What are /r/BitcoinSerious' favorite Products & Services?

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Obligatory TL;DR

• Networks are not actually a human invention - slime molds and other collaborative organisms have been building network structures for billions of years.
• Networked entities survive by adopting collaborative behaviors - aligning individual and group objectives.
• Humans have been organizing as hierarchies for thousands of years. It was all we had. Yet, now we suddenly find ourselves with wide-scale access to a networked approach.
• Online collectives have a lot in common, structurally and behaviorally, with slime molds.
• Centralized agencies (such as governments) are still stumbling over how to deal with these kinds of entities.
• We are in the midst of a paradigm shift, as the influence of decentralized collectives moves from the dark corners of the internet, and into mainstream business and technology.
• Decentralized Autonomous Corporations, such as Bitcoin, are beginning to gather mainstream attention and support.
• Advanced programmable versions of this concept, such as Ethereum, promise to take these ideas to the next level.
• Those who can learn to think as a network will reap the greatest advantages of this shift.

Perhaps it should be noted that running a node is not the same as mining. I know I was a bit confused by this in the beginning. Running a node simply means letting a wallet application (such as Bitcoin Core or Armory ) run in the background after letting it download the blockchain as described above, whereas mining would (these days) require you to buy dedicated hardware. Perhaps someone can describe the differences in more technical detail than me, or provide a good link to such? Also, someone might explain HOW the network is being helped by running a node?

i guess that must be it

Coinbase: Prohibited Businesses

> Narcotics, controlled substances, prescription and pharmaceutical services, drug paraphernalia, or any substances designed to mimic illegal drugs

emphasis mine.

Bit of a hodge-podge of an article, but entertaining to read. A good use of hyperlinks to reference outside material (sadly something I think is missing from most online articles).

To me Namecoin is the clearest example of what I would expect a DAC to be like. Although I'm curious about things like twister (http://twister.net.co/).

I can imagine a world in the not too distant future where the googles, youtubes, facebooks, etc are replaced by such distributed anonymous 'corporations'.

What I would like to see next is a DAC focused on providing simple computation resources (so far I haven't run across anything that more than a manifesto/whitepaper).

IMHO, once a simple downloadable VPS DAC 'miner' becomes available it will change the nature of the internet entirely. Google and Facebook will be the new 1990's AOL dinosaurs fighting for their lives, in a sea of newly created services, that don't face the limitations which hamper their ability to innovate.

More importantly, to a large degree I think the original promise of the internet was compromised because it wasn't truly decentralized or particularly anonymous. The powers that be found ways to drive things they didn't approve of underground. It seems to me that Bitcoin/DACs have the potential to finally fulfill the promise of a truly free (as in freedom) information architecture that connects humanity with itself.

What happens when the powers that be can't shutdown a twitter feed, a youtube channel, a website (unless they just want to unplug their country from the rest of humanity)?

I have to imagine that the content/news/information generated in that setting would well be worth connecting to (and paying for, which was the key missing ingredient of internet 1.0).

That's not going to help. We need Bitcoin on all the major platforms. Here's an interesting link that barely got any up votes on r/bitcoin, probably because it isn't an out-an-out rant against Apple.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/09/how-does-apple-really-feel-about-bitcoin/

Chrome extension? Some extension authors have sold their chrome extensions to companies that modify them and push out updates packaged with ads or malware.

http://www.zdnet.com/firms-buy-popular-chrome-extensions-to-inject-malware-ads-7000025342/

Is this open source? If someone got control of the extension, is it possible to modify the extension for nefarious purposes?

Download the app from the site (make sure you're actually on the real https://coinbase.com and not a phishing site), it's secure. Since there is a small fee, and bitcoin goes up about 21% per month, you'll make about $2 off of a $10 investment. It's quite random however, so you may also lose out if you only want to be in for $10 for one month.

I recommend to you to use a hardware ledger... See https://www.amazon.com/Ledger-Nano-Cryptocurrency-hardware-wallet/dp/B01J66NF46/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1504706865&sr=8-2&keywords=bitcoin+hardware+ledger