crypto gossip

WARNING: This episode has a sprinkling of strong language.

So, how about that Mike Hearn eh? One big dummy spit* took almost USD$100 off the bitcoin price and generated an incredible amount of discussion. Mike earned his place at number 89 on https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoinobituaries/. The site, that records the most significant announcements of bitcoin's death, now currently stands at 93 obituaries. Mike's farewell to the bitcoin community can be found at https://medium.com/@octskyward/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-experiment-dabb30201f7#.4hs9zlp6c .

Dale had an experience with Open Bazaar's new addition to the bitcoin market Bazaar Bay. Passions ran high. Words were said. And then more words. But, in the end, there's nothing a hug from the Lovely Corrine couldn't fix:) https://soundcloud.com/cryptogoss/episode-12-the-lovely-corrine .

Music credits (in order of appearance)

1. Domino by JimmyY https://www.propellerheads.se/s/punzFpGv

2. Bring Yo A$$ by mocean99 https://www.propellerheads.se/s/JRTljNO7

3. Booty Shaker by mocean99 https://www.propellerheads.se/s/10sLB2a1

4. and 5. Loop -for the disruptive Influence Podcast by JimmyY https://www.propellerheads.se/s/HYtGXZns

6. The Bitcoin Group by JimmyY https://www.propellerheads.se/s/8LEqCmy7

7. Mowo!-Dishko-Jamiro-Quoi? by mocean99 https://www.propellerheads.se/s/pJSQdMEW

Many thanks to our fine artists and to Propellerheads!

* What's a "dummy spit"? Listen to the show and learn some "Strine".

Trent McDonald Is a Melbourne ambassador for BitNation, a blockchain style governance system that quickly came to the refugee crisis with a solution for ID’s. He dropped in to chat with us about evolutionary economics, holacracy, polycentricity and whether or not Australian economics is an oxymoron (we think so).

BitNation is a virtual platform that enables people to notarise documents, Trent even notarised his thesis into the blockchain, we talked about the impact that would have on the office lady “don’t just give her the boot, give her an upgrade” argued Dale.

Estonia is used as an example for e-governance, this small sparsely populated country is leading the way with virtual governance, we chatted about merging jurisdictions and virtual worlds entering traditional governance.

“Distributed currencies will bring distributed governance systems. The end of geographically isolated nation states will follow.” RogerVer Twitter 2Jan2016

More about BitNation https://bitnation.co/

their refugee emergency response (was very fast) https://refugees.bitnation.co/

Read more on holacracies here http://www.holacracy.org/ and polycentricity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycentricity

The digitisation of society… catch up with Estonia https://e-estonia.com/the-story/digital-society/

there’s even an e-governance academy http://www.ega.ee/

What is a DAC (Distributed Autonomous Corporation)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_autonomous_organization

Motherboard’s article we read from: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/heres-what-the-hell-happened-in-bitcoin-in-2015

contact Trent on twitter https://twitter.com/trentjmacdonald

check out his blog: mesosoup.com

and here’s his thesis: https://blockexplorer.com/tx/10f45c22ef1dfab2a5518f383ca179a3f4724b6a72114ad955d64d1356bb71a4

Transaction 10f45c22ef1dfab2a5518f383ca179a3f4724b6a72114ad955d64d1356bb71a4

music by Shoemaker

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/laelC7fQ TheForce

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/exseYoBZ Pain-X

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/9TLqg5xG Breach Interstellar mix

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/Pcyl9Zvr FunkyMonkeyRemix

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/9zntnRfP Pux and borky

http://backfeed.cc/

This interview was recorded by Peter Robertson with Michele Seven AKA Bitcoin Belle, 17 December 2015.

** WARNING ** This program contains strong libertarian/anarchist views, including language that could offend, and adult themes, therefore listener discretion is recommended. The views expressed in this interview are not necessarily those of Peter's, he just goaded the situation :)

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At 41:40 Michele spoke of this quote:

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

CS Lewis Michele's favourite logician and theologian

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Links:

All-Star Panel: Ed Moy, Joseph Vaughn Perling, Trace Mayer, Nick Szabo, Dr. Craig Wright https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdvQTwjVmrE

as part of http://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-San-Diego/events/225369085/

Andy Greenberg article

http://www.wired.com/2015/12/bitcoins-creator-satoshi-nakamoto-is-probably-this-unknown-australian-genius/

Thank you PropellorHeads, www.propellerheads.se for their music sharing service and in particular on this episode, figurefreak, www.propellerheads.se/u/figurefreak.

