Glad you're here to speak for the rest of us, anonymous coward. As a physicist and longtime slashdotter, I've always been willing to learn about new tech. I may be young, but this is the most impressive thing I've seen FOSS do in my lifetime. Anyone who thinks bitcoin is unfair/a ponzi scheme, or whatever, then by all means release your source code - show us the "correct" way to build a new currency and I'm sure people will use it.

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That depends on how much he's invested in it. Most of the people who get into bitcoin are hobbyists. They spend a lot of time reading up on the technology, and once they grasp its potential they get a little excited. The truth is people will submit stories about things they're into. Bitcoin is no exception. Personally, I've invested about $120 in bitcoins. If I cashed out now, I'd have about $200 worth. Does that make my arguments are invalid?

How exactly do you get a new currency adopted without providing incentives? If you can think of a better way, please let us know.

The default transaction fee was lowered with the most recent update. Also, money isn't supposed to have intrinsic value. That's one reason bills are made out of paper.

Goddard's Community Coordinated Modeling Center just released a space weather app that lets you track solar activity in real-time. It also has data and simulation predictions for the solar surface, the solar wind, and Earth's magnetosphere/ionosphere. Really slick interface too :) http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nasa-space-weather/id422621403?mt=8

I'm guessing they mean 'put it online', except they don't intend to publish by default.

By the way, the whole point of OpenLeaks is that you choose who gets your submission. So, if it's a local news story about your school board, you can send it to your local paper, and if they don't run the story within your time frame then you can choose for it to go public. This avoids the problem of only catching the biggest leaks. Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsIhiUHoNLA5

To find other brave wikileaks activists, just look at the names on the subpeona: Jacob Appelbaum @ioerror -Tor spokesman who subbed in for Julian Assange at the HOPE conference, and a lot has been written about him elsewhere, including Rolling Stone. He's on the way back from Iceland to Seattle today, so hopefully he won't be detained again. There's a crowd of wikileaks supporters waiting for him. Rop Gonggrijp @rop_g - Hacker/activist who helped produce and release the Collateral Murder video. He no longer works for wikileaks since he's spending most of his time cracking voting machines in India/Brazil. Birgitta Jónsdóttir @birgittaj - The Icelandic Parliament Member with an impressive history of activism.

All of these people have done more for the spread of democracy and freedom of speech than most of us ever will. No wonder they are under investigation by the DOJ.

Of the releases we've seen so far, yes. But we still have 200,000 to go. I'd be surprised if some of those didn't cover the months leading up to the Iraq invasion.