12/18/12

Legality of Bitcoins-Digital Currency?

gAtO gOt -Questions -Virtual Currency Real or Not- Reward Point, or bonus dollars and other forms of digital virtual currencies are normal for credit cards, online game sites, social networks and other specialty merchants and websites it all about true and branding. This new revenue stream is something that merchants are becoming aware of without knowing or understanding the legal aspects of this new digital currency world.

How does digital currency work in governments or does it – is it tax free, can I take campaign contributions with Bitcoins?

There are federal laws about digital currencies (gift cards) that impose inactivity fees, refunds and unused currency to states or regulatory statue in different states, now apply this to the global online stage. Then throw in the 2009 Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act and the state and federal gift certificate taxes and were do Bitcoins and others fit in. This could be a big financial mistake for budget starve cities, states and countries it’s a worldwide problems. mobile_transaction_01

So how does a merchant handle Digital currency if they decide to accept it for legal goods and service. For example My Book is for sale on my website using Mt.Gox BTC-Bitcoins – So how do I report my Bitcoins Sales 1.8 BTC so how does the Tax man handle the BTC-Bitcoin transaction?? If they accept Bitcoins then they are legal tender as long as I show sales and pay my Tax they now become legal tender by the State, and federal governments??? Right or is Bitcoin just like a Cash sales??? – These are the questions that need answers today, not tomorrow. I would think that governments may be losing revenue if they don’t think about how to handle virtual currencies transactions and incorporate them into the grand scheme of things (also known as red tape).

As smartphones and mobile pad devices increases worldwide more and more global customers are jumping on board. In the Asian gaming world it’s unstoppable people cannot not stop the online addiction and at a such a cheap price people in far away places are getting connected and this new market is a gem for corporations worldwide and e-currencies of any kind will be the new norm. This Jump in mobil devices and games alone will give digital currencies a gigantic boost. These new inexpensive mobile devices are taking farmers in remote villages and bringing them to our modern society very quickly. merchant_Cards

Mobile devices are going worldwide today reaching the remotes corners of civilization and connecting everyone. And they want to spend $$$$$- money- $$$$$

This new mobile computer platform is changing the social and financial aspect of the worldwide landscape. All digital currencies that users accept in and believe in will be accepted. Merchants cry —I don’t care how you pay me as long as you pay me. The privacy aspect of this new currency is another thing that makes this very attractive. When anyone (governments/hackers) can pull your bank records and see every transaction you made.

They know everything every transaction? do they ? -did you know that with Bitcoins all transactions are visible – so we all know someone paid 1.2 BTC and transferred it to wallet_X. You can create a new -alias-wallet for every transaction and this way nobody will ever see your real wallet number. We can hide the wallets, encrypt it, back it up in paper, we can have many wallets and change them so keeping your transactions private is free it comes with the Bitcoin protocol. This is why governments say that terrorist use Bitcoins and other digital currencies to do their evil business,-NAW- well a suitcase full of CASH does the same thing and without and exchange rate to transfer it to my fiat currency… so that fear tactic does not work.. next

Consumers and merchants demand and acceptance of new digital currency has begun and the “jeane is out of the bottle”. These new digital virtual currencies can have very positive aspects in terms of financial innovation and the provision of additional payment alternatives for consumers and that is real competition.

Japans Moba-coins are a fine example: “While popular gambling-style kompu gatcha titles — in which users pay for coins to win prizes — are being eradicated from Japan, DeNA notes that its Moba-coin virtual currency was nonetheless used in a record $689 million worth of transactions in the country”. this revenue stream is only from 40-50 million users imagine when we all hop on this bandwagon.

money009There are many examples of others developing virtual currencies for gaming: NHN Japan offers a global gaming virtual currency called Line Coins; KakaoTalk in Korea offer virtual currencies called Chocos; and Tencent’s Q-Bi in China is firmly entrenched as a virtual currency. All of these are driven by mobile internet gaming services and the real killer will be when the major payments processors get into the virtual payments space.

The legality of Bitcoins have been debated all year long around the world -France, UK, Brazil, United Sates, California, New Hamshire, New York City, Germany, Finland, Italy and even Franklin, TN, USA.

