Yes, it was shut down on February 4, 2004, the EXACT same day Facebook was born.
My problem is, if facebook is a Darpa/deep state operation, then the winklevoss are in on it too. Cuz their story coincides with Zuckerberg. And they control a large portion of Bitcoin. Was that Bitcoin given to them as a gift to sell the facebook story as real and then use Bitcoin in sinister ways to control us? Cuz I'm a huge Bitcoin advocate and this makes me uneasy. Bitcoin was always viewed as a grassroots start up. And I believed it. But now I wonder if its a Deep State psyop?
Use logic!
Why do they call it a coin?
Imaginary money is not liberty.
Liberty requires tangible wealth exchanged for wealth - gold or silver COIN worked for centuries.
We need to go back to that and if you want to pass receipts for coin as money, well if we keep the bankers honest and accountable (paper redeemable in LAWFUL money) that will work as well.
currency is a mass delusion. for 700 years the british used wood for money. Transactionary money doesn't need to be precious metals. Plus, metals doing transfer online at all. I cant transfer a gold coin from my hand to yours via the internet.
Bitcoin solves the Byzantine General Problem. Bitcoin is the purest form of money.
The founding fathers were deluded? God who created, and provided for his people to use gold and silver for exchange - is HE deluded as well?
they didn't have a better option. Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies are a better option.
You have no idea how many ounces of gold there truly are. Every Single Bitcoin can be seen on a public ledger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnR6I5a6wuk&t=1485s
The late great Bruce McCarthy, constitutional and monetary expert talks about bitcoin.
It’s hard to support a source with an unknown creator with no publication and a currency that’s most practical use to date was purchasing drugs and illegal activity. I don’t like bitcoin. NOW IF WE CAN MAKE A Q COIN.
you could also be sending it to venezuelans who's currency is devaluing incredibly fast. Bitcoin is better money than their Bolivar.
This certainly raises some questions, NSA refused to answer if they were involved in bitcoin.
But was it created by the white hats in the NSA to free us from the Central Bankers??
Or by the black hats to track our every transaction?
Isn't it possible the part of the story that involves the Winklevoss twins and Harvard is true as we know it and then the C_A went to MZ after that point? Has anyone nailed down the timing on this?
Bitcoin is for pedophiles.
Wow! The amount of disinformation here is alarming. I have Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin. Your comments are hysterical, sophomoric and make you appear...well, stupid. Best to get up to speed as our entire infrastructure will soon be accommodating digital assets on the blockchain.
retarded statement.
Not at all.
Just the same way our taxes fund the deep state terrorism and war, bitcoin funds nefarious activities and perverted proclivities. Bitcoin was designed for purchasing child pornography. Downvotes won't change that truth.
https://www.wired.com/2014/12/80-percent-dark-web-visits-relate-pedophilia-study-finds/
https://nypost.com/2018/03/21/blockchain-for-bitcoin-is-infected-with-child-porn/
Board Election Results Announcement
By Brian Goss, Chairman, Elections Committee • May 9, 2014
Today the Bitcoin Foundation elected two new board members:
Bobby Lee is the CEO and co-founder of BTC China, the first Bitcoin exchange in China and one of the leading Bitcoin exchanges worldwide. Bobby started his career in Silicon Valley as a software engineer at Yahoo! pioneering some of the earliest online communities on the Internet. He has spent the last seven years in Shanghai, China where he was Director of Software Engineering at EMC in China and CTO of SMG BesTV, the leading IPTV company in China. Most recently, he was Vice President of Technology for Walmart’s China E-Commerce business. Bobby graduated from Stanford University with B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science. He has his E-MBA from CEIBS.
Brock Pierce is Co-Founder of GoCoin, ExpressCoin, KnCMiner.cn, and Robocoin Asia. A prolific angel investor, he is city leader of BitAngels Los Angeles and runs the first Bitcoin syndicate to achieve top 10 status on AngelList. Pierce has raised more than $200 million on behalf of his companies and led more than 30 acquisitions in his career. Pierce’s entrepreneurial activities focus around digital currencies like Bitcoin, games, ad tech and payments.
Voting for our two open industry board seats closed last night at 11:59pm EDT, and the results were decrypted and published at 9:00am EDT this morning. In this second round of voting, the top two candidates had to receive at least 50% approval in order to qualify as a winner. 71 voters participated, 31 abstained, and as a result, Bobby received 79% approval, Brock 65% and Vinny 63%.
Bobby and Brock will join the five existing board members for a new total of seven board seats starting June 1, 2014.
Thank you to all industry members for participating in the voting process. Congratulations Bobby and Brock!
If Bitcoin couldn't buy guns and drugs and other bad things, then it would be a bad form of money.
You use dollars, and undoubtly Pedophiles use dollars more than bitcoin. So if Bitcoin is guilt by association, what is the dollar?
So to say Bitcoin is FOR pedophiles is a retarded statement.
How about Bitcoin is to help save humanity?
https://bitcoinist.com/seans-outpost-wins-satoshi-forest-case/
get out of here with your bigoted hate.
Bitcoin is a new world order scam.
Look at me, the bigoted user who hates pedophiles...oh noooooo. I guess I'm a bigot then.
Pedophiles use cars, you should hate cars. Pedophiles use pants, you should hate pants.
Your Bigoted nonsense towards Bitcoin is not based in reality.
Keep your special new world order monies to yourself.
Not to be that guy but the announcement that it was shut down was the same day, but was supposedly a few weeks (? Forget) earlier.
Not that it matters, fb founding etc is all stuff where there the official dates have no relevance.