E-Currency and the future of anonymity

2011-09-08
Aj Sundar

http://www.studlife.com/forum/staff-columnists/2011/09/08/e-currency-and-the-future-of-anonymity/

How Bitcoin Shows We Don't Want a Gold Standard

Sam Seder (From the Majority Report majority.fm)
20011-09-07

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwJ1lh8-FBY

Krugman's Bitcoin Error

2011-09-10

http://presentcynosure.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/krugmans-bitcoin-error/

"Paul Krugman, the nobel prize winning economist, is not really interested in Bitcoin. The only reason he recently wrote about the new cryptocurrency in his New York Times blog is because some people have urged him to. "

Hearing entitled “Road Map to Sound Money: A Legislative Hearing on H.R. 1098 and Restoring the Dollar”

Tuesday, September 13, 2011 2:00 PM in 2128 Rayburn HOB
Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology

http://financialservices.house.gov/Calendar/EventSingle.aspx?EventID=258253

So removing legal tender status from US treasury coins and Federal reserve notes more generally would simply broaden the freedom to denominate debt contracts in whatever people want, not just dollars, not just gold, but they might want silver, they might want to say the debt is only discharged by cheques or wire transfers of dollars,
or it could be silver coins, or it could be units of foreign currency, claims denominated in consumer index bundles, or wholesale commodity bundles, (ah) or it could be Bitcoins.

Synthetic drug sales booming on Web

LARRY OAKES
2011-09-11

http://www.startribune.com/local/129596073.html?page=1&c=y


"Instead of credit cards -- which are routinely accepted at other sites -- Silk Road accepts only "Bitcoins," an untraceable digital currency available through online currency exchange services. Recently, the exchange rate was around $7 per Bitcoin. "