As the price of Bitcoins hovers around $13-14-USD from a low of $4.5-USD this summer. It has attracted the interest of Forex and other players. With the European Central Bank (they control the EURO) report on Bitcoins to be a real thing are getting serious. Then a month later Bitcoin-Central ( French company, Paymium ) becomes the first Bitcoin Bank to carry out functions of payment service provider like PayPal and Dwolla unit of currency. Remember Bitcoin was built to operate completely outside the influence of governments and financial institutions but now Bitcoin is a financial institution.

Whether Bitcoin takes off or not is not the question, some virtual currencies is going to explode thanks to merchants, consumers, in-app gaming via social media and things that have not been created so far. You may disagree, but the aggregation of large amounts of small payments is effectively building a virtual currency system. go to https://blockchain.info and watch the transactions live, check out the “Bitcoin Top100 Recent Transaction”, I seen 124k, 150k 100 times in 1 hour-/ of course trying to track the wallets down to and IP is kinda impossible but mistakes can happen. https://blockchain.info/largest-recent-transactions   network

As we are seeing in New Hampshire allowance to take Bitcoin for campaign contributions put’s Bitcoins directly in the U.S bulls-eye. After this latest presidential election cycle here in American we saw that money is the language of politics and Bitcoins will play a role in our next presidential race 4 years away. Oh did I mention that Bitcoin is only 4 years old on Jan 9. 2013 imagine what the virtual digital currency and Bitcoins will look like in 2016. So are Bitcoins sales like a cash type transactions for governments and are they legal. I think that it’s still in debate but governments running deficits should allow any currency that brings in taxes to the coffers. Are Bitcoins Legal – stay tuned -gAtO OuT

Bitcoinica Rise and Fall from grace:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19244210

Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco

Case Number: CGC-12-522983

Title: BRIAN CARTMELL et al VS. BITCOINICA LP, ALSO KNOWN AS BITCOINICA et al

Cause of Action: CONTRACT/WARRANTY

Generated: Dec-18-2012 6:32 pm PST

http://webaccess.sftc.org/Scripts/Magic94/mgrqispi94.dll?APPNAME=IJS&PRGNAME=ROA22&ARGUMENTS=-ACGC12522983

 

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12/9/12

Get a Free Bitcoin-Wallet and Make FREE-BitCoins 123

OG Bitcoin Miner circa 2011 old school

gAtO wAnTeD - to learn from the ground up how to set this up and how to make BTC Bitcoins easy as 123.

1.) Get a wallet! https://blockchain.info/wallet/ Your wallet will be kept online and your password encrypts it. So you can never loose your wallet and it can be transferred to another wallet like one you can install on your computer.

2.) Bitcoin Miner- – Easy Windows/OSX – Download GUIMiner: WINDOWS GUIMiner, or OSX GUIMiner once installed this is your gateway to Bitcoins – you have now two options -

  • a. Bitcoin Mine for a Mining Pool -I’ll give you info below about Mining Pools
  • b. Bitcoin mine as a SOLO miner – this is one way to do it and you can also get transaction fees this way too that as a miner for a pool you usually don’t get any credits for this in Pools.

3.)There are FREE bit coin games and scams for getting FREE Bitcoins – I played with a few but it’s not worth the time.  Get some Free Bitcoins: There are lots of scams but one that pay’s out is- http://www.bitvisitor.com/ Now this one is easy you just watch an add for 5 minutes then you click next – and you will get your Bitcoins.

So there you have it 123 steps to making FREE Bitcoins. Now I left out so many details that I will include in my upcoming book – Digital Virtual Currencies and Bitcoins”- Release Jan 9, 2013, but it fun and pretty easy of you follow these simple steps. As to why and the how let me back up a bit — you can go play with your Bitcoin miner but here is a little background information.

Most Mac’s OSx computers can become a miner real easy and since it’s like on my Mac using the Video Radeon HD 4670 – I’m getting about 15Mhash/s. I checked my CPU, memory and general and I see very little slowdown on my system. I also installed smcFanControl on my system to keep my system cool. So I know at all times how hot my system is running and I can adjust the fans to keep it cool. I run about 98-100 normal on my workday and I seen about 106-108 the highest temperature so far. I see more temp change when I’m in a Flash centric environment. Ok I open up about a dozen apps at a time but I only use one at a time..

Mac-  3.06 Ghz Core 2 Duo ?4 gb 1067 Mhz – ATI Radeon HD 4670-256MB – osX Lion 10.7.5

On a PC Windows machine – my sons system I only get about 4.5 Mg-hash but I only run it once in a while when he’s at school but that baby uses up both GPU on the system to about 80% and I felt the heat but I had no easy way to monitor his system temperature.

