Yes. I've experimented with online grocery ordering and haven't been too impressed. I'm very fussy about my food and I also want the latest dates. If you physically go to the supermarket you can root around in the back and get an item that'll be fresh for another 2-5 days.

The online grocery picker isn't going to give a shit about the date as long as it's still valid. There's a lot of potential wastage there.

The sooner the 'sharing economy' is wiped out the better. It's a bunch of psychopathic corporate pricks pretending they're hip while making life shit and miserable for the real people they're exploiting.

I don't like the idea of buy to let properties. Owning a fleet of self operating cars sounds like it's rather more fun and achievable and I assume that no matter what happens there has to be a human in there somewhere in the chain.

Our new overlord has quite the track record in trying the make the UK a more oppressive place.

I was under the impression that the UK was already the most surveilled society by quite a long way. I can't say it's made it feel any more safe and there's far more violent crime than the US ironically enough. Good job we're not allowed guns.

Yeah. You're not allowed to say those words out loud. It ruins their rugged image.

What tickles me is that they spend more than double per head on health than certain countries with totally free healthcare. I suppose the extra is a capitalism tax.

You've come to the worst possible place for an objective opinion. I myself don't think usage as a currency will be very widespread. For better or worse I think digital gold is a more likely outcome but anything could happen.

i wonder whether hashrate will follow similar patterns for future halvings. Surely there's a point where hashing speeds will start to plateau and I assume electricity cost is a very fluid thing. What's free or negligible now may be rather more if population centres spring up.

You've got the Water Project which just reported a big BTC donation. The RNLI, which is a big charity in the UK saving lives at sea accepts it too.

I don't think crowd funding and Bitcoin is a great combo. There's value fluctuations and the overwhelming attraction to scam.

I think self reliance is an innate American characteristic. Go there and feel how empty it is. You could wander for weeks and never meet anyone else.

If the current crop of settlers started that way then it's going to create a very different mindset compared to anywhere in Europe where people crawl around like ants and always have done.

I don't use a Windows machine for anything Bitcoin or cyrpto related. Ever. Apart from this forum of course. I subjected myself to linux for as long as it took on a nuked machine.

I genuinely don't know as I only use a phone for phone calls and sending photos of my winkle to people. I suppose it saves the handful of calories it requires to fish a card out. I'm not a huge smartphone fan and don't want to lose my entire life if mine goes walkies.

I'm rather dim when it comes to this stuff. How does visiting a website infect you if you don't download anything? Let's assume I'm adblocked and antivirused up too.

Hashrate is rising. I don't really see how mining could become much more centralised than it is already. It's business as usual for better or worse.

Gambling or exchanges aside, I really don't think there's a Bitcoin business that won't set all of your money on fire at this moment in time. Nothing retail related will do it as there aren't enough people willing to spend it.

Man, those pesky Dutch are a long way behind. It's been possible to do this in the UK since before the wheel was invented.

Why not cost average? A drip feed every week. Anyone who's done that over an extended period of time has probably come out on top.

Hey, let's not forget front running. There's no law against it and they'd be sorely tempted to do it. They must be swirling in insider info as well. Witness the ETC launch. That was proper fishy.

They bet on the emotions of others to make profit as they know the vast majority don't have a grip on them. If they themselves don't then they'll be someone else's lunch.

I think I'm more likely to receive a presidential pardon for farting on my grandma's head when I was a youngling than Mr Snowden.

Is this any type of news? It's bleedin' obvious to any human with a functioning mind. We may as well go the whole hog and assume that anyone with the most money knows best so they should decide.

I love stuff like this. I gave up making calls even in the privacy of my own mind a very long time ago. It must be a fine feeling to have it all pan out as you expect.