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This week we continue our two-part series on the activities of various BSD foundations. Ken Westerback joins us today to talk all about the OpenBSD foundation and what it is they do. We’ve also got answers to your emails and all the latest news, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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BSDCan 2015 schedule

• The list of presentations for the upcoming BSDCan conference has been posted, and the time schedule should be up shortly as well
• Just a reminder: it’s going to be held on June 12th and 13th at the University of Ottawa in Canada
• This year’s conference will have a massive fifty talks, split up between four tracks instead of three (but unfortunately a person can only be in one place at a time)
• Both Allan and Kris had at least one presentation accepted, and Allan will also be leading a few “birds of a feather” gatherings
• In total, there will be three NetBSD talks, five OpenBSD talks, eight BSD-neutral talks, thirty-five FreeBSD talks and no DragonFly talks
• That’s not the ideal balance we’d hope for, but BSDCan says they’ll try to improve that next year
• Those numbers are based on the speaker’s background, or any past presentations, for the few whose actual topic wasn’t made obvious from the title (so there may be a small margin of error)
• Michael Lucas (who’s on the BSDCan board) wrote up a blog post about the proposals and rejections this year
• If you can’t make it this year, don’t worry, we’ll be sure to announce the recordings when they’re made available
• We also interviewed Dan Langille about the conference and what to expect this year, so check that out too

SSL interception with relayd

• There was a lot of commotion recently about superfish, a way that Lenovo was intercepting HTTPS traffic and injecting advertisements
• If you’re running relayd, you can mimic this evil setup on your own networks (just for testing of course…)
• Reyk Floeter, the guy who wrote relayd, came up a blog post about how to do just that
• It starts off with some backstory and some of the things relayd is capable of
• relayd can run as an SSL server to terminate SSL connections and forward them as plain TCP and, conversely, run as an SSL client to terminal plain TCP connections and tunnel them through SSL
• When you combine these two, you end up with possibilities to filter between SSL connections, effectively creating a MITM scenario
• The post is very long, with lots of details and some sample config files – the whole nine yards

OPNsense 15.1.6.1 released

• The OPNsense team has released yet another version in rapid succession, but this one has some big changes
• It’s now based on FreeBSD 10.1, with all the latest security patches and driver updates (as well as some in-house patches)
• This version also features a new tool for easily upgrading between versions, simply called “opnsense-update” (similar to freebsd-update)
• It also includes security fixes for BIND and PHP, as well as some other assorted bug fixes
• The installation images have been laid out in a clean way: standard CD and USB images that default to VGA, as well as USB images that default to a console output (for things like Soekris and PCEngines APU boards that only have serial ports)
• With the news of m0n0wall shutting down last week, they’ve also released bare minimum hardware specifications required to run OPNsense on embedded devices
• Encouraged by last week’s mention of PCBSD trying to cut ties with OpenSSL, OPNsense is also now providing experimental images built against LibreSSL for testing (and have instructions on how to switch over without reinstalling)

OpenBSD on a Minnowboard Max

• What would our show be without at least one story about someone installing BSD on a weird device
• For once, it’s actually not NetBSD…
• This article is about the minnowboard max, a very small X86-based motherboard that looks vaguely similar to a Raspberry Pi
• It’s using an Atom CPU instead of ARM, so overall application compatibility should be a bit better (and it even has AES-NI, so crypto performance will be much better than a normal Atom)
• The author describes his entirely solid-state setup, noting that there’s virtually no noise, no concern about hard drives dying and very reasonable power usage
• You’ll find instructions on how to get OpenBSD installed and going throughout the rest of the article
• Have a look at the spec sheet if you’re interested, they make for cool little BSD boxes

Netmap for 40gbit NICs in FreeBSD

• Luigi Rizzo posted an announcement to the -current mailing list, detailing some of the work he’s just committed
• The ixl(4) driver, that’s one for the X1710 40-gigabit card, now has netmap support
• It’s currently in 11-CURRENT, but he says it works in 10-STABLE and will be committed there too
• This should make for some serious packet-pushing power
• If you have any network hardware like this, he would appreciate testing for the new code

