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Can anyone check the legitimacy of tidebitpros.vip ? It’s an offshore brokerage from Hong Kong asking me to pay taxes with digital currency to an address they provide before I could withdraw. [removed]

Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco Announces National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco announced today the creation of a National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET), to tackle complex investigations and prosecutions of criminal misuses of cryptocurrency, particularly crimes committed by virtual currency exchanges, mixing and tumbling services, and money laundering infrastructure actors. Under the supervision of Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite Jr., the NCET will combine s the expertise of the Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section (MLARS), Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) and other sections in the division, with experts detailed from U.S. Attorneys’ Offices. The team will also assist in tracing and recovery of assets lost to fraud and extortion, including cryptocurrency payments to ransomware groups. “Today we are launching the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team to draw on the Department’s cyber and money laundering expertise to strengthen our capacity to dismantle the financial entities that enable criminal actors to flourish — and quite frankly to profit — from abusing cryptocurrency platforms” said Deputy Attorney General Monaco. “As the technology advances, so too must the Department evolve with it so that we’re poised to root out abuse on these platforms and ensure user confidence in these systems.” “The Criminal Division is already an established leader in investigating and prosecuting the criminal misuse of cryptocurrency,” said Assistant Attorney General Polite. “The creation of this team will build on this leadership by combining and coordinating expertise across the Division in this continuously evolving field to investigate and prosecute the fraudulent misuse, illegal laundering, and other criminal activities involving cryptocurrencies.” The head of the NCET will report to the Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal

John McAfee SwiftMail: Using Blockchain Technology for Email Verification >**[John McAfee SwiftMail: Using Blockchain Technology for Email Verification](http://www.newsbtc.com/2015/08/19/john-mcafee-swiftmail-using-blockchain-technology-for-email-verification/)** > >August 19, 2015 | Sarah Jenn > >John McAfee SwiftMail is a free, decentralized, peer-to-peer, proof-of-work, encrypted mail system that uses blockchain technology to conduct email verification. The software uses 0.001 SwiftCoin to send mail and attachments to any device running Android, Windows or Ubuntu. The mail recipient will send back 0.001 SwiftCoin to reply. > >SwiftCoin is a free-floating, market based, decentralized, peer-to-peer, proprietary proof-of-work digital currency and transaction network developed by Daniel Bruno, CMT. This shares a lot of similarities to bitcoin and its distributed public ledger. > >**Blockchain Technology and Email** > >In addition, SwiftCoin can be freely bought and sold for Bitcoin and the currencies of all countries. This cryptocurrency’s blockchain technology confirms all mail and payment transactions without any centralized approval or manual intervention. > >The SwiftMail address is similar to the bitcoin wallet address, except that it stores messages rather than funds or transactions. Using the John McAfee SwiftMail, you can be able to confirm whether the person who sent the email to you is a trusted identity or not. > >This application can generate a lot of interest especially since spam mail has continued to circulate online, with some strategies linking the email to seemingly credible sources. This has allowed malware or hacking attacks to proliferate, leading to information or funds being stolen. [Malicious emails have also been notorious for spreading bitcoin ransomware](http://www.newsbtc.com/2015/07/21/uk-cybersecurity-watchdog-warns-of-bitcoin-ransomware-attacks/), wherein the perpetrators demand payment through the cryptocurrency to avoid being tracked

Battlecoin [BCX]: a new (and ambitious) game changer in the world of cryptocurrency - Interview with JackofAll "When it gets too hard for mortals to generate 50BTC, new users could get some coins to play with right away." - Satoshi Nakamoto, 2010 Time goes faster when one talks about IT but, when talking about cryptocurrencies, time goes faster yet. How long have passed since we’ve heard of mythic characters from the beginning of cypherpunk era – like John Gilmore, Eric Hughes and Tim May – and those from the early days of digital currency of Wei Dai, Satoshi Nakamoto (real or not, it doesn't matter) and others, passing by the current Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies whales – that now are experts or well established entrepreneurs – to us, the Fourth Generation? Twenty-two years. However, if we consider that the real deal has only begun on 2009 with Satoshi’s Genesis Block, then the perspective of the quantic leaps we are giving become clearer. 2009 - Satoshi Nakamoto deployed tools and strategy to people regain control 2011 - FPGA Bitcoin Miners appear. Regular GPU miners start to struggle more and more for Bitcoins 2013 - ASIC miners enters the market, and an official Bitcoin mining industry arises, taking small miners – regular people – completely out of the Bitcoin mines, forcing them to mine – and to create – many different altcoins with many different purposes. 2014 - Now, five years after Bitcoin Golden Dawn and almost four years after the white ninja Satoshi’s disappearance, another cryptowarrior arises on battlefield to give (hash) power back to the people. Was Satoshi foreseeing what was about to come? However, this time, not so philanthropically… Meet JackofAll, Head Developer of Battlecoin [BCX]. ********************* Andre Torres: Jack, are you there? JackofAll: Yes. AT: Thanks for talking to Cryptonerd.co and also to Criptonauta.net (in Portuguese and Spanish). Shall we begin? JoA: Yes. A

