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Ask Amir Taaki About Bitcoin

Posted by timothy on from the does-george-selgin-approve? dept.

"Bitcoin," says the project's website, "is a peer-to-peer currency. Peer-to-peer means that no central authority issues new money or tracks transactions." Wikipedia offers a readable explanation of the underlying technology. In (very) short, Bitcoin uses a distributed database and public key encryption to allow users to reassign ownership of units of Bitcoin currency (BTC), and does so in a way that can keep the user's identity private. Bitcoin isn't yet accepted the way credit cards are, but it's more than theoretical. You can buy (some) things with Bitcoin, and trade the currency itself. Now, you can ask question about Bitcoin of Amir Taaki, a developer of client interfaces and stock trading software for Bitcoin, and owner and operator of trading exchange Britcoin.co.uk. Amir requests that questions focus not "so much on the mining (too many people get focused on that when it's a minor aspect of Bitcoin) nor simple technical questions (people can go find that info themselves on Wikipedia/the forums/sourcecode)," but rather on the harder-to-answer questions. Reading some of the related stories listed below may give you ideas on what those are. Standard Slashdot Interview rules apply: ask as many questions as you want, but please keep them to one per comment. Amir will get back with his answers.

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  1. My question. by Beelzebud · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How much real money are you paying the Slashdot editors for the constant stream of stories about this worthless new "money"?

    1. Re:My question. by datapharmer · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I wish I had mod point. Seriously, this bitcoin spam is getting really old.

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  2. Yet another advertisement by Geoffrey.landis · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Good grief, yet another advertisement for bitcoin?

    Enough, already!

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    1. Re:Yet another advertisement by Nidi62 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Someone must be getting paid for all of these bitcoin ads that are showing up as "stories"

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    2. Re:Yet another advertisement by Raenex · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Someone must be getting paid for all of these bitcoin ads that are showing up as "stories"

      Considering that 4/5 of the related Bitcoint stories are posted by timothy, and this one as well, I'd say he has a vested interest in peddling this crap.