Interview – Ken Westerback – directors@openbsdfoundation.org

The OpenBSD foundation‘s activities

News Roundup

s2k15 hackathon report: dhclient/dhcpd/fdisk

• The second trip report from the recent OpenBSD hackathon has been published, from the very same guy we just talked to
• Ken was also busy, getting a few networking-related things fixed and improved in the base system
• He wrote a few new small additions for dhclient and beefed up the privsep security, as well as some fixes for tcpdump and dhcpd
• The fdisk tool also got worked on a bit, enabling OpenBSD to properly wipe GPT tables on a previously-formatted disk so you can do a normal install on it
• There’s apparently plans for “dhclientng” – presumably a big improvement (rewrite?) of dhclient

FreeBSD beginner video series

• A new series of videos has started on YouTube, aimed at helping total beginners learn about FreeBSD
• We usually assume that people who watch the show are already familiar with basic concepts, but they’d be a great introduction to any of your friends that are looking to get started with BSD and need a helping hand
• So far, he’s covered how to get FreeBSD, an introduction to installing in VirtualBox, a simple installation or a more in-depth manual installation, navigating the filesystem, basic ssh use, managing users and groups and finally some basic editing with vi and a few other topics
• Everyone’s gotta start somewhere and, with a little bit of initial direction, today’s newbies could be tomorrow’s developers
• It should be an ongoing series with more topics to come

NetBSD tests: zero unexpected failures

• The NetBSD guys have a new blog post up about their testing suite for all the CPU architectures
• They’ve finally gotten the number of “expected” failures down to zero on a few select architectures
• Results are published on a special release engineering page, so you can have a look if you’re interested
• The rest of the post links to the “top performers” (ones with less than ten failure) in the -current branch

PCBSD switches to IPFW

• The PCBSD crew continues their recent series of switching between major competing features
• This time, they’ve switched the default firewall away from PF to FreeBSD’s native IPFW firewall
• Look forward to Kris wearing a “keep calm and use IPFW” shir- wait

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• Some extra emails would be great, since we’ll be recording two episodes next week
• Be sure to say hi if you’re at AsiaBSDCon in a couple weeks, maybe we could even interview some listeners too
• We talked to the NetBSD foundation back in episode 12 and DragonFlyBSD doesn’t have a foundation, so there won’t be an “official” third part in this series

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This week on the show, we’ll be starting a two-part series detailing the activities of various BSD foundations. Ed Maste from the FreeBSD foundation will be joining us this time, and we’ll talk about what all they’ve been up to lately. All this week’s news and answers to viewer-submitted questions, coming up on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Key rotation in OpenSSH 6.8

• Damien Miller posted a new blog entry about one of the features in the upcoming OpenSSH 6.8
• Times changes, key types change, problems are found with old algorithms and we switch to new ones
• In OpenSSH (and the SSH protocol) however, there hasn’t been an easy way to rotate host keys… until now
• With this change, when you connect to a server, it will log all the server’s public keys in your known_hosts file, instead of just the first one used during the key exchange
• Keys that are in your known_hosts file but not on the server will get automatically removed
• This fixes the problem of old servers still authenticating with ancient DSA or small RSA keys, as well as providing a way for the server to rotate keys every so often
• There are some instructions in the blog post for how you’ll be able to rotate host keys and eventually phase out the older ones – it’s really simple
• There are a lot of big changes coming in OpenSSH 6.8, so we’ll be sure to cover them all when it’s released

NetBSD Banana Pi images

• We’ve talked about the Banana Pi a bit before – it’s a small ARM board that’s comparable to the popular Raspberry Pi
• Some NetBSD -current images were posted on the mailing list, so now you can get some BSD action on one of these little devices
• There are even a set of prebuilt pkgsrc packages, so you won’t have to compile everything initially
• The email includes some steps to get everything working and an overview of what comes with the image
• Also check the wiki page for some related boards and further instructions on getting set up
• On a related note, NetBSD also recently got GPU acceleration working for the Raspberry Pi (which is a first for their ARM port)