Windows System 7- EVGA nForce 680i SLI Motherboard – T1 Version, NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI, Socket 775, ATX, Audio, PCI Express, SLI, Dual Gigabit LAN, S/PDIF, USB 2.0 & Firewire, Serial ATA, RAID

1DhBiBeYD4JNZvim4EefnEoFV2WMFc7e5d- my Bitcoin wallet if you want to send donations for testing. Anyway I hope this easy 123 guide will help you get into the Bitcoin currency. We have more informtion coming in January 9 so stay tuned - gAtO OuT  

BTC-Bitcoin can be converted to – these and many more - Digital Virtual Currencies and Bitcoins”- Release Jan 9, 2013. you can pre-order – .. mEoW

US Dollars - 

Thai Baht - 

China CNY - 

Israel ILS - 

Argentina ARS - 

Brazil BRL - 

Czech Republic Koruna CZK - 

Euro EUR - 

SEPA bank transfer - 

German  Western Union, Moneygram,

ref -

BTC Canada – How 2 page – https://btccan.com/gettingstarted.php

—Bitcoin Miners and how it works – I am using BTC Guild but I want to lay with Slush and other since they are in the top Pools – But maybe a SOLO miner is my calling..ummm mEoW -mEoW

Name Location GH/s[1] Merged Mining[2] Reward Type Transaction fees PPS Fee Reward Fee Protocol Launched Difficulty[3] Forum Website
50BTC Germany 5100 No PPS[4] kept by pool 3% getwork 2011-11-11 1 1 Link
BTC Oxygen EU 1 No PPS kept by pool 0% getwork 1-11-2012 1 1 Link
BitArena Romania 1 No Prop. kept by pool 0% getblocktemplate 2012-09-22 1 1 Link
Bitcash.cz Czech Republic 5 No Prop. kept by pool 0% getwork 2012-09-14 1 1 Link
BitClockers USA/EU 250 NMC PPS kept by pool 8% getwork 2011-05-27 1 1 Link
Bitcoin Mining Pool USA 70 No Prop. kept by pool 0%[5] getwork Unknown 1 1 Link
Slush’s pool (mining.bitcoin.cz) EU/France 2000 NMC Score shared 2% getwork, stratum 2010-11-27 Dynamic 1 Link
Bitcoins.lc EU 60 No Prop. kept by pool 0% getwork 2011-05-27 1 1 Link
Bitparking USA 130 NMC, I0C, IXC, Devcoin PPS kept by pool 2.5% getwork 2012-01-08 Choosable[6] 1 Link
BitMinter Germany 2000 NMC PPLNS shared 0% getwork, getblocktemplate 2011-06-26 1 1 Link
BitPenny USA 4 No CPPSRB 97% shared 3% BlkPrep[7] 2011-02-08 8 1 Link
BTC Canada Canada 2 No PPLNS kept by pool 1.5% getwork 2012-08-08 1 1 Link
BTC Guild USA/EU 2300 NMC PPS kept by pool 5% getwork, stratum 2011-05-09 Choosable[6] 1 Link
BTCMine UK 65 No Score kept by pool 0% getwork 2011-03-11 1 1 Link
btcmp.com Germany 60 No PPS kept by pool 4% getwork 2011-06-28 1 Link
BTCWarp USA 50 No Score kept by pool 0% getwork  ? 1 1 Link
CoinLab Protected Pool USA  ? No PPS kept by pool 2-5% getwork 2012-08-09 1 1 Link
Coinotron Poland 70 No DGM kept by pool 0% getwork 2011-07-06 1 1 Link
DeepBit Germany 4200 No PPS/Prop. kept by pool 10% 3% getwork 2011-02-26 1 1 Link
Eclipse Mining Consortium USA/EU/AU/Asia 1900 NMC DGM/PPS kept by pool 5% 0% getwork, getblocktemplate[7] 2011-06-14 1/Choosable[6]/Dynamic 1 Link
Eligius Germany 300 NMC SMPPS kept by pool 0%[5] getwork, getblocktemplate[7] 2011-04-27 1 1 Link
Horrible Horrendous TT USA 15 No PPS[4] kept by pool 1% getwork 2012-08-29 Choosable[6] 1 Link
Mining Team Reddit (MtRed) USA/EU 650 NMC PPS[4] shared 0% getwork 2011-05-25 1 1 2 Link
MaxBTC USA 220 NMC DGM kept by pool 0% getwork 2012-03-15 1 1 Link
NMCBit USA 20 NMC PPS/Prop. kept by pool 6.6% 3% getwork 2011-08-01 1 1 2 Link
Ozco.in USA/EU/AUS 900 NMC on DGM DGM/PPS shared on DGM 4% 2% Stratum, getwork 2011-06-07 1 1 Link
P2Pool Earth (P2P) 300 Solo Mining[8] PPLNS shared 0%[9] Proprietary[7] 2011-06-17 Choosable[6] 1 Link
pool.itzod.ru Russia 420 No RSMPPS shared 0% getwork, getblocktemplate[7], stratum[7] 2011-08-01 Choosable[6] 1 2 Link
PolMine Poland 160 No SMPPS shared 1% getwork, getblocktemplate 2011-06-13 1 1 Link
Triplemining EU 90 No PPLNS kept by pool 0% [10] getwork, getblocktemplate[7] 2011-06-28 1 1 Link
pool.mkalinin.ru Russia 27 No PPLNS kept by pool 0% getwork 2011-07-20 1 1 Link
alvarez.sfek.kz Kazakhstan 3.7 No PPLNS kept by pool 0% getwork 2012-04-19 1 1 Link

