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Ripple and the Purpose of Money
https://ripple.com/blog/ripple-and-the-purpose-of-money/
Continue reading...Open-Transactions Server Appliance – SUSE Gallery
Monday, March 25, 2013
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http://susestudio.com/a/jrPkHz/open-transactions-server-appliance
Continue reading...SXSW: How Mobile Devices Are Changing Africa
Sunday, March 10, 2013
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http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/13/03/09/1722251/sxsw-how-mobile-devices-are-changing-africa
Continue reading...Install Open-Transactions on Ubuntu with pre-build Packages
Thursday, March 7, 2013
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http://www.reddit.com/r/Agorism/comments/19p6oa/how_to_issue_your_own_currency_using/
Continue reading...Digital Cash HOWTO: Issue your own currency using Open-Transactions
Thursday, March 7, 2013
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http://www.reddit.com/r/Agorism/comments/19p6oa/how_to_issue_your_own_currency_using/
Continue reading...Financial deepening and currency internationalization, the bitcoin edition
Thursday, March 7, 2013
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http://jpkoning.blogspot.ch/2013/02/financial-deepening-and-currency.html Eichengreen points out that prior to World War I the dollar played a negligible role relative to the pound sterling in world markets, but by the mid 1920s it was the dominant unit for invoicing payments and denominating bonds. Eichengreen’s theory is that the US dollar became the world’s go-to currency because of the [...]
Continue reading...Moneyness: Orphaned currency, the odd case of Somali shillings
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
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http://jpkoning.blogspot.ch/2013/03/orphaned-currency-odd-case-of-somali.html Despite being easily differentiable, Somalians willingly accepted counterfeit 1000 and 500 shilling notes. Not only did they accept them, they considered them to be fungible with real 1000s and 500s. In other words, the market refused to place a discount on the fakes.
Continue reading...Modern economies are somewhere between barter and monetary
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
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http://jpkoning.blogspot.ch/2013/02/modern-economies-are-somewhere-between.html
Continue reading...BitMint: Money (Some type of Digital Cash Sytem?)
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
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http://www.bitmint.com/
Continue reading...New Open Transactions Forum!
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
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http://opentransactionsforum.com/forum/
Continue reading...Reality Exploit Roundtable EP018: Anti Drone Fashions, Gov & IT fight Online “Radicalization”, Reckless and Smart on Wall Street, The Anonymity Fantasy vs. The Cashless Utopia Mirage
Friday, March 1, 2013
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Show: Reality Exploit Roundtable Episode: 18 Date: Mar 01, 2013 Topics: Anti Drone Fashions, Gov & IT fight Online "Radicalization", Reckless and Smart on Wall Street, The Anonymity Fantasy vs. The Cashless Utopia Mirage Moderator: Hiro Panelists: Voodoo, Wise-Guy, Smuggler, Plato Tags: Drones, Economics, CamOver, Bitcoin, Digital Cash, Wall Street Intro music by Sun Araw [...]
Continue reading...Ripple: Getting Started Guide
Thursday, February 28, 2013
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http://bitcoinmagazine.com/ripple-getting-started-guide/
Continue reading...Introducing Ripple
Thursday, February 28, 2013
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http://bitcoinmagazine.com/introducing-ripple/ Up until now Bitcoin has been, by far, the most powerful contender in the cryptocurrency market. Other alternative coins, such as Namecoin, Solidcoin and Litecoin, have aris2en to offer various modifications on the core Bitcoin concept. Now, that may finally change with decentralized cryptocurrency’s new kid on the block: Ripple.
Continue reading...The Cashless Utopia Mirage – Forbes
Monday, February 25, 2013
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/02/24/the-cashless-utopia-mirage/ The persistent war on cash has more to do with moralistic society than it does with civil society as Wolman claims. With ultimate tracking capabilities, how does Wolman decide when a government’s “right” becomes a wrong? Does he defend the victimless crime laws against online gambling and consensual sex for money between adults? Does [...]
