Oh ok, unfortunaly I have not gotten around to read that book yet, but it's on my todo list

Whatever man, you can tax my brainwallet when you pry it from my cold dead neurons. I'm out of here.

The arguments he is using could be used to argue for slave ownership.

I will encourage people to not pay any taxes. More so if they can get away with it.

I'm not, because I don't need the government to provide me anything.

There are ways to deal with problems without using violence you know.

Sorry I'm not familiar with that phrase. Care to explain?

As I read through posts here, I see numerous people railing against slavery. However people feel about being slaves (nobody likes that), it is the obligation of all slaves to do their best to comply and serve their master. You MUST do as your master tell you. Period.

Apparently these escaping slaves believe that because they personally have some moral objection to working their ass off for nothing, they can stiff their master while everyone else does their fair share of work. I've seen posts here calling those who do properly live as slaves 'sheep', etc... Well, complying with your master doesn't make one a sheep, it makes them a responsible citizen. If you want to change that, then you are welcome to fight for those changes by working within the system, such as asking your master for more freedoms.

While anyone with any reason knows this, here are the facts:

• Slaves have existed throughout the history of all civilizations. That's just how society works.
• Everything you earn must be properly transfered to your slave owner, by their law.
• If you don't do as you're told, but I and everyone else do, it kind of pisses me off - and the same is true for the majority of people who honestly comply. Nobody likes a free slave.

So, anti-slaves, you may continue to whine and scream all you want, but, guess what? Everyone thinks you're insane, and you'll most likely get what's coming to you, sooner or later (may be years).

I strongly suggest that these people be put in their place.

I'm glad to see you quote the truth. It means we are making progress.

To be fair. If people wants to see cartoons with children having sex why put them in prison? It's not hurting anyone. We can't morally justify to put people in prison no matter how much we dislike something. If there are no victims there is no crime.

I'll add that you make a very valid point about the judge, not only are these laws completely over the top, they also tend to be subjective, making it arbitrary who should be sent to jail and who shouldn't. It's pretty clear who benefits from such massive power.

What's interesting to me, is that, at least in the US, it seems you will get longer prison sentences for watching than for actually doing. Like they guy who never hurt a child, but was sent to prison for 150 years.

And you are allowed to have sex with a 17 year old, but if you take a picture of her you are suddenly a child pornographer. If you send her the picture you just took you now have committed the crime of "producing and distributing child pornography" even though it was completely consensual.

There is so much ignorance around this topic it's ridiculous. It's weird to be standing on the outside looking at this moral mass hysteria in action. Kind of makes you think the human kind hasn't really progressed all that much after all since back when "witches" where burned.

Heck I'm even feeling it myself, kind of like I'm obliged to add a "PS: I'm not into CP"  disclaimer just to voice my opinion. That shit proves my point right there.

It was Tor links, it would be like trying to shutdown silk road.

Where did you get those numbers?

The first part is very important because it explains the core issue with the child pornography that most people simply don't understand. And whats that? The fact that child porn has nothing to with child porn anymore. The definition is now so wide that it includes simpsons cartoons in sexualized positions. That's why I'm asking you if I start defining speeding as murder does it become true? No it doesn't. Now that child porn can equal everything from real abusive images to sexy cartoons, or even stories (pure text) of persons who are older than 18 (don't believe me? Just checkout this interview about a guy who was about to end up in prison for 20 years, but got saved moments before the sentence when the "child" turns up in court, proving her age. If this happened in my country he would still be sent to jail), we suddenly have a completely new type of crime. I recommend reading this by Rick Falkvinge.

I could go in great depth about this, but I will leave it there as you clearly have never thought of this issue and will need some time to study it.

The point I'm trying to make is:
1. Definitions are widened to include perfectly legimitate activities where there are no victims (tell me who exactly is the victim in a cartoon, or in a fantasy story?)
2. Real abusive images and fantasy books are mixed together into one group. Honestly, how can you compare a funny cartoon to raping a baby?
3. Now, thanks to these new definition of child porn we have a lot more child pornographers, hence we have a lot more pedophiles, hence the problem appears to be much greater than it really is. And people still believe that child porn is all about raping babies when it's absolutely not, the vast majority of child porn is now completely victimless.

Just like if they where to edit the definition of "speeding" to "murder", we would have a LOT of killers. Then the government can use that as an argument to steal your privacy, your freedom and your money. And I'm sick of that bullshit.

Imagine services such as bitpay for instance. They will need to instantly sell bitcoins for users who convert btc to usd at time of purchase. If the depth is very thin, perhaps they need to calculate some slippage in the price/conversion ratio. If the market depth is hidden this is not possible to do and may be a disadvantage. If you ponder on this I'm sure you can think of many similar situations where this would be a very bad idea.

I wouldn't really mind seeing dark pools coming back though, I thought those where pretty neat.

One can just use dollar value and equivalent in bitcoin at the time of purchase. Those who sell their house for bitcoin probably isn't planning to immediately cashout everything though, and so they can hold on it for a long time, as an investment.

Excellent! Big names are endorsing bitcoin these days. Seems like the mass adoption phase might be coming soon  

If we create a law which defines "speeding" as "murder". Does that result in more killings? No, it doesn't. You just altered the perceived reality by changing the meaning of words, but reality stays the same even though the media now can report massive amounts of murderers on the loose.

Do you remember the guy who created liberty dollar, now why is it that he was labeled a terrorist? Is he a terrorist? or is this a form of altering the meaning of words to fit some twisted political belief?

Let me just say this. If you actually want to do something good in this world you may want to ask yourself why there is such a mass hysteria, and why we now have a majority willing to give up all their rights to fight this apparently ever increasing crime. It's important to think this through before you act. Can you think of other mass hysterias throughout history and their consequences?

Witch hunt of this kind has, and will, continue to destroy the life of innocent men, women and children. If you let yourself be fooled by the elite and fall for the lies of the majority, you will unconsciously be part of the mob that stones "terrorists" such as the creator of bitcoin to death (and this is exactly why he will always be in hiding). And while doing it, you will feel pride, you will feel that you did the right thing, that you fought the good fight, just as the people who burned witches fought evil, you will join them in their fight for a "better world".

I may be wrong, you might have thought this through, but I sense lack of knowledge and unjustified anger.

Perhaps he sold most of his BTC in anticipation of the recent downtrend to further increase his massive BTC stash.

R.I.P panic sellers 

Thanks for the info. Good things comes for those who wait 

+1
A very good read indeed.

doublec: any ETA on when all accounts will be processed?

"I think it will reach $1M (per BTC) before Christmas this year" - rpietila

That's a pretty bold prediction, if he really thinks that, he could easily think that price won't go below $115 *ever* again and be wrong. Bitcoin obviously won't go to 1 million dollar per coin this year. I'm a strong bull myself, but that's just silly bubble talk.

The question is how to take his put and not risk getting scammed? (I'm not interested in a put since I only hold, but I don't think the put itself is the problem, I think it's the risk of fraud)