On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 04:04:16AM -0300, Juan Garofalo wrote:
So, what do you think is going to happen 'if' bitcoin ever threatens the 'integrity' of the financial mafia, I mean, the integrity of the financial system of the Free and Democratic World?
Based on the amount of VC money and 'speculation' in Bitcoin right now, the financial mafia have already achieved complete regulatory capture of Bitcoin through FINCEN, the 'banking secrecy act', and https://blockchain.info/address/1FfmbHfnpaZjKFvyi1okTjJJusN455paPH My bet is the NSA can track all bitcoin transactions through some sort of signals intelligence. Differential power analysis on quickly engineered SHA-256 hashing hardware that draws an aggregate power in Megawatts should be a pretty easy trick. Also see http://www.gedigitalenergy.com/SmartGrid/Sep06/Synchrophasors_Paper.pdf Extra bonus points for the cypherpunk to can figure out what sort of easter eggs lie hidden in bitcoin mining hardware and what the social networks of the companies building sha-256 asics are.