Continue reading...Bitcoin Conference: Bitcoin 2013: The Future of Payments, San Jose, CA
Saturday, February 23, 2013
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http://www.bitcoin2013.com/
Continue reading...1999 Flashback: Virtual Money, Privacy, and the Internet: Events: The Independent Institute
Thursday, February 21, 2013
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http://www.independent.org/events/transcript.asp?id=37
Continue reading...France Ratchets Up the War on Cash
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
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http://bastiat.mises.org/2013/02/france-ratchets-up-the-war-on-cash/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: MisesBlog (Mises Economics Blog)
Continue reading...Ripple Questions on Stack Exchange
Monday, February 11, 2013
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http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/ripple
Continue reading...Is Ripple a Bitcoin Killer or Complementer? Founder of Mt Gox will launch Ripple
Friday, February 8, 2013
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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=128413.msg1511122#msg1511122
Continue reading...Schneier on Security: Tide Detergent Becomes Drug Currency
Friday, February 8, 2013
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http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/02/tide_becomes_dr.html
Continue reading...Bitcoin: “Colored Coins” the Next Bitcoin Related Revolution?
Friday, February 8, 2013
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https://github.com/killerstorm/colored-coin-tools/blob/master/colors.md
Continue reading...Bitcoin: ArmoryX (colored coins): issue and trade private currencies/stocks/bonds/etc
Friday, February 8, 2013
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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=106373.0
Continue reading...Bitcoin: Colored coins vs. Namecoin
Friday, February 8, 2013
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http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/184fji/colored_coins_vs_namecoin/
Continue reading...Ten Thousand Cents
Friday, February 8, 2013
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http://www.tenthousandcents.com/top.html
Continue reading...Amazon Launches Its Own Currency to Make It Easier to Spend on the Kindle
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
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http://www.wired.com/business/2013/02/amazon-coins-currency/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: wired/index (Wired: Top Stories)
Continue reading...Monetas: Open-Transactions Financial Crypto Gone Wild
Thursday, December 6, 2012
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http://monetas.net/
Continue reading...‘Liberty Dollar’ Creator Awaits His Fate Behind Bars
Thursday, December 6, 2012
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/us/liberty-dollar-creator-awaits-his-fate-behind-bars.html?hp&gwh=&_r=2&
Continue reading...jgarzik/smartcoin – Distributed smart property software
Thursday, December 6, 2012
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https://github.com/jgarzik/smartcoin
Continue reading...Banking: How does the Open Bank Project compare with Open Transactions? – Quora
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
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http://www.quora.com/Banking-1/How-does-the-Open-Bank-Project-compare-with-Open-Transactions
Continue reading...Friendly competition for proponents of currency, trading, reputation, or acknowledgement systems
Friday, July 13, 2012
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https://groups.google.com/forum/?_escaped_fragment_=msg/rippleusers/NYiDOsNMwc4/zYNxYlZOHZoJ#!msg/rippleusers/NYiDOsNMwc4/zYNxYlZOHZoJ
Continue reading...Open-Transactions: examples using the new high-level API and command-line
Friday, July 6, 2012
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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=86710.msg1003087#msg1003087
Continue reading...Unofficial Open Transactions and Moneychanger Builds by da2ce7 (Cameron)!
Thursday, May 24, 2012
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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=77301.0
Continue reading...MAVEPAY: a new lightweight payment scheme for peer to peer currency networks
Thursday, May 24, 2012
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http://bitslog.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/mavepay-a-new-lightweight-payment-scheme-for-peer-to-peer-currency-networks/
Continue reading...Eurozine – Debt: The first five thousand years
Monday, March 19, 2012
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http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-08-20-graeber-en.html
Continue reading...Bitcoin: Crypto-Anarchism and the Digital Money Revolution
Friday, March 16, 2012
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http://www.policymic.com/articles/4980/bitcoin-crypto-anarchism-and-the-digital-money-revolution/category_list
Continue reading...BitcoinMoney.com: New FATF AML Recommendations And Bitcoin
Sunday, February 19, 2012
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New FATF AML Recommendations And Bitcoin The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an global inter-governmental body, updated its anti-money laundering (AML) recommendations (PDF) (last updated 2003) and includes some wording that is relevant to Bitcoin: From the glossary: Funds:The term funds refers to assets of every kind, whether corporeal or incorporeal, tangible or intangible, movable or immovable, [...]