The tracks for this episode are:

- Block-Rockin' Bling #BestBling (freakmix) https://www.propellerheads.se/s/NGs9GbbH

- Good Lawd! https://www.propellerheads.se/s/TPPNbmIK

- #5MC 6 (5 Minute Challenge) https://www.propellerheads.se/s/KtrnGwZu

- 8? https://www.propellerheads.se/s/LyCI02z1

- To The Ends of the Galaxy https://www.propellerheads.se/s/KqehfWUC

- Singapore --> Seoul https://www.propellerheads.se/s/1QJL3ZpV

The pants Belle referred to at the beginning of this ep are also known as DarkPurse pants, a DarkWallet for females.

Peter and Dale will be chatting with people they've got questions for and uploading random One-on-ones as they get published. Dale has an adversity to editing, hers will be quite raw. #StayTuned

This (our first one-on-one) interview was recorded by Peter Robertson with John Ferguson, the Simpleton of Safe - http://www.safecrossroads.net/ - on 1 November 2015. Apologies to our listeners, and particularly to John Ferguson, for taking so long to get this piece live, we hope you enjoy it.

John is very active in the Safe Network and has done a great deal of work in spreading the word and educating us all in how this vital project will deliver its world-changing benefits. I urge you to go to John's site, http://www.safecrossroads.net and subscribe to his podcast. Also make sure you visit the community and company links at https://forum.safenetwork.io/ and http://maidsafe.net/ respectively.

We'd like to thank JimmyY, (a.k.a. Paul Ayling), for the great music we used for this show. Be sure to follow JimmyY at www.propellerheads.se.

The tracks for this episode are:

- https://www.propellerheads.se/s/OnwPEITp Airplane Sydney

- https://www.propellerheads.se/s/ihjiG9iO UPlifting

- https://www.propellerheads.se/s/lyao6kPl DunnyHumour

Peter and Dale will be chatting with people they've got questions for and uploading random One-on-ones as they get published. Dale has an adversity to editing, hers will be quite raw. #StayTuned

#WeAreSatoshi

Well, we did ask in episode 13 what would happen if Satoshi 'came out', today we got our answer. Wired magazine published an article proposing that Australian security expert #CraigStevenWright was #SatoshiNakamoto. Within two hours of the article being published Craig's home was raided by the Australian TaxOffice - so much for Turnbull's declaration of Australia being open to innovation.

One thing is certain, Bitcoin brings events into real time for all the world to see.

People thinking about privacy might be interested in the second part of this episode, we chat to Robin and Andrew of the pixelated project about online privacy. Melbourne is humming on all matters online privacy - a subject that's totally relevant in today's world, Robin (robindoherty.com) and Andrew (both from pixelated-project.org) they share why and how people are learning about encryption.

links:

myplanetganja - catch up on the SilkRoad here: http://myplanetganja.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=11022&sid=3c233079cd4ec5adb2c8550a6073b2e6&start=930

http://www.meetup.com/cryptohack-melbourne/ - if you live in Melbourne and are interested in learning more about encryption, this is one of the best places to go.

Here's enigmail, they said it wasn't so easy, however Dale managed to install it so it's definitely do-able. Take 10minutes to learn how https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57hl4WDoPUc

Scott Ludlam is somebody standing up for people's right to encrypt - contact him here, http://scott-ludlam.greensmps.org.au/ or on twitter https://twitter.com/senatorludlam.... avoid this one https://twitter.com/scottludlamhair is a NOTScott.

Since recording this episode a few articles have cropped up about Craig, read them here:

A question worth asking that makes the most sense - is Satoshi is a team of people who have been working on Bitcoin for 20 years?

http://cointelegraph.com/news/115848/craig-wright-may-be-satoshi-nakamoto-but-is-he-the-inventor-of-bitcoin

*may, be*

http://www.wired.com/2015/12/new-clues-suggest-satoshi-suspect-craig-wright-may-be-a-hoaxer/

The NewYorker city of BitLicence even had something to say:

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/bizarre-saga-craig-wright-latest-inventor-bitcoin

Peer2Peer contracting gone a little wrong, does that make him #CraigWrong?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3358695/Suspected-Bitcoin-founder-paid-85m-worth-cybercurrency-buy-gold-software-told-good-insurance-funny-money.html

Crypto currencies call for open ledgers, and open minds... speaking of minds, there's a social media platform that's cropped up, one that encrypts - check out minds.com - and speak yours.

