Currently or in the next few decades drones will not be able to replace simple foot soldiers. Planes, tanks, artillery, ships will be partly or largely replaceable rather soon, but the grunts will stay, perhaps for centuries. In addition if you have intentions to dominate a region in the near future you need soldiers right now.

Wars are not about masculinity. Wars are about resources. If all of us would be woman we would still need resources, so probably we would keep fighting for stuff if we do not have enough.

Services, services and services... am I mentioned services? Perhaps more services? Even the best coin with the most ground breaking features and with the best community ever, worth nothing if I can't use it for something what is actually useful in my everyday life, like buying a sandwich or a glass of water...

Not really surprising. Liberals, commies and other social injustice warriors are used to turn to the biggest f**kin' murderous nazis in the whole wide world if someone doesn't agree with them :/. Some sort of khazarian heritage, I guess .

IMO nothing wrong with a reasonable taxation if the spending is transparent and the government is accountable. I agree, today none of these three things are true. Anyway I'm still more comfortable to see basic services in the hands of even a corrupt government than in the hands of some corporations and their bankster associates. We are still have some little control over the politicians but none over the corporations.


Well the US is the perfect counter-example for what you said. As far as I know nearly one third of the americans are simply can't afford any health care at all, because the costs, and some 800 000 ppl per year get killed by the "1000x better" health care. BTW even in the States 5% of the patients have to wait 5-6 months for a surgery...

No impact on those coins. The issuers are not acting as money exchangers. As most of these coins has too little value by now, and difficult to catch the issuers (many of them disappeared and/or abandoned their coins since then, or they are just outside of reach) the FinCEN probably not going to waste time and resources on going after them.


I'd be very surprised if any of these coins took any kind of KYC/AML precautions . ...and that's actually a good thing as why the rest of the world should comply with the rules of some US stamp collectors club .

Pretty good summary. I'd add blockchain pruning to the list. Downloading the blockchain takes ages, and the workarounds are insecure (web wallets) or promoting a sort of centralization (lite clients).

Here's a good one with an example:
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/putoption.asp

...and an other more generic but still useful one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Put_option

Well, there is a thing called solidarity and I'm happy to pay for saving the lives of other people. Of course I'm expecting the same when I'm in trouble. I know there are parasites in the system but at least our parasites are parasites in need, and not parasites like an insurance company what only want to make money from our troubles.


Where did you heard such stupidities? (No criticism, just asking.) I've seen both private and state healthcare, and I must say private medical services are only good if you are rich enough, otherwise it's just a form of extortion. Health insurance companies are the worst scum who are happy to let you die if that's the more profitable option. State provided healthcare is actually one of the few good things in the socialistic type countries.

Apart for Switzerland, Libertarianism in Europe is a pretty much non existing thing. The european culture is rooted in an autocratic past where decisions were made by the ruler and the nobility, welfare services were provided by the church and the ruling class, and common people had no vote on issues of the state. Today we are living in mostly socialist(ic) welfare states and people still/again expecting decisions and care from the state, and the state is happy to provide these services in exchange for our liberties. (Most ppl do not even notice this, as they just not using these liberties and rights as the welfare state made most of it "redundant".) BTW we can vote now, but we can vote only on the question about who will make the decisions instead of us. So we are pretty much in the same situation as we were a hundred, two hundred or a thousand years ago but most ppl are actually OK with this.

I think you can do that only on designated gipsy sites. But I have no idea how you can do that sure. As I've heard form some polish blokes and a fellow hungarian IT guy (who's doing contract jobs across the country) if you have a camper van or a caravan, using camping sites is cheap option.

It has good foundations, now they have to build similarly good services on the top of it. If that's done then it will be a really good and useful coin.

I think a miracle is just yet another natural phenomenon what happened in a very good time for someone with a lot of observers. Most miracles are happened long time ago, indeed as in those times ppl were unable to explain great many natural things. Just send me back to the ancient Sumer (after a good sumerian and akkadian language course) with my current knowledge and if I don't die in gastroenteritis in the first few days (what would be a miracle on it's own) I can pretty much guarantee that I would be the most famous prophet or even god of the age who did miracles everyday . (...and I'd build a freakin' big ziggurat with bitcoin sign shaped layout just to fool the archaeologists .)

Well, excessive consumption of ergot infested wheat and barley could cause such miracles... mixing with some khat will consummate the experience.

The bullshit is strong in this one: http://www.thegreenminute.org/bitcoin.html

IMO the lowest and highest values are determined by supply and demand, what's the price where mining is still profitable and how much "free" money we have on the market to buy those coins. Services available in the bitcoin economy, new money flowing in, plus the price related "beliefs" of people who are trading it are also important factors.

Tested it a couple of months ago but in that time that wallet wasn't very comfortable and slowly ate all memory what it seen around . I'm going to take a look at latest version.

Please correct me if I'm wrong but as far as I can remember the US govt have something like police and security contractors, perhaps they also have some sort of army to deal with such adventurous people...but maybe I'm wrong and it will be really like a big happy turkey shot .

So the NEM guys finally put together an actually working wallet ? Well, might worth to take a look at it when the first shilling and pump & dump is over.

Wow! How surprising... :/
Draw some cartoons about Muhammad, make some noise around it, get a few pissed off but not very smart muslim youngsters with guns, shot them (dead people tend not to be talkative), then make more noise about the horrific terrorist attack, impose more surveillance over the scared public and/or take some of their liberties and rights as a "sacrifice for our glorious war on terror". Rinse, repeat...

Excellent summary. Smart asses who think and act independently are more like a burden than an asset for the state in these days.

We have tried something like this but it didn't work. Humans by nature want more, and better stuff. (Stuff can be literally anything from knowledge to money.) You can call it greed if you want. If you suppress this kind of greed then you will get only stagnation. I've seen it in the last decade of socialism, ppl wasn't motivated at all, everybody thought why do anything above the acceptable minimum if they can't get anything more or better just stupid titles and worthless badges. Finally this lack of motivation paralysed the whole society what collapsed pretty soon.