To be blunt, in the interview you seem eager to cooperate with law enforcement in identifying bitcoin users. [/quote]

Way too eager! What attracted me to Bitcoin was its capacity for escaping from government regulation of private financial transactions. By saying that you are working with government to get the Bitcoin exchanges regulated and to make them comply with know-your-customer laws and anti-money-laundering laws you are embracing some of the same anti-privacy policies that make the government/banking cartel so odious to begin with. You seem to be selling out so you can gain wider acceptance from the mainstream. If Bitcoin exchanges will become just like other bureaucratic financial institutions, it makes me a lot less enthusiastic about Bitcoin.

I noticed a tone of resistance when it was first to suggested to see how chaumian blinding could be worked into bitcoin, icbw.

If it is another layer that works fine also. But bitcoin will die if bitcoin2.0 includes blind transaction signing at its core.

Smells like another Tor, black op. project gone feral.

bitcoin supporter here.

imo the cbs story was the best pr move bitcoin could make to increase legitimacy and push through the silk road story.  if you want BTC to keep growing, that was the right move.  sacrifices have to be made.  if you want to be liberty $, fight the man and give the finger.  if you want to compete and grow, cooperate and form legitimate alliances.  that's all, my 0.02.

BTC can do more good from the 'inside' than the 'outside'.  can't wait to see where this goes.

Yes, I too applaud Jeff's effort to distance Bitcoin from some dubious users (Silk Road), and to emphasize its openness and the importance for the community to comply with financial regulations.

No matter how mis-guided those regulations maybe?

Would you be saying the same thing if you lived in N. Korea, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Yemen .... ?

You guys are starting sound like robots.

Arstechnica just put up their article.  This is big.  Haven't even read it yet.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/bitcoin-inside-the-encrypted-peer-to-peer-currency.ars

A fair article, but I've seen better written ones on Ars.

Alexa still thinks that http://ploum.net (my website) is a Dutch camping website. I own the domain since at least 2008 (might be 2007) and it was free at that time. I don't even remotely understand how it is possible.

But I admit that there might be a problem somewhere with my domain as it stays at PR 3 in Google, despite having a lot of backlinks and despite the fact that my previous URL (which now redirect to ploum.net) was PR 6 at the time of the switch.

Has this one been posted yet?  I can't find it if it has...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/08/us-financial-bitcoins-idUSTRE7573T320110608