LibreSSL shirts and other BSD goodies

• If you’ve been keeping up with the LibreSSL saga and want a shirt to show your support, they’re finally available to buy online
• There are two versions, either “keep calm and use LibreSSL” or the slightly more snarky “keep calm and abandon OpenSSL“
• While on the topic, we thought it would be good to make people aware of shirts for other BSD projects too
• You can get some FreeBSD, PCBSD and FreeNAS stuff from the FreeBSD mall site
• OpenBSD recently launched their new store, but the selection is still a bit limited right now
• NetBSD has a couple places where you can buy shirts and other apparel with the flag logo on it
• We couldn’t find any DragonFlyBSD shirts unfortunately, which is a shame since their logo is pretty cool
• Profits from the sale of the gear go back to the projects, so pick up some swag and support your BSD of choice (and of course wear them at any Linux events you happen to go to)

OPNsense 15.1.4 released

• The OPNsense guys have been hard at work since we spoke to them, fixing lots of bugs and keeping everything up to date
• A number of versions have come out since then, with 15.1.4 being the latest (assuming they haven’t updated it again by the time this airs)
• This version includes the latest round of FreeBSD kernel security patches, as well as minor SSL and GUI fixes
• They’re doing a great job of getting upstream fixes pushed out to users quickly, a very welcome change
• A developer has also posted an interesting write-up titled “Development Workflow in OPNsense“
• If any of our listeners are trying OPNsense as their gateway firewall, let us know how you like it

Interview – Ed Maste – board@freebsdfoundation.org

The FreeBSD foundation‘s activities

News Roundup

Rolling with OpenBSD snapshots

• One of the cool things about the -current branch of OpenBSD is that it doesn’t require any compiling
• There are signed binary snapshots being continuously re-rolled and posted on the FTP sites for every architecture
• This provides an easy method to get onboard with the latest features, and you can also easily upgrade between them without reformatting or rebuilding
• This blog post will walk you through the process of using snapshots to stay on the bleeding edge of OpenBSD goodness
• After using -current for seven weeks, the author comes to the conclusion that it’s not as unstable as people might think
• He’s now helping test out patches and new ports since he’s running the same code as the developers

Signing pkgsrc packages

• As of the time this show airs, the official pkgsrc packages aren’t cryptographically signed
• Someone from Joyent has been working on that, since they’d like to sign their pkgsrc packages for SmartOS
• Using GNUPG pulled in a lot of dependencies, and they’re trying to keep the bootstrapping process minimal
• Instead, they’re using netpgpverify, a fork of NetBSD’s netpgp utility
• Maybe someday this will become the official way to sign packages in NetBSD?

FreeBSD support model changes

• Starting with 11.0-RELEASE, which won’t be for a few months probably, FreeBSD releases are going to have a different support model
• The plan is to move “from a point release-based support model to a set of releases from a branch with a guaranteed support lifetime”
• There will now be a five-year lifespan for each major release, regardless of how many minor point releases it gets
• This new model should reduce the turnaround time for errata and security patches, since there will be a lot less work involved to build and verify them
• Lots more detail can be found in the mailing list post, including some important changes to the -STABLE branch, so give it a read

OpenSMTPD, Dovecot and SpamAssassin

• We’ve been talking about setting up your own BSD-based mail server on the last couple episodes
• Here we have another post from a user setting up OpenSMTPD, including Dovecot for IMAP and SpamAssassin for spam filtering
• A lot of people regularly ask the developers how to combine OpenSMTPD with spam filtering, and this post should finally reveal the dark secrets
• In addition, it also covers SSL certificates, PKI and setting up MX records – some things that previous posts have lacked
• Just be sure to replace those “apt-get” commands and “eth0” interface names with something a bit more sane…
• In related news, OpenSMTPD has got some interesting new features coming soon
• They’re also planning to switch to LibreSSL by default for the portable version

FreeBSD 10 on the Thinkpad T400

• BSD laptop articles are becoming popular it seems – this one is about FreeBSD on a T400
• Like most of the ones we’ve mentioned before, it shows you how to get a BSD desktop set up with all the little tweaks you might not think to do
• This one differs in that it takes a more minimal approach to graphics: instead of a full-featured environment like XFCE or KDE, it uses the i3 tiling window manager
• If you’re a commandline junkie that basically just uses X11 to run more than one terminal at once, this might be an ideal setup for you
• The post also includes some bits about the DRM and KMS in the 10.x branch, as well as vt

PC-BSD 10.1.1 Released

• Automatic background updater now in
• Shiny new Qt5 utils
• OVA files for VM’s
• Full disk encryption with Geli v7

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• Sean writes in (TJ’s lengthy reply)
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Mike and Chris celebrate 100 weeks of Coder Radio by reading some great feedback, discussing new hardware choices, and why the future of desktop Linux is a little worrying.

