<div dir="ltr">Count me in for the BTC meeting. I'm a true believer in BTC and would like to gain more information on mining and pools as well. Also I have truecrypt installed and am beginning to utilize it more and more.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Justin Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:justin@js-wordsmith.com" target="_blank">justin@js-wordsmith.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Through conventional means, yes, you’re largely right - you can’t do anything to change government policy. Anyone with a lick of sense knows that the major players from both parties are bought and paid for.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">That’s why you take the initiative to do things on your own. Why, look at this story about how the FBI gave up trying to crack TrueCrypt: <a href="http://news.techworld.com/security/3228701/" target="_blank"><span style="font-style:italic;text-decoration:underline;color:#006e28">http://news.techworld.com/security/3228701/</span></a></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">And consider how government officials are starting to talk about Bitcoin. Why? Because they fear a monetary supply that they can’t control. They can’t push it to ridiculous levels of inflation. There’s no way to freeze Bitcoin assets. If you use the Electrum wallet and memorize the seed phrase, you could very well keep your money “in your head” and there’s no way anybody would know.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Tough security and plausible deniability can be yours with TrueCrypt and Bitcoin. They’re free, open source, and 100% legal. All you need to do is be willing to accept them to regain some control over your personal information. Forget asking; you can <span style="font-style:italic">be</span> the change. That’s what this is about.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">There’s a new-ish <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Pittsburgh-Bitcoin-Users/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;color:#006e28">Meetup group</span></a> for Pittsburgh Bitcoin enthusiasts that meets at the start of every month, and I’m going to attend their next meeting on July 3rd. Besides getting to spend some quality time with fellow BTC fans, I’d like to see if any of their members would be interested in helping to make a presentation on Bitcoin. </p>
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</div><div><div class="h5"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><br>On Friday, June 14, 2013 01:36:58 PM greg simkins wrote:<br></p>
<p style="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:40px;margin-right:40px;text-indent:0px">I think I am completely helpless to do anything about Government policy and practice. I just hope that when I am accused of being a Christian, that there is enough evidence to convict me.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:40px;margin-right:40px;text-indent:0px">In the mean time, I crawl under my rock and ignore the news as best I can.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:40px;margin-right:40px;text-indent:0px"><br>On Jun 14, 2013, at 1:28 PM, Justin Smith <<a href="mailto:justin@js-wordsmith.com" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;color:#006e28">justin@js-wordsmith.com</span></a>> wrote:<br>
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