“I created this website so that Bitcoin enthusiasts can buy or sell cars in Bitcoin. If you want to sell your car for Bitcoin, post an ad on this website. It is totally free, and registration is very simple.”
“The value of a bitcoin is tied to the value of the transactions that will eventually take place in the Bitcoin economy, because a bitcoin is essentially the right to engage in transactions with other people who own bitcoins. The theory as to why we will eventually see a large volume of transactions is that it will be cheaper to transact on the ledger than it will be to transact off the ledger. If it really is cheaper to operate in the (theoretically) friction-free Bitcoin economy, there is indeed a good reason to use them in lieu of conventional currency. Regardless of what happens to Bitcoin, the idea of ledger-based money is going to be attractive to a lot of people.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/agenda/365282/thoughts-bitcoin-reihan-salam
“Where bitcoin pioneered four new technologies, proving that a distributed currency could work at scale, it has now spawned a growing ecosystem of rapid innovation that is re-combining these core inventions. The distributed blockchain, consensus through proof-of-work/stake, and P2P networking will continue to evolve and astound us long after crypto-currencies become accepted and mainstream.”
http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/06/the-crypto-currency-ecosystem.html
“Safeplug is essentially Linux-based hardware packaging for Tor, which is slightly-hard-to-use software for people who want to surf the web anonymously. Tor does this using encryption and by bouncing everyone’s traffic around other users’ connections, making it almost – but not always — impossible to see who’s visiting which page. Safeplug also automatically blocks ads. ‘We’re huge fans of Tor and are very good at building these small appliances,’ Pogoplug CEO Dan Putterman told me, explaining that Safeplug just needs to be plugged into the user’s router. ‘It takes 60 seconds to install, then all of your in-home internet access becomes completely anonymized.'”
http://gigaom.com/2013/11/21/say-hello-to-safeplug-pogoplugs-49-tor-in-a-box-for-anonymous-surfing/
“The way director Alex Winter sees it, Napster, WikiLeaks and Bitcoin are just threads in the same yarn – a story of a deep divide growing between the internet that everyone can see and a more mysterious web where peer-to-peer pioneers rule. ‘With Downloaded I was less interested in the implications of music or file-sharing… and more concerned with what peer-to-peer architecture meant in terms of creating global community, which could be used for good or ill,’ Winter told WIRED. ‘What’s going on with [Bitcoin] is just the evolution of peer-to-peer architecture – this is just an outgrowth of the story I started to tell with Napster.'”
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/11/bitcoin-documentary/
“For those wary of Bitcoin’s pedigree, it may comfort them to know that it emerged directly from a culture of programmers who champion open-source software (also known as free software) like Sir Tim-Berners Lee, who invented the World Wide Web. The ‘shadowy hacker’ label that is sometimes ascribed to Satoshi Nakamoto is fair in some ways because that’s the way he intended it. Satoshi thus embodies all the things that the original Cypherpunks were trying so hard to impress upon us: our fundamental right to privacy. It is Bitcoin’s capacity to protect some aspects of our privacy from GCHQ and the NSA that makes it valuable – to a degree. But it’s more than that.”
http://www.cybersalon.org/cypherpunk/
“Everyone knows the first person who walked on the moon. Lots of people know the second. But whoever remembers the third? As the third largest cryptocurrency in the world, peercoin (also know as Peer-to-Peer Coin or PPCoin) is trying to bolster its reputation. It isn’t doing too badly having just been accepted as an official currency by new Canadian exchange Vault of Satoshi. A local face-to-face peercoin exchange is also launching, and efforts are been made to get specialist event organizers to use peercoin as their official currency.”
http://www.coindesk.com/peercoin-vault-of-satoshi-deal/
“A group of researchers from Johns Hopkins are suggesting its cryptographic implementation could help solve the ‘certificate problem’ for ordinary users. Apart from whether or not they might be universally compromised by the spooks, a problem with Public Key Infrastructure – PKI – certificates is that they depend on users’ trust of the certification authority (CA) that sits at the top of the trust hierarchy. As we know, however, from incidents such as the DigiNotar hack, any loss of trust is fatal to a CA. Bitcoin did away with centralised trust in favour of its own cryptographic model, relying instead on a distributed transaction ledger.”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/03/crypto_boffins_propose_getting_rid_of_cas/
“The inventor of the 3D-printed gun, Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed, is now raising money for a new crypto-anarchist venture that will help people anywhere in the world keep their wealth and finances private. The project is called Dark Wallet, an anonymous easy-to-use Bitcoin wallet. The wallet will be a discreet browser plugin for Chrome or Firefox that will make the public Bitcoin log less traceable. While names may never be a used in a Bitcoin transaction, certain metadata is traceable through an open source log which could lead to identifying the user. Dark Wallet would eliminate the reliability of the public metadata.”
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/10/cody-wilson-bitcoin-dark-wallet-defense.html
“On its official blog, Google announced the launch of Project Shield, to help protect websites from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, the Digital Attack Map, which tracks DDoS attcks in realtime, so they can be exposed as they happen, and uProxy, a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that works like an easily shared personalized virtual private network (VPN) to allow people living under controlling regimes to surf the Web via connections to users elsewhere, evading censorship and surveillance. Given the criticism that Google has come under for collaborating with the NSA and other elements of the U.S. government, it’s good to see them doing something for the good guys.”
http://reason.com/blog/2013/10/22/google-launches-tools-for-evading-govern