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Central Bank / Government Kansas City Shuffle? Tell me I'm an idiot. I actually posted this as comments to a couple people in random other threads, but the more I think about it, the more I really want to hear that I'm just a paranoid idiot. This is my theory and darkest nightmare: **TL;DR; Banks buy coins and make us rich, Governments switch to Bitcoin and leave us holding fiat. Central Banks close Mints, open data centers and take control of the blockchain. checkmate, return to status quo.** Government let enough bitcoins spread out in to the hands of people who see them as speculative assets, or don't know what they are. By auditing the blockchain they can see the distribution of wealth in wallets, and combined with other surveillance technology, they can figure out when the wealth has spread to enough weak hands (speculators). The Big Banks then step in and drive the price out Bitcoin of the solar system. Everyone will think it's a big bubble and the sell off from those speculative holders will be over 95% since everyone will think they just hit the lottery and will assume they can just buy back in cheap when the crash comes after. The massive dump of fiat on everyone and the sudden reduction in Bitcoin supply coincides with a drop in the value of the USD and another economic that requires the immediate attention of Governments. BTC price remains high as Big Banks hold their coins and people desperately try to buy anything that might hold value. The Governments will acknowledge the failure of the fiat currency system and hail the "beginning" of the digital currency age with the signing of the Digital Currency Act of 2016, reinventing the Fed and the US Mint as the arbiters of the Bitcoin universal currency and outlawing all digital currencies in order as threats to economic stability (basically just put them in the same category as counterfeits). Massive server farms for the Fed will come online and connect to the Bitcoin net

Your Opinion on what I see as Myopia in the Digital Currency phenomenon and how to deal with it. I've been studying and exploring options in Bitcoins and Litecoins for the pass two weeks along with all the mainstream hype about it. I'm much more interested in the "revolutionary" aspect of its potential than anything else. What I've determined in my research is that people with thousands of dollars of disposable income can make some spending money by mining while there is a lot of speculating going on as far as the big push into Digital Coins. How is that different than the same old system of money before Digital Currency? So if all Digital Currency does is change the technical how of the way money is generated and spent - that's not changing anything important for society. I'm seeing quite a bit of myopia with people getting excited to be able to mine their own money, needing thousands of dollars of equipment to be profitable, buying Lamborghinis and whatever else, and good old speculating driving volatility in the exchange markets. Where's the social change, betterment, and revolution? I understand that cryptocurrency advocates are associated with the supposed free market, lazifaire capitalist, Ayn Rand schools of thought but what about those of us who are invested in society, people, nature, and not money itself or self-centered isolated gain? I don't want spending money for high end video cards or to pay off my gaming rig by lending it out as a part time mining rig - I want a long term platform that uses digital currencies as a base to address social problems, inequality, economic exclusion. As people buy up Radeon cards and happily look to cash in on the short term exchange rates, there are 21 million homeless people in the US with last I checked 38 million empty homes. If you haven't checked, it is cold outside in most places; imagine having to sleep out in this cold somewhere. I was drawn to Digital Currencies because of the "change the world" aspects of i

Angel Investing CypherPunks Unite! **We are a couple of young men willing to work for compensation to see our startup successful.** Please read our post in **Jobs4Bitcoins**: http://redd.it/1s9fe5 Want to see the **CHASM** of digital currency acceptance/use between **early adopters** & the **mainstream market** reduced? The **biggest problem with bitcoin** (as well as all other digital currencies) **is Point-of-Sale Merchant Services**. Our Merchant Tools have been designed specifically for simplified transaction use by merchants and customers. We believe our software can help solve this problem. Diversified Liquidity managed by our software will help to increase the adoption rate of digital currencies by putting coins into the pockets of merchants & customers. **example site**: http://goo.gl/Mnv2QK This being said... **Ryan & Erik have some bad problems**: * Severe Dental Work needed immediately * we moved into my grandma's house (in Mississippi - upgraded from tents) * required to travel for internet connectivity * no cellular service * bought an ASIC from BFL * the SE Region of USA does not understand our services * car impounded w/ all belongings inside * can't feed pets... We ask the **Successful Punx**, especially those whom have sacrificed & suffered, to **donate if possible**. **BTC_Address: 16aC6o7f9bb2kfeAbJAiS4V3zS1mn17qBi** These funds will go directly to **improving our quality of life**, and building the **Open Source CMS Community Site & Documentation**. We hope to offer it as a **Freemium Product** providing we survive the winter. **Thank you for your time & consideration in this matter.** It gets hungry out there... Ryan & Erik

During the hearing of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs most of the experts explained that bitcoin payment network offers real benefits to the modern financial system, despite the fact that a new form of digital currency may be used as money