Quote from: Shannon on August 04, 2012, 10:23 amdood i am not awesome. and while i'm splitting hairs, onion routing was developed in 1998 and tor doesn't use onion routing anyway :P and who sez you need a computer or an internet connection to use bitcoin?i also disagree with your assertion that crypto's been used in the drug scene only for a little while, that may be true for gpg but all the old school pros have been using otr encrypted chat since like 2005Not even bodacious? :oOnion routing at least existed in concept form in 1995 and "Tor Project" stands for The Onion Routing Project. Wikipedia also says Tor is an implementation of onion routing. So one of us is just wrong. True you can use Bitcoin without a computer in theory, but I doubt we'll be mining bitcoins with our brains any time soon. srslyyouguise.jpgAs for your last point, well, that was in the private scene so it doesn't really count.And anyway, none of this is really relevant. It is still the case that you need an independent financial network to catalyze all of the rest i.e. good anonymity/strong crypto into a force to be reckoned with. It's like a stool, you take away a leg and it doesn't operate as a stool.In summation as my counter argument: :P :P :P