# Gavin Andresen
# 2011-01-21 16:15:35
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2901.msg40173#msg40173

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 @p{brk}
Publicly announce where? @p{par}

Publicly announce it here and one of the moderators will delete it faster than you can type 'rm'. @p{brk}
Announce it on your own website and I'd encourage the legal authorities and/or your ISP to shut you down. @p{par}

Announce it in IRC chat or via a Freenet/TOR/i2p hidden service and I would personally encourage everybody to shun and /ignore you... and very few people will hear your announcement, anyway. @p{par}

I suppose you could try to get a journalist or government interested in causing trouble for bitcoin to publicly announce it.  If you did, I would ask as loudly as I could why the journalist or government is complaining about innocent bitcoin users instead of trying to track you down and prosecute you. @p{brk}