Continue reading...Pecunix & PXGold & Siddley Inc. Unveils a New Anonymous Digital Currency: Voucher-Safe.Com
Thursday, February 16, 2012
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http://voices.yahoo.com/siddley-inc-unveils-anonymous-digital-currency-7420634.html
Continue reading...Bitcoin Tradehill & Paxum Eats $100K Fraud. Prolly same guys that scammed DMT.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/02/another-bitcoin-exchange-bites-the-dust/
Continue reading...CJDNS: A New Vision
Friday, February 3, 2012
https://raw.github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/master/rfcs/Whitepaper.md ## A New vision Imagine an Internet where every packet is cryptographically protected from source to destination against espionage and forgery, getting an IP address is as simple as generating a cryptographic key, core routers move data without a single memory look up, and DDoS is a term read about in history books. The [...]
Continue reading...Is Facebook a Central Bank, Too?
Monday, January 23, 2012
http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2012/01/20/is-facebook-a-central-bank-too/
Continue reading...Open Transactions on Freecode!
Saturday, December 31, 2011
http://freecode.com/projects/open-transactions
Continue reading...The online currency wars are coming
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
http://www.kernelmag.com/yiannopoulos/2011/12/the-online-currency-wars-are-coming/
Continue reading...My Wallet – Bitcoins Made Easy – Bitcoin Webwallet????
Friday, December 23, 2011
http://blockchain.info/wallet
Continue reading...Bitcoin moves into the mainstream
Friday, December 23, 2011
http://thedailyattack.com/2011/12/22/bitcoin-moves-into-the-mainstream/
Continue reading...Bitcoin Block Explorer – Most recently mined blocks in the bitcoin block chain
Friday, December 23, 2011
http://blockchain.info/
Continue reading...[gsc] Open-Transactions: Smart Contracts!! plus: much more…
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.finance.gold-silver-crypto/23669 [gsc] Open-Transactions: Smart Contracts!! plus: much more... Fellow Traveler <f3llowtraveler@...> 2011-12-14 08:28:57 GMT IN THIS ISSUE: -- The magic of SMART CONTRACTS... -- Scriptable clauses -- Stashed funds -- Hooks -- RUN->CLAUSE->NOW! -- Callbacks [...]
Continue reading...Fred Wilson: P2P Currency An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Friday, December 2, 2011
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/11/bitcoin.html
Continue reading...Bitcoin – version 0.5.0 released
Friday, December 2, 2011
http://bitcoin.org/releases/2011/11/21/v0.5.0.html
Continue reading...Wired: The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin
Friday, December 2, 2011
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/11/mf_bitcoin/all
Continue reading...Bits, Bytes, And Balance Sheets By Walter Bigelow Wriston
Monday, October 3, 2011
http://www.policyarchive.org/handle/10207/bitstreams/12294.pdf
Continue reading...David Chaum List of Articles
Thursday, September 15, 2011
http://www.chaum.com/articles/list_of_articles.htm
Continue reading...An Efficient and Practical Distributed Currency
Monday, August 29, 2011
https://billstclair.com/blog/an_efficient_and_practical_distributed_currency.html
Continue reading...Complementary Currency Directory
Friday, June 24, 2011
http://complementarycurrency.freebase.com/
Continue reading...Cypherpunkd Episode 042: “Bitcoin Mania 4″ – The Social, Economic and Political Disruptive Technology of Bitcoin with Austrian School Economist Jon Matonis
Friday, June 17, 2011
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Jon Matonis, an Austrian School Economist and author of The Monetary Future Blog joins us for a chat with Hiro on the topics of “The Social, Economic and Political Disruptive Technology of Bitcoin”. Jon gives us some of his background and history relating to digital currencies and issues surrounding the New Monetary Future. We spin [...]
