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Does anyone here use Bitcoins?
Renegade:
Fun Fact:[/b] The post on alcoholic ginger ale I did in large part because it undermines the state. Alcohol is heavily taxed and regulated, and I wanted to put out a method by which people could get around the state and taxation. That post was purely for the sake of undermining the establishment/state. I blogged about it a while back here. But, you probably already figured that one out as it's pretty obvious.
-Renegade (July 18, 2014, 11:02 AM)
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Must have missed that bit of 'obvious' because homebrewing in the US is a legal non-issue. But thanks just the same. :)
On the federal level (and in most states) making your own wine has been completely legal since prohibition was repealed in 1933. Beer was inadvertently left out of the wording of the 21st amendment so there was some question about it in certain places up until 1978. However, home brewing was officially made legal in 1979 thanks to Jimmy Carter. Some states dragged their feet about reconciling their local laws with the federal rule, which unfortunately left homebrewing in a legal gray area in a few places. Primarily in the deep south (i.e. Mississippi and Alabama). But that changed in 2013 when those last two holdouts formally legalized home brewing. In theory production is restricted to an 200 gallons per household annually for personal consumption. But as long as you're not selling any of it, nobody pays that rule much attention.
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-40hz (July 19, 2014, 07:06 AM)
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I think you're mistaking my intention. My intention has nothing to do with the legality of homebrewing. It has only to do with "go and homebrew because when you do, you're not paying taxes to the state, and you are effectively defunding the state."
To be clear - I am advocating the withdrawl of any activity that you possibly can that benefits the state, e.g. by not buying booze that is taxed (which funds the state) and instead brewing your own.
I didn't want to say anything about the legality of it.
In the blog post... err... I'd better not quote that here. ;) :P
Besides, anyone can easily brew better beer at home than they'd get from the store. :D
But it's also practical. You save money.
Save money... get better beer... defund the state... what's not to love? :-*
I think I need to talk to the guys at the brew store & see if they'll take Bitcoin! :D
Cuffy:
"legalized home brewing. In theory production is restricted to an 200 gallons per household annually for personal consumption. But as long as you're not selling any of it, nobody pays that rule much attention."
I've been around since 1933 and remember bits and pieces of the prohibition debate.
In a bit of haze, I remember 400 gallons??? you needed a permit from the feds and many years down the road it was discovered that the requests for a permit were ratholed in a government warehouse somewhere and never even opened. Some lady sat at the door, received the requests from the mailman, threw the mail onto the pile behind her........... end of story!
I think the mail remains unopened and the pile in the warehouse continues to grow.
Any thoughts?
Renegade:
Eric Nakagawa is the co-founder of I Can Has Cheezburger.
Chase is closing his bank account on him. Apparently he bought some Bitcoins/Dogecoins. Therefore, go nuclear & close his account. Makes sense.
https://twitter.com/ericnakagawa/status/491441392372047873/photo/1
Another apparently deleted post:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2bd7z6/i_can_has_bitcoin_no_chase_bank_shuts_down/cj45r7r
@ericnakagawa:
2014-07-22 04:36:55 UTC
Chase is closing all my bank accounts after I buy Bitcoin on @coinbase /cc @pmarca pic.twitter.com [Imgur]
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Thread:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2bd7z6/i_can_has_bitcoin_no_chase_bank_shuts_down/
ericnakagawa 24 points 3 hours ago
It's funny, because they kept my credit card account open. But "real" money accounts are getting shut down. :(
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I hope that Chase & the boys keep going and continue to shut down people's banks accounts... en masse... all of them... Force people to use either cash or Bitcoin. :P Keep going boys! I'm cheering for you! Keep it up! Keep. It. Up...
This isn't new though. Banks have been on a spree closing accounts of all kinds of people. So far it seems to be mostly targeted industries/activities, e.g. bitcoin & porn.
Renegade:
Here's a quiet heads up - Ethereum is now available for sale:
https://www.ethereum.org/
1 BTC = 2,000 ETH
Ethereum is basically for smart contracts. It costs ETH to maintain a contract. The uses are insanely broad. If Ethereum catches on (which it probably will - it's well funded and has some of the smartest people around working on it), it will revolutionise how we do business.
40hz:
Do you use Bitcoin? A criminal-hacker by the name of 'w0rm' does! :Thmbsup:
This from Ars Technica...
WSJ website hacked, data offered for sale for 1 bitcoin
Same hacker attacked BBC, Vice websites, offered user databases for sale.
by Sean Gallagher - Jul 23, 2014 2:51 pm UTC
Dow Jones & Co. took two servers that store the news graphics for The Wall Street Journal website offline yesterday evening after a confirmed intrusion by a hacker calling himself “w0rm.” The hacker was offering what he claimed was user information and server access credentials that would allow others to “modify articles, add new content, insert malicious content in any page, add new users, delete users, and so on,” Andrew Komarov, chief executive officer of cybersecurity firm IntelCrawl, told The Wall Street Journal.
W0rm, according to Komarov, is the same individual previously known as “Rev0lver” and “Hash,” a Russian hacker who tried to sell access to the BBC’s servers last December and attacked the Web servers of Vice Media earlier this year. At 5:30pm ET on July 21, he posted a screenshot to Twitter that showed the e-mail address, username, and hashed password for the database admin on a wsj.com server. He offered to sell the full dump of the database table of authorized users for one bitcoin through an exploit marketplace at w0rm.in...
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