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1. Børge A. Roum BitCoin CryptoCurrency

   Wow, I didn't see this coming! Government issued, anonymous, digital currency! http://is.gd/TJMDjX Giving !BitCoin a run for its money? :)

   about a year ago from TweetDeck
   • Christopher Allan Webber BitCoin CryptoCurrency , Mike Linksvayer

     @mlinksva did though: "I predict that governments [...] will launch their own cryptocurrencies" http://ur1.ca/90csj

     about a year ago
   • Børge A. Roum BitCoin CryptoCurrency , Mike Linksvayer , Christopher Allan Webber

     @cwebber @mlinksva Cool! :) But anonymous too?

     about a year ago
   • Christopher Allan Webber BitCoin CryptoCurrency

     I don't really consider bitcoin to be truly anonymous in practice since it relies on signature chains; I wonder if this will work similarly

     about a year ago
   • Christopher Allan Webber BitCoin CryptoCurrency

     I think http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak taught us that "anonymous" identifiers possible to reconstruct by context

     about a year ago
   • Christopher Allan Webber BitCoin CryptoCurrency , Christopher Allan Webber

     Relatedly, if the start of the chain is an issuing by a government institution, might make traversing the chain easier

     about a year ago
   • laurelrusswurm CANADA , Canadian Politics , Mike Linksvayer , Christopher Allan Webber

     @forteller @cwebber @mlinksva !Canada's innovation http://is.gd/TJMDjX is undermined by gov't pushing "Lawful Access" #C30 !CDNpoli

     about a year ago
   • Børge A. Roum BitCoin CryptoCurrency , Christopher Allan Webber

     @cwebber True that!

     about a year ago
   • Christopher Allan Webber BitCoin CryptoCurrency

     The fact that it's handled on some "special chip" makes me think that some rather untrustworthy computing is going to be forced upon us too.

     about a year ago
   • laurelrusswurm Christopher Allan Webber

     I'm getting a 404 at http://ur1.ca/90csj :(

     about a year ago
   • Christopher Allan Webber laurelrusswurm

     My bad! http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2011/05/30/cryptocurrency-cambrian/

     about a year ago
   • laurelrusswurm Christopher Allan Webber

     @cwebber with laws in the works seeking to mandate law enforcement back doors in hardware/software, dreams of digital anonymity seem futile

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   • Børge A. Roum

     Hahaha! :P RT @1111aether: I did , read the left behind series about a decade ago.

     about a year ago
   • Christopher Allan Webber laurelrusswurm

     True, and depressing.

     about a year ago
   • Mike Linksvayer Christopher Allan Webber

     @cwebber it won't https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3797977

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   • Mike Linksvayer Christopher Allan Webber

     ps http://developer.mintchipchallenge.com/ screenshot illustration http://developer.mintchipchallenge.com/assets/images/code_sample.jpg ;-)

     about a year ago
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   • Christopher Allan Webber Mike Linksvayer

     Yow. I really, really hope this kind of ultra-dystopian currency doesn't get enforced upon *any* nation-state.

     about a year ago
   • Christopher Allan Webber Mike Linksvayer

     @mlinksva Worst pseudocode ever. #demodemodemodemodemo

     about a year ago