The white paper did not define a specific region or group of people, so we have to accept that it was designed to be a global p2p payment system. Luckily for us, Satoshi made it divisible so that we can have loads of smaller units within 1 bitcoin.

The remaining option, if every other option was exhausted, would be for us to decide to make changes to the protocol to allow for more bitcoins, but that will never happen. < We cannot even decide on block sizes >

Not to be a party pooper here, but if you look at the top left hand position in that screen grab, you would see that it might be a team based game. < Looks like player names > So the discussion between those two players, could just be the player defined name, being incorporated into the game text. < Insert player name >

What do you think?

Not if you want to act out your fantasies. I am happy in my relationship, so I do not need services like this, but there are people out there who have weird fantasies and they want to engage in a non-threatening way, not to endanger their partner. So they act out these fantasies in Cyber space. < Not saying this is good or bad >

Some people do not have partners, for whatever reason, and engaging with pretty women and men online, might help them to cope with that.

So let's not judge, before we know what every person's reason is. ^hmmmmm^

I can say from experience that it happened to me, because I was at a party and a drunk geek told me that Bitcoin would be the thing of the future. This was mid way into 2011, when there was a little spike. I did not take him seriously, because at the end of December of that year, it flattened out again.

It was just after the peak in 2013, when I saw him again and he was driving a brand new car, that I took him seriously. Since then, I have been buying non-stop and most of that was from him at a small discount. ^smile^

We will see more senseless wars for Oil under the blanket of terrorism and increased Police state governance and continued debt spiraling out of control. Then you will see riots, like we have seen with other countries and this will have a global economic impact on the innocent people in other countries. ^hmmmm^

You cannot go on anything these politicians are saying now, they are concentrating on gathering votes. Empty promises will be made and the opposite will be done, when they achieve their goal. 

There are many ways to kill a cat. One guy can download it, and distribute it, and just sync up when a friend needs it. In some countries they have different rules for local and international bandwidth. So you could use your local bandwidth to download the Blockchain, if you need to do that.

People will always complain, just because they can. It's in their nature. ^smile^

Even though nobody would truthfully respond to this, I still think some people on here are already on that level. The early adopters will definitely have more or less 1700 bitcoins stored somewhere. { At my calculations, with a current price of about $600 per bitcoin. }

Other currencies that are currently much weaker than the US $, { 10 to 15 times } should already have Bitcoin millionaires in their countries, because that require only 120 to 200 bitcoins. ^crazy^

Centralization are bad in so many ways, for example vulnerability to DoSS attacks and also forced closure of sites to just name a few. Innovation like this, will open the gate to other projects like decentralized exchanges. We are seeing increased movement towards Police state governance and abuse of power, so we need to protect ourselves with innovative technologies like this.

OP, thanks for the info. ^smile^

If, they have been mining since June, they would have mined for more or less 4 months. This gives them a Gross income of +/- $ 12 500 per month. I would say, that is not bad for a experimental phase in their operation. If I was them, I would have done the same. Invest a little bit at the start, see if it is profitable and then expand.

You do not jump into something without testing the water. ^smile^

Nope, If there are jail time involved, I would not use it. I have a family and a full time job to think of and no technology is worth the risk to go to jail and lose all of that. I would be one of the voices going up against laws like this, but I would never endanger my family.

The bitcoins I own now, would be send to friends in other countries where bitcoin is legal in exchange for legal fiat currencies. ^smile^

You can have one of two scenarios for this to happen :

1. All coins are mined, and nobody is selling their coins. < The estimated date is 2140 based on the block reward halving frequency of four years.  >

2. Nobody is selling any coins now, and all new coins are being hoarded by the miners. < This will also not happen, because mining for bitcoins is expensive and the money to pay for those expenses has to come from the bitcoins being mined. >

So, in conclusion : There will be bitcoins in circulation until 2140 and long after that time, when we will not be around. This is to say, if Bitcoin are not replaced or something bad happened for it to collapse.  

