Yes, please let him know that we would be glad to donate $1,000. The setup process is this:

1) Go to BitPay and sign up for an account (make sure to set up as a non-profit if they are)
2) Link and verify BitPay account to their own bank account
3) On BitPay dashboard, click "Accept Donations," fill out the few forms (like which URL to go to when done), and hit "Submit." This will generate HTML code to copy/paste
4) Copy/paste the provided HTML code into the donation page site.

That's it. BitPay makes the whole process ridiculously easy.

They have added the option, http://www.srilankacampaign.org/giveanonymously.htm, and
They have been endowmented: https://blockchain.info/tx/414f6e58104b350941de9bb87d4db80707f9d2d423d7d66d5cfa47288dad8a1f

These guys passed, added a donation option (https://thewaterproject.org/donate.php has donate with bitcoin option on the right side)
and $1,000 Donation sent:
https://blockchain.info/tx/52febaf98250431a8b5caf5cf9ebbc38371516412d8c27441f024824f9daeed4

Dollars don't have such a group of people, either. Both bitcoin and USD have wealthy people, who are essentially backers, who support the currency through various legal and technical means, but those wealthy people would not be stupid enough to start buying up a crashing currency just to prop up its price, if they see it doesn't have a future. So each currency's future, and thus true backing, comes right back to how much you trust the system that's managing it.

By the way, gold has massive use value as an insulator of magnetic fields, insulating them in the same way that plastic can insulate electric fields in a wire? If you were to insulate a magnetic material with gold, it essentially forces the magnetism of that material to stay compressed inside that material, instead of escaping into the surroundings, and causes that material to become super magnetized, similar to a superconductor. But at room temperature. Uses could be frictionless bearings and magnetic levitation. But with society so hellbent on using gold as a store of value, and jacking up its price to many times its industrial value, I guess we will have to forego that technology for a while.

I would guess the 4th sector is designing stuff in 3D cad software for people to 3D print, such as tinkering with mechanics of some printable machines, our customizing existing designs to each individual's preferences.

There was no such thing as industrial sector when farmers were around. There was no such thing as a white collar service sector, or IT sector, when CNC machinery was introduced. You don't know what the next sector will be, so there is no way you can definitively say that there is no 4th sector to move into.

Slaves had no choice in what they worked on, whom they worked for, and what they got in return. Workers can change careers, change employers, and negotiate pay. The two are incomparable. The only thing workers can complain about is not being paid fairly, but fairness is subjective, while pay is a function of supply and demand. If they want to get paid more, they need to supply something that's in higher demand.


So, what will you do if your employer left, the store you by things from closed and left, and all the things your government provides you with had to be paid with your own taxes? Would you be able to run your company, manage the supply chain that your store uses to stock it's shelves, and make millions to pay for those tax provided services? I would guess no, because otherwise you would have already been running your company or your own store, and would have already been making millions.

What is it that you actually contribute to the world, that you believe will be enough to keep your world going without those running the businesses you deal with?

We had computers since the 30's (before even), and software since the 60's. We also had factory automation since at least the middle of the last century, since you don't need computers automate factory assembly lines. Just needs some extra gears and switches. So this whole automation thing has been going on for most of the last 100 years. You are basically claiming that a tractor or a machine replacing 25 farmers or factory workers with 1 is not a problem, but a computer replacing 25 tractor drivers with 1 computer operator is. I don't buy it.

Not really. Betamax and Laserdiscs crashed, and it didn't harm VHS. Alt coin crash could just as well be a sign of bitcoin's superiority.

But being a universal extinguisher of all debts does not establish any price or valuation for USD either. Nothing that's backed by anything else does, because all price is arbitrary. A gold-backed currency could be backed by an ounce of gold, or a gram of gold, and could be numbered 1, or 5, or anything else. Likewise, the government backing, or the extinguishing of debt backing, could back a dollar that can buy you a burger, or a dollar that you would need 1,000 of to buy a burger, and the mechanism would be the same. So backing isn't even "propping up."

Personally, I see backing as an IOU - a liability - where the thing that is backed has a promise from someone else that they will give you something in return. A gold backed currency is just an IOU with a promise to exchange it for some arbitrary amount of gold, and a government backed currency is just a promise that the government will forgive your debts if you exchange it with them. This is why non-backed things, like land, oil, gold, or bitcoin is so much more powerful - there is no one that needs to make you any promises. The land will let you build on, the oil will burn, the gold will be yellow, shiny, and highly conductive, and the bitcoin will work on the blockchain, without anyone promising or allowing it to happen.

Don't forget that the 10% with BTC will be the ones with enough money to give anonymous perks to the politicians that run this place.

The question is who is who? Are the workers the oppressed, and the businesses and corporations the oppressors, in which case the workers will rise up, take control, and relieve the wealthy business owners of their wealth, as happened in communist revolutions during the last century?
Or are the business people and entrepreneurs the oppressed, and the workers the oppressors, feeling that it is unfair that some people have much and they have little, and using the power of government to regulate and take from those business people and entrepreneurs, in which case it's the wealthy business types that will rise up, take their wealth, and move elsewhere? This wasn't really possible with wealth being stored in banks, since that wealth could just be frozen and confiscated by governments, but it's possible now...

I bet I can guess what this plan is short on, and needs, to be completed! 

What if instead of thinking of money as an idea - basically a mass delusion where we think there is value in something that doesn't actually have value - you think of money as a contract of an IOU, given to you by the whole world in return for giving something to the world. I give the world an hour of my labor, and thus make the world better off. In return, the world gives me an IOU that I am able to call back to get something else. And the more I contribute to the world, the more IOUs the world gives me. Does that change the magic idea any?

TWO hours now, instead of one and a half!? No thank you!

Can we at least get a summary? Or is it more lists of how the government fucked everyone over, and calling it capitalism because the government isn't full-on communist?

Because the way capitalists businesses make profits is by using guns to threaten people and take their money and resources. Profits have nothing to do with actually working to earn people's money.

I have a better system, where everyone has $10 million dollars, and can buy everything they might ever need. That way no one will ever need to work or starve, because everyone will be rich.
What do you think?

That was my point, that the jobs disappearing and not coming back is a recent phenomenon, while technological progress is not. This suggests that something other than the increase in technological development is causing this drop.


It was a response to the claim that the only reason we had a growth in labor since the 50s was due to women entering the workforce. In America, maybe, but they were already working in other countries.

You know that as long as they don't have your password, you still have your money, so they will just continue to waste their time and money on you, and it will be waiting they're for you or your family when you get out. Or you program your money to be on a dead man's switch, with a delayed transaction that sends it to a trusted friend or family member if you don't create a new transaction, this voiding the old one, every month. Or you bite off your tongue, choke on your own blood, and no one gets anything.


Or whoever receives it sends it through a bitcoin mixer or CoinJoin, and the coins they end up with are no longer linked to be, and are spread among a dozen or more other random unknown people.


It's a good thing bitcoin has it then. You just have to work a little to get it.

To save money on lodging, we should just have a giant slumber party. We can gossip, try on makeup, and compare our moobs (man boobs).