blog/Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Lenny_released__work_continues.html
index abc63dfdb1..46ef09144c 100644
--- a/blog/Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Lenny_released__work_continues.html
+++ b/blog/Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Lenny_released__work_continues.html
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ and have just a few weeks or months to make it happen.
diff --git a/blog/Debian_boots_quicker_and_quicker.html b/blog/Debian_boots_quicker_and_quicker.html
index d2d246510a..afcec3380f 100644
--- a/blog/Debian_boots_quicker_and_quicker.html
+++ b/blog/Debian_boots_quicker_and_quicker.html
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ insserv'. Will need to test if that work. :)
diff --git a/blog/Digitale_b__ker_uten_digitale_restriksjonsmekanismer__DRM__b__r_f___mva_fritak.html b/blog/Digitale_b__ker_uten_digitale_restriksjonsmekanismer__DRM__b__r_f___mva_fritak.html
index 9029d15cd1..7516816f68 100644
--- a/blog/Digitale_b__ker_uten_digitale_restriksjonsmekanismer__DRM__b__r_f___mva_fritak.html
+++ b/blog/Digitale_b__ker_uten_digitale_restriksjonsmekanismer__DRM__b__r_f___mva_fritak.html
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ der for å se hva de har.
diff --git a/blog/Digitale_restriksjonsmekanismer_fikk_meg_til____slutte____kj__pe_musikk.html b/blog/Digitale_restriksjonsmekanismer_fikk_meg_til____slutte____kj__pe_musikk.html
index bc4d07cc34..0cf47f8033 100644
--- a/blog/Digitale_restriksjonsmekanismer_fikk_meg_til____slutte____kj__pe_musikk.html
+++ b/blog/Digitale_restriksjonsmekanismer_fikk_meg_til____slutte____kj__pe_musikk.html
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Kommer neppe til å ta i bruk Blueray, og ei heller de nye DRM-greiene
diff --git a/blog/FAD_lanserer_reiseregningsskjema_som_fri_programvare.html b/blog/FAD_lanserer_reiseregningsskjema_som_fri_programvare.html
index f98f27f27f..b832b85ce5 100644
--- a/blog/FAD_lanserer_reiseregningsskjema_som_fri_programvare.html
+++ b/blog/FAD_lanserer_reiseregningsskjema_som_fri_programvare.html
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ gjorde det litt vanskeligere for brukeren.
diff --git a/blog/F__rste_NUUG_fordrag_sendt_p___TV.html b/blog/F__rste_NUUG_fordrag_sendt_p___TV.html
index 940f4f7c2d..87fcff3045 100644
--- a/blog/F__rste_NUUG_fordrag_sendt_p___TV.html
+++ b/blog/F__rste_NUUG_fordrag_sendt_p___TV.html
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ meg, Tollef og alle andre de som deltok på møtet på TV.
diff --git a/blog/Fiksgatami_begynner____ta_form.html b/blog/Fiksgatami_begynner____ta_form.html
index a340f5e008..5bd43f452c 100644
--- a/blog/Fiksgatami_begynner____ta_form.html
+++ b/blog/Fiksgatami_begynner____ta_form.html
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ med dem. Dette blir bra.
diff --git a/blog/Fildeling_er_lovlig___ulovlig_fildeling_er_ulovlig.html b/blog/Fildeling_er_lovlig___ulovlig_fildeling_er_ulovlig.html
index 5783be2d6b..3b77bd1405 100644
--- a/blog/Fildeling_er_lovlig___ulovlig_fildeling_er_ulovlig.html
+++ b/blog/Fildeling_er_lovlig___ulovlig_fildeling_er_ulovlig.html
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ og fildeling av slike filer er fullt ut lovlig.
diff --git a/blog/Forslag_i_stortinget_om____stoppe_elektronisk_stemmegiving_i_Norge.html b/blog/Forslag_i_stortinget_om____stoppe_elektronisk_stemmegiving_i_Norge.html
index e7f3a8f6fa..68a36b2cf7 100644
--- a/blog/Forslag_i_stortinget_om____stoppe_elektronisk_stemmegiving_i_Norge.html
+++ b/blog/Forslag_i_stortinget_om____stoppe_elektronisk_stemmegiving_i_Norge.html
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ er fremmet av Erna Solberg, Michael Tetzschner og Trond Helleland.
diff --git a/blog/Frikanalen_og_jul_i_studentr__det.html b/blog/Frikanalen_og_jul_i_studentr__det.html
index c2248d770a..6c67cc241a 100644
--- a/blog/Frikanalen_og_jul_i_studentr__det.html
+++ b/blog/Frikanalen_og_jul_i_studentr__det.html
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ NUUG lykkes med å få ut sine opptak med like stor suksess.
diff --git a/blog/Gjendikte_sangen__Copying_Is_Not_Theft__p___Norsk_.html b/blog/Gjendikte_sangen__Copying_Is_Not_Theft__p___Norsk_.html
index 98129c973a..e3b1996a2d 100644
--- a/blog/Gjendikte_sangen__Copying_Is_Not_Theft__p___Norsk_.html
+++ b/blog/Gjendikte_sangen__Copying_Is_Not_Theft__p___Norsk_.html
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ til å få denne sangen over i norsk språkdrakt, ta kontakt med video
diff --git a/blog/Hva_er_egentlig_en___pen_standard_.html b/blog/Hva_er_egentlig_en___pen_standard_.html
index 99a86512d9..c2ccbf1119 100644
--- a/blog/Hva_er_egentlig_en___pen_standard_.html
+++ b/blog/Hva_er_egentlig_en___pen_standard_.html
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ av en standard for at en standard skal kunne kalles fri og åpen.
diff --git a/blog/Hvorfor_jeg_ikke_bruker_eFaktura.html b/blog/Hvorfor_jeg_ikke_bruker_eFaktura.html
index 1cafc24439..832bee8858 100644
--- a/blog/Hvorfor_jeg_ikke_bruker_eFaktura.html
+++ b/blog/Hvorfor_jeg_ikke_bruker_eFaktura.html
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ liker rett og slett ikke dagens faktureringsmodeller.
diff --git a/blog/IDG_mener_linux_i_servermarkedet_vil_vokse_med_21__i_2009.html b/blog/IDG_mener_linux_i_servermarkedet_vil_vokse_med_21__i_2009.html
index c0e0b7977f..c45f10580f 100644
--- a/blog/IDG_mener_linux_i_servermarkedet_vil_vokse_med_21__i_2009.html
+++ b/blog/IDG_mener_linux_i_servermarkedet_vil_vokse_med_21__i_2009.html
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ bakgrunnskunnskapen kan jeg godt tro at IDG er inne på noe.
diff --git a/blog/Idea_for_storing_LTSP_configuration_in_LDAP.html b/blog/Idea_for_storing_LTSP_configuration_in_LDAP.html
index f1b5a15da5..5eb80bd129 100644
--- a/blog/Idea_for_storing_LTSP_configuration_in_LDAP.html
+++ b/blog/Idea_for_storing_LTSP_configuration_in_LDAP.html
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ personal home page over at redhat.com.
diff --git a/blog/Internet_leverand__rer_er_ikke_vokterne_av_sine_kunders_nettbruk.html b/blog/Internet_leverand__rer_er_ikke_vokterne_av_sine_kunders_nettbruk.html
index 414e225328..1c85958f06 100644
--- a/blog/Internet_leverand__rer_er_ikke_vokterne_av_sine_kunders_nettbruk.html
+++ b/blog/Internet_leverand__rer_er_ikke_vokterne_av_sine_kunders_nettbruk.html
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ publiseres med mer brukervennlige vilkår, som CC-BY og lignende.
diff --git a/blog/KDM_fail_at_boot_with_NVidia_cards___and_no_one_try_to_fix_it_.html b/blog/KDM_fail_at_boot_with_NVidia_cards___and_no_one_try_to_fix_it_.html
index 0c9eae0a94..eda61253bc 100644
--- a/blog/KDM_fail_at_boot_with_NVidia_cards___and_no_one_try_to_fix_it_.html
+++ b/blog/KDM_fail_at_boot_with_NVidia_cards___and_no_one_try_to_fix_it_.html
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ but I am pretty sure that waiting for each other is not it.
diff --git a/blog/Kerberos_for_Debian_Edu_Squeeze_.html b/blog/Kerberos_for_Debian_Edu_Squeeze_.html
index 4ad9845646..14eb48759a 100644
--- a/blog/Kerberos_for_Debian_Edu_Squeeze_.html
+++ b/blog/Kerberos_for_Debian_Edu_Squeeze_.html
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ up in a few days.
diff --git a/blog/Korrupsjon_p___h__yeste_niv___.html b/blog/Korrupsjon_p___h__yeste_niv___.html
index 1c36c527e5..09bfa1bc18 100644
--- a/blog/Korrupsjon_p___h__yeste_niv___.html
+++ b/blog/Korrupsjon_p___h__yeste_niv___.html
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ Sverige blir søndagskolefortellinger i sammenligning.
diff --git a/blog/LUMA__a_very_nice_LDAP_GUI.html b/blog/LUMA__a_very_nice_LDAP_GUI.html
index b1dbd95047..d420b6665a 100644
--- a/blog/LUMA__a_very_nice_LDAP_GUI.html
+++ b/blog/LUMA__a_very_nice_LDAP_GUI.html
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ changes, it will not be an option for Debian Edu based on Squeeze.
diff --git a/blog/Lenny__Squeeze_upgrades_of_the_Gnome_and_KDE_desktop__now_with_apt_get_autoremove.html b/blog/Lenny__Squeeze_upgrades_of_the_Gnome_and_KDE_desktop__now_with_apt_get_autoremove.html
index b328378b97..a0a207ecdd 100644
--- a/blog/Lenny__Squeeze_upgrades_of_the_Gnome_and_KDE_desktop__now_with_apt_get_autoremove.html
+++ b/blog/Lenny__Squeeze_upgrades_of_the_Gnome_and_KDE_desktop__now_with_apt_get_autoremove.html
@@ -498,7 +498,7 @@ the upgrade, but hope those that do can have a look.
diff --git a/blog/Litt_om_valgfusk_og_problemet_med_elektronisk_stemmegiving.html b/blog/Litt_om_valgfusk_og_problemet_med_elektronisk_stemmegiving.html
index d457b34498..cf45bc198f 100644
--- a/blog/Litt_om_valgfusk_og_problemet_med_elektronisk_stemmegiving.html
+++ b/blog/Litt_om_valgfusk_og_problemet_med_elektronisk_stemmegiving.html
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ inneholdt i Iran hvis de ikke hadde hemmelige valg?
diff --git a/blog/Magnetstripeinnhold_i_billetter_fra_Flytoget_og_Hurtigruten.html b/blog/Magnetstripeinnhold_i_billetter_fra_Flytoget_og_Hurtigruten.html
index 205b03cf5b..61bfad9dbc 100644
--- a/blog/Magnetstripeinnhold_i_billetter_fra_Flytoget_og_Hurtigruten.html
+++ b/blog/Magnetstripeinnhold_i_billetter_fra_Flytoget_og_Hurtigruten.html
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ ser jeg mye korrespondanse mellom påtrykk og magnetstripe.
diff --git a/blog/Martin_Bekkelund__En_stille_b__nn_om_Datalagringsdirektivet.html b/blog/Martin_Bekkelund__En_stille_b__nn_om_Datalagringsdirektivet.html
index 6f5ced538f..48718372e2 100644
--- a/blog/Martin_Bekkelund__En_stille_b__nn_om_Datalagringsdirektivet.html
+++ b/blog/Martin_Bekkelund__En_stille_b__nn_om_Datalagringsdirektivet.html
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ får snart se om det stemmer.
diff --git a/blog/Migrating_Xen_virtual_machines_using_LVM_to_KVM_using_disk_images.html b/blog/Migrating_Xen_virtual_machines_using_LVM_to_KVM_using_disk_images.html
index 04c109ba8b..21f7d1a334 100644
--- a/blog/Migrating_Xen_virtual_machines_using_LVM_to_KVM_using_disk_images.html
+++ b/blog/Migrating_Xen_virtual_machines_using_LVM_to_KVM_using_disk_images.html
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ seem to work just fine.