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Follow up / Feedback

• Apple Coder Radio
• Ep.99 Feedback – Saying \”Hi\”
• donations for service
• on remote work and SQL
• CRM Solutions

• Celebrate Coder Radio Episode 100!

Dev Hoopla

• Mike’s Shopping
• Mike’s Shopping pt 2

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We\’ll be talking with Ted Unangst of the OpenBSD team about their new signing infrastructure. After that, we\’ve got a tutorial on how to run your own NTP server. News, your feedback and even… the winner of our tutorial contest! It\’s a big show, so stay tuned to BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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FreeBSD foundation\’s 2013 fundraising results

• The FreeBSD foundation finally counted all the money they made in 2013
• $768,562 from 1659 donors
• Nice little blog post from the team with a giant beastie picture
• \”We have already started our 2014 fundraising efforts. As of the end of January we are just under $40,000. Our goal is to raise $1,000,000. We are currently finalizing our 2014 budget. We plan to publish both our 2013 financial report and our 2014 budget soon.\”
• A special thanks to all the BSD Now listeners that contributed, the foundation was really glad that we sent some people their way (and they mentioned us on Facebook)

OpenSSH 6.5 released

• We mentioned the CFT last week, and it\’s finally here!
• New key exchange using elliptic-curve Diffie Hellman in Daniel Bernstein\’s Curve25519 (now the default when both clients support it)
• Ed25519 public keys are now available for host keys and user keys, considered more secure than DSA and ECDSA
• Funny side effect: if you ONLY enable ed25519 host keys, all the compromised Linux boxes can\’t even attempt to login
• New bcrypt private key type, 500,000,000 times harder to brute force
• Chacha20-poly1305 transport cipher that builds an encrypted and authenticated stream in one
• Portable version already in FreeBSD -CURRENT, and ports
• Lots more bugfixes and features, see the full release note or our interview with Damien
• Work has already started on 6.6, which can be used without OpenSSL!

Crazed Ferrets in a Berkeley Shower

• In 2000, MWL wrote an essay for linux.com about why he uses the BSD license: \”It’s actually stood up fairly well to the test of time, but it’s fourteen years old now.\”
• This is basically an updated version about why he uses the BSD license, in response to recent idiocy from Richard Stallman
• Very nice post that gives some history about Berkeley, the basics of the BSD-style licenses and their contrast to the GNU GPL
• Check out the full post if you\’re one of those people that gets into license arguments
• The takeaway is \”BSD is about making the world a better place. For everyone.\”

OpenBSD on BeagleBone Black

• Beaglebone Blacks are cheap little ARM devices similar to a Raspberry Pi
• A blog post about installing OpenBSD on a BBB from.. our guest for today!
• He describes it as \”everything I wish I knew before installing the newly renamed armv7 port on a BeagleBone Black\”
• It goes through the whole process, details different storage options and some workarounds
• Could be a really fun weekend project if you\’re interested in small or embedded devices

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Interview – Ted Unangst – tedu@openbsd.org / @tedunangst

OpenBSD\’s signify infrastructure

Tutorial

Running an NTP server

News Roundup

Getting started with FreeBSD

• A new video and blog series about starting out with FreeBSD
• The author has been a fan since the 90s and has installed it on every server he\’s worked with
• He mentioned some of the advantages of BSD over Linux and how to approach explaining them to new users
• The first video is the installation, then he goes on to packages and other topics – 4 videos so far

More OpenBSD hackathon reports

• As a followup to last week, this time Kenneth Westerback writes about his NZ hackathon experience
• He arrived with two goals: disklabel fixes for drives with 4k sectors and some dhclient work
• This summary goes into detail about all the stuff he got done there

X11 in a jail

• We\’ve gotten at least one feedback email about running X in a jail Well.. with this commit, looks like now you can!
• A new tunable option will let jails access /dev/kmem and similar device nodes
• Along with a change to DRM, this allows full X11 in a jail
• Be sure to check out our jail tutorial and jailed VNC tutorial for ideas
• Ongoing Discussion

