Otherwise known as capitalism IN REALITY, AKA corporate fascism.

This "true" capitalism you describe, where can I find it? Where can I experience it? You've described something beautiful here, a Unicorn economic system... only... like the unicorn, I'm not sure it ever truly existed outside the minds of american libertarians.

Yeah, in the "news". Listen, stop reading r/futurology if you're not intelligent enough to discern bullshit from reality. 95% of the "articles" there are sensationalist clickbait horseshit.

How many women were involved in the creation of the internet in the mid to late 80's and early 90's? It's unfortunate, but that's the way it goes in the tech world, it's very male dominated.

We are all individuals, and we also all belong to the group sentient beings of Earth, which is a tiny subset of the group Life. Both our longstanding individuality and our nascent collective bonds as citizens of Earth should be respected and preserved.

Sum value of your assets is below $4,000 US, and I won't even mention your debt. You are a tiny fish in a small pond, you are lying, and worst of all you are boring.

Let's not have the Bitcoin Foundation be as self-aggrandizing as most modern universities. They're not "acknowledging work", they're cleverly associating themselves with famous smart people for marketing purposes.

Which is exactly what the Foundation did by pretending it was in any way associated with Satoshi Nakamoto. Bruce is correcting that mistake, he is also the only reason I now wear the foundation badge as my avatar.

Bitcoin's value has actually changed only a little over the past 3 months, but the US dollar has become much more expensive because of the oil situation. Remember the dollar:btc exchange rate has TWO variables, not one!

OP isn't being serious, he's satirizing government violence. 

I support Bruce in this as a member of the foundation.

Sometimes it's appropriate. If your church is a shitpile of ignorance and hatred, you don't deserve to be associated with Jesus. The Westboro Baptist Church, for example, fully deserves to get raided by time-traveling Crusaders from the 13th century.

Bruce doesn't want Satoshi's good name sullied by the past shenanigans of the foundation, that's all.

Bruce is doing what he can to change this perception, and ceasing the exploitation of Satoshi's name is a great start.

You can trust her to represent the big business interests, like every other president since FDR.

In 2015, the true progressive must oppose capitalism.

Anything less is ethically abominable and absurd. The time for compromises and half-measures is long past.

INFO WARS is mostly just entertainment and should not be taken seriously, certainly not as a source of reliable information about politics.

Last Week Tonight is the one to watch for real investigative journalism.

Post-capitalist existence.

Sounds like some rumor mill bullshit to me. Source?

The real question is: What the fuck is the key to Bitcoin?

Definitely go with the gulag, forced labor is becoming trendy again. Or perhaps it never went out of style in the first place, but we failed to notice.

"Satoshi Nakamoto" could be fifteen people on these boards, or zero.

What does it matter?  Bitcoin is not a company brand that needs a likeable figurehead. Bitcoin is mathematics, a platform protocol upon which to build. Even in development, there's no trust involved, no faith. Only transparent open-source, constantly evolving computer science.

Take 5 minutes and learn the difference between science and popular opinion.

Climate science is nothing like economics. Climate science is hard data analysis, economics is borderline fucking religious in practice. You don't hear climate scientists identifying themselves by sect, such as "austrian" or "keynesian".

97.1% OF CLIMATE SCIENTISTS AGREE THAT HUMANS ARE CAUSING GLOBAL WARMING.



Actually, when you have all the data at hand, forecasting is quite elementary.

A report by the New York City Panel on Climate Change predicts that average temperatures could jump nearly 9 degrees, rainfall could increase 13% and sea levels would increase by over two feet, meaning the daily high tides in places like Queens would cause daily flooding.

The city's future could be rainy, hot — and underwater.

In a new report issued Tuesday, scientists painted a picture that could be even more frightening than the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy. Climate change could hit New York with higher temperatures, dramatically rising sea levels, more rainfall and flooding, they said.

Temperatures are expected to jump 4.1 to 5.7 degrees by the 2050s — and by the 2080s, it could be 8.8 degrees hotter than the current average of 54 degrees, according to the study by the New York City Panel on Climate Change, a group of leading scientists assembled by the city.

By mid-century, the city could get five to seven heat waves a year compared to two currently, and the number of days over 90 degrees could double. The mercury is expected to crack 100 three to five days a year, compared to less than once every year.

“We expect temperatures to increase, precipitation likely to go up as well, and an acceleration of sea level rise,” said Radley Horton, a Columbia University scientist and panel member. “Sea level rise alone is going to increase the flood risk.”

Sea levels will increase 11 to 21 inches by the 2050s, 18 to 39 inches by the 2080s, and 22 to 50 inches by 2100, the group warned. And in the worst case scenario, the jump will be more than 6 feet if climate change goes unchecked.

Higher sea levels will mean more floods like the inundation brought by Sandy. The flood zone is expected to double in size by 2100, covering 99 square miles of the city.

And if the worst sea-level increases come true, the massive floods that are now anticipated every 100 years could happen every eight years.

Queens will be the most at risk for floods, followed by Brooklyn. In parts of southeast Queens, daily high tides could cause floods.

Precipitation is expected to rise gradually by year as well, increaing by as much as 13% by the 2080s.
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Precipitation is expected to rise gradually by year as well, increaing by as much as 13% by the 2080s.
The city is also in for more rain — with precipitation expected to increase 4% to 11% by the 2050s and up to 13% by the 2080s, on top of the current 50.1 inches a year. And the city will get more frequent downpours and more intense hurricanes.

De Blasio administration officials said they’re working to cut the city’s greenhouse gas emissions, and to protect neighborhoods from the extreme weather that could be unstoppable.

The sea level in the city has already risen by a foot over the last century, a faster increase than the rest of the world, the researchers found. And temperatures have gone up 3.4 degrees.

“The projections we’re hearing about today assume that we don’t act,” said Dan Zarrilli, director of the Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency. “The good news here is that we as a city are continuing to act.”

Among the mayor’s plans to deal with the potential crisis:

$335 million flood protection system for the Lower East Side.
$100 million worth of shoreline upgrades in Coney Island,
Staten Island’s south shore and other coastal neighborhoods.
Coating building roofs with reflective paint to absorb less heat, in a program that aims to convert 1 million square feet of surface area each year.
Armored levees in Staten Island’s Midland Beach and east shore, and dunes in Breezy Point, Queens.
4.15 million cubic yards of sand added to city beaches.

This, and doubly so if are in person and watching the other party send the transaction.

QFT. More to the point, it's folly to compare the dollar to bitcoin, it's completely apples to oranges.

The dollar is a giant lumbering 300 year old animatronic beast, it's movements manipulated by the agendas of men. Bitcoin is a protocol, a software organism.

Everybody pays, but not everybody pays with the same currency.

The rich and powerful of every generation pay their share with freshly printed laws and banknotes, public promises and backroom deals.  Political theater.
The poor and starving of every generation pay theirs with suffering and death. Never ending mental torment and physical disaster, total corruption of both health and spirit. It's suicide, whether swiftly or slowly.

I think capitalism is a train coming off the rails, and it's not going to matter in what form our wealth is stored when we look out the windows and suddenly notice there is no ground in sight.



We will need to get awfully creative soon. Or perhaps it will once again be time for a bunch of us to die together, so the survivors can learn the lesson. Guess we'll find out.