 

  1. Reward types & explanation:
  2. DGM – Double Geometric Method. A hybrid between PPLNS and Geometric reward types that enables to operator to absorb some of the variance risk. Operator receives portion of payout on short rounds and returns it on longer rounds to normalize payments. [1]
  3. Prop. – Proportional. When block is found, the reward is distributed among all workers proportionally to how much shares each of them has found.
  4. PPLNS – Pay Per Last N Shares. Similar to proportional, but instead of looking at the number of shares in the round, instead looks at the last N shares, regardless of round boundaries.
  5. PPS – Pay Per Share. Each submitted share is worth certain amount of BC. Since finding a block requires <current difficulty> shares on average, a PPS method with 0% fee would be 50 BTC divided by <current difficulty>. It is risky for pool operators, hence the fee is highest.
  6. SMPPS – Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like Pay Per Share, but never pays more than the pool earns. [2]
  7. ESMPPS – Equalized Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like SMPPS, but equalizes payments fairly among all those who are owed. [3]
  8. RSMPPS – Recent Shared Maximum Pay Per Share. Like SMPPS, but system aims to prioritize the most recent miners first. [4]
  9. CPPSRB – Capped Pay Per Share with Recent Backpay. [5]
  10. Score – Score based system: a proportional reward, but weighed by time submitted. Each submitted share is worth more in the function of time t since start of current round. For each share score is updated by: score += exp(t/C). This makes later shares worth much more than earlier shares, thus the miner’s score quickly diminishes when they stop mining on the pool. Rewards are calculated proportionally to scores (and not to shares). (at slush’s pool C=300 seconds, and every hour scores are normalized)

 

 

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11/20/12

Global Bankers Fear Bitcoin

Global Bankers Fear Bitcoins

gAtO bEeN -reading the European Central Bank report October 2012 “Virtual Currency Schemes” Were they plainly state that they are worried about Bitcoins. Linden dollars or Chinas Q-coin were different but they they scared the “bankers” when they translated to goods and service, the Q-coin was put down by China because they did not want an uncontrolled currency competing for the state coins. let me back up and explain it – gAtO StYlE-

The bottom line is “The increase in the use of virtual money might lead to a decrease in the use of “real” money, thereby also reducing the cash needed to conduct the transactions generated by nominal income  “ the other fear is “  On the one hand, they could have an impact on the velocity of money existing in the economy. On the other, the interaction between virtual currencies and the real economy could also increase if widely used. “ So now we see the big picture. Fear that they will lose income generated by transactions and generating their “nominal income” this means Bonus money-

What fears them even more is virtual currencies could have a substitution effect on central bank money if they become widely accepted. WordPress just add Bitcoins as a payment method and they are the #1 Blog Web-App so now this buts Bitcoins on the international stage not supporting Wikileaks but a legit organization like WordPress. Now we look at another aspect of their report which is another blow they call it – “velocity of money” in other words Bitcoin can and will effect the volume-velocity of moneys that are controlled by “banker”. Fraud concern are of little impact on the bankers but they will shout it out loud that they are worried about the consumer, but there eye are on bonus money…

The Subjective theory of value claims- things become valuable in the economic sense (have exchange value or price) under two conditions:

1) They are useful in satisfying human wants, and are therefore desired.