Continue reading...Digital Currency — The Libertarian Future? – John Stossel
Friday, June 3, 2011
http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/stossel/blog/2011/06/02/digital-currency-libertarian-future-0
Continue reading...Cypherpunkd Episode 041: “What is Money?” – Working on or Using new Digital Cash and Value Transfer Systems? A Must Listen. – Frederick Bastiat
Monday, May 30, 2011
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A stunning treaty on “What is Money” by Frederick Bastiat. From wikipedia: “Bastiat was the author of many works on economics and political economy, generally characterized by their clear organization, forceful argumentation, and acerbic wit. Economist Murray Rothbard wrote that “Bastiat was indeed a lucid and superb writer, whose brilliant and witty essays and fables [...]
Continue reading...Open-Transactions URI Format and Browser Integration Use Cases
Saturday, May 28, 2011
https://github.com/FellowTraveler/Open-Transactions/wiki/OTTP-URI-Format
Continue reading...PayPal Sues Google Over Mobile Payment Secrets
Friday, May 27, 2011
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-26/paypal-sues-google-over-trade-secret-theft-claims.html
Continue reading...Can Ripple credit routing develop into an actual currency?
Thursday, May 26, 2011
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/can-ripple-credit-routing-develop-into-an-actual-currency/2011/05/26
Continue reading...Chinese inmates forced to “farm gold” online
Thursday, May 26, 2011
http://thenextweb.com/asia/2011/05/26/chinese-inmates-forced-to-farm-gold-online/ Chinese inmates in Jixi labor camp are reportedly forced to slay demons, battle goblins and cast spells in online games to farm credits for prison guards who trade virtual currencies for real money. A former prison guard turned inmate, told The Guardian that the operation was even more lucrative than the physical labor that [...]
Continue reading...Google Wallet: the End of Anonymous Shopping (For the Idiots that Use It)
Thursday, May 26, 2011
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/26/2022208/Google-Wallet-the-End-of-Anonymous-Shopping?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: Slashdot/slashdot (Slashdot)
Continue reading...Cypherpunkd Episode 038: “Voucher-Safe P2P Digital Cash – Problems it Solves, Problems it does Not” – Justin of Voucher-Safe
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
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Justin from Voucher-Safe is back to discuss some Problems that Voucher-Safe is out to Solve, and some things that it has no interest in solving, namely the “better money” problem. Listen in to hear what Justin has to say about this. Also discussed are some early history of pre-internet days when the feds cracked down [...]
Continue reading...Cypherpunkd Episode 037: “Digital Cash and the Regulators” – J. Orlin Grabbe
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
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Another piece from J. Orlin Grabbe on Digital Cash and the Regulators. Seigniorage, or Digital Cash issued by banks are actually Interest Free Loans to the Bank Issuers from the Cash holders? Interesting topics covered, and most issues still relevant today. One thing for sure, you don’t want to do this stuff in the USA. [...]
Continue reading...Why did Apple Smash Bitcoin App in Lightspeed? “Square’s Disruptive New iPad Payments Service Will Replace Cash Registers”
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/23/squares-disruptive-new-ipad-payments-service-will-replace-cash-registers/
Continue reading...Re: Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper – Hal Finney, 2008
Friday, May 20, 2011
http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg09975.html I also do think that there is potential value in a form of unforgeable token whose production rate is predictable and can’t be influenced by corrupt parties. This would be more analogous to gold than to fiat currencies. Nick Szabo wrote many years ago about what he called “bit gold”[1] and this could be [...]