We'll leave you with this:

http://www.thebitcoindoco.com/images/rusatoshi.gif

Warwick, Peter and our foreign correspondent Leo in Taiwan talk about why Paypal was banned in Taiwan and the media's spin on legality of Bitcoin there. Even though they don't sound so happy about Ebay and Paypal's patents for cryptocurrency, they're kind of happy to speak about reputation systems being created on blockchain technology. "Ebay could become completely irrelevant when OpenBazaar starts" bold claim from Leo.

In the second half Dale interviews Nicholas, TJ, Steve and ParthDave who just completed a semester at Melbourne's Bitcoin Technology Center. They were totally green when they started, had minimal knowledge of cryptocurrencies and learned a lot about privacy. Hear what they have to say about their experience.

Thanks to Figurehead for your music... find him on propellerheads/se

6:24 http://www.coindesk.com/ebay-files-for-two-cryptocurrency-patents/

14:10 http://cointelegraph.com/news/115538/bitcoin-banned-in-taiwan-after-billionaire-bitcoin-ransom-attempt

20:47 students interview

Dale and Peter cover the headlines - and come to the conclusion they don't know the major difference between Coinbase's new card and Coin Jar's old(er) card. IPFS comes into the conversation as well, Peter explains what it is and how it works, then they discuss their thoughts on a panel of Bitcoin royalty in Vegas. Is Szabo Satoshi, and what difference would it make if Satoshi 'came out?' A large chunk of this interview features Paul Ayling in Bali chatting to Gary Dykstra about Hubud and how to pronounce it on Bitcoin Island. Wait, no, Bali isn't Bitcoin Island, that's a project Gary's involved in on Bali. Listen in to make sense of it all.

2:16 Shiftcard

https://www.shiftpayments.com/

https://blog.coinbase.com/2015/11/20/introducing-the-shift-card/

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/coinbase-and-shift-payments-introduce-a-visa-branded-bitcoin-debit-card-that-works-everywhere-visa-is-accepted-1448392638

IPFS

https://ipfs.io/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System

Safenetwork

http://maidsafe.net/

16:38 @BitcoinBelle panel in LasVegas http://bit.ly/1TktK4g

34:26 Paul in Bali with GaryDykstra @ Hubud co-working space

39:26 Wired: Rise and Fall of Bitcoin http://bit.ly/1YHvyrR

42:34 Hubud, in Ubud :) http://www.hubud.org/

45:16 Castlemaine http://bit.ly/1IoK2J3

45:59 Bitislands http://bitislands.com/

1:02:00 http://thedisruptiveinfluence.com/

1:02:20 propellerheads.se/JimmyY

Community Announcement: No marriages were destroyed in the making of this recording.

This episode we talk with "The Lovely Corrine" a Sex Worker / Escort who uses and promotes bitcoin to her clients. Corrine takes us into her world and talks freely about a number of aspects of her industry, social, legal, and of course, commercial. We learn about how Corrine is educating her clients in the use of bitcoin to enable private, safe transactions. We also touch on the astounding case where the major credit card companies have withdrawn their merchant services from the classified advertising publication, BackPage, which is where many sex workers publicise their services. Thank you financial establishment, for creating yet another opportunity for crypto currencies!

Oh, and for all those wondering, yes, Corrine IS lovely and she’s also smart, tech-savvy, a strong advocate for privacy, and an all-round damn nice person.

CORRECTION: In this episode, we incorrectly report than the Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull purchased shares in BitcoinGroup at a public event. This is incorrect, Mr Turnbull demonstrated a mobile application for purchasing shares and used Bitcoin Group for demonstration purposes only.

Hosts: Dale Dickens, Peter Robertson, Warwick Greville

A big thanks to Leo Treasure for editing and adding the music for the show.

00:00 The recent headlines

3:03 We talk with thelovelcorrine.com

The different services and rates Corrine provides

10:45 Are her colleagues in the biz using bitcoin?