diff --git a/blog/My_first_perl_GUI_application___controlling_a_Spykee_robot.html b/blog/My_first_perl_GUI_application___controlling_a_Spykee_robot.html
index af19c06222..c1930e0adb 100644
--- a/blog/My_first_perl_GUI_application___controlling_a_Spykee_robot.html
+++ b/blog/My_first_perl_GUI_application___controlling_a_Spykee_robot.html
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ those that want to check back later to find it.
diff --git a/blog/Norge_trenger_en_personvernforening.html b/blog/Norge_trenger_en_personvernforening.html
index 707f8dcb9e..7804d153e6 100644
--- a/blog/Norge_trenger_en_personvernforening.html
+++ b/blog/Norge_trenger_en_personvernforening.html
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ nå får vi se om noen er enig.
diff --git a/blog/Opphavet_til_Skolelinux_prosjektet.html b/blog/Opphavet_til_Skolelinux_prosjektet.html
index 6b4da6bc63..37f89e217e 100644
--- a/blog/Opphavet_til_Skolelinux_prosjektet.html
+++ b/blog/Opphavet_til_Skolelinux_prosjektet.html
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ Resten er historie. :)
diff --git a/blog/Parallellized_boot_is_now_the_default_in_Debian_unstable.html b/blog/Parallellized_boot_is_now_the_default_in_Debian_unstable.html
index 85d34794fd..d674a6202a 100644
--- a/blog/Parallellized_boot_is_now_the_default_in_Debian_unstable.html
+++ b/blog/Parallellized_boot_is_now_the_default_in_Debian_unstable.html
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ list of usertagged bugs related to this.
diff --git a/blog/Parallellized_boot_seem_to_hold_up_well_in_Debian_testing.html b/blog/Parallellized_boot_seem_to_hold_up_well_in_Debian_testing.html
index 1f15cb31cc..4a5d4fcf9a 100644
--- a/blog/Parallellized_boot_seem_to_hold_up_well_in_Debian_testing.html
+++ b/blog/Parallellized_boot_seem_to_hold_up_well_in_Debian_testing.html
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ list of usertagged bugs related to this.
diff --git a/blog/Parallellizing_the_boot_in_Debian_Squeeze___ready_for_wider_testing.html b/blog/Parallellizing_the_boot_in_Debian_Squeeze___ready_for_wider_testing.html
index 8133d50eed..3b408fc50c 100644
--- a/blog/Parallellizing_the_boot_in_Debian_Squeeze___ready_for_wider_testing.html
+++ b/blog/Parallellizing_the_boot_in_Debian_Squeeze___ready_for_wider_testing.html
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ list of usertagged bugs related to this.
diff --git a/blog/Pledge_for_funding_to_the_Gnash_project_to_get_AVM2_support.html b/blog/Pledge_for_funding_to_the_Gnash_project_to_get_AVM2_support.html
index 133e7276aa..d176c43350 100644
--- a/blog/Pledge_for_funding_to_the_Gnash_project_to_get_AVM2_support.html
+++ b/blog/Pledge_for_funding_to_the_Gnash_project_to_get_AVM2_support.html
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ project gets, the more features it can develop using these funds.
diff --git a/blog/Regjerningen_forlater_prinsippet_om_ingen_royalty_betaling_i_standardkatalogen_versjon_2.html b/blog/Regjerningen_forlater_prinsippet_om_ingen_royalty_betaling_i_standardkatalogen_versjon_2.html
index fa7b83820c..1a0ebda6ef 100644
--- a/blog/Regjerningen_forlater_prinsippet_om_ingen_royalty_betaling_i_standardkatalogen_versjon_2.html
+++ b/blog/Regjerningen_forlater_prinsippet_om_ingen_royalty_betaling_i_standardkatalogen_versjon_2.html
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ høringsuttalelse, men ser ut til å ha blitt ignorert.
diff --git a/blog/Reprap_bygging_i_p__sken.html b/blog/Reprap_bygging_i_p__sken.html
index b05a3ca5a2..90b8676a70 100644
--- a/blog/Reprap_bygging_i_p__sken.html
+++ b/blog/Reprap_bygging_i_p__sken.html
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ kommer til å bruke denne plasttypen som håndterer temperaturer mellom
diff --git a/blog/Reprap_pakke_tapt_i_posten.html b/blog/Reprap_pakke_tapt_i_posten.html
index f197b6e067..69ec4be700 100644
--- a/blog/Reprap_pakke_tapt_i_posten.html
+++ b/blog/Reprap_pakke_tapt_i_posten.html
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ lenge alt er klart til Go Open
diff --git a/blog/Robot__reis_deg___.html b/blog/Robot__reis_deg___.html
index c756074e50..ba0dde2e6a 100644
--- a/blog/Robot__reis_deg___.html
+++ b/blog/Robot__reis_deg___.html
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ der hvis du er nysgjerrig.
diff --git a/blog/Sikkerhet_til_sj__s_trenger_sj__kart_uten_bruksbegresninger.html b/blog/Sikkerhet_til_sj__s_trenger_sj__kart_uten_bruksbegresninger.html
index b9bec7bf56..32d98f4a82 100644
--- a/blog/Sikkerhet_til_sj__s_trenger_sj__kart_uten_bruksbegresninger.html
+++ b/blog/Sikkerhet_til_sj__s_trenger_sj__kart_uten_bruksbegresninger.html
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ det viser at behovet for fribruks-sjøkart er til stedet.
diff --git a/blog/Sikkerhetsteateret_p___flyplassene_fortsetter.html b/blog/Sikkerhetsteateret_p___flyplassene_fortsetter.html
index 44eae5710d..bc2ce6e483 100644
--- a/blog/Sikkerhetsteateret_p___flyplassene_fortsetter.html
+++ b/blog/Sikkerhetsteateret_p___flyplassene_fortsetter.html
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ en god ting sett fra et miljøperspektiv, men det er en annen sak.
diff --git a/blog/Software_updates_2010_10_24.html b/blog/Software_updates_2010_10_24.html
index b533cfd5fa..98808db1d9 100644
--- a/blog/Software_updates_2010_10_24.html
+++ b/blog/Software_updates_2010_10_24.html
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ clients to get a Linux desktop on request.
As I continue to explore
+BitCoin, I've starting to wonder
+what properties the system have, and how it will be affected by laws
+and regulations here in Norway. Here are some random notes.
+
+
One interesting thing to note is that since the transactions are
+verified using a peer to peer network, all details about a transaction
+is known to everyone. This means that if a BitCoin address has been
+published like I did with mine in my initial post about BitCoin, it is
+possible for everyone to see how many BitCoins have been transfered to
+that address. There is even a web service to look at the details for
+all transactions. There I can see that my address
+15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b
+have received 16.06 Bitcoin, the
+1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3
+address of Simon Phipps have received 181.97 BitCoin and the address
+1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt
+of EFF have received 2447.38 BitCoins so far. Thank you to each and
+every one of you that donated bitcoins to support my activity. The
+fact that anyone can see how much money was transfered to a given
+address make it more obvious why the BitCoin community recommend to
+generate and hand out a new address for each transaction. I'm told
+there is no way to track which addresses belong to a given person or
+organisation without the person or organisation revealing it
+themselves, as Simon, EFF and I have done.
+
+
In Norway, and in most other countries, there are laws and
+regulations limiting how much money one can transfer across the border
+without declaring it. There are money laundering, tax and accounting
+laws and regulations I would expect to apply to the use of BitCoin.
+If the Skolelinux foundation
+(SLX
+Debian Labs) were to accept donations in BitCoin in addition to
+normal bank transfers like EFF is doing, how should this be accounted?
+Given that it is impossible to know if money can across the border or
+not, should everything or nothing be declared? What exchange rate
+should be used when calculating taxes? Would receivers have to pay
+income tax if the foundation were to pay Skolelinux contributors in
+BitCoin? I have no idea, but it would be interesting to know.
+
+
For a currency to be useful and successful, it must be trusted and
+accepted by a lot of users. It must be possible to get easy access to
+the currency (as a wage or using currency exchanges), and it must be
+easy to spend it. At the moment BitCoin seem fairly easy to get
+access to, but there are very few places to spend it. I am not really
+a regular user of any of the vendor types currently accepting BitCoin,
+so I wonder when my kind of show would start accepting BitCoins. I
+would like to buy electronics, travels and subway tickets, not herbs
+and books. :) The currency is young, and this will improve over time
+if it become popular, but I suspect regular banks will start to lobby
+to get BitCoin declared illegal if it become popular. I'm sure they
+will claim it is helping fund terrorism and money laundering (which
+probably would be true, as is any currency in existence), but I
+believe the problems should be solved elsewhere and not by blaming
+currencies.
+
+
The process of creating new BitCoins is called mining, and it is
+CPU intensive process that depend on a bit of luck as well (as one is
+competing against all the other miners currently spending CPU cycles
+to see which one get the next lump of cash. The "winner" get 50
+BitCoin when this happen. Yesterday I came across the obvious way to
+join forces to increase ones changes of getting at least some coins,
+by coordinating the work on mining BitCoins across several machines
+and people, and sharing the result if one is lucky and get the 50
+BitCoins. Check out
+BitCoin Pool
+if this sounds interesting. I have not had time to try to set up a
+machine to participate there yet.
As I continue to explore
+BitCoin, I've starting to wonder
+what properties the system have, and how it will be affected by laws
+and regulations here in Norway. Here are some random notes.
+
+
One interesting thing to note is that since the transactions are
+verified using a peer to peer network, all details about a transaction
+is known to everyone. This means that if a BitCoin address has been
+published like I did with mine in my initial post about BitCoin, it is
+possible for everyone to see how many BitCoins have been transfered to
+that address. There is even a web service to look at the details for
+all transactions. There I can see that my address
+15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b
+have received 16.06 Bitcoin, the
+1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3
+address of Simon Phipps have received 181.97 BitCoin and the address
+1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt
+of EFF have received 2447.38 BitCoins so far. Thank you to each and
+every one of you that donated bitcoins to support my activity. The
+fact that anyone can see how much money was transfered to a given
+address make it more obvious why the BitCoin community recommend to
+generate and hand out a new address for each transaction. I'm told
+there is no way to track which addresses belong to a given person or
+organisation without the person or organisation revealing it
+themselves, as Simon, EFF and I have done.
+
+
In Norway, and in most other countries, there are laws and
+regulations limiting how much money one can transfer across the border
+without declaring it. There are money laundering, tax and accounting
+laws and regulations I would expect to apply to the use of BitCoin.
+If the Skolelinux foundation
+(SLX
+Debian Labs) were to accept donations in BitCoin like EFF is
+doing, how should this be accounted? Given that it is impossible to
+know if money can across the border or not, should everything or
+nothing be declared? What exchange rate should be used when
+calculating taxes? Would receivers have to pay income tax if the
+foundation were to pay Skolelinux contributors in BitCoin? I have no
+idea, but it would be interesting to know.
+
+
For a currency to be useful and successful, it must be trusted and
+accepted by a lot of users. It must be possible to get easy access to
+the currency (as a wage or using currency exchanges), and it must be
+easy to spend it. At the moment BitCoin seem fairly easy to get
+access to, but there are very few places to spend it. I am not really
+a regular user of any of the vendor types currently accepting BitCoin,
+so I wonder when my kind of show would start accepting BitCoins. I
+would like to buy electronics, travels and subway tickets, not herbs
+and books. :) The currency is young, and this will improve over time
+if it become popular, but I suspect regular banks will start to lobby
+to get BitCoin declared illegal if it become popular. I'm sure they
+will claim it is helping fund terrorism and money laundering (which
+probably would be true, as is any currency in existence), but I
+believe the problems should be solved elsewhere and not by blaming
+currencies.