PCBSD weekly digest

• 10.0 \”Joule Edition\” finally released!
• AMD graphics are now officially supported
• GNOME3, MATE and Cinnamon desktops are available
• PCBSD also got a mention in eweek

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• Reminder: if you\’re on FreeBSD 8.3 for some reason, upgrade soon – it\’s reaching EOL
• Reminder: if you\’re using pkgng, be sure to update to 1.2.6 for a security issue
• The winner of the tutorial contest is… Dusko! We didn\’t get as many submissions as we wanted, but his Nagios monitoring tutorial was extremely well-done. It\’ll be featured in a future episode. Congrats! Send us a picture when it arrives.
• Allan got his pillow in the mail as well, it\’s super awesome

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This week we\’ll be talking to Amitai Schlair of the NetBSD foundation about pkgsrc, NetBSD\’s future plans and much more. After that, if you\’ve ever wondered what all this SSH stuff is about, today\’s tutorial has got you covered. We\’ll be showing you the basics of SSH, as well as how to combine it with tmux for persistent sessions. News, feedback and everything else, right here on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Faces of FreeBSD

• The FreeBSD foundation is publishing articles on different FreeBSD developers
• This one is about Colin Percival (cperciva@), the ex-security officer
• Tells the story of how he first found BSD, what he contributed back, how he eventually became the security officer
• Running series with more to come

Lots of BSD presentation videos uploaded

• EuroBSDCon 2013 dev summit videos, AsiaBSDCon 2013 videos, MWL\’s presentation video
• Most of us never get to see the dev summit talks since they\’re only for developers
• AsiaBSDCon 2013 videos also up finally
• List of AsiaBSDCon presentation topics here
• Our buddy Michael W Lucas gave an \”OpenBSD for Linux users\” talk at a Michigan Unix Users Group.
• He says \”Among other things, I compare OpenBSD to Richard Stallman and physically assault an audience member. We also talk long long time, memory randomization, PF, BSD license versus GPL, Microsoft and other OpenBSD stuff\”
• Really informative presentation, pretty long, answers some common questions at the end

Call for Presentations: FOSDEM 2014 and NYCBSDCon 2014

• FOSDEM 2014 will take place on 1–2 February, 2014, in Brussels, Belgium
• Just like in the last years, there will be both a BSD booth and a developer\’s room
• The topics of the devroom include all BSD operating systems. Every talk is welcome, from internal hacker discussion to real-world examples and presentations about new and shiny features.
• If you are in the area or want to go, check the show notes for details
• NYCBSDCon is also accepting papers.
• It\’ll be in New York City at the beginning of February 2014
• If anyone wants to give a talk at one of these conferences, go ahead and send in your stuff!

FreeBSD foundation\’s year-end fundraising campaign

• The FreeBSD foundation has been supporting the FreeBSD project and community for over 13 years
• As of today they have raised about half a million dollars, but still have a while to go
• Donations go towards new features, paying for the server infrastructure, conferences, supporting the community, hiring full-time staff members and promoting FreeBSD at events
• They are preparing the debut of a new online magazine, the FreeBSD Journal
• Typically big companies make their huge donations in December, like a couple of anonymous donors that gave around $250,000 each last year
• Make your donation today over at freebsdfoundation.org, every little bit helps
• Everyone involved with BSD Now made a donation last year and will do so again this year

Interview – Amitai Schlair – schmonz@netbsd.org / @schmonz

• The NetBSD Foundation, pkgsrc, future plans
• Can you start off by telling us a little bit about who you are and how you got involved with BSD in general?
• What are all your roles with the NetBSD project? What \”hats\” do you wear?
• What kind of tasks are assigned to the foundation? What does being on the board entail?
• Since you\’re also very involved with pkgsrc, could you give us a brief overview of what pkgsrc is, and how it compares to something like ports?
• What\’s planned for the next big release of NetBSD, and when can we expect it?
• In what ways do you personally use NetBSD? Desktops, servers, toasters? All of the above?
• If some of our listeners want to get involved with NetBSD and pkgsrc, where would you recommend they go to help out?
• How can people find you? Anything else you\’d like to mention?
• https://twitter.com/schmonz