11:35 her blog article about using Bitcoin for her clients https://aboutcorrine.wordpress.com/2015/09/09/bitcoin-for-clients/

12:03 All about advertising as an Escort and the weird legalities

http://www.backpage.com http://www.cracker.com

Tom Dart - anti-sex working sheriff who helped shut down the Visa MC support

http://www.cookcountysheriff.com/sheriffs_bio/sheriff_bio.html

18:00 Vegas ? Mostly Illegal in the USA, and legal in all states in Australia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pahrump,_Nevada

Getting around the laws and loopholes

20:30 paypal and sex workers don't get along

21:15 some bitcoin wallets blockchain.info and coincafe.com don't allow sex workers to use them.

22:18 new business name for private appointments and private money exchange for sex workers

aprivatebit.com and or myprivatebits.com

screening different by each sex worker and each country

Corrine Twitter https://twitter.com/lovelycorrine

getting paid - no merchant account

high risk are 10% to 14%

costs involved in taking money

29:50 privacy

new meta data laws in Australia started OCT 1st 2015

31:36 Craig Thompson affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Services_Union_expenses_affair

burner phones

travelling overseas - information database - governments talk to one another

43:07 Ashley Madison - what could they have done to protect their clients?

47:02 Corrine and Decentralized services

48:25 Women vs. Girls

First up this episode, Leo Treasure our Taiwan Correspondent interviews Alex Liu from MaiCoin (pronounced the same as my coin), a premier digital currency exchange and investment platform in Greater China. https://www.maicoin.com/en/about

We apologize for some audio drops during the guest interview spot, this was our first attempt at remote interviews using Google Hangouts and clearly needs some refinement.

Our guests this week are Adam Poulton (Launceston, TAS) and Lucas Cullen (Brisbane, QLD), https://www.bitcoin.asn.au/

Your hosts are: Dale Dickins, Peter Robertson and Warwick Greville www.MelbourneForexGroup.com

Credits for music

Vasile Plesca

Leo Treasure

Dyfo Jeluky by sliipii, https://www.propellerheads.se/s/aX7HTCLh

Jojysu by sliipii, https://www.propellerheads.se/s/rtC2ALC4

Rip squad by sliipii, https://www.propellerheads.se/s/FOhV5qaU

Sadroid by sliipii, https://www.propellerheads.se/s/hwruhA4G

Jyjegybo by sliipii, https://www.propellerheads.se/s/5jFu2C9O

Jugu Pyta by sliipii, https://www.propellerheads.se/s/YKaMfr64

Miiyagii by sliipii, https://www.propellerheads.se/s/q6Y8y4fu

Higuvupiju by sliipii, https://www.propellerheads.se/s/Pxhep0yb

0:00 Leo Treasure, interviews Alex Liu from www.Maicoin.com https://angel.co/maicoin

14:26 DALE intros the news topics for the show

17:23 Peter starts it off with Banks and Patents

http://www.coindesk.com/bank-of-america-cryptocurrency-wire-transfer-patent/?utm_campaign=Third-Party%20Articles&utm_content=21297110&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

http://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-files-9-patents-for-bitcoin-products/

Tesla files a patent - #opensourcedly http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you

BankOfAmerica filed a patent to wire transfers using cryptocurrency https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bank-of-america-wire-transfers-cryptocurrency/

22:25 Australia Banks clamping down on Bitcoin Companies http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-22/bitcoin-traders-claim-discrimination-by-australias-banks/6795782

Big Australian banks stun bitcoin companies by closing their accounts http://www.afr.com/technology/big-banks-cut-off-accounts-of-bitcoin-companies-in-battle-for-the-future-of-payments-20150921-gjr7hu

25:29 start our own bank ! maybe not.... talked about Launceston having a lot of bitcoin merchants

30:20 Master Chess Game - I think this is the link... https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1148538.320

34:06 beating the banks with info

BANKs are creating their own Blockchain http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/72ffd222-66be-11e5-97d0-1456a776a4f5.html#axzz3neQlGUFX

Banks can't trust other Banks. $1 billion for a real time solution for Banks.

If Banks use bitcoin as the settlement medium, transaction costs will rise.

38:32 Try to explain to a 5 year old why we still need banks, that's not so easy.

41:52 A Litecoin guy made millions that Accountants and ATO just don't know how to deal with it.

46:47 New Silk Road Drama http://motherboard.vice.com/read/fbi-is-investigating-whether-a-crooked-agent-harassed-variety-jones

Eileen Ormsby: https://twitter.com/eileenormsby

48:07 Australian Bitcoin Association Adam Poulton and Lucas Cullen on their involvement in the Bitcoin Community.

