Quote from: anonymarse on October 09, 2012, 09:28 pmQuote from: pine on October 09, 2012, 01:53 pmOTCCompromising personal info seems like a security issue to me. Where should I have put it instead?Using OTC means there are thousands of payments methods because the OTCV doesn't give a damn how they get paid so long as they do.This is a form of regulatory arbitrage. An OTC vendor could be local, some bitcoin sites are setup in that manner, or global, using intentional payments to places like India or Brazil, who don't give a fuck.The only real way to ban OTC is to shut down international capital transfers or to subject the internet to such a degree of inspection that it effectively prevents regular trading. That's why I'm in favor of it.All that may sound vague, but I promise if you visit the websites or IRCs that I'd mentioned dozens of times on here, then you'll see it's relatively straight forward once you know how.In fact, you'll have serious advantage to anybody else who depends on "exchange websites". Apart from reassuring familiarity of traditional institutions like online banks, they have nothing to offer.--LOL, a semi-related random thought occurs on the issue of useless banks. Everybody thinks online banks and that kind of thing is new, fresh, original. Boy are they in for a shock on a few levels. They don't have as much freedom as they imagine. Those online banks are all controlled by a directive to prevent a run on the banks and capital flight from the seriously shaky western banking institutions. You have absolutely no real control over your capital in reality, that statist monkeys have been at it again, they ought to be hung for their treasonous rationalizations.Bitcoin might look volatile, but... Just you wait! It may very well be safer on the net despite its flaws. I see no way for cryptocurrency but up. I see no way for western powers but down. We are approaching a dreadful calamity, almost everybody can sense it, can't you? What happens when quantitative easing no longer keeps a country's head above the water? Currently clever technocrats have managed to contain inflation in specific areas damaging to only certain sections of the population, but that is a stop gap measure, it cannot continue forever. I am thankful to DPR for reasons far beyond merely being almost certainly most innovative product distribution network in history. I think the darknet markets may be the *only markets* capable of keeping capitalism alive, because I don't think what is coming is going to be a "slow steady decline" as some have suggested. I think it will be absolutely catastrophic.There are powerful and compelling reasons to be saying this, because having studied world history among other things, there is no period I can think of in which an ascendant power has caused large interstate wars or suffered serious conflict. Conversely in every single period we have had such destruction, we have witnessed the demise of great powers, it is always the *decline* that causes conflict. Anybody who says we'll "manage" our way out of this is myopic. So I am quite pleased with myself. I think we are perfectly positioned for any civil conflict within the West. We shall take every advantage and lend support indirectly to every entity that leans on the state to hollow it out, merely by our existence. The principal purpose of cryptocurrencies will not be to allow for such markets as the Silk Road, it is to create a vampire tap on the tax base of world governments. The world is ultimately altered by the manipulation of capital structures, not public protests.So join PGP Club! It a genuine revolutionary act. You fellows are simply a couple of years ahead of the curve!/happythoughts