2) There are not enough of them, or just enough of them, to satisfy demand.

3. Any goods that are in unlimited supply would have no value.

gAtO has been trying to figure out how currency have value and the “Subjective Theory of Value” the part about unlimited supply is the JOKE that the bankers have had on us for centuries. They have an unlimited supply of banknotes – “Print more up in a New York Minute” but hey have convinced us that they are right to control the presses and print all the money they need because “we” need to pay them back their interest.

Interest to you means profit for the bankers, and let’s not forget their fees for anything under the sun that they want to charge you for letting them hold YOUR MONEY. So Bitcoins (virtual currency) are a BIG fear for “evil global bankers” as more respected merchants use Bitcoins the more bankers will have to deal with it. The Keynesian Viewpoint say fractional Reserve Banking with Bitcoins is possible and practical so bankers have no more excuse except that once again their fees will go down and their power will go down so the fear is real.

So expect governments controlled by bankers to fight Bitcoins kicking and screaming but the world is ready for a world wide currency that works and controlled by the people not the bankers - gAtO oUt

http://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/virtualcurrencyschemes201210en.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_theory_of_value

from the report:

In an extreme case, virtual currencies could have a substitution effect on central bank money if they become widely accepted. The increase in the use of virtual money might lead to a decrease in the use of “real” money, thereby also reducing the cash needed to conduct the transactions generated by nominal income. In this regard, a widespread substitution of central bank money by privately issued virtual currency could significantly reduce the size of central banks’ balance sheets, and thus also their ability to influence the short-term interest rates. Central banks would need to look at their existing tools to deal with this risk (for instance, trying to impose minimum reserve requirements on virtual currency schemes).

The substitution effect would also make it more difficult to measure monetary aggregates and, as a consequence, would affect the relationship between the monetary aggregates as measured and inflation, which is used to gauge risks to price stability in the medium to longer term. Lastly, on this second aspect, when virtual money is created outside the realm of the central bank and virtual credit can be extended, this may have implications for the way interest rate decisions by the central bank are transmitted through the economy and the central bank’s control over money and credit developments could become less effective.

The third aspect to examine is the interaction between the virtual currencies and the real economy. Second Life and Bitcoin users are spread around the globe and therefore their impact should also be interpreted globally. However, if a virtual currency scheme was to be focused on one specific country, it could indeed have an impact on the money supply of this country. This is what happened in China with the Chinese virtual currency scheme Q-coin, introduced by the company Tencent, one of the leading telecom operators in the country. QQ is an instant messaging service  rovided by this company that also allows virtual payments to be made with Q-coins. This currency can be purchased by credit card or by using the remaining balance on a prepaid telephone card. The exchange rate is fixed against the renminbi. Originally, this currency was implemented only for the purchase of goods and services provided by Tencent. However, users started using it for person to person (P2P) payments and some merchants also started accepting Q-coins as a means of payment.

In addition, several online games rewarded users with points that could be exchanged against Q-coins and ultimately also against yuan in the black market. The virtual currency had evolved into an illegal money scheme. Chinese authorities saw the amount of Q-coins traded reach several billion yuan in one year, after rising around 20% annually. In June 2009, the Chinese authorities decided to ban this currency for trading in real goods in order to “limit its possible impact on the real financial system”.5 They also provided a definition of a virtual currency and stressed that they would only allowed it to be used for purchasing the virtual goods and services provided by its issuer and not for real goods and services.

Box 3 shows a few examples of innovations based on Bitcoin. Apart from fraud concerns, two possible effects can be expected if these kinds of innovation proliferate and succeed. On the one hand, they could have an impact on the velocity of money existing in the economy. On the other, the interaction between virtual currencies and the real economy could also increase if widely used.

In both cases, there would be a need to monitor these innovations.—

The ECB is the central bank for Europe’s single currency, the euro. The ECB’s main task is to maintain the euro’s purchasing power and thus price stability in the euro area. The euro area comprises the 17 European Union countries that have introduced the euro since 1999.

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