+
+
The process of creating new BitCoins is called mining, and it is
+CPU intensive process that depend on a bit of luck as well (as one is
+competing against all the other miners currently spending CPU cycles
+to see which one get the next lump of cash. The "winner" get 50
+BitCoin when this happen. Yesterday I came across the obvious way to
+join forces to increase ones changes of getting at least some coins,
+by coordinating the work on mining BitCoins across several machines
+and people, and sharing the result if one is lucky and get the 50
+BitCoins. Check out
+BitCoin Pool
+if this sounds interesting. I have not had time to try to set up a
+machine to participate there yet.
diff --git a/blog/Standardize_on_protocols_and_formats__not_vendors_and_applications.html b/blog/Standardize_on_protocols_and_formats__not_vendors_and_applications.html
index 0b2f4f00bd..459735d3b8 100644
--- a/blog/Standardize_on_protocols_and_formats__not_vendors_and_applications.html
+++ b/blog/Standardize_on_protocols_and_formats__not_vendors_and_applications.html
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ application that do not use open network protocol or open formats.
diff --git a/blog/TED_talks_p___norsk_og_NUUG_foredrag___frivillige_trengs_til_teksting.html b/blog/TED_talks_p___norsk_og_NUUG_foredrag___frivillige_trengs_til_teksting.html
index b1b4110c6b..113b9bce32 100644
--- a/blog/TED_talks_p___norsk_og_NUUG_foredrag___frivillige_trengs_til_teksting.html
+++ b/blog/TED_talks_p___norsk_og_NUUG_foredrag___frivillige_trengs_til_teksting.html
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ lar en bidra med teksting via en nettleser.
diff --git a/blog/Taking_over_sysvinit_development.html b/blog/Taking_over_sysvinit_development.html
index a419fd510e..73f9f818cd 100644
--- a/blog/Taking_over_sysvinit_development.html
+++ b/blog/Taking_over_sysvinit_development.html
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ distributions are moving to upstart as a syvinit replacement.
diff --git a/blog/Terms_of_use_for_video_produced_by_a_Canon_IXUS_130_digital_camera.html b/blog/Terms_of_use_for_video_produced_by_a_Canon_IXUS_130_digital_camera.html
index 3ccd5b4f0b..90a438e945 100644
--- a/blog/Terms_of_use_for_video_produced_by_a_Canon_IXUS_130_digital_camera.html
+++ b/blog/Terms_of_use_for_video_produced_by_a_Canon_IXUS_130_digital_camera.html
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ Theora, and avoid MPEG-4 and H.264 if you can.
diff --git a/blog/Testing_if_a_file_system_can_be_used_for_home_directories___.html b/blog/Testing_if_a_file_system_can_be_used_for_home_directories___.html
index f178d627cb..d94a3afb50 100644
--- a/blog/Testing_if_a_file_system_can_be_used_for_home_directories___.html
+++ b/blog/Testing_if_a_file_system_can_be_used_for_home_directories___.html
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ script so useful that he created a GIT repository and stored it in
diff --git a/blog/The_sorry_state_of_multimedia_browser_plugins_in_Debian.html b/blog/The_sorry_state_of_multimedia_browser_plugins_in_Debian.html
index 3bdfa39781..c9a259746a 100644
--- a/blog/The_sorry_state_of_multimedia_browser_plugins_in_Debian.html
+++ b/blog/The_sorry_state_of_multimedia_browser_plugins_in_Debian.html
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ be the only one fitting our needs. :/
diff --git a/blog/Vitenskapens_dogmer___.html b/blog/Vitenskapens_dogmer___.html
index 019ed413f7..269680ba1f 100644
--- a/blog/Vitenskapens_dogmer___.html
+++ b/blog/Vitenskapens_dogmer___.html
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ skyskrapere. Takke meg til en tur til månen.
diff --git a/blog/When_web_browser_developers_make_a_video_player___.html b/blog/When_web_browser_developers_make_a_video_player___.html
index 6f65a440fd..91b0b0aea8 100644
--- a/blog/When_web_browser_developers_make_a_video_player___.html
+++ b/blog/When_web_browser_developers_make_a_video_player___.html
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ sure hope it was using the announced Ogg Theora support. :)
diff --git a/blog/Why_isn_t_Debian_Edu_using_VLC_.html b/blog/Why_isn_t_Debian_Edu_using_VLC_.html
index 77347871d0..511b38582f 100644
--- a/blog/Why_isn_t_Debian_Edu_using_VLC_.html
+++ b/blog/Why_isn_t_Debian_Edu_using_VLC_.html
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ what is going on.
diff --git a/blog/archive/2008/11/index.html b/blog/archive/2008/11/index.html
index 6a41741e81..eae286aa13 100644
--- a/blog/archive/2008/11/index.html
+++ b/blog/archive/2008/11/index.html
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ lenge alt er klart til Go Open
diff --git a/blog/archive/2009/03/index.html b/blog/archive/2009/03/index.html
index 69ae5c6d6a..31fec06ab4 100644
--- a/blog/archive/2009/03/index.html
+++ b/blog/archive/2009/03/index.html
@@ -724,7 +724,7 @@ application that do not use open network protocol or open formats.
diff --git a/blog/archive/2009/08/index.html b/blog/archive/2009/08/index.html
index 12a452d994..bbaefd889d 100644
--- a/blog/archive/2009/08/index.html
+++ b/blog/archive/2009/08/index.html
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ det viser at behovet for fribruks-sjøkart er til stedet.
diff --git a/blog/archive/2010/02/index.html b/blog/archive/2010/02/index.html
index 80d51b4219..ea89f7507d 100644
--- a/blog/archive/2010/02/index.html
+++ b/blog/archive/2010/02/index.html
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ and have just a few weeks or months to make it happen.
diff --git a/blog/archive/2010/05/index.html b/blog/archive/2010/05/index.html
index cb34d13365..2f37d32a5c 100644
--- a/blog/archive/2010/05/index.html
+++ b/blog/archive/2010/05/index.html
@@ -625,7 +625,7 @@ list of usertagged bugs related to this.
diff --git a/blog/archive/2010/06/index.html b/blog/archive/2010/06/index.html
index 4537dffdf3..837b2ee171 100644
--- a/blog/archive/2010/06/index.html
+++ b/blog/archive/2010/06/index.html
@@ -1024,7 +1024,7 @@ changes, it will not be an option for Debian Edu based on Squeeze.
diff --git a/blog/archive/2010/08/index.html b/blog/archive/2010/08/index.html
index 48b83bb78d..eccd5b0c1c 100644
--- a/blog/archive/2010/08/index.html
+++ b/blog/archive/2010/08/index.html
@@ -1042,7 +1042,7 @@ er fremmet av Erna Solberg, Michael Tetzschner og Trond Helleland.
diff --git a/blog/archive/2010/09/index.html b/blog/archive/2010/09/index.html
index 980f50232c..c1d5922352 100644
--- a/blog/archive/2010/09/index.html
+++ b/blog/archive/2010/09/index.html
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ eller bare ser meg om etter alternativer.
diff --git a/blog/archive/2010/12/12.rss b/blog/archive/2010/12/12.rss
index 84976ffb2a..b9f3867504 100644
--- a/blog/archive/2010/12/12.rss
+++ b/blog/archive/2010/12/12.rss
@@ -177,5 +177,82 @@ kan.</p>
+
+ Some thoughts on BitCoins
+ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_thoughts_on_BitCoins.html
+ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_thoughts_on_BitCoins.html
+ Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:10:00 +0100
+
+<p>As I continue to explore
+<a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">BitCoin</a>, I've starting to wonder
+what properties the system have, and how it will be affected by laws
+and regulations here in Norway. Here are some random notes.</p>
+
+<p>One interesting thing to note is that since the transactions are
+verified using a peer to peer network, all details about a transaction
+is known to everyone. This means that if a BitCoin address has been
+published like I did with mine in my initial post about BitCoin, it is
+possible for everyone to see how many BitCoins have been transfered to
+that address. There is even a web service to look at the details for
+all transactions. There I can see that my address
+<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a>
+have received 16.06 Bitcoin, the
+<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3">1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3</a>
+address of Simon Phipps have received 181.97 BitCoin and the address
+<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt">1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt</A>
+of EFF have received 2447.38 BitCoins so far. Thank you to each and
+every one of you that donated bitcoins to support my activity. The
+fact that anyone can see how much money was transfered to a given
+address make it more obvious why the BitCoin community recommend to
+generate and hand out a new address for each transaction. I'm told
+there is no way to track which addresses belong to a given person or
+organisation without the person or organisation revealing it
+themselves, as Simon, EFF and I have done.</p>
+
+<p>In Norway, and in most other countries, there are laws and
+regulations limiting how much money one can transfer across the border
+without declaring it. There are money laundering, tax and accounting
+laws and regulations I would expect to apply to the use of BitCoin.
+If the Skolelinux foundation
+(<a href="http://linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/donations.html">SLX
+Debian Labs</a>) were to accept donations in BitCoin in addition to
+normal bank transfers like EFF is doing, how should this be accounted?
+Given that it is impossible to know if money can across the border or
+not, should everything or nothing be declared? What exchange rate
+should be used when calculating taxes? Would receivers have to pay
+income tax if the foundation were to pay Skolelinux contributors in
+BitCoin? I have no idea, but it would be interesting to know.</p>
+
+<p>For a currency to be useful and successful, it must be trusted and
+accepted by a lot of users. It must be possible to get easy access to
+the currency (as a wage or using currency exchanges), and it must be
+easy to spend it. At the moment BitCoin seem fairly easy to get
+access to, but there are very few places to spend it. I am not really
+a regular user of any of the vendor types currently accepting BitCoin,
+so I wonder when my kind of show would start accepting BitCoins. I
+would like to buy electronics, travels and subway tickets, not herbs
+and books. :) The currency is young, and this will improve over time
+if it become popular, but I suspect regular banks will start to lobby
+to get BitCoin declared illegal if it become popular. I'm sure they
+will claim it is helping fund terrorism and money laundering (which
+probably would be true, as is any currency in existence), but I
+believe the problems should be solved elsewhere and not by blaming
+currencies.</p>
+
+<p>The process of creating new BitCoins is called mining, and it is
+CPU intensive process that depend on a bit of luck as well (as one is
+competing against all the other miners currently spending CPU cycles
+to see which one get the next lump of cash. The "winner" get 50
+BitCoin when this happen. Yesterday I came across the obvious way to
+join forces to increase ones changes of getting at least some coins,
+by coordinating the work on mining BitCoins across several machines
+and people, and sharing the result if one is lucky and get the 50
+BitCoins. Check out
+<a href="http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/bitcoin-pool/">BitCoin Pool</a>
+if this sounds interesting. I have not had time to try to set up a
+machine to participate there yet.</p>
+
+
+
diff --git a/blog/archive/2010/12/index.html b/blog/archive/2010/12/index.html
index d202392300..d43b01ad02 100644
--- a/blog/archive/2010/12/index.html
+++ b/blog/archive/2010/12/index.html
@@ -243,6 +243,96 @@ kan.
+
As I continue to explore
+BitCoin, I've starting to wonder
+what properties the system have, and how it will be affected by laws
+and regulations here in Norway. Here are some random notes.
+
+
One interesting thing to note is that since the transactions are
+verified using a peer to peer network, all details about a transaction
+is known to everyone. This means that if a BitCoin address has been
+published like I did with mine in my initial post about BitCoin, it is
+possible for everyone to see how many BitCoins have been transfered to
+that address. There is even a web service to look at the details for
+all transactions. There I can see that my address
+15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b
+have received 16.06 Bitcoin, the
+1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3
+address of Simon Phipps have received 181.97 BitCoin and the address
+1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt
+of EFF have received 2447.38 BitCoins so far. Thank you to each and
+every one of you that donated bitcoins to support my activity. The
+fact that anyone can see how much money was transfered to a given
+address make it more obvious why the BitCoin community recommend to
+generate and hand out a new address for each transaction. I'm told
+there is no way to track which addresses belong to a given person or
+organisation without the person or organisation revealing it
+themselves, as Simon, EFF and I have done.
+
+
In Norway, and in most other countries, there are laws and
+regulations limiting how much money one can transfer across the border
+without declaring it. There are money laundering, tax and accounting
+laws and regulations I would expect to apply to the use of BitCoin.
+If the Skolelinux foundation
+(SLX
+Debian Labs) were to accept donations in BitCoin in addition to
+normal bank transfers like EFF is doing, how should this be accounted?
+Given that it is impossible to know if money can across the border or
+not, should everything or nothing be declared? What exchange rate
+should be used when calculating taxes? Would receivers have to pay
+income tax if the foundation were to pay Skolelinux contributors in
+BitCoin? I have no idea, but it would be interesting to know.