Adam https://au.linkedin.com/in/gpibitcoin

Lucas http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinBrisbane/members/45238142/

54:55 Adam and Lucas also run.... http://www.getpaidinbitcoin.com.au

1:06:20 Lucas: paying bills with the Australian service https://www.livingroomofsatoshi.com/

1:07:39 Launceston, Adam has signed up local businesses to accept bitcoin plus 2 ATM's.

CBA have ALBERT: https://www.commbank.com.au/business/merchant-services/eftpos-options/in-store/albert.html

1:09:01 Sexpo Festival using bitcoin www.sexpo.com.au Tokens provide cashless ways to get paid.

1:11:43 Dopecoin Variety Jones - Lots of drama over http://www.xbt.money/dopecoin-launches-grow-network-pegging-crypto-to-cannabis/

1:13:36 END

We go wide and deep this episode, with a strong focus on security and its lack in our world, we touch again on the blockchain scaleability issues, and we... well, of course we gossip! Come and join us!

0:00 intro once every 2 weeks for now

1:15 topics we will cover

2:30 bitpay wants a bitcoin association

8:27 why isn't there a bitcoin bank ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer

14:17 Scaling of the blockchain

https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/epicenter-bitcoin-95-adam-back-why-bitcoin-needs-a-measured-approach-to-scaling

18:13 what if the banks start their own block chain?

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/07/citibank-is-working-on-its-own-digital-currency-citicoin/

http://cointelegraph.com/news/114717/citi-develops-3-blockchains-with-own-citicoin-token

The security of the blockchain explained

https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-finance/money-and-banking/bitcoin/v/bitcoin-security-of-transaction-block-chains

24:13 reddit fires CEO and now is back again with DATT

http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/create-analysis-ninjas-data-driven-cultures/

26:53 crypto voter http://cryptovoter.com/

https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/41063-decentralizing-development-through-coin-holder-consensus/

https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/41064-pre-ann-bitcoin-scrypt-is-1st-coin-to-be-on-cryptovoter/

29:49 TOKENS: my shout cobber

http://www.e-phrase.com.au/index.php/expression_detail/Shout_my_shout/

auger is a drill - NOT - it's AUGUR

http://www.augur.net/ decentralized "prediction market" very

cool stuff !

Spells of genesys http://www.spellsofgenesis.com/

Tokens - are used by APPLE PAYMENT for the payment system

DALE will create an AUGUR prediction - Mr Robot - tv show

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Robot_(TV_series)

will MR robot mention bitcoin ? - she will create a market for that wager

34:50 OK COIN chinese exchange stops US citizens from transacting

http://www.coindesk.com/okcoin-restricts-bitcoin-deposits-us-customers/

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2015/08/12/yuan-and-you-how-chinas-devalued-currency-affects-us-consumers/31524925/

http://fortune.com/2015/08/11/why-china-devalued-yuan/

37:21 GOSSIP protocol

http://gavintech.blogspot.com.au/2015/09/how-efficient-is-bitcoins-gossip.html

40:42 Hacks of the week.........HIV clinic in London. Apple - 25,000 jailbroken phones hacked into.

42:30 wrapup and future stuff

Your hosts were Dale Dickins, Warwick Greville and Peter Robertson.

Music Credits

Musical Credits:

Pokémon by Yung Lean @averyernst032

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/Qxbjz77J

Firilahu 1.081 by contracota108

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/UQhCc1Sh

trapped at noon by contracota108

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/vhIIWazi

Run to by contracota108

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/d0anAX6Q

Four letters by mrfunk116

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/HUm0h2cz

Celestial Drifter rmx by autoban

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/7sMqfeET

Bliss Junction rmx by autoban

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/MoBnBdEV

Numavu by autoban

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/TlRudKYW

Nofane by autoban

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/YSKp3HJT

8 bit rain by vargrstorm

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/H7tyl5sR

fly by vargrstorm

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/KOQI1Ff9

001 unrabel by twbeatz

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/cXyw3Az1

In My Nike$ by averyernst032

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/X8pKffBq

Experimental by jacobckessler

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/4FD1mm45

Forever <3 #different rmxd by Djorkaeff

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/2YLB2neB

Hunger by Djorkaeff

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/mslXhuq0

Over the river by Djorkaeff

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/BoEtHROJ

Brainwave by Djorkaeff

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/E9voh2Bu