[1] https://blockchain.info/charts/market-cap?timespan=2year&sho...

Even better that any of these NSA-friendly conglomerates is the ChatSecure App:

"-UNBEATABLE PRIVACY: We keep your messages 100% private using state of the art Off-The-Record (OTR) encryption. Your conversations cannot be logged or intercepted by anyone.

-AD-FREE: We want your love, not your money" [1]

[1] https://guardianproject.info/apps/chatsecure/

"(...)application developers are called Builders and the network will reward use of these applications by paying the Builders in safecoin based on the application use by users of the system. This is possible since the application developer can insert their own network immutable wallet address in their application." [1]

This has huge implications for the future of application development and automatic 'crowdfunding'.

[1] http://www.safecoin.io/

From an outsider's perspective the 'IPO' did indeed look like a planned pump on Mastercoin: People were buying up Mastercoin to take advantage of the btc-msc arbitrage. This drove the Mastercoin price up by ~100%. Meanwhile certain people could potentially have offloaded tonnes of msc purposely bought the week before (for half the price). This may not have been intentional. But either way some people lost big money when Maidsafe stopped accepting msc for their 'IPO' - thus causing the msc price to collapse.

> (...) until there is solid evidence that it won't work.

Why should we need evidence that such an Orwellian program will work? Of course it will work. It will work - for those in power - against the people.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockpuppet_%28Internet%29 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Earnest_Voice

Yes. Very true. For anyone interested in the above statment i'd highly recommend checking out http://twister.net.co/ - a decentralized micro-blogging spin-off of bitcoin. Unbelievable innovation is happening!

I mean: how many people recently came to crypto through the 'ridiculous' Dogecoin idea? What of the recent national cryptocoin (Auracoin, Spaicoin...) wave? And what about Vertcoin, Namecoin, Devcoin? These were once all thought experiments with "strange attractors". They now exist, and are bringing a LOT of interest and experience to cryptocurrency.

I assume that all my convos and cam chats on Skype are recorded [1] - so i try to push my contacts to jitsi. But every time it's so hard to walk people through setting it up correctly.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam...

But it's going to be another hard blow to US tech innovation, which will simply move abroad - far from the IRS and NSA.