+
+
For a currency to be useful and successful, it must be trusted and
+accepted by a lot of users. It must be possible to get easy access to
+the currency (as a wage or using currency exchanges), and it must be
+easy to spend it. At the moment BitCoin seem fairly easy to get
+access to, but there are very few places to spend it. I am not really
+a regular user of any of the vendor types currently accepting BitCoin,
+so I wonder when my kind of show would start accepting BitCoins. I
+would like to buy electronics, travels and subway tickets, not herbs
+and books. :) The currency is young, and this will improve over time
+if it become popular, but I suspect regular banks will start to lobby
+to get BitCoin declared illegal if it become popular. I'm sure they
+will claim it is helping fund terrorism and money laundering (which
+probably would be true, as is any currency in existence), but I
+believe the problems should be solved elsewhere and not by blaming
+currencies.
+
+
The process of creating new BitCoins is called mining, and it is
+CPU intensive process that depend on a bit of luck as well (as one is
+competing against all the other miners currently spending CPU cycles
+to see which one get the next lump of cash. The "winner" get 50
+BitCoin when this happen. Yesterday I came across the obvious way to
+join forces to increase ones changes of getting at least some coins,
+by coordinating the work on mining BitCoins across several machines
+and people, and sharing the result if one is lucky and get the 50
+BitCoins. Check out
+BitCoin Pool
+if this sounds interesting. I have not had time to try to set up a
+machine to participate there yet.
As I continue to explore
+BitCoin, I've starting to wonder
+what properties the system have, and how it will be affected by laws
+and regulations here in Norway. Here are some random notes.
+
+
One interesting thing to note is that since the transactions are
+verified using a peer to peer network, all details about a transaction
+is known to everyone. This means that if a BitCoin address has been
+published like I did with mine in my initial post about BitCoin, it is
+possible for everyone to see how many BitCoins have been transfered to
+that address. There is even a web service to look at the details for
+all transactions. There I can see that my address
+15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b
+have received 16.06 Bitcoin, the
+1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3
+address of Simon Phipps have received 181.97 BitCoin and the address
+1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt
+of EFF have received 2447.38 BitCoins so far. Thank you to each and
+every one of you that donated bitcoins to support my activity. The
+fact that anyone can see how much money was transfered to a given
+address make it more obvious why the BitCoin community recommend to
+generate and hand out a new address for each transaction. I'm told
+there is no way to track which addresses belong to a given person or
+organisation without the person or organisation revealing it
+themselves, as Simon, EFF and I have done.
+
+
In Norway, and in most other countries, there are laws and
+regulations limiting how much money one can transfer across the border
+without declaring it. There are money laundering, tax and accounting
+laws and regulations I would expect to apply to the use of BitCoin.
+If the Skolelinux foundation
+(SLX
+Debian Labs) were to accept donations in BitCoin in addition to
+normal bank transfers like EFF is doing, how should this be accounted?
+Given that it is impossible to know if money can across the border or
+not, should everything or nothing be declared? What exchange rate
+should be used when calculating taxes? Would receivers have to pay
+income tax if the foundation were to pay Skolelinux contributors in
+BitCoin? I have no idea, but it would be interesting to know.
+
+
For a currency to be useful and successful, it must be trusted and
+accepted by a lot of users. It must be possible to get easy access to
+the currency (as a wage or using currency exchanges), and it must be
+easy to spend it. At the moment BitCoin seem fairly easy to get
+access to, but there are very few places to spend it. I am not really
+a regular user of any of the vendor types currently accepting BitCoin,
+so I wonder when my kind of show would start accepting BitCoins. I
+would like to buy electronics, travels and subway tickets, not herbs
+and books. :) The currency is young, and this will improve over time
+if it become popular, but I suspect regular banks will start to lobby
+to get BitCoin declared illegal if it become popular. I'm sure they
+will claim it is helping fund terrorism and money laundering (which
+probably would be true, as is any currency in existence), but I
+believe the problems should be solved elsewhere and not by blaming
+currencies.
+
+
The process of creating new BitCoins is called mining, and it is
+CPU intensive process that depend on a bit of luck as well (as one is
+competing against all the other miners currently spending CPU cycles
+to see which one get the next lump of cash. The "winner" get 50
+BitCoin when this happen. Yesterday I came across the obvious way to
+join forces to increase ones changes of getting at least some coins,
+by coordinating the work on mining BitCoins across several machines
+and people, and sharing the result if one is lucky and get the 50
+BitCoins. Check out
+BitCoin Pool
+if this sounds interesting. I have not had time to try to set up a
+machine to participate there yet.
I'm still running upgrade testing of the
-Lenny
-Gnome and KDE Desktop, but have not had time to spend on reporting the
-status. Here is a short update based on a test I ran 20101118.
-
-
I still do not know what a correct migration should look like, so I
-report any differences between apt and aptitude and hope someone else
-can see if anything should be changed.
diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss
index 6fd34777d6..03944b754e 100644
--- a/blog/index.rss
+++ b/blog/index.rss
@@ -6,6 +6,83 @@
http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/
+
+ Some thoughts on BitCoins
+ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_thoughts_on_BitCoins.html
+ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_thoughts_on_BitCoins.html
+ Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:10:00 +0100
+
+<p>As I continue to explore
+<a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">BitCoin</a>, I've starting to wonder
+what properties the system have, and how it will be affected by laws
+and regulations here in Norway. Here are some random notes.</p>
+
+<p>One interesting thing to note is that since the transactions are
+verified using a peer to peer network, all details about a transaction
+is known to everyone. This means that if a BitCoin address has been
+published like I did with mine in my initial post about BitCoin, it is
+possible for everyone to see how many BitCoins have been transfered to
+that address. There is even a web service to look at the details for
+all transactions. There I can see that my address
+<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a>
+have received 16.06 Bitcoin, the
+<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3">1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3</a>
+address of Simon Phipps have received 181.97 BitCoin and the address
+<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt">1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt</A>
+of EFF have received 2447.38 BitCoins so far. Thank you to each and
+every one of you that donated bitcoins to support my activity. The
+fact that anyone can see how much money was transfered to a given
+address make it more obvious why the BitCoin community recommend to
+generate and hand out a new address for each transaction. I'm told
+there is no way to track which addresses belong to a given person or
+organisation without the person or organisation revealing it
+themselves, as Simon, EFF and I have done.</p>
+
+<p>In Norway, and in most other countries, there are laws and
+regulations limiting how much money one can transfer across the border
+without declaring it. There are money laundering, tax and accounting
+laws and regulations I would expect to apply to the use of BitCoin.
+If the Skolelinux foundation
+(<a href="http://linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/donations.html">SLX
+Debian Labs</a>) were to accept donations in BitCoin in addition to
+normal bank transfers like EFF is doing, how should this be accounted?
+Given that it is impossible to know if money can across the border or
+not, should everything or nothing be declared? What exchange rate
+should be used when calculating taxes? Would receivers have to pay
+income tax if the foundation were to pay Skolelinux contributors in
+BitCoin? I have no idea, but it would be interesting to know.</p>
+
+<p>For a currency to be useful and successful, it must be trusted and
+accepted by a lot of users. It must be possible to get easy access to
+the currency (as a wage or using currency exchanges), and it must be
+easy to spend it. At the moment BitCoin seem fairly easy to get
+access to, but there are very few places to spend it. I am not really
+a regular user of any of the vendor types currently accepting BitCoin,
+so I wonder when my kind of show would start accepting BitCoins. I
+would like to buy electronics, travels and subway tickets, not herbs
+and books. :) The currency is young, and this will improve over time
+if it become popular, but I suspect regular banks will start to lobby
+to get BitCoin declared illegal if it become popular. I'm sure they
+will claim it is helping fund terrorism and money laundering (which
+probably would be true, as is any currency in existence), but I
+believe the problems should be solved elsewhere and not by blaming
+currencies.</p>
+
+<p>The process of creating new BitCoins is called mining, and it is
+CPU intensive process that depend on a bit of luck as well (as one is
+competing against all the other miners currently spending CPU cycles
+to see which one get the next lump of cash. The "winner" get 50
+BitCoin when this happen. Yesterday I came across the obvious way to
+join forces to increase ones changes of getting at least some coins,
+by coordinating the work on mining BitCoins across several machines
+and people, and sharing the result if one is lucky and get the 50
+BitCoins. Check out
+<a href="http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/bitcoin-pool/">BitCoin Pool</a>
+if this sounds interesting. I have not had time to try to set up a
+machine to participate there yet.</p>
+
+
+
Pornoskannerne på flyplassene bedrer visst ikke sikkerheten
http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Pornoskannerne_p___flyplassene_bedrer_visst_ikke_sikkerheten.html
@@ -814,227 +891,5 @@ seem to work just fine.</p>
-
- Lenny->Squeeze upgrades, apt vs aptitude with the Gnome and KDE desktop
- http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenny__Squeeze_upgrades__apt_vs_aptitude_with_the_Gnome_and_KDE_desktop.html
- http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenny__Squeeze_upgrades__apt_vs_aptitude_with_the_Gnome_and_KDE_desktop.html
- Sat, 20 Nov 2010 22:50:00 +0100
-
-<p>I'm still running upgrade testing of the
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/~pere/debian-upgrade-testing/">Lenny
-Gnome and KDE Desktop</a>, but have not had time to spend on reporting the
-status. Here is a short update based on a test I ran 20101118.</p>
-
-<p>I still do not know what a correct migration should look like, so I
-report any differences between apt and aptitude and hope someone else
-can see if anything should be changed.</p>
-
-<p>This is for Gnome:</p>
-
-<p>Installed using apt-get, missing with aptitude</p>
-
-<blockquote><p>
- apache2.2-bin aptdaemon at-spi baobab binfmt-support
- browser-plugin-gnash cheese-common cli-common cpp-4.3 cups-pk-helper
- dmz-cursor-theme empathy empathy-common finger
- freedesktop-sound-theme freeglut3 gconf-defaults-service gdm-themes
- gedit-plugins geoclue geoclue-hostip geoclue-localnet geoclue-manual
- geoclue-yahoo gnash gnash-common gnome gnome-backgrounds
- gnome-cards-data gnome-codec-install gnome-core
- gnome-desktop-environment gnome-disk-utility gnome-screenshot
- gnome-search-tool gnome-session-canberra gnome-spell
- gnome-system-log gnome-themes-extras gnome-themes-more
- gnome-user-share gs-common gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3
- gstreamer0.10-tools gtk2-engines gtk2-engines-pixbuf
- gtk2-engines-smooth hal-info hamster-applet libapache2-mod-dnssd
- libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap
- libart2.0-cil libatspi1.0-0 libboost-date-time1.42.0
- libboost-python1.42.0 libboost-thread1.42.0 libchamplain-0.4-0
- libchamplain-gtk-0.4-0 libcheese-gtk18 libclutter-gtk-0.10-0
- libcryptui0 libcupsys2 libdiscid0 libeel2-data libelf1 libepc-1.0-2
- libepc-common libepc-ui-1.0-2 libfreerdp-plugins-standard
- libfreerdp0 libgail-common libgconf2.0-cil libgdata-common libgdata7
- libgdl-1-common libgdu-gtk0 libgee2 libgeoclue0 libgexiv2-0 libgif4
- libglade2.0-cil libglib2.0-cil libgmime2.4-cil libgnome-vfs2.0-cil
- libgnome2.24-cil libgnomepanel2.24-cil libgnomeprint2.2-data
- libgnomeprintui2.2-common libgnomevfs2-bin libgpod-common libgpod4
- libgtk2.0-cil libgtkglext1 libgtksourceview-common
- libgtksourceview2.0-common libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil
- libmono-addins0.2-cil libmono-cairo2.0-cil libmono-corlib2.0-cil
- libmono-i18n-west2.0-cil libmono-posix2.0-cil
- libmono-security2.0-cil libmono-sharpzip2.84-cil
- libmono-system2.0-cil libmtp8 libmusicbrainz3-6
- libndesk-dbus-glib1.0-cil libndesk-dbus1.0-cil libopal3.6.8
- libpolkit-gtk-1-0 libpt-1.10.10-plugins-alsa
- libpt-1.10.10-plugins-v4l libpt2.6.7 libpython2.6 librpm1 librpmio1
- libsdl1.2debian libservlet2.4-java libsrtp0 libssh-4
- libtelepathy-farsight0 libtelepathy-glib0 libtidy-0.99-0
- libxalan2-java libxerces2-java media-player-info mesa-utils
- mono-2.0-gac mono-gac mono-runtime nautilus-sendto
- nautilus-sendto-empathy openoffice.org-writer2latex
- openssl-blacklist p7zip p7zip-full pkg-config python-4suite-xml
- python-aptdaemon python-aptdaemon-gtk python-axiom
- python-beautifulsoup python-bugbuddy python-clientform
- python-coherence python-configobj python-crypto python-cupshelpers
- python-cupsutils python-eggtrayicon python-elementtree
- python-epsilon python-evolution python-feedparser python-gdata
- python-gdbm python-gst0.10 python-gtkglext1 python-gtkmozembed
- python-gtksourceview2 python-httplib2 python-louie python-mako
- python-markupsafe python-mechanize python-nevow python-notify
- python-opengl python-openssl python-pam python-pkg-resources
- python-pyasn1 python-pysqlite2 python-rdflib python-serial
- python-tagpy python-twisted-bin python-twisted-conch
- python-twisted-core python-twisted-web python-utidylib python-webkit
- python-xdg python-zope.interface remmina remmina-plugin-data
- remmina-plugin-rdp remmina-plugin-vnc rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder
- rhythmbox-plugins rpm-common rpm2cpio seahorse-plugins shotwell
- software-center svgalibg1 system-config-printer-udev
- telepathy-gabble telepathy-mission-control-5 telepathy-salut tomboy
- totem totem-coherence totem-mozilla totem-plugins
- transmission-common xdg-user-dirs xdg-user-dirs-gtk xserver-xephyr
- zip
-</p></blockquote>
-
-Installed using apt-get, removed with aptitude
-
-<blockquote><p>
- arj bluez-utils cheese dhcdbd djvulibre-desktop ekiga eog
- epiphany-extensions epiphany-gecko evolution-exchange
- fast-user-switch-applet file-roller gcalctool gconf-editor gdm gedit
- gedit-common gnome-app-install gnome-games gnome-games-data
- gnome-nettool gnome-system-tools gnome-themes gnome-utils
- gnome-vfs-obexftp gnome-volume-manager gnuchess gucharmap
- guile-1.8-libs hal libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 libavahi-core5
- libavahi-ui0 libbind9-50 libbluetooth2 libcamel1.2-11 libcdio7
- libcucul0 libcurl3 libdirectfb-1.0-0 libdmx1 libdvdread3
- libedata-cal1.2-6 libedataserver1.2-9 libeel2-2.20 libepc-1.0-1
- libepc-ui-1.0-1 libexchange-storage1.2-3 libfaad0 libgadu3
- libgalago3 libgd2-noxpm libgda3-3 libgda3-common libggz2 libggzcore9
- libggzmod4 libgksu1.2-0 libgksuui1.0-1 libgmyth0 libgnome-desktop-2
- libgnome-pilot2 libgnomecups1.0-1 libgnomeprint2.2-0
- libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgpod3 libgraphviz4 libgtk-vnc-1.0-0
- libgtkhtml2-0 libgtksourceview1.0-0 libgtksourceview2.0-0
- libgucharmap6 libhesiod0 libicu38 libisccc50 libisccfg50 libiw29
- libjaxp1.3-java-gcj libkpathsea4 liblircclient0 libltdl3 liblwres50
- libmagick++10 libmagick10 libmalaga7 libmozjs1d libmpfr1ldbl libmtp7
- libmysqlclient15off libnautilus-burn4 libneon27 libnm-glib0
- libnm-util0 libopal-2.2 libosp5 libparted1.8-10 libpisock9
- libpisync1 libpoppler-glib3 libpoppler3 libpt-1.10.10 libraw1394-8
- libsdl1.2debian-alsa libsensors3 libsexy2 libsmbios2 libsoup2.2-8
- libspeexdsp1 libssh2-1 libsuitesparse-3.1.0 libsvga1
- libswfdec-0.6-90 libtalloc1 libtotem-plparser10 libtrackerclient0
- libvoikko1 libxalan2-java-gcj libxerces2-java-gcj libxklavier12
- libxtrap6 libxxf86misc1 libzephyr3 mysql-common rhythmbox seahorse
- sound-juicer swfdec-gnome system-config-printer totem-common
- totem-gstreamer transmission-gtk vinagre vino w3c-dtd-xhtml wodim
-</p></blockquote>
-
-<p>Installed using aptitude, missing with apt-get</p>
-
-<blockquote><p>
- gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs
-</p></blockquote>
-
-<p>Installed using aptitude, removed with apt-get</p>
-
-<blockquote><p>
-[nothing]
-</p></blockquote>
-
-<p>This is for KDE:</p>
-
-<p>Installed using apt-get, missing with aptitude</p>
-
-<blockquote><p>
- autopoint bomber bovo cantor cantor-backend-kalgebra cpp-4.3 dcoprss
- edict espeak espeak-data eyesapplet fifteenapplet finger gettext
- ghostscript-x git gnome-audio gnugo granatier gs-common
- gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio indi kaddressbook-plugins kalgebra
- kalzium-data kanjidic kapman kate-plugins kblocks kbreakout kbstate
- kde-icons-mono kdeaccessibility kdeaddons-kfile-plugins
- kdeadmin-kfile-plugins kdeartwork-misc kdeartwork-theme-window
- kdeedu kdeedu-data kdeedu-kvtml-data kdegames kdegames-card-data
- kdegames-mahjongg-data kdegraphics-kfile-plugins kdelirc
- kdemultimedia-kfile-plugins kdenetwork-kfile-plugins
- kdepim-kfile-plugins kdepim-kio-plugins kdessh kdetoys kdewebdev
- kdiamond kdnssd kfilereplace kfourinline kgeography-data kigo
- killbots kiriki klettres-data kmoon kmrml knewsticker-scripts
- kollision kpf krosspython ksirk ksmserver ksquares kstars-data
- ksudoku kubrick kweather libasound2-plugins libboost-python1.42.0
- libcfitsio3 libconvert-binhex-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl libdb4.6++
- libdjvulibre-text libdotconf1.0 liberror-perl libespeak1
- libfinance-quote-perl libgail-common libgsl0ldbl libhtml-parser-perl
- libhtml-tableextract-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl
- libio-stringy-perl libkdeedu4 libkdegames5 libkiten4 libkpathsea5
- libkrossui4 libmailtools-perl libmime-tools-perl
- libnews-nntpclient-perl libopenbabel3 libportaudio2 libpulse-browse0
- libservlet2.4-java libspeechd2 libtiff-tools libtimedate-perl
- libunistring0 liburi-perl libwww-perl libxalan2-java libxerces2-java
- lirc luatex marble networkstatus noatun-plugins
- openoffice.org-writer2latex palapeli palapeli-data parley
- parley-data poster psutils pulseaudio pulseaudio-esound-compat
- pulseaudio-module-x11 pulseaudio-utils quanta-data rocs rsync
- speech-dispatcher step svgalibg1 texlive-binaries texlive-luatex
- ttf-sazanami-gothic
-</p></blockquote>
-
-<p>Installed using apt-get, removed with aptitude</p>
-
-<blockquote><p>
- amor artsbuilder atlantik atlantikdesigner blinken bluez-utils cvs
- dhcdbd djvulibre-desktop imlib-base imlib11 kalzium kanagram kandy
- kasteroids katomic kbackgammon kbattleship kblackbox kbounce kbruch
- kcron kdat kdemultimedia-kappfinder-data kdeprint kdict kdvi kedit
- keduca kenolaba kfax kfaxview kfouleggs kgeography kghostview
- kgoldrunner khangman khexedit kiconedit kig kimagemapeditor
- kitchensync kiten kjumpingcube klatin klettres klickety klines
- klinkstatus kmag kmahjongg kmailcvt kmenuedit kmid kmilo kmines
- kmousetool kmouth kmplot knetwalk kodo kolf kommander konquest kooka
- kpager kpat kpdf kpercentage kpilot kpoker kpovmodeler krec
- kregexpeditor kreversi ksame ksayit kshisen ksig ksim ksirc ksirtet
- ksmiletris ksnake ksokoban kspaceduel kstars ksvg ksysv kteatime
- ktip ktnef ktouch ktron kttsd ktuberling kturtle ktux kuickshow
- kverbos kview kviewshell kvoctrain kwifimanager kwin kwin4 kwordquiz
- kworldclock kxsldbg libakode2 libarts1-akode libarts1-audiofile
- libarts1-mpeglib libarts1-xine libavahi-compat-libdnssd1
- libavahi-core5 libavc1394-0 libbind9-50 libbluetooth2
- libboost-python1.34.1 libcucul0 libcurl3 libcvsservice0
- libdirectfb-1.0-0 libdjvulibre21 libdvdread3 libfaad0 libfreebob0
- libgd2-noxpm libgraphviz4 libgsmme1c2a libgtkhtml2-0 libicu38
- libiec61883-0 libindex0 libisccc50 libisccfg50 libiw29
- libjaxp1.3-java-gcj libk3b3 libkcal2b libkcddb1 libkdeedu3
- libkdegames1 libkdepim1a libkgantt0 libkleopatra1 libkmime2
- libkpathsea4 libkpimexchange1 libkpimidentities1 libkscan1
- libksieve0 libktnef1 liblockdev1 libltdl3 liblwres50 libmagick10
- libmimelib1c2a libmodplug0c2 libmozjs1d libmpcdec3 libmpfr1ldbl
- libneon27 libnm-util0 libopensync0 libpisock9 libpoppler-glib3
- libpoppler-qt2 libpoppler3 libraw1394-8 librss1 libsensors3
- libsmbios2 libssh2-1 libsuitesparse-3.1.0 libswfdec-0.6-90
- libtalloc1 libxalan2-java-gcj libxerces2-java-gcj libxtrap6 lskat
- mpeglib network-manager-kde noatun pmount tex-common texlive-base
- texlive-common texlive-doc-base texlive-fonts-recommended tidy
- ttf-dustin ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-sjfonts
-</p></blockquote>
-
-<p>Installed using aptitude, missing with apt-get</p>
-
-<blockquote><p>
- dolphin kde-core kde-plasma-desktop kde-standard kde-window-manager
- kdeartwork kdebase kdebase-apps kdebase-workspace
- kdebase-workspace-bin kdebase-workspace-data kdeutils kscreensaver
- kscreensaver-xsavers libgle3 libkonq5 libkonq5-templates libnetpbm10
- netpbm plasma-widget-folderview plasma-widget-networkmanagement
- xscreensaver-data-extra xscreensaver-gl xscreensaver-gl-extra
- xscreensaver-screensaver-bsod
-</p></blockquote>
-
-<p>Installed using aptitude, removed with apt-get</p>
-
-<blockquote><p>
- kdebase-bin konq-plugins konqueror
-</p></blockquote>
-
-
-
diff --git a/blog/jXplorer__a_very_nice_LDAP_GUI.html b/blog/jXplorer__a_very_nice_LDAP_GUI.html
index e743b23bb7..6e4f1f0f56 100644
--- a/blog/jXplorer__a_very_nice_LDAP_GUI.html
+++ b/blog/jXplorer__a_very_nice_LDAP_GUI.html
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ and remove the failing query. Nothing big, but very annoying.
diff --git a/blog/tags/bitcoin/bitcoin.rss b/blog/tags/bitcoin/bitcoin.rss
index 86e4e32444..0e0d0ad8c1 100644
--- a/blog/tags/bitcoin/bitcoin.rss
+++ b/blog/tags/bitcoin/bitcoin.rss
@@ -57,5 +57,82 @@ donations to the address
+
+ Some thoughts on BitCoins
+ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_thoughts_on_BitCoins.html
+ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_thoughts_on_BitCoins.html
+ Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:10:00 +0100
+
+<p>As I continue to explore
+<a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">BitCoin</a>, I've starting to wonder
+what properties the system have, and how it will be affected by laws
+and regulations here in Norway. Here are some random notes.</p>
+
+<p>One interesting thing to note is that since the transactions are
+verified using a peer to peer network, all details about a transaction
+is known to everyone. This means that if a BitCoin address has been
+published like I did with mine in my initial post about BitCoin, it is
+possible for everyone to see how many BitCoins have been transfered to
+that address. There is even a web service to look at the details for
+all transactions. There I can see that my address
+<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a>
+have received 16.06 Bitcoin, the
+<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3">1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3</a>
+address of Simon Phipps have received 181.97 BitCoin and the address
+<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt">1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt</A>
+of EFF have received 2447.38 BitCoins so far. Thank you to each and
+every one of you that donated bitcoins to support my activity. The
+fact that anyone can see how much money was transfered to a given
+address make it more obvious why the BitCoin community recommend to
+generate and hand out a new address for each transaction. I'm told
+there is no way to track which addresses belong to a given person or
+organisation without the person or organisation revealing it
+themselves, as Simon, EFF and I have done.</p>
+
+<p>In Norway, and in most other countries, there are laws and
+regulations limiting how much money one can transfer across the border
+without declaring it. There are money laundering, tax and accounting
+laws and regulations I would expect to apply to the use of BitCoin.
