New Jersey's Attorney General, John Hoffman, and the rest of his office appear to be
nothing more than a technophobic gaggle of professional hysterics. And they are out to prove it by harassing a group of young student programmers who came up with an interesting new decentralized Bitcoin app. It appears these students may get a real lesson on the ignorance, arrogance and degeneracy of the ruling political class.
From the EFF:
As the popularity of Bitcoins has increased, government officials are concerned about criminal activity associated with the virtual currency. But a recent
issued by the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs to 19-year-old
Bitcoin developer and MIT student Jeremy Rubin goes too far, and we're
fighting back by moving to quash it.
subpoena
Rubin and some other MIT classmates developed a computer code called Tidbit for the Node Knockout Hackathon in
November 2013. Tidbit uses a client's computer to mine for Bitcoins as
an alternative to website advertising: in exchange for removing ads from
a website, a user would give some CPU cycles to mine for Bitcoins
instead. Tidbit was clearly presented as a proof of concept, with the
developers making clear the code was configured not to mine for
Bitcoins. That's because in addition to refining the code, they needed
to work out the legal details, like drafting a terms of service, and the
ethical details, like making sure there was a way for users to opt-in
to the service so their computers weren't being used to mine Bitcoins
without their knowledge. Tidbit won the Node Knockout award for
innovation and the students thought they were on their way to continuing
with their project.
But in December, the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs issued a
subpoena to Rubin, requesting he turn over Tidbit's past and current
source code, as well as other documents and agreements with any third
parties. It also issued 27 interrogatories
-- formal written questions -- requesting additional documents and
ordering Rubin to turn over information like the names and identities of
all Bitcoin wallet addresses associated with Tidbit, a list of all
websites running Tidbit's code and the name of anybody whose computer
mined for Bitcoins through the use of Tidbit, although Tidbit's code was
not configured to mine for Bitcoins.
Who exactly are the people who continue to vote for the brain dead politicians in the Democratic and Republican parties? And what the hell is wrong with them?
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