People get flustered by the smallest things, and by the looks of things, the traders on the world markets are the worst of them all. The US Presidential election is sparking a lot of attention, because Trump <a non-politician> are going up against a <strong politician>

Trump is very outspoken and a Reality TV celebrity with very controversial views and opinions. If some of his statements becomes a reality, when he wins the elections <which I doubt> then this will create market turmoil all over the world. People will try to find safe heavens to protect their wealth and they might see Bitcoin as a option to do that.

I saw a joke the other day, it goes like this. < The one guy said to his friend, I would like to see Trump as president. Friend : Why, He is a idiot! The guy : Well, I was not around when Kennedy got assassinated, so I would love to get another chance at seeing something like that being done. >  

I hope this does not happen, but the USA is a strange place and politics is dark business. ^hmmmmm^

Ok, this is a new spin on the old, "Bitcoin is evil because it's used on the Darknet to buy drugs" Now they are saying Bitcoin can be good for the drug trade, because it facilitates a method to deal drugs that are safer than the drugs on the street. You can now give feedback on the quality of the drugs you bought.

I just wonder how many of the dead people can give their their feedback on the bad drugs they have bought? ^hmmm^

Price predictions are like weather predictions. In theory everything should happen like the theory predict and then something good or bad happens and everything goes to hell. We are seeing steady growth, but one Bitfinex event could blow this progress back to the $200 levels.

I would have thought the announcement about the first LN transaction that was done, should have sparked some upward trend in the price, but I think that might be a bit optimistic and premature. ^smile^ 

It all depends on what you want to mine. Forget about Bitcoin mining, because solo mining for bitcoins will not be profitable. You can mine Alt coins, but you have to consider which Alt coins to mine, and then sell quickly. These Alt coins are fly by night operations, and it would be here today and gone tomorrow. ^hmmmm^

How much money do you plan to sink into this mining operation of yours? Do you pay for the electricity or do you have cheap electricity? How cold is it in your area?

Sorry, I cannot tell you... because I cannot find them anymore. If you find the URL link to the game, please PM me. The payment was not mind blowing, but the game was addictive and fun. My kids had hours of fun in the game, and I paid them in fiat for all the bitcoins they mined. < Yea, yea, I know cheap Child labor > At least they enjoyed it. ^smile^

We need more games like this. Most of the games seem to be geared towards mobile devices now. ^sad^

There are so much free porn on the internet, that companies like this will surely have to be on the front line of innovation to be able to sell there content. I cannot see how this technology would stop pirates? It will be interesting to see what they will be doing with this, because other non-porn related content, could also benefit from this.

It still cannot solve the problem with free porn, making up the large majority of available porn on the internet. ^hmmmm^

The The Winklevoss twins are pushing through some new trades on their platform, but I do not know if this will be enough to push us into the $700 bracket. There has to be something bigger than that to get a $90 increase in the price for us to get $700 by the end of October.

We have seen some higher demand in early December, when people start buying Xmas gifts. I hope merchants are gearing up for that. ^smile^

I have taken one example with the IRS in the USA, but in other countries people might be doing the opposite. Take this as a example of what may be going on in other countries, "What is the national pastime of China? If you answered gambling, you probably have a few Chinese friends. What is the national pastime of Chinese business people? If you answered tax evasion, corruption and money laundering, then you’ve tried to do business in China. When a handful of businessmen merged these two pastimes, they made a fortune by building casinos in Macao. Now, the Chinese government is cracking down on Macau, but cultures don’t change—they find new outlets. Is Bitcoin the next combination of these pastimes?" Source : http://www.valuewalk.com/2016/05/chinese-dominate-bitcoin-trading/

My point is, Bitcoin <The technology> was not designed for tax evasion or capital flight, but people use it in different ways. They will in the end, have to explain to their local tax agencies, where they get the money and where that money is going. ^hmmmmm^

Says the guy with the Rollin signature. ^smile^ For your information, most other forums on anything else, has the highest posts in the "general area" dedicated to open & free discussion on the topic. So it would just be logical that you will have a higher concentration of threads in that section of the forum.

The Signature campaign managers will obviously target that area, because they will get the highest exposure for the product or service they are advertising. Just ask the forum owners to provide you with a report, to show where the most activity is on any forum, and you will find that it would be in the general discussion area. ^smile^

I hosted many forums before, and all of these advertisers ask the same questions. < Maximum exposure >