+If the Skolelinux foundation
+(<a href="http://linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/donations.html">SLX
+Debian Labs</a>) were to accept donations in BitCoin in addition to
+normal bank transfers like EFF is doing, how should this be accounted?
+Given that it is impossible to know if money can across the border or
+not, should everything or nothing be declared? What exchange rate
+should be used when calculating taxes? Would receivers have to pay
+income tax if the foundation were to pay Skolelinux contributors in
+BitCoin? I have no idea, but it would be interesting to know.</p>
+
+<p>For a currency to be useful and successful, it must be trusted and
+accepted by a lot of users. It must be possible to get easy access to
+the currency (as a wage or using currency exchanges), and it must be
+easy to spend it. At the moment BitCoin seem fairly easy to get
+access to, but there are very few places to spend it. I am not really
+a regular user of any of the vendor types currently accepting BitCoin,
+so I wonder when my kind of show would start accepting BitCoins. I
+would like to buy electronics, travels and subway tickets, not herbs
+and books. :) The currency is young, and this will improve over time
+if it become popular, but I suspect regular banks will start to lobby
+to get BitCoin declared illegal if it become popular. I'm sure they
+will claim it is helping fund terrorism and money laundering (which
+probably would be true, as is any currency in existence), but I
+believe the problems should be solved elsewhere and not by blaming
+currencies.</p>
+
+<p>The process of creating new BitCoins is called mining, and it is
+CPU intensive process that depend on a bit of luck as well (as one is
+competing against all the other miners currently spending CPU cycles
+to see which one get the next lump of cash. The "winner" get 50
+BitCoin when this happen. Yesterday I came across the obvious way to
+join forces to increase ones changes of getting at least some coins,
+by coordinating the work on mining BitCoins across several machines
+and people, and sharing the result if one is lucky and get the 50
+BitCoins. Check out
+<a href="http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/bitcoin-pool/">BitCoin Pool</a>
+if this sounds interesting. I have not had time to try to set up a
+machine to participate there yet.</p>
+
+
+
diff --git a/blog/tags/bitcoin/index.html b/blog/tags/bitcoin/index.html
index b5d7f9d262..76f445694d 100644
--- a/blog/tags/bitcoin/index.html
+++ b/blog/tags/bitcoin/index.html
@@ -79,6 +79,96 @@ donations to the address
+ Tags: bitcoin, debian, english, personvern, sikkerhet.
+
+
As I continue to explore
+BitCoin, I've starting to wonder
+what properties the system have, and how it will be affected by laws
+and regulations here in Norway. Here are some random notes.
+
+
One interesting thing to note is that since the transactions are
+verified using a peer to peer network, all details about a transaction
+is known to everyone. This means that if a BitCoin address has been
+published like I did with mine in my initial post about BitCoin, it is
+possible for everyone to see how many BitCoins have been transfered to
+that address. There is even a web service to look at the details for
+all transactions. There I can see that my address
+15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b
+have received 16.06 Bitcoin, the
+1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3
+address of Simon Phipps have received 181.97 BitCoin and the address
+1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt
+of EFF have received 2447.38 BitCoins so far. Thank you to each and
+every one of you that donated bitcoins to support my activity. The
+fact that anyone can see how much money was transfered to a given
+address make it more obvious why the BitCoin community recommend to
+generate and hand out a new address for each transaction. I'm told
+there is no way to track which addresses belong to a given person or
+organisation without the person or organisation revealing it
+themselves, as Simon, EFF and I have done.
+
+
In Norway, and in most other countries, there are laws and
+regulations limiting how much money one can transfer across the border
+without declaring it. There are money laundering, tax and accounting
+laws and regulations I would expect to apply to the use of BitCoin.
+If the Skolelinux foundation
+(SLX
+Debian Labs) were to accept donations in BitCoin in addition to
+normal bank transfers like EFF is doing, how should this be accounted?
+Given that it is impossible to know if money can across the border or
+not, should everything or nothing be declared? What exchange rate
+should be used when calculating taxes? Would receivers have to pay
+income tax if the foundation were to pay Skolelinux contributors in
+BitCoin? I have no idea, but it would be interesting to know.
+
+
For a currency to be useful and successful, it must be trusted and
+accepted by a lot of users. It must be possible to get easy access to
+the currency (as a wage or using currency exchanges), and it must be
+easy to spend it. At the moment BitCoin seem fairly easy to get
+access to, but there are very few places to spend it. I am not really
+a regular user of any of the vendor types currently accepting BitCoin,
+so I wonder when my kind of show would start accepting BitCoins. I
+would like to buy electronics, travels and subway tickets, not herbs
+and books. :) The currency is young, and this will improve over time
+if it become popular, but I suspect regular banks will start to lobby
+to get BitCoin declared illegal if it become popular. I'm sure they
+will claim it is helping fund terrorism and money laundering (which
+probably would be true, as is any currency in existence), but I
+believe the problems should be solved elsewhere and not by blaming
+currencies.
+
+
The process of creating new BitCoins is called mining, and it is
+CPU intensive process that depend on a bit of luck as well (as one is
+competing against all the other miners currently spending CPU cycles
+to see which one get the next lump of cash. The "winner" get 50
+BitCoin when this happen. Yesterday I came across the obvious way to
+join forces to increase ones changes of getting at least some coins,
+by coordinating the work on mining BitCoins across several machines
+and people, and sharing the result if one is lucky and get the 50
+BitCoins. Check out
+BitCoin Pool
+if this sounds interesting. I have not had time to try to set up a
+machine to participate there yet.
diff --git a/blog/tags/debian/debian.rss b/blog/tags/debian/debian.rss
index 1b6777f29d..24b44fdbe9 100644
--- a/blog/tags/debian/debian.rss
+++ b/blog/tags/debian/debian.rss
@@ -2894,5 +2894,82 @@ donations to the address
+
+ Some thoughts on BitCoins
+ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_thoughts_on_BitCoins.html
+ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_thoughts_on_BitCoins.html
+ Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:10:00 +0100
+
+<p>As I continue to explore
+<a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">BitCoin</a>, I've starting to wonder
+what properties the system have, and how it will be affected by laws
+and regulations here in Norway. Here are some random notes.</p>
+
+<p>One interesting thing to note is that since the transactions are
+verified using a peer to peer network, all details about a transaction
+is known to everyone. This means that if a BitCoin address has been
+published like I did with mine in my initial post about BitCoin, it is
+possible for everyone to see how many BitCoins have been transfered to
+that address. There is even a web service to look at the details for
+all transactions. There I can see that my address
+<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a>
+have received 16.06 Bitcoin, the
+<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3">1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3</a>
+address of Simon Phipps have received 181.97 BitCoin and the address
+<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt">1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt</A>
+of EFF have received 2447.38 BitCoins so far. Thank you to each and
+every one of you that donated bitcoins to support my activity. The
+fact that anyone can see how much money was transfered to a given
+address make it more obvious why the BitCoin community recommend to
+generate and hand out a new address for each transaction. I'm told
+there is no way to track which addresses belong to a given person or
+organisation without the person or organisation revealing it
+themselves, as Simon, EFF and I have done.</p>
+
+<p>In Norway, and in most other countries, there are laws and
+regulations limiting how much money one can transfer across the border
+without declaring it. There are money laundering, tax and accounting
+laws and regulations I would expect to apply to the use of BitCoin.
+If the Skolelinux foundation
+(<a href="http://linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/donations.html">SLX
+Debian Labs</a>) were to accept donations in BitCoin in addition to
+normal bank transfers like EFF is doing, how should this be accounted?
+Given that it is impossible to know if money can across the border or
+not, should everything or nothing be declared? What exchange rate
+should be used when calculating taxes? Would receivers have to pay
+income tax if the foundation were to pay Skolelinux contributors in
+BitCoin? I have no idea, but it would be interesting to know.</p>
+
+<p>For a currency to be useful and successful, it must be trusted and
+accepted by a lot of users. It must be possible to get easy access to
+the currency (as a wage or using currency exchanges), and it must be
+easy to spend it. At the moment BitCoin seem fairly easy to get
+access to, but there are very few places to spend it. I am not really
+a regular user of any of the vendor types currently accepting BitCoin,
+so I wonder when my kind of show would start accepting BitCoins. I
+would like to buy electronics, travels and subway tickets, not herbs
+and books. :) The currency is young, and this will improve over time
+if it become popular, but I suspect regular banks will start to lobby
+to get BitCoin declared illegal if it become popular. I'm sure they
+will claim it is helping fund terrorism and money laundering (which
+probably would be true, as is any currency in existence), but I
+believe the problems should be solved elsewhere and not by blaming
+currencies.</p>
+
+<p>The process of creating new BitCoins is called mining, and it is
+CPU intensive process that depend on a bit of luck as well (as one is
+competing against all the other miners currently spending CPU cycles
+to see which one get the next lump of cash. The "winner" get 50
+BitCoin when this happen. Yesterday I came across the obvious way to
+join forces to increase ones changes of getting at least some coins,
+by coordinating the work on mining BitCoins across several machines
+and people, and sharing the result if one is lucky and get the 50
+BitCoins. Check out
+<a href="http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/bitcoin-pool/">BitCoin Pool</a>
+if this sounds interesting. I have not had time to try to set up a
+machine to participate there yet.</p>
+
+
+
diff --git a/blog/tags/debian/index.html b/blog/tags/debian/index.html
index 0a51334c60..35d41a9f87 100644
--- a/blog/tags/debian/index.html
+++ b/blog/tags/debian/index.html
@@ -3475,6 +3475,96 @@ donations to the address
+ Tags: bitcoin, debian, english, personvern, sikkerhet.
+
+
As I continue to explore
+BitCoin, I've starting to wonder
+what properties the system have, and how it will be affected by laws
+and regulations here in Norway. Here are some random notes.
+
+
One interesting thing to note is that since the transactions are
+verified using a peer to peer network, all details about a transaction
+is known to everyone. This means that if a BitCoin address has been
+published like I did with mine in my initial post about BitCoin, it is
+possible for everyone to see how many BitCoins have been transfered to
+that address. There is even a web service to look at the details for
+all transactions. There I can see that my address
+15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b
+have received 16.06 Bitcoin, the
+1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3
+address of Simon Phipps have received 181.97 BitCoin and the address
+1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt
+of EFF have received 2447.38 BitCoins so far. Thank you to each and
+every one of you that donated bitcoins to support my activity. The
+fact that anyone can see how much money was transfered to a given
+address make it more obvious why the BitCoin community recommend to
+generate and hand out a new address for each transaction. I'm told
+there is no way to track which addresses belong to a given person or
+organisation without the person or organisation revealing it
+themselves, as Simon, EFF and I have done.
+
+
In Norway, and in most other countries, there are laws and
+regulations limiting how much money one can transfer across the border
+without declaring it. There are money laundering, tax and accounting
+laws and regulations I would expect to apply to the use of BitCoin.
+If the Skolelinux foundation
+(SLX
+Debian Labs) were to accept donations in BitCoin in addition to
+normal bank transfers like EFF is doing, how should this be accounted?
