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There are a lot of speculations on this forum about a possibility of shutting bitcoin network down by governments and central banks. It is beyond my understanding, why would any government want to shut such a gift bitcoins down? If a bunch of geeks can make 1000% profit in one year just speculating bitcoins, why do you think any government wouldn't want to do the same?

If I was the most powerful government in the world, I would build a cluster of ASICs which outnumbers the biggest mining pool, and start mining, and start buying coins until I have 2/3 of all coins in my possession. This should not be too expensive for government which collects taxes worth of $3 trillion each year, right?  And after I have all these coins, I would convert the rest of the world into slave colony, MWAHAHAHA!!!!

I am a bitcoin supporter, and I respect efforts the developers and community apply to make our world better. Please, somebody convince me that such evil strategy is not executed right now.

P.S. Happy Easter to everybody who celebrate it, and happy weekend to the rest of the world! 

Show your capital, capitalist ))

Comrade Lenin?  How are you???

http://youtu.be/6sh_hyJbMso

Imagine if gas stations accept bitcoins  

No. Why?

Not really a copy. They did some tune ups, but the model is the same.

No. They share public addresses. You can send them some money, but you cant take their money without knowing their private keys.

Bunch of online services allow to do this. Coinbase allows you to send money to any coinbase account using email address as id.

Oh yes, if they invented whole p2p network for this, instead of just using email, be sure, there are security reasons.

AFAIU, the problem with sending e-money via email is possibility of double spending. Bitcoin algorithm ensures that double spending is not possible (at least not easily possible).
 

Yes, you can send your wallet.dat or just ASCII list of private keys via email. Why would you want to do this?

They are trying to tune up experimental technology which has some flaws (some of them are know, some are yet unknown). That's why litecoin and other altcoins pop up.

Хе-хе, это смотря у кого. У кого-то может и не будет. Вон, в благополучных в криминальном плане районах многие никогда ни окна ни двери не запирают. Кое-кто продолжает запирать на всякий случай. Так же и с анонимностью. Когда есть возможность выбирать, оставаться анонимным или нет, это хорошо. Когда обыватели перестанут бояться воров, анонимностью будут пользоваться только те, у кого шапочка из фольги.

Leave the land to poor animals.

Bitcoin robs from everybody and gives to miners too.

In banana republics may be yes, but not in the developed world. If you have a job or business, you have to have a bank account, because you cant be paid and cant pay for many thing without a bank account. This is not necessary with bitcoins.

Надо иметь ввиду, что анонимность не только помогает криминалу в нелегальных делах, но и помогает честным гражданам защититься от криминала. Большие суммы денег привлекают внимание не только ментов, но и ворья тоже. Так что, светить по-любому не полезно, независимо от легальности происхождения.

No. It is not zero sum. It receives energy, carbon and minerals and produces ... a tree. Nothing is created in real Ponzi scheme, just redistribution of money takes place.

I do not see Ponzi in this scheme. Nobody promise anything to anybody. You use the scheme at your own risk, this is explicitly stated in bitcoin wiki. It is true that early miners made good profit in short time, but they could suck with equal probability if bitcoin failed, just as everybody else. 

This is actually no more sacrifice than buying 2 pizzas for 0.5 btc today.