Oh, it's definitely worth the read.

Same situation for me. Been doing it for a long time now. Just remember to take time out to spend with the kids. Sure, the old adage that they grow up so fast is true, but also spending that time refreshes you. It will also ensure that you retain the dogged persistence to reach that goal.

Nexus and Artifactory can be configured to check the signatures, but you're into Web of Trust territory.

I wrote an article about mitigating this attack vector a while back which might be useful: http://gary-rowe.com/agilestack/2013/07/03/preventing-depend...

I wrote a Maven plugin to avoid this.

It's available under MIT licence: https://github.com/gary-rowe/BitcoinjEnforcerRules

These guys need to be investing in hierarchical deterministic wallets (BIP0032 and BIP0039). That would take away all their private key issues.

Probably not Playfair since there are repeated digraphs.

I've tried caesar shift using Q as E (based on frequency) so M is A but that failed epicly... also tried a viginere using GCHQ as the key word but again failed epicly :L Not even bothering with Playfair. simple letter to Ascii doesn't work either and i really can't be bothered with going stupidly complicated :/

But it has built-in scarcity which means it possesses a characteristic of a commodity. Maybe a bitcoin is currmodity?

Bitcoin is a protocol. There is nothing stopping the UN from creating their own currency using the Bitcoin protocol with all the characteristics they require of a reserve currency.

It's also a thing that is attempting to be a currency/commodity. I suppose in any discussion we should make clear which aspect we're talking about. I was talking about the currency/commodity aspect as that's what this entire thread was started on. For the protocol, I agree with you.

Low transaction costs translates directly into increased profit margin. Surely every business wants that?

Businesses want low transaction costs, but most business face competition and the customer decides the transaction medium. For instance, my company accepts paypal, not because I like it but rather my customers do.

Of course a company with monopoly power could force adoption. For instance Bitcoin would take off if your utility companies only accepted bitcoins, but I don't think that is likely.

A more sensible approach would be to take advantage of TradeHill's "dark pools" which enable very large BTC transactions to take place outside of the public order book.