+Given that it is impossible to know if money can across the border or
+not, should everything or nothing be declared? What exchange rate
+should be used when calculating taxes? Would receivers have to pay
+income tax if the foundation were to pay Skolelinux contributors in
+BitCoin? I have no idea, but it would be interesting to know.
+
+
For a currency to be useful and successful, it must be trusted and
+accepted by a lot of users. It must be possible to get easy access to
+the currency (as a wage or using currency exchanges), and it must be
+easy to spend it. At the moment BitCoin seem fairly easy to get
+access to, but there are very few places to spend it. I am not really
+a regular user of any of the vendor types currently accepting BitCoin,
+so I wonder when my kind of show would start accepting BitCoins. I
+would like to buy electronics, travels and subway tickets, not herbs
+and books. :) The currency is young, and this will improve over time
+if it become popular, but I suspect regular banks will start to lobby
+to get BitCoin declared illegal if it become popular. I'm sure they
+will claim it is helping fund terrorism and money laundering (which
+probably would be true, as is any currency in existence), but I
+believe the problems should be solved elsewhere and not by blaming
+currencies.
+
+
The process of creating new BitCoins is called mining, and it is
+CPU intensive process that depend on a bit of luck as well (as one is
+competing against all the other miners currently spending CPU cycles
+to see which one get the next lump of cash. The "winner" get 50
+BitCoin when this happen. Yesterday I came across the obvious way to
+join forces to increase ones changes of getting at least some coins,
+by coordinating the work on mining BitCoins across several machines
+and people, and sharing the result if one is lucky and get the 50
+BitCoins. Check out
+BitCoin Pool
+if this sounds interesting. I have not had time to try to set up a
+machine to participate there yet.
diff --git a/blog/tags/english/english.rss b/blog/tags/english/english.rss
index ca02d12cfb..dac1fa354e 100644
--- a/blog/tags/english/english.rss
+++ b/blog/tags/english/english.rss
@@ -4950,5 +4950,82 @@ donations to the address
+
+ Some thoughts on BitCoins
+ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_thoughts_on_BitCoins.html
+ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_thoughts_on_BitCoins.html
+ Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:10:00 +0100
+
+<p>As I continue to explore
+<a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">BitCoin</a>, I've starting to wonder
+what properties the system have, and how it will be affected by laws
+and regulations here in Norway. Here are some random notes.</p>
+
+<p>One interesting thing to note is that since the transactions are
+verified using a peer to peer network, all details about a transaction
+is known to everyone. This means that if a BitCoin address has been
+published like I did with mine in my initial post about BitCoin, it is
+possible for everyone to see how many BitCoins have been transfered to
+that address. There is even a web service to look at the details for
+all transactions. There I can see that my address
+<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a>
+have received 16.06 Bitcoin, the
+<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3">1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3</a>
+address of Simon Phipps have received 181.97 BitCoin and the address
+<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt">1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt</A>
+of EFF have received 2447.38 BitCoins so far. Thank you to each and
+every one of you that donated bitcoins to support my activity. The
+fact that anyone can see how much money was transfered to a given
+address make it more obvious why the BitCoin community recommend to
+generate and hand out a new address for each transaction. I'm told
+there is no way to track which addresses belong to a given person or
+organisation without the person or organisation revealing it
+themselves, as Simon, EFF and I have done.</p>
+
+<p>In Norway, and in most other countries, there are laws and
+regulations limiting how much money one can transfer across the border
+without declaring it. There are money laundering, tax and accounting
+laws and regulations I would expect to apply to the use of BitCoin.
+If the Skolelinux foundation
+(<a href="http://linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/donations.html">SLX
+Debian Labs</a>) were to accept donations in BitCoin in addition to
+normal bank transfers like EFF is doing, how should this be accounted?
+Given that it is impossible to know if money can across the border or
+not, should everything or nothing be declared? What exchange rate
+should be used when calculating taxes? Would receivers have to pay
+income tax if the foundation were to pay Skolelinux contributors in
+BitCoin? I have no idea, but it would be interesting to know.</p>
+
+<p>For a currency to be useful and successful, it must be trusted and
+accepted by a lot of users. It must be possible to get easy access to
+the currency (as a wage or using currency exchanges), and it must be
+easy to spend it. At the moment BitCoin seem fairly easy to get
+access to, but there are very few places to spend it. I am not really
+a regular user of any of the vendor types currently accepting BitCoin,
+so I wonder when my kind of show would start accepting BitCoins. I
+would like to buy electronics, travels and subway tickets, not herbs
+and books. :) The currency is young, and this will improve over time
+if it become popular, but I suspect regular banks will start to lobby
+to get BitCoin declared illegal if it become popular. I'm sure they
+will claim it is helping fund terrorism and money laundering (which
+probably would be true, as is any currency in existence), but I
+believe the problems should be solved elsewhere and not by blaming
+currencies.</p>
+
+<p>The process of creating new BitCoins is called mining, and it is
+CPU intensive process that depend on a bit of luck as well (as one is
+competing against all the other miners currently spending CPU cycles
+to see which one get the next lump of cash. The "winner" get 50
+BitCoin when this happen. Yesterday I came across the obvious way to
+join forces to increase ones changes of getting at least some coins,
+by coordinating the work on mining BitCoins across several machines
+and people, and sharing the result if one is lucky and get the 50
+BitCoins. Check out
+<a href="http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/bitcoin-pool/">BitCoin Pool</a>
+if this sounds interesting. I have not had time to try to set up a
+machine to participate there yet.</p>
+
+
+
diff --git a/blog/tags/english/index.html b/blog/tags/english/index.html
index daaab1ad36..8c32e0d5b8 100644
--- a/blog/tags/english/index.html
+++ b/blog/tags/english/index.html
@@ -5934,6 +5934,96 @@ donations to the address
+ Tags: bitcoin, debian, english, personvern, sikkerhet.
+
+
As I continue to explore
+BitCoin, I've starting to wonder
+what properties the system have, and how it will be affected by laws
+and regulations here in Norway. Here are some random notes.
+
+
One interesting thing to note is that since the transactions are
+verified using a peer to peer network, all details about a transaction
+is known to everyone. This means that if a BitCoin address has been
+published like I did with mine in my initial post about BitCoin, it is
+possible for everyone to see how many BitCoins have been transfered to
+that address. There is even a web service to look at the details for
+all transactions. There I can see that my address
+15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b
+have received 16.06 Bitcoin, the
+1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3
+address of Simon Phipps have received 181.97 BitCoin and the address
+1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt
+of EFF have received 2447.38 BitCoins so far. Thank you to each and
+every one of you that donated bitcoins to support my activity. The
+fact that anyone can see how much money was transfered to a given
+address make it more obvious why the BitCoin community recommend to
+generate and hand out a new address for each transaction. I'm told
+there is no way to track which addresses belong to a given person or
+organisation without the person or organisation revealing it
+themselves, as Simon, EFF and I have done.
+
+
In Norway, and in most other countries, there are laws and
+regulations limiting how much money one can transfer across the border
+without declaring it. There are money laundering, tax and accounting
+laws and regulations I would expect to apply to the use of BitCoin.
+If the Skolelinux foundation
+(SLX
+Debian Labs) were to accept donations in BitCoin in addition to
+normal bank transfers like EFF is doing, how should this be accounted?
+Given that it is impossible to know if money can across the border or
+not, should everything or nothing be declared? What exchange rate
+should be used when calculating taxes? Would receivers have to pay
+income tax if the foundation were to pay Skolelinux contributors in
+BitCoin? I have no idea, but it would be interesting to know.
+
+
For a currency to be useful and successful, it must be trusted and
+accepted by a lot of users. It must be possible to get easy access to
+the currency (as a wage or using currency exchanges), and it must be
+easy to spend it. At the moment BitCoin seem fairly easy to get
+access to, but there are very few places to spend it. I am not really
+a regular user of any of the vendor types currently accepting BitCoin,
+so I wonder when my kind of show would start accepting BitCoins. I
+would like to buy electronics, travels and subway tickets, not herbs
+and books. :) The currency is young, and this will improve over time
+if it become popular, but I suspect regular banks will start to lobby
+to get BitCoin declared illegal if it become popular. I'm sure they
+will claim it is helping fund terrorism and money laundering (which
+probably would be true, as is any currency in existence), but I
+believe the problems should be solved elsewhere and not by blaming
+currencies.
+
+
The process of creating new BitCoins is called mining, and it is
+CPU intensive process that depend on a bit of luck as well (as one is
+competing against all the other miners currently spending CPU cycles
+to see which one get the next lump of cash. The "winner" get 50
+BitCoin when this happen. Yesterday I came across the obvious way to
+join forces to increase ones changes of getting at least some coins,
+by coordinating the work on mining BitCoins across several machines
+and people, and sharing the result if one is lucky and get the 50
+BitCoins. Check out
+BitCoin Pool
+if this sounds interesting. I have not had time to try to set up a
+machine to participate there yet.
diff --git a/blog/tags/fiksgatami/index.html b/blog/tags/fiksgatami/index.html
index 7d6f6b9c3a..906114c3bc 100644
--- a/blog/tags/fiksgatami/index.html
+++ b/blog/tags/fiksgatami/index.html
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ med dem. Dette blir bra.
diff --git a/blog/tags/fildeling/index.html b/blog/tags/fildeling/index.html
index 47ff9acd91..b7ddd61869 100644
--- a/blog/tags/fildeling/index.html
+++ b/blog/tags/fildeling/index.html
@@ -610,7 +610,7 @@ til å få denne sangen over i norsk språkdrakt, ta kontakt med video
diff --git a/blog/tags/multimedia/index.html b/blog/tags/multimedia/index.html
index 3307e26073..6e7ebb6239 100644
--- a/blog/tags/multimedia/index.html
+++ b/blog/tags/multimedia/index.html
@@ -772,7 +772,7 @@ what is going on.
diff --git a/blog/tags/opphavsrett/index.html b/blog/tags/opphavsrett/index.html
index e36ea27122..c8a4997f1f 100644
--- a/blog/tags/opphavsrett/index.html
+++ b/blog/tags/opphavsrett/index.html
@@ -1153,7 +1153,7 @@ til å få denne sangen over i norsk språkdrakt, ta kontakt med video
As I continue to explore
+BitCoin, I've starting to wonder
+what properties the system have, and how it will be affected by laws
+and regulations here in Norway. Here are some random notes.
+
+
One interesting thing to note is that since the transactions are
+verified using a peer to peer network, all details about a transaction
+is known to everyone. This means that if a BitCoin address has been
+published like I did with mine in my initial post about BitCoin, it is
+possible for everyone to see how many BitCoins have been transfered to
+that address. There is even a web service to look at the details for
+all transactions. There I can see that my address
+15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b
+have received 16.06 Bitcoin, the
+1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3
+address of Simon Phipps have received 181.97 BitCoin and the address
+1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt
+of EFF have received 2447.38 BitCoins so far. Thank you to each and
+every one of you that donated bitcoins to support my activity. The
+fact that anyone can see how much money was transfered to a given
+address make it more obvious why the BitCoin community recommend to
+generate and hand out a new address for each transaction. I'm told
+there is no way to track which addresses belong to a given person or
+organisation without the person or organisation revealing it
+themselves, as Simon, EFF and I have done.
+
+
In Norway, and in most other countries, there are laws and
+regulations limiting how much money one can transfer across the border
+without declaring it. There are money laundering, tax and accounting
+laws and regulations I would expect to apply to the use of BitCoin.
+If the Skolelinux foundation
+(SLX
+Debian Labs) were to accept donations in BitCoin in addition to
+normal bank transfers like EFF is doing, how should this be accounted?
+Given that it is impossible to know if money can across the border or
+not, should everything or nothing be declared? What exchange rate
+should be used when calculating taxes? Would receivers have to pay
+income tax if the foundation were to pay Skolelinux contributors in
+BitCoin? I have no idea, but it would be interesting to know.