Continue reading...Cypherpunkd Episode 034: “Untraceable Digital Cash, Information Markets and Blacknet” – Timothy C. May
Thursday, May 19, 2011
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Another Cypherpunk classic by Tim May. One of the most important points: “No Middle Ground”. “Digital Cash IS Speech” Untraceable Digital Cash, Information Markets and Blacknet” Timothy C. May Sections: 1. Introduction 2. Anonymous Digital Cash 3. Is Digital Cash Really Coming? 4. The Technology is Here 5. “Anyone a Mint” 6. Implications of Anyone [...]
Continue reading...Lucre Digital Cash Pioneer Ben Laurie Yawns Over Bitcoin, Tells Everyone To Move Along, Nothing to See Here…
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
http://www.links.org/?p=1164&cpage=1#comment-415051
Continue reading...Cypherpunkd Episode 032: “The World Financial Police Attack Anonymity” – J. Orlin Grabbe
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
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Orlin: “The world financial police are determined to eliminate all opportunity for individual financial privacy and anonymity. Their coordinated efforts to make possible the tracking of every financial transaction represent a direct fascistic attack on human freedom. And there is nothing secret about what they are doing. Their campaign is as overt as the war [...]
Continue reading...Cypherpunkd Episode 031: “The Internet and the End of Monetary Sovereignty” – Bill Frezza
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
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Bill Frezza: “Perhaps, for the first time, sovereign individuals will have the tools to construct a practical realization of laissez-faire capitalism without having to resort to a problematic social contract with an all-powerful state to create the conditions necessary to sustain a stable political economy. At the root of this system will be new monetary [...]
Continue reading...Cypherpunkd Episode 028: “Truledger: An Anonymous Digitally Signed General Ledger and Trading System” – Intro and Walkthrough – Bill St. Clair
Thursday, May 12, 2011
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Bill St. Claire of the great http://billstclair.com/blog/ and author of the Truledger Anonymous Digitally Signed General Ledger and Trading System joins us for an Intro to the System and a walkthrough where we cover many aspect of the system. We discuss the client software, the servers. Digital Signatures, Coupons, destruction of account history. Lisp, multiplatform [...]
Continue reading...With The Napster of Banking Round The Corner, Bring Out Your Popcorn – Falkvinge on Infopolicy
Thursday, May 12, 2011
http://falkvinge.net/2011/05/11/with-the-napster-of-banking-round-the-corner-bring-out-your-popcorn Just as BitTorrent made the copyright industry obsolete in the blink of an eye, these stand to make banks obsolete. These, or their successor, will hit a tipping point as soon as somebody makes it easy enough to use. The technology is there, the use case is there — there’s certainly no shortage of [...]
Continue reading...DigitalCash.org: Digital Cash Resources
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
http://digitalcash.org/
Continue reading...Cypherpunkd Episode 024: The Coming War on Money: “P2P Digital Currency: The Long Road Ahead for FinCEN (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network)” – Mark Herpel
Thursday, May 5, 2011
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A reading of a piece by Mark Herpel. Don’t confuse this with hysterics on the part of the author. Mark wrote this piece without commentary, only matter of fact, and only addressing FinCEN “concerns”. The issues raised are ones of Mega-Political, paradigm changing scope, clearly to be the single most Disruptive Technology seen to date. [...]
Continue reading...Cypherpunkd Episode 023: “Voucher-Safe – Secure P2P Digital Cash and Infrastructure” – Justin
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
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Justin tells us that Voucher-Safe has entered the building. Listen in and get a great overview of what Voucher-Safe brings to the Second-Realm and mucho info on the infrastructure. Operating in a P2P via Jabber/XMPP protocol from clients to servers to an entire infrastructure all the way to the actual Issuers of the assets. It [...]
Continue reading...The BtcFn Project: Bitcoin over Freenet Secure Transport for Virtual Currency
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
https://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=7181.0
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