Hal Finney wrote:
> > * Spammer botnets could burn through pay-per-send email filters
> > trivially
> If POW tokens do become useful, and especially if they become money,
> machines will no longer sit idle. Users will expect their computers to
> be earning them money (assuming the reward is great
Bill Frantz writes:
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| Some people tell me that the 0wned machines are among the most
| secure on the network because botnet operators work hard to
| keep others from compromising "their" machines. I could see the
| operators moving toward being legitimate security firms,
|
h...@finney.org ("Hal Finney") on Saturday, January 24, 2009 wrote:
>Countermeasures by botnet operators would include moderating their take,
>perhaps only stealing 10% of the productive capacity of invaded computers,
>so that their owners would be unlikely to notice. This kind of thinking
>quickl
Jonathan Thornburg writes:
> In the modern world, no major government wants to allow untracable
> international financial transactions above some fairly modest size
> thresholds. (The usual catch-phrases are things like "laundering
> drug money", "tax evasion", and/or "financing terrorist groups".
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto wrote:
[[various possible uses of Bitcoin et al]]
> Once it gets bootstrapped, there are so many
> applications if you could effortlessly pay a few cents to a
> website as easily as dropping coins in a vending machine.
In the modern world, no major governmen
> Dustin D. Trammell wrote:
> > Satoshi Nakamoto wrote:
> > You know, I think there were a lot more people interested in the 90's,
> > but after more than a decade of failed Trusted Third Party based systems
> > (Digicash, etc), they see it as a lost cause. I hope they can make the
> > distinction
Satoshi Nakamoto writes:
> Announcing the first release of Bitcoin, a new electronic cash
> system that uses a peer-to-peer network to prevent double-spending.
> It's completely decentralized with no server or central authority.
>
> See bitcoin.org for screenshots.
>
> Download link:
> http://downl
Announcing the first release of Bitcoin, a new electronic cash
system that uses a peer-to-peer network to prevent double-spending.
It's completely decentralized with no server or central authority.
See bitcoin.org for screenshots.
Download link:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/bitcoin/bitcoin-0.