+
+
For a currency to be useful and successful, it must be trusted and
+accepted by a lot of users. It must be possible to get easy access to
+the currency (as a wage or using currency exchanges), and it must be
+easy to spend it. At the moment BitCoin seem fairly easy to get
+access to, but there are very few places to spend it. I am not really
+a regular user of any of the vendor types currently accepting BitCoin,
+so I wonder when my kind of show would start accepting BitCoins. I
+would like to buy electronics, travels and subway tickets, not herbs
+and books. :) The currency is young, and this will improve over time
+if it become popular, but I suspect regular banks will start to lobby
+to get BitCoin declared illegal if it become popular. I'm sure they
+will claim it is helping fund terrorism and money laundering (which
+probably would be true, as is any currency in existence), but I
+believe the problems should be solved elsewhere and not by blaming
+currencies.
+
+
The process of creating new BitCoins is called mining, and it is
+CPU intensive process that depend on a bit of luck as well (as one is
+competing against all the other miners currently spending CPU cycles
+to see which one get the next lump of cash. The "winner" get 50
+BitCoin when this happen. Yesterday I came across the obvious way to
+join forces to increase ones changes of getting at least some coins,
+by coordinating the work on mining BitCoins across several machines
+and people, and sharing the result if one is lucky and get the 50
+BitCoins. Check out
+BitCoin Pool
+if this sounds interesting. I have not had time to try to set up a
+machine to participate there yet.
diff --git a/blog/tags/personvern/personvern.rss b/blog/tags/personvern/personvern.rss
index 63cfad3e14..d0b7b490d4 100644
--- a/blog/tags/personvern/personvern.rss
+++ b/blog/tags/personvern/personvern.rss
@@ -1264,5 +1264,82 @@ kan.</p>
+
+ Some thoughts on BitCoins
+ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_thoughts_on_BitCoins.html
+ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_thoughts_on_BitCoins.html
+ Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:10:00 +0100
+
+<p>As I continue to explore
+<a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">BitCoin</a>, I've starting to wonder
+what properties the system have, and how it will be affected by laws
+and regulations here in Norway. Here are some random notes.</p>
+
+<p>One interesting thing to note is that since the transactions are
+verified using a peer to peer network, all details about a transaction
+is known to everyone. This means that if a BitCoin address has been
+published like I did with mine in my initial post about BitCoin, it is
+possible for everyone to see how many BitCoins have been transfered to
+that address. There is even a web service to look at the details for
+all transactions. There I can see that my address
+<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a>
+have received 16.06 Bitcoin, the
+<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3">1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3</a>
+address of Simon Phipps have received 181.97 BitCoin and the address
+<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt">1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt</A>
+of EFF have received 2447.38 BitCoins so far. Thank you to each and
+every one of you that donated bitcoins to support my activity. The
+fact that anyone can see how much money was transfered to a given
+address make it more obvious why the BitCoin community recommend to
+generate and hand out a new address for each transaction. I'm told
+there is no way to track which addresses belong to a given person or
+organisation without the person or organisation revealing it
+themselves, as Simon, EFF and I have done.</p>
+
+<p>In Norway, and in most other countries, there are laws and
+regulations limiting how much money one can transfer across the border
+without declaring it. There are money laundering, tax and accounting
+laws and regulations I would expect to apply to the use of BitCoin.
+If the Skolelinux foundation
+(<a href="http://linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/donations.html">SLX
+Debian Labs</a>) were to accept donations in BitCoin in addition to
+normal bank transfers like EFF is doing, how should this be accounted?
+Given that it is impossible to know if money can across the border or
+not, should everything or nothing be declared? What exchange rate
+should be used when calculating taxes? Would receivers have to pay
+income tax if the foundation were to pay Skolelinux contributors in
+BitCoin? I have no idea, but it would be interesting to know.</p>
+
+<p>For a currency to be useful and successful, it must be trusted and
+accepted by a lot of users. It must be possible to get easy access to
+the currency (as a wage or using currency exchanges), and it must be
+easy to spend it. At the moment BitCoin seem fairly easy to get
+access to, but there are very few places to spend it. I am not really
+a regular user of any of the vendor types currently accepting BitCoin,
+so I wonder when my kind of show would start accepting BitCoins. I
+would like to buy electronics, travels and subway tickets, not herbs
+and books. :) The currency is young, and this will improve over time
+if it become popular, but I suspect regular banks will start to lobby
+to get BitCoin declared illegal if it become popular. I'm sure they
+will claim it is helping fund terrorism and money laundering (which
+probably would be true, as is any currency in existence), but I
+believe the problems should be solved elsewhere and not by blaming
+currencies.</p>
+
+<p>The process of creating new BitCoins is called mining, and it is
+CPU intensive process that depend on a bit of luck as well (as one is
+competing against all the other miners currently spending CPU cycles
+to see which one get the next lump of cash. The "winner" get 50
+BitCoin when this happen. Yesterday I came across the obvious way to
+join forces to increase ones changes of getting at least some coins,
+by coordinating the work on mining BitCoins across several machines
+and people, and sharing the result if one is lucky and get the 50
+BitCoins. Check out
+<a href="http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/bitcoin-pool/">BitCoin Pool</a>
+if this sounds interesting. I have not had time to try to set up a
+machine to participate there yet.</p>
+
+
+
diff --git a/blog/tags/reprap/index.html b/blog/tags/reprap/index.html
index e144517b88..ad11ea0072 100644
--- a/blog/tags/reprap/index.html
+++ b/blog/tags/reprap/index.html
@@ -574,7 +574,7 @@ very cool 3D scanner.
As I continue to explore
+BitCoin, I've starting to wonder
+what properties the system have, and how it will be affected by laws
+and regulations here in Norway. Here are some random notes.
+
+
One interesting thing to note is that since the transactions are
+verified using a peer to peer network, all details about a transaction
+is known to everyone. This means that if a BitCoin address has been
+published like I did with mine in my initial post about BitCoin, it is
+possible for everyone to see how many BitCoins have been transfered to
+that address. There is even a web service to look at the details for
+all transactions. There I can see that my address
+15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b
+have received 16.06 Bitcoin, the
+1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3
+address of Simon Phipps have received 181.97 BitCoin and the address
+1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt
+of EFF have received 2447.38 BitCoins so far. Thank you to each and
+every one of you that donated bitcoins to support my activity. The
+fact that anyone can see how much money was transfered to a given
+address make it more obvious why the BitCoin community recommend to
+generate and hand out a new address for each transaction. I'm told
+there is no way to track which addresses belong to a given person or
+organisation without the person or organisation revealing it
+themselves, as Simon, EFF and I have done.
+
+
In Norway, and in most other countries, there are laws and
+regulations limiting how much money one can transfer across the border
+without declaring it. There are money laundering, tax and accounting
+laws and regulations I would expect to apply to the use of BitCoin.
+If the Skolelinux foundation
+(SLX
+Debian Labs) were to accept donations in BitCoin in addition to
+normal bank transfers like EFF is doing, how should this be accounted?
+Given that it is impossible to know if money can across the border or
+not, should everything or nothing be declared? What exchange rate
+should be used when calculating taxes? Would receivers have to pay
+income tax if the foundation were to pay Skolelinux contributors in
+BitCoin? I have no idea, but it would be interesting to know.
+
+
For a currency to be useful and successful, it must be trusted and
+accepted by a lot of users. It must be possible to get easy access to
+the currency (as a wage or using currency exchanges), and it must be
+easy to spend it. At the moment BitCoin seem fairly easy to get
+access to, but there are very few places to spend it. I am not really
+a regular user of any of the vendor types currently accepting BitCoin,
+so I wonder when my kind of show would start accepting BitCoins. I
+would like to buy electronics, travels and subway tickets, not herbs
+and books. :) The currency is young, and this will improve over time
+if it become popular, but I suspect regular banks will start to lobby
+to get BitCoin declared illegal if it become popular. I'm sure they
+will claim it is helping fund terrorism and money laundering (which
+probably would be true, as is any currency in existence), but I
+believe the problems should be solved elsewhere and not by blaming
+currencies.
+
+
The process of creating new BitCoins is called mining, and it is
+CPU intensive process that depend on a bit of luck as well (as one is
+competing against all the other miners currently spending CPU cycles
+to see which one get the next lump of cash. The "winner" get 50
+BitCoin when this happen. Yesterday I came across the obvious way to
+join forces to increase ones changes of getting at least some coins,
+by coordinating the work on mining BitCoins across several machines
+and people, and sharing the result if one is lucky and get the 50
+BitCoins. Check out
+BitCoin Pool
+if this sounds interesting. I have not had time to try to set up a
+machine to participate there yet.
diff --git a/blog/tags/sikkerhet/sikkerhet.rss b/blog/tags/sikkerhet/sikkerhet.rss
index 8f101a72da..aeb28acc90 100644
--- a/blog/tags/sikkerhet/sikkerhet.rss
+++ b/blog/tags/sikkerhet/sikkerhet.rss
@@ -1041,5 +1041,82 @@ kan.</p>
+
+ Some thoughts on BitCoins
+ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_thoughts_on_BitCoins.html
+ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_thoughts_on_BitCoins.html
+ Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:10:00 +0100
+
+<p>As I continue to explore
+<a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">BitCoin</a>, I've starting to wonder
+what properties the system have, and how it will be affected by laws
+and regulations here in Norway. Here are some random notes.</p>
+
+<p>One interesting thing to note is that since the transactions are
+verified using a peer to peer network, all details about a transaction
+is known to everyone. This means that if a BitCoin address has been
+published like I did with mine in my initial post about BitCoin, it is
+possible for everyone to see how many BitCoins have been transfered to
+that address. There is even a web service to look at the details for
+all transactions. There I can see that my address
+<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a>
+have received 16.06 Bitcoin, the
+<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3">1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3</a>
+address of Simon Phipps have received 181.97 BitCoin and the address
+<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt">1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt</A>
+of EFF have received 2447.38 BitCoins so far. Thank you to each and
+every one of you that donated bitcoins to support my activity. The
+fact that anyone can see how much money was transfered to a given
+address make it more obvious why the BitCoin community recommend to
+generate and hand out a new address for each transaction. I'm told
+there is no way to track which addresses belong to a given person or
+organisation without the person or organisation revealing it
+themselves, as Simon, EFF and I have done.</p>
+
+<p>In Norway, and in most other countries, there are laws and
+regulations limiting how much money one can transfer across the border
+without declaring it. There are money laundering, tax and accounting
+laws and regulations I would expect to apply to the use of BitCoin.
+If the Skolelinux foundation
+(<a href="http://linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/donations.html">SLX
+Debian Labs</a>) were to accept donations in BitCoin in addition to
+normal bank transfers like EFF is doing, how should this be accounted?
+Given that it is impossible to know if money can across the border or
+not, should everything or nothing be declared? What exchange rate
+should be used when calculating taxes? Would receivers have to pay
+income tax if the foundation were to pay Skolelinux contributors in
+BitCoin? I have no idea, but it would be interesting to know.</p>
+
+<p>For a currency to be useful and successful, it must be trusted and
+accepted by a lot of users. It must be possible to get easy access to
+the currency (as a wage or using currency exchanges), and it must be
+easy to spend it. At the moment BitCoin seem fairly easy to get
+access to, but there are very few places to spend it. I am not really
+a regular user of any of the vendor types currently accepting BitCoin,
+so I wonder when my kind of show would start accepting BitCoins. I
+would like to buy electronics, travels and subway tickets, not herbs
+and books. :) The currency is young, and this will improve over time
+if it become popular, but I suspect regular banks will start to lobby
+to get BitCoin declared illegal if it become popular. I'm sure they
+will claim it is helping fund terrorism and money laundering (which
+probably would be true, as is any currency in existence), but I
+believe the problems should be solved elsewhere and not by blaming
+currencies.</p>
+
+<p>The process of creating new BitCoins is called mining, and it is
+CPU intensive process that depend on a bit of luck as well (as one is
+competing against all the other miners currently spending CPU cycles
+to see which one get the next lump of cash. The "winner" get 50
+BitCoin when this happen. Yesterday I came across the obvious way to
+join forces to increase ones changes of getting at least some coins,
+by coordinating the work on mining BitCoins across several machines
+and people, and sharing the result if one is lucky and get the 50
+BitCoins. Check out
+<a href="http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/bitcoin-pool/">BitCoin Pool</a>
+if this sounds interesting. I have not had time to try to set up a
+machine to participate there yet.</p>
+
+
+