Tutorial

A guide to SSH and tmux

• OpenSSH and tmux, a match made in heaven
• This guide shows how to do basic tasks with SSH
• Persistent sessions with tmux increase productivity

News Roundup

PS4 released

• Sony\’s Playstation 4 is finally released
• As previously thought, its OS is heavily based on FreeBSD and uses the kernel among other things
• Link in the show notes contains the full list of BSD software they\’re using
• Always good to see BSD being so widespread

BSD Mag November issue

• Free monthly BSD magazine publishes another issue
• This time their topics include: Configuring a Highly Available Service on FreeBSD, IT Inventory & Asset Management Automation, more FreeBSD Programming Primer, PfSense and Snort and a few others
• PDF linked in the show notes

pbulk builds made easy

• NetBSD\’s pbulk tool is similar to poudriere, but for pkgsrc
• While working on updating the documentation, a developer cleaned up quite a lot of code
• He wrote a script that automates pbulk deployment and setup
• The whole setup of a dedicated machine has been reduced to just three commands

PCBSD weekly digest

• Over 200 PBIs have been populated in to the PC-BSD 10 Stable Appcafe
• Many PC-BSD programs received some necessary bug fixes and updates
• Some include network detection in the package and update managers, nvidia graphic detection, security updates for PCDM

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The best of Bitcoin podcasting join forces to discuss how Bitcoin could potentially disrupt the big media monopolies and fund a new generation of independent honest content, controlled by its audience.

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That means bitcoin exchanges like Tradehill would have to register as a money transmitter with the federal government. That is the easy part, says Kenna, requiring little more than a single page form. The hard part is getting the relevant licence in each US state. They all have different rules, and some (sources single out New York and California) are particularly difficult.

Time (at least a little of it) is on Tradehill\’s side, however. Even though the FinCEN guidance came into immediate effect, it only applies to businesses 180 days after they begin trading in bitcoin. This gives it until mid-September to get its paperwork in order.

• Don\’t trust anonymous e-currencies like Bitcoin

In the real world, if you lose your credit card, checkbook, or even bank account log-on password, your money isn\’t gone. In fact there are lots of services and laws to protect you and your money. Not so in the e-currency world — check out a statement posted on a Bitcoin Wiki Faq regarding the potential loss of Bitcoins: \”Consider it a donation to all other bitcoin users.\”

Ultimately, most e-currencies possess the security of whatever your email address and password is. If hackers break into your computer, learn your password — or even break in and steal all your money at the bank — it will be replaced fairly quickly. This is absolutely not true of e-currency sites.

I\’m not saying that e-currency schemes are evil. And I\’m not saying fiat money is perfectly trusted or protected — the runaway inflation that led to wheelbarrows of money being exchanged in Weimar Germany come to mind. I\’m just saying that by comparison, over the long run, there is no comparison. The trust equation isn\’t even close.

• Bitcoin – the next global reserve currency?

“That committee has chosen to grow its balance sheet by $85 billion per month, to well above $3 trillion in total, by monetizing US Treasury and Agency debt. Accordingly, the long term outlook for the value of the USD will be subject not only to the supply of new money, but also bubbles caused by synthetic support for state-favored asset classes, and record high national debt.”

“In a world of increasing global communication and trade, a nation-agnostic currency would solve many of the problems we’ve seen repeated throughout history and potentially ease the associated international tensions. An asset for which the value is determined solely by international demand, immune to influence from central planners, is a necessary step forward towards a free market.”

• Litecoin Pool Exploit

“Suspected fake miners were clocking at up to150MH/s for 3-4 days. We suspect more cheaters were involved over the past 3-4 days which could have been at least partially to blame for the pools bad luck.”

“During deployment of the fix, we logged changes in valid hash rates. The biggest detected confirmed cheater was Cryptopower who went from 30MH/s to 1MH/s”

• Another Gox funding option eliminated

“After some deliberation and discussion with Technocash, an Australian service for Mt. Gox customer account funding and withdrawals, it has been decided that our customers in Australia will no longer be able to deposit and withdraw funds in AUD using Technocash starting June 15th, 2013.”

• — Adam B. Levine —

• Adam B. Levine (GamerAndy) on Twitter

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• Let\’s Talk Bitcoin! • Adam B. Levine – Editor-in-Chief – Bio

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