Nicotine is a very good means to increase concentration, using a mobile phone does exactly the opposite. A crackdown on mobile use whilst driving would be much more appropriate.

The easiest way to spot a potential scam is when people qualify their loyalty based on the amount of money they have made from it. This is how a Ponzi gains acceptance- I made a lot of money so they must be legit its exactly how a Ponzi works to win minds.

I'm surprised the U.S. government didn't increase taxes on "old school" light bulbs to push people towards more efficient bulbs, instead of banning them (changed with a 2014 bill)

Fluoride also saves teeth. The reaction of fluoride with hydroxyapatite, helps remineralize damaged enamel and it actually strengthens your teeth.

Yes we know about those false accusations. We also know that WTC7 fell without any plane crashing into it, we know that the 9/11 team were followed by different secret "services", etc etc

It's all about discussion between anonymity (XMR) and something seeming to be increased privacy (DRK). People might not know that they value anonymity instead of privacy, but if they walked into a drug store to buy itch cream with a $10 bill and the cashier asked for their, name, number, SSN, etc. they might realize that they had previously been putting a value on the privacy (not anonymity) of cash without recognizing it as such.

Monero already uses stealth addresses along with ring signatures to anonymize all transactions, and will have I2P support built in down the road. Its only drawbacks right now are in the area of ease of use, as, for example, the blockchain currently takes up a lot of system memory. That being said, people are already testing the fix for this on the development branch, so that won't even be an issue for much longer.

NXT is being used to launder BTC or other forms of money, and it's somewhere around 4-5 people who drive the whole thing and they collectively own 80+% of the coin. jl777 is one of those people. They go through phases of distributing the coins to people who they think can improve the profile of NXT(that would be me and Ian Knowles) and other tactics like 'swarm teams' and manipulation of the market ticker to make a steady profit. This goes to pay the promoters, infrastructure, etc. Jl777 in particular seems to have some kind of exalted status in this group as it's abundantly clear he is running multiple ponzi schemes, everyone knows it, but no one calls him on it. Jl777 has garnered at least .5 million USD from his ponzi investments and he has never a the end produced a return on any of them.

They screwed up key generation, old storage should be generated on a permanently offline system, and signing done on that system where needed, with signatures relayed by thumbdrive or similar. Generated on an Internet-connected device (or worse, on cloud hosting), or printed over wireless, or not enough entropy in the random source, or too many people had access to the keys.

This story is a perfect example of the turd in the punch bowl. I researched the story and, whether you agree with the mother or not, she is a trouble maker. If everyone acted like her, you would see a world that looked like a DT comment board.

japan and uk both owe US money, but nowhere near what the US owes to them

What's the point of making few threads?

change masternode=1 to masternode=0 in darkcoin.conf
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cahnge masternode=0 to masternode=1

Most of their users are quite secretive. I've heard they are cypherpunks. And many seem to be rich or people working on behalf of a rich person. But, because not too many people talk about their MPEx activities publicly, it's hard to tell.

And sarcasm simply got lost amidst vaudevillian slapstick that consumed this thread.

Hell, it's going to make me laugh though.

Dang, ditched, not in stocks anymore. Funny thread. Open S&P 500 and go trade whatever it has in the list, they are all in the top of value for those who fear the worst.

What about loading the machine? The insurance for the armored trucks and the cash deliveries must be paid. Additionally, doesn't the owner of the ATM have to guarantee the funding of the ATM? Consumers want their protection, and have to make sure that even if you go bankrupt or are some kind of scammer and you disappear with your customers money, they will still get some sort protection.

That collapse will happen the second Iran and China successfully sever the US dollar from Oil trading. The government has one main tool (interest rates) to nudge the economy. And they've used it so long its gotten to the point of uselessness. The next time anything major goes wrong, us is pretty much hosed.

Cash is a guaranteed loss. Don't over diversify. Just pick four well known metal funds that have a long term track record, think things that have gotten 11 to 12% average annual growth over the last 25 to 30 years. I'd go so far to say after doing that save up 3 to 6 months worth of expenses in cash. It's also good to have adequate insurance (term life, health, home, and any sort of liability you need.)