I don't like the idea of localization. BTC has been created without borders, to be international, so we should not try to modify this. I understand some kind of centralization is happening. With China's the world's largest country, it's only logic that there are more transactions and more mining in that country, but nobody said this shall last forever. In 20 years from now, there might be more people living in India, doing more transactions, and more mining than in China.

We see that in some big companies or universities where there is a positive discrimination system which calls for a given number of blacks (only an example) no matter how talented they may be. I can't imagine a system where the miner's reward would be automatically sent to miners in Egypt or Ethiopia, only because there are so few mining in that country, compared to China or the US.

The family is Pakistani...
Those things happen everyday out there, and nobody talks about it. It's most often the father having sex with his daughters, but sometimes, it's the other way around. We only talk about it because the acts happened in Wales.

I'm getting tired of hearing about the brexit. Hey, that hasn't happened yet. Nothing has changed so far (well, except the ministers). That article 50 which is the first step of the process, it hasn't been used yet, and we don't even know if the thing is going to start this year.

Well, congratulations. I'm saving 20/30% of my monthly income these days. We have several things in common, though. I don't have much attachment to places nor material stuff. I've sold my house n 2012, and I've been living here and there since then, but I don't want a boat for the future (I love the sea, but I love it from the seaside). My goal is to have several houses in several different countries, and I'll be traveling between them.

BTC's an international currency now! International people use it, but it could be used much more if it was easier, much easier for travelers to exchange BTC with the local fiat currency.

HK is one the world's greatest place to do business. I've done business in HK, and I hope to do it again next year. It's only a normal that a good place to do business also attract bad people. It's happening all the time.

Elwar, I think you own a lot. It doesn't matter that you don't own a lot of stuff. You have the confidence coming from having a good job with a regular income and (I assume) a pretty fat wallet. Would you so enthusiastic about owning few material things, if you had less immaterial things like your job and your wallet?

I'm not sure this is going to be good for BTC. It's already quite often associated with drugs, so we don't want it to related to copyright issues from pirated movies or the like. I'll wait and see.

That danger isn't related to BTC but to cash. I'm used to it as I've bought and sold many old cars using nothing but cash, and I'll keep on doing things this way, but you need to be cautious when handling a lot of cash. I guess the guy who was stolen wasn't cautious enough.

The more I hear about that ugly Erdogan, the more I like Trump. Because I'm afraid Hilary would be weak against the mad Turk. Trump certainly doesn't need to start a war. He already said NATO costs too much, so he could easily close the US Army bases in Turkey. Some local businesses would suffer, and Turkey would be left alone against its neighbors, most notably Russia.

It's Turkey who needs the US more than the US needs Turkey.

All right, I hadn't seen that. I guess we agree though, according to your previous post. I'm not giving much importance to that ruling. BTC doesn't fit into the legal description of a payment instrument, but there are more and more people who would gladly accept BTC as a payment.

Who needs BTC? Trump's plan won't work even without BTC. There are many businesses in the US trading with Mexican businesses, and then there are millions of Mexicans living in the US who carry a US passport. Remittances are only a very little part of the money flowing above the US/Mexican border, and you can't stop them without hurting everything.

Also, from a legal point of view, depriving an individual from the right to do what he wants with his money, will be difficult. Mexicans (hey, they're not all illegal) would easily find lawyers to protect their rights.

There are much poorer places in Africa. The coast of Western Sahara is under Moroccan control, then there's a war zone. It's a road and you can't put a foot out of that road because there are mines. Also, there are terrorists out there.

Interesting. For info, what kind of stuff is that store selling? I can't imagine getting a soda and paying with BTC, but I could probably consider it to buy some large appliance, or anything above €250.

Never been to SE Africa, but there are also nice places like this in Lagos or Abidjan. But you never have to go far to find yourself on a dirt road where the houses don't have running water. Yes, Africa's changing. Fast.

Is this caused by violent films on TV? Violent games? The Internet?
I've thought that many times, some things are wrong with the youth. I had no violent ideas like that when I was that age. I understand Syria and many countries are terrible places to grow up, but Wisconsin isn't one of them.

I don't think I've experienced a single problem with BTC. I've had an issue with the Armory software which I found pretty terrible, but I uninstalled it straight away and now everything's fine. I've never typed any private key or password, we can copy and paste, can't we?

I wish there could be more places to spend BTC, but that problem comes from retailers, not BTC.

No, sir. This isn't your typical African city. Far from it. Is this Lagos? That's only the bright side. There are some rich folks there, I know Honda has a factory which assembles Accords in Nigeria, but there are also millions of people who barely have anything but the clothes they're wearing. And the poor vastly outnumber the rich. Internet will help, but much more is needed to make Africans richer.

There are few US soldiers left in Germany. I'd say there's only one tenth of what there were a generation ago. Regarding Trump, he surprised everybody by saying that because that would just destroy NATO. NATO is meaningless if it's only between countries on the same side of the Atlantic. I doubt he would do that, because that would Russia too happy.


Nobody, or very few people support the idea of a federal Europe. Some people here see Europe as socialist, but most Europeans see it as capitalist, putting in place free market policies which destroy jobs by closing factories with inefficient workers or management.

There are theories and then, there are facts.
African culture is losing ground fast all over the continent, and part of that change take its roots on the web.

In most markets in Africa nowadays, you see products to whiten the skin, or hair products, so that black women can have their hair look like a white woman, or Obama's wife. African women watch Sex and the city on TV, and they've changed their behavior. In many African countries, there used to be nothing wrong between a 40-year old man and a 12-year old girl, but nowadays white man's culture, which the Internet brings, say it's bad.

In Kenya, there are muslim preachers who say Internet's evil, like everything which comes from white men, but the young adapt to the foreign ideas brought by the Internet, and they dump their traditional culture.